Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Tuesday, 2 October 1923

 

 

Die Mars

 

12.15 a.m. I proceed to revise my Open Letter to Oxford.

 

2.20 Revised it—lots to do still!

 

3.40 Someone better hang around Tunis or Palermo to take on Moore.

 

[A page of trial calculations omitted]

 

  131 Remainders: 1000 44
  262 10 115
  393 100 102
  524 1 mil[lion] 103
  655 10 mil[lion] 113
  786 100 mil[lion] 82
  917 1000   "        

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  1048    
  1179    

 

Keep on cancelling & transferring to right, treating each bar separately; use keys to transfer simplified bar to bar on right, cancelling 131 or multiples whenever convenient.

     

The ‘irregularity’ of such numbers as 3 & 7 causes the other composites. There would be only primes & regular fellows but for 7. [Incomplete calculations omitted.]

     

All composite numbers not even or +5 are multiples of others ending in 1, 3 or 7 (of course, odd primes).

 

 

? this tends to become true as n nears .

     

What about splitting up methods?

 

2  3  6  8  9  2 : 8  4  8  2  1  1

 

Oh hell! Let me consider the series of prime numbers which give the remainder 1 as each prime divides them.

 

 

[On opposite page:]

 

Notes for Marky [Edwin Markham] letter.

1. Personality sole point for success.

2. Cause of People, Truth, Aspiration, Fair Play, Purity (my def[inition]).

3. Vindication spring-board. Abrams.

4. Discuss finance.

5. In[i]t[ia]l facts.

6. My name—usual considerations.

7. Sell my stock.

 

What is the Nature of Number?

 

 

 

ss suggests Isis.

     

? The essence of extension

     

[Further notes, facing diary entries recorded below:]

 

  אדני = 65 see Wake-World &c
            see Liber LXV + comment
    = LXV = LVX = + the Light of the Cross (Note אוה
       [sic] = IAO = LVX per 5º = 6o formula)
    = 671 (spelt in full) = TARO & ThROA the Gate of the Kingdom
    = 61 x 11 the Magick of the Ego and that of Nothing.
  א = Silence, Innocence, Absolution, &c.
    Harpocrates, Bacchus, Parsifal, &c.
  ד = Love
  נ = Energy, Change, Wisdom (Eagle, Snake, Scorpion force.)
  י = Inmost Light & Truth, Solitude, Virginity, the Seed.

 

Really very ill all day. Eddy’s birthday: we did our best to celebrate it. I admitted him as a Probationer of A∴A∴ with the Motto אדני יהוה  [ADNI IHVH] His Will is to Understand all things, and to free Mankind from all forms of bondage א .י  expresses this very well: and much more.

 

 

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