The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING A rather poor; yet a certain clarity of vision ofa white one like him of the 25th. April 28. A poor; bodily health imperfect still, yet great ח ;: 29, clarity of vision in the matter of the four quarters. Α.'. The same thing happens every time: the me- chanical part is kept easily, but I {all instantly into a dull reverie or even slumber. This has nothing pleasant or alluring; is curiously impersonal and bewildering. 30. A exactly the same as yesterday. Will repeat. (It has struck me—in connection with reading B1ake~that Aiwass, etc., “Force and Fire" is the very thing I lack. My“ conscience " is really an obstacle and a delusion, being a survival of heredity and education. Certainly to rely on it as an abiding principle in itself is wrong, The one really important thing is the fundamental hypothesis: I am the Chosen One. All methods will do, ifI only invoke qfteu and stick to it) A repeated. Very good and lucid. (It will be noticed that Fra. P., during this period, seems to have been constantly struggling with his “conscience.” He had completely destroyed his intellect; now he was up against the last bulwark of the Ego, the moral self, the tendencies. Notice that in speaking of destruc- tion of the intellect, nothing more is meant than recognition of the vanity of the intellect in 23