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Correspondence from Jane Wolfe to Karl Germer
[circa December 1953]
To me, the actual tent-water episodes [at the Abbey of Thelema] were more dramatic, more interesting than herein written. But it may be that I was the experience and therefore more susceptible to things as they actually happened.
Also A.C. chose the spot; I had nothing to do with that. The Saracen and pyramid fleeting sensations, visions, or whatnot, did occur when I was building the third and last place of habitation when on the Retirement.
I started Asana-meditation at 30 minutes each, the first week: increased to 1 hour the second: one and one-half hour the third: two hours the fourth and last: except Thisarb, the last meditation of the day, I gave but one and one-half. I sat in boiling oil, for the most part, and became rigid at times so that I had to unfold my toes and feet with my fingers, But the pain and rigidity lasted but 4 or 5 minutes, when it left completely! Also, during the last week my body was laid down, to my right side, as one would lay down a piece of sculpture.
I performed all this in the nude. My exercise consisted of going from the tent into the ocean for swims, and deliberately dropping off some rocks so as to relax completely.
The [Magical] Retirement was for 31 days. I was there 33 because of the help Genesthai [C. F. Russell] gave me.
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