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12.25. 12.57. 3.30. 4.05. 4. i7. 4-45- 6.00. 6.15. JOHN ST. JOHN Vi Veri Vniversvm Vivvs Vici ] Back home to illuminate my beautiful Ritual. Two pages done and set aside to dry. I think I will go for a little walk and enjoy the beautiful sun. Also to the chemist’s to have my finger attended to. The chemist refused to do anything; and so I did it myself. It is the romantic malady of ingrowing nail; a little abscess had formed. Devilish painful after the clean-up. Will go the walk aforesaid I ought to note how on this day there is a complete absence of all one‘s magical apparatus. The mantra has slowed down to (at a guess) a quarter of its old pace. The rest in unison. This is because the feeling of great power, etc. etc., is the mere evidence of con- flict—the thunder of the guns. Now all is at peace; the power of the river, no more a torrent. The Concourse of the Forces has become the Harmony of the Forces; the word Tetragrammation is spoken and ended ; the holy letter Shin is descended into it. For the roaring God of Sinai we have the sleeping Babe of Bethlehem. A fulfilment, not a destroying, of the Law. Am at home again. I will lie down in the Position of the Hanged Man, and await the coming of my Lord. Arisen again to go out to dinner. Iwas half-asleep some of the time. Dinner—Hers d’GEuvre—Tripes a la Mode de Caen— Filet de Porc—Glace—g Graves. Oh, how the world Y 81