The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX 12. 1. DANA, the key of charity and love immortal. 2. SHILA, the key of Harmony in word and act, that counterbalances the cause and the effect, and leaves no further room for Karmic action. 3. KSHANTI, patience sweet, that nought can ruffle. 4. VAIRAGYA, indifference to pleasure and to pain, illusion conquered, truth alone perceived. 5. VIRYA, the dauntless energy that fights its way to the supernal TRUTH, out of the mire of lies terrestrial. 6. DHYANA, whose golden gate once opened leads the Narjol toward the realm of Sat eternal and its ceaseless contemplation. 7. PRAGNYVA, the key to which makes of a man a God, creating him a Bodhisattva, son of the Dhydnis. Such to the Portals are the golden keys. (Subsection I.) Charity and love are here used in their technical sense, Agape. “Love is the law, love under will.” Both Agape and Thelema (will) add to 93, which identifies them qabalistically. This love is not a sloppy feeling of maudlin sentimental kindness. The majority of people of the Christian Science, Theosophical, New Thought type, think that a lot of flabby thoughts, sending out streams of love in the Six Quarters, and so on, will help them. It won’t. Love is a pure flame, as swift and deadly as the lightning. This is the kind of love that the Student needs. (Subsection II.) The “key” here spoken of has been thor- oughly explained in Thien Tao in Konx Om Pax, but there is a peculiar method, apart from this plane, and easily under- 86