The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE EQUINOX A goodish: lengthy and reverie-like. Yet my heart is well. I spake it audibly. April 5. A vocalized: goodish. (Knocked sideways by 18 malaria; a sharp attack of shivering.) 6. At Shanghai. A very ethereal. 7. Bowled clean over by fever; spent pm. in bed drunk with Dover’s Powder. Quite sufficiently ill to excuse slackness: e. g. I could not even read a light novel. 8. Feeble but convalescent. A . '. nevertheless pretty good for concentration and sincerity; not notable for result. I think I had better begin to renounce idle things, save where politeness calls, and calls loud. ΙΗ take life too easy, the Great Retirement will be harder: on the other hand an asceticism to no instant purpose may exhaust me for the struggle when it comes. One of those rare cases where a “golden mean " looks well. 9. A at night good: considerable strain in ether. (It is here fitting to mention Fra, P.’s idea of performing this “ Preliminary Invocation " of the Goetia.) The preamble he makes a general concentra— tion of all his magical forces, and a declaration of his will. The Ar Thiao section. He travels to the infinite East among the hosts of angels sum— moned by the words. A sort of "Rising on the Planes," but in a horizontal direction.