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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 2 December 1909
[See Introduction to The Vision and the Voice for background information] [Map of Crowley's travel through Algeria]
Midnight—2 A.M. 17th Æthyr.[1]
4:45—6:10 16th Æthyr. Weather cold again.
Went acc[ording to] Orders[2] to a lonely place, up a hill, fine rocks, surface-rotten only; came home by the ridge. A great walk.
1—The Vision and the Voice gives the time as 12:15 - 2:00 A.M. 2—This appears to refer to the instruction given the Seer in the 17th Æthyr, paragraph 9. Crowley's footnote to this passage notes "This I performed in a sort of cave upon the ridge of a great mountain in the Desert near Bou-Saada at 12:00 - 3:00 P.M. o December 2." This diary entry suggests this was integral to the 16th Æthyr, though no record was kept in The Vision and the Voice beyond the footnote to the 17th Æthyr. The Vision and the Voice gives the 16th Æthyr as received from 4:50 - 6:05 P.M.
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