A.M.

Finished reading of Comment [on Book of Law].

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Surprised about construction placed on Scarlet Woman. Like the idea of Hierophant and Priestess—BUT

Three-fold Book of Law, three-fold Thelema, three ordeals in one, thrice-armed, etc. May there not be three here, also? Hierophant and Priestess; Beast and Scarlet Woman, she as unique and designated an individual as he and not by him to be deposed (as I assume to be the case with Priestess), and a third deeper meaning?

For: In her “is all power given”. This suggests to me the powers of a Christ.

“She shall achieve Hadit”. Did any of the six so achieve? No! Else would they not have failed. Then how can they be the Scarlet Woman?

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(If my vision of Jan 11, 1919 had to do with Lea [Leah Hirsig]—as I have been told—why Bertha Bruce at a later period?)

Verse 53 “ . . ; ever To me! To me!”

Verse 62 “__ To me! To me!”

Verse 65 “To me! To me!”

I know nothing of Qabalah, but what of this?

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“The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them.”

Who shall say who does know these mysteries—who is capable to judge if Jones [Charles Stansfeld Jones] be the child”?

P.M.

9:15

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Palermo. Villa Igeia; no room at the Palmes. Full of freaks here. Men with queer noses, receding foreheads, eccentric slouches; women all colours of the rainbow, blue-lidded, red-lipped, bobbing ear-rings, protruding shoulder blades, mincing gait, loose-lipped and tight-lipped. Each and every one extremely self-conscious. A continual pose. Each eyeing each, a measuring of swords. Very entertaining.

Shummie [Ninette Shumway] does not go to Naples, one reason a “plot”—at least those words were used to me. Why fear?

Live your life so you can look every damn man in the face and tell him to go to hell.