THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE
KING
THE BABE
IT was about a fortnight after the writing of Liber Legis
that Fra.
P. left Egypt {or the grey skies of the Scottish
Highlands, where, with the Seer, he began to put into practice
the experiments suggested in the Book of the Law.
The astounding success of these experiments would have
convinced any other man of the reality of his experiences, and
induced him to devote his life absolutely to the work enjoined ;
but Fra. P. was not made of common clay. He issued acareless
manifesto, calling upon the Universe to adore, and nothing
particular coming of this, he lost interest.
It is what he calls
“The way of the Tao” to do everything by doing nothing.
Take no trouble or care about a matter; it will come to pass.
It seems to us a sort of happy fatalism; to him it is the
highest of magical formulae.
The upshot of all was that on the birth of a child he had
completely put everything aside.
He played at Yoga for
about a week during the summer, and he took some little
trouble to disperse the wreckage of the “ Rosicrucians,” which
constituted a danger to navigation, the wretch Mathers having
by now abandoned all pretence at magic, and mingled stupid
sorceries with his bouts of intoxication, ever more frequent
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