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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley
moves to the Park Lane Hotel.
[36] |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- While
walking down Praed Street in London Crowley stops to look in
the window of a Mr. Gray's bookshop at 23 Praed Street,
Paddington, and sees a copy of his book
Moonchild with
a sign saying "Aleister Crowley's
first novel
The Diary of a Drug Fiend was withdrawn from circulation
after an attack in the sensational press." Crowley sued the
bookseller for libel and was awarded £50 in damages on 10
May 1933.
[250],
[370] |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley visits his
attorney and begins a libel suit against a bookseller who
had advertised Crowley's book
Moonchild with a sign saying "Aleister Crowley's
first novel
The Diary of a Drug Fiend was withdrawn from circulation
after an attack in the sensational press."
[56] |
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Current Events:
- George Cecil Jones
is 60 years old. |
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Wednesday,
11 January 1933 |
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Saturday, 14
January 1933 |
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Wednesday,
18 January 1933 |
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Thursday, 19
January 1933 |
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Saturday, 21
January 1933 |
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Thursday, 26
January 1933 |
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Saturday, 28
January 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley
-
Aleister Crowley Amrita
Diary |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley's report of Week
I of his Purification. Asthma better, but not much so.
Nerves. Very much better. Sleep. Still very broken.
Stricture. Quite miraculously less. Digestion. Stomach
distended in spite of Urecidin.
[36] |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley
begins week II of his "Purification for the Elixir."
[36]
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Current Events:
- German
President, Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich
Chancellor of Germany. |
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Wednesday, 1
February 1933 |
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Thursday, 2
February 1933 |
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|
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
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Correspondence:
-
Charles Harper to Michael Sadleir
(Black
Magic Libel Suit) |
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|
Current Events:
- Two
days after becoming chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler
dissolves the German Reichstag (Parliament).
- Hermann
Goering bans communist meetings / demonstrations in Germany. |
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Saturday, 4
February 1933 |
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|
Location: Park Lane
Hotel. |
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News Related to Crowley:
-
Oregonian |
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|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley
begins week III of his "Purification for the Elixir."
[36]
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Wednesday, 8
February 1933 |
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Thursday, 9
February 1933 |
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Saturday, 11
February 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley
begins week IV of his "Purification for the Elixir." [36]
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne (Opus 4). [36]
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Tuesday, 14
February 1933 |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne (Opus 5).
[36]
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Wednesday,
15 February 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne (Opus 6). [36]
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Saturday, 18 February 1933 |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel. |
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Current Events:
- Artist
& musician, Yoko Ono is born. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley
begins week V of his "Purification for the Elixir."
[36]
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne (Opus 7).
[36]
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Wednesday,
22 February 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne (Opus 8).
[36]
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Thursday, 23 February 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne (Opus 9). [36]
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne (Opus 10).
[36]
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Saturday, 25 February 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne for money (Opus 11).
[36]
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley
-
Aleister Crowley Amrita
Diary |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne
against asthma-bronchitis etc. specially: for health and
strength in general (Opus
12).
[36]
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley
begins week VI of his "Purification for the Elixir."
[36]
- Crowley's report after 5
weeks of purification. "Sex-life v. actively restored—day
after 2nd dose Amrita. Stricture wholly gone. Asthma much
changed in character— distinctly better, but persists.
Thoughts all robust and juvenile e.g. I think naturally of
ski if it snows; I want to walk rather than ride etc., etc."
[36]
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne for health, especially bronchitus (Opus 13).
[36]
- Gerald Yorke
"clad in a magnificent sheepskin as coat and sleeping bag"
leaves for Jehol Province, China as Reuter's special
correspondent. |
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Tuesday, 28 February 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne (Opus 14).
[36] |
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News Related to Crowley:
-
Bookman |
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|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel. |
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|
Current Events:
- The
film King Kong premieres in New York City. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne (Opus 15).
[36] |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne (Opus 16).
[36] |
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|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley
begins week VII of his "Purification for the Elixir."
[36]
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with Marianne (Opus 17).
[36]
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel. |
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|
Current Events:
- U.S.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt conducts his first "fireside
chat." |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley
begins week VIII of his "Purification for the Elixir."
[36]
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News Related to Crowley:
-
Belfast News-Letter
-
Scotsman |
Current Events:
- Joseph
Goebbels becomes Nazi Germany's Minister of Information and
Propaganda. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Cromwell
Hotel, Hastings.
- Crowley goes to
Hastings.
[36]
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley begins week IX of his "Purification for the Elixir."
[36]
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|
Current Events:
- The Spring Equinox
- Jane Wolfe
is 58 years old. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
for health, etc.
[36]
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Park Lane
Hotel. |
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|
|
Current Events:
- Nazi, Heinrich
Himmler becomes the Police Commander of Germany.
- Nazi
Germany begins persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish
businesses. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Astoria
Hotel.
- Crowley
moves to the Astoria Hotel.
[36]
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Current Events:
- New
Nazi Anti-Jewish laws bar Jews from legal & public service. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Astoria
Hotel.
- Crowley
attends a demonstration arranged by
Nancy Cunard on behalf of the 'Scottsboro Boys,' nine
African American teenagers, ages 13 to 19, accused in
Alabama of raping two white women. When Cunard
requests that Crowley sign an appeal she is preparing, he
writes "Aleister Crowley. Scientific Essayist. This case is
typical of the hysterical sadism of the American people—the
result of Puritanism and the climate."
[370]
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|
Current Events:
- Anniversary
of Crowley receiving the
Book of the Law.
- Leah Hirsig
is 50 years old. |
|
|
Location: Astoria
Hotel. |
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|
Current Events:
- Anniversary
of Crowley receiving the
Book of the Law. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Astoria
Hotel.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with May Lewis.
[36]
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Current Events:
- Anniversary of the
death of Crowley's mother,
Emily. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Astoria
Hotel.
- Crowley begins week XII of his "Purification for the Elixir."
[36]
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|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Astoria
Hotel.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with May Lewis.
[36]
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Astoria
Hotel. |
|
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|
Current Events:
- Jewish
students are barred from school in Nazi Germany. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Astoria
Hotel. |
|
|
|
Current Events:
- Adolf
Hitler bans trade unions in Germany. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
|
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|
Current Events:
- Mahatma
Gandhi begins a 21-day fast to protest against British
oppression in India. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
- Crowley
is awarded £50 in damages in a libel case against a
bookseller. On 7 January 1933 while walking down Praed
Street in London Crowley stopped to look in the window of
Mr. Gray's
bookshop and saw a copy of his book
Moonchild with a sign saying "Aleister Crowley's
first novel
The Diary of a Drug Fiend was withdrawn from circulation
after an attack in the sensational press."
[250],
[370] |
Correspondence:
-
Crowley to
Isidore Kerman |
|
News Related to Crowley:
-
Evening Despatch
|
Current Events:
- The Nazis
stage public book burnings in Germany. |
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|
Current Events:
- Walt
Disney's short film 3 Little Pigs is released. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
- Crowley performs a
magical sexual operation with Lola Breton.
[36]
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|
Current Events:
- The
World's Fair opens in Chicago. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with May Lewis for success for his Sunday Dispatch
articles.
[36]
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- Crowley has lunch at the
Savoy Hotel while he answers a letter from
Gerald Yorke.
[108] |
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Location: The Queen's
Hotel, Leicester Square, London.
|
Correspondence:
-
Mary E. to Crowley |
|
|
Current Events:
- Nazi
Germany begins mandatory sterilization of people with
hereditary illnesses.
- All
non-Nazi parties are banned in Germany. |
|
|
Location: The Queen's
Hotel, Leicester Square, London.
- Crowley
performs a magical sex act with
Pearl Brooksmith at 40 Cumberland Terrace by Regent's
Park.
[370] |
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Location: The Queen's
Hotel, Leicester Square, London.
|
Correspondence:
-
Crowley to Wilfred T. Smith
-
Mary E. to Crowley |
|
|
Current Events:
- The
Vatican signs an accord with Adolf Hitler.
- In
London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.
- In
Germany, 200 Jewish Merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and
paraded through the streets. |
|
|
Location: The Queen's
Hotel, Leicester Square, London.
|
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|
News Related to Crowley:
-
Chicago Daily News |
|
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Wednesday,
16 August 1933 |
|
Wednesday,
23
August 1933 |
|
|
Location: 40 Cumberland Terrace,
London.
|
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|
Current Events:
- The
first televised boxing match.
- Mahatma
Gandhi is released from jail following another hunger
strike. |
|
Saturday, 2
September 1933 |
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Tuesday, 5
September 1933 |
|
Wednesday, 6
September 1933 |
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Thursday, 7
September 1933 |
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Saturday, 9
September 1933 |
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Sunday, 10
September 1933 |
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Monday, 11
September 1933 |
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Tuesday, 12
September 1933 |
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Wednesday,
13
September 1933 |
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Thursday, 14
September 1933 |
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Friday, 15
September 1933 |
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Saturday, 16
September 1933 |
|
Sunday, 17
September 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: 40 Cumberland Terrace,
London.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with
Pearl Brooksmith
for success in this week's work
(Opus 17).
[36]
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Monday, 18
September 1933 |
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Tuesday, 19
September 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: 40 Cumberland Terrace,
London.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with
Pearl Brooksmith
to consecrate her as the new Scarlet Woman
(Opus 19).
[36]
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Wednesday,
20
September 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: 40 Cumberland Terrace,
London.
- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation
with
Pearl Brooksmith
to put power in her hand
(Opus 20).
[36]
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Thursday, 21
September 1933 |
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Friday, 22
September 1933 |
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Saturday, 23
September 1933 |
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Sunday, 24
September 1933 |
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Monday, 25
September 1933 |
|
Wednesday,
27
September 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: 40 Cumberland Terrace,
London.
- Crowley performs
two magical sexual operations
with
Pearl Brooksmith
invoking the Essence of Godhead within the Scarlet Woman
(Opus 24 & 25).
[36]
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Thursday, 28
September 1933 |
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Friday, 29
September 1933 |
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Saturday, 30
September 1933 |
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Wednesday, 4
October 1933 |
|
Wednesday,
11 October 1933 |
|
Thursday, 12
October 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: 40 Cumberland Terrace,
London.
- Crowley
is 58 years old. |
|
|
|
Current Events:
- Criminal,
John Dillinger escapes from jail.
- Ganster,
"Machine Gun Kelly" is sentenced to life imprisonment. |
|
Saturday, 14
October 1933 |
|
|
Location: 40 Cumberland Terrace,
London.
|
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|
Current Events:
- Albert
Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi
Germany. |
|
Wednesday, 18
October 1933 |
|
|
Location: 40 Cumberland
Terrace, London. |
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|
Current Events:
- Grady McMurtry
is 15 years old. |
|
Thursday, 19
October 1933 |
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Saturday, 21
October 1933 |
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Wednesday,
25 October 1933 |
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Thursday, 26
October 1933 |
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Saturday, 28
October 1933 |
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Wednesday, 1
November 1933 |
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Thursday, 2
November 1933 |
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Saturday, 4
November 1933 |
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Wednesday, 8
November 1933 |
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Thursday, 9
November 1933 |
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Saturday, 11
November 1933 |
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Tuesday, 14
November 1933 |
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Wednesday,
15
November 1933 |
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Thursday, 16
November 1933 |
|
Saturday, 18
November 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
- Today is
Crowley's 35th "magical" birthday—The anniversary of his
initiation into the
Golden Dawn on 18 November 1898.
- Crowley performs
a magical sexual operation
with
Pearl Brooksmith
(Opus 59).
[36]
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Tuesday, 21
November 1933 |
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Wednesday,
22
November 1933 |
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Thursday, 23
November 1933 |
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Saturday, 25
November 1933 |
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Wednesday,
29
November 1933 |
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Thursday, 30
November 1933 |
|
Saturday, 2
December 1933 |
|
Wednesday, 6
December 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
|
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|
Current Events:
- The
ban on Author James Joyce's book Ulysses is lifted in the
United States. |
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Thursday, 7
December 1933 |
|
Saturday, 9
December 1933 |
|
Wednesday,
13 December 1933 |
|
Thursday, 14
December 1933 |
|
Saturday, 16
December 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
- Crowley
receives from George Mather, five letters stolen by Captain
Eddie Cruze from
Betty May to be used to discredit her testimony in
Crowley's libel case against
Nina Hamnett
and her book
Laughing Torso.
Crowley was later arrested on 22
June 1934 and eventually tried and found guilty
on 25 July 1934 for
being in possession of these stolen letters.
[36]
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Tuesday, 19
December 1933 |
|
Wednesday,
20 December 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Cumberland
Hotel.
- Crowley moves to the
Cumberland Hotel.
[36]
- Crowley performs
a magical sexual operation
with
Pearl Brooksmith
for health (Opus 74).
[36]
- Crowley pays George
Mather £5 for five letters stolen by Captain Eddie Cruze
from
Betty May to be used to discredit her testimony in
Crowley's libel case against
Nina Hamnett
and her book
Laughing Torso.
Crowley was later arrested on 22
June 1934 and eventually tried and found guilty
on 25 July 1934 for
being in possession of these stolen letters.
[36]
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Thursday, 21 December 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: Cumberland
Hotel. |
|
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|
Current Events:
- Fox
films signs actor, Shirley Temple, age 5, to a studio
contract. |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: 11 Cavendish
Court, Wigmore St.
- Crowley moves to
11 Cavendish Court, Wigmore St.
[36]
|
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|
Current Events:
- The
Winter Solstice. |
|
Saturday, 23 December 1933 |
|
Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: 11 Cavendish
Court, Wigmore St.
- Crowley performs
a magical sexual operation
with
Pearl Brooksmith
to strike terror into foes (Opus 75).
[36]
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Tuesday, 26
December 1933 |
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Wednesday,
27
December 1933 |
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Thursday, 28
December 1933 |
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Saturday, 30
December 1933 |
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