Equinox I (04).pdf

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
he had now succeeded in building the great temple of Self-
Control. Working upon Eastern line he had laid stone upon
stone, and yet when the work was completed, magnificnet
though it was, there was no God yet found to indwell it. It
was indeed but an empty house.
Though we have now arrived at this turning point, it will
be necessary before we review the contents of this chapter to
narrate the events from the present date—March 1902, down
to the 11th of August 1903; when, by the chance (destined)
meeting with Ourada the Seer, he was eventually enabled to
set in motion the great power he had gained, and by wrestling
with the deity, as Jacob wrestled with the Angel by the ford of
Jabbok, see God face to face and LIVE.
For a space of nearly six months P. and D.A. journeyed
amongst the vast mountains beyond Cashmir, and though
during this period no record of his meditations has been preserved,
time was not idled away and exercises in meditation of
a more exalted kind, on the vastness of Nature and the
ungraspable might of God, were his daily joy and consolation.
In September he returned to Srinnagar, and thence journeyed
to Bombay where he remained for but a few days
before his return journey to Europe.
Arriving in Egypt he remained in that ancient land for
some three weeks, somehow feeling that it was here that he
should find what he had so long now been seeking for in
vain. But realizing the hopelessness of waiting in any definite
country or city, without some clue to guide him to his goal, he
left Egypt at the beginning of November and continued his
journey back to England only to break it again at Paris.
In this city he remained until April the following year
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