The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES To eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, is to associate evil with good, and assimilate the one to the other. It is to cover the radiant countenance of Osiris with the mask of Typhon. It is to raise the sacred veil of Isis; it is to profane the sanctuary. The rash man who dares to look at the sun without protection becomes blind, and from that moment for him the sun is black. We are forbidden to say more on this subject; we shall conclude our revelation by the figure of three pentacles. These three stars will explain it sufficiently. They may be compared with that which we have caused to be drawn at the head of our “ History of Magic.” By reuniting the four, one may arrive at the understanding of the Great Arcanum of Arcana. 287