THE EQUINOX
tionally dangerous, but this is a mystical truth concerning
the inner life. The Adept is anything but a “creeping Jesus.”
15. Self-gratulation, O Disciple, is like unto a lofty tower,
up which a haughty fool has climbed. Thereon he sits in
prideful solitude and unperceived by any but himself.
Develops this: but, this treatise being for beginners as
well as for the more advariced, a sensible commonplace rea-
son is given for avoiding pride, in that it defeats its own
object.
16. False learning is rejected by the Wise, and scattered
to the Winds by the Good Law. Its wheel revolves for all,
the humble and the proud; the “Doctrine of the Heart” for
the elect. The first repeat in pride: “Behold, I know”; the
last, they who in humbleness have garnered, low confess:
“Thus have I heard.”
Continues the subject, but adds a further Word to dis-
criminate from Daath (knowledge) in favour of Binah (un-
derstanding).
17. “Great Sifter’ is the name of the “Heart Doctrine,”
O Disciple.
This explains the “Heart Doctrine” as a process of con-
tinual elimination which refers both to the aspirants and to
the thoughts.
18. The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It
grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from
out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of
Karma guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings
of the Karmic heart.
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