The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE Swami has an excellent method on these lines: it is given, in an improved form, in LIBER HHH. [See Tur Equinox LV. 5.] 42. Before that path is entered, thou must destroy thy lunar body, cleanse thy mind body, and make clean thy heart. The Lunar body is Nephesh, and the Mind body Ruach.: The heart is Tiphareth, the centre of Ruach. 43. Eternal life’s pure waters, clear and crystal, with the monsoon tempest’s muddy torrents cannot mingle. We are now again on the subject of suppressing thought. The pure water is the stilled mind, the torrent the mind in- vaded by thoughts. 44. Heaven’s dew-drop glittering in the morn’s first sun- beam within the bosom of the lotus, when dropped on earth becomes a piece of clay; behold, the pearl is now a speck of mire. This is not a mere poetic image. This dew-drop in the lotus is connected with the mantra “Aum Mani Padmen Hum,” and to what this verse really refers is known only to members of the ninth degree of O.T.O. 45. Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they over- power thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. Beware, Disciple, suffer not, e’en though it be their shadow, to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness 25