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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Tuesday, 15 May 1923
Die Mars
A bad night—my own fault. I worked like a maniac on the Qabalistic Comment [to CCXX] for two hours—and vomited on stopping Then alarums and excursions till 3 a.m. Woke well enough, though, and worked fairly well.
8.50 p.m. What line should be adopted about Frater LampadaTradam [Victor B. Neuburg]?
(I had an idea for O.P.V. [Norman Mudd] to invite him to Cefalu).
Moon of Phallus. No. V. [I Ching Hexagram]
Yes: O.P.V. might well remind him
that he is ‘out of it’—waiting and getting nothing
done—killing his creative genius—and aspire purely—to crown
his personality—O.P.V. should be firm yet gentle; sincere
and passionate. He should ask him to make a magical
retirement (Tell O.P.V. to read chapter himself).
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