Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Tuesday, 5 January 1915

10:30 [a.m.]     Inv[oke] .^[1]

4:30 p.m.     Inv. .

10:15 p.m.     Inv.  followed by dharana on Caduceus, the W[inged] G[lobe] being in the cerebellum, and the staff in the spine. Not very good, and yet near dhyana. I got a dhyana, by the way, a spark of silver (left by Hermes, on whose image I was concentrating ere I slept) of extreme brilliance. This seems like the true dhyana of . This on Jan. 3 rather late at night. I do not seem to have noted that I brought in the new (vulgar) year by the Thoth invocation followed by Enochian calls, and then the Bornless One.

What about the breaking up of sleep, general "John, St. John," act? Perhaps I need such big work to initiate a true Current of Force in this filthy country?

1—[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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