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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry
Tuesday, 17 July 1923
Die Mars
Hail unto Kheph-Ra!
7.15 p.m. The great gap in English literature is the historical novel. We want someone to do for English history what Dumas did for French.
(N.B. to record the expansion of aura.)
I note that of late my Aura is extended to about a yard—perhaps a little more—from the surface of the body, as from the normal 6 to 9 inches. This seems to be the effect of my general magical Working at Marsa. The symptom is that I feel a species of discomfort or disturbance when any other person approaches me within that distance.
11.30 p.m. I have finished the Comment on Liber LXV, Chapter IV. It contains 47 pages as against 17 pages for Chapter III, 38 pages for Chapter II,16 pages for Chapter I, in 10” x 7” MS books (Caps: III & IV partly dictated to Frater O.P.V. [Norman Mudd]: his writing neat, minute, & Pepysian occupies one third the space of mine, approximately). The note on the Title & Number extends to 5 pages of O.P.V. I must compose a general Introduction to the Book, explaining the whole theory of 5º = 6o, with reference to Abramelin, 8th Æthyr, The Temple of Solomon the King! (my own record) & Liber Samekh. (Note also some of my poems: Invocation O Self Divine! etc., etc., Aha & others.)
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