Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Friday, 8 January 1932

 

 

Working with Hamilton [Gerald Hamilton] on Berlin book[1].

     

Initiation is never what you think it is going to be: if it were, you would already be initiated. (Cf. value of element of surprise as a test of the objectivity of the objectivity [?] of phenomena.)

 

 

1—The 'Berlin' book referred to by Crowley was meant to be the memoirs of Crowley's experiences with Gerald Hamilton while living in Berlin. The book was never written.

 

 

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