The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING “ Humility, Purity, Confidence. “ INRI Instar Noli Revelare Ineffabile." But Fra. P. made also a sketch of the vision, which we here copy and reproduce. July 28. Twenty-fifth week of A begins. ,, 29. (A continued evidently, for P. writes.) Perfect the lightning-conductor and the flash will come. ,, 30. (The diary of Ρ. from this date is now full of hiero- glyphics, which are and must ever remain inde— cipherable. We may gather a certain amount from those passages which are intelligible. He apparently tried repeating the new formula given by D. D. S., conceived perhaps as a mental opera- tion on the lines of that given in Eqm'nox IV concerning an egg between pillars.) Aug. 4. About to try the experiment of daily Aspiration in the Sign of Osiris Slain. Did this twenty—two minutes, with Invocation as of old. Cut cross on breast and circle on head. (SCIRE) The vow of Poverty is to esteem nothing save A (AUDERE) The vow of Chastity is to use the Magical Force only to invoke A (VELLE) The vow of Obedience is to concentrate the Will on A alone. (TACERE) The vow of Silence: so to regulate the whole organism that so vast a miracle as the Com- pletion of the Great Work excites therein no commotion. vm c 33