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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 16 February 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 22.
4 1/2 woke 241 [asthma symptoms].
5 o’c (1)[Heroin] n.[o] g.[ood].
5 3/4 (2)[Heroin] not really clear.
Is this Sutherland [Maurice A. Sutherland] ‘romantic’ crisis, or the wish-cable-would come idiot worry, doing me down?
7 Dypsnoea continuous (3)[Heroin] nap not too good.
10 1/2-12 (4)[Heroin].
Bitter E wind coldest yet this year.
3 o’c (5)[Heroin]. Tot: 11/12 gr.
6 1/2 (6, 7)[Heroin]. Quite needless, reckless, indefensible save as an experiment. Call it [I Ching hexagram] 22 Pi! Tot: 1 1/4 gr.
See Memo* p 6 for an “illumination”.
Almost clear from 241 from 1 o’c on.
10 o’c (40).
9 1/4 Exp[erimen]t interrupted by Glib Imbecile no 1 brought by Ham [Gerald Hamilton].
No money: just a card to show you worked all the week, and you buy fur coats & motor-cars & everything. When you are 40 you don’t even work any more.
* [Memo: Note on the Magical Link & Immediate Intuition: “How we know things”. I think there is some quality in all phenomena, so essential & all-pervading that we are unconscious of it, which contains the Neschamic faculty and that of interaction. (Oh how badly I’m putting it!)
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