The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

LIBER CCC KHABS AM PEKHT [The quotations in this Epistle are from Liber Legis —The Book of the Law.—Ep.] Son, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Firstly, let thine attention be directed to this planet, how the Zon of Horus is made manifest by the Universal War. This is the first great and direct result of the Equinox of the Gods, and is the preparation of the hearts of men for the reception of the Law. Let Us remind you that this is a magical formula of cos- mic scope, and that it is given in exact detail in the legend of the Golden Fleece. Jason, who in this story represents the Beast, first fits out a ship guided by Wisdom or Athena, and this is his aspira- tion to the Great Work. Accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the Fleece, but they can do nothing until Medea, the Scarlet Woman, puts into his hands a pos- set ‘drugged with somnolence, Sleepy with poppy and white hellebore’ for the dragon. Then Jason is able to subdue the bulls, sacred to Osiris, and symbolical of his Zon and of the Magical Formula of Self-Sacrifice. With these he plows the field of the world, and sows therein “the dreadful teeth of woe, Cadmean Stock of Thebes’ old misery,” which refers to a certain magical formula announced by The Beast that is familiar unto thee, but unsuited to the profane, and therefore 173