Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Sunday, 25 January 1942

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 11.

     

Woke 2 3/4 lots 241 [asthma symptoms] (1)[Heroin].

     

7 1/4 some 241 (2)[Heroin].

     

9 o’c 241 coming on heavy (3)[Heroin]. Retching started! (This has happened several times in similar circs but only at about this hour in am). This, and some diarrhoea, otherwise, I feel top-hole.

     

11 1/4 XOP (4)[Heroin]. OK.

     

3 o’c No need but F.H. [Frieda Harris] evening (5)[Heroin].

     

Worked on FO [Fucked-Out] Families. ["Landed Gentry"]

     

Wrote [Dr.] Crawshaw, [F.W.] Hylton. Frieda [Frieda Harris]; Ham [Gerald Hamilton], Alice big tea; sleep

     

7 3/4 woke, no urgency (41)[M&A(tropine)]. This kept me quite happy till sleep at midnight.

 

 

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