THE EQUINOX
Axiom II
To will evil, is to will death. A perverse will is a begin-
ning of suicide.
Axiom III
To will good with violence, is to will evil, for violence
produces disorder, and disorder produces evil.
Axiom IV
One can, and one should, accept evil as the means of
good; but one must never will it or do it, otherwise one would
destroy with one hand what one builds with the other. Good
faith never justifies bad means; it corrects them when one
undergoes them, and condemns them when one takes them.
Axiom V
To have the right to possess always, one must will
patiently and long.
Axiom VI
To pass one’s life in willing what it is impossible to
possess always, is to abdicate life and accept the eternity of
death.
Axiom VII
The more obstacles the will surmounts, the stronger it is.
It is for this reason that Christ glorified poverty and sorrow.
Axiom VIII
When the will is vowed to the absurd, it is reproved by
eternal reason.
Axiom IX
The will of the just man is the will of God himself, and
the law of Nature.
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