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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 2 January 1943
[I Ching hexagram] 50.
Finished reconstruction, expanded, of “Old King Crowley”.
Louis [Louis Wilkinson] came with his son & daughter, very pleasant. An amusing hour. Shame that I had no drink for them!
Bayley [James Gilbert Bayley] here, tired out.
Note on the daily hexagrams. I do not feel sure that one swallow makes a summer, or one oyster a winter. But a flight of one, or a dozen of t’other, do. I.e. there will be a period, like that ending March 20, when there is hardly one moderately good hexagram in a fortnight or more; such a period (as such corresponds: “a run of bad luck”. Usually it seems as if one trigram predominated—in this case
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One bad hexagram in the middle of a good series seems harmless; one must take it that it is “on its best behaviour”. Is all this right? I feel it very strongly.
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