The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX Eguinox I. V., Supplement) gives the clearest explanation of this phrase. 22. Three Halls, O weary Pilgrim, lead to the end of toils. Three Halls, O conqueror of Mara, will bring thee through three states into the fourth, and thence into the seven Worlds, the Worlds of Rest Eternal. If this had been a genuine document I should have taken the three states to be Srotapatti, etc., and the fourth Arhat, for which the reader should consult ‘Science and Buddhism’ and similar treatises. But as it is better than ‘genuine,’ be- ing, like ‘The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz,’ the forgery of a great adept, one cannot too confidently refer it thus. For the ‘Seven Worlds’ are not Buddhism. 23. If thou would’st learn their names, then hearken, and remember. The name of the first Hall is IGNORANCE— Avidyé. It is the Hall in which thou saw’st the light, in which thou livest and shalt die. These three Halls correspond to the Gunas: Ignorance, Tamas; Learning, Rajas; Wisdom, Sattvas. Again, Ignorance corresponds to Malkuth and Nephesh (the animal soul), Learning to Tiphareth and Ruach (the mind), and Wisdom to Binah and Neshamah (the aspira- tion or Divine Mind). 24. The name of Hall the second is the Hall of LEARN- ING. Init thy Soul will find the blossoms of life, but under every flower a serpent coiled. This Hall is a very much larger region than that usually understood by the Astral World. It would certainly include all states up to Dhyana. The Student will remember that 18