The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX “TI grow great, and my white wand becomes a wand of living fire. Then I perceived that the angel had left me, and that once again fiery rain was falling around me. “ After this I departed, and in the air was surrounded by dark forms, whom I commanded to lead me back to the circle. Then I sank amid a flock of eagles, and, descending, prayed and rejoined my body. “ My body was intensely strengthened; I was filled with a feeling of power and glory. I gave thanks.’ No. 10. “Queen’s Hall. During the axdante of Beetho- ven’s Symphony in C (No. 5) I assume white astral, and fill the entire hall. Then I looked up to God, and impulses of praise and prayer possessed me. Presently I shrink forcibly and re-enter my body.” No. 14. “I draw the circle and recite the ‘ Lesser Banishing Ritual’;* but performed it badly, omitting an important section. “ At first there appeared to me a brightness in the West, and a darkening of the East; and whilst perplexed by this matter, I find I have entered a dirty street, and see near me a young child sitting on the doorstep of a very squalid house. “T approached the house, and seeing me, the child scrambled to his feet and beckoned me to follow him. Pushing open the rickety door, he pointed out to me a rotten wooden staircase, This I mounted, and entered a room which apparently belonged to a student. “Inthe room I found a little old man, but could not see him distinctly, as the blinds were down. * See Liber O. 308