THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
3. The vast shadowy form was very satisfactory and promising.*
On the following day P. records first: Meditation upon Winged-Globe to
compose himself. He then imagined D. A. sitting forward with his arms around
his knees and his hands clasped. Around the
figure was an aura of heaving surfaces, and
then a focussing movement which brought the
surfaces very close together. “ The figure then
started growing rapidly in all dimensions till
it reached a vast form, and as it grew it left
behind it tiny emaciated withered old men
sitting in similar positions, but with changed
features, so much so that I should think it
were due to other reasons besides emacia-
tion.”
D. A. considered this medita- D1acram 85.
tion very satisfactory, but that Aura of Heaving Surfaces.
nevertheless P. should attempt it again the next day.
This, however, was impossible; as on the next day, Friday,
he was suffering severely from headache and neuralgia; so
instead, in order to compose himself, he meditated upon a
cross for an hour and a quarter.
The next living object meditation he attempted is described
in the diary as follows:
To meditate upon the image of D. A. sitting with his hands on his knees like
a God.t Spirals were seen moving up him to a great height, and then descending
till they expanded to a great size. Besides this no other change took place.
D. A.’s comments on these remarkable experiments are as follows:
The hidden secret is that the change of size and distance is not in accord-
ance with optical laws. No one has kept living objects “dead still.”{ One of
two things may occur:
a) The figure remains in one spot, but alters in size,
ig Pp
(4) The figure remains same apparent size, but alters in distance.
* Normally this isso. + In the position many of the Egyptian gods assume.
t Qy.: Is this from habit of expecting living things to move? I can, I think,
succeed in keeping them still—Voze dy P.
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