The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

LIBER TZADDI 24. My disciples are proud and beautiful ; they are strong and swift; they rule their way like mighty conquerors. 25. The weak, the timid, the imperfect, the cowardly, the poor, the tearful—these are mine enemies, and I am come to destroy them. 26. This also is compassion : an end to the sickness of earth. A rooting-out of the weeds: a watering of the flowers. 27. O my children, ye are more beautiful than the flowers : ye must not fade in your season. 28. I love you ; I would sprinkleyou with the divine dew of immortality. 29. This immortality is no vain hope beyond the grave: I offer you the certain consciousness of bliss. 30. I offer it at once, on earth ; before an hour hath struck upon the bell, ye shall be with Me in the Abodes that are beyond Decay. 31. Also I give you power earthly and joy earthly ; wealth, and health, and length of days. Adoration and love shall cling to your feet, and twine around your heart. 32. Only your mouths shall drink of a delicious wine-the wine of Iacchus ; they shall reach ever to the heavenly kiss of the Beautiful God. 33. I reveal unto you a great mystery. Ye stand between the abyss of height and the abyss of depth. 34. In either awaits you a Companion; and that Com- panion is Yourself. 35. Ye can have no other Companion. 36. Many have arisen, being wise. They have said “ Seek out the glittering Image in the place ever golden, and unite yourselves with It.” 2x