Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Sunday, 21 December 1941

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 13.

     

5 1/2 woke 241 [asthma symptoms] (1)[Heroin] quite inadequate.

     

6 1/2 (2)[Heroin].

     

8 1/2 (3)[Heroin].

     

12 1/4 (4)[Heroin].

     

I suppose plain turned out to grass on # Resh(?7) here!

     

Thung Zan tells one to write to Evan Morgan and Yorke [Gerald Yorke] and Frieda [Frieda Harris]: my plan to get Taro done.

     

8 1/2 worked on this: desperately hard: made myself horribly sick!

     

4 3/4 (5)[Heroin] to work and postpone the other nuisance.

     

7 1/2 M&A[tropine].

     

$[resh] from Saturnus [Karl Germer] announced by Natl City Bank.

     

Bought “Light” Charles [Charles Cammell] has raised it quite a lot from its gutter 16 Queensbury Place SW7.

     

Indeterminate snooze after hard work on Memo. Sweated on Memo: did all but the “practical” paragraphs at the end. Also selected, addressed and dedicated by placing before stele and Book of Abramelin talismans.

     

Worked really hard: slept early: big dreams woke 11 1/2 with bad 241 & heart pain. (6)[Heroin].

 

 

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