THE  ALEISTER  CROWLEY  TIMELINE

 
 
 

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— 1941 —

 

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

 

 

—  January  —

 

Wednesday, 1 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation with Sophie Burt to gain money. [43]

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 2 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 3 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation with Sophie Burt to gain money. [43]

 

 

Current Events:

   - Composer, Sergei Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances premieres in Philadelphia.

 

Saturday, 4 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Grady McMurtry

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 5 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Grady McMurtry

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Grady McMurtry takes Claire Palmer and "Foxie" [Marjorie Fox] to Wilfred T. Smith's place to see the Gnostic Mass.

 

 

 

 

Monday, 6 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

 

 

 

Tuesday, 7 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation with Sophie Burt to get The Book of Thoth out soon. [43]

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 8 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 9 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - 6,000 Jews are murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania.

 

Friday, 10 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - George Cecil Jones is 68 years old.

 

Saturday, 11 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Grady McMurtry

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Grady McMurtry spends the evening with Wilfred T. Smith.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 12 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Monday, 13 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Author, James Joyce dies.

 

Tuesday, 14 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 15 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Grady McMurtry, Claire Palmer, and Marjorie Fox attend the Gnostic Mass. [7]

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 16 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 17 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 18 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Grady McMurtry

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Grady McMurtry spends the evening with Claire Palmer.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 19 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Grady McMurtry

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Grady McMurtry spends the evening with Jack Parsons talking about "occult, pure evil, science."

 

 

 

 

Monday, 20 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Composer, Bela Bartok's 6th String Quartet premieres in New York City.

 

Tuesday, 21 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 22 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Karl Germer is 56 years old.

 

Thursday, 23 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley is fined Ł2 for a black-out offence occurring at his residence at 12.35 a.m. [Torquay Times, 14 February 1941]

 

 

 

 

Friday, 24 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 25 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 26 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Grady McMurtry

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Grady McMurtry attends the Gnostic Mass with Jack Parsons and Helen Parsons along with their friend Paul Friables. McMurtry takes the sacrament for the first time today. [304]

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

 

 

 

Monday, 27 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Louis Wilkinson

 

 

 

Tuesday, 28 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 29 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 30 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 31 January 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Grady McMurtry

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

—  February  —

 

Saturday, 1 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Karl Germer receives a visa allowing him to leave a French concentration camp and emigrate to the United States.

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

 

 

 

Sunday, 2 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Grady McMurtry

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Monday, 3 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 4 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley sees the movie The Great Dictator. [43]

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 5 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 6 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 7 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 8 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 9 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Monday, 10 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 11 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "Notes On a City." [304]

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 12 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

 

 

 

Thursday, 13 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 14 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Torquay Times

 

 

Saturday, 15 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Jack Parsons, taking the motto “Thelema Obtentum Procedero Amoris Nuptiae,” and Helen Parsons are initiated at 7:45 p.m. into the Minerval and I° degrees of the O.T.O. [56] 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 16 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Monday, 17 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 18 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

 

 

 

Wednesday, 19 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Grady McMurtry joins the United States Army. [304]

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 20 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - The first transport carrying Jews to concentration camps leaves Plotsk, Poland.

 

Friday, 21 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 22 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 23 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Plutonium is first produced and isolated.

 

Monday, 24 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 25 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 26 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 27 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 28 February 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

—  March  —

 

Saturday, 1 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- The Occult Digest publishes an article by Crowley entitled "The Dangers of Mysticism."

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Occult Digest

Current Events:

   - First publication of comic book hero "Captain America."

   - German troops invade Bulgaria.

   - Nazi, Heinrich Himmler carries out an inspection of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

 

Sunday, 2 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

 

 

 

Monday, 3 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 4 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 5 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Edward Crowley's death.

 

Thursday, 6 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 7 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 8 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 9 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Monday, 10 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 11 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Bill to lend money to Britain for the war effort.

 

Wednesday, 12 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 13 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 14 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley receives a letter from Karl Germer announcing that he was allowed to leave a French concentration camp and emigrate to the United States.

 

 

Current Events:

   - The Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies.

 

Saturday, 15 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 16 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Jane Wolfe

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Charles Cammell

   - Crowley to Louis Wilkinson

 

Current Events:

   - The National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C.

 

Monday, 17 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 18 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 19 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

 

 

 

Thursday, 20 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 21 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

   - Wilfred T. Smith to Crowley

 

Current Events:

   - The Spring Equinox

   - Jane Wolfe is 66 years old.

 

Saturday, 22 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Frederic Mellinger is initiated into the Minerval and 1° degrees, O.T.O. [7]

- Jack Parsons becomes a Probationer in the A∴A∴ under Wilfred Talbot Smith, taking the motto Thelema Obtentum Procedero Amoris Nuptiae. [7]

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 23 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

   - Crowley to Karl Germer

 

 

 

Monday, 24 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 25 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 26 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

 

 

 

Thursday, 27 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

 

 

 

Friday, 28 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Gardens, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley moves to Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon. This is to be his new Abbey of Thelema. [43], [56] 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 29 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Frieda Harris

 

Current Events:

   - Composer, Benjamin Britten's Requiem Symphony premieres.

 

Sunday, 30 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Monday, 31 March 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

—  April  —

 

Tuesday, 1 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 2 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Charles Stansfeld Jones is 55 years old.

 

Thursday, 3 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Friday, 4 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 5 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Louis Wilkinson

 

 

 

Sunday, 6 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Wilfred T. Smith

 

 

 

Monday, 7 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

   - Jane Wolfe

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 8 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Crowley receiving the Book of the Law.

 

Wednesday, 9 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Crowley receiving the Book of the Law.

   - Leah Hirsig is 58 years old.

 

Thursday, 10 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Crowley receiving the Book of the Law.

 

Friday, 11 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Frieda Harris

 

 

 

Saturday, 12 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 13 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Monday, 14 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe

 

Current Events:

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

 

Tuesday, 15 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 16 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 17 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Yugoslavia surrenders to Nazi Germany.

 

Friday, 18 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 19 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Composer, Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children premieres in Zurich, Switzerland.

 

Sunday, 20 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley and Grace M. Horner declare the following proclamation:

 

We, the undersigned members of the Abbey of Thelema at Barton Brow Barton Cross, declare ourselves completely satisfied with the conduct & conditions thereof during the passage of the Sun through Aries.

 

Witness our hands: [Aleister Crowley Knight Guardian of the Sacred Lance. Grace M. Horner]. [56] 

Correspondence:

   - Jane Wolfe to Karl Germer

 

 

 

Monday, 21 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

Current Events:

   - Greece surrenders to Nazi Germany.

 

Tuesday, 22 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 23 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

   

 

 

Thursday, 24 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley's doctor tells him to start using Cocaine--[Really ! ! !] [43]

 

   

 

 

Friday, 25 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 26 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Wilfred T. Smith to Crowley

   

 

 

Sunday, 27 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

   

 

 

Monday, 28 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "The Voyage Home."

 

   

 

 

Tuesday, 29 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 30 April 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation with Alice Florey for lust and the power of lust. [43]

 

   

 

 

—  May  —

 

circa May 1941

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Karl Germer

   

 

 

Thursday, 1 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

Current Events:

   - U.S. Savings Bonds go on sale to help finance the war effort.

 

Friday, 2 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation with Alice Florey for good health. [43]

 

   

Current Events:

   - Aleister Ataturk is 4 years old.

 

Saturday, 3 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 4 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley appoints Karl Germer as Sovereign Grand Master General of all Free German speaking peoples. [43]

 

   

 

 

Monday, 5 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley appoints Karl Germer as his personal representative in the United States.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Karl Germer

   - Crowley to Karl Germer #2

   

 

 

Tuesday, 6 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Wilfred T. Smith to U.S. Immigration

   

Current Events:

   - Comedian, Bob Hope performs his first USO show for the troops.

 

Wednesday, 7 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Glenn Miller records the song "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA and it becomes the first gold record.

 

Thursday, 8 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

 

 

Friday, 9 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

Current Events:

   - British intelligence at Bletchley Park breaks German codes after capturing German Enigma coding machines.

 

Saturday, 10 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

- Rudolph Hess flies from Nazi Germany and arrives by parachute south of Glasgow, Scotland.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess escapes to Britain.

   - The British House of Commons is damaged in an air raid.

 

Sunday, 11 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   

 

 

Monday, 12 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Louis Wilkinson

   

Current Events:

   - Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Adolf Hitler's deputy.

 

Tuesday, 13 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley flies into a rage when he sees a catalogue designed and written by Frieda Harris for the upcoming 7-21 June exhibit of her Tarot card artwork at the Nicholson Gallery in Oxford. [43]

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   

 

 

Wednesday, 14 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley is visited by Frieda Harris. [43]

- Crowley writes to the Secret Service to offer his services in questioning Rudolph Hess who had arrived by parachute south of Glasgow, Scotland, on 10 May 1941. [113]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Secret Service

   

Current Events:

   - 3,600 Parisian Jews are arrested.

 

Thursday, 15 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Wilfred T. Smith

   

Current Events:

   - Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music.

 

Friday, 16 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 17 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Admiral John Godfrey to Crowley

   

 

 

Sunday, 18 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

- Louis Culling takes both the Minerval and I° degrees in the O.T.O. [304]

 

   

 

 

Monday, 19 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Wilfred T. Smith to Crowley

   

 

 

Tuesday, 20 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 21 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   

 

 

Thursday, 22 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

 

 

Friday, 23 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 24 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

Current Events:

   - The German battleship Bismark sinks the British battle cruiser HMS Hood with 1,416 killed.

   - Musician, Bob Dylan is born.

 

Sunday, 25 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Louis Wilkinson

   

Current Events:

   - 5,000 people die in a storm at the Ganges Delta region in India.

 

Monday, 26 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   

 

 

Tuesday, 27 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

Current Events:

   - The German battleship Bismark is sunk by a British naval force.

 

Wednesday, 28 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Barton Brow, Barton Crow, Torquay, Devon.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

   

 

 

Thursday, 29 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Suncrest, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley moves to Suncrest. [43]

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Vancouver Daily Province

 

 

Friday, 30 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Suncrest, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 31 May 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Mrs. Thomas' Rockmount, Fore St., Barton, Torquay, Devon.

- Crowley moves to a room at Mrs. Thomas' Rockmount, Fore St., Barton, Torquay, Devon. [43]

 

   

 

 

—  June  —

 

circa June 1941

                        

 

- While Helen Parsons is on vacation with her mother, Jack Parsons begins having an affair with Helen's half-sister Sara Northrup. [307]

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 1 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Mrs. Thomas' Rockmount, Fore St., Barton, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Nazi Germany bans all Catholic publications.

 

Monday, 2 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Mrs. Thomas' Rockmount, Fore St., Barton, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Rolling Stone, Charlie Watts is born.

 

Tuesday, 3 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Mrs. Thomas' Rockmount, Fore St., Barton, Torquay, Devon.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 4 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Lawn, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

- Crowley moves to The Lawn, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire. [43]

 

   

Current Events:

   - The Republic of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter "Z."

 

Thursday, 5 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: The Lawn, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Calgary Herald

Current Events:

   - At least 4,000 people who hid in a tunnel die after a Japanese air attack on the Chinese city of Chongqing.

 

Friday, 6 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

- Crowley moves to the Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire. [43]

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Vancouver Sun

 

 

Saturday, 7 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

- Crowley finds out that the 7-21 June exhibition at the Nicholson and Venn Gallery in Oxford of Frieda Harris' Tarot card artwork has been cancelled by the gallery and moved a room at the Randolph Hotel. Although the original excuse for canceling the exhibition had been put down to "the War" Frieda Harris maintained that the cancellation occurred after Nicholson and Venn found out that Crowley was involved with the project. See the Catalog HERE. [43], [56] 

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 8 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

 

 

Monday, 9 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Wilfred Talbot Smith is 56 years old.

 

Tuesday, 10 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

- Crowley travel to London. [43]

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 11 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

- Crowley travel to Oxford to find out what is happening with Frieda Harris' exhibition of her Tarot card artwork. [43]

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 12 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Vancouver Sun

 

 

Friday, 13 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

- Sara Northrup, Grady McMurtry and his new wife Claire Palmer take both the Minerval and I° degrees in the O.T.O. at the Agape Lodge. McMurtry receives his first copy of The Book of the Law. [304]

Correspondence:

   - Meeting Minutes - Agape Lodge

   

 

 

Saturday, 14 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Charles Cammell

   

 

 

Sunday, 15 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

 

 

Monday, 16 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

 

 

Tuesday, 17 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

- The Vancouver Art Gallery presents an exhibition of thirteen oil paintings by Charles Stansfeld Jones. The exhibition last from 17 through 19 June. See Catalog for painting titles. [293]

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 18 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 19 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Vancouver Daily Province

 

 

Friday, 20 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: Thames Hotel, 1126, Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Vancouver Daily Province

 

 

Saturday, 21 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

- Crowley moves to 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire. [43]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Wilfred T. Smith

   

Current Events:

   - The Summer Solstice.

 

Sunday, 22 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Nazi Germany invades the U.S.S.R.

 

Monday, 23 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

- Crowley goes to London. [43]

 

   

 

 

Tuesday, 24 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

Current Events:

   - The entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy, Lithuania, is exterminated.

 

Wednesday, 25 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Finland declares war on the U.S.S.R.

 

Thursday, 26 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovnoe.

 

Friday, 27 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 28 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

Current Events:

   - German and Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev.

 

Sunday, 29 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

 

 

Monday, 30 June 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

 

 

—  July  —

 

circa July 1941

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Ethel Archer

   

 

 

Tuesday, 1 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

- Two poems by Grady McMurtry, "Ballet Sol" and "The Parish Parson", are published in the magazine Fantasia. [304]

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 2 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

- Crowley performs a magical sexual operation with Alice Florey for Thumbs Up! [43]

 

   

Current Events:

   - A Nazi mass murder in Lvov / Lemberg leaves 7,000 dead.

 

Thursday, 3 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

Correspondence:

   - Meeting Minutes - Agape Lodge

   

 

 

Friday, 4 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 5 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 6 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

 

 

Monday, 7 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Nazis execute 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania.

 

Tuesday, 8 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Jews living in the Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star.

 

Wednesday, 9 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 10 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

 

 

Friday, 11 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 14 Lassall Gardens, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 12 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley moves to 10 Hanover Square, London W.1. [43]

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   

 

 

Sunday, 13 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Monday, 14 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Unknown

   

Current Events:

   - 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at the Viszalsyan Camp.

 

Tuesday, 15 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Wilfred T. Smith to Crowley

   

 

 

Wednesday, 16 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 17 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Louis Wilkinson

   

 

 

Friday, 18 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Karl Germer

   

 

 

Saturday, 19 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign.

 

Sunday, 20 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "An Apish God."

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

   

 

 

Monday, 21 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   

Current Events:

   - Heinrich Himmler orders the construction of the Majdanek concentration camp.

 

Tuesday, 22 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 23 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- At 6:26 a.m., Crowley ritually publishes his book, Thumbs Up! A Pentagram - A Pantacle to Win the War [43]

Correspondence:

   - Wilfred T. Smith to Crowley

   

 

 

Thursday, 24 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Nazis kill the entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania.

 

Friday, 25 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 26 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Meeting Minutes - Agape Lodge

   

 

 

Sunday, 27 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Montgomery Evans

   

 

 

Monday, 28 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Tuesday, 29 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 30 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   

 

 

Thursday, 31 July 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

—  August  —

 

circa August 1941

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

 

 

 

Friday, 1 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Charles Stansfeld Jones presents a "large and handsome engraving of a religious scene by Rubens" to an art gallery.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Vancouver Daily Province

Current Events:

   - The first Jeep is produced.

 

Saturday, 2 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 3 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Monday, 4 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley sees the play Major Barbara and the movie I’m Nobody’s Sweetheart Now. [43]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Louis Wilkinson

   

 

 

Tuesday, 5 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 6 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 7 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

   

 

 

Friday, 8 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 9 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 10 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   

 

 

Monday, 11 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

   

 

 

Tuesday, 12 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 13 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Frieda Harris is 64 years old.

 

Thursday, 14 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Charles Cammell to Crowley

   

 

 

Friday, 15 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 16 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 17 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Edward Crowley's birth.

 

Monday, 18 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   

Current Events:

   - The German concentration camp Amersfoor opens.

 

Tuesday, 19 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 20 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 21 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Friday, 22 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley receives his copies of Thumbs Up! and begins sending them out to advance subscribers. [43]

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 23 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 24 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Monday, 25 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Tuesday, 26 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 27 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley and Gerald Yorke visit Cambridge where Crowley proclaims the Law from the High Altar of Trinity Chapel.

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 28 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Friday, 29 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley sends a copy of Thumbs Up! to president Roosevelt.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to President Roosevelt

   

 

 

Saturday, 30 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   

Current Events:

   - Winston Churchill approves a nuclear weapons program.

 

Sunday, 31 August 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

—  September  —

 

circa September 1941

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   

 

 

Monday, 1 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - J.F.C. Fuller is 63 years old.

   - Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Star of David.

 

Tuesday, 2 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 3 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley is visited by Ethel Archer and later plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

 

   

Current Events:

   - First use by the Nazis of poison gas Zyclon-B in the Auschwitz concentration camp on Russian prisoners of war.

 

Thursday, 4 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "Fort Mason."

 

   

 

 

Friday, 5 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 6 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   

 

 

Sunday, 7 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

 

   

 

 

Monday, 8 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - The blockade of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by German forces begins.

   - The entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is executed.

 

Tuesday, 9 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 10 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 11 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   

Current Events:

   - Construction of the Pentagon begins in Arlington County, Virginia.

 

Friday, 12 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 13 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley sees the movie The Reluctant Dragon. [43]

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "Changeling."

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   

 

 

Sunday, 14 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Monday, 15 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Tuesday, 16 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Adolf Hitler orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed.

 

Wednesday, 17 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Karl Germer

   

 

 

Thursday, 18 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Friday, 19 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley receives copies of his revised version of Thumbs Up! Five Poems by the Author of "The V Sign" and begins sending them out. [43]

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 20 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

   

 

 

Sunday, 21 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Monday, 22 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

   - Wilfred T. Smith to Crowley

   

 

 

Tuesday, 23 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley receives the Word of the Equinox. [43]

 

   

Current Events:

   - The Fall Equinox.

 

Wednesday, 24 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 25 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Friday, 26 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- The 10th Annual British Columbia Artists' Exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery presents an exhibition of oil paintings including one by Charles Stansfeld Jones entitled "My Brother". The exhibition lasts from 26 September through 19 October.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 27 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 28 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "Metrognome."

 

   

 

 

Monday, 29 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - The Nazi massacre at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine begins with 33,771 (mostly Jews) murdered.

 

Tuesday, 30 September 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

—  October  —

 

Wednesday, 1 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 2 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley sees the movies Tight Shoes and Hello, Sucker. [43]

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "Saturn."

 

   

Current Events:

   - Jack Parsons is 27 years old.

   - Paris synagogues are bombed by the Nazi Gestapo.

   - Nazi Germany launches an attack on Moscow.

 

Friday, 3 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley is visited by Frieda Harris. [43]

 

   

Current Events:

   - The film The Maltese Falcon is released.

 

Saturday, 4 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 5 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess in the evening with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

 

   

 

 

Monday, 6 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley is visited by Frieda Harris. [43]

 

   

 

 

Tuesday, 7 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 8 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - The building of the Birkenau Concentration Camp begins.

 

Thursday, 9 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess in the evening with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

 

   

Current Events:

   - U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic weapons program that would become the Manhattan Project.

 

Friday, 10 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley completes his first draft of Liber OZ. [369]

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 11 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 12 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley is 66 years old.

- Crowley plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

 

   

 

 

Monday, 13 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children and elderly people.

 

Tuesday, 14 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 15 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley travels to Moreton-in-March, Gloucestershire. [43]

 

   

Current Events:

   - The first mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe.

   - Hideki Tojo is appointed Prime Minister of Imperial Japan.

 

Thursday, 16 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley returns from Moreton-in-March, Gloucestershire. [43]

 

   

 

 

Friday, 17 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Naval Staff to Crowley

   

 

 

Saturday, 18 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Grady McMurtry is 23 years old.

 

Sunday, 19 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess in the evening with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

 

   

 

 

Monday, 20 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Tuesday, 21 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 22 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 23 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess in the evening with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

 

   

Current Events:

   - The Walt Disney animated film Dumbo is released.

 

Friday, 24 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Mr. Gossett

   

 

 

Saturday, 25 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - 16,000 Jews are massacred in Odessa, Ukraine.

 

Sunday, 26 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Monday, 27 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Tuesday, 28 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess in the evening with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

- Charles Stansfeld Jones, in a Letter to the Editor of the Vancouver Sun, expresses his displeasure in the award of the Stone Medal by the Vancouver Art Gallery to an incorrectly titled painting.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Vancouver Sun

 

 

Wednesday, 29 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 30 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Louis Wilkinson

   

 

 

Friday, 31 October 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - The Mount Rushmore monument in South Dakota is completed.

 

—  November  —

 

Saturday, 1 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Charles Stansfeld Jones writes a Letter to the Editor of the Vancouver Sun.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

News Related to Crowley:

   - Vancouver Sun

 

 

Sunday, 2 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Monday, 3 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley is visited by Frieda Harris. [43]

- Charles Stansfeld Jones, in a Letter to the Editor of the Vancouver Sun, expresses his displeasure in the award of the Stone Medal by the Vancouver Art Gallery.

 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Vancouver Sun

 

 

Tuesday, 4 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "Ego."

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 5 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 6 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess in the evening with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

- Crowley completes a mock up of his publication, Liber OZ. [56]

 

   

 

 

Friday, 7 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "Adeptus."

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Frieda Harris

   

 

 

Saturday, 8 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 9 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

   

 

 

Monday, 10 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Tuesday, 11 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 12 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "The Benediction of the Devil."

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   

 

 

Thursday, 13 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

 

   

 

 

Friday, 14 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley receives the proofs for Liber OZ from the printer. [43]

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   

 

 

Saturday, 15 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   

 

 

Sunday, 16 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Monday, 17 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Israel Regardie is 34 years old.

 

Tuesday, 18 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

  - Today is Crowley's 43rd "magical" birthday—The anniversary of his initiation into the Golden Dawn on 18 November 1898.

- Crowley completes the press proofs for his publication, Liber OZ. [56]

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 19 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 20 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

 

   

 

 

Friday, 21 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 22 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 23 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Monday, 24 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley mails Anti-Christmas [Liber OZ] cards to Karl Germer and Frieda Harris. [43]

 

   

 

 

Tuesday, 25 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley mails an Anti-Christmas [Liber OZ] card to James Bayley. [43]

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 26 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley mails an Anti-Christmas [Liber OZ] card to Maurice A. Sutherland and plays chess with him in the evening. [43]

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 27 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley is visited by Frieda Harris. [43]

- Crowley mails Anti-Christmas [Liber OZ] cards to Robert Cecil and Henry Swanzy. [43]

 

   

 

 

Friday, 28 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley mails an Anti-Christmas [Liber OZ] card to Alice Florey. [43]

- Grady McMurtry writes the poems "Witch" and "The Sorcerer."

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 29 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley mails an Anti-Christmas [Liber OZ] card to Peggy Bartlett. [43]

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 30 November 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley mails an Anti-Christmas [Liber OZ] card to Edward Noel Fitzgerald. [43]

- Crowley plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43], [113] 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald

   

 

 

—  December  —

 

circa December 1941

                        

 

 

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   

 

 

Monday, 1 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley mails Anti-Christmas [Liber OZ] cards to Gerald Yorke, CWR Nevison Capt., Edward Morrison, and Van Velden Rt Everett. [43]

 

   

 

 

Tuesday, 2 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 3 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 4 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   

 

 

Friday, 5 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 6 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "Requiem."

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 7 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "Now I Know."

Correspondence:

   - Manifesto to the Brethren of the O.T.O. in the Valley of Los Angeles

   

Current Events:

   - The attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

 

Monday, 8 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - The United States and Britain declare war on Japan. This marks the official entrance of the U.S. in World War II.

 

Tuesday, 9 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley travels to Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire to see Frieda Harris. [43]

 

   

Current Events:

   - China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy.

 

Wednesday, 10 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley is in Campden, Gloucestershire visiting Frieda Harris. [43]

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 11 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley is in Campden, Gloucestershire visiting Frieda Harris. [43]

 

   

Current Events:

   - Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.

 

Friday, 12 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley returns to London from Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire where he was visiting Frieda Harris. [43]

 

   

 

 

Saturday, 13 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 14 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

- Ray Burlingame takes both the Minerval and I° degrees in the O.T.O. and becomes a member of the Agape Lodge. [304]

 

   

 

 

Monday, 15 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Louis Wilkinson

   

 

 

Tuesday, 16 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 17 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - Louis Wilkinson is 60 years old.

 

Thursday, 18 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Friday, 19 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Frieda Harris to Crowley

   

Current Events:

   - Gerald Yorke is 40 years old.

 

Saturday, 20 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "Perturbations."

Correspondence:

   - Wilfred T. Smith to Crowley

   

 

 

Sunday, 21 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- At "9 3/4" a.m., Crowley sends a copy of Liber OZ to H.G. Wells, Lord Donegall, Ivor Back, Gerald Kelly, J.F.C. Fuller, Sir Keyes, FW Hylton, Lord Maugham, the Vicar of St. George's Church, Allchild Trade, and Esmé Percy. [43]

- Crowley plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

 

   

 

 

Monday, 22 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

Current Events:

   - The Winter Solstice.

 

Tuesday, 23 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Wednesday, 24 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Thursday, 25 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley publishes his first variation of Liber OZ.

 

   

 

 

Friday, 26 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe

   

Current Events:

   - Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.

 

Saturday, 27 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Sunday, 28 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

- Crowley plays chess with Maurice A. Sutherland. [43]

 

   

 

 

Monday, 29 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

Tuesday, 30 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   

 

 

Wednesday, 31 December 1941

                        

Diary Entries:

   - Aleister Crowley

Residence: 10 Hanover Square, London W.1.

 

   

 

 

 

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