The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITE OF SOL And the cry of millions “ Master!" Looms the shadow of disaster. Every hour a man hath said : “That at least is scotched and dead.” Some one circumstance: “ At last That, and its effects, are past." Some one terror—subtle foe! ”I have laid that spectre lawt" They know not, learn not, cannot calculate How subtly Fate Weaves its fine mesh, perceiving how to wait ; Or how accumulate The trifies that shall make it master yet Of the strong soul that bade itself forget. [A ciim rea’ light a'a'wns. BESZ enters, leading four PRo- BATIONERS who hear the Pastas. They ;71066 it before the attat/.] ARIES. What is this offering? BESZ. The eater of Flesh is my name. ARIES. Oh, our Lord, our Lord I Arise in thy might, and let thine enemies be scattered! [ARIES ana’ LEO draw vei/. The throne has been east down, On Με black weil i: a great Ved cross, whereon SOL has been crucified. Before him stands SATAN- TYPHON in the sign of Aþoþhis and TyþhonJ [ARIES and LEOfall asif stain. SCORPIo—APOPHlsþ/aysher murder me!ooly.*] [Meanwhile the PROBATIONERS advance, ana' ana’er the direction of Tyþhon, who stabs SOL in the proper manner with the shear of SOL, ta/ee down SOLfrom the crossand lay him in the Pastas. They 601/67it. BESZ does his orataia'emoniaca’anee upon the iirlofthe eojïn. ' Mort d'Adonis : Waddell. 73