The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE 56. Desire nothing. Chafe not at Karma, nor at Nature’s changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable. The words “desire nothing” should be interpreted posi- tively as well as negatively. The main sense of the rest of the verse is to advise the Disciple to work, and not to com- plain. 57. Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators and make obeisance. Although the object of the Disciple is to transcend Law, he must work through Law to attain this end. It may be remarked that this treatise—and this comment for the most part—is written for disciples of certain grades only. Itis altogether inferior to such Books as LIBER CXI Aleph; but for that very reason, more useful, perhaps, to the average seeker. 58. And she will open wide before thee the portals of her secret chambers, lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hid- den in the depths of her pure virgin bosom. Unsullied by the hand of matter, she shows her treasures only to the eye of spirit—the eye which never closes, the eye for which there is no veil in all her kingdoms. This verse reminds one of the writings of Alchemists; and it should be interpreted as the best of them would have inter- preted it. 59. Then will she show thee the means and way, the first gate and the second, the third, up to the very seventh. And 29