John St. John

THE EQUINOX 10.42. The fact of the matter is, I am quite unconcentrated. 48 Evidently the Osiris Risen stage is over; and I think it is a case for violent measures. If one were to slack off now and hope for the morning, like a shipwrecked Paul, one would probably wake up a mere man of the world. The Question then arises: What shall I do to be saved ? The only answer-and one which is quite unconnected with the question—is that a Ritual of Adeptus Major should display the Birth of Horus and Slaying of Typhon. Here again Horus and Harpocrates—the twins of the twin signs of o°=o" ritual—are the slayers of Typhon. So all the rituals get mixed: the symbols recur, though in a different aspect. Anyway, one wants something a deal better than the path of Pe in 4": 7° ritual. I think the postulant should be actually scourged, tortured, branded by fire for his equilibrations at the various “Stations of the Cross " or points upon his mystic journey. He must assuredly drink blood for the sacrament—ahl now I see it all so well! The Initiator must kill him, Osiris ; he must rise again as Horus and kill the Initiator, taking his place in the ceremony thence to the end. A bit awkward technically, but ‘twill yield to science. They did it of old by a certain lake in Italy! Well, all this is dog-faced demon, ever seducing me from the Sacred Mysteries. I can’t go out and kill anybody at this time 0’ night! We might make a start,