The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING The same remarks apply to the next three sections in the other quarters. At the great invocation following he extends the Shivalingam to infinite height, each letter of each word representing an exaltation of it by geometrical progression. Having seen this satisfactorily, he prostrates himself in adoration. When consciousness begins to return, he uses the final formula to raise that consciousness in the Shivalingam, springing to his feet at the moment of uniting himself with it, and lastly uttering that supreme song of the Initiate beginning: “I am He, the Borneless Spirit, having light in the feet; strong, and the Immortal Fire! " (Thus performed, the Invocation means about half an hour of the most intense magical work imaginable—a minute of it would represent the equivalent of about twelve hours of Asana.) April 10, A no good (rather tired, especially at night). ,, I I. A very bad indeed: worried. ,, 12. A better, but sleepy. Not by any means good, but more impersonal. ,, 13. A sleepy: in fact dropped off. (He had been doing a magic for a Soror of the Great Order, and exhausted himself.) ,, I4. (Easter Eve). An. mediocre. The Op. of Abramelin being due to commence on Easter Sunday, methinks it would be well to make a certain profound conjuration of A on 82 19