The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

EDITORIAL LOVE! Dear Readers, have you ever thought what a wonderful thing love is? What would life be without love? A desertl There would be no true happiness without love. And yet we must admit that love is in some ways a great danger. We must remember that many great teachers have forbidden it. What did the great Buddha say to Ananda? “ Beware of women, Anandal " " But, Lord, they are subtle of speech I " " Don’t speak to them, Anandal” “ But, Lord, suppose they speak to us ? ” “ Keep wide awake, Anandal " Think of Paul’s contemptuous permission, “ It is. better to marry than to burn "—it is easy to see that Paul had never been married !—and of his Master’s plain prohibition of anything of the sort. If our own Beloved Lord and Teacher does not join the band, it is (may I suggest with all humility?) because He wants us to be strong enough to manage our own affairs without resorting to the extreme of prohibition. But it is hard upon the weak. Think of A, who left the noblest and the most exalted pursuits for a baser love, a love in a boarding—house in Hoxton, a love with spectacles and elastic-sided boots; think of B, who married (on her holiday as a maid-of—all-work in Bayswater) a forty-pfennig fly—by—night from Hamburg, who cuckolded him openly in XXlll