The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE Dec. 31, 11.30 to 11.46 P.M. L.B.R. Dragon. Meditation on Love.1 Afterwards I imagined the dim figure of Nuith overshadowed the Universe. Amen. And now I will go out and wish R. and baby a Happy New Year. A Summary Comment. By Fra O.M. 7°=49 I think you are the real man, and will attain. You work hard and regularly, and keep the record well. And you have the Root of the Matter in you. These are your dangers. (1) You are emotional. This is very bad, and must be got rid of. It’s a form of Egoism, and leads to the Left-hand Path. You say: “I object to my wife being run over by a motor-car,” and think you are stating an Eternal Truth. Now no elephant in Siam cares whether she is run over or not. Say then: “It is (relatively to V.I.O.) right that he should object, etc., etc.” Use this analysis with all emotions. Don’t allow yourself to think that your own point of view is the only one. Read Liber LXV. Cap I 32-40 and 57-61. This is extremely important: for one thing, if you fail to understand, you will go mad when you come to a certain Gate. (2) You are inclined to vagueness. This is evidently partly caused by the fog of emotion. Before you can pass to Zelator, you must know and rule the Astral Plane throughout. Astral journeys, however interesting and even splendid and illuminating, don’t count unless they are willed. If you want to go to your office, and find yourself at the Town Hall in- stead, it’s no excuse that the Town Hall has fine columns! You should drop all “Meditations on Love.” What’s the matter with Hate, anyway? From beyond the Abyss, they look as like each other as two new pennies. You really mean “Reflections on Love”: “Jones’ Night Thoughts”: “Idle thoughts of an idle fel- low.” It’s a soul-destroying, mind-fuddling practice. If indulged in, it will absolutely ruin all power of concentration. Now here is your Examination for the Grade of Zelator.? (a) Go through a door on which is engraved this figure X and explain the figure in detail by means of your visions. (b) Invoke Mercury and Hod, and travel till you meet 4 zl the Unicorn mentioned in Liber LXV Cap. III verse 2. Re- port its conversation fully. (c) Discover by visions the nature of the Alchemical principles, Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt. How do they differ from the 3 Gunas, and the elements Fire, Water, Air? 1(This sort of thing is all wrong. It isn’t really meditation at all. You let your mind rove about, instead of pinning it down to a single, simple object. Samadhi never occurs in such conditions. O.M.) 2(This Examination is a subtle compliment, amounting almost to Flattery. It is a much harder paper than would be set in most cases. O.M.) 169