Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Monday, 2 August 1937

[I Ching hexagram] XXXVII.

[Hexagram line] Line 1. Car at 11.30 not 9.

[Hexagram line] 2. Pat at 11.30.

[Hexagram line] 3. Car broke down outside Alton.

[Hexagram line] 4, 5. Got a good garage to drive us to Blunt's [Bruce Blunt].

[Hexagram line] 6. Blunt as pig with load of mud but thawed later. Found the Castle of Comfort at Medstead.

[Hexagram line] 6. nearly had head-on crash: carriage full of ghosts."

[Hexagram line] 6. "Going forward, he shall meet with (genial) rain, & there will be good fortune".

Opus^[1] Pat [Patricia MacAlpine]—Let it as it will. Note [I Ching hexagram] line 6. Crossed "Hog's Back."

1—Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.

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