The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX colour and has sixteen petals. It is the seat of the Udana and the Ak4sa Tatwa; its presiding adept is Chhagalanda and its goddess Sakini. 6. The Ajna Chakkva. This Chakkra is situated between the two eyebrows, in the place of the pineal gland. It is the seat of the Mano Tatwa, and consists of two petals. Within this lotus are sometimes placed the three mystical principles of Vindu, Nadi and Shakti.* ‘Its presiding adept is called Sukla-Mahakala (the white great time; also Adhanari— ‘ Adonai’) its presiding goddess is called Hakini.”+ 97. Within that petal, there is the eternal seed, brilliant as the autumnal moon. The wise anchorite by knowing this is never destroyed. 98. This is the great light held secret in all the Tantras; by contemplating on this, one obtains the greatest psychic powers, there is no doubt in it. 99. I am the giver of salvation, I am the third linga in the turya (the state of ecstasy, also the name of the thousand petalled lotus.{| By contemplating on this the Yogi becomes certainly like me.§ The Sushumna following the spinal cord on reaching the Brahmarandhra (the hole of Brahman) the junction of the sutures of the skull, by a modification goes to the right side of the Ajna lotus, whence it proceeds to the left nostril, and is called the Varana, Ganges (northward flowing Ganges) or Ida. By a similar modification in the opposite direction the * “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. v, 110. t Ibid., chap. v, 49. $~ Though all Hindu works proclaim that the Sahasrara has but one thousand petals, its true number is one thousand and one as depicted in the diagram called the Yogi. 1001 =91 X II (JONX TN); OI =MT+4 TIN 11 =ABRA- HADABRA =418 (38 x 11)=Achad Osher, or one and ten, =the Eleven Averse Sephiroth= Adonai. Also 91=13x7 1NNX ARARITA, etc, etc. 11 is the Number of the Great Work, the Uniting of the Five and the Six, and 91= mystic number (1+2+3 ... +13) of 13=Achad=1. § Jbid., chap. v, 50. go