The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING this strange finding robbed him of his last excuse for not taking up the work. Here was the reason for the years spent by him in climbing mountains. Because he had climbed mountains he desired ski; because he had climbed mountains he had gone to Cumberland in the winter previous, and there found the disciple K. M. W., whose request for the ski had brought him to the loft. Here, too, was the reason of his life-tragedy, for without that he would not have gone to Cumberland at that time or gone to his house in Scotland that summer. There was no further escape. He must take up the terrible Karma, which he had evaded, in spite of the tremendous pressure brought to bear upon him by the Masters, for five years. It is Their silent dealings with him which fill Volume O of the Zgiinox. Broken at last, he went to the topmost point of the hill which crowns his estate, at midnight, and there, as we read in the diary, ‘““I once more solemnly renounced all that I have or am. On departing, instantly shone the moon, two days before her fullness, over the hill among the clouds.” A pencil note in the diary, written much later, underlines the words ‘two days before her fullness,” and notes: “And I attained two quarters of year later approximately.” The traces of this decision are now apparent when, from August 22 to 25, we find him at Maidenhead writing Aha! In this poem he gives a complete account of all that had occurred to him. Beginning with some hint of the aspiration to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, it continues with an account of the method of meditation, culminating in that same Knowledge and Con- versation. The agony of the Passing of the Abyss is then H2 99