The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX nor can I remember claiming to have attained it. (2) I did attain a state of consciousness which has had a lasting effect upon my life and made my view- point entirely different from that time. (3) The language I used to describe the state, came perfectly naturally to me, as the most convenient to describe a state foreign to any previous experience. (4) I might have used language of a higher plane than I was on, but I don’t see why. (5) I started control of body some months later when I had in some measure lost the complete recollection of the state, or rather when it was little more than a recollection, also, when I first saw picture of man’s arm in Equinox, I rather dreaded to cut mine, so thought it best to carry out exercise and get over bodily dread of a little pain. I did so and am not sorry.” This letter from Fra P.A. giving new practice, etc., com- bined with some considerable dissatisfaction on Frater V.1.0.’s part, regarding his present state, caused him to un- dertake another regular spell of work for 32 days, after which he seems to have recorded very little until March 25 in the following year, viz., 1912. He then experimented with SSS section of Liber HHH, from Egu1nox V. and obtained automatic rigidity. He writes: “(1) Brain became charged with electric fluid or Prana, in fact whole face and hands became as if connected with an electric battery, also brain seemed luminous but void. (2) Could not awaken spine from ‘yoni’; but, after persisting, the part just below small of back became enlivened, then under ribs, then breast and nape of neck. The current became very strong and almost unbearable. Whole body became perfectly and automati- cally rigid. Hands seemed to feel gnarled and misshapen, contorted by the force in them (I noticed this asa side issue). Feet also became filled with life, etc., etc.” He had had some experience with Pranic Currents in his body before, in fact in 1910, but never so fully and completely. He then reported this, and his general progress, to Fra P.A. In July, he received a letter from Fra P.A., saying that he 152