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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 19 March 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 59.
Alice here all day, very helpful. “Jealous” “covet” “Reactionary”. Last word meant “inclined to react violently” e.g. the more you like a thing the more you hate it when the time comes to turn against it.
Actual case: the Hun’s fighting spirit: the better the soldier, the more mutinous when driven beyond endurance.
12 o’c Waldron—too ill—had to cancel it.
Wrote “Strategy” letter to Max [Max Schneider], who complained that he “could not hold his students”.
Some “great announcement” ([I Ching hexagram] line 5). Also some line 4 & (may be) line 6 in it.
Cough worrying all day. Took Dig.[italis] c Linctus reguarly.
Temp 98.6 98.4.
Tot: 1 1/6 [Heroin] plus 2 (40).
Bar the cough, a much better day;
the 1/4 gr
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[Heroin] had notably good effects—actual
stimulation.