Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Friday, 19 December 1941

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] I.

     

5 o’c 241 [asthma symptoms] (1)[Heroin].

     

8 o’c after good sleep (2)[Heroin]

     

F.H. [Frieda Harris] wired Mercury [artwork for Tarot card] finished. I hope so.

     

10 3/4 (3)[Heroin].

     

Really 1st class lunch at Oddy’s—Boar’s Head & Moka Baarvis(?): pre-war, both! & excellent coffee.

     

2 3/4 some 241. (4)[Heroin].

     

Christ-Child [Vyvyan Deacon] came in.

     

7 o’c 241 starting M&A[tropine].

     

Christ-Child back with one Matthews, who knows Siam well. Interesting talk.

     

Restless, disinclined for sleep.

     

Greatly guilty, I decide on a small (5)[Heroin] 9.15.

     

James M he left his overcoat here. His identity card: lives at Mount Royal.

 

 

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