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- The Idler publishes a
short story by Crowley
entitled "The
Drug"
- The
Month publishes
a review of Crowley's book
Amphora.
- Crowley inscribes
a copy of
Amphora to
J.F.C. Fuller with the words:
"How like Orestes
And Pylades
We've thumped
our testes
On the
ladies!
One more year
ends,
Our
[illegible] expanding;
But leaves us
friends,
And leaves
us standing!
Aleister Crowley
New Year 1909." |
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News Related to Crowley:
-
Buddhist Review
-
Idler
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Month |
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Wednesday, 6
January 1909 |
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- The U.K.
Vanity Fair publishes a poem by Crowley entitled
"The
Muse". |
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News Related to Crowley:
-
Vanity Fair |
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Wednesday, 13
January 1909 |
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Thursday, 14
January 1909 |
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Saturday, 16
January 1909 |
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Wednesday,
20
January 1909 |
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Thursday, 21
January 1909 |
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Saturday, 23
January 1909 |
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Diary Entries:
-
J.F.C. Fuller |
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News Related to Crowley:
-
Globe |
Current Events:
- Composer
Richard Strauss' premieres Elektra in Dresden,
Germany. |
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Wednesday,
27
January 1909 |
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Thursday, 28
January 1909 |
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Saturday, 30
January 1909 |
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Wednesday, 3
February 1909 |
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Wednesday,
10
February 1909 |
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Tuesday, 16
February 1909 |
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- Crowley
inscribes a copy of his book
Collected Works (Essay Competition version) "G.A.S.
Puiscant[?], a trifling token of appreciation for his many
kindnesses. Aleister Crowley. 16-2-09."[355] |
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Wednesday,
17 February 1909 |
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Wednesday,
24 February 1909 |
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- The U.K.
Vanity Fair publishes a poem by Crowley entitled
"Rosemary". |
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News Related to Crowley:
-
Vanity Fair |
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Current Events:
- The Spring
Equinox
- Jane Wolfe
is 34 years old. |
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Diary Entries:
-
J.F.C. Fuller |
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Current Events:
- The
North Pole is reached for the first time by Robert Peary &
Matthew Henson. |
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Location: 21 Warwick
Road, London. |
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Current Events:
- Joan
of Arc receives beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. |
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Location: 21 Warwick
Road, London.
- Kenneth Ward,
in the presence of Crowley, takes the
A∴A\ Oath of a
Probationer.
Crowley's notes state "Underwent Vision of the Demon
Crowley at moment of passing to
Neophyte. Should return from Burma next year and sign
on".
[341] |
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Location: 21 Warwick
Road, London.
- The Royal Cambrian Academy of
Art displays a painting by Charles Stansfeld Jones
at the Great Mansion situated in the High Street,
Conway, Wales. Stansfeld Jones' painting is item 121
"Portrait of a Lady".
The exhibition last from May 31 through September
25th. See
Catalogue. |
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Current Events:
- Actor,
Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16. |
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Location:
Boleskine House, Foyers, Inverness, Scotland.
- Victor
Neuburg
and a Cambridge friend, Kenneth Walker arrive in the
afternoon at
Boleskine House.
- Richard Noel Warren,
in the presence of
J.F.C. Fuller, takes the
A∴A\ Oath of a
Probationer.
Crowley's notes state "Dead. Cancelled. Retired from
Probationership 14th October 1910".
[341] |
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- Rose Kelly
leaves Crowley after being treated cruelly and
discovering that Crowley had fathered an illegitimate child
with a Miss Zwee, a milliner in the Burlington Arcade.
[Lloyd's
Weekly News]
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- Horace Sheridan-Bickers,
in the presence of Crowley,
takes the Oath of
Probationer
in the
A∴A∴,
taking the motto "Superabo" (I will excel).
Crowley's later notes state "Sex-maniac. Went to
British Columbia. Corresponds occasionally.
[56]
[341] |
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Current Events:
- Rose Kelly
is 35 years old. |
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Location: 21 Warwick
Road, London.
- Reginald
Berti Haselden (Frater Animo non Astutia),
in the presence of Crowley, takes the
A∴A\ Oath of a
Probationer.
Crowley's notes later state "Passed to
Neophyte on 11 October 1912".
[341] |
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Location: 21 Warwick
Road, London.
- Rose Kelly
is told by a charwoman, Mrs. M. Danby, that Crowley
had a woman stay with him overnight at the 21
Warwick Road address on August 4.
[Daily News]
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Wednesday,
11 August 1909 |
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- George Raffalovich,
in the presence of Crowley,
takes the Oath of
Probationer
in the
A∴A∴,
taking the motto "Audeo et Gaudeo" (I dare and I rejoice).
Crowley's notes later state "Lunatick & sorely
vexed".
[56]
[341] |
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- Everard Feilding,
in the presence of Crowley,
takes the Oath of
Probationer
in the
A∴A∴,
taking the motto "Ut Seum Inveniam" (That I will meet with
God). Crowley's notes later state "Friendly, but can't work.
Never could".
[56]
[341] |
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Location: Maidenhead,
Berkshire.
- Crowley goes to
Maidenhead where he "spent three days in a canoe, chiefly in
the reach under the wier by Boulter's Lock"
on the Thames thirty miles west of London. In a sixty-hour marathon he writes
the poem "Aha!".
[56],
[249]
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Location: Maidenhead,
Berkshire.
- Crowley goes to
Maidenhead where he "spent three days in a canoe, chiefly in
the reach under the wier by Boulter's Lock."
[249]
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Location: Maidenhead,
Berkshire.
- Crowley goes to
Maidenhead where he "spent three days in a canoe, chiefly in
the reach under the wier by Boulter's Lock."
[249]
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Wednesday, 1
September 1909 |
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Tuesday, 7
September 1909 |
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Thursday, 23
September 1909 |
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Current Events:
- The
Fall Equinox. |
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Friday, 24
September 1909 |
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- Crowley publishes
The
Equinox Volume I, No. 2.
- Vincent Pantin, in the
presence of Crowley,
takes the Oath of
Probationer
in the
A∴A∴,
taking the motto "Sapere Aude et Tace". Crowley's notes
later state "An incurable fool and chatterer".
[341] |
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Saturday, 25
September 1909 |
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Monday, 27
September 1909 |
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Wednesday,
29 September 1909 |
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- Lilith Lourey,
in the presence of Crowley,
takes the Oath of
Probationer
in the
A∴A∴,
taking the motto "Corona Summa". Crowley's notes later
state "Died".
[341] |
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Wednesday,
6 October 1909 |
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- Crowley
is 34 years old. |
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Wednesday,
13 October 1909 |
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Wednesday,
20 October 1909 |
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Thursday, 21
October 1909 |
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- William John Adamson, in
the presence of Crowley,
takes the Oath of
Probationer
in the
A∴A∴,
taking the motto "Patientia et Perseverantia".
Crowley's notes later state "Communicates little,
but is presumably on the Path".
[341]
- William Wilson, in the
presence of Crowley,
takes the Oath of
Probationer
in the
A∴A∴,
taking the motto "Tibi Do". Crowley's notes later state
"Doubtful".
[341] |
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Location: Liverpool,
England & Pudsey, England.
- Herbert E. Inman
takes the Oath of
Probationer
in the
A∴A∴,
taking the motto "Amor Clavis Vitae" (Love is the Key to
Life).
[56]
Crowley's notes later state "Passed to
Neophyte
on 24 September 1910".
[341]
- Alfred Branson, in the
presence of Crowley,
takes the Oath of
Probationer
in the
A∴A∴,
taking the motto "Centrum in Centro Trigoni". Crowley's
notes later state "Went to Canada. Only object in
joining aptly to cure incontinence of Urine".
[341] |
Correspondence:
-
Crowley to
J.F.C. Fuller |
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Location: Cambridge
University, England. |
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Wednesday,
27 October 1909 |
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Thursday, 28 October 1909 |
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Location: 28 Beaumont
Street, Oxford, England.
- Crowley is at the Bodelian Library at the
University of Oxford to study the Manuscripts of Dr. John
Dee.
[Crowley
to Fuller] |
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Location: 28 Beaumont
Street, Oxford, England.
- Crowley is at the Bodelian Library at the
University of Oxford to study the Manuscripts of Dr. John
Dee.
[Crowley
to Fuller] |
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Saturday, 30 October 1909 |
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Location: 28 Beaumont
Street, Oxford, England.
- Crowley is at the Bodelian Library at the
University of Oxford to study the Manuscripts of Dr. John
Dee.
[Crowley
to Fuller] |
Correspondence:
-
Crowley to
J.F.C. Fuller |
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Location: 28 Beaumont
Street, Oxford, England.
- Crowley is at the Bodelian Library at the
University of Oxford to study the Manuscripts of Dr. John
Dee.
[Crowley
to Fuller] |
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Location: 28 Beaumont
Street, Oxford, England.
- Crowley is at the Bodelian Library at the
University of Oxford to study the Manuscripts of Dr. John
Dee.
[Crowley
to Fuller] |
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Wednesday,
3 November 1909 |
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Thursday, 4
November 1909 |
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Diary Entries:
-
Charles Stansfeld Jones |
Location: 28 Beaumont
Street, Oxford, England.
- Crowley is at the Bodelian Library at the
University of Oxford to study the Manuscripts of Dr. John
Dee.
[Crowley
to Fuller] |
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Location: 28 Beaumont
Street, Oxford, England.
- Crowley is at the Bodelian Library at the
University of Oxford to study the Manuscripts of Dr. John
Dee.
[Crowley
to Fuller] |
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Wednesday,
10
November 1909 |
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Thursday, 11
November 1909 |
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Saturday, 13
November 1909 |
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Wednesday,
17 November 1909 |
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Thursday, 18
November 1909 |
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Saturday, 20
November 1909 |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Algeria. (Map
of
Crowley's travel through Algeria)
- Crowley and
Victor
B. Neuburg
leave Talblat at 1:20 and reach Bir-Rabalou
[modern-day Bir-Ghabalou] at 6. They stay at the
Hôtel Rousseau.
[68]
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley
-
J.F.C. Fuller |
Location: Algeria. (Map
of
Crowley's travel through Algeria)
- Crowley and
Victor
B. Neuburg
leave Bir-Rabalou at 1:10 and reach Les Trembles an
hour later. After stopping for an Arab coffee at the
Café de la Démocratie they continue on to Aumale
[Modern-day Sour El Ghozlane]. 8 km outside of
Aumale they are picked up by M. Lesur, directeur of
the Bou-Saada road and reach Aumale about 4:00 P.M.
They stay at the Hôtel Grossat.
[68]
- While in Aumale Crowley and Neuburg visit a
whore house.
[68]
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Tuesday, 23
November 1909 |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley
-
Crowley - 28th Æthyr |
Location: Algeria. (Map
of
Crowley's travel through Algeria)
- Crowley and
Victor
B. Neuburg
spend a quiet day in Aumale [Modern-day Sour El
Ghozlane], playing billiards and such things as
playing footer with an old tin can, wrestling, and
boxing.
[68]
- In the evening Crowley and Neuburg
perform
the
28th Æthyr.
[68]
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Wednesday,
24
November 1909 |
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Thursday, 25
November 1909 |
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Saturday, 27
November 1909 |
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Tuesday, 30
November 1909 |
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Location: Chot el Hodna, Sahara Desert, Algeria.
- Crowley
writes the poem "The
Tent" at Chot el Hodna, a very shallow saline
lake in Algeria. Chot el Hodna can be seen on the
Map
of
Crowley's travel through Algeria. "The Tent" was
later published in the March 1910 issue of the
Occult Review.
[234]
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Wednesday, 1
December 1909 |
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Thursday, 2
December 1909 |
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Saturday, 4
December 1909 |
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Wednesday, 8
December 1909 |
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Thursday, 9
December 1909 |
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Saturday, 11
December 1909 |
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Tuesday, 14
December 1909 |
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Wednesday,
15
December 1909 |
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Thursday, 16
December 1909 |
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Saturday, 18
December 1909 |
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Tuesday, 21
December 1909 |
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Wednesday,
22
December 1909 |
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Diary Entries:
-
J.F.C. Fuller |
Location: Hotel Royal, Biskra, Algeria.
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Current Events:
- The Winter Solstice. |
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Wednesday,
29
December 1909 |
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Thursday, 30
December 1909 |
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