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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Friday, 4 July 1919
On July 4th, Crowley, or "essence of Crowley," got back to the incarnation before Marius de Aquilis after finding that as Aquilis he had been born in a north Italian city, possibly Florence, coming to Rome in adolescence. Before Marius he was a woman, Claudia. He couldn't be sure of the surname other than it ended in "ini," possibly Venturini. Claudia—known to enemies as "La Verolina"—had huge masses of orange gold hair, which sounds like Hilarion [Jeanne Foster]: that might explain the attraction! A cardinal was Claudia's first lover, a black magician who vowed her to Satan. She hated her mother; a fat, blonde harlot whom Claudia poisoned at age fifteen. She had faulty reproductive organs that made her sterile and insatiable, as well as "tight and spasmodic." She was finally burned at the stake, and as the flames crept up, "Satan" appeared again in the smoke and transfigured her into the flames that fed on her flesh, making her death "an exquisite pang of bliss." A nobleman's wife who was present, three months pregnant, received "her" as his next incarnation, and he was born as Marius de Aquilis.
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