The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX XII “The Vast sun, and the brilliant moon.” “O Ether, sun, and spirit of the moon! Ye, ye are the leaders of air !” “The Principles, which have understood the Intelligible works of the Father, He hath clothed in sensible works and bodies, being intermediate links existing to connect the Father with Matter, rendering apparent the Images of unapparent Natures,and inscribing the Unapparent in the Apparent frame of the World.” “There are certain Irrational Demons (mindless elementals), which derive their subsistence from the Aerial Rulers; where- fore the Oracle saith, Being the Charioteer of the Aerial, Terres- trial and Aquatic Dogs.” “The Aquatic when applied to Divine Natures signifies a Government inseparable from Water, and hence the Oracle calls the Aquatic Gods, Water Walkers.” “There are certain Water Elementals whom Orpheus calls Nereides, dwelling in the more elevated exhalations of Water, such as appear in damp, cloudy Air, whose bodies are sometimes seen (as Zoroaster taught) by more acute eyes, especially in Persia and Africa.” “Let the immortal depth of your Soul lead you, but earnestly raise your eyes upwards.”—ZOROASTER. Nama-Rupa.—Purely material, and therefore shadowy and meaningless, are the innumerable shapes which haunt the mind of man. In one sense we must here include all purely sensory phenomena, and the images which memory presents to the mind which is endeavouring to concentrate itself upon a single thought. In other systems of mysticism we must include all astral phantoms, divine or demonic, which are merely seen or heard without further reflection upon them. To obtain these it is sufficient to perform the following experiment: 60