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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 2 August 1919
On August 2nd Crowley experienced a memory of a great consistory of adepts, at which "the man who was afterwards Mohammed" attended. The policy of Crowley's supernal Order A∴A∴ was discussed. He remembers being present with the beings who manifested in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as Allan Bennett, Theodor Reuss, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, and George Cecil Jones. Other "great mystics" voted solidly against "doing anything at all" as far as revealing initiated secrets to humankind were concerned. It was decided at the conference that "we" decided to work in the West. "He" got the pagan and ritual work, which ended with Alexander VI. Reuss afterward was Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati. George Cecil Jones "worked the CRC act" and "subsequently went wrong."
"Pre-Mohammed" was, Crowley recalled, "the biggest man there, but his plan left him in a minority of "One." He said he'd do it anyhow. Of course the time wasn't ripe. Another man took care of art, learning, and such, and was presently Paracelsus. The great issue was, Are we to initiate the people? I voted yes, with certain limitations—I am still in trouble with the muddle of that! The 'quiet mystics' abstained from voting, not that they approved, but they thought that we should try it out and learn a lesson. Allan Bennett did some Catholic Mysticism in Ireland after this, as his job. I wish I could get a full report.
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