The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE EQUINOX other manifest sign. And the servants of the master by his insight shall judge of these. 9. This Knowledge is not for all men; few indeed are called, but of these few many are chosen. 10. This is the nature of the Work. 11. First, there are many and diverse conditions of life upon this earth. In all 01 these is some seed of sorrow. Who can escape from sickness and from old age and from death ? 12᾿We are come to save our fellows from these things. For there is a life intense with knowledge and extreme bliss which is untouched by any of them. 13. To this life we attain even here and now. The adepts, the servants 01 V.V.V.V.V., have attained thereunto. 14. It is impossible to tell you 01 the splendours of that to which they have attained. Little by little, as your eyes grow stronger, will we unveil to you the ineffable glory of the Path 01 the Adepts, and its nameless goal. 15. Even as a man ascending a steep mountain is lost to sight 01 his friends in the valley, so mustthe adept seem. They shall say: He is lost in the clouds. But he shall rejoice in the sunlight above them, and come to the eternal snows. 16. Or as a scholar may learn some secret language of the ancients, his friends shall say: “ Look! he pretends to read this book. But it is unintelligible—it is nonsense.” Yet he delights in the Odyssey, while they read vain and vulgar things. 17. We shall bring you to Absolute Truth, Absolute Light, Absolute Bliss. 6