The Bowl of Saki Commentary

Until the soul has found itself far above the mind-mesh, there cannot be peace. Peace is found at the center, at the hub of things; nevertheless, it cannot be separated from activity. Cessation of activity should be called non-activity, not peace; cessation of war should be called non-war. Peace is a very inappropriate term for it.

Whenever there is a change of feeling, thought, or action, there is some rearrangement; and every type of change, arrangement, or rearrangement causes or accompanies a disequilibrium. Any change of equilibrium is necessarily of the nature of war. Only when equilibrium can be maintained without change is there peace. This is only found when the will has entire control of the mind.

All vibrations and atoms below the mind-mesh are constantly in motion, changing themselves and causing changes to others and being changed, except where they are held in place by a stronger force. It is love or will that stand above law, which can fix these atoms and vibrations. This stable, stronger force is symbolically studied in alchemy and directly studied in the inward mystical process.

It is the Divine Will which can control all wills and all minds, and it is the Divinity which is the perfected activity. Therefore what the Buddhists call Nirvanais nothing but the natural state of God above all distinctions and differences, thus Pure Peace.