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tis" is one of the many meanings of the aphorism
"solve,"
correspond-
ing to the "coagula " implied in Samadhi,and
this Pantacle therefore
represents all that we
are, the resultant of all that we had
a tendency to be.
In the
I)hamniai)ada
we read:
All that wc are from mind results;
on mind is founded,
built
of mind;
Who acts or speaks with
evil thought
him doth pain follow
sure and blind.
So the ox plants his foot, and so the car wheel follows
hard behind.
All that we are from mind results;
on mind is founded,
built of mind;
Who acts or speaks with
righteous
thought
him happiness
doth surely find.
So failing
not the shadow
falls for ever in its place assigned.
The Pantacle
is then in a sense identical with the Karma or Kamma
of the Magician.
The Karma of a man is his /edge?:
The balance
has not been struck,
and
lie
does
not
know
what
it is; he does
not
even
fully
know
what
debts he may have to pay, or what is owed him; nor does
he know
on
what dates even those payments
which he anticipates
may fall due.
A business
conducted
on such lines would
be in a terrible
mess;
and
wc find in fact
that
man
is in just
such
a
mess.
While
he
is
working
day
and
night
at
some
unimportant
detail
of his
affairs,
some
giant
force may be advancing
/d'^^ claudo to overtake
him.