The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE ORDEAL OF IDA PENDRAGON when I was a camel in the sand. Now there are only my bones.” “ It may be only a veil," he muttered, not wishing her to hear. But she heard. “ It is aveil,” she said. " But is there anything behind veils? " " Look I ” " Only the sand.” “ Tear it down!" “There might be Nothing behind.” “There is Nothing behind. It is through that that you must pass.” “ This veil is God. I am a holy nun in the trance called Rampurana. I am canonised. My name is on every banner. My face is worshipped by every nation. I am a pure virgin ; all the others are soiled. Thought is worse than deed. All my thoughts are holy. I think. I think. I think. By the power of my thought I created the Word; and by the Word came the Worlds. I am the creator. I will write my law upon tablets of jade and onyx." Rolles bowed his head in silence. “I am thought itself,” she went on quietly, “And all thought is Ι. Ι am knowledge. All knowledge is in three. Three hundred and thirty-three. I am half the Master. I have cut him in two." The adept shuddered. ”That was when I was an axe. I will not be an arrow. I will be an axe, . . .᾽᾽ She gave a giggle. “ Ι am gleeful by reason of hate.” There was a pause. 131