Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Thursday, 11 September 1930

Thurs[day] 11.

.25% [albumin]^[1] after quiet day.

Another quiet day. Painting in P.M. I did a watercolour of Her in her glory—in the Fujiyama district.

 — ת [tau] י [yod] in A.M. She will learn this Art.

     We seem to be discovering the Asanas!

 23^[2] The third opus for Health Strength and Energy.

1—Crowley carried with himself a device to test the level of albumin in his blood, probably through urine. Other similar annotations from this point on show that he was testing the level of albumin almost on a daily basis, comparing it with his general physical condition. Normal levels of albumin in blood range from 3.5 to 5 g/dL.

2—The symbol “” indicates sexual magical operations, which Crowley differentiates from normal sexual intercourse. The progressive numbering indicates the number of times the operation has been conducted with a particular partner. This means that Crowley had already performed sexual magic twenty-three times with Hanni Jaeger before.

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