AM.27/1 [{p} _ Saturday_] April 20th, 1918 e.v. 8.45 p.m. Achitha says the Wizard has had his hair cut and beard trimmed, he looks much nicer this week. 10.45 _Achitha, Therion and Arcteon take 1 cc of Hashish._ _ _11.10 _Achitha and Arcteon 1 cc Hashish._ _ _11.30 _Achitha and Arcteon 1 cc Hashish._ _ _11.33 T: Ask Wizard what should be the subject of our discourse this week end? A: 484. _( _+_ 22_{2}.) 11.45 Wizard is there looking across Water. All there. A Donkey is grazing near base of mountain. Serpent is there. Mountain Goat on mountain. Chinese doll-head. White cliff. Priest in black with shining smooth satin gown. Chinese Lantern. T: Ask the Wizard to give us a philosophical phrase to express 22. A: Force of Will. T: Should the subject of our conversation be How to fix the effect of magical working in general and 9th Degree in particular? _Achitha sees picture of Windram. Therion had never told_ _her that he had this particular power in the greatest_ _plentitude._ T: We know that 22 is masculine and 19 feminine component of 418, which is the Key to this Magick of the Aeon. How do they combine? Are they being combined properly and so on? A: Vision of beautiful bell--wedding bell--changes to foetus. Crown. Head of foetus turns into an egg and rises upwards and then rests on a lotus flower. T: And that means what? A: Winged ladder. Ladder. Winged ladder which goes to heaven. Wings and sides white. Rungs almost pocket shaped. T: What are present instructions? 11.55_ Arcteon 2 cc._ A: Crocodile--unformed man. Shelf, place walled in-- on shelf skeleton. White flag. Skeleton's hand holds white flag. Large wall around place like butterfly net. T: Give Hebrew word to illustrate. A: uhmv_. ( _+_ 111.)* _s crowned with flowers. 12:10 Arcteon: How do you make it die in the circle? A: Great sphinx head, the top of which comes off like a lid-- inside are lots of things--very tiny--They look like human beings--often with cloven feet like devils. They are not devils--they are like satyrs or fauns. Sphinx is like hen sitting on eggs to hatch. Vision of man like shadow or ghost hurrying to distant place, and between me and ghost rain is falling. He is carrying important message.{i} AM.27/2 12.35 T: How get ghost into sphinx? A: White dove flies away. King crowned turns to woman. They become two and prevent ghost getting to sphinx. _( ? Picture of fall explains this.)_ A: yexk_. ( _+_ victories--Yes.)_ T: What shall we do to improve our technique in charging talismans? A: Black lioness lying in street junctions--resembles sphinx. _(Concentrate better.)_ A: A burning tree. _(Intensity of passion necessary.)_ T: How to kill sphinx? A: ``Make fast the chains.'' These bind the ships at the pier surging to get away. Tall woman in wonderful light-- dressed in brown. _(Autumn?)_ Ostrich head in sand. ruhm is formula. _(306 _+_ woman, honey, cold etc.)_ T: Does that mean let it cold in the cucurbite? A: sur_. ( _+_ 210. Cycle etc. Nox etc.; Therefore _=_ Yes.)_ T: How long should one leave it? A: 182. _( _=_ Passive.)_ T: Repeat. A: 63. ( =_ Till creation takes place.)_ T: How many seconds or minutes for average? A: {b} _. ( _=_ 6. Probably minutes or else symbolic.)_ T: Is there anything to do before collecting this `dead sphinx'? A: ( . . . )