THE EQUINOX
He spake: It is finished! My mother hath unveiled
herself!
My sister hath violated herself! The life of things hath
disclosed its Mystery.
The work of the Moon is done! Motion is ended for
ever!
Clipped are the eagle’s wings: but my Shoulders have not
lost their strength.
I heard a Great Voice from above crying: Thou liest! For
the Volatile hath indeed fixed itself; but it hath arisen above
thy sight. The World is desert: but the Abodes of the House
of my Father are peopled; and His Throne is crusted over
with white Brilliant Stars, a lustre of bright gems.
In the North is a Man upon a Great Horse, having a
Scourge and Balances in his hand (or a long spear glitters at
his back or in his hand). He is clothed in black velvet and his
face is stern and terrible.
He spake saying: I have judged! It is the end: the gate
of the beginning. Look in the Beneath and thou shalt see a
new world!
I looked and saw a great abyss and a dark funnel of
whirling waters or fixed airs, wherein were cities and monsters
and trees and atoms and mountains and little flames (being
souls) and all the material of an universe.
And all are sucked down one by one, as necessity hath
ordained. For below is a glittering jewelled globe of gold and
azure, set in a World of Stars.
And there came a Voice from the Abyss, saying: “Thou
seest the Current of Destiny! Canst thou change one atom in
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