THE EQUINOX
who denies anything asserts something,” now let me disclose
to you this “Something,” so that you may find behind the
pairs of opposites what this Something is in itself and not in
its appearance.
It has been pointed out in a past chapter how that in the
West symbol has been added to symbol, and how that in the
East symbol has been subtracted from symbol. How in
the West the Magician has said: “As all came from God so
must all proceed to God,” the motion being a forward one, an
acceleration of the one already existing. Now let us analyze
what is meant by the words of the Yogi when he says: “ As
all came from God so must all return to God,” the motion
being, as it will be at once seen, a backward one, a slowing
down of the one which already exists, until finally is reached
that goal from which we originally set out by a cessation of
thinking, a weakening of the vibrations of illusion until they
cease to exist in Equilibrium.*
* “The forces of the universe are only known to us, in reality, by disturb-
ances of equilibrium. The state of equilibrium constitutes the limit beyond
which we can no longer follow them” (Gustave le Bon, “The Evolution of
Matter,” p. 94).
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