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THE EQUINOX
In Mexico: even as I did receive it from him who is reincarnated in me: and
this work is to the best of my knowledge a synthesis of what the Gods have given
unto me, as far as is possible without violating my obligations unto the Chiefs of
the R. R. et A. C. Now did I deem it well that I should rest awhile before
resuming my labours in the Great Work, seeing that he, who sleepeth never,
shall fall by the wayside, and also remembering the twofold sign: the Power of
Horus: and the Power of Hoor-pa-Kraat.*
Now, the year being yet young, One D. A. came unto me, and spake.
And he spake not any more (as had been his wont) in guise of a skeptic and
indifferent man: but indeed with the very voice and power of a Great Guru, or of
one definitely sent from such a Brother of the Great White Lodge.
Yea! though he spake unto me words all of disapproval, did I give thanks and
grace to God that he had deemed my folly worthy to attract his wisdom.
And, after days, did my Guru not leave me in my state of humiliation, and, as I
may say, despair: but spake words of comfort saying: “Is it not written that if
thine Eye be single thy whole body shall be full of Light?” Adding: “In thee is
no power of mental concentration and control of thought: and without this thou
mayst achieve nothing.”
Under his direction, therefore, I began to apply myself unto the practice of
Raja-yoga, at the same time avoiding all, even the smallest, consideration of
things occult, as also he bade me.
Thus, at the beginning, I did meditate twice daily, three mediations morning
and evening, upon such simple objects as—a white triangle; a red cross; Isis;
the simple Tatwas; a wand; and the like. I remained after some three weeks
for 59½ minutes at one time, wherein my thought wandered 25 times. Now I
began also to consider more complex things: my little Rose Cross;† the
these Æthyrs, “whose dominion extendeth in ever widening circles without
end beyond the Watch Towers of the Universe.” In one sense rightly enouzgh
did P. bring to completion the work L.I.L. at the end of the year 1900; but, in
another, it took him nine long years of toil before he perfected it, for it was not
until the last days of the year 1909 that the work of the Thirty Æthyrs was
indeed brought to an end. In 1900 verily was the work conceived, but not until
the year 1909 was it brought forth a light unto the darkness, a little spark cast
into the Well of Time. (P. merely means that at this time he established a
secret Order of this name.)
* The Signs are of Projection and Withdrawal of Force; necessary complements.
† Lost under dramatic circumstances at Frater P. A.’s house in 1909.