THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
sail, and sped past Circe, through Scylla and Charybdis; be-
yond the singing sisters of Sicily, back to the fair plains of
Thessaly and the wooded slopes of Olympus. And one day
shall it come to pass that he will return to that far distant
land where hung that Fleece of Gold, the Fleece he brought
to the Children of Men so that they might weave from it a
little garment of comfort; and there on that Self-same Tree
shall he hang himself, and others shall crucify him; so that in
that Winter which draweth nigh, he who is to come may find
yet another garment to cover the hideous nakedness of man,
the Robe that hath no Seam. And those who shall receive,
though they cast lots for it, yet shall they not rend it, for it is
woven from the top throughout.
For unto you is paradise opened, the tree of life is planted, the time to come
is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is builded, the rest is allowed,
yea, perfect goodness and wisdom. The root of evil is sealed up from you,
weakness and the moth is hid from you, and corruption is fled into hell to be
forgotten: sorrows are passed, and in the end is shewed the treasure of immor-
tality.*
Yea! the Treasure of Immortality. In his own words let
us now describe this sudden change.
IN NOMINE DEI
JON
Insit Naturae Regina Isis.
At the End of the Century:
At the End of the Year:
At the Hour of Midnight:
Did I complete and bring to perfection the Work of
LILL+
"* ii Esdras, viii, 52-54.
+ Lamp of Invisible Light. L.I.L. The title of the first AZthyr derived from
the initial letters of the Three Mighty Names of God. In all there are thirty of
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