The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE By finding the Point from which these three become equal, and there remaining, by this means only, can the Law be Known. If ye know this, ye know All. If ye know not this, ye know less than All. Seek ever for the Absolute, and be content with Nothing less. By the end of September the immediate results of this first Illumination seem to have worn off, and we find Frater V.1.O. striving desperately to estimate the value of what had happened to him. He was certainly in a mental muddle, as the following entry shows, yet at the same time his one thought seems to have been to find a means of helping others to find that Light which had so transformed his whole being. Sep. 24th, 1910. Driad Hotel. Victoria, B. C. I sit here with the idea of attempting to classify the results lately obtained. (Since L.V.X. entry.) I may mention that during the interval I have carefully read and studied Crowley’s Tannhauser, Sword of Song, Excluded Middle, Time, Berashith, Science and Buddhism, Three Characteristics, etc. In the Light of Understanding, all these works have taken on a very different aspect to when I read them pre- viously. Also the Purpose of Liber LXV is clear. The result of all this gives me a feeling that I have arrived at the End and also at the Beginning at the same time. This (by the way) seems the usual experience of the be- ginner; no sooner does he get a result, any result, than he immediately thinks he is at the end. But V.I.O. is evidently not to be deceived in that way, for he goes on: Now, had I really arrived at the End, it seems reasonable to suppose I should not be here writing this. My body and mind are at any rate still in existence as a body and mind. But, as these are admittedly impermanent, does it matter much that they continue to exist in this form or no? What has that to do with the Consciousness of the Existence of That which transcends both? Now, had not some part of my present State of Existence realized the pos- sibility of another and higher state of Consciousness, should I not still be in 137