Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Friday, 26 September 1930

Fri[day] 26.

> .1% [albumin]^[1] after that long journey and a most difficult and meaning talk with Pertinax [Karl Germer]—even some anxiety about Anu [Hanni Jaeger]. Called on Amexco [American Express Company] and left note for Anu. She was there and saw me: and I didn’t see her! Yet I was actually looking for her! She rang up till 12.30 and we talked. She came to the flat at 2. Squared the money problem; collected our luggage and went to Pension Mederwaldt. 40-41 Kurfurstendamm—Küsseln^[2] 3.30-5.30

 28^[3] Love-feast. Gen[era]l symbol for renewed Love. [I Ching Hexagram] Pi VIII.

This is the perfect harmony of union: The Fixation of the Infinite Desire. L[ine] 6 may mean that we should get married p[retty] d[amn] q[uick].

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—This term occurs several times in the diary with variable spelling (küsseln and kusseln). The term probably derives from German sexual slang and indicates oral sex.

3—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-eight times with Hanni Jaeger before.

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