Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Friday, 1 January 1915

The Colloquy of V.V.V.V.V.

that is to be a Magus 9º = 2^o of A∴A∴

with the god

ΘΩΘ^[1]

New York in 11° an. X.     in 9° 50' .

This record should touch briefly on the causes of this work.

About Dec. 14 I came to the conclusion that  was Lord of New York, and began various invocations of him as best I could, notably by the O.T.O. method. I shall refer here, and after, to the record "De Arte Regia."^[2]

I did also certain Psalms, certain divinations, and have been doing thrice daily the old invocation "Majesty of Godhead de" as in "Liber LXIV."^[3]

Also on going to bed. I have done dharana on an imagined figure of Hermes now and again; or the Caduceus.

I have been exercised with regard to the question of the possibility of my attaining the grade of Magus in this life (after all!) and my very blindness and impotence—which are at present considerable—give me hope. I seem to have no creative power, or inspiration. I don't work at all; I do geomancy on all sorts of things. It's funny; I don't feel bad; but there's something radically wrong in all I do. Is this the Threshold?

1—[Greek, Thoth.]

2—[This diary was kept in parallel with the present diary; indications of "Op.," "Opus" or "Operation" followed by a number are usually cross references to Crowley's O.T.O. diary.]

3—[A ritual by Allan Bennett, adapted by Crowley as "Liber Israfel sub figura LXIV." His use of this invocation is noted in the diary as "Inv. ."]

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