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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Wednesday, 19 May 1920
I have been thinking over the question of the routine of the Abbey, both as to daily life and as to disciples. I want a minimum of things which disturb, and at the same time enough to breed Order.
Daily Life:
1. Alostrael [Leah Hirsig] to proclaim the Law on waking. 2. Adoration of Ra.[1] 3. Grace before breakfast at 7.00 a.m. 4. ditto dinner, noon. 5. Adoration of Ra. 6. and 7. ditto supper at 6.00 p.m. 8. Ritual Work.
For newcomers:
First week, 1, three days' hospitality. 2. One day's silence. 3. Three days' instruction. 4. The Magical Oath, followed by four weeks' silence and work. Sixth week, 5, one-day's instruction. 6. Six days' Vision. Seventh and ninth weeks, 7. three weeks' silence and work. Tenth week, 8, one week's instruction and repose. Eleventh and thirteenth weeks, 9, as 7.
This makes one Quarter. At the end, the survivor revises the whole period, and takes new counsel and Oath accordingly; but no routine can be appointed for this further period; all will depend on what seems advisable.
Saw Diana renewed tonight, the loveliest slim maiden, rich pale gold in a sea of blue shaded into pink, green, orange, and violet, with clouds of every delicate tone of purple and grey, in every form from solid banks to films of mist.
Her disappearance in the Hell
below Amenti,[2]
where I suspect her of conjunction with Tum,[3]
has been the signal for me to renew activity. Made a volcano
panel. I wrote The Moralist.[4]
1—[The rising sun is Ra. The Thelemites greeted the sun at sunrise, noon, sunset and midnight. At each station the sun god has a different name.] 2—[The place of the dead in the Egyptian cosmography.] 3—[The declining sun which goes down into Amenti.]
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