Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Monday, 20 September 1920

1.30 a.m. Chimanzzi never sent my proofs: curse him! No. Porter's fault. I'm awake with a surfeit of food and drink, a promising colt for the Apoplexy Strokes. I feel like a poem:

'Buy a little dawg, sir?' Done!

'In this world a dog's the one

Friend a man can buy!'

'Nonsense' laughed my lazy Leah

'That's an imbecile idea.

Don't I prove it, I?

You can buy a second friend

If you know just how to spend

Jot it in your log!

Woman can be trusty-true

As any dog, so long as you

Treat her like a dog.'

4.50 a.m. Opus^[1] III, 31-666-31 [Leah Hirsig]. Operations: A.1. Prolonged and with irresistible impulse. Elixir: very curiously cynical. Object: Kuov. Result: man came to terms at once.

6.30 p.m. Disturbed night, diarrhoea, laudanum, no afternoon sleep, rotten. Designed Alostrael [Leah Hirsig]-Flag. Mine own has a black staff 8 metres long, a crowned lion at the top, and a snake of 11 coils about it, both in gold. There are 11 cords of white to attach the flag, which is Black, with the triangle of Horus and the golden sun with three gold streamers. The crown has the three ranks and the Satanic Cross. This design roughed out here is not quite right.

I thought our House might be Euclid 147!

9.50 p.m. Give symbol for taking Vittorio^[2] to Cefalu. [I Ching] Hexagram XI. Naturally! Ought we to do it from the point of view of 93? Hexagram XVIII, Earth of Air (Troubles). Alostrael tries for a direct answer. Shall we, Oh, 93? A long upright phallic-like ray of light, with eight similar rays above it. My first and general impression was a collection of exclamation points.

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

2—[Vittorio, on 14 September, joined Crowley and Leah in their sexual operations.]

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