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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 4 August 1906
About to try the experiment of daily Aspiration in the Position of the 5º=6o [Sign of Osiris Slain] O∴[peration].
Did this 22 minutes with I∴[nvocation]. It needed D.D.S. [George Cecil Jones] but the Eli Eli feeling is perhaps induced and this is good.
I made [cut]
Scire. The vow of poverty is to esteem nothing, to value nothing save A∴[1].
The vow of Chastity is to use the M∴[agical] force for no purpose but I∴[nvocation] of A∴.
Velle. The vow of Obedience is to concentrate the W∴[ill] on A\ alone.
Tacere. The vow of Silence; to
regulate the whole organism so that so vast a miracle as
N.B. To look expectantly always, as if He would instantly appear.
1—This indicates the Invocation of Augoeides.
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on my B[reast] with
and
also
on my head.
excites therein no commotion.