THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
desperate, I called thrice unto Acheirah, who soon appeared ;
whereupon I explained to him my trouble. Seizing his sword,
he smote at us, and we were again two human beings, just as
when we met, I on the left of Sappho, whose hands were
stretched out. We received the influx, and then I noticed our
positions, and complained that they were wrong; for I would
have been divided, so that Sappho in departing took of my left
side. I left my love with her, but my strength belonged to God.
“This I explained to Acheirah, but he told me my idea was
wrong, and that we were so divided that I might receive the
influx of strength, and she that of mercy.
“So we returned into the temple, conversing, I saying to
her: ‘ Enter with me the temple of the living God!’
“This she did, following me, and then knelt down at the
altar, and waving a censer adored the Lord of the Universe.
“ After this was at an end, we clasped our hands (1°=10°
grip), kissed, and parted; she promising me that she would
dwell in the temple sometimes, and hover about me, and watch
me work, and aid me when I called her.
“Then I knelt before the altar, in adoration of the Lord of
the Universe; but watched her upward and eastward flight,
whilst she looked amorously back at me over her right shoulder,
waving her hand to me. Once only did I call her, and then,
once again turning to the Lord of the Universe with the sign
of the Qabalistic Cross, returned to the body.”
Such are some of the early visions of Frater P. They
commence as we see in a series of rapidly changing and for
the most part unconnected pictures, flying past the observer
as the houses of a town seen through the windows of a quickly
moving train. The streets which connect them are not noticed,
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