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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Tuesday, 23 December 1941
[I Ching hexagram] 19.
Couldn’t sleep
12 1/4 Nerves and 241 [asthma symptoms] bad (1)[Heroin].
Worked on Yi till 2 1/2!
5 Woke from Vivid dreams.
10 1/2 Ring Henry “Religions of Burma & Malaya”.
Woke again 7 1/2 (2) Room flooded (Is this that Ape of Thoth skin protesting?)
Violent dream: a prescription with 5 items, and a woman (?Soror IWE [Martha Küntzel]) insisting that I had cancer of the lungs. Doctor changed 2 items (which were unfilled) to meet this view, though he did not agree.
Alice [Alice Florey] here: frigged her.
10 1/2 (3)[Heroin] went shopping. Quite inadequate.
11 3/4 (4)[Heroin]. This with 2 big Uisge [whisky] & a pink gin-troppo.
5 1/4 (5)[Heroin] prophylactic honestly! (after a half-snooze).
[Henry] Swansy thought my “Religions of Malaya” idea might be acceptable. 400 words: price, secret. Wants me to do one on spec.
8 3/4 Working like hell on Yi. Mustn’t stop: so risk a small (6)[Heroin]. Went on till I dropped. Finished modifications of Luna & Earth began Water.
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