Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Thursday, 12 August 1943

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 62.

     

40th anniversary of my first marriage [to Rose Kelly].

     

Ill all day: Damned ill.

     

Insomnia, choked nostrils, dry mouth & throat. Yet on M.B. [Maisie Burger] [for dictation] coming at 7 1/2 PM I woke up bit by bit & wrote well, clearly, & vigorously to Saturnus [Karl Germer], Roy [Roy Leffingwell], Chris Kraemer.

     

2 1/2 Insomnia; better after sleeping 4 1/2 AM - 11 AM break for brekker [breakfast].

 

 

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