The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING of Enjoyment, Religion and Knowledge are expounded at some considerable length. Above all the Yogi “should work like a master and not like a slave.” * HATHA YOGA. Union by Courage. It matters not what attainment the aspirant seeks to gain, or what goal he has in view, the one thing above all others which is necessary is a healthy body, and a body which is under control. It is hopeless to attempt to obtain stability of mind in one whose body is ever leaping from land to water like a frog; with such, any sudden influx of illumination may bring with it not enlightenment but mania; therefore it is that all the great masters have set the task of courage before that of endeavour.{ He who daves to will, will will to know, and knowing will keep silence; { for even to such as have entered the Supreme Order, there is no way found whereby they may break the stillness and communicate to those who have not ceased to hear.§ The guardian of the Temple is Adonai, he alone holds the key of the Portal, seek it of Him, for there is none other that can open for thee the door. Now to dare much is to will a little, so it comes about that though Hatha Yoga is the physical Yoga which teaches the aspirant how to control his body, yet is it also Raja Yoga * Vivekananda, “ Karma-Yoga,” p. 62. t As in the case of Jesus, the aspirant, for the joy that is set before him, must dave to endure the cross, despising the shame; if he would be “set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews, xii, 2. ¢ “If there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God” (1 Corinthians, xiv, 28) has more than one meaning, § “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour” (Rev. viii, 1). 77