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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Sunday, 10 March 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.
12.20 [a.m.] Ahita has been rolling about and rolling in agony. The God Mercury being too pure for her corrupt mind and body.
4.30 a.m. Awoke feeling fairly well. To sleep about 5.15.
9.00 a.m. Awoke refreshed and normal.
Note on Belial. His colleague by day in 2nd decan Aquarius is Asmodee. We must beget him. He has 3 heads, bull, man, ram, snake's tail, goose's feet, rides with lance and banner on a dragon. Any desired Tarot Card can be invoked in this IX° Degree way by begetting its hierarchy, and giving them our own bodies to manifest through, by feeling [feeding?] the Eucharist. So then we turn our own selves into talismans of Earned Success or the like. Names of Goetia Demons can be used.
2.35 p.m. Q[uestion]: Why doesn't 31 suit Achitha?
A[chitha]: I see a placenta. 84. There is a pygmy with a wand in his hand. He runs round the hillside. He suggests to me the story of Snow White. There is a field of daisies. There is the head of a duck with a large beak. This means that I took too much.
Q[uestion]: Is this all rational?
A[chitha]: Yes. 729 says that I must take HH [Hashish] drop by drop this p.m.
Q[uestion]: Which this p.m., HH or 31?
A[chitha]: I see negroes trampling HH.
Q[uestion]: What duty to-day?
A[chitha]: I see a luminous white cloth wrinkled together. Under it there is a cup. There is blood or wine in the cup, around it is a wreath of pearls. There is a tiny lion on top of the liquid, also a turtle, which is very cunning. Now there is a balance. (734 combines all this.) ( = to bring forth.)
Q[uestion]: To B.F.W.? (To bring forth what?)
A[chitha]: I see a raft or catamaran; a tiger skin is on the raft; there is a native on this. And somewhere near there are two grey rats and a pig's head. (81 combines this.)
Q[uestion]: Does this mean solve question of T[herion]'s 'Guides'?
A[chitha]: Yes and something more.
3.50 Oper[ation] to know the powers of the Yoni. LXIV p.v.n.[1]. Exceedingly spontaneous and majestic. Elixir A.1.
81 = 92. Luna in Briah. ALHIM are the gods before the breath. H came to them, and made them creative. 81 can never be used for creative work but it is ideal for manipulations on one plane. Force cannot escape on to higher or lower. It' s like shifting chessmen.
6 p.m. I see 729 in a chair. He is a miniature pygmy. Everything is in perfect order at the Temple with billions of twinkles in form of golden and varicolored and particularly green leaves. O so beautiful! Because of this vision of the twinkling leaves back of the Temple it is proved that the Temple is correct.
6.25 T[herion] saw most wonderful architectural visions. One building after another. Very good colors too. Mostly sublimation of memories. In fact he found none that could not be replaced.
Short but spontaneous and orgiastic. Elixir A1.
Result: Immediate success in certain measure; result written elsewhere.
1—[Per vas nefandum. By the unmentionable vessel, i.e. anal intercourse.]
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