Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Thursday, 20 April 1944

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 42.

     

Wrote Cordelia [Cordelia Sutherland], ditto H.A. [Grady McMurtry] with 3 Schools of Magick.

     

NP Bank wrote me they had money for me—letter (by hand) reached me may 1st.

     

Violent face-ache—periostitis—agony—Iodine ad lib & lie-down so no out.

     

So—6 1/4 PM in comes Fra HA all in his jeep!

     

Surprise! We talked & played chess & ate most pleasantly till 10 PM.

     

My face, already on the mend after rest, cleared altogether within 10 min of his arrival. But cost of [Heroin] about 2 1/2-3 grains!

 

 

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