Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Sunday, 18 January 1942

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 4.

     

Woke 12 1/2 241 [asthma symptoms] coming on. (1)[Heroin]. Inadequate: v.[ery] wakeful.

     

1 1/4 (41)[M&A(tropine)].

     

6 (2)[Heroin].

     

7 1/4 (3)[Heroin]. All quite inadequate

     

8 1/4 (4)[Heroin].

     

Slept heavily after bath till 11 1/4 (41)[M&A].

     

2 o’c (5)[Heroin].

     

Slept 2-4 6 1/2 (41)[M&A].

     

9 o’c Idees noires & 241 (6)[Heroin].

     

Slept 9 1/2—.

     

F.H. [Frieda Harris] didn’t ring up.

     

Wrote Cecil [Robert Cecil] re his [magical] Record.

     

Alice to tea. Ham [Gerald Hamilton] likes her, has never seen a more obvious jewess. We had a longish chat De omnii et nullo.

     

On the 21st I learnt that the idiot Health Fooders had failed to get the idiot lozenges recommended by the idiot Greta [Valentine] from the idiot hag at bristol.

 

 

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