The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES Axiom X It is by the will that the intelligence sees. If the will is healthy, the sight is just. God said: “Let there be light!” and light is; the will says, ‘‘ Let the world be as I will to see it!” and the intelligence sees it as the will has willed. This is the meaning of the word, “ So be it,” which confirms acts of faith. Axiom XI When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one’s blood, one’s life, one’s intelligence, and one’s reason, without ever satisfying them. Axiom XII To affirm and to will what ought to be is to create; to affirm and will what ought not to be, is to destroy. Axiom XIII Light’ is an electric fire put by Nature at the service of the will; it lights those who know how to use it, it burns those who abuse it. Axiom XIV The empire of the world is the empire of the light.t Axiom XV Great intellects whose wills are badly balanced are like comets which are aborted suns. Axiom XVI To do nothing is as fatal as to do evil, but it is more cowardly. The most unpardonable of mortal sins is inertia. 1 Meaning again the special “light” spoken of previously—TRANs, 237