Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Thursday, 30 March 1944

[I Ching hexagram] 13.

Opened Grady [Grady McMurtry] [letter] of 21st! He accepts my offer of share 50-letter book [that eventually became Magick Without Tears].

Shall I buy a Kukri [Nepalese knife with an inwardly curved blade]:

(a) to celebrate Word [Word of the Equinox]

(b) to thank V.I. [Gerald Yorke] & H.A. [Grady L. McMurtry]

(c) as Act of Truth?

(d) as Weapon, esp to vanquish Sor.[or] F.[iat] Y.[od] [Anne Macky]. [I Ching hexagram] 49 Ko. This must mean Yes, if only because consciously I had every reason against it, & when I saw the figure, my subconscious gave a little “leap in the pond” (Browning).

PS Bought one at Cogswell & Harrison’s. The Gods were watching! Prepared to pay £3.10.0 “without haggling”—and they asked only 35/—[AGLA].

To “This was a woman”—see Memoranda page 4*.

* Admirable study, brilliantly shewn, of a boy inheriting his mother’s ruthless will & his father’s sane integrity. The “Hamlet & mother scene” at the end is A1. But the suicide flops because one thinks that the flat opens on to the garden. I shall suggest a few lines to amend this.

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