The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (The change of air cured his neuralgia in- stantly, Henceforth he may be considered well again. He speaks of himself on the 20th as “ an absurd but athletic ass,” after a night spent wandering about London talking to policemen and night watchmen.) Sept. 21. Did a little Invocation. Inquiring how to invoke A got the instant reply “ Oflml”—and only saw later that this was the same old order as before. Which confirms it: discard methods, rituals, etc. (and their contradictions), but do it Often! 22. D. D. S. visits me. Celebration of the Autumnal Equinox. ,, 23. Celebration of the Autumnal Equinox. 24—30. (During this period Fra. P. was preparing, under the guidance of D. D. S., a certain ritual of initiation. This was to combine the Eastern and the Western methods. The mind, exalted, fortified, initiated by the Holy Magick, was then in that very state of divine tension to concentrate itself on that Self-glittering One.) It is time to break off for a moment from the Diary to ask the reader to remark how extraordinarily full is this passage of P.'s life. The scene opens on the slopes of Kangchenjanga with the death of five men. It continues with a jungle inhabited by savages, naked, armed with bows and arrows, ignorant even of any language containing so many as three C2 35