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— 1926 —

 

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

 

 

—  January 

 

circa January 1926

                        

 

- Crowley writes the oath "L'ass-ommoir" for his Book of Oaths.

Correspondence:

   - Montgomery Evans to Crowley

 

 

 

Friday, 1 January 1926

                        

 

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - J.D. Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine

 

 

Sunday, 10 January 1926

                        

 

- Karl Germer and his wife Maria visit the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalù, Sicily, where they are met by Ninette Shumway. Although Germer is appalled at the living conditions there he and his wife stay until at least February. [56]

 

  

Current Events:

   George Cecil Jones is 53 years old.

 

Monday, 11 January 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Herald

   - Sun

 

 

Tuesday, 12 January 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

Correspondence:

   - Martha Kuntzel to Crowley

 

 

 

Thursday, 14 January 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

- Crowley requests that Jane Wolfe join him in Tunis, but she must pay her own traveling expenses.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

  

 

 

Saturday, 16 January 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Karl Germer

  

Current Events:

   Norman Mudd is 37 years old.

 

Friday, 22 January 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   Karl Germer is 41 years old.

 

Wednesday, 27 January 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Karl Germer

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

   - Dorothy Olsen to Montgomery Evans

  

 

 

—  February 

 

circa February 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Tom Driberg

   - Norman Mudd to Crowley

 

 

 

Wednesday, 3 February 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

   - Jane Wolfe (Notes on Dorothy Olsen)

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

- Jane Wolfe arrives in La Marsa. [50]

- The Occult Review publishes a letter from Charles Stansfeld Jones defending his book The Anatomy of the Body of God against an unfavorable review in the December 1925 issue.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Occult Review

 

 

Thursday, 11 February 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

- Crowley writes and/or publishes his broadsheet "The World Teacher to the Theosophical Society" on 11 or 12 February 1926.

 

  

 

 

Monday, 15 February 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Correspondence:

   - N.J.N. Foreman to Crowley

  

 

 

Wednesday, 17 February 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

- An exhibition of works by Stella Marks including a miniature portrait of Crowley goes on display through 24 February 1916 at the New Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. [more info]

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Age

   - Argus

 

 

Thursday, 18 February 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

- An exhibition of works by Stella Marks including a miniature portrait of Crowley goes on display through 24 February 1916 at the New Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. [more info]

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Table Talk

 

 

Monday, 22 February 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Karl Germer

  

 

 

Wednesday, 24 February 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Correspondence:

   - Norman Mudd to Martha Kuntzel

  

 

 

Sunday, 28 February 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Tampa Tribune

 

 

—  March 

 

Monday, 1 March 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to William Loftus Hare

  

 

 

Wednesday, 3 March 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Correspondence:

   - Stansfeld Jones to Frank Bennett

News Related to Crowley:

   - Daily News

 

 

Friday, 5 March 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Edward Crowley's death.

 

Sunday, 7 March 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - San Diego Union

   - Tampa Tribune

   - Times

 

 

Saturday, 13 March 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Washington Times

 

 

Sunday, 14 March 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Denver Post

   - New Orleans States

   - San Diego Union

   - Tampa Bay Times

   - Times

 

 

Tuesday, 16 March 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Comedian, Jerry Lewis is born.

 

Saturday, 20 March 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Evening Star

   - Washington Times

 

 

Sunday, 21 March 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture entitled "The Message of the Masters" at 8:00 p.m. at The Playhouse, 1814 N. Street N.W., Washington D.C. [Evening Star]

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Denver Post

   - Tampa Bay Times

Current Events:

   - The Spring Equinox.

   Jane Wolfe is 51 years old.

 

Monday, 22 March 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture entitled "Ideals as Incentives to Action" at 8:00 p.m. at The Playhouse, 1814 N. Street N.W., Washington D.C. [Evening Star]

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 23 March 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture entitled "God, Man and The Cosmos" at 8:00 p.m. at The Playhouse, 1814 N. Street N.W., Washington D.C. [Evening Star]

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 24 March 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

- Karl Germer and his wife arrive to join Crowley in La Marsa. [116]

- The 12 cases of Crowley's diaries, manuscripts, etc. that were been shipped from Italy and seized in July 1924, because they contained questionable items, are condemned in the High Court and are to be destroyed in accordance with the law. Some of the items seized included “Leah Sublime,” Crowley's “A Book of Photographs,” and thirty-three copies of Crowley's book The Scented Garden. [286], [56]

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture entitled "How to Make the Great Attainment" at 8:00 p.m. at The Playhouse, 1814 N. Street N.W., Washington D.C. [Evening Star]

 

  

 

 

Thursday, 25 March 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture entitled "Some Aspects of Initiations" at 8:00 p.m. at The Playhouse, 1814 N. Street N.W., Washington D.C. [Evening Star]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Martha Kuntzel

  

 

 

Friday, March 26 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture entitled "Making the Most of Your Opportunities" at 8:00 p.m. at The Playhouse, 1814 N. Street N.W., Washington D.C. [Evening Star]

 

  

 

 

—  April 

 

Thursday, 1 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

- The Occult Digest begins serializing Charles Stansfeld Jones' book The Chalice of Ecstasy beginning with Part I in the April 1926 issue.

Correspondence:

   - Ninette Shumway to Karl Germer

News Related to Crowley:

   - Occult Digest

 

 

Friday, 2 April 1926

                        

  

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

Current Events:

   Charles Stansfeld Jones is 40 years old.

 

Thursday, 1 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

Correspondence:

   - Ninette Shumway to Dorothy Olsen

 

 

 

Saturday, 3 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Washington Times

 

 

Sunday, 4 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture entitled "Magick, White and Black" at 8:00 p.m. at The Playhouse, 1814 N Street N.W., Washington, D.C. [Washington Times]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Henry Ford

 

 

 

Wednesday, 7 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

Correspondence:

   - Tom Driberg to Crowley

 

 

 

Thursday, 8 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Crowley receiving the Book of the Law.

 

Friday, 9 April 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

- Crowley publishes the rarest edition of The Book of the Law. It consists of photographic reproductions of the original sixty-five handwritten pages, housed as loose sheets in a maroon leather box; the title leaf was printed in red and black ink on handmade paper. He printed only eleven copies of this work, the first eight being presentation copies for Crowley, Dorothy Olsen, Leah Hirsig, Jane Wolfe, Karl Germer, Charles Stansfeld Jones, Otto Gebhardi, and student Dorothea Walker. Only three copies were for sale, one for each of three countries at £93, $418, and 2,542 reichsmarks. [56]

 

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Crowley receiving the Book of the Law.

   Leah Hirsig is 43 years old.

 

Saturday, 10 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Chicago Daily News

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Crowley receiving the Book of the Law.

 

Sunday, 11 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Tampa Tribune

 

 

Wednesday, 14 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

Current Events:

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

 

Sunday, 18 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture entitled "The Artists Soul" at 11:00 a.m. on the sixth floor of 65 Auditorium Building, Chicago. [Chicago Daily News]

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Denver Post

   - New Orleans States

   - San Diego Union

   - Times

 

 

Wednesday, 21 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Queen Elizabeth II is born.

 

Saturday, 24 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Chicago Daily News

 

 

Sunday, 25 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture entitled "Man's Nine Senses" at 11:00 a.m. at the 65 Auditorium Building, Chicago. [Chicago Daily News]

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Tampa Bay Times

Current Events:

   - Composer, Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot premieres in Milan, Italy.

 

Wednesday 28 April 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

- Crowley inscribes a copy of his book Rosa Mundi to Thomas Driberg with the following inscription "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law / The word of the Law is Θελγμχ [Thelema] / To Thomas Driberg / a slight token of esteem / from his friend—if he may say so— / Aleister Crowley / An 02 in 7° / [Opposition]   / die ii / The Lair of the Lion / La Marsa / Tunisia. [421]

 

 

 

 

Friday, 30 April 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

 

 

—  May 

 

Saturday, 1 May 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

- The Occult Digest serializes Charles Stansfeld Jones' book The Chalice of Ecstasy continuing with Part II in the May 1926 issue.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Occult Digest

 

 

Wednesday, 5 May 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 6 May 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Correspondence:

   - G. E. Pryor to Crowley

 

Current Events:

   Victor B. Neuburg is 43 years old.

 

Sunday, 9 May 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 12 May 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Composer, Dmitri Shostakovish's 1st Symphony premieres in Leningrad.

 

Tuesday, 18 May 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Correspondence:

   - Gregor A. Gregorius to Crowley

 

 

 

Thursday, 20 May 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

- Around the end of May Karl Germer leaves Crowley in Tunisia and travels to the United States. [27] 

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture entitled "Psychology of Beauty" at 8:00 p.m. at the Playhouse, 1814 N Street N.W., Washington, D.C.. [Evening Star]

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Evening Star

   - Washington Post

 

 

Friday, 21 May 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture entitled "Man's Nine Senses" at 8:00 p.m. at the Playhouse, 1814 N Street N.W., Washington, D.C.. [Evening Star]

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 22 May 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Charles Stansfeld Jones gives a lecture entitled "How to Obtain the Supreme Pleasure" at 8:00 p.m. at the Playhouse, 1814 N Street N.W., Washington, D.C.. [Evening Star]

 

 

 

 

—  June 

 

Tuesday, 1 June 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

- The Occult Digest serializes Charles Stansfeld Jones' book The Chalice of Ecstasy continuing with Part III in the June 1926 issue.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Occult Digest

Current Events:

   - Actor, Marilyn Monroe is born.

 

Friday, 4 June 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

Correspondence:

   - Charles Stansfeld Jones Legal Release of Crowley Books in Leonard Warehouse to Max Schneider

 

 

 

Wednesday, 9 June 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   Wilfred Talbot Smith is 41 years old.

 

Saturday, 12 June 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Karl Germer and his wife, Maria, emigrate to the United States. [56]

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 16 June 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

 

 

Monday, 21 June 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Statement re Traenker

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 22 June 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kiton, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

 

 

Current Events:

   - The Summer Solstice.

 

Wednesday, 23 June 1926

                        

 

Location: Seniat el Kitou, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Correspondence:

   - Martha Kuntzel to Crowley

 

 

 

Tuesday, 29 June 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Location: Seniat el Kitou, rue Massicault, La Marsa, Tunisia.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Martha Kuntzel

 

 

 

—  July 

 

circa July 1926

                        

 

- Crowley meets George Gurdjieff at his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau, France. Two accounts of the meeting between the two men exist from by Stanley Nott and James Webb. [321]

Karl Germer visits Detroit, Michigan to try to find a missing box of rare books and manuscripts that Crowley had shipped to America in 1914 and had been stored by Charles Stansfeld Jones at the Leonard Warehouses. See "Keeping the Faith" for the detailed story. [7]

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 1 July 1926

                        

 

- The Occult Digest serializes Charles Stansfeld Jones' book The Chalice of Ecstasy continuing with Part IV in the July 1926 issue.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Occult Digest

 

 

Saturday, 3 July 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

- Jane Wolfe and Dorothy Olsen leave Tunis traveling by boat. [208]

 

  

 

 

Sunday, 4 July 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

- Jane Wolfe and Dorothy Olsen arrive in Marseilles and go to Noailles where they find a room. They later eat at Basso's. [208]

 

  

 

 

Monday, 5 July 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

- Jane Wolfe and Dorothy Olsen leave Marseilles in the morning and stop at Carcassone to see La Cité. [208]

 

  

 

 

Tuesday, 6 July 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

- Jane Wolfe and Dorothy Olsen visit La Cité in the morning and then go on to Pau and spend the night at Mirador. [208]

 

  

 

 

Wednesday, 7 July 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

- Jane Wolfe and Dorothy Olsen reach Lacy at 1:00 and are met by Lorris Petit who drives them to his farm 6 kilometers from the station. [208]

 

  

 

 

Thursday, 15 July 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Tom Driberg to Crowley

 

 

 

Friday, 16 July 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 17 July 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Ninette Shumway to Crowley

 

 

 

Tuesday, 20 July 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Ninette Shumway to Crowley

 

 

 

Friday, 23 July 1926

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   Rose Kelly is 52 years old.

 

Tuesday, 27 July 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

 

Correspondence:

   - Ninette Shumway to Jane Wolfe & Dorothy Olsen

  

 

 

Wednesday, 28 July 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

- Jane Wolfe takes Dorothy Olsen to the doctor due to a problem with her gall bladder. [208]

 

  

 

 

Saturday, 31 July 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

- Jane Wolfe takes Dorothy Olsen to the doctor due to a problem with her gall bladder. [208]

 

  

 

 

—  August 

 

circa August 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Tom Driberg to Crowley

 

 

 

Sunday, 1 August 1926

                        

 

- The Occult Digest serializes Charles Stansfeld Jones' book The Chalice of Ecstasy continuing with Part V in the August 1926 issue.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Occult Digest

 

 

Thursday, 5 August 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Martha Kuntzel to Crowley

 

Current Events:

   - Escape artist, Harry Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1 1/2 hours before escaping.

 

Friday, 6 August 1926

                        

 

Location: Vuillemont Hotel, Paris, France. [233]

Correspondence:

   - Martha Kuntzel to Crowley

 

 

 

Saturday, 7 August 1926

                        

 

- Crowley is ejected from the Vuillemont Hotel, Paris, France, for non-payment of rent. [233]

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 10 August 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - James Driberg to Crowley

 

 

 

Thursday, 12 August 1926

                        

 

- Crowley arrives from Paris to join Jane Wolfe and Dorothy Olsen. [208]

 

 

 

 

Friday, 13 August 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Martha Kuntzel to Crowley

 

Current Events:

   Frieda Harris is 49 years old.

   - Cuban politician, Fidel Castro is born.

 

Sunday, 15 August 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Pittsburgh Press

   - San Antonio Light

 

 

Tuesday, 17 August 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Martha Kuntzel to Crowley

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Edward Crowley's birth.

 

Wednesday, 18 August 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

Dorothy Olsen goes on a "mad, ranting, raving explosion". [208]

 

 

 

 

Friday, 20 August 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

- Crowley leaves for Bordeaux (leaving Dorothy Olsen behind) and Jane Wolfe leaves for Villa Mirador, Pau. [208]

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 22 August 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

 

Correspondence:

   - Jane Wolfe to Dorothy Olsen

 

 

 

Monday, 23 August 1926

                        

 

Location: Hotel du Béarn, rue de Lille, Paris, France. [397]

Correspondence:

   - Ninette Shumway to Crowley

 

Current Events:

   - Actor, Rudolph Valentino dies.

 

Wednesday, 25 August 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Jane Wolfe

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 26 August 1926

                        

 

Location: Crowley moves from the Hotel des Ambassadeurs to the Atlantic, 12 rue Frochot, Pigalle. [397]

- Crowley performs a magical sexual act with "Methnian." [397]

 

 

 

 

Monday, 30 August 1926

                        

 

- Crowley performs a magical sexual act with Kitty von Hausberger. [397]

 

 

 

 

—  September 

 

Wednesday, 1 September 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   J.F.C. Fuller is 48 years old.

 

Friday, 3 September 1926

                        

 

- Crowley takes Margaret Binetti to a Chinese restaurant. [397]

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 4 September 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

 

 

  

 

 

Sunday, 12 September 1926

                        

 

Location: Montmarte, France.

Jane Wolfe arrives in Montmarte, France, and takes a room at the Atlantic Hotel where Crowley is staying. [208]

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 14 September 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Montgomery Evans

  

 

 

Tuesday, 21 September 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

 

 

  

 

 

Thursday, 23 September 1926

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   - The Fall Equinox.

 

Thursday, 30 September 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Montgomery Evans

  

 

 

—  October 

 

Saturday, 2 October 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   Jack Parsons is 12 years old.

 

Monday, 4 October 1926

                        

 

- Crowley performs a magical sexual act with Kitty von Hausberger with the intention of receiving cash from Dorothea Walker's "World Teacher" mission in England. [397]

 

  

 

 

Tuesday, 5 October 1926

                        

 

- Crowley performs a magical sexual act with Zaza Rachel Marguerite with the intention of receiving cash from Dorothea Walker's "World Teacher" mission in England. [397]

 

  

 

 

Wednesday, 6 October 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Karl Germer

   - Karl Germer to Montgomery Evans

  

 

 

Thursday, 7 October 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

 

 

  

 

 

Friday, 8 October 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

- Crowley is visited by Dorothy Olsen. [250]

 

  

 

 

Tuesday, 12 October 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

- Crowley is 51 years old.

Dorothy Olsen leaves Crowley. [250]

 

  

 

 

Thursday, 14 October 1926

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   - Author, A. A. Milne's book Winnie the Pooh is released.

 

Sunday, 17 October 1926

                        

 

- Crowley performs a magical sexual act with Zaza Rachel Marguerite with the intention of "Youth, Health, Energy." [397]

 

  

 

 

Monday, 18 October 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Montgomery Evans

   - Crowley to Karl Germer

  

Current Events:

   Grady McMurtry is 8 years old.

 

Wednesday, 20 October 1926

                        

 

- Crowley performs a magical sexual act with Zaza Rachel Marguerite. [397]

 

  

 

 

Friday, 22 October 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Montgomery Evans

  

 

 

Saturday, 23 October 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Saturday Review of Literature

 

 

Sunday, 31 October 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Escape artist, Harry Houdini dies.

 

—  November 

 

Sunday, 7 November 1926

                        

 

- Crowley performs a magical sexual act with Louis Eugène de Cayenne with the intention of "Rejuvenation" with Crowley remarking that "I have had more pep than I have had for months." [397]

 

  

 

 

Tuesday, 9 November 1926

                        

 

- Aimée Gouraud requests that Crowley perform a divination on the possibility of divorce from her much younger husband Price Mstislav Galitzine. Crowley incorrectly predicted that her release would result from her husband's death. [397]

 

  

 

 

Wednesday, 10 November 1926

                        

 

- Crowley performs a magical sexual act with twenty-eight-year-old photographer Berenice Abbott with the object being "Health and energy" and a trip to Egypt to "abstruct" the Stélé of Revealing; that is, to enact a ritual to release magically the "resistless" liberation of Woman. [397]

 

  

 

 

Wednesday, 17 November 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   Israel Regardie is 19 years old.

 

Thursday, 18 November 1926

                        

 

- Today is Crowley's 28th "magical" birthday—The anniversary of his initiation into the Golden Dawn on 18 November 1898.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 25 November 1926

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

 

 

  

 

 

Friday, 26 November 1926

                        

 

- Crowley performs a magical sexual act with Zaza Rachel Marguerite with the object of "Rejuvenation.". Crowley remarked of the event "worked very strangely. First exhaustion. Next a tremendous burst of energy. Last bad fatigue." [397]

 

  

 

 

Saturday, 27 November 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Composer, Bela Bartok's ballet Miraculous Mandarin premieres in Cologne, Germany.

 

—  December 

 

circa December 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Tom Driberg

  

 

 

Sunday, 5 December 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Ninette Shumway to Jane Wolfe

 

Current Events:

   - Artist Claude Monet dies.

 

Friday, 10 December 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   - The 2nd part of Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf is published.

 

Saturday, 11 December 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Dorothy Olsen to Montgomery Evans

  

 

 

Sunday, 12 December 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   - Composer, Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Piano Concerto premieres in Leningrad.

 

Friday, 17 December 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   Louis Wilkinson is 45 years old.

 

Sunday, 19 December 1926

                        

 

 

 

 

Current Events:

   Gerald Yorke is 25 years old.

 

Wednesday, 22 December 1926

                        

 

 

 

  

Current Events:

   - The Winter Solstice.

 

Saturday, 25 December 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Montgomery Evans

  

 

 

Friday, 31 December 1926

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Montgomery Evans

  

 

 

 

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