JOHN ST. JOHN
VIII. that I will work in truth:
IX. that Iwill rely only upon myself:
X. that I will interpret every phenomenon as a
particular dealing of God with my soul.
And if I fail herein, may my pyramid be profaned, and the
Eye be closed upon me I
All this did I swear and seal with a stroke upon the
Bell.
Then I steadily sat down in my Asana (or sacred Posture),
having my left heel beneath my body pressing into the anus,
my right sole closely covering the phallus, the right leg
vertical; my head, neck,
and spine in one straight vertical
line; my arms stretched out resting on their respective knees;
my thumbs joined each to the fourth finger of the proper hand.
All my muscles were tightly held; my breath came steady,
slow and even through both nostrils; my eyes were turned
back, in, up to the Third Eye; my tongue was rolled back in
my mouth ; and my thoughts, radiating from that Third Eye,
I strove to shut in unto an ever narrowing sphere by concen-
trating my will upon the Knowledge and Conversation of the
Holy Guardian Angel.
Then I struCk Twelve times upon the Bell ; with the new
month the Operation was duly begun.
Oct.
1.
The First Day
At Eight o’clock I rose from sleep and putting on my
Robe, began a little to meditate.
For several reasons—
the journey and business of the day before, etc. etc., I
did not feel fresh.
But forcing myself a little I rose
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