The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING September 6th. 7.0 p.m. 10.45-10.55 p.m. p.m. 11.25-11.34 pm. p.m. 7th. 7.0-7.7 a.m. a.m. 7-15-7.37 a.m. a.m. 8th. 11.0-11.5 a.m, a.m. IL.10-11.13 am, am, TI.45-11.51 am. am, 6.10-6.50 p.m. p.m, 10.20-10.34 p.m. p.m. Heard astral bell, not mine but Shri Maitrananda’s.* Dharana on tip of nose. I obtained a clear understanding of the unreality of that nose. This persists. An hour later whilst breathing on my arm as I was asleep, I said to myself: “What is this hot breath from?” I was forced to ¢hink before I could answer “my nose.” Then I pinched myself and remembered at once; but again breathing the same thing happened again. Therefore the “Dharanation” of my nose dividualizes Me and My Nose, affects my nose, disproves my nose, abolishes, annihilates and expunges my nose. Dharana on end of Verendum.t Pranayama. §. 10. 20, Pranay4ma. 5. 10. 20, and five minutes of 10. 20. 30. Tried external Kumbhaka with poorest of results, Dharana on nose. Dharana, covering face with a sheet of thick white paper. Very complex phenomena occur. But this production of two noses seems to be the falling back of the eyes to parallel. Everything vanishes. Dharana. Ditto. There are two noses all the time. The delusion is that you think your right eye is seeing your left nose! Pranay4ma 7 minutes 5. 10. 20; 6 minutes 10. 20, 30, Dharana on nose 9 minutes 50 seconds. I actually lost the nose on one occasion, and could not think what I wished to find or where to find it; my mind having become a perfect blank. (Shri Maitrananda says this is very good, and means I approach “neighbourhood-concentration”). Six minutes more at 10, 20.30. Forty minutes in the A’sana. Mentally muttering “Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum” I did Dharana as before on my nose. I understand one Buddhist constipation now; for: I was (a) conscious of external things * We do not know what this means, unless the note of Shri Maitrananda’s bell was different from that of Frater P’s. + Wand. 159