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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry
Friday, 15 June 1923
Die Venus
12.40 a.m. CCXX, I, 24 Nuit’s word is 6 = Sol & 50 = Snake, i.e., Draco
Astronomical mystery? Ask O.P.V. [Norman Mudd]
Divide = ? connected with Div or I, 29.
Add = ? AD the Father. Multiply = ? breed.
Understand—? = stand under (the sky). Then I, 25 might be—
Make Two (Godhead Div[ide]) of the Continuum.
To this AD the point or Star.
Multiply by marriage of these & produce an infinity of worlds.
Stand under these, & adore.
Note Understand. UN = NU reversed 56;
DER = 111 [+ ?] 111;
ST = 6 or 31 [and?] 55;
AND = the mystery of conjunction
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55 = σ [sigma]
1° = 10° = Malkuth (NH = Ornament).
DI ‘Two’ & ‘VIDE’ empty express Nuit in Her phases.
ADD expresses Hadit.
Multiply = many-folded = manifold = universe.
Under = wave = vibration.
Stand = straight, stability.
Note: ‘I am’ = εὶμί = 65 plus 56 = 121 = 112.
2.5 a.m. (Ether) One meaning.
Divide (space arbitrarily) Add Multiply (i.e. perform positive orgia) & understand (which cannot elsehow be done).
(The above means—’This verse explains the theory of the Cosmos elsewhere set forth in the Book’—See Comment.)
11. a.m. Fed up at failing to achieve the full Trance last night. Got ‘every impression is an act of love’ making no distinction—& so on. The act of physical love is not a pleasure, merely a release. I got I don’t know how many deep & marvellous Mysteries, yet I have little power to remember, & none to synthesize. My brain is sore sick I will cable O.P.V. to come at once.
One thing was that our idea of the Universe really depended on the evidence of our eyes; i.e. it is a function of a mechanical system of muscular & nervous tissue. (This went far deeper than mere Berkeleyanism,’ but I cannot remember its full import.) Again, I saw how the Universe was contained in the space of each man’s life-experience.
The ‘αμαρτια’ of Europe. She would not care for her children, sent them to America, & then forget them: they relapsed to barbarism, & will destroy our civilization.
4 [grains of Heroin]
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