AB.2


      The night of the 21st was spent at the National Hotel, Zurich.
      At about midnight she was in a state of excitement, exhaustion,
and hysteria so fierce and terrible as to be almost alarming to Fra. P.
I must mention that he had hitherto regarded her only as a
voluptuous and passionate woman of the world, or perhaps in part
as a fellow-artist; no thought of her use in his occult work had ever
crossed his mind.
      However, the state described, one little removed from that of an
amorous but infuriated lioness, suddenly and without warning gave
place to a profound calm hardly distinguishable from prophetic
trance, and she began to describe what she was `seeing'.
      Fra. P.'s old sceptical attitude had in no wise been weakened by
the lapse of years; he attached no importance to, or interest (save
artistic interest) in, what he regarded as a morbid phenomenon
due to over-excitement of Bacchus and Eros, and he cannot
particularize the order of the events now to be related, although he
wrote them down an hour later when they assumed an occult
importance.
      The lady had, I think, on the previous day (the 20th) `seen' in a
dream the `head of the 5 White Brothers' who told her that `it was
all right.'
      This person now again appeared to her. He was an old man with
a long white beard; in his hand he held a wand, and on his breast
was a large (`claw'). On his finger was a ring; under a transparent
`glass' top it had a white feather or `bird'. Subsequently she
described this as the feather of a `bird of Paradise', or something
similar.
      His first counsel to the seer was `to make herself perfectly
passive' in order that he might communicate freely.
      He then said that the 5 White Brethren were `turning red' and
`Here is a book to be given to Fra. P.* The name of the book is _Aba,_
and its number IV.' It was the correspondence of the name and
number{i} that made Fra. P. think there might be something in the
communication.
      In the roomß seen was also a black-headed `Turk' or `Egyptian'
wearing a tarbush and a red sash; his name is (`Jezel'){i} and he has
one hand covered with crocodile skin. He is hunting this book; but
(said the Ancient) Fra. P. will get it.
      There was a lot, too, about the Book VII; curious in view of the
fact that the words (_[Liber] VII._  V. 46) ``only by passive love shall
he avail'' had sprung up in P.'s mind when she mentioned the old
man's first command.
      P. then began to `challenge' the old man.
      The seer was not seeing clearly, and was terribly afraid of the
whole business.
      He gave his name as (Abuldiz).
      P. asked ``What about 78?'' and he replied that he was 78.
      P. asked ``What is 65?''* He said that P. was 65 and his age 1400.{i}
      At some point or other he gave his symbol:  IV  1400  78  1.
_Water spring proceeding hence._
      I gave the P[ass] W[ord] of the Equinox _(K . . . . . . . . . )_ at
which he frowned.
      P. considered, and considers, these attempts at identification as
entirely unsatisfactory.
      He promised to come and `make all clear' after 7 days at ll P.M.,
P. being told to invoke `as before'.ß It is curious that this new
revelation should have come at the moment when _Liber Legis_ was
ready to be published;{i} and the proofs of the Horus invocation
arrived on the very morning of the day when the invocation is to be
made. P. will test this as follows: he will begin invoking by the
`Bornless One' and if the seer gets nothing from this, and then does
get something from `Horus', then -- good.