The Vision and the Voice

THE EQUINOX coming of the veil of the Aethyr; not here. I think I will go to the Hot Springs. So I put away the Stone upon my breast. BISKRA. 10,15-11.52 a.m. Flashes of lightning are playing in the Stone, at the top; and at the bottom of the Stone there is a black pyramid, and at the top thereof is a vesica piscis. The vesica piscis is of colourless brilliance. The two curves of Pisces are thus: )¢ They are the same curves as the curves of vesica piscis, but turned round. And a voice comes: How can that which is buried in the pyramids behold that which descendeth upon its apex? Again it comes to me, without voice: Therefore is mother- hood the symbol of the Masters. For first must they give up their virginity to be destroyed, and the seed must lie hidden in them while the nine moons wax and wane, and they must surround it with the Universal Fluid. And they must feed it with blood for fire. Then is the child a living thing. And afterwards is much suffering and much joy, and after that are they torn asunder, and this is all their thank, that they give it to suck. All this while the vision in the Shew-Stone stays as it was, save that the lightning grows more vehement and clear; 156