the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

July
2nd.
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THE EQUINOX
BEGIN. END. OBJECT. TIME. NO. OF BREAKS.
10.21 a.m. 10.23 a.m. Red Cross 2 m. 10. s. Several breaks of
the kind, “Oh,
how well I’m
doing it.”
Seem to have forogtten what very long times I used to do.
White triangle 10 m. 20 breaks.
[This about harmonic of good; 20 m. 10 breaks is a good performance.]
Apas-Âkâsa.
[Very difficult: slightest noise is utterly disturbing.]
10.55 a.m. 11.1 a.m. Red Cross 6 m. 7 breaks.
[But it is to be observed that a break may be of varying length. I
doubt if this was as good as White Triangle supra.]
11.44 a.m. 11.56 a.m. White triangle 12 m. 10 breaks.
[Above observation perhaps unimportant, as limit of variability is more
or less constant (presumably) between 1901 and now.
It will be useless to attempt to devise any means of measuring the
length of a break. The only possible suggestion is to count the links in
thought back to the object. But I do not think it is worth the trouble.]
Note in White Triangle above:
I get considerably toward identification of self and objecty. This is
probably a good result of my philosophy-work.
It will perhaps be more scientific in these tests (and perhaps even in
work) to stick to one or two objects and always go on to a special number
of breaks—say 10. Then success will vary as time.*
3.14 p.m. 3.20 p.m. White triangle 6 m. 30 s. 6 breaks. Disturbed
by carpenter.
10.40 p.m. 11.9 p.m. White triangle 29 m. 23 breaks.
[A “break” shall be defined as: “A consciousness of the cessation of
the object consciousness.”
A simple outside thought arising shall not constitute a “break,” since it
may exist simultaneously with the object-consciousness.
* This, though a good system, is a difficult one to carry out.