THE EQUINOX
other manifest sign.
And the servants of the master by his
insight shall judge of these.
9. This Knowledge is not for all men; few indeed are
called, but of these few many are chosen.
10. This is the nature of the Work.
11. First, there are many and diverse conditions of life
upon this earth.
In all 01 these is some seed of sorrow.
Who can escape from sickness and from old age and from
death ?
12᾿We are come to save our fellows from these things.
For there is a life intense with knowledge and extreme bliss
which is untouched by any of them.
13. To this life we attain even here and now.
The adepts,
the servants 01 V.V.V.V.V., have attained thereunto.
14. It is impossible to tell you 01 the splendours of that to
which they have attained.
Little by little, as your eyes grow stronger, will we unveil
to you the ineffable glory of the Path 01 the Adepts, and its
nameless goal.
15. Even as a man ascending a steep mountain is lost to
sight 01 his friends in the valley, so mustthe adept seem.
They
shall say: He is lost in the clouds.
But he shall rejoice in
the sunlight above them, and come to the eternal snows.
16. Or as a scholar may learn some secret language of the
ancients, his friends shall say: “ Look! he pretends to read
this book.
But it is unintelligible—it is nonsense.”
Yet he
delights in the Odyssey, while they read vain and vulgar
things.
17. We shall bring you to Absolute Truth, Absolute
Light, Absolute Bliss.
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