Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Monday, 1 February 1915

 

 

10:50 a.m.     LBR [Lesser Banishing Ritual] . Inv[oke] [1].

 

2:15 p.m.     Inv. .

 

Began morphia except night of Jan. 31, with 1/6 gr. Many dreams at first of the annoying type. Afterwards extraordinarily vivid and delightful.

 

2:25 p.m.     1 gr. opium.

 

9:45.     1/2 gr. opium.

 

It is evident that I must go from to .

 

10:30 p.m.     Inv.  and IAO. Mantra for solitary IXº work with Juppiter:

 

Haud secus ac templum spumanti semini vates

Lustrat; dum gaudens accipit amphora aquas;

Sparge, precor, servis hominum rex atque deorum

Juppiter omnipotens, aurea dona, tuis.

 

11:10.     1/2 gr. opii.

 

 

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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