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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Tuesday, 6 January 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 12.
Slept till 9 1/2:
Woke at 5.
(1, 2)[Heroin] at 9 1/2 11 1/2
Almost driven insane by Frieda [Frieda Harris]: raving nearly 1/2 hour on the telephone! (41)[M&A]
Alice here.
Drink with Cecil [Robert Cecil]: he gave me his Magical Record. Marrartnay(?) there—Ugh!
1 3/4 The M&A[tropine] just doesn’t touch the spot. (3, 4)[Heroin].
Letter from Saturnus [Karl Germer]: 12 Phi in USA dreadful!
12 Phi in England too! (12 Phi) n plys 1 !!!
Philip Morris wouldn’t sell me cigars, claiming that I owed them £60 odd! Do they think they are doing me a favour in selling me cigars?
4 1/2 still annoyed with everything (5)[Heroin].
Frieda’s Savoy lunch was great success; so we’ll have 50 cards of XIX soon. Praise to [mercury] in the Highest!
6 3/4 Gerald H [Gerald Hamilton] rang up!! (6)[Heroin] just when I wanted to get a nap!
Read Robert Cecil’s Magical Diary. “Crime does not pay”??? He lives at Claridge” Air of settled prosperity plus ambassadorial dignity.
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