The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX corresponding change in his material surroundings, for although he continued with his usual office work, he lived during the best part of this year under canvas in a small tent by the sea shore, necessitating some miles of walking every day, and throwing him a good deal more in touch with Na- ture than formerly; also the addition of a ‘little stranger’ to his family had a marked effect on his home affairs, being as it were the key to the solution of certain problems that had been puzzling him in that direction. During the period from March 2nd to September 4th, when we might say he was working on alone, his record shows some 340 Meditation practices, mostly in the Asana known as the Dragon, the periods ranging from a few min- utes to something over an hour, but most of them compara- tively short, the average perhaps being twenty minutes. After this there is a gap, during which he worked morn- ing and evening most days, but made no further record till November 9, from which date to December 31 over eighty practices are recorded. Of the details of all this early work it is not necessary to treat very fully, but since, on sending in his record at the end of the year, it was returned by Frater O.M. with various notes and comments of the greatest help and value to Fra V.1.0., Iam selecting those passages so commented upon as likely to be of most interest and help to other students. N.B. The comments of Fra O.M. (in parentheses) follow entries. March 2, 1913. I have got a zeal for service since the retirement, wanted to take for new Motto “I aspire to serve” but cannot find Latin equivalent. (“Volo servare” would do. But a better idea is “I want to help” rather than “serve.” OM.) 158