THE EQUINOX
result.
And first must he achieve that for himself;
{or if
the blind lead the blind—-
So again we read (in the Diary, this time) on February
11.
“ Made many resolutions of a G. R. (Great Retirement).
In dream flew to me an Angel, bearing an Ankh, to comfort
me.
We may now transcribe the Diary. We find the great mind,
the complex man, purged through and through of thought,
stripped of all things human and divine, centred upon one
single Aspiration, as simple as the love of achild for its father.
Feb.
12. Continuing these Resolutions.
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13. Continuing these Resolutions.
Read through
Goetia, etc., etc.
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14. Thoughts of the Augoeides.
15. Again thoughts of Augoeides.
Knowing the In—
vocation (Preliminary Invocation in the Goetia)
by heart, will repeat same daily.
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16. A
(This cipher means “ Invoked Augoeides.")
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17. A
though unwell.
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18. A
though ill.
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19. Α
some vision with Invocation.
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20. A in am. disturbed.
A
in p.m. rather good.
(Henceforward he did it twice daily.)
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21. Α.". in am. with M
C
good (Is M
C.‘.
Mystic Circumambulation or Magical Cere—
mony or
?( in p.m. disturbed by drugs
and diarrhoea.
A weird effect.
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22, A in p.m. poor (ill).
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