the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
at each colour separately, or lighting each one by one, it is not bad;
but taken altogether is no good.
July 20th. Thoth.
10 m.
Cross.
15 m.
Golden Dawn
Symbol.
10 m.
[My thought seems terribly wandering nowadays.]
Isis.
19 m. Not so bad.
Winged-Globe. 12 m. Bad, sleepy.
23rd. Triangle of Fire
with Cross in
centre.
15 m. Very wandering.
Abrahadabra 17 m. Pretty good, though perhaps the whole
pantacle
was hardly ever absolutely clear
25th. Tried Physical Astral Projection twice. In the first one the person
employed to watch—my beloved Soror F.—saw physical arm bent
whilst my own was straight.
26th. I did the H. P. K. ritual at night to enter into the silence. I think
the result was pretty good.
27th. Nirvana.* 38 m. If I was not asleep, result pretty good.
Fair.
White circle. 13 m.
[This day I got my first clear perception in consciousness† of
the illusory nature of material objects.]
H.P.K. on Lotus. 17 m. Good, as I employed my identity to
resolve problems.‡
R.R. et A.C. 5 m.
28th. Nirvana.
15 m.
Calvary Cross. 24 m. Ten breaks. Never got settled till
after 8 breaks.
29th. Rising on planes. Malkuth to Kether; this took thirty-six minutes.
The result not very good.
Calvary Cross. 22 m. Four breaks.
30th. Buddha.
15 m.
Calvary Cross. 11 m. Five breaks, but had headache.
* Meditation upon Nirvana.
† I.e., no longer through reason or imagination.
‡ Harpocrates being the meditative God.
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