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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 2 February 1914
Opus XVII
The Seventeenth Working
[Monday, February 2 — Tuesday, February 3, 1914.]
The Temple
was opened about 10:30 and closed at 12:50 A.M. 3.2.14 E.V.
O.S.V. [Crowley] dedicated the bird to Juppiter and set it free. During
the Versicle O.S.V.
lost consciousness. After the Quia Patris L.T. [Victor
B. Neuburg]
the
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cut on his right breast, was to have acted as Virgo. A marvellous
matter followed, but no further rite was accomplished. At 1
A.M. Fra. L.T. was still too exhausted to speak. O.S.V. doubts
if he did well to avoid the apparent and obvious meaning of the
instruction vouchsafed last Thursday night. This should be
decided by the events of Tuesday-Thursday. If unsatisfactory,
the birds let loose, two on Tuesday, two on Wednesday, should all
four be slain on the last night of this series.