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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Tuesday, 29 July 1919
On July 29 Crowley had memories of his "Great Incarnation." Crowley's recalls a village in a valley clustering about a monastery with square towers of adobe or "some such stuff." There was a mountain path from the village, nearly a day's walk up. The gate was guarded by two "Mongolians." Beyond trees was a stone shrine, a "conical white stone set in a cube." Crowley was "inclined to place in the Hindu Kush" the location of this monastery. Crowley's incarnation saw a glacier, "like Mont Collon," in the Alps. He lived there many years and was "pretty sure" the monks were Mahayana Buddhists of sorts. He, however, was not one of them. Far down the valley was a way over mountains to the south, which landed him in Persia after a long journey. Crowley was sure all this took place before Mohammed, when the Persians were "Ghebers."
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