John St. John

3.6. 3.32. 7-7- 8.10. 8.45. 8.50. 54 THE EQUINOX momentary pause which this causes, some old habitual thought (to-night my mantra) rises up. A case of the Closure followed by the Moving of the Previous Question. Oh Lord! when wilt Thou carry a Motion to Adjourn, nay, to Prorogue, nay! to Dissolve this Parliament? I am not sleepy; yet will I again compose myself, devoting myself to Adonai. Again woke and continued mantra. I ought to have made more of it at 7.7; I went off again to sleep ; the result is that I am rather difficult to wake again. However, let me be vigilant now. I have dressed and from 8.35—8.45 performed the Ritual of the Bornless One. Though I performed it none too well (failing, e.g., to make use of the Geometric Progression on the Maha- lingam formula in the Ieou section [We cannot under- stand this passage. It presumably refers to the " Pre— liminary Invocation ” in the “Goetia” of King Solomon, published S.P.R.T., Boleskine Foyers, N.B., 1904.— ED.], and not troubling even to formulate carefully the Elemental Hosts, or to marshal them about the circle) I yet, by the favour of IAO, obtained a really good effect, losing all sense of personality and being exalted in the Pillar. Peace and ecstasy enfolded me, It is well. But as I was ill last night, and as the morning has broken chill and damp, I will go to the Cafe du Dome