The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE SEVEN PORTALS 73. Thou hast estranged thyself from objects of the senses, travelled on the “Path of seeing,’ on the “Path of hearing,” and standest in the light of Knowledge. Thou hast now reached Titiksha state. O Narjol, thou art safe. In these three verses the passage to the sixth Gate is made clear. There is no longer any struggle, there is but the golden fire within the alabaster vase, and thou art that vase. Male and female are again interchanged. Above Chiah and Neshamah is Yechidah, and in the lower aspect of that, one has again become the receptacle of the Infinite, not that which penetrates.the Infinite. There are two formulz of making two things one. The active formula is that of the arrow piercing the rainbow, the Cross erected upon the Hill of Golgotha, and soon. But the _passive formula is that of the cup into which the wine is poured, that of the cloud which wraps itself around Ixion. It is very annoying to hear that the Narjol is safe. This is all GEdipus-Complex. Why not “Safe in the arms of Jesus”? Devil fly away with this ‘eternal rest’ stuff! Give mea night’s rest now and again; a dip into the Tao, and then —off we go again! 74. Know, Conqueror of Sins, once that a Sowani hath cross’d the seventh Path, all Nature thrills with joyous awe and feels subdued. The silver star now twinkles out the news to the night-blossoms, the streamlet to the pebbles ripples out the tale; dark ocean waves will roar it to the rocks surf-bound, scent-laden breezes sing it to the vales, and stately pines mysteriously whisper: “A Master has arisen, A MASTER OF THE DAY.” 119