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THE EQUINOX
mind, being so full of other things, seems to refuse to compose itself. Nearly
always I was too tired to do two (let alone three) meditations; and the weariness
of the morrow was another hostile factor. Let me hope that my return here
(Mexico City) will work wonders.
Three days after this entry on a certain Wednesday evening
we find a very extraordinary mental experiment recorded in
P.'s diary.
D. A. made to P. the following suggestion for a meditation
practice.
1. Imagine that I am standing before you in my climbing clothes.
2. When you have visualized the figure, forbid it to move its limbs, etc.
3. Then allow the figure to change, as a whole, its illumination, position and
appearance.
4. Carefully observe and remember any phenomenon in connection therewith.
All this P. attempted with the following result:
The figure of D.A.: leaning on an ice-axe was clearly seen, but at first it was a
shade difficult to fix.
The figure at once went 35° to my left, and stayed there; then I observed a
scarlet Tiphereth above the head and the blue path of g (gimel) going upwards.
Around the head was bluish light, and tiphereth was surrounded by rays as of a
sun. I then noticed that the figure had the power to reduplicate itself at various
further distances; but the main figure was very steady.
Above and over the figure there towered a devil in the shape of some antediluvian
beast. How long I mentally watched the figure I cannot say, but after a
period it became obscure and difficult to see, and in order to prevent it vanishing
it had to be willed to stay. After a further time the Plesiosaurus (?) above the
figure became a vast shadowy form including the figure itself.
The experiment being at an end D. A. put the following question to P. “How
do you judge of distance of secondary replicas of me?”
P. answered: “By size only.”
D. A. comments on the above were as follows:
1. That the test partially failed.
2. That he expected his figure to move more often.*
* Normally in these experiments the figure does move more often.