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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 17 July 1916
Performed the ceremony of the assumption of the curse of the Grade of Magus. CT. B. [Liber LXX] Record attached [below].
The ceremonies proper to the obtaining a familiar spirit of a Mercurial nature, as described in the Apocalypse of St John the Divine, from a frog or toad.
[Crowley adds here in pencil] Within a short time after this Orgion, there appeared suddenly a typist—in that remote back-block!—so like a frog facially as to show unmistakenly that she was it!
"He had crucified a toad In the basilisk abode Muttering the runes averre Mad with many a mocking curse."
0. The Mystery of Conception about 2 a.m.
I. The Mystery of Birth about 6 a.m.
II. The Mystery of Baptism about noon.
III. The Mystery of Worship all day.
IV. The Mystery of Trial 9:00 p.m.
V. The Mystery of Crucifixion 9:30 p.m.
VI. The Mystery of Resurrection and Ascension 9:45.
[Crowley writes out Liber LXX]
And this ceremony shalt serve also as a ceremonial assumption of the Curse[1] of the Grade of a Magus 9º=2o A∴A∴
An XII Sol in Cancer Luna in Aquarius
Therion
The Adams Cottage Near Bristol New Hampshire U. S. A.
1—"This came into effect on leaving N[ew] Y[ork] for N[ew] O[rleans]. [Note added later in pencil by Crowley.]
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