The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

‘the apotheosis’ of extravagance, the last wor » KONX OM PAX THE MOS¢ REMARKABLE TREATISE ON THE MYSTIC PATH EVER WRITTEN ~ Contains an Batroduction and Four Essays ; the first an account of the progress of the soul to perfect illumination, under the guise of a charming fairy tale ; © The second, an' Essay on Truth, under the guise of a Christmas pantomime ; The third, an Essay on Magical Ethics, under the guise of the. story of a Chinese philosopher ; The fourth, a Treatise on many Magical Subjects of the profoundest importance, under the guise of a symposium, interspersed with beautiful lyrics. Noserious student can afford to be without this delightful volume, ‘The second edition is printed on hand-made paper, and bound in white buckram, with coyer-design in gold. PRICE TEN SHILLINGS : WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. Lrp., and through “THE EQUINOX” so te Some Press Opinions Dr. M. D. EDER in ‘The New Age” “Yours ciso is the Reincarnation and the Life, O laughing lion that is to be! “ Here you have distilled for our delight the ihner spirit of the Tulip’s form, the sweet secret mystéry of the Rose's perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual, ‘So also the old mystics were right who saw in every pheno- menon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery.’ Yes, but the phenome: on shall it nbt.be as another sacred mystery; the force of attraction still to be inter- preted in terms of God and the Psyche? We shall reward you by befoulment, by cant, by misunderstanding, and by understanding. This to you who wear the Phrygian cap, not as symbol of Liberty, O ribald ones, but of sacrifice and victory, of Inmost Enlightenment, of the Soul's deliverance from the feiters of the very ul itself—fear not ; you are not ‘ replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanic” skill,’ “You who hold more skill and more~ wer than your great English predecessor, Robertus de Fluctibus, you have not feared to re 1 ‘ the Arcaua which are in the Adytum of God- nourished Silence’ to those who, aban .ing nothing, will sail in the company of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Lim! , that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe,” “John Ball,” in the course o long review by Mr. HERBERT VIVIAN “The author is evidently that combination of genius, a humorist and a philosapher. For pages he will bewilder the mi, th abstruse esoteric pronouncements, and then, all of a suddea, he wii} reduce his readers _ysterics with some surprisingly quaint conceit. I was unlucky to begin reading him a’ fast and I was moved to so much laughter that I watered my dread with my tears ely escaped a convulsion.’ “The Times” # Phe Light where’ he w s the L.V.X. of that which, first mastering and then transcending. the reason, illumin ~ah the darkness caused by the interference of the opposite waves of thought, It is on. of the most suggestive definitions of KONX—the LVX of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross—that it transcends all the possible pairs of opposites, Nor does this sound notfseysical to those who are acquainted with that LVX. But to those who do not it must remain aS obscure and ridiculous \as spherical trigonometry to the inhabitants of Flatland.”” “The Literary Guide” «He is a lofty idealist. He sings like a latk at the gates of heaven. ‘ Konx Om Pax’ is eccentricity. A prettily told fairy-story ‘for babes aiid sucklings* has ‘explanatory notes in Hebrew and Latin for the wise and prudent’ —“which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing—together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. The best poetry in’ the book is contained in the last section —' The Stone of the Philosophers.’ Here is some fine work.”