The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING But before this, the Light had begun to break into the ruins of his mind. On February 9 he writes: " About this full moon consciousness began to break through Ruach into Neschamah "; and two days later: “Pu Peng to Ying Wa Kuan. I ‘shoot the Reason’ by going back, though on a higher plane, to Augoeides (z'. e. the Holy Guardian Angel). Resolve to accomplish a Great Retirement on lines closely resembling Abra-melin. The ‘note-book and stop-watch method’ is too much like criticism Doubt whether I should actually do Op. or confine myself to Augoeides. Latter easy to prepare, of course." And so on, making a plan. Now, how did this come about? Not from the meditation on the Reason, which ended once for all in the Destruction of that Reason, but by the " Sammasati ” meditations on his Kamma. Baffled again and again, the {all with his horse supplied the one factor missing in his calculations. He had repeatedly escaped from death in manners almost miraculous " Then I am some use after all ! " was his conclusion. “I am indeed SENT to do something.” For whom? For the Universe; no partial good could possibly satisfy his equation. “I am, then, the ‘chosen Priest and Apostle of Infinite Space.’ Very good: and what is the message? What shall I teach men?” And like the lightning from heaven fell upon him these words: “THE KNOWLEDGE AND CONVERSA- TION OF THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL." Just that. No metaphysical stuff about the “higher self ”; a thing that the very villagers of Pu Peng could under- stand. Avoid refinements; leave dialectic to the slaves of reason. His work must, then, be to preach that one method and Ι3