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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 27 November 1924
Nov. 27 die Jupiter.
Left for Al-Kantava. Glorious sunset. Rain again at once.
Driven to Constantine on 28th Venus.
29th Saturday rain again hard all day.
30th Left for East. So fine: stopped at H[ammam] Meskoutine [Algeria].
Weather turned bad at once and stayed so till I did much Magick here with the Jinniyeh of the Springs. I received letters from Fra ∴ Achad [Charles Stansfeld Jones]—enclosed.
See Line 5 of [I Ching Hexagram] XLV.
Dec. 8 Luna Line 6 of XLV came on. A great scene all day: the real excitement being the visit of a baby from Guelma [?]. I cried solid all through lunch.
[The following is on the opposite page:]
Dorothy [Dorothy Olsen] at Sidi Bou Said I have got the girl I wanted (In my heart are dagger-thrusts) Her wicked little bat's eyes slanted Gleaming with unfathomable lusts Glittering slits through which the soul Burns in hell like a live coal.
—From a fragment which survives of the Book of Oaths.)
The question arises: should I take a new hexagram, as XLV has run through its changes already. (Evidently, the present events may be mere prodromes of much bigger things of the same order.)
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