Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Friday, 25 August 1916

More Ether. I come to the solution of an old problem through mathematics. I begin by trying to help the whores off Broadway. “You’ll be able to get ether quite easily, and it’s just as good as cocaine, only it takes a few minutes longer to work—and what’s a few minutes in a matter like that?” Now I got the idea of the interrelation of small cycles and the apparent independence of large ones. Thus you spend your life like Darwin or like Gilles de Rais—a mere fraction of a revolution of Neptune includes it. Then I saw that all things in time are interdependent, and that what is always is, because 1 and 10²² are after all relatives.

6 p.m. Op[us]^[1] XLV.

9:20 p.m. If I am ever caught in an error, I shall excuse myself by saying that I did not mean what I said, but that “I have often thought that there is not enough talking done in the world, and I wished to make discussion.”

The above appears to me one of the funniest things ever said.

1—Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.

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