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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 9 October 1916
12:30 a.m. Op[us] LIX.[1] A restless night full of ideas, especially “The Dwarf,” a story or play of Rabelais type on Jung’s theories.
About a week ago Gerda [Gerda von Kothek] took Elixir, and had a non-elixir vision. Monks in brown robes and hoods go up a green hill, with misty top, in an endless line. They wear rings with a red cross within a gold triangle. This was on Thursday. On Friday I went myself to see the top of the hill. There was a great cross with three rings, and an open sarcophagus in front. Saturday, Gerda succeeded in reaching the top, and saw, without having been told of my vision, a cross with a sun on it and a heap of stones in front. Sunday, she went again, and found the cross black and mouldering; in front, a bowl in the earth with fire in it, burning the stones to ashes. The monks have throughout had their faces covered with their hands.
The symbols are remarkable as being formulæ of Adept Minor, M.T. [Magister Templi] and Magus.
On Monday she started to pull my poor leg by copying Hebrew from Equinox, and offering it as evidential. My attitude seems to have discouraged her in this career of infamy.
I note that a fortnight has elapsed since the girls came; seems like three days. Who lives alone lives long.
Lodges, profess-houses, etc., should always be oriented to Boleskine. Made notes about government of O.T.O.
1—Crowley performs a magical sex operation with Gerda von Kothek.
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