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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 6 June 1936
[article on H.P.B. [Helen Petrovna Blavatsky]]
She [Blavatsky] wrote really fine literature—"The Voice of the Silence." (Also, it is still a best-seller after 50 years). She had a greater influence on religious thought in Europe than any one since Luther. That is not to be done by fraud. Her tricks & troopers' oaths were her safeguards against going mad—as you would do if you had as many followers & disciples & devotees to pester you as she had. . .)
Pam & Christ Child [Vyvyan Deacon] to dinner. He behaved outrageously.
Pearl [Pearl Brooksmith] in very bad way all day: plain hell. And about nothing
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