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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 1 October 1923
Die Luna
12.00. Midnight. Hail unto Kheph Ra!
The vision was first rate:
practically all symbols definitely lunar, though one or two
were tinged with my own solar radiance. He even got the
Beetle of Atu The Moon as a solar form on a Jupiterian
setting (XVIII =
He is a man of the greatest promise—has all the qualities requisite for the highest attainment. Though not yet so well-equipped technically, he is if anything better fitted than Fra AUD [Raoul Loveday] to be my Magical Heir.
The Oracle concerning him is CCXX, I. 59 as if he were the Incense of Nuit, his life a pure perfume upon Her altar.
He is free from money-dangers, hero-worship, faith, superficiality, & prejudice dangers: his clap & O.P.V.'s [Norman Mudd] sex-catastrophe were of the Gods, that he might understand & master the principles of such ambushes.
He is at present a little afraid of (1) the strange Universe so suddenly thrown open to him (2) of his own success—it is too good to be true, so to speak.
(1) Will yield to the practice of Invocation and to familiarity with the Astral. (2) Will be driven out by sheer weight of experience.
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ruled by
). He
unhesitatingly announced Luna as the force invoked.