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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 6 May 1920
I will start the Cefalu publications as soon as I can—'The Headland Press'. I think I'll begin by Illuminated MSS in issues of ten, each at 10 guineas. Then lithographs of 25 each. Put aside the cash to buy a hand press.
Went for a big walk, three and three quarter hours up the Via Gibilmanna and across by the big hill—clouds:—air like Snowdon, only better.
Is 'Beauty' [Ninette Shumway] to be any use in producing magical phenomena of the order commonly called 'psychic', and if so, what? [I Ching] Hexagram XXXIII. (Message came to me—part of the answer is got by building it up from the bottom, i.e. hexagram XXXIV.) 1. She is shy—don't force things. 2. She ought to try and get something. 3. She should make friends with the 'spirits'. 4. She should make up her mind to try and get something. 5, 6. She ought to be successful.
'Retiring' obviously means to heaven as indicated by the elements of the hexagram. The second hexagram refers to the Ram. This is advice to me not to butt in too hard—use my strength with skill. (Symbol inverted.) The first symbol might mean table-turning or levitation, the second telekinesis.
Does Beauty need any preliminary training? If so, what? Hexagram XII. She must abstain from sexual intercourse of any kind involving coition completed with a man. The question is—does this include other practices?
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