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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Friday, 3 August 1923
Die Venus
Hail unto Kheph-Ra!
1.43 a.m. I note that practically ever since Alostrael [Leah Hirsig] departed, my mental instability—the feeling that I was in danger of insanity, etc. has quite disappeared. I am now almost too ‘normal’.
2.31 a.m. Will go to sleep with Ethel
[Ether], concentrating on ‘How shall I use this week best
for
I settled the question of my ‘disappearance’ or ‘Empedocles stunt’ on the ground of personal dignity.[2] But now I owe it to O.P.V. [Norman Mudd] to give him the chance to use this if he deem fit. I shall therefore outline a proposal in my memoranda for Wednesday.
2—This refers to Crowley’s attempting to fake his own death for publicity reasons. On the occasion that he did attempt this stunt in Portugal, his friends and the press failed to credit the story
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