THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
Oct. 31. This account is almost unintelligible as it stands;
so I edit it.
He appears to have made the old
“Preliminary Invocation.”
Result rather like
Yoga; he gets at once into Pratyahara and
then makes Samyama on the Augoeides.
" Invoked twice~terrible agony.” And then
this note.
”Barbarous names.
Supreme test
(i.e. to use words which he does not
under—
stand), for a man who is really praying cannot
bring himself to say a ridiculous thing to his
God, even on the latter's mandate.”
(From this it appears as if the Augoeides
had told Fra. P. the real meaning of Zoroaster’s
injunction: “Change not barbarous names of
evocation; for they are names divine, having
in the sacred rites a power ineffable.”)
”I shall go," continues Fra. P., “and recite
` From Greenland's Icy Mountains’ (the most
ridiculous thing that occurred to his mind)—if
with faith, Samadhil
»
.
.
"No faith, I suppose.
Time after time I
feel the sickening pangs of dissolution; physi-
cally I nearly faint; but I don‘t get over the
bar.
.
.
.
I am sick, sick]
”I retire in disorder pursued by dog-faced
demons of all kinds.
“Once again I nearly got there—all went
brilliance—but not quite”
Again,
“There
is
nothing
but dog-faced
demons after I get to bed; but there is always
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