THE  ALEISTER  CROWLEY  TIMELINE

 

 
 

Home   |   Contact Us   |   Artwork   |   Acquaintances of A.C.   |   Audio   |   Correspondence   |   Diaries   |   Glossary   |   Library

Locations   |   Magical Mottos   |    Personal Remembrances   |   Photographs   |   Reference Sources   |   Word of the Equinox

 

— 1922 —

 

January   February   March   April   May   June   July   August   September   October   November   December

 

 

circa 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

The Way of a Virgin publishes a review of Victor B. Neuburg's book Songs of the Groves.

Victor B. Neuburg's book, Larkspur, is published.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - The Way of a Virgin

     

 

—  January 

 

Sunday, 1 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Rabbi Joel Blau publishes an article entitled "The Modern Pharisee" in the Atlantic Monthly to which Crowley replies with an article entitled "The Jewish Problem Re-stated" in the July 1922 issue of the English Review.

 

 

 

 

Monday, 2 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 3 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Leah Hirsig with the object being 'For 93 to rule Paida referred to on Thursday.' [84] 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 4 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Buffalo Times

 

 

Thursday, 5 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 6 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 7 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Leah Hirsig with the object being 'Natural Energy.' [84] 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 8 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Jane Wolfe

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

Helen Fraux, Ninette Shumway's sister, ends her stay at the Abbey and leaves today. [397] 

 

 

 

 

Monday, 9 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Testimony of Albert W. Ryerson

   - Jane Wolfe

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Leah Hirsig with the object being 'A prosperous campaign for the Law in our forthcoming journey to London, Paris, etc.' [84] 

Albert W. Ryerson provides testimony in the Universal Book Stores' Bankruptcy Case. [124]

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 10 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Frank Bennett

   - Stansfeld Jones to Crowley

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit Free Press

   - Detroit Times

Current Events:

   George Cecil Jones is 49 years old.

 

Wednesday, 11 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Mary Butts

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: Palermo, Italy.

- Crowley travels to Palermo.' [84] 

Correspondence:

   - Stansfeld Jones to Crowley

 

Current Events:

   - Insulin is first used in humans to treat diabetes.

 

Thursday, 12 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley returns to the Abbey of Thelema. [84] 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit News

 

 

Friday, 13 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Jane Wolfe

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Leah Hirsig with the object being 'L.X.V.' [84] 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit Free Press

   - Detroit News

 

 

Saturday, 14 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Jane Wolfe

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Leah Hirsig with the object being 'Energy in doing our Will.' [84] 

Correspondence:

   - Leah Hirsig to Frank Bennett

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit Free Press

   - Detroit Times

   - Detroit Times #2

 

 

Sunday, 15 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit Free Press

 

 

Monday, 16 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit News

Current Events:

   Norman Mudd is 33 years old.

   - Composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony premieres in London.

 

Tuesday, 17 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Bridgeport Telegram

Current Events:

   Actor, Betty White is born.

 

Wednesday, 18 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 19 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Leah Hirsig with the object being 'A world of spice and gold.' [84] 

 

 

 

 

Friday, 20 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Testimony of Albert W. Ryerson

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

Albert W. Ryerson provides additional testimony in the Universal Book Stores' Bankruptcy Case. [124]

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit Free Press

 

 

Saturday, 21 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- The Abbey is paid a visit by the police in search of drugs. They were "tipped off" by Ninette Shumway's sister, Helen Fraux. [84] 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Chicago Daily News

   - Detroit Free Press

 

 

Sunday, 22 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley goes rock climbing with Leah Hirsig and Howard Shumway. [84] 

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture on "Taoism—The Simple Way" at 11:00 a.m. in Washington Hall at the State-Lake building, Chicago. He gives an additional lecture on "Light on the Path" at 3:00 p.m. in Room 200. [Chicago Daily News] 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Austin American

   - Charlotte Observer

   - Detroit Free Press

Current Events:

   Karl Germer is 37 years old.

 

Monday, 23 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley goes rock climbing with Leah Hirsig, Howard Shumway and Hansi Hammond. [84] 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 24 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Leah Hirsig. [84] 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 25 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Leah Hirsig with the object being 'Intensity of Love.' [84] 

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture on "Destiny" at 8:00 p.m. in Room 200 at the State-Lake building, Chicago. [Chicago Daily News] 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 26 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit Times

 

 

Friday, 27 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Testimony of Bertha Bruce

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

Bertha Bruce provides testimony in the Universal Book Stores' Bankruptcy Case. [124]

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Arkansas Democrat

   - Detroit News

 

 

Saturday, 28 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

C. F. Russell arrives back in America after his stay at the Abbey of Thelema and his visit to Frank Bennett in Australia. [56]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit Free Press

 

 

Sunday, 29 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

    - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

 

 

 

Monday, 30 January 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

    - Aleister Crowley

Location: Palermo, Italy.

- Crowley arrives in Palermo, Italy. [84] 

 

 

 

 

—  February 

 

Wednesday, 1 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Naples, Italy.

- Crowley arrives in Naples, Italy. [84] 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 2 February 1922

                        

 

Location: Naples, Italy.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

  

Current Events:

   - Author, James Joyce's book Ulysses is published.

 

Friday, 3 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Naples, Italy.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with "Maria K." with the object being 'Ra Hoor Khuit.' [84] 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 4 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Traveling from Naples, Italy to Paris, France.

- Crowley departs for Paris.'' [84] 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Chicago Daily News

 

 

Sunday, 5 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Traveling from Naples, Italy to Paris, France.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture on "The Great White BrotherhoodWhat it May Mean to You" at 11:00 a.m. in Washington Hall at the State-Lake building, Chicago. He gives an additional lecture on "Buddhism" at 3:00 p.m. in Room 200. [Chicago Daily News] 

 

 

 

 

Monday, 6 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin. [56]

- Crowley arrives in Paris. [84] 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Cardinal Achille Ratti is elected Pope Pius XI.

 

Tuesday, 7 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with the object being 'invoke Ra Hoor Khuit.' [84] 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 8 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture on "The Magick Talisman" at 8:00 p.m. in Room 200 at the State-Lake building, Chicago. [Chicago Daily News] 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 9 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 10 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit News

   - Detroit Times

 

 

Saturday, 11 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Chicago Daily News

 

 

Sunday, 12 February 1922

                        

 

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture on "Do You Know the Nature and Powers of Your Own Being" at 11:00 a.m. in Washington Hall at the State-Lake building, Chicago. He gives an additional lecture on "The Value of Ritual" at 3:00 p.m. in Room 200. [Chicago Daily News] 

Correspondence:

   - Aleister Crowley's Will

 

 

 

Tuesday, 14 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris/Fontainebleau.

- Crowley travels from Paris to Fontainebleau and stays at the Hotel Au Cadran Bleu. He begins his attempt to withdraw from heroin and cocaine. [82], [84] 

Correspondence:

   - Stansfeld Jones to Crowley

 

 

 

Wednesday, 15 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Fontainebleau, France. Hotel Au Cadran Bleu.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture on "Occult Poetry" at 8:30 p.m. in Room 200 at the State-Lake building, Chicago. [Chicago Daily News] 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 16 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Fontainebleau, France. Hotel Au Cadran Bleu.

Correspondence:

   - C.F. Russell to Wilfred T. Smith

 

 

 

Friday, 17 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Fontainebleau, France. Hotel Au Cadran Bleu.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 18 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Fontainebleau, France. Hotel Au Cadran Bleu.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 19 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Fontainebleau, France. Hotel Au Cadran Bleu.

 

 

 

 

Monday, 20 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Fontainebleau, France. Hotel Au Cadran Bleu.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 21 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Fontainebleau / Paris, France.

- Crowley travels to Paris. [82], [84] 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 26 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Washington Times

 

 

Monday, 27 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Madeleine K [Halles] with the object being 'physical health and energy.' [84] 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 28 February 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with the object being 'health and strength.'  [84] 

 

 

 

 

—  March 

 

circa March 1922

                        

 

- Crowley inscribes a copy of his book Konx Om Pax "Private copy reserved for the City of Paris. An XVII in     in ". Additionally inscribed in the book are the details for his idea to open a restaurant in Paris called the Au Cul-de-Jatte [the legless person]. [354] 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

 

 

 

Wednesday, 1 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Record of Christian Work

 

 

Friday, 3 March 1922

                        

 

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - San Francisco Examiner

 

 

Saturday, 4 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with the object being 'health and energy.' [84] 

 

 

Current Events:

   - The first vampire film, Nosferatu, premieres in Berlin, Germany.

 

Sunday, 5 March 1922

                        

  

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

Leah Hirsig travels from Paris to London. [82], [84] 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Edward Crowley's death.

 

Monday, 6 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 7 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

Correspondence:

   - Leah Hirsig to Frank Bennett

  

 

 

Wednesday, 8 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

  

 

 

Thursday, 9 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

  

 

 

Friday, 10 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Mary Butts

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

Correspondence:

   - Leah Hirsig to Stansfeld Jones

  

 

 

Saturday, 11 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

Correspondence:

   - C.F. Russell to Wilfred T. Smith

  

 

 

Sunday, 12 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

- Crowley writes his last Will and Testament. [82], [83], [84] 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

  

 

 

Monday, 13 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

  

 

 

Tuesday, 14 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

- Crowley has dinner with Aimée Gouraud. [83], [84] 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

News Related to Crowley:

   - New York American

 

 

Wednesday, 15 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

- Crowley initiates Arthur Booth-Clibborn into the AA\ [84] 

 

  

 

 

Thursday, 16 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

- Crowley conducts two separate sexual magical operations with Jeanne Fernande and "Geogeo" in order to help him withdraw from Heroin and Cocaine. [83], [84] 

 

  

 

 

Saturday, 18 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

  

Current Events:

   - British magistrates in India sentence activist, Mahatma Gandhi to six years imprisonment for disobedience.

 

Sunday, 19 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

- Crowley conducts two separate sexual magical operations with Jeanne Fernande with the object being 'Energy to put over the Law.' [84] 

 

  

 

 

Monday, 20 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

  

 

 

Tuesday, 21 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to J.F.C. Fuller

  

Current Events:

   - The Spring Equinox

   Jane Wolfe is 47 years old.

 

Wednesday, 22 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 23 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

 

  

 

 

Friday, 24 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Aimée Gouraud with the object being 'To remove impurities from her body, take them into mine, and transmute them into nourishment.' [83], [84] 

- Crowley writes a sonnet to Leah Hirsig. [83], [84] 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

  

 

 

Saturday, 25 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

- Crowley receives the Word of the Equinox. [83], [84] 

 

  

 

 

Thursday, 30 March 1922

                        

 

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin. 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

  

 

 

Friday, 31 March 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Paris/Boulogne France.

- Crowley leaves Paris and travels to Boulogne to meet with Leah Hirsig on her return from London, England. While in Boulogne Crowley is arrested after being mistaken for G. L. Bevan, an absconding financier. [83], [84] 

 

  

 

 

—  April 

 

Saturday, 1 April 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Boulogne/Le Pré Catelan, France.

- Crowley leaves Boulogne and travels to Le Pré Catelan. [83], [84] 

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Leah Hirsig with the object being 'Collecting the nucleus of Law-givers.' [84] 

 

  

 

 

Sunday, 2 April 1922

                        

  

 

 

 

Current Events:

   Charles Stansfeld Jones is 36 years old.

 

Monday, 3 April 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Le Pré Catelan, France.

 

  

Current Events:

   Actor, Doris Day is born.

 

Wednesday, 5 April 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Le Pré Catelan, France.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Leah Hirsig with the object being 'to get our nerves etc in order for campaign for Law.' [84] 

 

  

 

 

Saturday, 8 April 1922

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Crowley receiving the Book of the Law.

 

Sunday, 9 April 1922

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Crowley receiving the Book of the Law.

   Leah Hirsig is 39 years old.

 

Monday, 10 April 1922

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Crowley receiving the Book of the Law.

 

Friday, 14 April 1922

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of the death of Crowley's mother, Emily.

 

Tuesday, 18 April 1922

                        

 

Location: Paris, France. Hôtel de Blois, 50 rue Vavin.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Lord Northcliffe

  

 

 

Wednesday, 19 April 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Camille with the object being 'to create Current.' [84] 

 

  

 

 

Friday, 21 April 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with the object being 'to create Current.' [84] 

 

  

 

 

Saturday, 22 April 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Camille. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Sunday, 23 April 1922

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - C.F. Russell to Wilfred T. Smith

  

 

 

Monday, 24 April 1922

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Wilfred T. Smith to Stansfeld Jones

  

 

 

Wednesday, 26 April 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

- Crowley conducts two separate sexual magical operations. The first with Camille with the object being 'to create Current.' The second with Leah Hirsig with the object being 'Current of Love towards 666.' [84] 

 

  

 

 

—  May 

 

circa May 1922

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

  

 

 

Tuesday, 2 May 1922

                        

 

- Crowley goes to London, England. [397] 

 

  

 

 

Thursday, 4 May 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: London.

 

  

 

 

Saturday, 6 May 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers. [250], [56] 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Chicago Daily News

Current Events:

   Victor B. Neuburg is 39 years old.

 

Sunday, 7 May 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture on "Living in the Sunlight" at 11:00 a.m. in Washington Hall at the State-Lake building, Chicago. He gives an additional lecture on "The Pentagram" at 3:00 p.m. in Room 402. [Chicago Daily News] 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

  

 

 

Monday, 8 May 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

  

 

 

Wednesday, 9 May 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture on "Unborn Tomorrow" at 8:30 p.m. in Room 402 in the State-Lake building, Chicago. [Chicago Daily News] 

 

  

 

 

Friday, 12 May 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

  

 

 

Saturday, 13 May 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley attempts to pay a visit to J.F.C. Fuller at the War Office only to be refused by Fuller with a note stating "Nothing Doing." [287] 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to J.F.C. Fuller

  

 

 

Sunday, 14 May 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Correspondence:

   - C.F. Russell to Wilfred T. Smith

  

 

 

Tuesday, 16 May 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Grant Richards

  

 

 

Wednesday, 24 May 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley meets with the publisher Grant Richards and offers him the opportunity to publish Crowley's memoirs. After Richards declines, Crowley offers him The Diary of a Drug Fiend. Richards then suggests that he contact the publishers Hutchinson or William Collins. [56]

 

  

 

 

Saturday, 27 May 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

  

 

 

—  June 

 

circa June 1922

                        

 

- Crowley writes the poem "Let Me Arise-and Freedom!". [376]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

  

 

 

Thursday, 1 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- The English Review magazine publishes Crowley's essay The Great Drug Delusion.”

- Crowley receives a Ł60 advance from William Collins & Sons, publishers, on the manuscript for The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [56]

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - English Review

 

 

Friday, 2 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

  

 

 

Sunday, 4 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- At 11.00 A.M. Crowley begins his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Monday, 5 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Tuesday, 6 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Wednesday, 7 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Thursday, 8 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Freeman's Journal

 

 

Friday, 9 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

Current Events:

   Wilfred Talbot Smith is 37 years old.

 

Saturday, 10 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

Current Events:

   Actor/singer, Judy Garland is born.

 

Sunday, 11 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Monday, 12 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Tuesday, 13 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Wednesday, 14 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

Current Events:

   - Warren G. Harding is the first U.S. President to use radio.

 

Thursday, 15 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Friday, 16 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Saturday, 17 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Chicago Daily News

 

 

Sunday, 18 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture on "Success is Thy Proof" at 11:00 a.m. in Washington Hall at the State-Lake building, Chicago. [Chicago Daily News] 

 

  

 

 

Monday, 19 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Tuesday, 20 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Wednesday, 21 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture on "The Solar Ritual" at 8:30 p.m. in Room 402 in the State-Lake building, Chicago. [Chicago Daily News] 

 

  

 

 

Thursday, 22 June 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley grants a charter to James Thomas Windram to found a new Order in South Africa under the name of 'The Order of Thelemites.' [84] 

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

Current Events:

   - The Summer Solstice.

 

Friday, 23 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Saturday, 24 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

Current Events:

   - Adolf Hitler begins a month long prison sentence for paramilitary operations.

 

Sunday, 25 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Monday, 26 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Tuesday, 27 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Wednesday, 28 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Thursday, 29 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Friday, 30 June 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley continues his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

 

  

 

 

—  July 

 

circa July 1922

                        

 

- Italian authorities begin investigating Crowley which eventually results in an Expulsion Order being signed on 13 April 1923 expelling Crowley from Italy. [261]

- Crowley writes the poem "I Want to Write a Poem Proclaiming the Confession of Every Star-Soul". [376]

- Crowley meets Raoul Loveday at a lecture held at the Chelsea home of Betty Sheridan-Bickers. [233]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

  

          

 

Saturday, 1 July 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- At 12.45 A.M. Crowley completes his dictation to Leah Hirsig of The Diary of a Drug Fiend. [84] 

- The English Review publishes Crowley's essays Percy Bysshe Shelley and The Drug Panic.”

The English Review publishes Crowley's essay "The Jewish Problem Re-stated" which is Crowley's reply to an article by Rabbi Joel Blau entitled "The Modern Pharisee" which was published in the January 1920 issue of the Atlantic Monthly.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - English Review

   - English Review

   - English Review

 

 

Monday, 3 July 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley delivers the manuscript for The Diary of a Drug Fiend to the publishing firm William Collins Sons & Co. Collins. Based on his work to date Collins pays him an advance of Ł120 to write his autobiography. [84] [56] 

Correspondence:

   - Leah Hirsig to Frank Bennett

  

 

 

Saturday, 8 July 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Alexander Harvey

   - Stansfeld Jones to Frank Bennett

  

 

 

Wednesday, 12 July 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Correspondence:

   - Stansfeld Jones to Crowley

  

 

 

Friday, 14 July 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley goes to Seaford in East Sussex. [84] 

Correspondence:

   - Leah Hirsig to Stansfeld Jones

  

 

 

Monday, 17 July 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers. 

Correspondence:

   - Leah Hirsig to Stansfeld Jones

 

 

 

Thursday, 20 July 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location:  Seaford in East Sussex. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Friday, 21 July 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location:  Seaford in East Sussex. [84] 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - New Witness

 

 

Sunday, 23 July 1922

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   Rose Kelly is 48 years old.

 

—  August 

 

Tuesday, 1 August 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

The English Review publishes Crowley's essays "The Visit of Mr. Mencken," and "The Crisis in Freemasonry."

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Bookman's Journal

   - English Review

   - English Review

 

 

Wednesday, 2 August 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

  

Current Events:

   Inventor, Alexander Graham Bell dies.

 

Friday, 4 August 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Correspondence:

   - Leah Hirsig to Stansfeld Jones

  

 

 

Sunday, 13 August 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Correspondence:

   - Leah Hirsig to Frank Bennett

  

Current Events:

   Frieda Harris is 45 years old.

 

Thursday, 17 August 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

  

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Edward Crowley's birth.

 

Saturday, 19 August 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley inscribes a copy of his book The Winged Beetle  to the three daughters of Austin Harrison. Crowley additionally inscribes 3 separate limericks in the book.

 

A young lady they called Josephine

Invented a talking-machine.

It met with disaster

For she could talk faster—

"Now really, that's awfully mean!"

 

A sneezing young lady named Monica

Said: Yes, I must take a strong tonic: a

Cold in the head

May turn, it is said,

To Dengue or Pestis Bubonica.

 

There was a bright spirit name Réné

Who said that the worst of the pain be

Suffered from was

Merely because

He was born so tremendously brainy.

 

Aleister Crowley

Sunday Aug 19 ' 22 E.V.

 

[357] 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 20 August 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Correspondence:

   - Stansfeld Jones to Crowley

  

 

 

Wednesday, 23 August 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

  

 

 

Thursday, 31 August 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

Correspondence:

   - Stansfeld Jones to Theodor Reuss

  

 

 

—  September 

 

circa September 1922

                        

 

Charles Stansfeld Jones publishes The Manifesto of the Psychomagian Society.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 1 September 1880

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

Current Events:

   J.F.C. Fuller is 44 years old.

 

Sunday, 3 September 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Charles Stansfeld Jones presents the lecture "Do You Realize We are Living in a New Aeon" at 11 A.M. at the Masonic Temple, located at State and Randolph streets in Chicago. [293]

 

 

 

 

Monday, 4 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 6 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 7 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 8 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 9 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 10 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 12 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 13 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley is in London, England.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

 

 

 

Thursday, 14 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Charles Stansfeld Jones

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Two soldiers come to the Abbey of Thelema asking for Crowley. [102]   

 

 

 

 

Friday, 15 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 16 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Brisbane Courier

 

 

Sunday, 17 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Charles Stansfeld Jones

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Charles Stansfeld Jones publicly pronounces the word PSYCHOMAGIA and states his intention of forming Psychomagian Society. [7]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to James Cabell

 

 

 

Monday, 18 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 19 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 21 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 22 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Charles Stansfeld Jones

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Correspondence:

   - Stansfeld Jones to Wilfred T. Smith

 

 

 

Saturday, 23 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Betty Sheridan-Bickers and receives the Word of the Equinox. [84] 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Mirror

Current Events:

   - The Fall Equinox.

 

Sunday, 24 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Charles Stansfeld Jones

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Charles Stansfeld Jones has the first public meeting of his new group the Psychomagian Society. He reports that he has 150 people present with 66 of them becoming associates of the group. [7]

 

 

 

 

Monday, 25 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 26 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 28 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 29 September 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

—  October 

 

circa October 1922

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Raoul Loveday

 

 

 

Sunday, 1 October 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

The English Review publishes Crowley's poems "Moon-Wane," "The Rock." and "To A New Born Child."

Pearson's publishes Crowley's article "Frank Harris: An Attempt at Appreciation."

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - English Review

   - English Review

   - English Review

   - Pearson's

 

 

Monday, 2 October 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Leah Hirsig returns to the Abbey of Thelema from London. [102]   

 

 

Current Events:

   Jack Parsons is 8 years old.

 

Tuesday, 3 October 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Correspondence:

   - Stansfeld Jones to Crowley

 

 

 

Wednesday, 4 October 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 7 October 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Brisbane Courier

   - Chicago Tribune

 

 

Sunday, 8 October 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a Psychomagian Society lecture on "The Miracle of Autosuggestion" at 11:00 a.m. in Parlors B and C of the Hotel Morrison, Chicago. [Chicago Tribune]

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 12 October 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley is 47 years old.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 14 October 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Charles Stansfeld Jones receives advance copies of his book Q.B.L.; or The Bride's Reception. [324]   

 

  

 

 

Sunday, 15 October 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Charles Stansfeld Jones officially joins the Universal Brotherhood. [324]   

 

  

 

 

Tuesday, 17 October 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

 

 

 

Monday, 18 October 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

  

Current Events:

   Grady McMurtry is 4 years old.

 

Thursday, 19 October 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Jurgen, a novel by James Branch Cabell, published on 27 September 1919, in Chapter 22, a parody of Crowley's Gnostic Mass. On 14 January 1920 Jurgen was declared obscene by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and banned. This set in motion a lawsuit in which Cabell was finally acquitted on this date.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 20 October 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 22 October 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

Charles Stansfeld Jones signs the Open Obligation form for the Universal Brotherhood. [324]   

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

  

 

 

Monday, 23 October 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

  

Current Events:

   Andrew Bonar Law becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

 

Wednesday, 25 October 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 26 October 1922

                        

 

Location: 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. Crowley is staying with Betty Sheridan-Bickers.

- Crowley signs a contract agreeing to let William Rider & Son publish his translation of Eliphas Levi's book The Key of the Mysteries. [132]

Correspondence:

   - Memo to Publish The Key of the Mysteries

 

 

 

Friday, 27 October 1922

                        

 

Location:  Crowley is traveling from London back to the Abbey of Thelema.

Correspondence:

   - Stansfeld Jones to Crowley

 

 

 

Monday, 30 October 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location:  Crowley is traveling from London back to the Abbey of Thelema.

 

  

 

 

Tuesday, 31 October 1922

                        

 

Location:  Crowley is traveling from London back to the Abbey of Thelema.

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

 

Current Events:

   - Benito Mussolini becomes premier of Italy.

 

—  November 

 

circa November 1922

                        

 

- Crowley's book The Diary of a Drug Fiend is published. [56] 

Charles Stansfeld Jones' book Q.B.L.; or The Bride's Reception is published.

 

  

 

 

Wednesday, 1 November 1922

                        

 

Location:  Crowley is traveling from London back to the Abbey of Thelema.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - English Catalogue of Books

   - English Review

 

 

Thursday, 2 November 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location:  Crowley is traveling from London back to the Abbey of Thelema.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Bruna Roonietti in Rome with the object being 'power.' [84], [250] 

 

  

 

 

Saturday, 4 November 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley returns to the Abbey of Thelema. [84] 

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Leah Hirsig with the object being 'physical well being for both.' [84] 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Moline Daily Dispatch

Current Events:

   - Archaeologist, Howard Carter discovers the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen in Egypt.

 

Thursday, 9 November 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Scotsman

 

 

Friday, 10 November 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley conducts a sexual magical operation with Leah Hirsig with the object being 'Book II of Alastor.' [84] 

 

  

 

 

Saturday, 11 November 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Mary Butts

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

 

  

 

 

Wednesday, 15 November 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- The Daily Herald publishes a review of Crowley's book The Diary of a Drug Fiend.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Daily Herald

 

 

Thursday, 16 November 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- The Times Literary Supplement publishes a review of Crowley's book The Diary of a Drug Fiend.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Times Literary Supplement

 

 

Friday, 17 November 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

 

Current Events:

   Israel Regardie is 15 years old.

 

Saturday, 18 November 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Today is Crowley's 24th "magical" birthday—The anniversary of his initiation into the Golden Dawn on 18 November 1898.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - John Bull

   - Spectator

 

 

Sunday, 19 November 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- The Sunday Express publishes a review of Crowley's book The Diary of a Drug Fiend.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Sunday Express

 

 

Wednesday, 22 November 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

 

 

 

Thursday, 23 November 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 24 November 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

 

Current Events:

   - The Italian Parliament gives Benito Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year."

 

Saturday, 25 November 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Daily Express

   - Nation

 

 

Sunday, 26 November 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

Raoul Loveday and Betty May arrive at the Abbey of Thelema in the evening. [56] Their fare is paid for by Robinson Smith, a retired concert agent whom Crowley had met at Austin Harrison's house at Seaford.

 

News Related to Crowley:

     - Sunday Express

Current Events:

   Cartoonist, Charles Schulz is born.

 

Monday, 27 November 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley, Raoul Loveday and Betty May spend the afternoon climbing the great Rock. [112]

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 28 November 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley and Raoul Loveday spend the afternoon playing a game of Thelema which resembles Rugby Fives but is played with an ordinary football; and any part of the body, from head to feet, could be used to get the ball up. [112]

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 30 November 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

     - Leeds Mercury

Current Events:

   - Adolf Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich, Germany.

 

—  December 

 

circa December 1922

                        

 

- Crowley writes the poem "I Love My Love with an L". [376]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Frank Bennett

   - Raoul Loveday to His Parents

   - Betty May to Raoul Loveday's Parents

 

 

 

Friday, 1 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- The Occult Review publishes a review of Charles Stansfeld Jones' book Q.B.L.; or The Bride's Reception.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - New Witness

   - Occult Review

 

 

Saturday, 2 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Daily Express

   - Outlook

 

 

Sunday, 3 December 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Raoul Loveday's Week at Cefalu

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Sunday Express

 

 

Tuesday, 5 December 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley invokes Bartzabel to avenge Ra-Hoor-Khuit. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Thursday, 7 December 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley invokes Amoun. [84] 

 

  

 

 

Friday, 8 December 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley conducts a magical operation with Raoul Loveday. [84] 

 

  

Current Events:

   - Allan Bennett is 50 years old

 

Sunday, 9 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Nation

   - Saturday Review

 

 

Thursday, 14 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- The Western Morning News publishes a review of Crowley's book The Diary of a Drug Fiend.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit Free Press

   - Western Morning News

 

 

Friday, 15 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

Correspondence:

   - Stansfeld Jones to Crowley

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit Free Press

   - Kalamazoo Gazette

   - South Bend News-Times

 

 

Saturday, 16 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Washington Herald

 

 

Sunday, 17 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit Free Press

Current Events:

   Louis Wilkinson is 41 years old.

 

Monday, 18 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit Times

 

 

Tuesday, 19 December 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- Crowley conducts two sexual magical operations with the object being 'physical well being and energy.' [84] 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit Free Press

   - Detroit Times

   - Minneapolis Star

Current Events:

   Gerald Yorke is 21 years old.

 

Wednesday, 20 December 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location:  Cefalů, Sicily, Abbey of Thelema.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 21 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Detroit Free Press

   - Detroit Times

   - Minnesota Daily Star

   - Washington Times

 

 

Friday, 22 December 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Stansfeld Jones

News Related to Crowley:

   - Washington Times

Current Events:

   - The Winter Solstice.

 

Saturday, 23 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Bridgeport Times

   - Detroit Times

   - Kane Republican

   - Minnesota Daily Star

Current Events:

   BBC Radio begins daily newscasts.

 

Sunday, 24 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Buffalo Courier

   - Richmond Item

   - Springfield Missouri Republican

   - St. Louis Star and Times

   - Tribune

 

 

Monday, 25 December 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Bookman

 

 

Tuesday, 26 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Bridgeport Times

   - Flint Journal

   - Minnesota Daily Star

   - Salem News

 

 

Wednesday, 27 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Albany-Decatur Daily

   - Bellville News Democrat

   - Buffalo Enquirer

   - Daily Advocate

   - Detroit News

   - Detroit Times

   - Evening Chronicle

   - Evening Journal

   - Evening Kansan Republican

   - Evening News

   - Greensboro Record

   - Indianapolis Times

   - Sandusky Register

   - Times of India

   - Washington Times

 

 

Thursday, 28 December 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Arkansas City Daily News

   - Detroit Free Press

   - Detroit News

   - Detroit Times #1

   - Detroit Times #2

   - Freeport Journal Standard

   - Herald Democrat

   - Jackson Citizen Patriot

   - Minneapolis Star

   - World News

Current Events:

   Comic Book genius, Stan Lee is born.

 

Friday, 29 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

- The New Witness publishes a review of Crowley's book The Diary of a Drug Fiend.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Daily Press

   - Dayton Daily News

   - El Dorado Republican

   - Lincoln State Journal

   - Tampa Tribune

   - New Witness

   - Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader

 

 

Saturday, 30 December 1922

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

Raoul Loveday is admitted by Crowley as a Probationer of the AA\ under the name Frater AUD. [84]  Crowley notes that Loveday joined the AA\ as a Probationer on 22 December 1922. [341]

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Greenville News

   - San Luis Obisbo Telegram

Current Events:

   - The creation of the USSR is formally proclaimed.

 

Sunday, 31 December 1922

                        

 

Residence: Abbey of Thelema, Cefalů, Sicily.

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Banner Herald

   - Bisbee Daily Review

   - Buffalo Times

   - Miami District News

   - Pittsburgh Press

 

 

 

Home   |   Contact Us   |   Artwork   |   Acquaintances of A.C.   |   Audio   |   Correspondence   |   Diaries   |   Glossary   |   Library

Locations   |   Magical Mottos   |    Personal Remembrances   |   Photographs   |   Reference Sources   |   Word of the Equinox