Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Sunday, 15 February 1942

 

[I Ching hexagram] 26.

     

Woke 4 1/4 not bad. Came on, though [Heroin] 3/4 (1)[Heroin]. Inad[equate].

     

5 1/2 (2)[Heroin].

     

9 1/2 (3)[Heroin].

     

11 (4)[Heroin].

     

3 1/2 (5)[Heroin] after nap: little or no 241 [asthma symptoms]. Tot 11/12.

     

6 o’c Fagged by tea etc. (6)[Heroin]. Tot 1 1/6

     

9 o’c for bed (40).

     

5 1/2-6 3/4 AM Sending off 33.

     

Slept 7-9 1/2.

     

10 1/2-12 1/2 Bayley [James Gilbert Bayley] here: took over a dozen films.

     

4 o’c Ham. [Gerald Hamilton] here. Cleared up absurd blunder about Young (Jung?) of Café Royal. Jackson is Lew Jacobi, share-pusher, once fined, twice imprisoned: intimate of Klein, right-hand man of Jacob Factor.

     

Sutherland [Maurice A. Sutherland] to chess 1-0.

     

Amazing thing happened, starting with Channel fiasco. He threw a new light on our ‘Landed Gentry’ from Mars! And it enlightened me! This is one of the major crises of my thought; and I don’t know where it may lead.

     

Slept about 11 1/2.

 

 

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