The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (8) Completion of Watch-towers and instruments.* (9) The making of simple talismans. During each day this programme of work was to be divided as follows: (1) In the Morning the w ofw Operation, and Assumption of a God-form. (2) Before Tiffin. An Astral projection practice. (3) After Tiffin. Rising on a plane, or Vision, or Adonai ha Aretz. (4) In the Evening. A magical ceremony of same sort, or any of above except astral projection.t On March the 3rd we find P. wandering among the fast- nesses of the Nevado de Colima. Here he lived for a fort- night, returning to Mexico City on the 18th only to leave it again two days later on an expedition to the Nevado de Toluca. On the 16th of April he journeyed to Amecameca, from which place he visited Soror F, by projection, and thence up Popocatapetl, encamped on whose slopes he resolved the w of w into seven Mental Operations: 1. Ray of Divine White Brilliance descending upon the Akasic Egg set between the two pillars. 2. Aspire by the Serpent, and concentrate on Flashing Sword. Imagine the stroke of the Sword upon the Daath junction (nape of neck). 3. Make the Egg grow gray, by a threefold spiral of light. 4. Make the Egg grow nearly white. (Repeat spiral formula.) 5. Repeat 2. Above head. Triangle of Fire (red). 6. Invoke Light. Withdraw. See Golden Dawn Symbol. 7. Let all things vanish in the Illimitable Light. On the 22nd of April P., having bidden farewell to D. A., who had been to him both friend and master, left for San Francisco. * The Elemental Tablets of Dr. Dee; see Diagrams in “The Vision and the Voice.” + Ideas for mental Concentration. Concentration on Scarlet Sphere in Tiphereth. Let it slowly rise into Daath and darken, after which into Kether and be a white brilliance; thence fling it ashing, or bring it down and keep it in Tiphereth. 115