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THE EQUINOX
May 19th. 1. Assumption of the god-form of Harpocrates: It lasted nine
minutes: the result was good, for I got a distinct aura around me.
2. Physical Astral Projection. I formed a sphere which took a
human shape but rather corpse-like. I then projected a gray* ray
from the left side of my head; this was very tiring and there was no
result physically.
3. Concentrated on imaginary self for ten minutes, and then projected
self into it with fearful force. Chiah nearly passed.†
4. Red sphere darkened and glorified and return to lightem
Tiphereth. The result was good.
20th. 1. Tejas-Apas Meditation.
2. Meditation on living object with the usual two figure result.
3. Astral Vision.‡ I found myself in a boiling sea with geysers
spouting around me. Suddenly monsters shaped like lions and bulls
and dragons rose from the deep, and about them sped many fiery
angels, and Titanic god-forms plunged and wheeled and rose amongst
the waters. Above all was built a white temple of marble through
which a rose-flame flickered. there stood Aphrodite with a torch in
one hand and a cup in the other,§ and above her hovered Archangels.
Then suddenly all was an immense void, and as I looked into it I
beheld the dawn of creation. Gusts of liquid fire flamed and whirled
through the darkness. Then nothing but the brilliance of fire and
water. I was away fifteen minutes.
4. Seven minutes breathing exercise fifteen seconds each way.
(Breathing in, withholding, and breathing out.)
5. White Lion on Gray. 5 m. Result bad.
21st. Position 1. 45 m. Fair.
Worked out a “double” formula for Physical Astral Projection.
First project with Enterer Sign; simulacrum answers with Harpocrates
sign.ƒƒ Then as soon as Enterer sign weakens change consciousness
as for Astral Visions. After which attack body from Simulacrum
with sign of Enterer to draw force. This cycle repeat until
* The colour of Chokmah.
† See Plate VI. “The Kabbalah Unveiled,” S. L. Mathers.
‡ It is to be noted that this Vision is of a fiery nature, and that it was
experienced shortly after meditating upon Tejas-Apas.
§ Very similar to the older form of “Temperance” in the Taro.
ƒƒ See Liber O, THE EQUINOX, vol. i, No. 2; Plate, “Signs of the Grades,” i;
and vol. i, No. 1; Plates the “Silent Watcher” and “Blind Force.”