JOHN ST. JOHN
3.55. but quite simply, just as anybody else might buy
them.
In short, I bought them in a truly Rosicrucian
manner, according to the custom of the country.
I add a few considerations on the grade of Adeptus
Major 6°: 5°.
(RS—Distinction is to be made between attainment
of this grade in the natural and in the spiritual world.
The former I long since possessed.)
I. It may perhaps mean severe asceticism.
In
case I should be going out on that path I
will try and get a real good dinner to fortify
myself.
2. The paths leading to Geburah are from Hod,
that of the Hanged Man, andfrom Tiphereth,
that of Justice, both equilibrated aspects of
Severity, the one implying Self—Sacrifice, the
other involuntary suffering.
One is Free-
will, the other Karma; and that in a wider
sense than that of Suffering.
The Ritual DCLXXI will still be applicable:
indeed, it may be considered sufficient; but
of course it must be lived as well as per-
formed.
(1 must here complain of serious trouble with fountain
pens, and the waste of priceless time fixing them up.
They have been wrong throughout the whole operation,
a thing that has not happened to me for near eight
years.
I hope I’ve got a good one at last—yes, thank
God ! this one writes decently.)
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