THE EQUINOX
A
goodish: lengthy and reverie-like.
Yet
my heart is well.
I spake it audibly.
April 5. A
vocalized: goodish.
(Knocked sideways by
18
malaria; a sharp attack of shivering.)
6. At Shanghai.
A
very ethereal.
7. Bowled clean over by fever; spent pm.
in bed
drunk with Dover’s Powder.
Quite sufficiently
ill to excuse slackness: e. g. I could not even read
a light novel.
8. Feeble but convalescent.
A . '. nevertheless pretty good for concentration
and sincerity; not notable for result.
I think I had better begin to renounce idle
things, save where politeness calls, and calls loud.
ΙΗ take life too easy, the Great Retirement will
be harder: on the other hand an asceticism to no
instant purpose may exhaust me for the struggle
when it comes.
One of those rare cases where
a “golden mean " looks well.
9. A
at night good: considerable strain in ether.
(It is here fitting to mention Fra, P.’s idea of
performing this
“ Preliminary Invocation "
of
the Goetia.)
The preamble he makes a general concentra—
tion of all his magical forces, and a declaration
of his will.
The Ar Thiao section.
He travels to the
infinite East among the hosts of angels sum—
moned by the words.
A sort of "Rising on the
Planes," but in a horizontal direction.