The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

April 2L װ THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING 22 23 24 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, 21