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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 18 April 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 16.
An irritating day: no Yi to mention
Wrote R.C. [Robert Cecil] about his T.[rue] W.[ill] & motto. This must stand for Yu Fire/Kteis—The Lust of Babalon. Found “The Vision and the Voice” for him.
Began War song against Nippon.
Irritability made me rather reckelss about
MAS [Maurice A. Sutherland] here for chess. While he fumbles and grumbles and mumbles and rumbles, he has a very good chance of beating me: did so to-night in fact by dint of muttering and puttering and spluttering and uttering moans and groans in undertones. This is, I believe, the quintessence of the Marxian Dialectic. 4-2 One win was end-game play, very subtle; one fine sacrificial attack; and one, strategic strangle.
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[Heroin]. Tot: 1 1/3 gr. [Heroin] and 2
(41)[M&A(tropine)] and I’m not sure that I entered a