The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING below it to a finality and which may be compared to Tiphereth in its Solar Aspect or to the Manipura Chakkra, The sixth and seventh stages—Right Effort and Right Thought, are stages of “definitely directed power” closely related to Geburah and Chesed—Mars and Jupiter. And then finally comes the eighth stage—Right Meditation, again a summary of the three stages below it, which may be compared as the Three Supernals or the Sahasdra Chakkra. [Compare with the essay “ Science and Buddhism ” in the “ Sword of Song” by A. Crowley, and the writings of Ananda Metteya. Here are then three men who have worked both severally and collectively, who yet apparently hold irrecon- cilable views as to what Buddhism is. What better proof is needed of the fact that all intellectual study ultimates in mental chaos?] 149