ound, he persuaded me to
tell him their use, and from that on we experimented continually, and
after a time I began to keep careful record. In summer he always had the
same little house at Rosses Point, and it was there that he first became
sensitive to the cabalistic symbols. There are some high sandhills and low
cliffs, and I adopted the practice of walking by the seashore while he
walked on cliff or sandhill; I, without speaking, would imagine the
symbol, and he would notice what passed before his mind's eye, and in a
short time he would practically never fail of the appropriate vision. In
the symbols which are used certain colours are classified as "actives,"
while certain other colours are "passives," and I had soon discovered that
if I used "actives" George Pollexfen would see nothing. I therefore gave
him exercises to make him sensitive to those colours, and gradually we
found ourselves well fitted for this work, and he began to take as lively
an interest, as was possible to a nature given over to habit, in my plans
for the Castle on the Rock.

I worked with others, sworn to the scheme for the most part, and I made
many curious observations. It was the symbol itself, or, at any rate, not
my conscious intention that produced the effect, for if I made an error
and told someone, let us say, to gaze at the wrong symbol--they were
painted upon cards--the vision would be suggested by the symbol, not by
my thought, or two visions would appear side by side, one from the symbol
and one from my thought. When two people, between whose minds there was
even a casual sympathy, worked together under the same symbolic influence,
the dream or reverie would divide itself between them, each half being the
complement of the other; and now and again these complementary dreams, or
reveries, would arise spontaneously. I find, for instance, in an old
notebook, "I saw quite suddenly a tent with a wooden badly-carved idol,
painted dull red; a man looking like a Red Indian was prostrate before it.
The idol was seated to the left. I asked G. what he saw. He saw a most
august immense being, glowing with a ruddy opalescent colour, sitting on a
throne to the left", or, to summarise from a later notebook,... I am
meditating in one room and my fellow-student in another, when I see a boat
full of tumult and movement on a still sea, and my friend sees a boat with
motionless sails upon a tumultuous sea. There was nothing in the
originating symbol to