The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING I make a God of it it will become but an illusion, I am ready to receive the Magical Power as I should not abuse it. I must needs accomplish the Finished Work. Buddha. 33m. The best Meditation I have so far done. I regard this as a veal medi- tation; for 13 minutes quite forgot time. Rose on planes of n''b-n‘3"3 * from Malkuth to Kether. August 5th. Meditated on Thoth concerning Frater I.A. 6th. Arrived at Colombo. We now arrive at another turning-point in the progress of P. Up to the first of this year 1901 he had studied Western methods of Magic alone, from this date, at first under the tuition of D. A., and then solely under his own mastership, he had begun to study Raja Yoga, practising meditation and a few simple breathing exercises. Now he was going, if not entirely under a Guru, to work daily with one with whom he had, before his departure from England, carried out so many extraordinary magical operations. And this one was no other than Frater I. A. On account of ill health Frater I. A. had journeyed to Ceylon to see if a warmer climate would not restore to him what a colder one had taken away; and now, that once again his old friend P. had joined him, these two determined to work out the Eastern systems under an Eastern sky and by Eastern methods alone. On the rst of August we find P. writing: “T exist not: there is no God: no place: no time: where- fore I exactly particularize and specify these things.” And * 9=Kether 21=Path of Gimel nm=Tiphereth. b=Path of Samech *=Yesod n=Path of Tau. 123