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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Friday, 30 January 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 45.
1 o’c Woke some 241 [asthma symptoms] (1)[Heroin].
6 1/2 (2)[Heroin].
10 1/2 (3)[Heroin].
1 1/2(4)[Heroin].
5 1/2 (5)[Heroin].
F.H. [Frieda Harris] fagged me.
7 1/2 (6)[Heroin]. Total 1 1/4.
Finished poem, ["Landed Gentry"] after a fashion.
[Memo: A case of “guidance”. I had tried vainly all probable places for a Big Cigar to use in my simili. Winston [Churchill] photograph [Version 1, Version 2].
After lunch Cecil [Robert Cecil] left me near Watkins just before 3. I called to jeer at the Xtian God for the old man’s benefit. Walked to get bus home from Lower Regent St. Saw (at 5 to 3) cigars in window of Galata in Leicester Square. Shut, notice “Back at 3”. I felt ill: wind was cold; rain started. Yet I waited. About 3.10 a woman came, also locked out. About 3.15 she thought she could find the boss, & went off asking me to wait. He rushed down and opened. He was Zanelli, a Turk; Churchill’s own Cigar Merchant!!! So I got the actual thing I was looking for in the most fraternal spirit!’ Liversedge deal. Arranging W.C. [Winston Churchill].
‘Landed Gentry’ Burke-and Hare dedicate it to Yorke [Gerald Yorke]!
1st post. Hughes & Heppell trying to “collect” from me. Non.
Jackson at 123 Wardour St. How shall I approach him? [I Ching hexagram] 54 Kwei Mei. I must read this as Spirit brooding on Water (Shin on mem). Omen after the event [I Ching hexagram] Kan 52. See Memo at end.*
1 1/4 Demos [restaurant] Robert Cecil.
Collected
(1) news of Plan 241 (2) Eq. Gods [The Equinox of the Gods] plus sub[scription] for new book (3) Halwa [biscuit] (4) Brandy £3.5.0 (5) Cigars £5.0.0 (6) Great dinner (?) from FH Home, read new poem [Landed Gentry] (laughter & cheers) & The City of God. AC broke down and wept like a child!
* I took a small AL reprint & a LXXVII [Liber OZ] for him: was annoyed at F.H. insisting on my taking photos & reject of the silly Tarot! This was 93 speaking: for he waved the whole question of Tarot aside, and brought up the essence of the matter: the Law of Thelema. (Now this explains [I Ching hexagram] 54 Kwei Mei about the sisters—esp [I Ching hexagram] line 1 & line 5) This strange long sleep of mine—and the ‘guidance’ (see note above)—was it that 666 was away putting [I Ching] Hexagrams 53 & 40 to work on Jackson? If he makes a proper AL proposal, I shall suppose so.
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