The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX We will now proceed to the first word of the text as thus decapitated, taking B’rasheth as the Title rather than as the first Word. This latter stands x12, which hath three Letters, symbolising thereby the Unmanifest Trinity. Now its letters further exemplify the Trinity, for that they are the initials of three Hebrew words, which are the Names of the Persons thereof, viz: wa Ben, the Son. nm Ruach, the Spirit (here the Mother). ax Ab, the Father. Note how here again the Son is first for Humanity and the Father last. These three letters, then, symbolise the three in One Unmanifest. Yet is there in them the All-potency of Life. For 2+ 2+ 1= 5, the Symbol of Power, Mother Supernal, and n also is », Lamb of God and Dawn of the Life of the Year. Wherefore in them lieth concealed and hidden, not alone the Divine White Brilliance of the Three Supernals (xin, wrtp,, W732), but even also that Gleaming Glory which partaketh of the Redness, and which cometh from the Bornless Age, which is beyond Kether. As it is writtten in Ancient Hindu Scripture, ‘In the beginning Desire, TANHA, arose in It: which was the Primal Germ of Mind.” Now in the Aryan Mythology Tanha, Desire, was the God of Love, Kama ; whereof the symbolic tint was Pink : as it were the first pink blush of Dawn in the Macrocosmic Sky: Herald of the Rising Sun of the Worlds, when the Great Night of Brahma was over and done. The next word is the Great Name of God the Vast One: onyx. Let us meditate upon its Mystery! Herein behold 182