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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 31 December 1945
[I Ching hexagram] I.
[ditto]
Chess v.[ersus] Brocklesby. 1st game abandoned '.' idiot bawling in bathroom. 2 & 3 I won. [William G.] Watson v.[ersus] Brocklesby (Q) Watson won.
The word of the law is [Thelema]
MEMORANDA for 1945 E.V.
Feb 7 to Saturnus [Karl Germer] re financial policy of OTO
(1) AC's copyrights belong to OTO \ each new book, or set of essays, or what not, is a direct gain to OTO \ to keep him alive & at work, with secretarial help, must be the first charge on the Funds, whether labelled "Publication Fund" or otherwise.
(2) Value of Grant [Kenneth Grant]. If I die or go to USA, there must be a trained man to take care of English OTO.
(3) We must run OTO as Constitution etc have laid down. N.B. VIIº must transfer real estate (He won't be interfered wtih in emploment or enjoyment of same; contrary, it safeguards him; in case he crashes, creditors can't sieze it. So with IXº. Some have paid in full; all part contributions can count as this. We must not let them complain that we are letting new-comers gratis into the Sov[ereig]n Sanct[uar]y.
(4) If in future all is done "well and with business way" AL III 41 it will put spine into Order.
(5) Note. Though totally incapable of carrying out business routine, my plans are sound. Only fault, they are too neat; thus, a small irreguality may bring ruin on the whole.
Note (carried forward from 1934!) A VERB is a word, and means motion. A NOUN is only Nomen, a name, & so does not represent the thing itself.
[chess layout stuff]
My name it is I'm a master of M unholy Of philtres & pentacles, Covens, conventicles, Of basil, nepenthe, & moly.
An aspiring young man, Kenneth Grant, Unwillingly buggered his aunt. He said: "on my uncle's Back side are carbuncles: I wish that I could, but I can't".
[chess notes]
Lady Harris [Frieda Harris] Lady Kenmare Lady Kennet Marquess of Donegall Earl of Kilmarnork Earl of Ronaldshay Lord Dalzell Viscount Tredegar [Evan Morgan] Lord Ronald Grahame.
[newspaper clipping that Army service-men have a mental age of 14, opposed to 12 in last war]
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