Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Tuesday, 19 December 1933

 

 

Opus[1] 73 . All night—Wished ו: yet concentrated on success.

     

[symbol] 1.30. Picc. Lounge. Called it off: he had clap.

     

Midnight conference with [George] Mather re. [Captain Eddie] Cruze re. Nina [Nina Hamnett], Betty [Betty May] and Co.[2]

 

 

1—Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.

2—Crowley received from George Mather, five letters stolen by Captain Eddie Cruze from Betty May to be used to discredit her testimony in Crowley's libel case against Nina Hamnett and her book Laughing Torso. Crowley was later arrested on 21 June 1934 and eventually tried and found guilty on 25 July 1934 for being in possession of stolen letters.

 

 

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