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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 20 April 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.
8.45 p.m. Achitha says the Wizard has had his hair cut and beard trimmed, he looks much nicer this week.
10.45 Achitha, Therion and Arcteon take 1 cc of Hashish.
11.10 Achitha and Arcteon 1 cc Hashish.
11.30 Achitha and Arcteon 1 cc Hashish.
11.33 T[herion]: Ask Wizard what should be the subject of our discourse this week end?
A[chitha]: 484. ( = 22 squared.)
11.45 Wizard is there looking across Water. All there. A Donkey is grazing near base of mountain. Serpent is there. Mountain Goat on mountain. Chinese doll-head. White cliff. Priest in black with shining smooth satin gown. Chinese Lantern.
T[herion]: Ask the Wizard to give us a philosophical phrase to express 22.
A[chitha]: Force of Will.
T[herion]: Should the subject of our conversation be How to fix the effect of magical working in general and 9th Degree in particular?
Achitha sees picture of Windram [James Thomas Windram]. Therion had never told her that he had this particular power in the greatest plentitude.
T[herion]: We know that 22 is masculine and 19 feminine component of 418, which is the Key to this Magick of the Aeon. How do they combine? Are they being combined properly and so on?
A[chitha]: Vision of beautiful bell—wedding bell—changes to foetus. Crown. Head of foetus turns into an egg and rises upwards and then rests on a lotus flower.
T[herion]: And that means what?
A[chitha]: Winged ladder. Ladder. Winged ladder which goes to heaven. Wings and sides white. Rungs almost pocket shaped.
T[herion]: What are present instructions?
11.55 Arcteon 2 cc.
A[chitha]: Crocodile—unformed man. Shelf, place walled in—on shelf skeleton. White flag. Skeleton's hand holds white flag. Large wall around place like butterfly net.
T[herion]: Give Hebrew word to illustrate.
A[chitha]: He Tzaddi Yod Vau. ( = 111.)
12:10 (N.B. Therion had written the meaning of that. "The elixir must die in the Cucurbite and the 111 means this exactly. This recalls my dream and vision in N[ew] H[ampshire] about killing the lion very dead indeed. It also explains the first answer to the question about the foetus becoming Harpocrates, cf. Jesus "Except a corn of wheat . . . down to fruit." He Tzaddi Yod Vau is the tetragrammaton of the magical officers. He [Hebrew] is the Emperor, and the Tzaddi the Empress, or High Priestess, vide secret attributions indicated in Liber CCXX. Yod is the Hermit and Vau the Hierophant who unites either with the High Priestess yet without destroying her virginity or with the more natural correlate. This word is therefore, a complete formula of the Gnostic and Templar mysteries, in one of its respects.
Arcteon: How do you make it die in the circle?
A[chitha]: Great sphinx head, the top of which comes off like a lid—inside are lots of things—very tiny—They look like human beings—often with cloven feet like devils. They are not devils—they are like satyrs or fauns. Sphinx is like hen sitting on eggs to hatch.
Vision of man like shadow or ghost hurrying to distant place, and between me and ghost rain is falling. He is carrying important message. (N.B. Therion: Sphinx is the lion and ghost is the will in it. Means perhaps something wrong in will in connection with lion. With T it gives 115, to make strong, vehement/eager.
12.35 T[herion]: How get ghost into sphinx?
A[chitha]: White dove flies away. King crowned turns to woman. They become two and prevent ghost getting to sphinx. (Teth Picture of fall explains this.)
A[chitha]: Lamed Samekh Qoph Teth. ( = victories—Yes.)
T[herion]: What shall we do to improve our technique in charging talismans?
A[chitha]: Black lioness lying in street junctions—resembles sphinx. (Concentrate better.) A burning tree. (Intensity of passion necessary.)
T[herion]: How to kill sphinx?
A[chitha]: "Make fast the chains." These bind the ships at the pier surging to get away. Tall woman in wonderful light—dressed in brown. (Autumn?) Ostrich head in sand. Tzaddi Yod Vau Resh is formula. (306 = woman, honey, cold etc.)
T[herion]: Does that mean let it cold in the cucurbite?
A[chitha]: Resh Vau Dalet. ( = 210. Cycle etc. Nox etc.; Therefore = Yes.)
T[herion]: How long should one leave it?
A[chitha]: 182. ( = Passive.)
T[herion]: Repeat.
A[chitha]: Tzaddi Mem Ayin ( = 200) 63. ( = Till creation takes place.)
T[herion]: How many seconds or minutes for average?
A[chitha]: Taurus ( = 6. Probably minutes or else symbolic.)
T[herion]: Is there anything to do before collecting this 'dead sphinx'?
A[chitha]: ( . . . )
T[herion]: I.A.W.A.? (Is Anna Wright alive?) Suggested by resemblance to Ach[ita] under H[ashish]. Suggests did Anna W.[right] die when spirit entered Ach[ita] or just before? Ach[ita] says R.M. [Roddie Minor] and Ach[ita] are two.
T[herion]: Describe Achita.
A[chitha]: She is a woman rather dark, medium tall, neither fat nor thin. Her age is between 17 and 27. (Had long discussion. Now Ach[ita] says she and R.M. [Roddie Minor] are one!!!) (Will try other ways.)
T[herion]: S.A.W.E.? (Is Anna Wright alive?)
A[chitha]: Tzaddi Gimel Lamed. (123. Revolutions of souls, also war and a plague or blow or wound. Also Pleasure. See 'On Death'.)
T[herion]: In what country D.E.E.? (did she die?)
A[chitha]: Egypt.
T[herion]: From what cause?
A[chitha]: A bird being chained to a door.
T[herion]: What immediate cause?
A[chitha]: Lamed Vau Cheth Mem. (A wing, army, squadron, troop.)
T[herion]: How many months ago?
Achita sleeps.
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