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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Sunday, 18 May 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.
11.25 p.m. Wizard is there and everything is all right, but Wizard has a very determined look.
T[herion]: What is our special work for this week end?
A[chitha]: 358. There is something about Scorpio.
T[herion]: I asked a Geomantic question this morning about 'My Way' and got an answer from Tipherath. Does the Wizard agree as to his answer?
A[chitha]: Aleph Ben Isham. ( = 514. Aleph= 111, Ben = 52 : = 163. Isham = 351. Sum of first 26 numbers means . . . . . Saturn and Leo, thus refers exactly to my way.)
T[herion]: I asked a second question by Geomancy this morning. What is the answer to that?
A[chitha]: Cairo in ashes.
T[herion]: I want a third answer (Question Zero) which I will ask in initials. L.A.T.N.M.E.A.A.? (Will Lola get communication from the A∴A∴?)
A[chitha]: Burn no bridges.
T[herion]: S.A.E.H.N.N.R.N.? (Is Lola the fourth person in our Tetragrammaton?)
A[chitha]: Turn the wheel to the right, and see cornfield very clear, baskets of corn and a rattlesnake in cornfield.
T[herion]: Ask Wizard to give a mystical name to the Rattle Snake.
A[chitha]: Mem Aleph Resh Yod Teth Vau Shin He. = 571. (T[herion]'s not satisfied with this.)
T[herion]: S.A.N.E.F.F.R.? (Is Lola in Temple of 42)
A[chitha]: Teth.
T[herion]: Is the Rattlesnake an officer in the Temple?
A[chitha]: No, not an officer.
T[herion]: What is it doing there?
A[chitha]: A (warning).
T[herion]: Can you get a magical number of E.T. [Eva Tanguay]?
A[chitha]: (Sheila) Goyla, suggests flowers and pleasant fields.
T[herion]: Does 641 suggest a name?
A[chitha]: Symbol of Dove on Ionic Column appears in connection with name.
T[herion]: Is dove any colour?
A[chitha]: Light Dove Grey.
T[herion]: I want Chinese symbol for Question 0.
A[chitha]: [I Ching
Hexagram
LXI]
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[I Ching Hexagram
XLII]
A[chitha]: I see an egg with one end broken and hand inside.
T[herion]: Give symbol in answer to Question 1.
A[chitha]: [I Ching
Hexagram
XXXVII]
A[chitha]: And I see a cricket.
T[herion]: Get Taro symbol for same question.
A[chitha]: XVI.
T[herion]: What does that Trump look like?
A[chitha]: Woman standing.
T[herion]: Get a Court card.
A[chitha]: Princess of Wands.
T[herion]: I want now an answer to Question 2.
A[chitha]: [I Ching
Hexagram
XXXIX]
T[herion]: Ask what Hex[agram] this will develop into.
A[chitha]: [I Ching
Hexagram
L]
T[herion]: Will you give us a symbol of the general events of the week to come?
A[chitha]: Cow with a chrysanthemum at side of each horn.
T[herion]: Give us a more definite symbol.
A[chitha]: ? 513. (not clear.) 57.
T[herion]: I don't think you're getting this right Achitha. Invoke Wizard and ask him to put you right.
A[chitha]: ? "Gimel."
T[herion]: What is that in answer to?
A[chitha]: Means things will be clear in future.
T[herion]: Now try and get general symbol for week. Rising or setting sun—which is the word?
A[chitha]: Teth Yod Shin Aleph Mem Aleph Resh. ( = 561 = sum of 33 letters and their concealed mystery.)
[I Ching Hexagram
LIII]
T[herion]: Give us name of Rattlesnake again.
A[chitha]: Mem Aleph Resh Yod Teth Vau Shin He.
T[herion]: Try and get name for E.V. [Eva Tanguay].
A[chitha]: Daleph Aleph Resh Ayin Lamed Aleph = 306 = 17 x 18.
T[herion]: Question no 3. Will Bazedon come back to the Work?
A[chitha]: (L.N.E.K.O.E.K.) "Lean upon it lightly."
T[herion]: Question 4. A.T.V.P.W.A.M.C.W.M.O.M.N.S.I.T.T.P.? (Are the various people who appear merely candidates who may or may not succeed in taking their places?)
A[chitha]: 723. (nothing doing.)
T[herion]: Ask Chinese symbol.
A[chitha]: I see Christ on the cross and = 3 = 8 symbol.
T[herion]: Question now asked in full.
A[chitha]: See Wizard as judge with two assessors who test every candidate.
T[herion]: Are the plans announced by Wizard tentative or fixed?
A[chitha]: 7. (Means he has a divinely perfect plan whose execution depends on our ability and I imagine when we fall down he modifies his own ideas to suit our weakness.)
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Inmost sincerity.
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(? some doubt of this.)