The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING NEMO In the year 1909 we find the drawing together of the Paths by which Frater P. had been travelling. First (March 21), the conscious personal work of his life was crystallized in the thorough establishment of his system of Scientific Illuminism or Sceptical Theurgy through the publication of Number I of the Equinox; Second (October 27), he accomplished his purely human duty without which he had no right to become Sannyasin ; Third (April), another purely human side of his life reached a proper climax ; Fourth (December), he was relieved of his last human responsibility ; Fifth(June), he was brought back completely, in full freedom, into the work laid down in Liber Legis. All these things were doubtless necessary as a winding-up of his business with Earth. The result is the final Initiation of December 3. There is a very curious entry in his diary for January 1— “Having left the Juggler (Standard Music-hall), ate 12 oysters=1 crab=Abrahadabra, a small bottle of No. 111 (cost 231 pence), invoked and banished Mercury in P. Circus, opened message from Adonai. Folly=Aleph.” 95