Equinox I (04).pdf

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THE EQUINOX
who denies anything asserts something,” now let me disclose
to you this “Something,” so that you may find behind the
pairs of opposites what this something is in itself and not in its
appearance.
It has been pointed out in a past chapter how that in the
West symbol has been added to symbol, and how that in the
East symbol has been subtracted from symbol. How in the
West the Magician has said: “As all came from God so must all
proceed to God,” the motion being a forward one, and
acceleration of the one already existing. Now let us analyze
what is meant by the worlds of the Yogi when he says: “As all
came from god so must all return to God,” the motion being,
as it will be at once seen, a backward one, a slowing down of
the one which already exists, until finally is reached that goal
from which we originally set out by a cessation of thinking, a
weakening of the vibrations of illusion until they cease to
exist in Equilibrium.*
* “The forces of the universe are only known to us, in reality, but disturbances
of equilibrium. The state of equilibrium constitutes the limit beyond
which we can no longer follow them” (Gustave le Bon, “The Evolution of
Matter,” p. 94).