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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 3 April 1941
[I Ching hexagram] 53.
Wrote letters F.H. [Frieda Harris], Ham [Gerald Hamilton], Asa, Apex [Printing Services].
Very quiet all day.
[THELEMA] Abbey. Aristocratic Communism (AC). The system of give all to & take all from is really good economics; benefits all, if only people can be persuaded to stop counting against each other. Only those who are noble & intelligent enough to grasp the principle will be able to profit by this; an Abbey will therefore forge ahead.
It will be the old alliance of the Prince & the Priest; but there functions will be united in very adequate Lord Abbot & his female colleague. Extension of the “team spirit” to social-economical-political life? Yes, but more.
There is a resemblance to the rise of the clan & nation: the problem is not how to boss the herd, which is automatic, or to thwart the unworthy, who is ejected into impotence; but how to prevent emulation developing into warfare.
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