The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE TWO PATHS heard. And he laid aside his Ibis ways, and became as a serpent, saying Per- adventure in an hundred millions of millions of generations of my children, they shall attain to a drop of the poison of the fang of the Exalted One. And behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an Ureus serpent, and the poison of the fang was established in him and his seed even for ever and for ever. 45. Thou canst create this “day” thy chances for thy “to- morrow.” In the “Great Journey,” causes sown each hour bear each its harvest of effects, for rigid Justice rules the World. With mighty sweep of never-erring action, it brings to mortals lives of weal or woe, the Karmic progeny of all our former thoughts and deeds. 46. Take them as much as merit hath in store for thee, O thou of patient heart. Be of good cheer and rest content with fate. Such is thy Karma, the Karma of the cycle of thy births, the destiny of those who, in their pain and sorrow, are born along with thee, rejoice and weep from life to life, chained to thy previous actions. 47. Act thou for them “to-day,” and they will act for thee “to-morrow.” These verses confirm what was said above with regard to perseverance. Every cause has its effect. There is no waste. There is no evasion. 48. ’Tis from the bud of Renunciation of the Self, that springeth the sweet fruit of final Liberation. This is again obscure, as the word “Self” means so many things, and though many kinds of type have been employed to spell it, clear definitions of what each type indicates are lacking. It is here, however, the doctrine of the Two Paths 61