Mary Butts Diary Entry

Friday, 22 July 1921

Astral journey. again. Usual landscape, sea and wooded headlands—On the top of a bank of rather mangy yellowish shoot of plant. I said ‘lilac’, and then ‘that won’t do—Iris.’

That suggested Isis the messenger. At the foot of the plant a stone like a [illegible] loaf in shape, but of white chalk.

In Greek letters—[illegible]—I concluded [illegible].

Correspondences with Yi King.

• = Kether.

Then—Chokmah = Binah—

—   — Yin

——— Yang

———

———

——— = heaven.

—   —

—   —

— — = earth. K(teis) Malkuth.

The two perfects

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—   —

——— = Tiphereth—sun, beauty, middle pillar.

—   —

———

—   — = Moon.

These are the four balanced principles.

The four unbalanced elements.

—   —

———

——— = red. Jupiter. Geburah.

———

—   —

—   — = Netsach, green. Earth.

—   —

—   —

——— = Water.

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—   — = air.

A.C. on the planes within astral plane. Alchemical, Celtic, Classic, Egyptian and the place where the ghosts and the rubbish go—

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