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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Sunday, 4 January 1920
[I Ching Hexagram] XXXVIII. Cf. 2 Jan! This is very curious. Moon of Water, then, referred to a voyage by water; today it means ‘Madness of Pleasure’. I write this with the first breath of the Himalayas in my nostril—Pingala, Ida feels jealous, Sushumma[1] is curiously silent, but I think that Germaine Bayle, 9 rue du Pol Louis Courier XII°, could make him talk. The dinner was with Jaja [Jane Chéron] and Germaine and an American melancholic. I wrote the beginning of ‘God’s Country’ at lunch.
1—[Pingala, Ida, Sushumna, the three subtle channels in the human body described as the vehicles of solar, lunar and fiery energies. Pingala and Ida are attributed to the right and left nostrils, Sushumna to the spinal canal. Crowley is using the term Sushumna merely in a phallic sense, i.e. the channel of the Kundalini or mystic fire.]
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