THE EQUINOX
We labour earnestly, dear brother, that you may never
be led away to perish upon this point; for thereon have
many holy and just men been wrecked. By this have all
the visible systems lost the essence of wisdom.
We have sought to reveal the Arcanum; we have only
profaned it.
25. Now when P. had thus with bitter toil prepared all
things under the guidance of D.D.S. (even as the hand
writes, while the conscious brain, though ignorant of the
detailed movements, applauds or disapproves the finished
work) there was a certain time of repose, as the earth lieth
fallow.
26. Meanwhile these adepts busied themselves intently
with the Great Work.
27. In the fullness of time, even as a blossoming tree
that beareth fruit in its season, all these pains were ended,
and these adepts and their companions obtained the re-
ward which they had sought—they were to be admitted to
the Eternal and Invisible Order that hath no name among
men.
28. They therefore who had with smiling faces aban-
doned their homes, their possessions, their wives, their
children, in order to perform the Great Work, could with
steady calm and firm correctness abandon the Great Work
itself: for this is the last and greatest projection of the al-
chemist.
29. Also one V.V.V.V.V. arose, an exalted adept of the
rank of Master of the Temple (or this much He disclosed
to the Exempt Adepts) and His utterance is enshrined in
the Sacred Writings. ‘
30. Such are Liber Legis, Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente,
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