The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX expressed by the Ten Voices or Emanations of God the Vast One—Blessed be He !—even the Holy Sephiroth. And the Method whereby I shall work shall be the One Absolute and inerratic Science: the Science of Number: which is that single Mystery of the Intellect of Man whereby he becometh exalted unto the Throne of Inflexible and Unerring Godhead. As it is written, “Oh, how the World hath Inflexible Intellectual Rulers” (Zoroaster). But before I may proceed unto the Qabalistical * enumera- tion and analysis of the Text, a certain preamble in the fruitful fields of that Science will become necessary. The Evolution of the Numbers is the Evolution of the Worlds, for as it is written in the Clavicula Salomonis, ‘The Numbers are Ideas ; and the Ideas are the Powers, and the Powers are the Holy Elohim of Life.” That which is behind and beyond all Number and all thought (even as the Ain Soph with its Mighty Veils depending back from Kether is behind and beyond all Manifestation) is the Number 0. Its symbol is the very Emblem of Infinite Space and Infinite Time.+ Multiply by it any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes—sinks into the Ocean of Eternity. So also is the Ain Soph. From It proceed all Things: unto It all will return, when the Age of Brahman is over and done, and the day of Peace-Be-with-Us is declared by Thoth, * Here used in its true meaning of “the marshalling forth by number.” Qabalah, 71 p, by Tarot, “ The Mystery shown forth in balanced disposition by Command.” + “Hidden behind my Magic Veil of Shows, Iam not seen at all—Name not my Name.” 168