The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING “ He asked me my business. “And I answered I had come to seek of him certain formulz. “ Thereupon he opened a book which was lying on the table before him, and showed me a sigil. After I had looked at it carefully, he explained to me how I should make it, and finished by telling me that it was used to summon ‘things of earth.’ “As I looked incredulously at him, hetook hold —Dracram 55. of the sigil, and no sooner had he done so than ‘is! in Book. from out of every crack and seam in the floor there wriggled forth a multitude of rats and other vermin. “ After this, he led me upstairs to another floor, and into a ae room which in the dim light appeared to be in an attic. x 7 “ At the west end of this room, lying upon Door oak, : “4 x | ow her back, I saw a naked woman. Turning, I et WS eC challenged the Adept, who at once gave me cue ate the o°=o° and 1°=10° signs; but he would w not give me 2°=9".* Diacram 56. 8 9 Plan of the Adept’s _ Lhe Adept then turned from me and said: room and the attic ‘She is in a trance; she is dead; she has above. been dead long.’ And immediately her flesh becoming rotten, fell from her bones. “ Hurriedly I asked for an explanation, but scarcely had my words left my lips than I saw that she was recovering, and that her bones were becoming once again clothed with flesh. Slowly she rose up, and then suddenly rolled round and fell heavily upon her face. For a moment she remained still, and * These signs are given in Liber O. 309