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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Tuesday, 7 May 1901
Position 1.[1] 15 m[inutes]. Three breaks but end very doubtful having become very sleepy.
Position 1. 6 min[utes]. Three breaks. I seemed to collapse suddenly.
Went to Devachan[2] on Astral Journey. I found myself surrounded by a wonderful pearly lustre, and then among great trees between the branches of which bright birds were flying. After this I saw a captain on his ship and also a lover contemplating his bride. The real inhabitants of this land to which I went were as of flame, and the imaginary ones were depicted as we physical beings are. Then the images of my vision sped past me rapidly. I saw a mountaineer; my father preaching with me in his old home; my mother, his mother; a man doing Rajayoga on white god-form. At last a Wave (see Leadbeater [Charles Webster Leadbeater]) of pale light, or rather of a silky texture passed through and over me; then one of the strange inhabitants passed through me unconscious of me, and I returned.
1I.e. Self in Ākāsas between pillars with white ray descending. 2Devachan is regarded as the place where most souls go after death where desires are gratified, corresponding to the Christian belief in Heaven. However, Devachan is a temporary, intermediate state of being before the soul's eventual rebirth into the physical world.
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14 m[inutes] Three breaks.