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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Tuesday, 2 October 1906
Did a little Invocation. Inquiring how to invoke A∴[1] got the instant reply “Often!”—and only saw later that this was the same old order as before. Which confirms it: discard methods, rituals, etc. (and their contradictions), but do it Often!
The Stooping Dragon—the Floor of the . . . vide Alexandra.
The Critical Converse.
Before this is merely the Concealed At Home with its distinction of gift and graft, and very vagueness, where Apollo and Diana took the place of Mercury.
Scortillum, ut mihi tum repente visumst,
Non sane inlepidum neque invenustum.
Huc ut venimus incidere nobis.
Sermones varii.
(This means something! For example, the Stooping Dragon was painted on the Floor of the Vault. In Alexandra occur the words “vault on Vera.” Hence in the diary the letters S.D. (for Stooping Dragon) will refer to somebody named Vera [Vera Snepp], or possibly “the true woman,” or “true things.”
As I am ninety-four years old come Martinmas, and have much more of this “Temple” anyhow, I feel justified in leaving the rest of this ingenious cipher to any lunatics who get tired of the Bacon-Shakespeare folly.
Anybody who understands this entry of October 6— Brassies and Billiards. Council of War. The King's letter to the Queen: “Pussy the Prince is ill” Paedicabo ego vos et inrumabo XVI.
Called on Rev. J. A. Hervey—is welcome to a copy of the diary.)
1—This indicates the Invocation of Augoeide
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