Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 13 July 1916
I omitted a rather important corollary of my Message of yesterday afternoon. It was this: that I ought not to degrade myself by working at anything whatever but the one thing: to preach my Law, either directly or by Art. In short, no more Vanity Fair, no more Stuart X. [Henry Clifford Stuart], no more Miss Adams [Evangeline Adams]. As Dante said to me at the National Arts Club: “Canst not thou go into the street, and starve?”
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