Equinox I (04).pdf

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
taught to expect. Indeed its translation into worldly comments
was a matter of experience, so it came about that he discovered
that the Great Attainment per se was identical in all systems
irrespective of the symbol man sought it under. Thus Yahweh
as a clay phallus in a band-box was s much a reality to
the Jews of Genesis as Brahman in Brahma-loka was to the
Aryas of Vedic India; that the vision of Moses when he
beheld God as a burning bush is similar to the vision of the
fire-flashing Courser of the Chaldean Oracles; and that Nibbâna
the Non-existent is little removed, if at all, from the
Christian heaven with its harps, halos, and hovering angels.
And the reason is, that the man who does attain to any of
these states, on his return to consciousness, at once attributes
his attainment to his particular business partner—Christ,
Buddha, Mrs. Besant, etc., etc., and attemts to rationalize
about the suprarational, and describe what is beyond description
in the language of his country.
P., under the gentle guidance of Ânanda Metteta, at first
found the outward simplicity most refreshing; but soon he
discovered that like all other religious systems Buddhism was
entangled in a veritable network of words. Realizing this, he
went a step further than Gotama, and said: “Why bother
about Sorrow at all, or about Transmigration? for these are
not ‘wrong viewyness,’ as Mr. Rhys Davids would so poetically
put it, but matters of the Kindergarten and not of the
Temple; matters for police regulation, and for underpaid
curates to chatter about, and matters that have nothing to do
with true progress.” He then divided life into two compartments;
into the first he threw science, learning, philosophy,
and all things built of words—the toys of life; and into
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