The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

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 124