The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX words, “Soul” means Neshamah, and it is important for Neshamah to fix its attention on Chiah, rather than on Ruach. 67. Beware of change! For change is thy great foe. This.change will fight thee off, and throw thee back, out of the Patch thou threadest, deep into viscous swamps of doubt. The only. difficulty in this verse is the word “change.” People who are meditating often get thrown off by the cir- cumstances of their lives, and these circumstances must be controlled absolutely. It should, however, also be taken to refer to any change in one’s methods of meditation. You should make up your mind thoroughly to a given scheme of action, and be bound by it. A man is perfectly hopeless if, on finding one Mantra unsuccessful, he tries another. There is cumulative effect in all mystic and magical work; and the Mantra you have been doing, however bad, is the best one to go on with. 68. Prepare, and be forewarned in time. If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on and to the charge return again, and yet again. Verse 68 confirms our interpretation of these verses. 69. The fearless warrior, his precious life-blood ooging from his wide and gaping wounds, will still attack the foe, drive him from out his stronghold, vanquish him, ere he himself expires. Act then, all ye who fail and suffer, act like him; and from the stronghold of your Soul chase all your foes away—ambition, anger, hatred, e’en to the shadow of desire—when even you have failed. 116