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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 13 December 1909
[See Introduction to The Vision and the Voice for background information] [Map of Crowley's travel through Algeria]
Starting at 5 A.M. we had 5 hour walk to the Palms of Tolga and then to our infinite disgust 2 hours' more to the town.
My comrade [Victor B. Neuburg] had another jag of mental lethargy which turned as usual with him to a chrysalis of selfishness and surliness, bursting at last to an horrible dragon of hatred, manifesting in an epileptic spasm of demonaic and murderous intensity. He was controlled with difficulty by the free use of the Names of God and by kneeling on his head. Sufficiently himself again at night to write down the end of the 5th Ęthyr [1st attempt and 2nd attempt].
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