The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE BIG STICK The idea that Revelation is a. book 01 Initiation is not altogether new to Freemasons, as the late Dr Geo. Oliver elaborated that view at considerable length, but Mr Pryse’s View is quite a different sort of Initiation; it is the development of the semi—miraculous powers of the Gnosis of Clement, Origen, and the early Christian Church, the birth of the divine three principles, the Crestos, in the human soul. The key to this “Unsealing” is the text itself, in which is found the Nos. 333, 444, 666, 777, 888, 999, ιοοο, as applied to the seven principal [ha/era: of the human body, as taught by Greek Yogis, Apart altogether from the possession of a reliable literal translation of the book, there are seventy-five pages upon the development ofthe Kundalz'nz', and each subject is followed in the text bya commentary in application. Mr Pryse expresses the View that the book is necessarily incomprehensible to the conventional theologian, yet easily comprehended by the esoteric Initiate, ie. by him who possesses the Gnosis, and that the drama is perfect in all its parts. I may add that most of this class of Initiative books had a double interpretation, and hence that the same may be equally found in the Apocalypse, but into this Mr Pryse does not enter. JOHN YARKER. Mr Pryse has undoubtedly found the key of the Apocalypse, and many ofhis interpretations are profound and accurate. But he is afflicted by sexual mania to an extent positively shocking, and does not understand the harmony of the principles, Adeptship is balanced growth, not lapping. A rose dies if you remove the root and stalk, Mr Pryse ! He is unfortunately a poor scholar, and has developed the American literary sense to an incredible point. He translates oiKpaa'm, “ impotence, lack of control,” as “sensuality,” ἄγγελος as “divinity,” and gives us “saucers" for “vials "l Unfortunately, too, he has studied Eastern Mysticism at second-hand, through Theosophical spectacles. Nor has he kept even to Blavatsky the genius, but relied upon her commentators, who had neither her learning nor her experience. But he has the key, and it opens the way for a real study of “ St John" by a. person of greater ability. It is a very remarkable fact, however, that Akrasia (333) and Akolasia (333) should so accurately describe Choronzon (333). No higher test of the truth of “ The Vision and the Voice " could be desired. Again, 656 is “H ,/??.םותnot the Lower Mind, as Mr Pryse unhellenically says, but Tiphereth, the Lion that lieth down with the Lamb. Nor, by the way, is lacchos a phallic God except as 'O Nucwv himself is phallic, and has his mystic 167