The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING However, this account in The Temple of Solomon the King is too clumsy, too overloaded with matter irrelevant to the main purpose, to serve as the book referred to in Lider Legis III. 39. It will form a book of reference for students, but not a popular treatise. Frater Perdurabo was conscious of this difficulty. A further revelation through another messenger was necessary before the matter could be brought to asatisfactory conclusion. It is unnecessary in this place to detail how this came about, as it is quite recent and of too great importance in itself to deal with in any casual manner. It must suffice that this instruction is now being fully obeyed, as will be evident upon the publication of Part IV of Book 4. We now return to the diary. On September 24 we find a new password for the forthcoming Equinox—4 dio. Its sublime meaning was not yet suspected by Frater Perdu- rabo. On November 9 we find the entry “Here endeth this diary, for I write now in a Holy Book of my Holy Pilgrimage to the Sun.” In fact, he left London for Paris on November 10, attended only by a single Chela. He arrived at Algiers on the 17th, and on the next day took the tram to Arba, from which point they started to walk to Bou- Saada. At Aumale he took up again the work of obtaining the Cries of the 30 A&thyrs, to which he had not paid attention since August 1900. It is evident that he was stopped from going beyond that point at that time. A study of these Cries will explain to students of intelli- gence the details of this Initiation, and it will be seen from the remarks at the end of the 13th A&thyr that it is not possible to proceed beyond the 16th for any one who is not a Master of the Temple. In the 19th A2thyr is the beginning of this x I 113