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.”
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