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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 4 December 1909
[See Introduction to The Vision and the Voice for background information] [Map of Crowley's travel through Algeria]
Chartered Mohammed bil-Hadj Ba'shir for journey to Biskra. He supplies everything but provisions. I pay 78 francs (60 for 2 camels and 18 for barley for the camels.) I give him 50 now, the rest to be paid at Biskra. He will come at 9 A.M. on Tuesday.
In P.M. went down through the oasis to the river-bed and did the 13th Æthyr. Neuburg [Victor B. Neuburg], a very poxed-up prig, destroyed all harmony till nearly midnight, when we did the 12th Æthyr.
About 2 we finished and after a
little conversation composed ourselves to sleep. Then came
many Abramelin devils and others, and stalked in the room,
and mine eyes were clairvoyant, so that I could not shut
them out. So I bade my chela arise and light the lamp; and I
chanted "O Lord, deliver me from Hell's great fear and
gloom," and did perform astrally the rituals of the
1—Either the MS page numbered 9 is missing or a pagination error in the MS was made. Despite the lack of a close parenthesis, the record appears continuous.
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so that the room was filled with L.V.X. (Though there [. . .]