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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 7 February 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 9.
Woke 4 1/4 241 [asthma symptoms] (1)[Heroin] coughing & choking on phlegm.
Slept till 10 3/4!! Little 241 routine (2)[Heroin] XOP
12 1/4 (3)[Heroin]. Shopped in zero—XOP
1 3/4 (4)[Heroin].
3 3/4 241 comes on (5)[Heroin]. Tot: 11/12 gr.
(6)[Heroin]. 7 PM (final)
10 1/4. Sudden throat irritation: 241 came on: no yen. (7)[Heroin]. Tot 1 1/4.
4 1/2-6 3/4 Ham [Gerald Hamilton] brought Mrs Cuninghame. She knows well & has influence with J.F.C.F. [J.F.C. Fuller]. Gave her Thumbs Up! No 25 Liber LXXVII OZ. She will negotiate with him. Message: [I Ching hexagram] Sun 41. Seems very appropriate, and is one of the best symbols of Yi.
10.30 PM. Thinking hard. Shall I tell young Birds of my Stele surroundings, or play a lone hand. Message: [I Ching hexagram] 30 Li “Net-Making” seems clear, coupled with allusion in “This was Paris”. Most impressed with feeling that I have to take one maximal decision on strategy. Main lines: [+, Saturn], wise old Greek without alternative for Bridewell,
Tarot, [Lew] Jackson. I shall ask a Message from Yi and an Oracle.
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