Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

[undated] Between Saturday, 26 November and Sunday 11 December 1898

 

Notes of Astral Travel

 

 

No. 10.

Queen's Hall. Beethoven's “Symphony in C” (No. 5) being played. During the adante I assume white astral. I fill the entire hall. I look up as to God. Impulses of praise and prayer possess me. I shrink forcibly and reenter body.

 


 

[The following narrative is the version of this Astral Vision that was printed in "The Temple of Solomon the King (Book III)" in The Equinox vol. I No. 2.]

 

No. 10.

“Queen’s Hall. During the andante of Beethoven’s Symphony in C (No. 5) I assume white astral, and fill the entire hall. Then I looked up to God, and impulses of praise and prayer possessed me. Presently I shrink forcibly and re-enter my body.”

 

 

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