John St. John

12.5. 12.15. 12.35. 12.45. 60 THE EQUINOX Holy Illuminated Man of God our Greatly Honoured Prater, O.M., Adeptus Exemptus 7°=4° Brother-Elect of the Most Secret and Sublime Order A A He does with great difficulty (and no interior perform— ance) just four breath-cycles. Somebody once remarked that it had taken a hundred million years to produce me ; I may add that I hope it will be another hundred million before God makes such another cur. Have performed the Equilibrating Ritual of the Scourge, the Dagger, and the Chain; with the Holy Anointing Oil that bringeth the informing Fire into their Lustral Water. I am so sleepy that I cannot concentrate at all. (I was trying the “Bornless One”) The magic goes well; good images and powerful, but I slack right off into sleep. It’s the hour for heroic measures or else to say : A good night’s rest, and start fresh in the morning! I suppose, as usual, I shall say the first and do the second. Have risen, washed, performed the ritual “Thee I invoke, the Bornless One " physically. The result fair. One gets better magical sight and feeling when one is performing a ritual in one’s Astral Body, so called. For one is on the same plane as the things one’s dealing with. If, however, serious work is wanted, one must be all there. To get “ materialised " “spirits "—pardon the absurd language !——one should (nay, must I) work inside