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John St. John
John St. John (1909), PDF p. 98
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THE EQUINOX
joy, with a delicious awe?
I must wash His feet with
my tears; I must die at His gateway; I must.
.
. I
know not what.
.
.
Adonai, be Thou tender unto me Thy slave, and keep
my footsteps in the Way of Truth!
.
.
. Iwill return
and humble myself before the Lord Adonai.
Home again
; have done odd necessary things, and am
ready to work.
I feel slack; and I feel that I have
been slack, though probably the Record shows a fair
amount of work done.
But I am terribly bruised by
the Great Fall; these big things leave the body and
mind no worse, apparently ; but they hurt the Self, and
later that is reflected into the lower parts of the man as
insanity or death.
I must attain, or .
.
. an end of John St. John.
An end of him, one way or the other, then
l
Good-bye, John !
Ten minutes wasted in sheer mooning!
I’m getting
worse every minute.
Fooled away ten minutes more!
Humiliation enough!
For though I made the cross
with Blood and Flame, I cannot even remain concen-
trated in humiliation,
which yet
I
feel so acutely.
What a wormy worm I am!
I tried the new strict
Siddhasana, only to find that Ι had hurt myself so this
morningwith it that I cannot hear it at all, even with
the pillow to support the instep.
I will just try and do alittle Pranayama, to see ifI can
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