The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING living tree, dissimilar in shape but similar in substance, and all working for one definite end. Thus did Frater P. by two years close and unabandoned experiment show, to his own satisfaction, that Yoga was but the Art of uniting the mind to a single idea; and that Gnana- Yoga, Raja-Yoga, Bhakta-Yoga and Hatha-Yoga* were but one class of methods leading to the same Result as attained to by The Holy Qabalah, The Sacred Magic, the Acts of Worship and The Ordeals of Western Ceremonial Magic; which again are but subsections of that One Art, the Art of uniting the mind to a Single Idea. And, that all these, The Union by Knowledge, The Union by Will, The Union by Love, The Union by Courage found their vanishing point in the Supreme Union through Silence; that Union in which understanding fails us, and beyond which we can no more progress than we can beyond the Equilibrium set forth as the Ultimate End by Gustave le Bon. There all knowledge ceases, and we like Bahva, when he was questioned by Vashkali, can only expound the nature of this Silence, as he expounded the nature of Brahman, by remaining silent, as the story relates: And he said, “Teach me, most reverend Sir, the nature of Brahman.” The other however remained silent. But when the question was put for a second or third time he answered, “I teach you indeed, but you do not understand; this Atman is silent.” P. had not yet attained to this Silence; indeed it was the goal he had set out to accomplish, and though from the ridge * To which may be added Mantra Yoga and Karma Yoga, which correspond with The Invocation and The Acts of Service and represent Union through Speech and Union through Work. 189