Leah Hirsig Diary Entry

Wednesday, 1 October 1924

Letter from Beast last night took away all my appetite—just my nerves.

LAMBERT SHOWED UP!

9.00 A.M. Letter from Nina Hamnett enclosing 10 shillings.

Took 3 Gardenal^[1] last night and slept till 8 A.M. But woke feeling very faint and weak in body but absolutely calm and clear as to my course for the future.

Thoughts

Building up of family in New Aeon.

Man marries woman—helpmate, mother etc.

Produce son and daughter (father trains son)

Father marries ? (devotes himself) to her training

Son then looks after mother—and mother advises son.

This is the tetragrammaton formula.

Wife to be faithful because of children. That settles birth control business.

As many wives as desired (one at a time) and as many concubines etc. as needed.

That means that the old classification

Concubine     Mother     Whore

stands—The "maid" will be the freak and very rare.

[Notes on opposite page]

Son devoted life to Work of Father on the appearance of Daughter.

Father dies when his work (his True Will) has been accomplished.

Law of succession to be worked out by Beast.

On death of son, if Father still lives, Father undertakes affairs.

This is for Thelemites. The slaves will be slaves according to these Laws formulated by the Prophet of Nu, the prophet of Had, the prophet of R.[a] H.[oor] K.[huit].

11.05 A.M. Telegrams written ready to send (10.55 A.M. by clock on Av. du Maine)

1. CROWLEY   MAJESTIC   HOTEL   TUNIS

COME   BABALON

2. CROWLEY   MAJESTIC   HOTEL   TUNIS

LIBER LEGIS CHAPTER ONE VERSE 15

S.[carlet] W.[oman]

3. CROWLEY   MAJESTIC   HOTEL   TUNIS

MUDD DEAD   LONDON PARALYZED   COME BY AEROPLANE

LEAH

Later. I affirm that time is understood only by Gods.

O.P.V. came in after 11.30  ?

Ella Burgin came in just before noon. She will bring me 100 francs to-morrow morning.

The telegrams may yet have to be sent. I expect this as a fulfilment of "the lover in the grey lands etc." passage.

I am making necessary preparations for this last.

(a) By asking O.P.V. to write out a statement "preparatory to making his will".

(b) Taking precautions to leave all his goods with me.

7 P.M. (O.P.V. wrote as follows)

Alostrael [Leah Hirsig] seemed surprised when I agreed that Science lives by inspiration. If she only knew the whole truth about Science

Estai's [Jane Wolfe] great strength is her 'pride of truth'. She will take, without defence, any criticism however piercing that you give her. Babalon replies: A pride of any thing is weakness. I agree, of course, but this does not contradict my statement.

Mothers are very tantalizing; O.P.V.

They must be tantalizing to their children (says Babalon) to get the bloody fools going.

"In Astronomy (and in fact all natural Sciences) whatever is commonly called an accident is merely an event whose occurrence is due to conditions which were not taken into account (whether from inevitable ignorance or from rash limitations of the relevant factors.) Apart from such accidents all Astronomical events are calculable with precision. E.g. the aspect of the heavens could be [. . .] with accuracy, for any place, and at any time, up to several hundred years ahead."

     

Norman Mudd

Alostrael asks me to write in this her Diary that the above is a brief statement in connection with a question she asked me about the analogy between Astrology (scientific) and the application of it as per Liber Legis Chapter I v. 3. She also asks me to write this up at length (as I had already planned to do) at the first available moment.

Later

1—Gardenal contains phenobarbital, a barbiturate.

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