THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
below it to a finality and which may be compared to Tiphereth in its Solar
Aspect or to the Manipura Chakkra, The sixth and seventh stages—Right
Effort and Right Thought, are stages of “definitely directed power” closely
related to Geburah and Chesed—Mars and Jupiter. And then finally comes
the eighth stage—Right Meditation, again a summary of the three stages below
it, which may be compared as the Three Supernals or the Sahasdra Chakkra.
[Compare with the essay “ Science and Buddhism ” in the “ Sword of Song” by
A. Crowley, and the writings of Ananda Metteya. Here are then three men who
have worked both severally and collectively, who yet apparently hold irrecon-
cilable views as to what Buddhism is. What better proof is needed of the fact
that all intellectual study ultimates in mental chaos?]
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