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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 16 February 1918
Key to dramatis personae: Aleister Crowley is T. or Therion, or 666. He is represented by Amalantrah in the temple of the seeress' vision.
Roddie Minor, or Eve is Soror Achitha (variously spelled Ahita, Achita, Ahitha), or 555. She is the egg or altar in the temple.
Marie Lavroff or Röhling is Soror Olun, or 156, and is the Tree in the temple.
Mrs Elsa Lincke is Soror Bazedon and possibly 444, being the Lion in the temple.
Charles Stansfeld Jones is Frater Arcteon, O.I.V.V.I.O., Nemo and 777. He is the Child in the temple.
Amalantrah the Wizard is 729 and represents 666 or A.C. in the temple.
10 p.m. W.T.L.O.O.D.
Operation of IX° degree to improve communications with Amalantrah—Blessed be he.
1.30 [a.m.] After some talk, Qabalah, etc., I state my general position. Ahita having some doubts as to her communications. Amalantrah says we must have faith—in common—especially Ahita, or her messages will be blurred.
Q[uestion]: Did we act rightly in the matter of Barzedon?
A[chitha]: Very unwisely.
Q[uestion]: How?
A[chitha]: Crude.
Q[uestion]: What course shall we now follow in this matter?
A[chitha]: Do not have many visions with her. Be definite and frank. Do not be in haste.
Q[uestion]: What does he think of the letter I wrote to Dorothy Troxel?
A[chitha]: Very good.
Q[uestion]: Why am I reluctant about Bert Reece and the search for E.G.P. [Elsie Gray Parker] ? Am I very wrong in not pushing this?
A[chitha]: I see a purple bier with silver casket on it, up 4 steps into a large hall. This is connected with E.G.P. The bier is oval—filligree—and very long. There is also a tree covered with ice. There is a filligree bird's nest with wings—a poor boy on a stairway running away. He has a pale white head—nondescript. There is a dead bay horse. A low ceilinged room in vista and a table set with food over which there is a Japanese umbrella. A beautiful woman is eating at the table. A[malantrah] says that T[herion] will meet E.G.P. unawares. He need not seek her.
Q[uestion]: Is her name E.G.P.?
A[chitha]: No.
Q[uestion]: Is there something definite to be said to us tonight?
A[chitha]: How to live. Fear God, and gather the straws as a bird builds a nest.
Q[uestion]: Do you approve of the letter to S.A. today?
A[chitha]: There is a bright light in A.'s face as he looks up. (Repeated several times.) Yes.
Q[uestion]: Does A. know about Dee and Kelly Working?
A[chitha]: Something vague about 'Work on or with James or Sir James'. There is a passing vision here of a large railway terminus of some large railway system.
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