Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Friday, 5 December 1941

[I Ching hexagram] 16.

Woke 1.50 AM.

4 1/4 6 1/2 (1.1A)[Heroin].

Worked hard.

8 o’c (2)[Heroin].

9 3/4 Exhausted—why? Should I have jumped up & gone out at once after Brekker [breakfast]? (3)[Heroin]

2 o’c (4)[Heroin]. Why?

5 o’c (5)[Heroin] Why? To make M&A[tropine] later.

7 3/4 M&A.

Raided Whiteley’s. Paid £3 on a/c [account]. Exhausting, but recovered.

Wheeler 6275 TER. Wheeler—senseless ass—didn’t keep type standing as promised: so has lost the job.

Saturnus [Karl Germer] wired Mail from B filling out clauses 4 5 11 |stop| preparing new affidavits your not answering pertinent letters interrupted procedure. Replied yours Oct 27; Aug 3, 20; Nov 3, 23 Bunched |stop| consulting embassy |stop| Advantageous transfer before Xmas.

Saturnus letter Oct 27 enclosing copies Aug 3 & 20.

Came in MAS [Maurice A. Sutherland] with his madman’s logic: I bet he kills himself sooner or later.

11.25 PM Awake after interminable years of dreaming!

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