THE EQUINOX
acquired, like to the Bodhisattvas twain, upon the span of
all three worlds.
The same doctrine is still further detailed, but I cannot
give the authority by which Blavatsky speaks of Kwan-shi-
yin as a Bodhisattva. It will become abundantly evident
in the comment to verse 97 that Blavatsky had not the re-
motest idea as to what a Bodhisattva was and is. But it
is quite true that you have to shed light in the manner indi-
cated if you are going to live the life of a Magus.
82. Know that the stream of superhuman knowledge and
the Deva-Wisdom thou hast won, must, from thyself, the
channel of Alaya, be poured forth into another bed.
Still further develops the same doctrine. You have ac-
quired the supreme creative force. You are the Word, and
it must be spoken (verse 83). There is a good deal of anti-
climax in verse 83, and a peculiarly unnecessary split infin-
itive.
Blavatsky’s difficulty seems to have been that although
she is always talking of the advance of the good Narjol, he
never seems to advance in point of view. Now, on the
threshold of the last Path, he is still an ordinary person with
vague visionary yearnings! It is true that He wishes the
unity of all that lives, complete harmony in the parts, and
perfect light in the whole. It is also true that He may spend
a great deal of time in killing or otherwise instructing men,
but He has not got at all the old conception. The ordinary
Buddhist is quite unable to see anything but details.
Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya once refused to undertake the
superintendence of a coconut plantation, because he found
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