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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 17 May 1923
Die Jupiter
A good night’s rest, on the whole: slept early, but woke once or twice threatened by the Storm Fiend [asthma] but refrained from using heroin.
3.0 p.m. With Ethyl [Ether] found that ‘a blank mind’ is liable to be filled with very low and primitive ideas. Our approach to Zero in mystic work is not (as supposed by many) the banishing of thoughts or even their simplification in the usual sense; it is a reaching of Unity, which is a higher degree of co-ordination. I feel that this thesis is very important indeed, and am not at all sure what it implies. But I am sure of this: that progress in spiritual life is towards the ‘higher’ in exactly the same sense as the schoolboy advances from the Rule of Three to De Mowies’ Theorem. The question arises: how does this bear on political and educational problems?
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