The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE and refers to the uniting of Shiva with Sakti in the Sahas- rara. [See THE Equinox.] 38. ’Tis only then thou canst become a “Walker of the Sky,” who treads the winds above the waves, whose step touches not the waters. This partly refers to certain Iddhi, concerning Under- standing of Devas (gods) etc.; here the word ‘wind’ may be interpreted as ‘spirit.’ It is comparatively easy to reach this state, and it has no great importance. The ‘walker of the sky’ is much superior to the mere reader of the minds of ants. 39. Before thou seti’st thy foot upon the ladder’s upper rung, the ladder of the mystic sounds, thou hast to hear the voice of thy INNER God in seven manners. The word “seven” is here, as so frequently, rather poetic than mathematic; for there are many more. The verse also reads as if it were necessary to hear all the seven, and this is not the case—some will get one and some another. Some students may even miss all of them. (This might happen as the result of his having conquered, and uprooted them, and ‘fried their seeds’ in a previous birth.) 40. The first is like the nightingale’s sweet voice chanting a song of parting to its mate. The second comes as the sound of a silver cymbal of the Dhyénis, awakening the twinkling stars. The next is as the plaint melodious of the ocean-sprite im- prisoned in its shell. 23