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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
(8) Completion of Watch-towers and instruments.*
(9) The making of simple talismans.
During each day this programme of work was to be divided as follows:
(1) In the Morning the c of c Operation, and Assumption of a God-form.
(2) Before Tiffin. An Astral projection practice.
(3) After Tiffin. Rising on a plane, or Vision, or Adonai ha Aretz.
(4) In the Evening. A magical ceremony of same sort, or any of above except
astral projection.†
On March the 3rd we find P. wandering among the
fastnesses of the Nevado de Colima. Here he lived for a
fortnight, returning to Mexico City on the 18th only to leave it
again two days later on an expedition to the Nevado de
Touca. On the 16th of April he journeyed to Amecameca,
from which place he visited Soror F., by projection, and
thence up Popocatapetl, encamped on whose slopes he
resolved the c of c into seven Mental Operations:
1. Ray of Divine White Brilliance descending upon the Akâsic Egg set
between the two pillars.
2. Aspire by the Serpent, and concentrate on Flashing Sword. Imagine the
stroke of the Sword upon the Daäth junction (nape of neck).
3. Make the Egg grow gray, by a threefold spiral of light.
4. Make the Egg grow nearly white. (Repeat spiral formula.)
5. Repeat 2. Above head. Triangle of Fire (red).
6. Invoke Light. Withdraw. See Golden Dawn Symbol.
7. Let all things vanish in the Illimitable Light.
On the 22nd of April P., having bidden farewell to D. A.,
who had been to him both friend and master, left for San
Francisco.
* The Elemental Tablets of Dr. Dee; see Diagrams in “The Vision and the
Voice.” [See rather “The Symbolic Representation of the Universe” in no. 7—T.S.]
† Ideas for mental Concentration. Concentration on Scarlet Sphere in
Tiphereth. Let it slowly rise into Daäth and darken, after which into Kether
and be a white brilliance; thence fling it flashing, or bring it down and keep it
in Tiphereth.
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