The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX Let us now trace his progress in search of the Stone of the Philosophers, which is hidden in the Mountain of Abiegnus. There are eighteen recorded visions* between the com- mencement of November and the end of December 1898, but as there is not sufficient space to include them all, only six of the most interesting will be given. Being all written in his private hieroglyphic cipher by Frater P., we have been obliged to re-write them completely, and elaborate them. No. 5. ‘After fervent prayer I was carried up above the circle which I had drawn, through a heavy and foggy atmosphere. Soon, however, the air grew purer, and after a little I found myself in a beautifully clear sky. “On gazing up into the depths of the blue, I saw dawn immediately above me a great circle; then of a sudden, as I looked away from its centre, there swept out towards me at intolerable speed the form of a shepherd ; trembling and not knowing what to say, with faltering voice I asked, ‘Why speed ye?’ Whereupon the answer came: ‘ There is haste!’ Then a great gloom closed mine eyes, and a horror of defile- ment encompassed me, and all melted in twilight and became cloaked in the uttermost darkness. And out of the darkness there came a man clothed in blue, whose skin was of the colour of sapphire, and around him glowed a phosphor light, and in his hand he held a sword. “And on seeing him approach I fell down and besought him to guide me, which without further word he did. * Many of these visions were carried out with Frater C. S. t+ A circle was first drawn, as in many invocations, in the centre of which the seer stood. 302