THE EQUINOX
morously pretended that this Book is an ancient Tibetan
writing.—Eb.]
19. Saith the Great Law: “In order to become the knower
of ALL-SELF, thou hast first of SELF to be the knower.”
To reach the knowledge of that SELF, thou hast to give up
Self to Non-Self, Being to Non-Being, and then thou canst
repose between the wings of the GREAT BIRD. Aye, sweet
is rest between the wings of that which is not born, nor dies,
but is the AUM throughout eternal Ages.
The words “give up” may be explained as “yield” in its
subtler or quasi-masochistic erotic sense, but on a higher
plane. In the following quotation from the “Great Law” it
explains that the yielding is not the beginning but the end of
the Path.
Then let the End awake. Long hast thou slept, O great God Terminus! Long
ages hast thou waited at the end of the city and the roads thereof.
Awake Thou! Wait no more!
Nay, Lord! but I am come to Thee. It is I that wait at last.
The prophet cried against the mountain; come thou hither, that I may speak
with thee!
The mountain stirred not. Therefore went the prophet unto the mountain, and
spake unto it. But the feet of the prophet were weary, and the mountain heard
not his voice.
But I have called unto Thee, and I have journeyed unto Thee, and it availed
me not.
I waited patiently, and Thou wast with me from the beginning.
This now I know, O my beloved, and we are stretched at our ease among the
vines.
But these thy prophets; they must cry aloud and scourge themselves; they must
cross trackless wastes and unfathomed oceans; to await Thee is the end, not the
beginning.
AUM is here quoted as the hieroglyph of.the Eternal.
“A” the beginning of sound, “U” its middle, and “M” its end,
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