The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH So for every known fact that concerns one—and all known facts concern one, if only to ask, “‘ Why do I know this fact ?” How does it all fitin? It must, for the Universe is not insane—that blackness has been passed. Who then am I? And why? And why? Reaching ecstasy or Samadhi through this channel, the riddle of Kamma is answered, and one is able to enter the realm of pure consciousness. The Universe, mastered long ere now in its effects, is at last mastered in its causes; and it is indeed a Magister of the Temple who can say: Vi Veri Vniversum Vives Vict. XVII “All things subsist together in the Intelligible World.” ZOROASTER. I must insert a short note on the word Samadhi, source of infinite misunderstanding. Etymologically it is composed of Sam (Greek ow), together with, and Adhi (Heb. Adonai), the Lord, especially the Per- sonal Lord, or Holy Guardian Angel. The Hindus accordingly use it to name that state of mind in which subject and object, becoming One, have disappeared. Just as H combines with Cl, and HCI results, so the Yogi combines with the object of his meditation (perhaps his own heart) and these disappearing, Vishnu appears. It is not that the Yogi perceives Vishnu.* The Yogi is gone, just as the * The difficulty of showing this makes the author of the “ Bhagavad Gita” descend to Rupa-symbols when he ought to have been in Vififianam (chap. xi-). It is quite essential to change the subject of the sentence, Thus the Auto- 77