Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Friday, 20 February 1920

 

 

What action, if any, should I take in re the J[ohn] B[ull][1] article. [I Ching Hexagram] Fire of Moon. An excellent answer, most appropriate; and I think nothing should be done at present.

     

Give a general symbol for the Shin affair. [I Ching Hexagram] Earth of Lingam. Don't hurry; use caution and gentleness.

     

10.00 p.m. circa. I don't know within? Opus[2] VIII, Ninette [Ninette Shumway]—widow—25—rather like Ratan Devi physically—i.m.D. [in manu Dominae].[3] Opus—very good and spontaneous though quick. Object: Dom. Elixir, rich and strong.

 

 

1—[John Bull, the weekly magazine, had attacked him for his pro-German writings in The International and the Fatherland in America during the war.]

2—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

3—[In Manu Dominae, in the hand of his mistress.]

 

 

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