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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Sunday, 8 February 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 23.
Vivid dreams of camping out, slicing cold boiled beef too thick etc.
1 1/2 Woke, freezing, hungry, needing WQC some 241 [asthma symptoms] (1)[Heroin] ate biscuits. Quite inad[equate] 241 again. (2, 3)[Heroin].
6 1/4 woke more diarrhoea etc little 241 frozen.
8 Woke from fantastic dream of Earthquake—volcano described in lurid words in newspapers ? Where Reunion (?) ? Libya? Polynesia? Artificial?
3.15 AM Message (see opposite) [I Ching hexagram] Khien I. This is immensely clear: means This is the Cross-Roads n plus 1. AL II 54 Between lines 1 2 I 46 Seal exactly covered word “call”. II 36 Seal on period after ‘times’ See Memo p 5* (‘call’ follows word ‘Jews’, not word ‘I’).
8 not much 241 (4)[Heroin]. This seems useless:
241 worse 9 o’c (5)[Heroin]. (I wonder if 2, 3)[Heroin] went mostly to that dream!).
Noon: subnormal (6)[Heroin].
11 Ham [Gerald Hamilton] here: lent him 15/- arranged him room 18 here: date with Mrs C[unninghame] for Monday.
Sleep 2 1/2-4: vivid dreams: no 241 on waking.
4 3/4 (7)[Heroin]. Tot: 1 1/3.
4 1/2 (8) pure exorcism of unknown phobia. Suspect it is re ‘decision’. I expect this was the day on which [Lew] Jackson & Liversedge turned down the Tarot.
* (Memo:) II 54 means “Don’t bank on those who are sceptical about AL: they will not avail.” I 46 means “Call” is the Oracle.
II 36. Needles to enquire further. What, then, of call? Obvious meaning—proclaim. Adds to 86? = use all 5? The Buffs seem to advance: so I ask: Should I approach the Gros (?) .... a protective colouration? Yi says 53 Kien (note [I Ching hexagram] line 1 also p 257 seems to promise career). Will write: see Sol in 16o 34 ‘ 8” Capr)
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