The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX May 19th. 1. Assumption of the god-form of Harpocrates: it lasted nine minutes: the result was good, for I got a distinct aura around me. 2. Physical Astral Projection. I formed a sphere which took a human shape but rather corpse-like. I then projected a gray* ray from the left side of my head; this was very tiring and there was no result physically. 3. Concentrated on imaginary self for ten minutes, and then pro- jected self into it with fearful force. Chiah nearly passed.t 4. Red sphere darkened and glorified and returned to lighten Tiphereth. The result was good. 20th. 1. Tejas-Apas Meditation. 2. Meditation on living object with the usual two figure result. 3. Astral Vision.{ I found myself in a boiling sea with geysers spouting around me. Suddenly monsters shaped like lions and bulls and dragons rose from the deep, and about them sped many fiery angels, and Titanic god-forms plunged and wheeled and rose amongst the waters. Above all was built a white temple of marble through which a rose-flame flickered. There stood Aphrodite with a torch in one hand and a cup in the other,§ and above her hovered Archangels. Then suddenly all was an immense void, and as I looked into it I beheld the dawn of creation. Gusts of liquid fire flamed and whirled through the darkness. Then nothing but the brilliance of fire and water. I was away fifteen minutes. 4. Seven minutes breathing exercise fifteen seconds each way. (Breathing in, withholding, and breathing out.) 5. White Lion on Gray, 5m. Result bad, 2ist. Position 1. 45m. Fair. Worked out a “double” formula for Physical Astral Projection. First project with Enterer sign; Simulacrum answers with Harpo- crates sign.|| Then as soon as Enterer sign weakens change conscious- ness as for Astral Visions. After which attack body from Simulacrum * The colour of Chokmah. + See Plate VI. “The Kabbalah Unveiled,” S, L. Mathers, t It is to be noted that this Vision is of a fiery nature, and that it was experienced shortly after meditating upon Tejas-Apas. § Very similar to the older form of “Temperance” in the Taro, l| See Liber O, THE Equinox, vol. i, No. 2; Plate, “Signs of the Grades,” i; and vol. i, No, 1; Plates the “Silent Watcher” and “ Blind Force.” 118