the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
Speech only when necessary.
Prânâyâma.
Â’sana with eyes turned up.
October. Walking as exercise.
2nd. 8.30 a.m.
9.10-10.50
a.m. a.m.
10.50-12.5
a.m. p.m.
12.35-1.45
a.m. a.m.
2.20-2.45
p.m. p.m.
3.10-3.45
p.m. p.m.
4.10 p.m.
5.42 p.m.
Mantra “Aum Tat Sat Aum.”
Â’sana with Mantra and eyes turned to Ajna Chakkra.
Chittam distinctly slowing towards end.
Continued lying down. [Did I sleep?]
For a walk muttering Mantra.
Â’sana. Always forgetting to repeat the Mantra, Mâitrânandra
Swami says this is right. Ajna is now more steely in
appearance and is open at a constant angle of about 30° to 40°.
Prânâyâma. Thirty minutes 10. 20. 30.
Resumed Â’sana. The “invading” thoughts are more and
more fragmentary and ridiculous. I cannot mentally pronounce
the Mantra with correctness, e.g. “Op tap sapa” or
“shastra” for “sat,” etc. Now arose, with Music of the Vînâ
the Golden Dawn.* At 5.15 I arose.
Resumed my Â’sana and did three Prânâyâmas of 25. 15.
50. Also of 20. 10. 40.
Mâitrânanda Swami explained above as follows: Unto the
sunset, moonrise, Agni;† then Vishvarupa Darshana,‡ and
one’s own personal God;§ then Âtma-Darshanaƒƒ and Shiva-
Darshana.
* The Golden Dawn, Dhyâna of the Sun.
† Or Rupa Visions. That is, visions of the three Lights of the Gunas. See
“The Herb Dangerous.” THE EQUINOX, vol. i, No. 2.
‡ The great Vision of Vishnu. See the Eleventh Discourse in the Bhagavad-
Gita. “Unnumbered arms, the sun and moon. Thine eyes. I see Thy face,
as sacrifical fire blazin, its splendour burneth up the worlds.” Verse 19.
§ Adonai. The Vision of the Holy Guardian Angel.
ƒƒ Atma-Darshana, the universal vision of Pan, or the vision of the Universal
Peacock. It has many forms.
Vision of Shiva, which destroys the Âtma-Darshana. The God Shiva
opens his eye, and Equilibrium is re-established.
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