Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Tuesday, 9 December 1941

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 43.

     

[Chipping] Campden padd 9 3/4 M-i-t-M 12.19

     

Woke 5 slept 241 [asthma symptoms] (1)[Heroin].

     

7 1/4 (2)[Heroin].

     

12 1/2 F.H. [Frieda Harris] not at station.

     

Severe pain over heart: violent shivering fit!!!

     

Took (3)[Heroin] in station W.[ater] C.[loset] in the dark! Tablet [of Heroin] broken (2 in 1).

     

2 o’c Another fever spell (4)[Heroin].

     

4 1/2 More 241 etc (5)[Heroin].

     

The whole day was just a panic uddle.

     

Talked a lot to F. [Frieda Harris] seemed to help her.

     

Hard work getting to bed.

     

7 1/2 M&A[tropine] I do hope to God that will bring me back to normal.

     

11 1/4 Woke, damned ill, vomited.

     

Toughish phlegm, oppression over heart (6)[Heroin] 1/4 gr Damn it, this is bad!

     

Curious constriction round waist. 8th cont. some 5” above navel. An entirely new symptom.

 

 

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