the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
living tree, dissimilar in shape but similar in substance, and lal
working for one definite end.
Thus did Frater P. by two years close and unabandoned
experiment show, to his own satisfaction, that Yoga was but
the Art of uniting the mind to a single idea; and that Gnana-
Yoga, Raja-Yoga, Bhakta-Yoga and Hatha-Yoga* were but
one class of methods leading to the same Result as attained
to by The Holy Qabalah, The Sacred Magic, the Acts of
Worship and The Ordeals of Western Ceremonial Magic;
which again are but subsections of that One Art, the Art of
uniting the mind to a Single Idea. And, that all these, The
Union by Knowledge, The Union by Will, The Union by
Love, The Union by Courage found their vanishing point in
the Supreme Union through Silence; that Union in which
understanding fails us, and beyond which we can no more
progress than we can beyond the Equilibrium set forth as the
Ultimate End by Gustave le Bon. There all knowledge
ceases, and we live Bâhva, when he was questioned by
Vâshkali, can only expound the nature of this Silecne, as he
expounded the nature of Brahman, by remaining silent, as the
story relates:
And he said, “Teach me, most reverend Sir, the nature of Brahman.” The
other however remained silent. But when the question was put for a second or
third time he answers, “I teach you indeed, but you do not understand; this
Âtman is silent.”
P. had not yet attained to this Silence; indeed it was the
goal he had set out to accomplish, and though from the ridge
* To which may be added Mantra Yoga and Karma Yoga, which correspond
with The Invocation and The Acts of Service and represent Union through
Speech and Union through Work.
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