The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING liminary explanation is required. It has been explained with what reluctance he moved to the obtaining of Lider Legis. We have seen how he tried to avoid carrying out the instruc- tions; how he tried to give up Magick altogether; how he tried to take up Buddhism ; how he tried any and every Path to escape the task laid upon him. He even attempted to publish Liber Legis and the 30th and 29th A8thyrs which he had obtained in Mexico, with sceptical commentary. We find him driven inch by inch into the Path appointed by the Masters. We have seen him stripped of all that he had and of all that he was. We know, too, that he made the obtaining of Samadhi a condition of his taking up the work, on the ground that no one without that experience could possibly carry it out, and we have seen this demand granted. We have seen him hailed by the Adepts of the Great White Brotherhood in England, as not only one of themselves, but as their Master, nay, as the Logos of the AZon. We have seen him refuse to admit it. Ultimately, when every obstacle had been cleared away, when the Adepts themselves urged him to take up the work, his will refused assent, and that with finality. ‘ For,” said he, “ it is impossible. In my copy of the Book of the Law I find it written ‘This book shall be trans- lated into all tongues, but always with the original in the writing of the Beast, for in the chance shape of the letters and their positions to one another, in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine, and this original has been lost. I have not seen it for five years.” With this he dismissed the matter from his mind. He would continue with scientific illuminism. He would publish various scholarly studies of such works as Dr. Dee’s. What x H 97