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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Wednesday, 4 February 1920
If I seek an Oracle, it is because I have literally nothing else to do.
General symbol for period 1 Feb. to 31 March: 8—S[words], Aleph [Trump], Shin [Trump], 2—S[words], 10—P[antacles].[1]
I don’t do any great work: I wait for events. I have a pleasant time, money comes to me. I invoke Bacchus Diphues and make a great decision. Shall I look for a new Vesica[2] this afternoon? (One card only: P[rince of] W[ands] Air and Fire?)
3.00 p.m. Opus[3] III, Eliane [Eliane Vacari], prostitute, from Italy, experience in Algeria. Opus good and spontaneous. Elixir A1, very rich and strong and aromatic. Object: to get the New Current going. Note: she discovered that I was a member of the Junior grade of XI°[4] without any suggestion from me.
Yesterday, walking in the forest, I saw the trunk of a very exceptionally large tree on the ground. It was (at a guess) at least eight times the circumference of any tree near by. I said, ‘There lies fallen the father of the flock’, and wondered if it meant that I was about to die. ‘Oh, no,’ says I, ‘that ought to be Fra∴ M[erlinus]. His earth name is Reuss [Theodor Reuss]. We then came to the trunk and walked round it. Looking back towards Fontainebleau, we saw, on another tree the placard ‘Con Reuss’!!! I quote this as an example of coincidence; tree and placard were there long ago, when Reuss was certainly alive whether or no he has died since. Yet of course that might have been planned by Intelligence long since, so that I might see it at just this moment. Reuss had—stroke of paralysis at some time during this Spring.)
1—[A divination by the Tarot.] 3—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.] 4—[An allusion to per vas nefandum], By the unmentionable vessel,’ i.e. anal intercourse.]
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