The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING this disease.” So also with the Unknowable, God, @ Ariori, First Cause, etc., etc., this metaphysical sickness can be cured. Not certainly in the same manner as small-pox can be; for physicians have a scientific language wherein to express their ideas and thoughts, whilst a mystic too often has not; but by a series of exercises, or a system of symbolic teaching, which will gradually lead the sufferer from the material to the spiritual, and not leave him gazing and wondering at it, as he would at a star in the night. A fourth dimensional being, outside a few mathematical symbols, would be unable to explain to a third dimensional being a fourth dimensional world, simply because he would be addressing him in a fourth dimensional language. Like- wise, in a less degree, would a doctor be unable to explain the theory of inoculation to a savage, but it is quite con- ceivable that he might be able to teach him how to vaccinate himself or another; which would be after all the chief point gained. Similarly the Yogi says: I have arrived at a state of Super- consciousness (Samadhi) and you, my friend, are not only blind, deaf and dumb, and a savage, but the son of a pig into the bargain. You are totally immersed in Darkness (Tamas); a child of ignorance (Avidy4), and the offspring of illusion (M4ya); as mad, insane and idiotic as those unfortunates you lock up in your asylums to convince you, as one of you your- selves has very justly remarked, that you are not all raving mad. For you consider not only one thing, which you insult by calling God, but all things, to be real; and anything which has the slightest odour of reality about it you pronounce an illusion, But, as my brother the Magician has told you, “he 51