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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Sunday, 9 March 1924
2 a.m. Woke about 1 after sleeping at 12. Considered this most unfair! (Distinct symptoms of privation). One reason why S. Q. vanished at C[efalu]. Though we had ample food, we were not tempted to gorge as one is in Paris etc. Of course this explains little: the local peasants eat less.
8.40 a.m. Colonies may feed in 3 ways. (1) from outside (including accumulations of members) (2) as industrial units (3) each member going out to do his day's work.
None of these give a true image of Society at large: but must I conclude that my problem is insoluble. (1) is not bad, providing the aim of the colony is to tap a new source of natural wealth. (It can also prey on the community outside "supported by voluntary contributions". This would be lawful, provided its members gave adequate service. The training of kings and the shewing of example might count as this.).
1.15 P.M. Have written "The Byron Centenary" (by Cain) with my own fair hand. I must be a God-damned fool!
[Opposite this page in the diary is the following:]
No. 4 The Moon bothers me badly. I can believe at a pinch in life of some kind—and how superb a kind! in the Sun but in that frozen mass of earth-bubbles, no! Then is there somewhere some place truly void of Energy, really exempt from Change? I can't believe that either. And the alternative is that the physical universe as known by our senses is no more than this meditation itself—a sick man's fancy.
9.10 p.m. O.P.V. [Norman Mudd] has left for London. Laus Deo Soli! (Is this Freudian? I meant it merely for the pun's sake).
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