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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 3 October 1901
During the night woke repeatedly saying my Mantra.
12.20 a.m. Prânâyâma. Eighteen minutes. 10. 20. 30.
10 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Walk with Mantra.
11.30 a.m. - 12.41 a.m. Â’sana. Always with Mantra and Ajna.
Prânâyâma. Eighteen minutes. 10. 20. 30.
1.50p.m. - 2.30 p.m. Dhâranâ. Got very tired and lay down till 3.35 (not sleeping) then resumed Â’sana till 5.5 p.m. Now again at last the Golden Dawn. This, as my intuition had already taught me, had the effect of slowing the Dhyâna and also keeping me fixed therein. Yet, I fear, of partially destroying its perfection—He knows! Thus the disk came clear: but I began to be worried by body and clouded by doubt, and an effort to return only brought up a memory-picture.
The flaming clouds are “thought”; the shadowy or hinted Form is Adonai!
5.35 p.m. Three Prânâyâmas of 50. 25. 15.
5.40 p.m. Prânâyâma. Twenty minutes 10. 20. 30.
9.30 p.m. Holiday; which was fatal folly!
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