3.6.
3.32.
7-7-
8.10.
8.45.
8.50.
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momentary pause which this causes, some old habitual
thought (to-night my mantra) rises up. A case of the
Closure
followed
by the Moving of the Previous
Question.
Oh Lord! when wilt Thou carry a Motion to Adjourn,
nay, to Prorogue, nay! to Dissolve this Parliament?
I am not sleepy; yet will I again compose myself,
devoting myself to Adonai.
Again woke and continued mantra.
I ought to have made more of it at 7.7; I went off
again to sleep ; the result is that I am rather difficult
to wake again.
However, let me be vigilant now.
I have dressed and from 8.35—8.45 performed the Ritual
of the Bornless One.
Though I performed it none too well (failing, e.g., to
make use of the Geometric Progression on the Maha-
lingam formula in the Ieou section [We cannot under-
stand this passage. It presumably refers to the " Pre—
liminary Invocation ” in the “Goetia” of King Solomon,
published S.P.R.T., Boleskine Foyers, N.B., 1904.—
ED.], and not troubling even to formulate carefully the
Elemental Hosts, or to marshal them about the circle)
I yet, by the favour of IAO, obtained a really good
effect, losing all sense of personality and being exalted
in the Pillar. Peace and ecstasy enfolded me, It is well.
But as I was ill last night, and as the morning has
broken chill and damp, I will go to the Cafe du Dome