The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

ECCLESIAE GNOSTICAE CATHOLICAE me, and so shall ye come to my joy. I charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich head-dress. Ilove you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come untome! Tome! Tome! Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Drink to me, for I love you! Iloveyou. Jam the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. To me! Tome! The PRIEST mounts the second step. Tue Priest. O secret of secrets that art hidden in the be- ing of all that lives, not Thee do we adore, for that which adoreth is also Thou. Thou art That, and That am I. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. Iam Life, and the giver of Life; yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. Iam alone; there is no God where I am. The DEAcON and all rise to their feet, with the Hail- ing sign. Tue Deacon. But ye, O my people, rise up and awake. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. A feast for Tahuti and the children of the Prophet—se- cret, O Prophet! A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 257