|
Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 22 December 1941
[I Ching hexagram] 15. Sol in 0 degrees Capricornus.
Woke 5 (1)[Heroin].
8 (2)[Heroin].
10 near collapse and vomiting (3)[Heroin].
12 1/4 (4)[Heroin].
4 1/2 Exhausted: to avoid M&A[tropine] took (5)[Heroin] hoping that it would keep me through night as yesterday.
10 Call on Bank.
Bought Ape of Thoth pouch in honour of [mercury].
Also pipe to replace old friend 15/- & 35/-
Very pleasant & very good & very amusing lunch with Pam.
6 1/2 I feel like hell! Coramine.[1]
7 1/2 Rested, but 241 [asthma symptoms] coming on.
7 3/4 M&A.
8 1/4 Sick as a dog—not a nice dog, either!
Resolve to work out those modifications by (?) the upper trigram of its base. I will begin with 1-8/K. Did this & 1-8/Fire.
1—Coramine is a circulatory stimulant and was used in the mid-twentieth century as a medical countermeasure against tranquilizer overdoses.
|