The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX Here is a translation in alexandrines of the unrestricted magical and Catholic creed :— I do believe in God, almighty sire of man, One God, who did create the universe, his plan. I do believe in Him, the Son, the chief of men, Word and magnificence of the supreme Amen. He is the living thought of Love's eternal might, God manifest in flesh, the Action of the Light, Desired in every place and every period, But not a God that one may separate from God. Descended among men to free the earth from fate, He in His mother did the woman consecrate. He was the man whom heaven’s sweet wisdom did adorn ; To suffer and to die as men do He was born. Proscribed by ignorance, accused by envy and strife, He died upon the cross that He might give us life. All who accept His aid to guide and to sustain By His example may to God like Him attain. He rose from death to reign throughout the ages’ dance ; He is the sun that melts the clouds of ignorance. His precepts, better known and mightier soon to be, Shall judge the quick and dead for all eternity. I do believe in God’s most Holy Spirit, whose fire The heart and mind of saints and prophets did inspire. He is a Breath of life and of fecundity, Proceeding both from God and from humanity. I do believe in one most holy brotherhood Ofjust men that revere heaven’s ordinance of good. I do believe one place, one pontiff, and one right, One symbol of one God, in one intent unite. I do believe that death by changing us renews, And that in man as God life sheds immortal dews. XIII THE NUMBER THIRTEEN THIRTEEN is the number of death and of birth; it is that of property and of inheritance, of society and of family, of war and of treaties. 46