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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Sunday, 22 July 1906
Wrote Introduction to Bagh [Bagh-i-Muattar] an essay on Sufism etc.
Thoughts of A∴[1] .
Remarkable experiment with hashish. I took some five grains, and smoked a little ganja. I was drinking a good deal of port, too. Anyway, I went dizzy; but got to bed and slept it off. Think I was on the brink of hallucination. I was describing the effects (as in books) to my Nurse and offered her a fraction of a grain on a match, so that she could get the aromatic taste. My remarks were most vivid. At the expected time (supposing she had taken a quantity) she began to suffer all sorts of symptoms, alleged loss of memory and reason. Quick pulse (160) low temperature (97.8°) dull heavy feeling following momentary excitement, pupils dilated (not contracted). She remarked on tasting it that she thought it was Belladonna. No thirst, no suspicion, no actual hallucinations; in short, all the wrong symptoms. (To be continued.)
1—This indicates the Invocation of Augoeides.
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