Book 4 (Part II)

123 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.