THE EQUINOX
itself a suicidal Will called Buddha or Christ:” This perhaps
is most easily explained by imagining “ May” to be a circle
of particles moving from right to left which after a time
through its own intrinsic motion sets up within itself a
counter motion, a kind of back-water current which moves in
the opposite direction, from left to right, and little by little
destroys the Maya circle, marked “B”; and then becoming
its Maya, in its turn sets up a
counter circle which in time
will likewise be destroyed. The
outer circle ‘“B” is the world
Maya or the Samasdra Chak-
kra, the inner “A” the Bodhi
Satva, the Buddha, the Christ.
Thus is fulfilled again and
again the great prophecy:
Whenever the dhamma decays, and
a-dhamma prevails, then I manifest my-
self. For the protection of the good, for
the destruction of the evil, for the firm
“Tt is a fallacy,” wrote P., ‘‘that the Absolute must be the All-Good. There
is zo¢ an Intelligence directing law; but onlya line of least resistance along which
all things move. Its own selfishness has not even the wit to prevent Buddha,
and so its own selfishness proves its destruction.
“We cannot call Nature evz/: Fatal is the exact word; for Necessity implies
stupidity, and this stupidity is the chief attribute of Nature.”
So P. argued, for the little Bodhi Satva had started whirl-
* Cf. Captain J. F. C. Fuller’s “Star in the West,” pp. 287, 288. “In his
Essay ‘Eleusis,’ Crowley suggests that the world’s history may roughly be
divided into a continuous succession of periods, each embracing three distinct
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