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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 15 September 1930
Mon[day] 15.
P.S. But see Nov 6.
.7.2% [albumin][1] but after much Brandy.
I loathe this type of Opus: it does not even arouse ecstasy of the lowest type; and it seems to cut off the true Currents of Electro-Magnetic Energy. It is (in a word) pure cold-drawn Magick. Probably, then, easier to get results of the type possible.
Half h[ou]r in Lisbon [Portugal]. “Bad” news from Yorke [Gerald Yorke].
Bathing. First Anu [Hanni Jaeger] and then I playing with the sand found coins; she one scudo I fifty centimes. I take this as a message that the Gods can send us cash from the most improbable sources.
She had a sudden transient fit at night. “a deaf and dumb spirit.”
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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