The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX described, and the tearing away of all that he has or is, ending in Shivadarshana. This passage is quoted fully in the section “The Babe,” swpra. Further instruction is then given in meditation. marsyAS. There are seven keys to the great gate, Being eight in one and one in eight. First, let the body of thee be still, Bound by the cerements of will, Corpse-rigid ; thus thou mayst abort The fidget-babes that tease the thought. Next, let the breath-rhythm be low, Easy, regular, and slow; So that thy being be in tune With the great sea’s Pacific swoon. Third, let thy life be pure and calm Swayed softly as a windless palm. Fourth, let the will-to-live be bound To the one love of the Profound. Fifth, let the thought, divinely free From sense, observe its entity. Watch every thought that springs ; enhance Hour after hour thy vigilance ! Intense and keen, turned inward, miss No atom of analysis ! Sixth, on one thought securely pinned, Still every whisper of the wind! So like a flame straight and unstirred Burn up thy being in one word! Next, still that ecstasy, prolong Thy meditation steep and strong, 100