The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE WRITINGS OF TRUTH * The seeker after Wisdom, whose Bliss is non-existence, the Devotee of the Most Excellent Bhavani,t the Wanderer in the Samsara Cakkra, the Insect that crawls on Earth, on Seb beneath Nuit, the Purusha beyond Ishwara: He taketh up the Pen of the Ready Writer, to record those Mysterious Happenings which came unto Him in His search for Himself. And the beginning is of Spells, and of Conjurations and of Evocations of the Evil Ones: Things Unlawful to write of, dangerous even to think of; wherefore they are not here written. But he beginneth with his sojourning in the Isle of Lanka: the time of his dwelling with Maitrananda Swami.§ Wherefore, O Bhavani, bring Thou all unto the Proper End! To Thee be Glory—OM. On the 6th of August P. landed in Colombo, and on the following day he went to see his old friend Frater I.A. who was now studying Buddhism with the view of becoming a Buddhist monk. On this very day he commenced, or rather continued his meditation practices; for we find him trying with MAitrananda the result of speech as a disturbing factor in Dharana (meditation). The experiment was as follows: P. sat and meditated for five minutes on a white Tau (T) during which Méitrananda spoke six times with the object of * No rough working is given in this volume; it is only a compendium of Results. + The goddess Isis, Deir, Kali, Sakti, etc, in her aspect as the patroness of Meditation. There are five principal meditations. Metta-Bhavana, on love; Karuna-Bhavana, on pity; Mudita-Bhavan4, on joy; Asubha-Bhavana, on impunity; and Upeksha-Bhavana, on serenity. But see 777, col. xxiii, p. 9. ¢ Old native name for Ceylon. § Frater I.A.’s Eastern name, afterwards changed to Ananda Metteya. 150