The Vision and the Voice

THE EQUINOX both Crowned and Conquering, the Lord of the Sword and the Sun, the Babe in the Lotus, pure from his birth, the Child of suffering, the Father of justice, unto whom be the glory throughout all the Aeon! * Come away! For that which was to be accomplished is accomplished, seeing that thou hadst faith unto the end of all. In the letter N the Voice of the Aethyr is ended. BISKRA, ALGERIA. December 20, 1909. 8.35-9.35 p.m. THE CRY OF THE IST AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED LIL First, let praise and worship and honour and glory and great thank be given unto the Holy One, who hath permitted us to come thus far, who hath revealed unto us the ineffable mysteries, that they might be disclosed before men. And we humbly beseech His infinite goodness that he will be pleased to manifest unto us even the Mystery of the First Aethyr. (Here followeth the Call of the Aethyr.) The veil of the Aethyr is like the veil of night, dark azure, full of countless stars. And because the veil is infinite, at first one seeth not the winged globe of the sun that burneth in the centre thereof. Profound peace filleth me,—beyond ecstasy, beyond thought, beyond being itself, IAIDA. (This word means “I am,” but in a sense entirely beyond being.) (Note.—In Hebrew letters it adds to 26. In Hebrew letters the name of the Aethyr is 70, ayin; but by turning the * The Seer had absolutely forgotten this prophecy, and was amazed at the final identification of the Child in LIL with Hoor. 166