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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Wednesday, 18 March 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 62.
Dream, very simple and powerful, that we had captured Naples!
Wrote Saturnus [Karl Germer]: IX° precis; my Will: remarks on Smith [Wilfred Talbot Smith].
Ham [Gerald Hamilton] brought Sir Frederick O’Connor; most able & intelligent, knows lots of places I know, even the Yalung(?) [Glacier]!!
A day of overwork, notably a precis on India for O’C.
Felt under the weather nearly all the time.
Temp[erature] 98.67 (twice) 98.0.
Tot: 1 1/4 [Heroin]. Also (4) Cough at times. Coramine[1] just before breakfast for faintness vomited.
1—Coramine is a circulatory stimulant and was used in the mid-twentieth century as a medical countermeasure against tranquilizer overdoses.
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