THE EQUINOX
he would not do was—what he was told! It was impossible,
and there was an end of the matter.
However, he was obliged to go to his house in Scotland
on business, and he arrived there on June 15. Two days
later he was joined by two disciples. One of these was
interested in mountaineering, and had asked him for a pair of
his ski. Several pairs were discovered in the loft. Some
days later he determined to look. for four large canvases, on
which, nine years earlier, he had painted in their proper
colours the Four Watch Towers of the universe given by
Dr. Dee. The house was ransacked by the three men and
by the servants; no trace was discovered, and the search
was abandoned.
On June 28, we find this entry—
“Glory be to Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit in the
Highest! A little before midday I was impelled
mysteriously (though exhausted by playing fives,
billiards, etc. till nearly six this morning), to make
a final search for Elemental Tablets. And lo!
when I had at last abandoned the search, I cast
mine eyes upon a hole in the loft, where were ski,
etc., and there, O Holy, Holy, Holy! were not
only all that I sought, but the manuscript of Liber
Legis!”
It was the last straw. For the next two days he remained
in meditation, as in his previous Samma Sati meditation
in Burma and China, where his marvellous escape from death
supplied the last factor in the equation, and brought him to
the understanding of who he was and what his work. So
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