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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry
Monday, 16 July 1923
Die Luna
3.10 a.m. Meditating LXV, V, 6. The scarabaeus actually drops about at night—& we worship Him!
Twice last night l felt one just under my right shoulder—as if he were coming to set my Energy & Power in action. So mote it be!
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100 =
ק
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One effect of my regimen of pure abstraction from mundane matters is that I want to wear magical robes as a regular thing in my daily life.
Note:
באל-אל
Lord God 64 =
6.30 p.m. Read through various essays & Hag [The Confessions of Aleister Crowley] sections sent from Abbey [Abbey of Thelema] new-typed.
11.22 p.m. Very tired; but discussing Hermes with O.P.V. [Norman Mudd]
Hermes [Howard Shumway] has come in: old Greek phrase used to cover embarrassment when conversation stops suddenly. Today we use the phrase ‘A monkey is being born’—evidently a reference to the Ape of Thoth [Leah Hirsig]. (I quite seriously suggest that this is the origin of our phrase.)
I am pleased & proud to be able to say that I have actually managed to get through a whole day without doing any really serious work. I had, however, a long irritable argument with O.P.V. chiefly about the meaning of the word ‘measurement’. He must not take the line he does about these matters: it wastes time.
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= XVIII where Keph-Ra appears.
= 2,
hence denial[?] (I got these alternative spellings of Belial
in dream)
גע