April 2L
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
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another place.
P. was entirely sceptical of these
results at the time.)
A
with Soror F.
Left Shanghai.
Ill.
No
regular A
but much concentrated
thought.
Decided to reject results
of
20th
and zrst, and go on as if they had never
happened.
Fair to good.
Asked A
for sufficient health on
voyage to perform invocations properly.
(PS.
This was granted.)
. At Kobe.
A
fair only; though I invoked all
these powers of mine.
Yet after, by a strong
effort of will, I banished my sore throat and my
surroundings,
and went up in my Body of
Light.
Reached a room in which a cruciform
table was spread, a naked man being nailed
thereto.
Many venerable men sat around, feast-
ing on his living flesh and quaffing his hot blood.
These (I was told) were the Adepts, whom I
might one day join.
This I understood to mean
that
I should get the power of taking only
spiritual nourishment—but
probably it means
much more than this.
Next I came into an apparently empty hall, of
white ivory worked in filigree.
A square slim
altar was in the midst.
I was questioned as to
what I would sacrifice on that altar.
I offered
all save my will to know A
which I would
only change for its own realization.
I
now
became conscious of god-forms of Egypt sitting,
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