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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Friday, 19 September 1930
Fri[day] 19.
7.8% [albumin][1]
Worrying like the devil.
I am not going to get over this—unless she [Hanni Jaeger] comes back.
Good: about 6 P.M. she came back. But insists she must leave for Bremen [Germany] tomorrow. I am getting to know her.
A is the supreme Virgin-Harlot. B is a creature of pathological fear. She fooled the most wooden idiot (and cad) I have met for years, one Armstrong,[2] U.S.A. battery dude [?] to the top of his bent.
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—Lawrence S. Armstrong (1895-1952) was the American consul in Lisbon between 1930 and 1934.
3—The symbol “
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