Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Wednesday, 31 December 1941

[I Ching hexagram] 29.

4 1/4 Woke damned ill 241 [asthma symptoms]: Vomiting phlegm (1)[Heroin].

5 1/2 Rotten! Coramine.^[1]

8 1/2 Wakened despite notice on door. (2)[Heroin] Feel better.

Slept till 12 despite wakings by . . . Alice [Alice Florey] woke me.

Much rested.

12 1/4 (3)[Heroin] then 1 1/2 collapsed.

1 3/4 (4)[Heroin].

4 3/4 (5)[Heroin].

8 1/2 M&A[tropine] to settle down for the night. Did so & slept almost at once.

At noon carried out a really painful sacrifice to [mercury]: all 3 elements duly represented.

1—Coramine is a circulatory stimulant and was used in the mid-twentieth century as a medical countermeasure against tranquilizer overdoses.

MEMORANDA

High moments in my life:

No 1 Ascot—The Golden Cup. It had rained in the night. As those superb thoroughbreds thundered round the course, one hoof kicked up a speck of mud—it hit the Viscount Lascelles in the middle of his white flowered waistcoat.

The racing (as by a miracle) died away: the shouting stopped. The universe seemed poised in infinite indescribable hush: what would the Viscount do? His thin lips blanched; he bit them nearly through; no other sign escaped his princely sangfroid. With silken kerchief he removed the blasphemous speck; a huge gasp of relief sighed throughout he tragedy-laden air; the horses carried on. An hour later it would have been impossible for a stranger to have seen that anything had been amiss, had threatened to overwhelm the Empire in black irremediable ruin. Yes, my son, we English can take it!

Letter to a man who persisted in keeping on the wireless.

“Sir, while I cannot truthfully assert that I have searched Somerset House in vain for any record of the marriage of your parents, your behaviour inclines me to surmise that such investigation would be nugatory. Yours faithfully. . .

Christmas in Maddox St. “Take ‘ome a Chreesmas Pooding?”

The world’s maturest veal;

Tough lumps of fat, exuding

Synthetic sex-appeal.

Antichristmas Cards Distribution List.

Nov 24 Lady Harris [Frieda Harris]. Karl Germer.

25 JG Bayley

26 MA Sutherland

27 Robert Cecil. Henry Swansy

28 Alice F Speller

29 Peggy Bartlett

30 E. Noel Fitzgerald [Edward Noel Fitzgerald]

Dec 1 CWR Nevinson Capt. G.J. Yorke [Gerald J. Yorke] (Rat). Edward Morrison. Van Velden Rt Everett

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