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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Sunday, 14 September 1930
Sun[day] 14.
.15% [albumin][1] S[aturday] early.
Dream again of huge liner, but this time (bound for Rio) leaving port; down steep mountain torrents, into very narrow canals, etc., etc.
Painting, bathing, etc. Crazy mail.
It seems as if the Gods were forcing me into an ordeal. We are up against it, and the only practical way out is intensely repulsive to my human side—as it would not be were I not so insanely in live for the first time! And the last!
I appeal to Her purity: should we adopt the plan proposed in jest for several days past.
She arranges the sticks. [I Ching Hexagram] XLVI. Shang. Kteis of Air (Symbols). This is one of the best hexagrams in the Yi—God damn it!
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.
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