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Aleister Crowley
Diary Entry
Monday,
19 November 1923
Hail unto Kephra!
Have been rattling off P.S. after
P.S. to O.P.V. [Norman
Mudd] de omni et nulle t quisdomn allis! Incredible that
I should have got back into such tip-top form in twelve
hours from the abject Abyss in which I was this morning! All
glory to Aiwass! Now let Him lift me up also among men that
I may do that for which “fate and metaphysical aid” have
designed me!
11.30 a.m. Note on Planetary Colours. The attribution is not arbitrary, as shown below.
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Saturn Indigo. |
The night-sky blue from above
the Abyss. Hence has
no complementary colour.
Also Akasha. |
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Jupiter ) Violet |
The colour of Spirit first
reflected
below the Abyss (highest vibration
of
Spectrum) its complement which
completes by opposing
it. |
|
Mercury ) Yellow |
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Mars ) Red and Green |
The most active and passive
energies Blood and Chlorophyl. |
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Venus ) |
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Sun )
Moon ) |
Orand and Blue. Orange combines
red and yellow (Sun giver of Light
and Life) Blue
combines green and
indigo. (Moon partakes of the
passive
and receptive nature of Venus, but
also of
the trans-abysmal nature of
Saturn. Hence her
attribution to the
extremes of sensual weakness and
spiritual strength and purity). |
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The above is not complete or quite
satisfactory.
QUEEN
SCALE.
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Saturn |
Black |
Death, Mystery, Darkness, etc.
Binah as she seems in Nature. |
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Jupiter |
Blue |
Chesed. Sensual delights.
Morey.
Actual colour of Jupiter in Nature. |
|
Mars |
Red |
Anger. Actual colour of Mars in
Nature. Fire. Salts of Fe. |
|
Sol |
Yellow |
Actual colour of Sol in Nature. |
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Venus |
Sky-Blue |
Salts of Cu (Some green as in
King-
cale also red and black, Crimson,
etc.: she
reflects all sorts of
energies) Frivolous companion
of
Jupiter: Romance, Idealism. |
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Mercury |
Purple |
The Hermaphrodite (Red of Fire,
Male plus Blue of Water female)
Actual colour as
compared to Sun
whom he is always near) |
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Moon |
White |
Actual colour of Moon in
Nature.
Purity of Virgin Blankness on
which any hue
may be cast. |
All very unsatisfactory. I think
these colours must simply be those of the original Gods
considered without reference to each other.
11 p.m. Wondefully better all day,
but impatient about nothing as hell, damnation, buggery and
shitarecfulness, and cranky as cunt, bub-knobs, bellypit,
and pisspetationableness. Alostrael [Leah
Hirsig] ditto, only more so.; we criss-crossed each
other’s moods in the minutest trifles all day, trying hard
to love each other, and missing by a fraction of an inch
every time.
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