The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX trying for cumulative effect, something of this sort is true. One gets a sort of Leyden Jar effect; but the sentence as it stands is misleading, as she explains further on in verse 70 —“Each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its reward in time.” 41. For know, that the ETERNAL knows no change. Here again we have one subject “THE ETERNAL”, and one predicate “the knower of no change”; the Hindu state- ment identical with the Buddhist, and the identity covered by crazy terminology. X=A says the Hindu, Y=A says the Buddhist. X=Y is furiously denied by both, although these two equations are our only source of information about either X or Y. Metaphysics has always been full of this airy building. We must postulate an Unseen behind the Seen; and when we have defined the Unseen as a round square, we quarrel with our fellow-professors who prefer to define it as a quadrilateral circle. The only way to avoid this is to leave argument altogether alone, and pay attention only to concentration, until the time comes to tackle mental phenomena once for all, by some such method as that of Liber 474. 42. “The eight dire miseries forsake for evermore; if not, to wisdom, sure, thou canst not come, nor yet to liberation,’ saith the great Lord, the Tathagata of perfection, “he who has followed in the footsteps of his predecessors.” “The eight dire miseries” are the five senses plus the three- fold fire of Lust, Hatred and Dullness. But the quotation is not familiar. I feel sure He did not say “sure.” 104