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- Crowley takes rooms at 14
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- Author, Lewis
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Saturday, 26
February 1898 |
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- Crowley is on holiday at
Wastdale Head with
Herbert Charles Pollitt with Crowley filling his
time with climbing and reading books, including Karl von
Eckartshausen's
The Cloud upon the Sanctuary. This vacation leads to
the end of their relationship as Crowley realizes that he
and Pollitt don't share anything in common.
[56]
- While on his
Wastdale Head vacation Crowley meets
Oscar Eckenstein and they discuss mountaineering and
climb Wastdale Head. Crowley also begins writing
Jezebel.
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- The
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Current Events:
- Spain
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- The
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- Crowley meets
Gerald Kelly for the first time. Their meeting is
arranged by the owner of a bookshop that had sold
Kelly a copy of Crowley's
Aceldama which so fascinated Kelly that he
just had to meet its author.
[56]
- Crowley publishes his
book
White
Stains
through the publisher
Leonard Smithers.
Due to its pornographic content, Smithers has the book
typeset by Binger Bros. in Amsterdam.
[56]
- Crowley provides the
manuscript for
Green Alps
to
Leonard Smithers
for publication but a fire breaks out at the printers
destroying the manuscript.
[56]
- Crowley books a room at
the Bear Hotel, Maidenhead, Berkshire to concentrate on
writing his book
Jezebel.
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British Prime Minister, William
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- At the end of Crowley's
senior year at Trinity College, Cambridge, he decides to
leave without finishing his degree.
[56]
- Crowley's book,
Jezebel, with a dedication to
Gerald Kelly, is privately
published.
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Current Events:
- Wilfred Talbot Smith
is 13 years old.
- China
leases Hong Kong's new territories to the United Kingdom for
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- Crowley spends the entire
month of July 1898 camped in a tent above the Alpine snow
line at 11,500 feet, below the Dent Blanche (14,291 feet)
and beside the Schφnbόhl Glacier. Crowley is training with
Oscar Eckenstein in techniques necessary to attempt a
climb in the Himalayas.
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- Crowley meets Julian L. Baker
in Zermatt, Switzerland, below the Matterhorn in a beer
hall where Crowley is discussing alchemy. Baker introduces
himself and they talk as they walk back to their hotel.
Crowley wondered if Baker was the master he had been
seeking and decided to ask him the following morning.
Early the next day Baker
had left the hotel and Crowley telegraphed and searched the
local hotels and the train stations for him. Crowley says he
went up the Gornergrat, an Alpine ridge south of Zermatt and
not seeing Baker there must have just missed him as Baker
was walking down the mountain valley to Brig. Crowley
pursued his master and eventually caught up with him ten
miles below Zermatt and he asks Baker if he is the master.
Baker smiled and said no but agreed that when they get
back to London he would introduce Crowley to a man who is
much more of a magician than I am.
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- The
United States formally annexes Hawaii.
- A
Protocol of Peace is signed by the United States and Spain
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August 1898 |
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Wednesday,
24 August 1898 |
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Thursday, 1
September 1898 |
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Current Events:
- The
first use of a machine gun in battle. |
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Monday, 12
September 1898 |
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Wednesday,
12 October 1898 |
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- Crowley
is 23 years old. |
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Chancery Lane, London.
[287]
- In
the evening the Cambridge County Chess Association holds its
annual meeting at the Blue Boar, 17 Trinity Street,
Cambridge, where Crowley is elected as a vice-president.
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Chancery Lane, London.
[287]
- Crowley,
at Mark Mason's Hall, Great Queen Street, London,
is initiated into the
Golden Dawn at about 6 P.M. on this date and takes the
motto Perdurabo.
[68],
[233]
NOTE: R.A. Gilbert states
that the original Golden Dawn rolls show that Crowley was
initiated on 26 November 1898.
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Saturday, 26
November 1898 |
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Thursday,
8 December 1898 |
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Location: 67 and 69
Chancery Lane, London.
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Current Events:
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Allan Bennett
is 26 years old |
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Wednesday,
14
December 1898 |
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Saturday, 17
December 1898 |
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Wednesday,
21
December 1898 |
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Location: 67 and 69
Chancery Lane, London.
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News Related to Crowley:
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Daily Chronicle
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Current Events:
- Scientists,
Pierre and Marie Curie discover Radium. |
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Thursday, 29
December 1898 |
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Saturday, 31
December 1898 |
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