THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
May 26. A
same as yesterday.
Must meditate on cause.
(Sailed for Liverpool.)
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27. A
Got through
after incredible struggle of
πὲhours.
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28. Α
just a shade better.
But my cabin is a little
Hell.
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29. A
shade better; but still very poor.
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30. A
very good indeed.
Renewed the terrible
vows of this initiation, and was rewarded by the
Divine
Kiss.
0 self-glittering
one,
be ever
with mel
Amen.
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3x. A
better than ever yet.
Vision quite perfect
; I
tasted the sweet kiss and gazed in the clear eyes
of that Radiant
One.
My own face became
luminous.
June
I. A
good but interfered with by fatigue.
Used
much resolution.
(And now Fra. Ρ. was to be struck down by an
overwhelming blow.
It seems almost as if the
experiences of May 30 and 31 were to prepare
him to meet it.)
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2. Arrived Liverpool.
Heard of
Baby’s death by
letter from —— and v—.
Arrived London,
perfectly stunned.
(He travelled to London with the friends he had
made on the voyage, refusing to allow them to
suspect that anything was wrong.)
A
appropriate in tone, though of course
mechanical.
I solemnly reaffirmed the oath
of mine obligation to perform the operation,
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