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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Sunday, 11 January 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 37.
Frieda [Frieda Harris] phoned of course. She knows Kaufmann(?) is a fraud; would just that to have it proved to her!
4 PM (Idiot! Imbecile! Dolt! Comrade of Lady Harris! You wouldn’t learn! You went to the Café Royal for mushrooms and toast. They were half-cooked, with the chill off. They mad you sick. Serves you right you brainless bahinchut(?)!)
Message re Plan 241 [asthma symptoms]. [I Ching hexagram] Hwan 59. Worked hellish hard on this 6-8 PM. Consecrated the drafts ceremonially see Memoranda at end of Diary.*
2.30 & 4.50 (?) Woke and slept again at once.
9 1/4 (1)[Heroin] Inadequate.
10 o’c (2)[Heroin] F.H. [Frieda Harris] asinine.
12 o’c (3)[Heroin].
Couldn’t sleep after lunch.
Inside XOP (4)[Heroin] at 3 1/2 PM Working on Plan 241.
6 1/2 (4)[Heroin] Letter to Col Britton.
8 1/2 (5)[Heroin] chiefly to ease the V-fatigue; and “night-cap”.
Dream. Jan 11-12. I was doing some Magical Opus “I assumed the full magical personality of——” (Some Hex. I think [I Ching hexagram] Hwan LIX see Jan 11 re Plan 241) and my Work came instantly to pass. Note. I had gone to sleep invoking 93 hard about this Plan 241 letter. The quoted sentence above is, somehow, verbatim from the dream.
* Jan 11 Luna in 9°-13° [scorpio sol 21° capricorn Opos virgo? Ret Mars Sq Ret Sol Venus Sex Ret Luna Semisex Ret Saturn Sol semisex? Ret hershell].
Above my cough is a shelf, in the South. On it is the Stele of Revealing. in front of this my Book of [Abramelin] Talismans; in front, again
(1) gilt serpent box (2) Arab make-up box, with relics of the Pharoah called [mercury-ankh?-sol jupiter] and (3) box with collection of alloy tokens (3d bits) and Abramelin incense
I burnt some of this, placed the book and papers—drafts of my Plan 241—between my Book and the Stele, and gave the Sign of Apophis and Typhon. Finally, I put in the Arab box the original sigil of Set, consecrated in my great Work of Invocation at Boleskine in the winter of 1899-1900.
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