the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
Dawn with Pranava. This, as I foresaw, retained the Dhyânic Consciousness.
The Disk grew golden: rose clear of all its clouds, flining great fleecy cumuli of
rose and gold, fiery with light, into the aethyr of space. Hollow it seemed and
rayless as the Sun in Sagittarius, yet incomparably brighter: but rising clear of
cloud, it began to revolve, to coruscate, to throw of streamers of jetted fire!
[This from a hill-top I beheld, dark as of a dying world. Covered with black
decayed wet peaty wood, a few pines stood stricken, unutterably alone.*] But
behind the glory of its coruscations seemed to shape, an idea less solid than a
shadow! an Idea of some Human-seeming Form! Now grew doubt and thought
in P.’s miserable mind; and the One Wave grew many waves and all was lost!
Alas! Alas! for P.! And Glory Eternal unto Her, She the twin-Breasted that
hath encroached even upon the other half of the Destroyer! “OM Namo
Bhâvaniya OM.”
Filled with the glory of the great light that had arisen in
him, for many days P. communded in silence with the Vision
that days upon days of labour had revealed to him, and then
leaving his place of retirement near Kandy he journeyed to
Anhuradhapura, and thence to many sacred shrines and
temples throughout the island of Ceylon, gathering as he
travelled spiritual knowledge, and learning the ancient
customs of the people and the manner of their lives.
Towards the end of November his work in Ceylon being
accomplished he arrived at Madura, and from there he
journeyed to Calcutta. At this city he remained for about a
month, during almost the whole of which time he suffered
from sickness and fever. He however records on interesting
incident, which took place during an early morning walk
whilst he was in deep meditation.
“Whilst in this meditation, a kind of inverted Manichæism
seemed to develop and take possession of it, Nature appearing
as a great evil and fatal force, unwittingly developing within
* This is a mere thought-form induced by misunderstanding the
instruction of Mâitrânanda Swami as to observing the phenomenon.
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