The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX Axiom II To will evil, is to will death. A perverse will is a begin- ning of suicide. Axiom III To will good with violence, is to will evil, for violence produces disorder, and disorder produces evil. Axiom IV One can, and one should, accept evil as the means of good; but one must never will it or do it, otherwise one would destroy with one hand what one builds with the other. Good faith never justifies bad means; it corrects them when one undergoes them, and condemns them when one takes them. Axiom V To have the right to possess always, one must will patiently and long. Axiom VI To pass one’s life in willing what it is impossible to possess always, is to abdicate life and accept the eternity of death. Axiom VII The more obstacles the will surmounts, the stronger it is. It is for this reason that Christ glorified poverty and sorrow. Axiom VIII When the will is vowed to the absurd, it is reproved by eternal reason. Axiom IX The will of the just man is the will of God himself, and the law of Nature. 236