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Wednesday, 1
January 1947 |
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Diary Entries:
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Aleister Crowley |
Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. |
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Current Events:
- Mahatma
Gandhi begins a march for peace in East Bengal. |
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Wednesday, 8
January 1947 |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. |
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Current Events:
- Musician,
David Bowie is born. |
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Saturday, 11
January 1947 |
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Wednesday, 15
January 1947 |
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Saturday, 18
January 1947 |
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Wednesday,
22
January 1947 |
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Thursday, 23
January 1947 |
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Saturday, 25
January 1947 |
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Thursday, 30
January 1947 |
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Wednesday,
12
February 1947 |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. |
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Current Events:
- French
fashion designer, Christian Dior presents his first
influential collection of clothes. |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. |
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Current Events:
- The
"Voice of America" begins radio transmission to the U.S.S.R. |
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Wednesday,
19 February 1947 |
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Thursday, 20
February 1947 |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. |
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Current Events:
- The
first instant developing camera is demonstrated. |
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Tuesday, 24
February 1947 |
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Wednesday,
26 February 1947 |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. |
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Current Events:
- Musician,
Elton John is born. |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. |
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Current Events:
- The
first Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at the Port of
Eilat. |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. |
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Current Events:
- Anniversary of the
death of Crowley's mother,
Emily. |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex.
- Crowley
inscribes a copy of his book
Olla to
Frieda Harris with the inscription "To my dearly
beloved sister Frieda Harris from Aleister Crowley, June 7,
'47 e.v."
[Harry
Ransom Center, Austin, Texas (call number PR 6005 R7 O5 -
Copy 1)]
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex.
- Crowley
inscribes a copy of his book
Olla to
Gene Wood with the inscription "To Gene Wood / This
slight token of my appreciation / of her diligence &
efficiency / of Agape Lodge / and of her personal kindness &
devotion / from / [signature] Aleister Crowley / June 9, '47
e.v."
[434] |
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Current Events:
- Wilfred Talbot Smith
is 62 years old. |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. |
Correspondence:
-
Crowley
to John Symonds |
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Current Events:
- The
Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street is released. |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex.
- Crowley
inscribes a copy of his book
Olla to
Grady McMurtry with the inscription "To my dear friend
and comrade, Grady, with love from Aleister. June 13 '47 e.v."
[304]
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. |
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Current Events:
- The Summer Solstice. |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex.. |
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Current Events:
- The
AK-47 automatic rifle goes into production in the Soviet
Union. |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex.. |
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Current Events:
- Reports
are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New
Mexico. |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex.. |
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Current Events:
- King
George VI signs the Indian Independence Act. |
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Wednesday,
13
August 1947 |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. |
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Current Events:
- India
gains independence from Great Britain. |
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Thursday, 18
September 1947 |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex.. |
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Current Events:
- The
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) comes into existence. |
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Tuesday, 23
September 1947 |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. |
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Current Events:
- The Fall Equinox. |
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Friday, 26
September 1947 |
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Saturday, 27
September 1947 |
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Monday, 29
September 1947 |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex.. |
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Current Events:
- U.S.
President, Harry S. Truman makes the first Presidential
address televised from the White House. |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex.
- Crowley
is 72 years old. |
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Saturday, 18
October 1947 |
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Wednesday,
22
October 1947 |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex.
- Marjorie
Cameron
leaves New York and sails aboard the SS Queen Mary to
study art at the Academie Grande Chaumiere in Paris, France.
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Wednesday, 5
November 1947 |
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Tuesday, 11
November 1947 |
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Wednesday,
12 November 1947 |
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Tuesday, 18
November 1947 |
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Residence:
Netherwood, Room 13, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex.
- Today is
Crowley's 49th "magical" birthday—The anniversary of his
initiation into the
Golden Dawn on 18 November 1898. |
Correspondence:
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Crowley to Karl Germer
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Wednesday,
19 November 1947 |
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Thursday, 20 November 1947 |
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Saturday, 29 November 1947 |
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- Crowley dies at 11:30
a.m. The cause of death listed on the
Death Certificate is
myocardial degeneration and chronic bronchitis. Also noted
is that Crowley was a chronic heroin addict. |
Correspondence:
-
Vernon Symonds to Executor
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Wednesday, 3
December 1947 |
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Thursday, 4
December 1947 |
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- Crowley is cremated
in the cold, dark afternoon inside the crematorium chapel of
Brighton Cemetery. At 2:35 the coffin, strewn with flowers,
is borne into the chapel and placed on the bier. After
Louis Wilkinson
gives the opening declaration "Do what thou wilt shall be
the whole of the Law" he proceeds, per Crowley's request,
to read extracts from
The Book of the Law, the “Collects” and “Anthem” from
the
Gnostic Mass, the “Quia Patris” from “The Ship”, and
the “Hymn to Pan”
and finishes with "Love is the law, love under will".
- After
he takes his seat Patricia MacAlpine moves forward and
throws a spray of red roses on the coffin as it makes its
way to incineration.
[54] [The
story about Patricia MacAlpine placing flowers on Crowley's
coffin is contradicted by many newspaper articles of the
time. One example is provided in the
6
December 1947 edition of the Leicester Mercury
newspaper. "Amongst them was Mrs. Hilda Johnson, of
Leicester, a pretty young woman, exquisitely dressed in a
magnificent fur, who dashed forward to place a bunch of pink
carnations on the coffin as it was moving through the tiny
gates to the furnace at the crematorium."]
- Mourners present at the
service include Louis Wilkinson,
Johnnie Symonds,
Sylvia Thorn-Drury,
Gerald Yorke,
Frieda Harris,
John Symonds,
James Gilbert Bayley,
Patricia MacAlpine and
Aleister Ataturk,
Kenneth Grant,
Steffi Grant and Kenneth Hopkins (a friend of Louis
Wilkinson).
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Correspondence:
-
Karl Germer to
Ray Burlingame
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Meeting Minutes - Agape Lodge
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News Related to Crowley:
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Advertiser
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Courier-Mail
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Newcastle Morning Herald |
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Saturday, 6
December 1947 |
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Saturday, 13
December 1947 |
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Tuesday, 16
December 1947 |
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Wednesday,
17
December 1947 |
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Thursday, 18
December 1947 |
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Wednesday,
24
December 1947 |
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Saturday, 27
December 1947 |
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Tuesday, 30
December 1947 |
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