the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
the unknown individual soul into the known, and the
unknowable Supreme Soul into the unknown, and the, from
the knowable through the known to the knower, get back to
the Âtman and Equilibrium—Zero.
All knowledge he asserts to be Mâyâ, and only by paradoxes
is the Truth revealed.
Only he who knows it not knows it,
Who knows it, he knows it not;
Unknown is it by the wise,
But by the ignorant known.*
These dark nights of Scepticism descent upon all systems
just as they descend upon all individuals, at no stated times,
but as a reaction after much hard work; and usually they are
forerunners of a new and higher realization of another
unknown land to explore. Thus again and again do we find
them rising and dissolving like some strange mist over the
realms of the Vedânta. To disperse them we must consume
them in that same fire which has consumed all we held dear;
we must turn our engines of war about and destroy our sick
and wounded, so that those who are strong and whole may
press on the faster to victory.
As early as the days of the Rig Veda, before the beginning
was, there was “neither not-being nor yet being.” This
thought again and again rumbles through the realms of
philosophy, souring the milk of man's understanding with its
bitter scepticism.
Not-being was this in the beginning,
From it being arose.
Self-fashioned indeed out of itself . . .
The being and the beyond
* Kena Upanishad,11.
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