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ro. Jo p"m. Opus III, 3r-666-y. Operation: from-bath-born-rvonderful.
Elixir: well-mixed, much retained. Object: ideas for my work.
This operation rilas entirely successful, by the way, in checking any desire
for cocaine. At this moment I v'ouldn't take it if offered. I feel I have done a
man's day's work, and may sleep. In the main, it's the old story of Juliet
curing Romeo of Rosaline. 'Un clou chasse l'autre.' Also 'Satan finds more
mischief still for idle hands to go do'. It's curious fact, by the way, that my
enthusiasm for cocaine is a direct flower of my Puritan root-ancestry' It is
my abhorrence of the idle, useless, unprofitable, moment that pleads for
cocaine at my mind's bat. To me loafing is the'sin' par excellenca. I want to
serve God, or as I put it Do My S7ill, continuously: I prefer a yar's
concentration rvith death at the end than the same dose diluted in half-a-
century of futility. As some one says-I forget whom-I have 'The deliber-
ate prefetence for a short life anda gay one'. But on the other hand, I check
that preference, just as I ptefer natural to hothouse fruit. But, if my fruit
never ripened naturally, then hothouse, by all means, and damn the ex-
pense! I wish I could rely on the natural sun of fame and the natural rz:in of.
our occasional cheque!
rr.r;. I sum the Experiment. The cessation of cocaine caused me
appteciable symptoms: physical, either of reaction or deprivation; mental,
of undue preoccupation; 01 moral, of craving. I cut short the period of
'ordeal', but for an adequate purpose and in a rightly-calculated measure. I
adjusted means to end, and produced no trouble that simple natural
counter-irritation could not allay.
r7 July, h. S.lS a.m. I have had a long 'wish-fulfilment' (no doubt)
dream of being in rX/hineray's shop in London, and getting large quantities
of cocaine from him. I did not take any, save a grain on the tongue to test
the quality. I then dreamt of Jane Wolfe. I was with two other gids, one of
whom had a negro husband named Austin. He was in another section of
the train by which we were travelling. Jane was on this train; I found her
most immensely fat and white; she instantly produced a huge penisJike
organ. She said I couldn't have any coflnection with her but I was to do for
her what she actually did for hetself, which was to use the head to beat up
an egg in a bowl. She produced these. Though disgusted, I complied, she
masturbating me. Ptesently I realized that she was not Jtne at all. After
various incidents the real Jane turned up. The othet woman wanted to buy
me, but I was true to Jane and the other tv/o, whom I regtet I can't
rccognize.
The original Oedipus legend was that a Parsifal-Fool-Ghost was once the
o.wn child of the king whom he slew in the annual contest, and the curse
lay in the failute of the tribe to secure exogamous fertilization.
I got an idea for a child's book on Alice in lVonderland lines, with a teal
dream as plot, the aim to slay sire and wed dam always masked by the Dream
Censor, with his Protean theatre-vrardrobe, to operate the dream changes.
6.o5 p.m. Slept most of the morning; swam and slept most of the
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afternoon. At 5.3o Alostrael and I began the celebration of the Mass of our
Lord.l
By the way, Leah made notes of my last big night with cocaine. I took
doses, at fi.rst four, in fifteen minutes; then aftei lunch twenty-three doses in
three hours; after that no count was kept, but I went on till ,bont r.oo a.m.
as I suppose. This is not Science!
64o. r notice that the temptation to go on steadily with cocaine (in any
given orgie-orgia, religious experiments) is deeply subconscious, almost
like the need to breathe. If one is doing one's wort very fluently, one takes
1o1.-; { one stops for a moment, one reaches instinctivily for the bottle. In
Leah's list there are some intervals of only three minutes between doses, and
others of fifteen to twenty minutes. she herself connected this wide var-
iation with the length of the paragraphs dictated. The moment a new
thought is required, a new dose is demanded. It's just like trying to keep a
top spinning: one lash may by luck or skill send it faster and steadier than
another; but sooner orlater it falten, and there is nothing for it but another
stroke of the_whip . rf a rcar inspiration take hold of one, at any period, one
gray.forget the drug altogether, as if the v'hipping top *.t. changed by
Magick into a Dancing Dervish, or a star. rrrus, tast nigttt, Leah's .ir.rr.,
ousted her rival Borgia from my affections and my -.-ory in a very few
minutes.
I am inclined to the opinion that a state of mind such as that in which I
wrote The world't Trogtdl would do as much for me. But here is my rock of
stumbling: to wrire sucH A BooK, even with the Idea and the power
*1"?: and priapic in the brain, needs a third person in its Trinity, if the
deed is to be done. That Person is the conviction that the work is necessary,
important, all else in life at best a preparation for it. And that person is now
almost an exile from-my Kingdom. r can'r berieve that anything matters
-.o:. jry". anything else. I can eat and drink, love Leah, ,-i*, pl^y Fives,
with infinite zest. \xrhy ? Because I like to do so, and these tt ing, dorr'i
pretend to be more, or other, than they are. But I have the fixed idea that a
Book 'ought' to be a word of the Immoral Gods, mighty in Magick, ar
cetera, ad naa.reami and my very Initiation itself has taugirt me that the
universe is centred on each one of the rock-rooted bloomsif sea-nettle that
stung me this afternoon as much as on a Mahabrartma,z wefe there such an
oneas He. crurdely put, r cannot take myself seriously any longer. The way
of the Tao, of automatic reaction to impressions, not i'a"i"g abov!
another, has become my Path. I can write this Diary, firstly "rry
bJcause it is a
habit, brrt.secondly because I don't particulady .*p..t anytody to read it.
Formerly it was less to_express or edify myself than in the fiery hope that
others might take heed by -y efrors, courage at my succerr, urd come with
less pains to mine own initiation-goal, yea, and biyond it. But norv that I
have-come *1.t: (it may well be) few others of our monkey-transcending
race have trod, leaving ground of body, dared Daedalian io explore th!
1 Shaitan (Set) ot Aiwaz.
2 The Great God. Brahma is the creative aspect of the Hindu triad-Brahma,
Vishnu, Shiva.
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unmapped abyss of air-'Afloat in the aether, oh my God, my Godl'l
am no more. Earth's landmarks became unfamiliar as I soared; -I
clouds hid
them; soon Earth's self was but a pelletin the immensities that swallowed
me. All stafs til/ere seen to be but minute accidents of space, scarcely
deciphemble, utterly insignificant. History was but a lewd scrawl on the
blank wall of unintelligibility; philosophy but an idiot's gabble, science and
religious Autolycus-trash.2 As for myself! Indeed, I might declare myself
sole God, all-containing, all-creating, since this Universe was but a phantom
in my mind. But then being so blank-faced, brainless, it might blush before
the candle-and-turnip-on-sheeted-pole of schoolboy. Nay, more, as all
features faded in the twilight of my discrimination, and vanished in its
night, there was no more, nor form nor being, to be my Universe, and so to
constitute my 'Self'. From this great Dissolution I emefge, indeed, as 'twere
a man born blind, cured for a month, might sink again to his old wodd,
only to recognize how incomplete and unintelligible it is without sight's
explanation of its problems, and quite unable to accept the rvitness of touch
or hearing to the true charactet of. a phenomenon, or to imagine that a
four-sense-philosophy can be taken sgriously. Yet he, with his month's
light, seemed to add to his knowledge, even to aid his understanding. It
gave him one more touchstone to tell This from That. For me, far.
otherwise; in my initiation's vitriol all difference dissolved. A blank circle
means more to the geometer when he dtaws one or two diameters; they
help him to discover nev/ properties thereof; but if he could draw all
diameters, 'twefe a blank as at the first. And even if the blind man, taking
himself seriously, might hope to help his fellow-folk of Darkness by the
explanations gained in his month's light, can I do so, who know that my
v-hole gain is loss ? I knovr that Buddha is no more than a dead lotusJeaf,
nay more, none othef. I know the Path of the Wise one with a blind alley,
John I(eats no holier thana drunkard cursing.
(8.4o. After an interval for two sets of Fives.)
So then there is no reason why I should not do anything which is
evidently my nafure or will to do; but to make an effort to 'sacrifice the
lower to the higher', or 'self to Humanity', is absurd when the victim is also
the god. 'lfork without lust of result' says Tlte Book of the l-aw. It sounded
hard. Now I know that no result is possible, that lusr dies ashen; but why
work? Blavatsky, too! 'Kill out ambition; but work as those who have
ambition.' But she offers a prize: humanity's enlightenment. It tempted me,
be sure; I gave all for that,'twas my Pearl of Great Price. Andloltisno
more than Fame's stage tinsel, Wealth's Shahravah-coin of leather, or
Love's Nessus-shirt.
r A quotation from the Holy look, Liber LXV entitled The Book of tbe Heart
Girt ntitb the Serpent,fitst published in Tlte Eqainax, volume rrr, number-r, Detroit,
r9r9. This work was transmitted to Crowley by Aiwass, his Holy Guardian
Angel.
2 Autolycus 'surpassed all men in thievery and swearing'. Tbe Oxford Clatsical
Dictionary.
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__The only answer to all-this appears to be my Montaukr demonstration of
How A could increase withouiceasing to be A ty r,r with B,
C . . . Z and so on. 01, how. my invioli'bly perfect, my ""-ui"rtion
i"f"rii., _y immortal
soul, could y:t profit by exchanging its Rest fot anorbit of Incatnations.
But since then I seem to have be"ome so conscious of A, so sure of its
identity with B ""d,lj o,the1s, that the.game seems absurd, like trying to
play whist vdth blank cards, three dummil (or even fou;t;;,"1.r, and for
no.points. r suppose that this is a natural staie of mind for A to have; A is a
universal-proposition 'All s is p' which means nothing as soon as it is
proved, since P becomes implicit in the definition of s. A'i$;efined only by
infinities and contradictionsf lke Shiva or The Tao; trrererore a is Notrring,
to it-self.91 1o 3.nf1hing else, as pure A. That, no joubt, i, ;n; it .or*p?,
itself with B. It thus.finds a mianing for itself. (Kether i, ,oiourl.ss, not
even white, brilliance.)
ro.ro. Have taken the forty-four of the'K without the Hs, for set.
ro.r5. I conclude that I shall either deliberately defile A with B and thus
regain the illusion that my work is important, oi dir.orr.r that a[ this while
I have been working better than I knew.
After all this, the truth is miserably perty; but out Thou, stark virgin,
from Thy well!
she smiles; 'You would be satisfied and proud and. passionate, eager to
do more and better, if only_that cheap btok.rr. or'-"rp.i -ooa
blistered paint with knobless dravrers ani cracked glasses h^i o., its "ra
sherves
a few new volumes nicely printed, neatly boundl "f *h; yo" call your
Iilorks.'
-'Truth! dare you say I am so vain a thing as that? That I am still a
schoolboy eager to reach the Sixth, and see his-name in the school list with
his that won a scholarship at Trinity, and his that took trr. ptir. r"r;;;
verse with dull wooden iambics that none shall ever read but the Exarniner
who judged them?'
T.*rl smiles again: lvanitn ari is vanity! you'd cut your name in the
rotting bark of the dead rree of Fame that's lost in the jungle of Rumout;
but there are Those who wil not hold thee shamed tn^t tf,oo hast prayed
Bank Holiday -Tnpper,. intrud-ed thy cognomen upon Nature, or pur pol_
lution upon hallowed places, if for thy fei-row-scribblers thou h"s A.s"hyios,
Laotze, Catullus, Baudelaire, Heine, Shakespeare, I(eats, Blake, naUetais,
Ibsen, Nietzsche, Balzac,and James Branch Cabell.,
'v-uyq ay ! vanity, vanity of vanities ! But as I rured thee to seek me, not
careful of the risk, not haggrer of the cost, by bloated promises that thine
gwn swg-rd soon pierced, pigs' bradders iworlen with foul wind of
Fame, with Nitrous oxide of Knowledge or even with poison Gas of Love,
so do I tell thee now that the_boy's v"nity is worth my maiden Truth, ani
thou shalt envy Shelley, 3lg ousting him, challeng. fit Marfowe, and
outroar him, insult John Milton, and out-thunder h-im, nay, match thine
;# New Hampshire, U.S.A., where Crowley experienced the .Stat_Sponge,
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eagle-vision against Blake's, outstare him, and violate the Muse of
Swinburne, that she acknowledges thee her Lord even in the faming bed
that scorched his limbs, and sent him lirnping to the Southey-rJfordsworth
Hospital for Incurable Poets, Icarus Street, Eunuch Square, \V.C.'
18 July, O. r.eo a.m. Opus IY,3t-666-3r plus everything. Operation:
indescribably gte t: began at 6.3o a.m. of Saturday. Elixir: immensely
copious, churned almost to foam. Object: to celebrate the Mass of Our
Lord.
r.3o. Stopped cocaine. z.ro. Talking to Leah; took a doch 'an doris.
2.3 5. Still talking. I note: Knowledge is based on discdmination, in evety
case. To distinguish this from that is our first step. More, knowledge of
even one thing other than the knower implies discrimination between this
and that; the dyad. Now moreover, Knowledge is the enemy of Life, ay,
and of Love. Science has added knowledge to man, and made his life
worthless to him, were it only by denying geocentricity and finding the
source of teligious fable.
Now, like my blind man (an hour orso ago) we might have a geometet in
Flatland explaining ptoblems like the cause of the appearance of a point
which widened into constantly increasing circles and then diminished again
by 'discovering' a Third Dimension containing a sphere which passed
through Flatland's plane. We did have Hintonl to explain some three
dimensional puzzles by assuming a fourth, and Ball2 to make gravitation
and certain physical laws intelligible in the same way. But the Flatlanders
knocked their geometer out of shape, and men should have crucified Ball
and Hinton; for if cubes be, planes ate but mathematical conventions
without real existence; and if tessaracts exist, solids are but their imaginary
boundarics; like the Equator, real only on paper. A little knowledge is
indeed a dangerous thing, for it aids men to tell this from that, even as
sight, organ of knowledge, marks the red rose from the white, and as
headng profanes holy silence, vibrates its this-and-that which ends in
Babel-discord. But ask Initiation-Knowledge, the vrheel spins to Zerol our
cobwebs of discrimination that man's mind, the venomous spider in his
kingly pa)ace, spun, is sviept by the first whisk of Isis' broom into the dust
heap of oblivion. So, thinking to increase Knowledge, we destroy it; we
have tried to tie knots in a rope with ends fixed. We admire the ingenuity,
wonder at the complexiry, add one, and the whole tangle of fool's knot
ravels out. lVhen I destroyed discrimination, as f was bidden in Tbe Book of
the l-aw, I destroyed Knowledge; and having destroyed Life's enemy,
Love's murderer, my complex is made simple; I can live again, love again,
vdth the sublime ignorance of the wise Serpent who ate not the fruit he
praised, with the blind passion of fire, that sees not its own light, nor feels its
1 Chatles Hovratd Hinton, Tbe Fourtb Dimension, t9o4,
2 Walter \Tilliam Rouse Ball, author of Matbenatical Recreations and Problens of
Past and Present Times, :^892, A Primer of the lfistory of Matltematics, r89J, and other
works.
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heat, yea, let me say it, I can livemy life, can love my Leah, with the superb
unconsciousness of a Star, with the supreme absorption of a God.
. t.oo a.m. Opus Y, 3r-666-jr. Operation: very prolonged climax: very
intense indeed. Elixir: copious etc., as in opus lv. otlectr as opus IV.
This left me as enthusiastic as ever. we wenion again about 7*7.i but to
no insrant end. our Lord appeared to me and told me things. ;Thi.rgs orrly
exist by virtue of their opposites,' said He. 'Therefore I no more than
God of your illusory limitations, I express your "m
preferences as man and
woman. so I am the true God of your wotk as you have now come to
understand it and you did well to invoke me, and I am with you.,
The day passed in Fives, sleep, diving. Telegram from Jane: from Tunis,
zrst. New Moon-this time clear!
r9 July, v. cash balance about 8z,ooo lire. A long lovely bathe-climb
with Leah out to the Caldura tip.
9.tt p.m. I took one sniffof Cocaine before and one after supper. V.ry
strong effect, but no 'need' to go on, because there were -'ihiogr to
do'-visit from the Baron etc.
ro.r7. In view of recent Alostrael developments, I feel justified in asking
a new symbol for Jane wolfe. Kteis of Air. sltang. Kind of
volatizes her, r suppose. Symbol for my meeting her and its
==. material
consequences: Moon of Fire, Kun, rrr. This is the First Departure from r
ar'd z, the struggling plant-stalk. I think
- it means that there will be all sorts
of a mess at first: Moon of glamour and unbalanced fire of blind desires.
This leads to various violences and apparcnt failure to get aqry result.
Alostrael reads this chapter thus-she's coming for purpoies of learning
N{agick. \we can make some base use of her, but no magical use. Symbol oT
a Magick operation to improve this. Earth of Fire. yes:
control event! rx/hat will be the material result of thus
-, -".ffifras
caused by our work? Lingam of water. Li, a sinple -.
straighiforwatd plan
only needing fi.rmness and caution and ending in pleased satisfaction. It is
the begetting of fertility, or initiation of a prosperous venture.
Shall we buy real.stat. in Cefalu? *, Fang. Fire of Sun. Large,
abundant! w&rat should be its physi.ffi,.ristics? rffater of Lingam.
Leah says: in a high place. I say: v/ater around it, and phallus, a pinnacle.
This fits the caldura like a glove; its promontory is washed by the sea for at
least two thirds of it, and it has magnificently phallic rocks.
Symbol for David Ross in connection with building a temple on this site.
Sun of Lingam. Ta Yu! He ought to build it of turquoise and lapis lazuli!
rr.2t p.m. I now proceed to execution of Opus VL There was a
preliminary directly following opus v, some small work during yesterday
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lustration, of S[cadet] W[oman] on the shore, and a sacrament of Bread
before supper. We have taken a little Snow and Brandy.
zo July, d. r.4o a.m. Opus YI, 1r-666-3r. Operation: Feminine, poor
lance-wood, but intense rvill. Climax prolonged and almost agonizing.
Elixir: quality excellent, quantity small. Object: as above stated.
r.4j I note that Cocaine first excites imagination and apparently
^.m.
(Leah confirms this) confers a quite peculiar point of view, with a strangely
intense and almost drunken pleasure equally unknown to those who have
not taken it. This point of view seems to be that of the animal-
subconscious; it owns no censof, moral or mental, and may be cdminal or
insane v'ithout qualm. It possesses one, like the 'devil' in the old patho-
logies. (Perhaps these describe and explain facts as well as or better than, the
new.) In me, of course, such tendencies are rudimentary; and the mental
and moral inhibitions would cry 'Halt ! V4eo goes there ?' if I proceeded to
extetnalize one such ol to translate it into action; because to do so would
need the use of faculties which the sentries Prudence, Righteousness,
Honour (and so on) guard for the KinglSelf by Marshall True-Will's order.
But the point of view, unless thus rashly rousing sleeping dogs, is uttedy
irresponsible. I might, for example, wish to drain the blood of mankind into
one lake for Leah to swim in, rather as Nero wished that Rome had but one
neck. This point of view seems like the 'libido' defined by Jotrg as absolute
and unconditioned in this very manner. In the case taken above, the
impossibility does not daunt, the inhumanity shock, the disproportion
provoke laughter, or even the inconvenience of success damp down. The
wish does not really demand fulfilment; it is a pleasure in itself. But,
obviously, another man might find it fiercer, its action-fruit sole quencher of
its thirst, the moral constable offhis beat,'the mental critic feeble; and, lris
low stage of evolution limiting the scope of the wish, he simply cracks a
crib or slits a gullet. We see a similar effect with common alcohol. The soul
of Poe, on condor pinion, soars beyond the sight of earth, disdains the
pt ctical, and either swoons in silent fapture, poised in immensities, or
makes a record of its journey, a song to guide and hearten us, that we may
follovr it. The Hooligan, on the same dtaught, finds heaven in the same
self-emancipation, self-exaggeration, and self-exaltation; and this to him
means equally that he transcends his environment; and if this sense of
power need action's witness, he kicks wife or sandbags wayfarer. Poe's
inhibitions are not, as are the brute's, fear of police, of fellow-brute, even of
bottle or kitchen-knife should the wife turn to bay; they are the bonds
Nature-Delilah tightened so treacherously upon his limbs; they are the nets
of logic, the cell walls of the mind's Chillon,r whose cold flags of fact he has
paced in datkness of the Mystery that shrouds Truth, the chain of his own
personality binding him to the pillar of Self, so that he gropes in circles,
with no friend but spiders, until the rhemory of his soul's lost freedom
fades.
I said above that the first doses of Cocaine excite, inspire, set free, in this
1 Byron: Tbe Pisoner of Cbillon, fi$,
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peculiar manner. They do not interfere with action; the point of view can
be distrusted at will, and normal faculties fulfil their funciions, more easily
(as I think) at least in appearance, than is usual. But further doses seem to
act as anaesthetics to those powers, especially as regards the muscles. Thus
th.q sexrla-l ^ct. mzy become difficult; and so maly anything that needs
self-confidence. The nerves seem to be shaken. Buias on. uplprou.hes the
'physiologicallpsatisfying dose' of which I wrote a week 6r so ago, all
inhibitions vanish. Q1e gets the giant energy, contempt of weaiiness,
freedom from fear of all sorts; and Jne be.omJs most fully firaster of one,s
medium, body and mind perfected instruments of will, wlatever that will
be, limited 9dy by one's original possibilities. It is as if one, normally an
efs{! {eyeloping 6o0/o effiaency, suddenly showed rcoo/o. This lasts until
*. wS is accomplished, if that be within the limits- of the engine,s
theoretical possibility.
By the way, Leah noted that the 'bliss' of cocaine v/as a bliss of
Anticipation-at the first, that is, I made a similar observation myself, some
time ago.
I must emphasize that the mere consciousness of the existence of the
'cocaine-wish' or 'naked libido'is an absolute delight, without conditions.
It seems as if one had found a new Godself, wh6 is 'love', but asks no
rcalization or return, the state itself being perfection.
t.rt a.m.I lie down. Explaining to Scarlet Sfoman about Tao_Teh,l how
Teh does all the work, etc.
- 4.oj L.m. Opus VII, 3y6661t. Operation: strong and excellent though
short, easy. Elixir: excellent. object: Alostrael to -ktro* how to use her
power.
8.3o. Awake, with sore eyes, but fresh. yesterday I cut my foot badly on
the rocks, and so I was lame. I also had a bad cold, and on tle to,p of that a
nose-bleed. This was in -y left nosftil, not the one I had beet'using for
cocaine.
2_r July, p. Another nose-bleed on waking; otherwise much better.
_
Preliminaries of an opus vIII, to thank Aiwaiour Lord all day. Train to
Palermo with Leah. Long serious talk on Magick and my vow of Holy
Obedience to 3*6661rJ
", J4y, 2f. Continuing love-talking-orgte ^t r.4t a.m. There should be
some telesmatic figure or pantacle of our-Trinity. Aiwaz being 3t-3r1r,
Alostrael, 3v666-3t, and rhe Beast, 666,i.e. five AL'sB and"two others.
(728 equals, 56 x r1;3 NUB on the middle scale of Expansion or NU in
Love and Unity.)
r Tao-Teh is the eouivalent of Shiva-Shakti or the Absolute and its
Power. r manifesting
2 The Scadet Woman; at this time Leah Hirsig.
3 The five AL's are contained in the formula"of Aiwa, 3r-rt-rt (93) and the
two AL's rn 3v666-7r, the formula of Alosttael (Leah Hiisirf, Jhici fwo AI-'s
Ld.d."e to 6z; this, when added to 666 (Crowley) yiilds 7zt wti6ir is y6 (Nu) x r3
(U"ity).
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I swqre to take Her as my High Priestess to Him,l and act accordingly.
She is to direct all action, taking the initiative throughout.
4.oo W'e have been continuing Cocaine in a Lesbian Orgie in which I
^.m.
was Alys her tribade,z aftet a frightful ordeal of cruelty and defilement put
on me as Her first passion for Her slave, which tore from me the last rag of
manhood, violated my last veil of modesty, degraded me below the dog and
the hog, revolted even my body, and made me free forever of my prefer-
ences for mattef, made me Pure Spirit. From it she rose Ishtar,s Love's
Goddess, and drevr me into Her womb; Her Babe am I, Harpocrates the
Soft-limbed child,a Parsifal the Pure Fool, Bacchus the Epicene5 and
drunken Ass-bestrider, and that smooth-plumed that innocent Dove that
men have called the Holy Ghost.6
It is for Her to nurse Her Babe, train it with Her sharp whips and sharper
words, bring it to puberty, to virile might, and like SemiramisT or like
Ratoum in my own play,8 murder him in his Father's House, poison him
with the milk he throve on, fling him Her Satan, into the Bottomless Pit,
black shiny walls smooth-stretching from the flame-jagg�墂gaping gateway,e
hell's reek hot-smoking foth of it, whence fitst he issueC to those stupid
wanderings that nought could end but their own homecoming.
This Word is the interpretation of my Silence; She reads it as I write. In a
moment or an hour, or (in sheer suicideJust) never again, She will rise up,
command me, master me, lash me to manhood, tortute and mock me, smear
her snake-slaver over me, and with foul word and act make me the tool of
Her abominable craft. She will perform Her Black-nay, Her unnameably-
hued Mass, from my base body, elevate Her God, suck out His life, and
spill it on Her midden.lo Her Winged Egg, my Phoenix,rr shall cook
together in moist Fire; Her crystal sea shall be enriched with peads of
God-consecrated Oyster,l2 and wash nor Scentless nor mire-untainted shores.
And Her Concoction shall be sweet in our mixed mouths, the Sacrament
that giveth thanks to Arwaz, our Lotd God the Devil, that He hath fused
His Beast's soul with His Scadet Whore's, to be One Soul completed, that
It may set His image in the Temple of Man, and thrust His Wil's rod over
1 Aiwaz.
z A lesbian.
3 The Assyrian Astarte, the goddess of love.
a Harpocr:ates is usually depicted as a child with finger to lip.
5 Hermaphrodite.
6 The Bird of Breath, i.e. Spirit, hence the symbol of the Holy Ghost.
7 In Greek legend, the daughter of a Syrian goddess Derceto. Her second
husband was Ninus, king of Assyria. After his death she ruled Assyria for many
years. She was the builder of Babylon and was changed into a dove at her deatfu
she was accordingly held sacred. Tlte Oxford Classical Dixionary.
- 8 Ratoum, qh9 name of a chatacter in Crowley's play, Tbe Fatal Force, unper
f"qqi but_published inThe lYorks of AhilterCro,wleJ, ryo:l1.
e The vulva.
ro Ordure.
n 'Her Ifinged Egg'is the ovum, 'my Phoenix' the semen, because it is the bird
ofresurrection.
12 Semen.
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them and rule them. And that impqddd sea, dark with that oozy shore-mud
which it washed, shall wash us, body and mind, of all thai is not He,
moisten our throats and loosen our loud Song of praise, Thanksgiving unto
Him.
I write these words in agony of nerve; I loathe the pen, I loathe this
mental onan-play; this Tantalus-thirst is nowise eased by mirage-wells of
word.
I want ller to tear this diary from my hand, to smash my sham
love-castles, to go mad, so drug-crammed as she is, shatter my dreams of
urhat seems Heaven with an awaking violence that r too vrell know Hell,s
reality.
curse Her, the fiend! How vrell she understands the Art of rorture. she
has leant over me, and from Her mouth she has uttered an Abomination
and from Her throat confrmed its infamy in Act. And then She sank beside
me! lhg lets me nge; She knows \ date not look atHe4lest in my lust of
Her I break mine oath of service. Ah! but She knows-that Food has
fledged my schoolboy chin! And so She, in Her whim, cries .Slave, thy
Queen's weary "f thy tameness, thy dog-cdnge; canst thou not guess when
I would play the maid, coyly invite, or modestly reprove? and if I weary of
that game, as I may, and lash thine insolence, ztt thou not slave at all times ?
9g-.,.1 am chaste, pure goddess and true wife. I want to be insulted by a
thing like thee, lower than all my dreams of vileness-yea, fot my acts on
thee were gte tet, more hideous, more unclean, than my mind's cesspool
that conceived them!
'so low art thou-crawl to my floor-blacked feet, and call them snow-
pure marble; then rise ro things more horrible, find word and deed of
worship, till in my body's Lake of Fire thou burn and shrivel, choke on the
fivefold foulness of My breath,l and as thou diest call My asp-vitriol water
o! Life,, My belch the Spirit of God, our sterile and most blasphemous
Abortion-slime, the God-Babe Eucharist.g
'Yol dog! to your slaves' task! to your mock Love, you dog! you dirty
_
dog! Do i!, yoo dirty dogl ro my soiled feet,lap them, you dirty dogl you
dirty dog!'
She...makes...me...a
_.7.?" a.m. Opus VIII, 3r-6661r, pler] a[r].5 Operation: unparalleled.
Elixir: copious, rich, perfect. Object: to thank 9f foi uniting ouriouls.
_j_:1"-a-.m. Opus IX, y-666-3i. Operation: incredible. Elixir: as Opus
VIIL Object: to increase pleasure in love.
1 crowley is putting the words of this and the following patagraph into the
mouth of Leah; it is she, crowley supposes, rvho is so spealing tJ hi-. All five
elements (earth, air, fire, water, sfirit) trave gone to make up tf,e foulness of her
breath (spidt).
2.Leah is^_likening her sexual secretions to a poison. The asp is one of the
attributes oflsis.
t
. -For his F.ucharist, ctowley takes elements that are abhorrent to christians,
dead matter, hence'blasphemous Abortion-slime' and so on.
a He licks Leah's dittv feet.
5 'By the mouth'. ' a Aiwaz,
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9,to a.m. The way to attack Fetmat's Last Theoreml has come to me
suddenly. One has to shovr that the loose ends in any expansion can never
be an expansion of that otder. Thus zx f r in x2 f zx f r x2 can never
unless x : as if is obvious. Equally for' -l - 6x * and
be a squate 4, 4x 4, 9,
so on. For xy carutot be a square unless x : Y. The intermediate terms
between x" and y" in any expansion cannot themselves be z": obvious again,
but ptoof obscute.2 Bother Fetmat !
The day has passed in shopping and sleeping. Tunis. Boat late.
2t Jvly,Q. Jan. artives quite unexpectedly while I sleptt
A.m. Shopping. It's now 4.oo p.m' and my nap over. Dinner and movies-
At about midnight Leah came in.
z4 July, h. l.st a.m. Opus IX, y-6665. Operation; long-prepared,
then spontaneous, violent. Orgasm: immense, my soul dissolved entifely.
Elixirivery copious and unusually sweet and rich. object: to make that
which Alostrael's Gtaal means to me, the Wodd's Desire.
7.oo a.m. Opus X, 1v6661. Operation: Intense, excessive-the most
prolonged I can remembet. Elixir: as in Opus IX. Obiect: Itself-and the
Eucharist to nourish us thetein.
8.oo a.m. After coffee.
The 'sexual act' completed is to a matt full physiological satisfaction; to a
woman, a mefe loaistossed on the cloth'en plein'. If, then, a trouseriferous,
whiskerogenous, laryngomegalic, phalloportative human body be twinned
vdth Phaidra3 soul, 'tpllf a woman made udth half a god', the He-Life runs
its course in health, but the She starves, and yet lives and gfows by starving.
The He dv,rindles contentedly in its due season; the She incteases in inverse
ratio. (This is true even if the She has been indulged by such enjoyment as it
'can obtain.) This She, insatiable, may weary of her futility, and seek to rob
her He by finding masters in his servants.
z5 July, O. The above got tangled up somehow. We all came to Cefalu.
Bathed, etc. f now find Jane Wolfe, refusing her year of birth, misled me-I
am like the girl who was to meet a 'dark distinguished gentleman'and did,
he was a nigger with one eye. Her Luna, opposing mine, shows sense-
antipathy: oor S"torns conjunct show sympathetic sobrieties of life-
con-eption. Her Mars is trine to my Hetschel; she might well help to
.*.crri. my Will. Her Venus near my Saturn shows her love for my
Wisdom. The ascendant shows the gracious, serious, clevet personality
eagef to help humanity-and I read this first hand ftom sight and sound of
hei. But where is the 'kitten-paragraphist' who appears alw-ays in her
1 Pierre de Fetmat (16or-65), French larvyer at Toulouse. His recreation was
mathematics and he pioved to be a genius. The modern theory of numbers is
largely owed to him.
2" The passage ,For xy cannot be, a squafe unless * : y' is nonsense. If, for
example, ": tr,y : 9,xy : 62. Perhaps a typist's error.
3 See-the pltiedm of Senec", a woman of lustful and vholly unscrupulous
chatactet,
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letters? she doesn't tdk so; and her planets do not indicate so cutious a
quality as far as I can see. These nonsense-flowers, Leah and I both think,
are heavily censored phantasies.
z6 July, : . z.o7 a.m. Till norv l,ve talked with Leah since rr.3o of last
night.
).zo a.m. An interval in the preparation for Opus XI.
I note-and so does Alostrael-with perr*rbaiion, that the Lancer .wavers
now and then, but so it should in tilt prolonged beyond custom, and in so
heavy heat of night. But I note also that my *ill shirls shock, checks course
in full charge. The stallion cannot take the bit in his teeth; his beast-
impatience, which is partly his reaction from his own fear, but tightens the
knight's bridle-fingets on the curb. And the good knight will dJ no more
than make display of horsemanship, or at most a feint, a joust, nay, lay
down-lance and finger lyre, or tune his tongue to musick, u, ,o,"y, his iancy
ro-and-fro between the arts of rvar and peace .
But, if his Lady cry on him to save her, or as it may be, that she craves to
see one mofe new cfovn, blood-deg'ed, upon his helm, then shall he
brandish lance, its steel barb sunward, roar from wide throat, his battle-cry
ancestral, and in the sleek flanks of his steed sink spurs so sudd.en and fierc!
that at his first-bound he forgets himself, makes hii Lord's quarrel his own,
and with wide nostril, with his hooves' earthquake, meets his death
galloping, nor falls until his master's lance hath borne through breast and
back of foe his Lady's Message.
So is Alostrael's word-of-True-will, whisper of scfeam, my trumpet
blare; let that but come to me on zephyr or on temp.st, her wil[enkindles
mlne, my will bids touch the match to tinder-fuse ofnerve, that fires petard
of flesh, and through defiance of gate, wide,breaches path of storming
Baresark's mead-maddened, to 'win the city of Love and thtone my Lad!
there.
words hath she spoken indeed, but not The tx/ord. prowess in Tourney
hath She asked, but not-eye raving, nostrils twitching, lips wry-twisted,
teeth bare, clenched, and foaming, breath hot, foul, s"tp, snake-hissing
from throat's throb,, limbs shuddering and blood bursting through hei
brain-that Red rruth that my chivalry would mask, that Man-Joy,Iespite
mannets mute, shrieking mad murder, not tbat hath she yet bidden me-do,
for her lust loves to torture me, to claim trivial homagi of me, make me
menial, glut her scorn of me, that r may long for death, death, sire at last
though she deny it through such agelong thumbscrew-twists.
s7om with mine agony, weary with service to Her, cold with long
waiting in her coridors, weak with the wounds she hath given, r go tI
Her, like Keats' Knight-at-Arms. And she ? x{y 'Belle Dame sans il{erci
hath me in thrall'. She may yet pleasure Her, cat to my mouse, or-oh be it
thus, Alostrael, beloved, loathed, adored, my soul that art !-she may arouse
me, may absorb me, may assume me, as she can do when by one word, one
Gesture, She from her Art-of-Love leash slip her Tiger Lusi.
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lfhich- will she do ? I crawl, tame Beast, to my \ffhore's feet. Shall I 6nd
there the Lady ot the Tiger?
4.Jo The Tiget!
^.m. I (called XI in entry a.m.)t Magus:
t.zo a.rn. Opus Opus 3.zo Assistant
3t-6661r. Operation: very short--a bare half-hout. Doubts and self-
preoccupation interfered with confidence, and concentration. Stubborn will
prevailed, but divided the climax into about six-it may be more-ejections,
with a slightly supptessed orgasm practically continuous. Sheer physical
fatigue fotced me to leave the act still not quite finished. Elixir: smooth,
even, not sv/eet, medium strong. Object: to stfengthen Our Will-Power.
6.p a.m. Still talking-mostly magick. The first hour of my vow of Holv
Obedience to Alostrael proved Her to be the Scadet \foman; she could
have used the pou'et in ttivial ways: but She sprang instantly to Goddess-
stature. She gripped lfer moment, Her aeroplane swept over my soul's sea,
spotted two submarines, safe from all my navies of self-searching, and
dropped her depth-bombs.
First, She discovered the physical corvatdice and dread of pain which I
had sunk so deep by means of daring death-mountains, rvild beasts, poisor5
and disease. She held a lighted cigatette against my breast. I shrank and
moaned, She spat her scorn, and puffed at it and put it back. I shrank and
moaned. She made me fold my arms, sucked at the paper till the tobacco
crackled with the fierceness of its burning; she put it back for the third
time. I braced myself; I tightened lip and thrust my breast against it.
That's the first partial victorf, the slave's resolve to break his chains or
die. Next time she tests me so, may Aiwaz both with brass and triple iton
fence mine heart, that I may win full victory, mast�嫫 scorn, and neither beat
tetreat in fear of pain, nor chatge, but with my silent smile and still
indifference tell her thatl am worthy at last to love Her. (She, when I beat
or kick her, bade me do it againl. once even she suggested a fresh fotm of
tofture. That was not absolute mastery; mote also, she has since shamed me
by reminding me of what I did-She knows I did it in despairing madness
of my love for Her).
My other submarine was Bluff. I have pretended all my life to be a
scholar; my books are studded with quotations; I've fooled the wodd,
made even the wary think me mastef of Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, Persian,
Greek, and a score of literatures; the fact is, even mv French, the sole
tongue not my own which I can talk and read and write at all with any
courage or correctness, is like the map of Africa at Burton's birth! Most of
my quotes are not from the original but sly-filched from English writers
who have used them. f boast, mofeover, of my wickedness. I say I've taken
hashish for some fifteen yeats-it's true, but not much more than fifteen
times in all !
I boast not mille e tri,but fifteen hundred mistresses; true also, but this
makes me think of shilling packets of two hundred postage stamps.
I'm famed wodd over for my vigour; it's bluff. True, I can please a
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woman_after the ignominy of her Thirty-One,r that barely kindled her
before they sputtered. out. True, but my secret is not vigour; i'rr. the cheap
cunning of the prostitute who saves herself, and roves Ler nightly ,.or. oi
so with no more effort than if she had cracked so manv nuts.
To Leah I boasted of my magick; of how r took wtrat I mosr loathe, a
poison outrag�� to four senses, and by Love's consecration did transmute it,
make it God's Body, or Blood, consume it, worship and delight in it,
nourish and energizemy soul theieon.
True, even this, as she well knew, for she and I had sung this Incantation,
had made God together, two mouths that fed on this one substance. She
saw through that! My worship was half pose, my miracle half craft. My
lagjck only gilded the base coin; lo'd as I swore my Host, the Body of
God' I touched my tongue to skin, I rvould not, dared not, coulcl trot.ri.
she had said nothing; now rvhen Her hour struck on the Bell, eleven
strokes,2 stem to the altar dragged me.
'High Priest!'she cried,'I crave the Eucharist!'Then as I triched: .Not
so!'F{er eyes flamed; Her voice thrilled. 'Doubt not thyself! In sooth thou
art High Priest; thy God and thou and I are one in Three. Thou hast
performed thy miracle of the Mass, all this is very God, God of our
Godhead, our ov'n substance, as on the Paten it gleams. My faith suffices; I
rvill eat; to the last crumb. I vrill consume itf Doubtesi thou? That is
hunger-thou shalt dev_our this Body of God, yea, save one morsel for my
own greed's pleasure. Yet even that will I make honey for thee that to thy
meat thou mayst add su'eet-Fall to !'
I would not: I could not. She said: 'False priest, te r off thy robe:
forsworn to Me, forth from My Holy Temple!,
Th;n I obeyed.s My mouth burned; my throat choked; my belly retched;
my blood fled wither who knows, and my skin sweated. she siood
in contempt; she fixed snake's eyes on mine, and with ^bo'o. -.,
Td.."Y.t most patieni
discipline, as with most eager passion, as with sublime delight, *r, i".. to
face v'ith me, epiphany of my duty's archetype. Hierophantia stood She,
Her eyes- "tl._r1g Light, Her mouth ndiant Silence. Sie ate the Body oi
God, and with Her soul's compulsion made me eat. But in my mouth that
lied when it sneered 'Ecce corpus' it turned back to its first nature; my doubt
black-clouded God's sun-face. My teeth grew rotten, my tongue ulcered;
raw \il/as my throat, spasm-tom my belly; and all my Doubt of that which to
Her teeth was moonlight, and to her tongue ambrosia; to het thtoat nectar,
11 Hgt Belly the one God of whose pure Body she should fresh Her
Blo9d. so with my body shuddering, retching, iainting, and convulsed;
with my mind t-empest, my heart ffater. my wiil earthquake, I obeyed Her
Iash. Not then did I gain grace, God came not to his Host, not even when
She had added her mouth's sweetness to His strength; but I passed ordeal, I
took oath; I am indeed High Priest. I'll blush no more, troi in th"t mati.r
nor another. But I'll make good my boasts, ay, though I die for it; and, may
_.1 Jhi.rty;one lovets, presumably. crowley has chosen this number because of its
I helemlc srgmhcance.
2 Eleven is the number of Magick. 3 He eats Leah's excrement.
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she deign to prove my priesthood. The pov/er whose fullness is the child of
Her, Her faith in me, even when She knevr me false. I will make God my
feast and hers, the food of forty aldermen'to our two plates; shark's greed,
Sahara thirst, love's craving, these Three in One to madden out Soul, to
dissolve madness in ecstasy, to echo ecstasy with new, with more exceeding
ardour.
9.ta a.m. end of cocaine. After-set of Fives, which I played very well
indeed, though (as it seemed to me) sc,rfce able to stand.
9.4o. Simple enough, all this: in a word. I'm a Coward, and Liat.
Leah-Alostnel-my Scadet Woman-knew it. She lunged-two rapiet
flashes, one to my heart, one to my brain. I will not fez;t l will not lie: so
help me Aiwaz, and Alostrael!
9.4, L.m. Let me lie down!
17.22 I have been petsevering most pathetically in trying to sleep,
^.m.
though I could outwatch Argos. It is pure funk: I have a cocaine complex,
that is all. I had quite simiiat conscience-makes-cowards-of-us-all scares
about hashish, or sitting up late, or making love too often, or-oh,
anything ! As saith Alostrael, I am a cowatd. This must stop.
I'll take more cocaine flow', as the 'slaves' coutage' and go out in the
abbey, and sleep when I feel sleepy.
My evident job is to write better poetry for Leah than I ever wrote
before. I promised het: I'11 do it.
6.4o p.m. Slept four hours, without an effort-strange! Yesterday I
observed that the John-Jupiter derivation is marked in Italian by Giovanni,
Giovedi.
27 Jdy, J. A long night's and morning's sleep made me normal; but my
throat and tongue are still sore. I bathed,etc. Leah not well, Hansi with
fever, Howard morally consumptive.
z8 July, p. A long night's rest has put me fairly right; the others also
seem much better.
t.2o p.m. I slept again this morning and even a few minutes after bathing.
Leah has also beea physically exhausted, but we have had compensations,
wakeful and vigorous periods of keen desire and action; an hour or so
yesterday afternoon, lnalf an hour this morning. I'm really inclined to charge
9oo/o of 'symptoms' to our introspection. Our preconceived ideas of our
'danger' make us notice and exaggerate things that would otherwise pass
unobserved. And everything so noticed is blamed on cocaine. Now then for
the defence! One, the weather has been very oppressive. Hansi, cocaineless,
was vefy ill r.vith fever. Poup6e,1 snowless and fever-ftee, sweats over-much
and seems uncomfortable all round. Two, I have been constipated, always
enough to clog my body and brain. Thtee, Jane \X/olfe has interfered with
our routine of freedom; f have had 'duty' on the brain. Four, Ninette's
absence has put extra strain on Leah, and so'on me; there have been
workmen in the house with mighty hammedngs. Then, Howard's cow-
r Crowley and Leah's child; it did not survive its first year.
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^d.: and lying_have needed watchful:ness. Five, I have my burn, a bacl
$umb,. my jellyfish stings; any one such.enougf, ,. irf.. ,fr'. off the
Executioner's Axe and so^reprieved the .,.ite "ag"
retorts Counsel fo11!e you soit-ln.r,i',.rrr,'r*iness. But,
gr.g*o, have just sarted ,r.iffiog snow; and
your Five Points "lI$: Fellowship have no more part nor magnitude; you
have already sketched the Rock for a new picture, ..nror.Jl' Essay, and
sit gloating, right in the sun at that, ovei yo.r" bi"ry, and so scribbling
gleefully, aimless and joyous as the God you are!
H;{th, Jane, Disturbance,, you have iwept them from your path, like a
m3ghiy-gun spraying; you have ro *orrii, but to Star_Rhythms
with the swing, blaze, and thunder of your prose, ^^rii
tuning your Ear,s fine
sense to some God's lMord, your throai,s fine force to .r,?.i ir, its Truth,s
ineffability interpreted (as beJt may be) through B"""ty. o; worry more ?
None but this one that roars, a Blast tirro.rghlroo, h."rt', i*.r".., the lust
that your Alostrael may seize to-night's o.Lsitn of Her pl.rror., and that
your part therein from soul-swoon to word-oracle, wili-phien zy b
madness, be one.total epilepsy, your Lord the Devil you to ^ct_
utmost, -may t":;;* the
than Her hour's.bloom ripened to fulfilment-fruit ,*.itei"rralo.ier yei
She hath tasted.
. Yes: I livs 6nlt to create, and to destroy;_fashion a body for my Sour, in
it3 9wn image, so that my invisibl. c"ineua g.t rri-'"iriule heirs; r,
victim-priest, slay_ self in temple of Arostraer, Herinifo to pi;;." my hearr,
rler incense to make r^{ *y mind, Her ar,u, ih. sur.optragi;1t." body, its
Fire, Her lust that licks, licks up, devours,.transmuting to absorbing in itself
this glad Butnt Offering all of rire, my Soul.
In othet words, I g"o.* foi-ng my'fiil; foras the Beast f must proclaim
my word, the Aeon-!/qtl ft. Magusl rmlg_e of rruth, tt e r"- of Liberty,
Four Score and ren and rhree, thJ\x/ord fh.r.-u, trr^t -* - ay hear and,
understand; unto which end I must invoke all Art, trrrt trr"r. *rro are brind,
deaf, nay idiot unto Truth lnay yet be drawn to.Fi., by Her v.il', uroia.ry,
itsperfume, its mystery, and so grope after ller i" t*iligfrt. - -
To men must I be poet,-prophet, crying aloud! ets3 it is mv will to be
The Beast to Her that ridith-me, the sraae_t w";;l;;J,'^d.rlt.ro.r*,
whore, mad drunk on Her ow1 cgn. Her cup bb;&gi";;;d, Her-coj
drugged with the Herbs Insane that she hath soalecr t, #; h;A bruised in
cruelty, and hath stev/ed in vice, distilled in Fancy,
cucurbit_congealed, drop sweltering after drop, th. "",ii-i"rrgination,s
v.rrom-g., soul,s
Spilth, Quintessence and Elixir, Aisolute, uttermost, perfect; its name
Abomination!
Even as unto Man-I give my Life, reveal my Godhead, heal him, exalt
rfford's
JilT' :ry my deliverance; so unto Her i "-. -y a.u*,, and to Her
body's fire feed my fierce flesh for fuel.
So my cocaine-lit 'Llnconditioned-s7ill'is but my freed normal will. (6.yo
p.m. I may go on a little later.)
7.r I p.m. I have ezter a little-a very little dinner.
The point is: why shourd my trorm"r will require cocaine, or seem to d.o
'
so, if it is to realize itself in written thought andkitten.poii--
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I still think (I have hinted it elsewhere) that the last paragraph before
dinner explains it. My'conditions'make my matter-mistresses miscatry! My
will to write or paint? 'Troll, to thyself be enough!'I am no nearet
satisfaction v'hen the poem is typed. Suppose we ask the Idea of Physical
Fatherhood one question? 'Would you rather lose your son when he is
twenty, and bound your life's hope to him; or when he's ten, and keeps you
wild with pride, anxiety, and the like; or rvhen he's five, and you have just
begun to take him seriously, build on him, adjust your future to his careerl
or when he's vreaned, and your Love's-Tenderness is yet too chaste to
suffer the gross wooing of Hope; or at his birth, when your gitl's danget is
so real, your child's life but a bubble-dream as yet; or while his being is no
mofe than promise? If one must choose; if there be no one chance that he
may bear one's honour, courage, pride, blazing Blood's Oriflamme to
battle, storm the breached wall o'the City Oblivion, capture the trenches of
old Marshali Time, answef the roll-call at one's name in the March-Past of
Veterans; if, speak it brutally, one must pass uttetly, inter with one's own
carcass the dead will, stilled though, extinguished soul of sire on sire; then,
Father-\J7ilI, wouldst thou not rather face thy fate at the fi.rst, fall Roman
on thy sword, and cheat the torturer Hope-Deceived ? Better scorn Life, live
chaste, than play the mouse to the Cat Fate ! Rather the Priest of Atys than
of Moloch,l scotn Hope with Thomson than with Tennyson cdnge to her!
A mute inglodous Milton! Yes, I must flame with ecstasy so fierce that my
contempt for man does not make me, like the American mongrel cur, 'too
proud to' write ! And I must lust for Leah, for this Whote my Queen, so
that Her barren joy, Her scream's madness-raptute, Het swoon's glut, be
all, more than all, my passion's prize, the seal of blood on my death-
wartant,the smoke on my soul's pyre, and on my carrion corpse the worm's
white revel. While I'm a man, weighing,lfie thing's worth, a Jew, 'tis yes or
no as Mr Justice Mind may sum the case; when I'm the cocaine-fiend, I do
my S7ill, even as God doth His, great lust of Act, great lust; no cate of
Act's result. To-night I'll write as I will; I'll drench my body with drink and
drugs; I'11 claw Truth's face, till she shtiek poetrli and in the bed where my
Alostrael wriggles, I will make offering to hag's beastliness, my soul to
putrefy within Her Body of Dung, my body in Her Soul of Hell to burn,
the worm that dieth not, the fire that is not quenched. Weeping, wailing,
gnashing of teeth! The man must shrink-the cowatd! I the cocaine-fiend
laugh at him. I sing for God, our Devi.l, out Lord, Aiwaz; praise of
Alostrael my flaming fiend I sing; and now to the debauch of death, of ditt,
of devilry, of dire desire, of &ead delight, I go; I go to my fiend-wife, and
in foul quagmire of her mouth I bog the bteath that was pure Life to the
I(odd. I am content to sing, to sefve, my S(trore. Is the price death, pain,
madness? Must I be damned, to-day, to-morrow, fot ever; my flesh tot
with Her kisses, my nerves with this cocaine, my soul with Her fiend-self?
Gladly wilt Mnd though I love Her, gaily and strongly, as yesterday and
to-day I shewed, with bodily worship, with naught but sun, sea, air, to
I The Canaanite idol, to whom children were sacrificed (Leviticus xviii, zr). The
Priests of Atys castrated themselves.
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stimulate, yet since cocaine exalts to the Absolute this Relatir.e I,ll take it,
baresark. Satan shall set my battle in attay, notMichael.
Come, Come, Come, Aiwaz! Come, thou Devil O*r Lotd! On these
snow-glittering -slop;s. of poison-crystals, _these soft, crisp, deadly pure,
exhilamting feather-flakes, on these my soul shall stride.
what mortal verse should please thl ear that loves no less than a stabbed
rival's moan, a soul's snarl as it swears Her murder-oath, or a child's scream
"f-f?: and pain when She, or I at bidding of Her, call Satan to pour brandy
of crime into our Lust's drained goblit, rvhere once there fou-ed
sparkled Love's champagne ? Nor shail a man's rove serve Her, whose "rri
body
is now no more than Her soul's coffin, where with Her worms she revels as
She rots: I must b. _lll"l,r_,relf to-night, to ravish ller, to gallop Her, our
steeds Lust's Lion, Filth's Hyaena, Murder's Tiger, secret R""ptor.,, Snake.
Satan.I'll_be, by favour of our Lord; She lies-there; She de'sires me; one
more sniff; J'll to Her!
r r.ro p'm. I have been talking Love with Leah for an hour or more. we
have just drunk a cocktail of white Burgundy and. white Bordeaux, as our
love-philtre. I asked Her to replace *y 5tro"r, by water-Russian water-
but that's a Prudence, r_rim rgung euakeress, 'taught to be cautious' by her
father, rvhomI linorv; forarlhis hat's broad brimlfor all his sober cloth. I
knorv his eyes' evasion, his heart's stumble; he is none else than Mr
Lo'e-God Funk. No, Prudence, you're his daughter! Take your charms
elsewhere. off, pretty maid; I'll not marry yoo tiil your old dad lies deadl
NIy whore for me: Her father is Sir Dare-A[ H.ltfit.. Hers am r, and her
sister-soul's, my Nlaid cocaine, her father chieftain in the warrior clan of
Death, her mother of the wild Men's Tribe of Madness. I,ll take cocaine as
I- damn please; if I stop now, it is that my nose wants another and fierier
drug; I1l to Alostrael, for no sake but this, that I,m blind drunk'with lust of
Her.-Her patience-she lies rubbing her flat breasts, babbling with incoher-
ent foulness, self-sulhciency-maddens me, damn Her! Dain Her! I stay
hete, I .write, if- haply I may rouse Her appetite, set Her jarvs champing,
until with grorvl and spring the fi-r my haunch. But no ! tolnight she ^ph;;
the spider! Starved body-limbs like v'ire-and eyes thar"waitt rirey
know-They know-the endl Disgusting insect! Devilish witl \fford-
excrement yout rveb! I'm not a fly, ah no! I'm brave Tom Thumb! I,m the
Dwarf-seH of me, the Secret-God, the Hero that slerv Giants, that to-night
shall be Thy meat!
Out, sword! The spider iures-the rveb gleams, quivers, sings in the
wind! To its black heart! To Her lewd murdeious mouth! Her breath-she
has been chewing a cigat to foul Her kisses for me-creeps like miasma to
me...
z9 July, 2J. rz.t5 a.m. Suddenly, She is over me; asp's poison on Her
tongue as She beslavers me, the tale of all my manhood's ihame, my blood's
dishonour. She brands me liar and thief, a pimp, acheat,falsofrilnd, low
prostitute; and with Her scorn spat in-my face,-w"s Her perverse intensity,
Her soul's abominable lust that cLimed me Hers for all *y rr.ry vileness.
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Now she goes back; She knows I'll wait no more, She knows Her
whidpool sucks me swift, its v,aves fi.erce tossing me, vengeful, to Death . . .
f see the gulph-it gapes.
r.tt ^.m. This whole hour occupied in the preparations for our Opus.
Agah the Baculumr is normal; hard to lift, and impossible to discharge,
although almost continuously on the point of so doing. Bro. !7. D.2 recoids
similar effects from prolonged opium-smoking.
The condition is intensely enjoyable, once the mind has dismissed its
impatience or mistrust of a good Chinese. The pleasute goes and grows. It
becomes Joy itt the present, in the lilay itself. It is childish, aftet all, to lust
fot Result. I've proved it in High Magick, in all holy things; so also in this
holiest.
One doesn't swim all afternoon that one may reach some goal; nof tfudge
around a links for the sake of the half-crov/r1, or the 'Goat', or to attain the
Nineteenth Hole. The Eagerness to attain the theoretical goal is in a way an
insult to the Goalkeeper! That is, when (as in Cefalu) the time-limit is not
determined.
r.58 a.m. I note that in my present lamentable style of simile-spouting,
elaborate as any Persian's, I find a word (by chance) to end a phrase, and
this word mothers a new brood of similes. I seem to need to iustify my
chance analogies by matching them in detail. This record is but little more
than strings of such onion-bunches.
There ! I must stop myself, or I shall wander to a criticism of the aforesaid
record, wherein I liken work to onions, smell, corelessness, etc. till some
new chance bring up some unimportant rvord, whose visual imagery
fascinates me, drags red herring across trail.
There again! I could digress on trails, on hounds, on quarry, herrings-
anything. This is, I think, why these night-orgies have been so diffuse, so
aimless, incoherent, end-not-demanding; they are like children's daisy-
chains-but with Alostrael as the daisy. It reveals a very curious state of
mind. I write for writing's sake. I do not need to choose a subject, to define
its scope, to fix its form; I ramble like Endymion.
Observe how I draw out the phrase; here I'm akeady with the helm
sv/ung over (is not the steersmarl drunk, rolled in the scuppers ?) the boom
flung leeward, and the Good Ship reels ofi on a nev/ tack? ('Tis Stevenson's
Hispaniola I must thank this time for the image.) My mind is constantly
preoccupied, when I unsheath my pen, with the desire-delight of kindling
words. I do this chiefly, maybe, by their cadence; but also by invoking
Beauty to confirm their mind's understanding by some Visible image. Thus,
I don't write 'immensely high', 'immeasurably', 'inconceivably', or even
'heavenly high'. I match mf height with a known object such that it
suggests not only the measure of it, but the emotion sympathetic, either to
it or to my mood. Coleridge must be the pattern, with his ice 'mast-high',
which is the most impressive height-symbol to a sailor, and puts the
I
Stick or staff, i.e. penis.
2 The.journalist, rWalter Duranty, who panicipated in magical rites with Ctowley
.
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narratot where he is in $ought on a ship..I may write now .high as
Hamman', 'High as the TreJ of Oaxaca,,.high tt^^t^y^,, .tiit
Phancy flies',_ always a definite of Beauty] ^i or ",
measure. such images are i-"g! "";.;;;;;"e mental
therefore almost rot to gild, to tiit with azure,
:: o:h"., -wi$ Tylan purple, or Chinese vermili6n, each page of mine
illuminated Missal. s-omitirnes (as in the last) the image""i..r'i* heralds to
precede its p-omp; 'Missal, came flaming in_my mind is a good synonym for
this my work; but that suggested detail"s of the illuminati6n as tire .imagesf
and so I wove thcm in the eadier strands.
But, when I've done with it, should the end hord an image, often that
image gets my love: thus .Strands' ab^ove gglrt fumish'" ,r.r' p"g.,
pertinent sometimes, often no more than shandy-lafl harf-tipsiness, sreme-
cruising-on-Meander. TH:.ir. qril"_for"�嫫, to -y-."riy mode. t _", pr..ir.
and formal, wrote by the light of EudiJ. But then I irad a Goal; I wanted
every wotd to be the cause of an effect, like Dr pangloss.l Now, if r want a
rca!2tt 'tis but one, my.lowe, my lean brown witch, xrostraer that sleeps as i
scribble, mine from soiled feet to tangled cuds I If want ,tis
i more than one,
that they envy me because She rovJs me, that they suck -lo.-arop, in",
bedew these-poppy and ni-ght-shade wreati,s of happines, I i;g them, and
know.that t -I joy, perfect, transcending sense, is giv en of Aiwaz, whom
we call the Devil, rvhose_name is !7ill,z lJud-otterei by cocaine, is Love,s
strong-acted by -y Scadet !7oman. They, readirrg thir, shall know His
]llrtu.e, Ifers, yea, and Mine, which arc ali bne. I #rrr, ,o -"if. ,rpor, ,.ry
Yo*, iust nov' so self-intent, my $/ork that dotes in meditation fancy-free
that lives like Parsifal, and loves iik. on*. I'want it to throw offits coat of
Many colours, its Fool's Motley, vine-crov/ns of Bacchus, Achilles, scyros-
silka; to bear steel armour, brandish lance, go forth Knighr-gir"rr, seeking
Gia'rt Business, Sorcerer- Religion, Miser "Morarity, D?agon conscienc{
the.sphinx Ignorancaand the.ftarsh-Hydra Fear, ani ,.r"o? that green silly
maid whose name's Mankind!
First, let me rvtite my Book _for Leah, poesy pufe, clear, fiery, musical, as
I've done never as yet; and let Her sool, irren-", I krro* it, tort tit a snake
in-that fresh grass, and poison lambs and calves that browse on it. "
Next, let me end my Comment on Tbe Book of tbe Lor; Ai*az, sin.e
He spake it, put ro my mouth a trumpet, mighiy in ^ay
silver, ,fr", ,fr"ff awake
all peoples.
And let me work liSh Magick, work with my Scarlet \ffoman as She
gny-ordain it. Aiwaz,I whispei Thee, make Thou my wine at alr times with
EgtJr's vigour, strong, fierce with Sun,s flame, magnetic with Moon,s
witchery, its serpents many and shining as the st"", i u"y it suffice Her
Gnal, that yet hath known no plummei! so l.t Her drink, and the world
I 'The rutor Pangloss was the oracre of the house, and little cand.ide followed
his lessons with a'il tt" .^.tdo* .r rtir_"i. and character. r"rrgio* taught
altg-nnlijco-theologo-cosmolonigology. He'pro'ei ,alri."uG itJi"tt,"r" r, no
enecr *'rnour a cause and that in the best of.all possible wodds, My Lord the
Batgn's castle was the best of castles . .
2 The value of Thelema is which ., Candide.
3 93,, is the n"mber of Aiwaz.
Agape, value 93. a Hard.
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drink! [lJ men confess FIet power, live by Her breath, their thought, Our
Lord the Devil's their Iford, the \flord Thelema, spoken of me The Beast,
and their one act Her act, Alostrael's, Het act that hath writ Mystery on Het
brow, hath dyed Her robe with blood, hath filled Her cup with poison and
madness, ay, Her sole Act, continuous, Her true life that which hath set Her
straddling me, enthroned Her on me thtough Earth proclaimed The
Vilhote!
t.j j a.m. My Whore awakes: I'll to Het!
4.4o a..m. Another Work here interrupted by young Anu Leah,r bless her!
6.55 a.m. Opus II, 3t-666-y, per os dominae.2 Operation: partly as
described above, partly ineffable for splendour and terror. Elixir: copious,
rather thin. Object: to make manifest Her power.
7.2o 2.m. I am extremely nervous, overwrought; I blame the mental
effects of Opus II more than the cocaine. I've taken 3 r drops of laudanum.
My mouth, tongue, throat are fearfully sote; again I blame the excess of
abuse of them in kissing, more than the weakening of their tissues from the
local action of the cocaine. Bathed in a violent sea; calm day fell, and deep
night.
1o July, ?. 8.+l a.m. I feel normal enough; fresh, clear, strong, interested
in my work.
6.4o p.m. My mouth and throat still worry, but not much.
ro.ro p.m. Opus III, 3v666-y (no snow). Operation: sacred, passionate,
intense, controlled, normal. Object: to have a Temple v/ofrhy of the Rite.
The mental-magical work was very concefltrated, the ecstasy the match of
it, being smooth as also it was utmost. lWe ate both physically tired after a
day distracting and depressing. Sleep is our common need.
1r July, h. Jane begins month of training at ro.oo p.m.
ro.oJ p.m. A calm day-bathing, etc. as usual. I note that there is no
doubt possible as to the completeness of the Magick of, Cocaine. Opus IfI
above was as good as it could be. Alostrael called it 'Perfect'. But it was
strictly limited, human, finite. It hurled us into a Maelstrom of Self. Despite
many drawbacks, during the Works and afterwards, the Cocaine Opus is
always 'Beyond the Veils'.a One is insatiable, sleep-free, conscious of
infinites, condition-spurning.
r August, O. rz.4o p.m. Opus IY, 3v666-1r and Ethel. Opetation: the
best (in its way) that I remembet at any time. Perfectly strong and intense.
The climax took me altogether away; I recall nothing of it. Alostrael had
the same effect. Elixir: no special observation. Object: a new pictute.
Result: immediate; I got straight up and did partra;it of The Scarlet
^
S7oman in Her robe-oval. 'Tis the best thing I've ever done.
r The baby, nick-named Poup6e.
2 'By the lady's mouth.'
3 The \7ork of the Gnosis, or theOrgia.
a The veils of matter.
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z August, tv. A nice calm day. Jane investigating OCELLI,I does very
good wotk.
3 August, J. ro.oo a.m. Opus y, 3v666-3r. Opemtion: admfuable, of
the 'normal' or unstimulated type. Elixir: very rich and copious. object: to
make good (i.e. acceptable) scenados for moving pictures.
4 August, V. 'Odd Boots'z no,il/ approved by Jane. My big swim from
the bay East of our cave to that West of it-good. My thtoat very bad.
5 August, 2!. Thtoat still bad; compresses and sleep. I note that my
er�塶tion is strong and lasting all these days-it *-", ,rirr", better in my
whole life. I seem always ready and eagef to enjoy any spare moments as
Leah wishes, and I have no trouble in self-mastery either. -
,r7e may then definitely assert that big doses of cocaine impair erection.
(Necessary to say this, as so much of the generally received opinion about
its effects is inaccurate.) I note further thail have not the slightest wish to
renew taking the drug. (A week since I did so.) I see each ixperiment in
perspective, as a cycle ; and I feel that the game is not worth the candle. I
came-long years ago to precisely the same conclusion about hashish; and
abandoned the use of it for that exact reason. But r use hashish toda-y for
mind-analysis, at need, and have no reaction, for I know how to use it. I
have still to learn horv to use cocaine to produce writing fits without getting
bad after-results. At present my sole t..htriqo. is absti-nence, for afti lorri
disuse cocaine acts very well. I am sure, too, that r must conquer thi
tendency to keep on nipping at it all night, but get all I want from one or
two sniffs, as I did in New Odeans. ,
6 August, Q. Began the day 2s 11su2l-d/ell. painted, bathed, etc.
rr_.rt p.m. Opus VI, y-6661r. Elixir: admirable. Operation: extremely
good in all ways. object: to have a proper House of the Sovereign
Sanctuary3 of out own.
7 August, ft. Long scramble round Caldura-bar last bit.
- 8 August, O. House-cleaning-Jane's recorda-touching up paintings. A
dull, pleasant day.
I This was the word-_(received by crowley from the Secret chiefs) for the
Spring Equinox. Jane nflolfe investigated it istrally. crowley did not recotd its
meaning, but see page ror.
2 The title of a-cio',vley film. crowley's outline or treatment, about a thousand
word:long, is extanr. Jan'e Wolfe had aited in Hollywood films.
^ 1 l* Sovereign, Sinctuary of the Gnosis' is a'term which crowley used to
cover all sex-magical techniques,
^n Il.t magical record or-diary of her magical progress. From time to time
Lro"vley reld the diaries of his pupils and commenied-on them; his own diaries
were available for them to read.
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9 Augnst, \r'. r2.ro a.m. Opus YlI, 3v666-3r. Operation: exceptional
sobriety; no stimulants all day, bat a mild liqueur at dinner. I mention this, as
the Operation was most amazingly intense, powerful, and concentrated.
Alostrael went off to sleep within two minutes of teceiving the Sacrament.r
I am singularly fresh. Climax perfect from every point of view. Elixir:
admirable at all points. Object: to bestow upon 3r-66652 t}i'e powet of
vision 'bright as the Sun, pure as the Moon, far distant as the Stars'. (Mode:
anointed eyes with Elixir before communicating.)
ro August, S. Long bathe, etc. Leah getting visions-I think from 729,3
or Abuldiz.a Saw One-Tree-House.
rr August, p. Give general symbol for buying a One-Ttee-llouse:
#, , 'Big splash'.5If we do it, it must be as an adventure' As I did
Operation I thought: 'Great place for a printing house.'
9.oo p.m. Pentagram and 'Bornless One,'6 very splendidly done.
- 9.ro p.m. circa. The Virgin? ordeted'me by gtt to take snowe tonight;
having no oath against it, I obey without lust of tesultl0 orfear, though I
had casually promised myself to abstain for four weeks. The orgie began
accordingly.
rr.o5. LA-ShT-AL, 1r-XXXI-3r.11Beast-Set-\ffhore. Sltin is the Card of
the St6l��, alrtd Teth of Babalon and the Beast. This Lashtal is therefore 93,
the Trinity of Us.12 Leah had been invoking Aiwass and got a small black
figure hidiog among the tocks. I told her to accept this, as there is None
I The Elixit. 2 Alostrael.
3 The Wizard Amalantrah whom Crowley discovered on the Astral Plaqe
dudng r918 through the then Scadet \7oman, Ahitha (Roddie Minor).
a T}e'Wizard Abuldiz (or Ab-ul-Diz). Crowley's working with this Intelligence
whom he contacted through Sister Virakam (Mary d'Este Sturges) led to thc
writing of Book Four, r9r3, the treatise on magick and mysticism which preceded
his masterpiece, Magick in Tbeory and Practice,.r9z9.
5 This ii Crowley's expression, not Legge's, for Hexagtam XXI of the Yi King
Q Cbins).
6 Th; Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagtam, a ritual to banish hostile or
unwanted forces ftom the place of working, preceded the main ritual, 'The
Bornless One' (in the original Greek papyrus, it is 'The Headless One'), i.e.
without limits. 'The Bornless One' was a dtual, of Sumetian odgin, which
Crowley used for invoking his Holy Guardian Angel, Aiwass. See Liber Samekb
(Magick, pages z6y-3or).
? The Viigin Guardian of the Sangraal, Alosttael.
8 Aiwass. e Cocaine.
r0 'For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered ftom the lust of result, is
every way petfect.' Tbe Book of the Law.
tt The bittery i r-XXXI-1 r is the Cabbalistic fo rm of I'asbtal; LA : 3 r, ShT :
3t, AL : 3 r, the whole : 93. Ctowley intetprets this trinity as Beast-Set-Whore;
the middle number is in Roman numerals because it is the sum of the two Tarot
Trumps XX (ascribed to Shin) and XI (ascribed to Teth).
12 Beast-Set-Nfhore. Set is Shaitan or Aiwass, that is, Ctowley, his Holy
Guatdian Angel, and his Scarlet Woman (Whore).
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beside Him. She got a word,.half-formed, which began !. p (zo6)r and
after two doubtful letters, went on vrr. samight be ro, soit,-upforHyper
or Hypo something._All very slow and ,r"g.rJ, this; but t fea mocn mire
confidence than in Ahitha'sz g_ribness or vil"t gush. This is more rike
the original Aiwass_ work in caito,a with "m'ss
Initiatio., idd.d to me, and for a
scadet !floman witlou! personarity or self-won freedom, to true . . .
(L:G.O.C.F.V.;s Soul-identity with Him vzhom I name not,6 the
_
Idea of
The Book of tbe Lant. (Leah's visions follow.) r expect little, iut that littlc
pncttcal and quintessential.
Alostrael: 'Star, many pointed, twerve points in groups of two. s7ithin
this star many pentagrams . . . Star is silverbot itJrays golden. 3 replaces
the star, higher up . . . Black crow behind l. Ar.h o? fight, rrigr,
beyond these things . ... Through this is with a p".or"gr"* "p,
Letter ghlnges to original star. Below, ".r.r..nt . . .
are three small arcies
. . . These
rgpfaced by crescent with stem, a srythe.,
'Ask Aiwass! Manifest, be content with none other!,?
Alostrael: 'IIe8 stands on a cliff shee goes out to Him. He,s in a black
robe, short, and wears a round black hat, goes to Him. I -"ta
for something, before I-c1n get there. He 6r-.ot, me. He,s "ir,.y,rr"
stripped . . .
fine big body, long oval face, close shaven; that's a show to tease me. He
takes the Beast's fo3,Al-_ogtraer rides upon this phantom and enjoys Him!
L A CH . . . O T is the \ford r..rr rrrd felt, bu? not heard by Her.,
'fs the CHaChetlt?'
Alostrael: 'Yes, I think so...In the space is a sort of E. .. the crescent
moon is dways interfering with the vision by atttacting undue attention;
now the Sun comes; the rz-pointed star is the Sun. t ro* came con-
secutively into the space in the word; now a round_topped M, now a
small r printed with a short hook, might be a badly or, y.;
'Ask for a definite statement as to why this $ford i, ,pok.r, to lJs.,ro
Alostrael: A diamond-shaped brooch filied with jewels .'. .,
'fs it a sign of His identity ?'
Alostrael: 'Doorway with that over it. I go in, tu,o to right, up stairs. A
wide room with an arch at end; arch is lined with jeweh]set in silver. At
1 The second Gteek letter is a digamma, hence the number zo6.
2 Roddie Minor.
t
M"ty d'Este Sturges.
a rhe caito \Torkiirg produced rbe Book of the Law, r9o4, the quintessence of
Crowley's philosophy.
,5 The jnitial o,r pethaps finar,,letters of words in a sentence of six words
addressed to the Intelligence on the Astral plane. For example, .t.A.w.y?;-oi
's.s.h.u ?' both mean 'Is.lA.ivzass. v.ith you ?' The ,"rr;;-f;;;;,ilg in. q,i..,i.,,
in cvpher is to bv-oass the medium so that rt *ili i"fi".".."a i" nJ, ..piy.
1 LA : Not, bui in any case it is Aiwass. " "oi-b"
t r4r is crowley speaking, instructing Leah, the seeress. He wants Aiwass to
appem rn the vlslon.
I Aiwass.
e Leah,-the_segrgssi she has appeared in her own vision.
r0 Us, the Holy Trinity, Beasi, Sct or Aiwass, lwhore or Scarlet \(/oman (L."h).
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long end [of room] analtzt, and semi-circular ornament on wall . . . No, a
canopy. I go under it . . . bright light beyond, dazzhng . . .'
'Is Aiwass there ?'
Alostrael: Yes, on floor, in black.'
'Do it again!'l
Alostrael: 'We do, with the proper invocations that He may incztnate in out
next Bastard, and speak to Us. He says "Yen". This was felt, heard, spelt
out, and seen. Now it looks like M. Yen might be 65, the Holy Guardian
Angel.'z
'Are we working right?'
Alostrael: 'Yes.'
'Any improvement possible ?'
(Beast gets a vision of a 'propet temple' which had aheady been decided on
by Vtrore as the obiect of the next Opus.3)
Alostrael: 'The scythe reappears. She [Alostrael] strikes ground.'
'This means that vre should reap what we've sowed.'
Alostrael: 'Blood leaps from smitten earth which is rocking; it becomes a
datk crimson lotus-bud.'
,
(This seems to vgree with my interpretation; our crimson house or heart
will bud when we harvest our seed instead of sowing more all the time.)
Alostrael: 'Moon is always around.'
'Does that refer to Jane ? How's moon connected with our work ?'
Alostrael: 'A crescent with a line in it, 1.'
'Probably the bow and arrow.'a
rz August, 2{. Midnight. Dialogue continued.
'Does moon refer to Jane?'
Alostrael: 'Aiwass is always in water, in a cavelike placc, or high on a
mountain. He gives gestures which Alostrael calls "It all depends". Now
He signifies the same in another way, and adds, "She is chosen, but may
fail." He goes, comes back, kneels to Alostrael, unveils His face of glory.'
'Be with Us always even when our mortality fails before Thee.'
(He passes within Het, after. kissing Her btow, and then stay5 in Her womb,
and goes through Her, and returns).
'Bind Us together in love mote closely and fiercely every day.'
(!7e follow Him together, she naked, Beast in scadet abbai. Ffe creates a fire
by silent Ifill; it sucks us all into it, He following; all closes over us, and we
are back in the Basilica of Saint Chrysostom in the City of Ktenoproct on
the Pead Rivers vrhere good King Mahalinga wields the Sceptre.)
I
Ride the phantom (Aiwass) again.
..2 Yen: 6t, (Y : ro, e : i, o,: lo). 6l is the number of tl.IN (Adonai),
The Lotd, synonymous with The Holy Guardian Angel.
3 Crowley at this point gets a vision of a temple, an ideal temple, one superior
to the real temple in thc Abbey
a Crowley's comment. The bow and arrow is one of the glyphs of the goddess
Nuit (Nuith or Nut).
5 Normal consciousness returned to them. Jghannes Chrysostomus (golden-
mouthed), so sutnamed because of the power of his eloquence (a.o. j47:4o7),
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rz.4t,a.m. Talking over the vision. Discussing the rational bases of the
Magick of the Gnosis, and the XI".
r.to a.m. Orgie begins again.
z.oo a.m. I note that I suggested to Her to order me to take cocaine; but
my reason was not 'craving' or 'vice'. I felt so marvellous strong on all
planes ^t and after the Invocation that r wanted to abolish the limits, and to
avoid cutting shorr my delight by physical orgasm, however wonderful.
2.jJ a.m, We have been out to dtink of pactolus,l to play romantic love
of nights sicilian, with Mityrene2 masque, then to invoke tioitn under FIer
stars' She answered my first cail witrra white shooting star, almost rike a
comet' so long was its light-wak.: rlg brilliant, and iry second by a red
stat, bright but without atnil. perfection,s white and redis
- z.+J a..?.Alys, your maiden breasts? What ape is't gibbers, mews, ,mauls
them with claw, with tgoth? vtrathag of Hecate, by"s"t r,', craft revives
her goat-soul at your milkless lamb's teats ? she grins j she sn"ds; she sucks;
the maid abhors the fascination of the foul .i^k. iluo.ri"g o, her, the
flickering tongue that lies, degrades, envenoms, dnd in stupiation wins to
ecstasy.
Herbreath! I faint
. . . I fall
. . . She has me . . .
, r t a.m. Finished our gramme (| each) of cocaine.
j.4o a.m. Started ether.
44o ^.m. Short interval for starlight romance.
4.44a..m. More ether; a little, very little, more cocaine; two snifs and a
'kiss'. we both went.off, I ending with Aiostraer, and *ur.i"! again with
Al;e this shows (a) r love her, (&)-'Her'is a mixrur. -y s.i"t.t voman
and the 3t that is the key of (c) that these "r
9l-,u three i *". qoir.
inel_g-hf{cally. Some time or otherin this "r.'or..
Dawn_M.at tbrrigot,
S.W.: 'You're like man trying to be polite. t o
B.: 'When he ^
wants to vomit in a woman's face.'
S.S7.: 'Which would disgust him, and wound love.'
B.: 'And that's where the sense of humour comes in.'
prominent father and saint of the Greek church; he was made Archbishop of
constantinoplein 397. 'The Basilica of saint ch.t;";;;;;;;i;"ans Leah,s
mouth used in an act of fellatio. .Ciw of Ktenoproct on ih" peail River where
good I{ing Mahalinga rvields the Sceftre' can be^transl^,.a1tirv Lrr.rtb.r* o.
the River of Spu^nk where the.good King cr;^tp;i;k "T
;Gr-;;pierne'. It is ,,ot
]}3'"',]*-Jili;i:1J::'ilfithiipassage idisc.,,iio,, o,' tie xlt o.r.o.,,;J;;
I
in Pactolus, a river in Asia.Minor on the shores of which gold was to be found
abundance. Probably an allusion to urine.
z Mitylene, the capiial of Lesbos.
3 The white and rid tinctures of the alchemists.
a AL, the Hebrew wotd for Existence or God, is the
Buk of tbe l-aw. Its value is I r. - - - - - -' cabbalistic Key to Tbe
5 Three times a r is o3 wriich is the number of Aiwaz (crowley's Holy Guardian
Angel, Shaitan),-rha6",^ 1qg), 4C (lrg;t;${ H;.*;re;;iey,s system
are equivalent. Hence, Dd rJ76at ihbu"0flilr'1Th"le-;t;;e- ioi.'""a.r s7ill
(Agape).
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This=seemed to me at the time a remarkable epitome of the whole range
of emotions. Later. !/e are doing an operation to have a Temple of Magick,
i.e. for our Gnosis and XI'. (Previously remarked that XI'rites seemed to
gain value from destroying rational limitations.)
'A tired man loving a pregnant woman.' This is doubly against nature. It
is then exactly the right and necessary operation for this purpose. For
Magick is out to make tvro and turo other than four, and prove it. !ilhen
this is done, we must make them make four again. (Alostrael: 'Tu,ould be
easy.'Beast: 'Nay!')
This is very important, showing that I recognize Magick as concerned to
reuerse any existing ordet. (Cf. Panival's idea of Reversal, which gave him
the LA-3 r-AL Key to CCXX !! !)1
Later. Found Leah out! All her remarks were just so many devices to
induce erection-appeals to father-love, religion, passion, magick, vice,
poetrf, etc. But the cocaine won by a short head-so did my perception of
her tricks-the sceptic cannot beget chil&en. It is necerrary for women to
deceive men that the race may live. 'The love of knowledge is the hate of
life.'
Later. Forgot all this and everything else in an absolute phtenzy of
Union-I won't use the absurd word Love, but say Agape, 91, if needs
must.
7rr a.m. Opus VIII, 3v666-1t, pVrl ofsl dfoninae]. Operation as
desctibed above. Practically no erection till climax and little then. But no
special desire for it; the whole work was intensely spiritual, with the
physical acts no more than symbolic gestures. Bodily anaesthesia almost
absolute. Several times noticed that I was conscious only of Ajna and
Muladhara.2 The orgasm, with copious emission, seemed Three distinct
drops; it brought little pleasure or relief. I was uttedy concentrated on the
lWork, and announced the Purpose cleady and with 'logical precautions,
while the dtops passed.3 I am in splendid physical condition, and had a
strong erection at the 6rst touch of Leah befote the snowa fell. Testes
very full. It is sure that cocaine in bulk stops film correctnesss either by
physical action or by making one think it is detrimental. Elixir-very thick
and dch; plentiful; the Eagle6 had been mostly consummated eadier in
the \7ork, so the Mariage7 must take place within the Temples.s
| 'Parzivaf' was one of the mottoes of Charles Stansfeld Jones of Vancouvet
(Frater 4.\"d), who discovered the key to Tbe Book of thi Law (CCXX). The
Reversal refers to his motto, Achad, which has the valuebf r3,.
. 2 The. Ajna chakra or subtle centre is depicted as situaied between the eye-
brows, the Muladhara at rhe base of the spine-. Ajna is the seat of \filI, Muladhara
that ofthe sexual energies.
- 3 Crow-ley mentally- formulated the purpose of the operation (.To have a
Temple fit for.our Rites....'),and verbally declared it while eiaculating. The
'logical ptecautions', an ironic phrase, were the usual magical safeguards.
a Cocaine.
5 'Firm correctness': this phrase frequently appears in I-egge's Yi King.
6 'The gluten of the Eagle^': the female fluids.
? The Mystical or Alchemical Marriage.
8 In this context, the genitals.
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We had used: r, Pactolus; z, Sun;l 1, Eagle;z 4, Lion;s 5, Mercurial
S7ater;a 6, Mars and Venus Oil_;u 7, CTFI.O;6 g, Cocaine; 9, (CrHu)rO.t
object: To have a Temple fit for our futes of Baba"nunairrJBeast. I'm
calculating 'B[abalon] and the B[east] conjoined'and note To MEIA :
419 : b.8 But I get no mofe.
8.oy. Coffee and biscuit.
lwe used an enormous qrrantity of ethet, neatly a litre, our dose being
usually about a tenth, perhaps less. cocaine, thin, enables one to resist
ether. !/e got no excitement of the disturbing kind at all, but the clarity of
perception was much steadied and slowed; thanks to this we have snared
the wary Truth-sables whose furs now cling to my rffhore's throat--and
hide its oval brand, month-old and more!
8.zo a.m. Damn the Greek cabbala when it won't react to podophyllin.s
I'll leave it costive, and go offa-wooing.
8.25 a.m. No, I don't; for a new idea comes. I've worked so long and feel
so fresh that I decide -to go on with cocaine to find out howllong the
sustaining acrion can be kept up. Alostrael has killed -y .porr.to"ulity-
complex'; and Jane's presence makes me what I am,
Englishman, God damn it! And r don't give ",dod_d"mned
a God-damn for you, God
damn your eyes! I'm the One He-Man in this Hen-Abbey.
Felt rather tired during the bath; 5oo strokes or so ieft me gasping. At
fives, I was confident, and careless, and didn,t perspire much."I -"r"rr.ry
lively talking to Giosne.lo I came in to [perform] the ^p.nt"gr"- [ritual] etc,
like Hansi's_ Big Lion,rr and *ent ail but insane-yet-sup;bly ondei
control-v/ith the attainment of ecstasy, singing and shouting the words,
many of the Barbarous Names new-fotged on my soul's aivil. I weni
straight 1o the opor.r am now (8.35 a.m) active, self-confident, free from
all app-rehension, eag�嫫 to work, but not creative. r painted two fihe pictures
yesterday, The Pool and East o'cefalu. I am locally tired in Ajna and
Muladhara,l2 having lived there so intensely and so extlusively for so long
I'll rest (8.+o), smoke, toy with Leah.
8.42. can't rest! Leah agrees that I don't sniff, unless snow be there:
previously I did this, I think it is a danger signal that the nose .craves' snow.
8.4y. Time goes slowly; above note and much talk in three minutes.
8.46. To the assault!
8. 5 5 . It is a curious feeling. Inpuissance and indifference dominate me, and
r Probably the actual solar tays.
2 Leah, the Scadet -Woman. s The Lion Serpent, the Beast.
a The Elixir or sexual fluids combined. 5 Gieet. -
6 Alcohol. ? Ether.
8 'Babalon and the Beast conjoined', i.e_. in sexual union, is syrnbolized by the
Heb'fw le-tter Tetb,9, the number of which is 4r9., crowley.'in beginnirig to
calculate the numetation of rhe Great Beast, notes'that The 6teat, To MEIA
: 4t9. He did not continue these lucubrations until latet.
e A laxative, ro A local character.
^ 1r crowley is the Big Lioq. Hansi was Leah's little son by a certain Edward
Carter.
12 In this context, the seat of the rfill (Aj*) and sexual e'tergy (xlaladhare,
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there is also that which wishes to 'love' the object which inspires these
sentiments, for that same cause ! I've turned repulsion into passion, fear
into love, disgust to worship; but here beside me lies a worn-out toy. The
Opus absorbed all the forces; we are both amethystinel sober, our heads
well-rvater, cleat and cool, ouf souls at ease. Can that perfection suffer?
Can I who raped the maiden, decoyed the wife, hired myself to the widow,
and vdth wanton wild made tevel, I, I, can I uroo this scarecrow catrion?
Can I, who writhed at stroke of the snake's fang, whose ribs cracked in her
coil, can I pretend that death still lurks under that dull cast skin ? I loved
IIer as Her slave; I lived to pander to Her lust. My neck was for Her foot;
my fesh for Her tooth's need to teaf, to gnaw, to pulp !
My tongue that spake God's Word, that sang as none of all my peers
sang ever, nay, neither Keats nor Shakespeare, ttay, not the voice that
roared through Demogorgon,2 or his that thrilled in Hertha'ss throat-my
tongue has lackeyed Het most villainous vices. My tongue has been Het
flatteret, smooth to refute Her mirrot and Her mind; it has been slave to
Her, with plausibility to cheat Her very scullions of their wage, and for its
own to take the greasy coins that She flings down, and takes them for fine
gold of the fine gold. It was a sewer of foul speech, to pleasure her perversity
that gloats on dirt and on disease. It has denied its God, in its stead had
heralded Her rottenest Soul-cancer, licking the dust, the mire of dung, the
scabs of leprosy, the clots of murder, yea, those most nameless things,
beastly beyond all beastliness, that are the sweat Her teats drip down from
Her lean, Her snaky flanks.
Ay! it, as the test of me, served Her, and gloated! God that gat sons on
Her, high gods, stark Truth, fi.ne Att, fierce Musick, yea, th^t g^t Poup6e's
flesh, and our brave bastard's that lies cutled (oh! cutled so close be sure!)
beneath her heart till Springtide bring Him forth, my Son that shall rejoice
mine age, this God that is mine inmost I was Hers. She soiled the Dove as
Leda soiled the Swan, nay more, as Pantagruel the Goose!
This God was Hers to mock, scourge, spit on, to toment, Hers to tear
open, Hers to devour, its bones flung at Her feet to the hyaena, to the
obscene, the stinking the foul glutton of not rottener catrion, yes, to the
lewd hyaena hell's-laugh in his rank throat, that She hath made Her lover.
Gladly I suffered it; her lust grew, medlat-sweet and rotten; ptide, like
sand-rooted gourds; cruelty, poisonous thom, and sectet mutder, monks-
hood; more, the desire of the In6nite, as 'twere the innocent poppy, with
its white flower flo more than virgin veil of that pod-strumpet, her whose
kiss gives delight, gives wisdom, gives even Peace, until the pustule ripen,
burst in agony; until those blossoms bear their fruit. This rind most bitter,
astringent of the Sodom-apple; Madness its feshless pulp; and at the cote,
strangling, dry strands of Death.
This God did this fot his Ifhote's pleasure. He loved to agonize as She
1 Amethyst, the stone that Protects the wearer against dtunkenness.
2 A mysterious and terrible infernal deity (O.E,D).
3 According to Tacitus, the ancient Germans wotshipped Ceres under the name
of Hertha.
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rejoiced. Also, che fiIthiest worm that lutks in me, its lair most sedulous his
by Fear and cu^ning he hath fed full upon Her flesh, bloated his lankness
on Her blood. rle was not I, the God, to offer Her godhead, liar and
murderer, for r remoulded Her in satan's Image; She stindeth, Her feet,s
flame yet quenchless though they tread pole's ice, and the earth spins
beneath Her, and she doth evil, fancieth filth, dreameth destruction; ihus
and not otherwise She blesseth it.
He was not r, the Devil-God, but I the worm of the slime, the blind
Mouth with loose lips, the deaf brain serf abused, the sewer-Body; I that am
1..:h *{ tapeworm,.bladder-barb by Nile and in the congo, Thread-that-
is-Death-by-Sleep; I loved Her and I had Her. Mine wasih. ;oy ,o ,o"-
and feed upon Her, Her flesh infected, drink of Her, lrer blood polluted, so
soon as Her God fled his t-emple, scurried to heaven with them tir"t go"ri.d
Her, when Satan glared from Her damned eyes, laughed from Her mur-
derous mouth, when she bestrode Her Beast,-and dro-ve Her heel's hate to
his heart, as vrith the \X/hip She knows of She lashed hellward.
Ay! then the lworm was glutted; ay, all Her human self I took; I rotted
it, I made her flesh as goat and stoat, I made her mind as anape's mind, as
an hyaena's, as a black,panther's; I made her blood puff-adder's venom,
tigress-gall, skunk-gland of- stench; ay! even Her skin I made
vixen's, set on Her brows a flush and on ller breast a coppery " -"r,gy
sheen, trrat f,L
who ran might read-and run in panic fear, an he,ll be -urn.d.
v4ren first I found Her, She was a woman, one that held godhead,
though 'twere a kite tenuity of thread perilous in such wind of ioctdne.
_She-_had ripe womanhood, wrapping- her in Motherhood.'s blouse, in
Intellect's shawl, in Passion's slattern-skirt, and Human Loving-kindness
perched on Her head, a dove's wing with an bagle's feather tririming the
toque's soft straw.
Now r, the God, have choked Her god in dung and bred the Basilisk,
reared the fiend, Satan-Alostrael, to burn in hell withLe-to burn, to writhe,
!? .yll, to spend,l to.be, to will, to go, to change, to lust, to create life, to
kindle love, to unveil light, to unleash liberty, mly word and Law Thelema
to proclaim, to 'stablish and to execute for evei. To build that Law into
Man's soul, as Nature builds a m rrfrom the fifth primate, is Her satan-secret
Asp-brew in Her cup s Blood (Filth, Madniss, poison, rnchantment,
Putrefaction): it aids Inroxication and its one Mystery of Mysteries,
Initiation.
And I the worm have trailed my slug-slow slime across Her Breasts; so
that Her mother-mood is tutned and Her bteasts itch with lust of Incest.
she hath given Her two-year bastard boy to Her lewd lover's whim of
sodomy, hath taught him speech and act, things infinitely abhorred, with
Her_ own beastly carcass._she hath tongued Heifive-month gid, and asked
its father to deflower it. she hath wishid Her Beast to rape ifei rotten old
mother-so far is woman clean of Her! Then Her bloodis grown icy hard
and cold with hate; andller eyes gleam as Her ears ring #ith a chime of
wedding bells, dirty words, or vibrate, cat-gut fashion, to"th. thin shrieks of
I To ejaculate.
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a young. child that Het Beast-God-Slave-Mate is torturing for Her
pleasure-ay! and his owfl, since of Her Cup he drank, and of Her soul he
breathed.
He loved it all. He rolled each dtop of filth atound His tongue. All this
because He loved Her. He loved Het as nor God nor Man not Beast not
Devil has loved.
Ali this because She loved him as he Het; because She was of his bone
marrow, and his flesh nerve, and of his blood the spitochaetes,l the pallid
hosts, as 'twere they swooped from Tanary even to Rome!
I could have said it in a word: She's of sound Satan-stock; I tecognized
Her the stuff of my ideal, 6end-whore, and under my fierce thumbs her
clay's masterpiece" The summit-beauty of it is her own chief asset, her raw
clay's red ochre, the volcano-brand on her still smoking and charred
goat-haunch.
And now-is She indifferent? If so, all's lost, and I? Most lost wete I!
From Magus, Word of the Aeon, I were thrust, my Wand a tinder-twig, my
Word an Idiot's babble.
And there She lies, thelazy lump of nastiness, no more to me than my cut
toenails, and to Het-I am not; she's asleep!
It's now rr.to a.m. From 8.55 I have wanted to do nectophilia, to rape
her rotten corpse. But I don't love Her; it's her lust for evil, for our Lord,
for me-Her futies, fi.lths, her frenzies, fantasies, her{would she but say
Her word!)-this, this I love. And She v/ent to sleep, wouldn't take more
cocaine, snored, woke once and counselled prudence zgain and got some
hunks of bread and cheese-I'm sweating like a sow, I'll take some milk and
biscuit.
rr.56. Halt!
r.ro p.m. I note, and so does Leah, as often before, that there is a great
hungu aroused by cocaine; but nothing will satisfy it. The medical idea that
people think more drug will do so does not apply to us.
A curious paradox, that the Body's need to get the poison out of it should
become conscious as a need to put something in! It hardly compliments
one's telegraph service-or one's diagnosis expert, whichevet it is.
r.4o p.m. She and I go bathing as soon as Giovanni returns to take
charge. I'm perfectly fresh, except as regatds erection, is this so strange after
some seventeen hours'iritation, with perhaps four hours'rest for it?
Cocaine interferes with micturation at once, one can't let oneself go fot a
long time, and there is a little pain of the 'nervous weakness' type, both
before and during the act. My scrotum is at present not actually clamouring
for a new snake-house, but it seems as full of the Sons of the Serpent. Uraei
cowned with God, as any self-respecting scrotum ever is after being
subjected to a Hirsig vacuum pump' with the patent Mercury-valve,
warranted to extract embryo Colonels from wooden nutmegs. The trouble
is purely functional and nervous; its cause is direct nerve-anaesthesia; a few
7 Spirocbaeta pallida: the organism responsible for syphilis. Tbe Faber Medical
Dictionary, r971.
z A compiiment to Leah Hirsig's sex-rnagical powet.
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hows' local rest would cure it, and- probably s,"rt a reaction of stfength,
from the repose deeper than usual which cocaine girr., th.m. But after such
a. local repose (local, as writing three hours or, .rrl counts as deep sleep for
those nerves) tho'gh erection may be strong, and. desire ardent, and
pleasure intense, it is hard to screw one's courage to the point of the Big
Plung..e. Nervous again, of course. There ,.e-, to-be a fault'in the syst.m o?
:igrylti"g. Mental and physical do not react on each orher as they shourd.
*:j,T trylng to talk to a Cefalu man who has been fwenty years in
.f\meflca.
-2.to p.m. I note The vision of the Demon parenthesis, who is a servitor
of cocaine. Doris Gomezt got him; she seemed to be walking with an
1gf"l of parcels, dropping one and then, as she picked it I get
him.in my lilgrary st1ile; also as Leah does, ii "p, ""Jtrrer.
flitting;;;; act to
another; e.g. I lose my p-en-r rook for it; r see a bottle ihat "".
q" t? tle supply. I see I need a shave; r get hot water. I needs filling; I
find it too liot;
then I fill the bottle and find the pen. And iwrite this; and rro* I'tt shave.
.2.4j-p,m. Impatience is another symptom of cocaine; it seems connected
with tl-re hunger. Leah claims to be free from this; r irri"r. rr.r, ress than
mine, but still very noticeable. rt is caused by the ddr; ,.Jritiu,y of th.
nefves' or the loss of the finger controls. I am now bored by the cxperi_
ment, because it is one; be-ause cocaine results ,'orroionous; and
because I have no Will to create. "".
-t'r2p'y. A-t present r can't see why anyone should go on taking cocaine
after the first few hours, unress of corrrse, io *rry on some started rabour.
3.3o concludes another half-hour's work.
Opus IX, 1v6661r, p{erl olsl Bfabakn]z and then . . . Operation: cocaine
stofm; very violent. Erixir: great, but onry part uttered. object: gur love.
Note on above. The_orgasm was in t'hr.. p"rtr, two in i'
mouth. rt went on and on, b.rt almost without feefing; ""gi*,'lrrl
trt. ?r,iri part I
certainly did not know of.
3.4o. rJf/ent bathing. rJ7hen in water I had the sensation of wearing a
bathing suit, Leah a similar illusion. she had .oao.o..,
anaesthesia and also numbness of limbs. ""r"..;p;;;;.r-of
r_3 August, t. I slept f19m 7,oo p.m. of Thursday to 3.3oa.m. when I
woke and had lots of milk and biicuits. This *o*irrg'r';;' very tired
musculady with the 'having-been-beaten' feeling; -y .'y., somewh"t
heavy. r am sexually-excitable and very strong. r-turr. too "r.
the feeling that I
:"91, to 'sleep it off' some more, bui ro ,.i need to do ,o.-i courd not
3-,1^rI^::1"1,::!*iment; it seemed t"-T: perfectly ubrord ro go on
takmg cocarne, that no effect would come of it but to prolong boredom and
weariness and to postpone recovefy.
rr.ot a.m. rn a situation similar but with a Fortune less favourable was
once a Young Fellow of Clare . . .
r Undet the influence of cocaine, Ctowrey's rttetaty style grew prolix; it became
i"t*:d with parentheses. Doris Gomez *'^r o". of his Ametican mistresses.
2 'By the mouth of Babalon.,
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Opus X, 1v666-1,r. Operation: admirable; entirely spontaneous' per-
fectly normal in all ways. Elixir: excellent, copious, rich, strong. Object:
invocation of 95 for Alostrael; to know'Him better.
,.4o p.m.I think cocaine (in unveiling the Race-lmpulse perhaps) has a
definite tendency to release the 61m 'Sadism'. I have had lots of phantasies
and wish-images of this type; so has Leah. She flamed up into mania
yestetday about a dark cudy-haired gitl at the level crossing below the
cemetery, who reminds her (I suspect) of her old rival Helen Hollis.l
It is curious that Jane's communications, some of them, were signed with
a sigil which she took for 'Sun and Moon'-a circle vdth a crescent
attached. But this sigil may be in reality nothing but a citcumcised penis,
foreshortened thus: Q. However, cutiously enough, this sigil has come up
again twice. Yestetda!, I looked up 'The \ffoman of rffhotedom' fot Leah's
Cabbalistic problems and found it to be 864, which is also 'Shewstone-
Levanah', Sun and Moon! Then this morning I bit Leah's back twice for
good measure, and it branded her with just this sigiM note that the tongue,
mouth and throat sofeness observed with previous cocaine experiments has
not occurred at all this time, eithet to Leah ot myself.
14 August, ft. Everything normal: slept most of moming. Bto. Bushe,
Lloyd's agent in Paletmo, called and btought gifts Dionysiac.
r; August, O.9.oo p.m. Everybody sick or damaged; all a mess.
Oppressive weather, threatening rain, with no proper fall-so far' For these
two or thtee days both Leah and I have thought of cocaine (r) useless' (z) a
nuisance, (3) without fascination, as quite understood. I took a single sniff
about 8.oo p.m. and found myself fung from depression to exultation; with
impatience artd a powerful impulse to" make a night of it. The hunget
suppressed all my previous general reflections. f resisted this and it is now
passing offslowly, but very reluctantly. I gave Leaha single sniff, and asked
her to rccord her attitude. I avoided mentioning mine, as above written. I
may add that the hunger is not so much positive as negative; i.e. thete seems
nothing else one can possibly do. To go on is not intetesting, but all other
occupations are boring.
ro.zo. Lealn's sensations v/ere very similar to mine' Give a symbol for the
present attitude of Ninette. Hexagram VI, Contention. Really, now? \Xrhat
corrrse shall I take? Hexagram VII. This seems: oppose v'eakness to
stfength. 'fl6s1s'-1s2d all chapter VII. V4aat will be the final result of this
contention? lYu lYang-simple and sincere' Read chapter e5. Talked ovet
this a little and made various plans.
rr.oo p.m. Opus XI, 1v6661t. Operation: brief, owing to cracks in
cucurbit stand; but very spontaneous and strong. Elixir: copious; rich,
admirable in all ways. Object: control ovet inferiors.
1 Helerr Hollis, rvho is called 'the Snake' in The Confessions, played a part in
Crowley's initiation to the grade of Magus in r9r1 in America. He described her
as (r) an actress, (z) a street walker.
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The cocaine hunget passed ?w^y. I will nov/ try another small sniff,
feeling as I do after the opus, particulady alert and strong.
Symbol for Jane's preseflt attitude: .Household', also
,
'The oracle of the Sun'. This is ydy .'ffi;ught to be. Will she
directly deposit big ah-ah? -
. If so, suddenly and of her own
motion. rx/ill our movie n-G be profitabl.lE. The best
symbol in the Yil The way -
out!! The Bird!!!
rr.ro p.m. The sniffhas made me extremely lively and enetgetic. Inciden-
tally, it and the first have helped me to defaecate, and I feel simply great! I
now deliberately willed to sleep, and did so at once, very deeply, only
waking once to close the doorc to the wild west s7ind, the Lreath of
Autumn's being.t
16 August, .v 7.3o a.m. Just awake. Leah still asleep.
4.zt p.m. I felt rotten in the morning-irritable, etc. The things came
from Mannersz; quite a little stuff not stolen by *y Brethren and the 'Love
of my Life'. Took a sniff of cocaine before lunch, several since. The
frequency of the dose has increased as the day has gone on. I have had
energy to unpack most of the stuff; and found to my surprise that I was
more pleased at finding what r found than annoyed at missing what I
missed.
Good! The day is of Jupiter, Pluvius badly strictured: heavy, dull, hot. I
had started to retouch my Pagoda of coral and Jade, and hated the upset of
the cases coming. I am now tired, anyway, eagff to $/ork at somethiirg. At
bottom, I am very pleased to see my old friends pop up from my Dead-Life,
for they offer me new Mind-Food which I can maki into Semen for my
Ifork.
As to cocaine, I started rather in the 'naughty boy' mood, and also in the
'catch-at-a-straw' mood. I hadn't the courage (is it courage ?) to shut myself
up resolutely and be ill till I got well. we went through'odd Boots', Leah,
I, and Jane, and made some amendments.
t.oo p.m. Began Opus XII-WandB good, but (a) I wish the indefinite
prolongation and (b) have a slight fear lest delay or snowa should interfere.
It is very hot, too.
t.4o p.m. Began the Book 'Leah'the praise of Her, by a poem to invoke
Her to inspire me.
7.r t p.m. After a pretence of Khana,b am at it again,
r7 August, d. Hale just finished (midnight, r6th-r7th August) a long
prologue to the Leah book. It invokes her. She sleeps-d-ar girl-aii
I
Ode to tbe lYest lYind Q. B. Shelley).
2 The drug supplier. b'Penis.
a Cocaine. 5 A ball game, Gymkhana.
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plastered up, knees and shins and wrists, from her fall; and she finished the
set, and"she'd wake right now if I wished to worship her! She is what I
never met before: pure Yonil decorated by the rest of her in the same way
as I am pure Lingamz with frills. My secret comes out in my most innocent
poems, essays, pictures, etc. and frightens people, they know not why. Hers
has been heavily veiled; it couldn't even devise masks. So it was either
naked or invisible, as occasion required. Now I have freed it, it has become
very fertile in imagining fancy dresses to set off its charms. These vary
infinitely, from physical conceits to spiritual ecstasies. Its puriry, the secret
worship she has paid it (the soul of her its high priest, and all else in her
ministrant thereto) have kept it from allowing the contamination of attach-
ments.It is therefore capable of all, is wholly divine as it is fiercely fleshly or
darkly devilish. She must beware of missing chances to increase its expet-
ience, merely because she doesn't feel like it, e.g. she should try 3r on the
beach, and get up steam over yJ.3 It ought to be served, just as I do the
Pentagram nighdy however little I feel like it. She should rcalize that it is an
'abomination' especially abominable when thete is not even the excuse of
desire to dn it. She has offered it 'mpther-love', splendid! But her Beast
would adore it yet more if she blasphemed it by these rites. It would
agorize him, too, and spur his service. She should also make a point of
catrying out the Berthe idea, and of course, the Fourfold Rite should be
performed when the chance comes.
tz.j, think I'li go to bed.
^.m.I
:'2.40 No; don't feel like it.
^.rn.
I teally v/ant to know why the smell and taste of Out Philosophical Gold
have such a strong effect in arousing the Kundalini's little Brother, in me.a
Is it its value? I4y ioy in the victory? If so, why should one refuse some
samples?5 Would a greater joy arise from accepting such? To this my
cocaine-mind leers and whispers'Yes!'It quotes the'dog-gold in Leah's
Sbin' proposal in support.G FIer failure to do this disappointed me. Freud
suggests (I think) that a fascination comes from a false connection made by
children between two ptocesses. I doubt this, for many reasons; though the
1 The female sexual organ.
2 The male sexual otgan.
3 Capricorn, a sign used by Crowley to denote the Scadet Woman.
a The whole pangtaph is obscure. Crowley is putting dowq his thoughts as
they occur to him. 'Our Philosophical Gold'is the combined sexual fuids (the
'Elixir'); its smell and taste aroused in him further sexual feeling, for that is the
meaning of the phrase 'Kundalini's little Brother'.
5 What Crowley seems to be saying is that he had no grounds for rejecting any
samples of the 'Elixir' as he sometimes did-because it was 'ill-formed' or
'tasteless', etc. This rejection implied discrimination or restriction vrhich he was
against on ptinciple. 'The word of Sin is Restriction' says The Book of the Lap.
Crowley is saying, '\Wouldn't it be bettet to accept everything ?'
6 The 'dog-gold in Leah's Slbin' probably means an attitude ort Leah's part with
which Ctovley was dissatisfied. Shin, a tooth, is a symbol of spirit. 'Dog-gold' like
'dog-Latin' is bastatd gold. She had failed to accept something that he wanted her
to accept, i.e. she had fallen under the sway of the principle of 'restriction' on a
paticular occasion.
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behaviour of doqs argues his case acutely.-I myself think that the spiritual
idea of revolt "glinrt"r.rt i.ri""r1-rrr. lathetof the act. rt is a ceremonial
protest against American I.dea]slr (Similarly i p;.f*;;;;"_.n,
say' 'I am not tempted; I do this ftr its- own sake,.) f don,t wish as if to
the body, to nurrsirt. it; but t m"y ao just a rii,r. *.* to revolt
pleasant' so that body may know its iraster insisr, o.r rtt than is quite
his bidding, just as.a devout_TorF ,qoir. mighr ,rrurir,g tt . fute at
church, but not pe,ster them. In t avoid _;k;hi;r.rvants go ro
my sincerity is chanenged, ,'r Jxcessive devotion unless (a)
specially excited so as in the palermo, porr-i"oir-ril, o, (/) when
the spiritual idea thai'pain' of urry Hnd is griry u JJ;;r, or (r) when
flames it
old-woman way. , .*ootJ'.ti"g uoay "'rJ;; ilrlr.rror. in the
The masochistic erement is cerainry present: I want to be Leah,s slave,
her abject; r want to abrogate th.-doan."d that -.1r" ,;; in soul; the
manhood that loves her woiranhood, mates h.r, prote.t, t .r, frorrooa, irar,
befriends het; even the animal ,h", i'G sense-centred is hei own eqrrar. l
do really want to set my highest ora.i n., to*.ri;;;, ;;", below that
:i::ltfi:H::l 'po*'' rtat be *v 'o"t', o,,. ioJ,'io" it, thoogh ,h'
There is arso the possib'ity that pain of any sort is a spur to a worn
The schoolboy's nerves react to tie Mag.azine cover, -r-i. hack.
rhe novelettes. To-day r am rarely in physical need of rerief; ,.*"rrr-gi',s to
time I need an ideato excite me, ..g. ih; other daf i;;i;';; and most of the
in a chair. That chair took me f;".t , public room
revelled i' it. B,,i one needs .p^i"; i" Tff:tr{':i: ;?r;f:ff.? #ril
brandy, o.viat, are not for the ".i*"i" iorgues of infanir. Nor. that pain of
bites, scratches etc., must nevef go fatenough to claim the whole attention
or even to divert its centre from i-ts Love.
Masochism, too, is normal to man; foi the sex-act is the Descent into Hell
of the saviour. It wourd u" ioi *. ,o want Leah were she onry a
woman; but she's a.Spirit, "bro"i
both need our new growing as I grow, new every dme; thus we
lvt"gn.tirilr ,o .8-iirr. and act accordinplv.
This Act, then, is (r) a protest Tqiyx (i;i;p;;,?n i6'riJ;."ght that
anything is common or. uirclean, 1r) ai"iril", even of Ketrier and eriphoth.a
(z) A stimulus to (o).imagnatin,lAy
L3ve b.r.a{ding a variatiorito it, "."-"*.entres by oain_pleasure, (r)
affirm (a) that there is no part of -o'j.r-or.*pr.rrion. (3) A sacramenr to
love makes her mine own dod, her,L, ir "t, "i,rri H.ir,.'ral that my
mine and sanctif.es it. (e) that u., hort, ;; 6}-t b"hy, nourishes
There is thus in it a Creed, an fnvocation, and an Union.
The Gold must be.her own, or -"a. gota by her word. or act. This fact
I 'American Idears' in.this context *."nr personar h1gi9n9. The whole para-
graph suggests a conflict in crowlels ;;;';b'"", his-traffi-c in
s The palermo (panormuslorgir'airiigl La pJ"ry,-;-;;;.^ *q'r4r,human excrements.
3 Kether, the Ciown or nirt"'sfi.ir,';ii"" d;,.s+s* on the Tree of Life. The
Qliphoth is the rearm "rtn.. rr'.',ir-o*ll"i,ra rft.i;;,fi"^f";;i r"giorr.
*:,fl iiJXnTlru"t B;f g6 6 d;;h,;ffi ; r,i, ^i,,i,i",io., ; -. ffi ;; n o par t o r
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definitely refutes the theory that the basis of the act is physical. Thete is no
'effor of taste'.
r.4j note that the'victory'ovet eocaine last night disorganized my
^.m.I
troops. I beat no drum. I fired no shot, to-day. On guard!
r.Jo a.m. All the while that I have been at work on the Gold Situation,
one of me has been gloating over it; it has had eyes in the back of my head,
and watched Leah; even as she sleeps she is at the athanorll
I am totally unmanned; but the Soul is only the more God for that, and
It-though in the Aethyr poised like Ra the Hawk,2 indifferent to Its
planets-seeks some expression of Its thought, Its will; It seeks incarnation.
It -"nts the mind to rest from all these ramblings, the body to revolt from
scratch of style,s to drop scribe's tablets, don priest's alb (alb, for'tis pure of
aughtl) It wants the body to say Mass, the Golden Mass of the Sun,a to say
it simply, to consume the Host,5 that and no more; for in this dte is
holineis, is joy ineffable, is love perfected, is will fulfilled. It is sufficient in
itself; it needs none othef, is in itself sufficicnt, is the Salvation of the God
in man, lest He go mad for loneliness.
My body would not; I constrain it;.now shall it write no more. Haste
thee to paft the purple folds of the shrine's curtain;o offer the scadet shrine
thy silent praise; partake of its gold gtace, thy God within thee; then, thou
art That !
z.r8 a.m. I go. This act,very ecstatic led up to another.
2.45. Opus XII, 11666-3r. Operation: excellent. No difficulty at any
point, despite the large amount of cocaine. Blame the over irritation caused
by the length of previous orgies. Climax ineffably grand. Elixir: most
absorbed. \Wrhat was got [out] was good, but curious to the taste. Object:
the Leah book. (Result: best poem in five years !)
7.oo a.m. Am up, feeling fresh, aftet soare quite nice sleep. Later: a bad
cold in the head has started. I wrote a rcally greatLeah Poem.
r8 August, H. +.oo a.m. I wake. Cold still annoying, despite a good sweat.
My Camp is simply rotten. I've got to have a good one' or give up work.
I'm resolved, like Scott and Clemens,? to work off all my fi.nancial Karnz.
I've been robbed all tound, but I'll forget it, and let no man say f've robbed
him.
Therefore, more scenarios, more business enetgy. Painted a picture-big
and bad-before lunch.
7.ro p.m. Just finished writing 'The Bow and the Beaux',8 dictated to
r Athanor, the overt or futnace of the alchemists. While Ctowley was writing
on the Gold Situation in his Magical Record, i.e. recording his thoughts on the
Elixir and the Opus, he observed that Leah was mas_turbating in ber sleep.
2 The ancient Eglptians typified Ra, the Sun God, by the hlwk
3 The stylus. Crowley is referring to his constant plactice of writing.
a The Golden Mass of the Sun ii the Sacrament of the Aeon of Horus, i.e. thc
present age inaugurated by Aiwass, Ctowley's Holy Guardian Angel.
^
5 A reietence to the IX' O.T.O., wherein this Mass is celebrated'
6 The vulva. ? Sit \Talter Scott and Mark Twain.
8 No typescript of this title is extant.
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Leah, who is- perfectly stunning in an orange slip with the black silk braid
and tassef s of my old {owered dre ssing-go'uin foi a sash. Next item ? Leah,s
tired to death: I, for the first time to-day]fresh, fit, Freudian !
rr.z5. Aftet an hour's prattle, at desk, I,ll continue it in bed.
Ah, the best laid plans o' mice and men!
19 August, ?1. rz-.oo-a.m. Opus XIII, 3 v6661r. Operation: brief but
magnificent. No diffic-ulties. orgasm prolonged .o-plete. Erixir: nor-
mal, but of curious flavour. "na
olject:^'May"this my slcarleq w[oman] in
whom all power is given, extend it more and more, in rren and eath and
heaven.'
These words-neady-came impromptu as r blessed the Earth, I forgot
the exact words at once. Two minutes h?er and I can't recalr them!
r z.r;. I'll to bed again.
rz.;o. A poem on Stars in my head. I'll write it.
5.y5- Hell!A night of it again! It was a short poem that I had in mind,
possiblyfive or six quatrains. cocaine elaboratedlt to this 5-hour epic, 5i
quatrains.
. I note ?urry curious fact: I cannot keep to even the simplest metre. I
have the- Anapaesrhabjt; it grovrs on one . i think it is that ,riy ."" dislikes
any mechanical music in these ratter days. But r jump about itogether too
outrageously. However, I asked Aiwaz for a new -oii., and a new message
i1.po.rr;-I suppose this is it. If so, I shall like it on reading;and I thank
Him in advance!
7.oo ^.m. Slept 45 minutes. Later-very little bad reaction from the
cocaine. Long sleep, and return to nonnal after bathing and good night,s
u o.
rest made me quite my ordinary self by Fdday morning.
. zo August,.Q.9.zo p.m. New idea for fiIm, .The Astrologer,, but Leah
has fever again, so I must find other fish to fry, unless r -ut8 u" outrine of
the plot.
Trying a new method of taking cocaine; ratger doses at ronger intervars.
_
Last time I had an hour or so of impatient nervousness; to-nigh"t none.
ro.oo p.m. I start urork.
rr.oo. Revised the Star-secret pog-.r I'm_working with astonishing
slowness; I'm intense and costivg keenly enjoying &.ry *o-ent, and
holding to ideas like a bull-dog. Now a l"it-ao! with'hil teeth in a
monkey's haunch, is not a bullfinch. I worry and groivl. So I,ll try to sketch
my 'Astrologer' plot.
.z.r August,-\. ,.lS a.m. Finished .Astrologer'.2 I worked rather fast,
with a- very difficult theme. I seemed abre to iatch up all the loose ends
instantly, j9 g?rp the whole 'universe of action' without efforr, and to cap
climg with climax' spontaneously, thus exploding the dumf of waste
munitions more pyrorechnically than I had directed"the barrag!. The play
I It is not extant.
2 There is no o<tant copy of this work; it 'il/as not made into a 6lm.
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was meant to end with Victor's death; that left Justice with a hole in hct
net; I gaffed the slippery fugitives. The asqrologet's conscience awakened by
Fate'slutning her lies into truth, het real powef bursting its_trickerydom,
its triumph h.t death-when the Gods come to a profaned temple their
"ttd it-this sudden apotheosis, ends also the murderef' con-
lightning vrrecks
victing iim, purging him to confess Truth's might and his own ctime, and
consecrating him by the fires of suicide.
I see myTault about this matter of scenarios: I despised the movie mode
of art; I iould not take it seriously. I could not believe in my ownwork;
I deliberately tried to be bad when I thought badness might please producers.
I thank Jane f.ot the change; she has made me genuinely interested
(besides teaching me some technique) ar1d my last two scenarios have
b... -y own, not sneers at othel people's. I can't get Beauty in them, for
they have no form; save only thai balance, neatness, and smoothness of
action are not unbeautiful, as in a chess problem. But my new interest is a
little more than the intellectual pleasure of handling fotces, by agteed rules,
as in chess: I begin to play with live pieces. My old scenarios were rigid as
algebra; ."or" effe& were cast, not"wtought. Each piece had its move'
"nd the the mate came in so many moves. Now
I krr"* it; given 'position',
"rr"d complaii: .The King dead? Bah! \X/hat happens to me?'And I like
pau/ns
my folks to^b. *y friends, to refuse to cletk for me, to ufge their claims . . .
zz August, O. After a long night's rest, I am normal: but oh! it's hot
weather.
Reading Tbe sn ord of lf,/elleranr.-shaken to the soul by �墈rcest sobs. I
want to -fightl Helll Later-all evening at the Shrine of Our Lady of
Dreams12 slept at z.ro a.m, MondaY.
z1 August, ty. Painted frames all a.m. etc. Lettef from Mrs Clarkes
Ieply. Dreamt'The Masks', a satire for the screen. I slept agood
-*ro,. enjoyed the exquisite languors, Our Lady's Gracea to the fullest. I
deal, and
read up the subject io *y Toxicology and my Dictionary -of Medicine;
ur.i at the crude ignonnce of that and the btoad-minded agnostics of
^ started the pipe again about
this. We 9.
,.oo p.m. Quainsluggeits cocaine to steady opium, and.doesn't say that
the praitice is especially pernicious' I'll try it out, gently; it is r r ' 5 o p'm'
z4 August, d. The Hour of Kephra:6 Hail Thou that swimmest thfough
the Gdfh of Night, in Thy claws beadng Earth, Tly BrU of Dung!
(Observi 'tis the ledeemer-unto-the-Light that exalts Dung!) The siqglc
rtrig cocaine has turned me into a Tiget of activity. The opium alone left
t "f Spord of Velleran, atd otber stories, t9o8, by Lord Dunsany'
Tbe
2 Opium.
a Identiw unknown,
a The drLams produced by opium.
u 2 Dirtionoli of Medicini e,tited by Sir Richard Quain, r88z; third cdition,
r9ro.
I
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me without ambition_or :nefgy. I have no restlessness or impatience but,
though I've no idea what r wani to do, I'm fiercery por""iio l",romething.
r2.rJ a.m. Tarking-I note that I'm sleep-burdened-rro word fits the
state, but I'm not sleepy. It's more that I repro".h -yr.ii ro, ,rot b.inl
feepy. The old fear of anxiety? Leah ,ogg.rtJyi work.i shali we surnmon
Rosalie2 to keep house ? Hexagram xrr. pii.Excellent ro, ,-"tt *"tters such
as this.
_ Gilc symbol fot Mrs Clarke ^t present. Hexagram XXV[. I.
Nourishment-a good symbol; she need.s me.
symbol fot our r"Hrg-lMagical Alliance for practical purposes. lrexa-
gram LVIII. Tsi. water of watei. Admirable for harmony io"".rr.
Alostrael asked Aiwaz f2r,7 symbol: a blue a, itr "'rrd
yelli*irrr'-rrit. circle,
very large. A 6 seemed to follow, flashed and fled outside and below circle
to its left. Excellent is this omen, and very hatmonious with my own
symbol from the Yi.
t2.4o a.m, a sudden idea for a Leah poem-and a sudden swift vomiting!
I've vomited; I'll sing.
. r'?o-p.*. I sang-all night and day till now. I suppose r must pay for
it-fork out!
4.4o p.m. Opus XIV, 7-e!-6.y. Operations: very brief; quite easy_
orgasm splendid. Elixir: A.r. Object: physical energy.
4.ro. I haven't slept yet.
9.ry. Nor yet-the Energy asked for fooded me.
z5 August, B. I've been _in a heavy reaction a[ day. r,m very sick with
nostllgte du passi-hke a landlady, who has seen better daysl saii ,) la najuti
tonbie-hel|! Forget it, kid! Build it up again with your ,ror-y.r-*oro-oo,
Tool!
9.to p.m. rThen I haven't been reading Fannl's First pla1-what trash!
Norman-Douglas on carabia-good stuff! D. H. Lawren"ce-overdrawn
copies of continental realists ! I have been in love with myself for writing
the'chants before Battle's andrhe stratagema and. wantingio b."t my own
record with a new story. r want an Elm in it to drop a blugh on the chief
characters so as not to do poetic justice; and I 'yiant .co"loner pacton,s
Brother'5 for the mystery man. Let me add this to that z and make 5. Arso, I
want a spiritist milieu: 'Did you ever know any one named william? And
A.C. as the Fool to make extravagant talk.
Get on then!
z6 August, \. rz.ry a.m. I'm at it; snow6 again,and my story,s details all
1 i.e. that he divine bv the I Chinp (yi Kino\.
2 Probably a local giri.
3 A poem, published inTbe Englisb Reuiew,August rqra.
a A short storv which.was first"pubrishedin T-Ee EEiiix and republished by the
Mandrake Press in b""Lleioi;hi;;;ri*, innied'Thi S;rrgr;,';;9.
5 A story of "
about ro,ooo words, unpublished
o Cocaine.
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swollen with dropsy. No ideas yet of any soft of plot. Finished 'Colonel
Pacton's Brother'-continuous till 9.3o P.fi., 2 z4-hour sffetch.
z7 August, Q. Faitly normal all day. Painted two panels and touched up
some othlf pictures. Now 8.3o p.m. and I think a good night's rest should
find me very fresh and fit in the moming.
z8 August, h.On the contrary I have been feeling wretched all day. I
slept from rr.ro p.m. till past 9.oo a.m. andagain after tiffin, nearly four
hours. The weather is close, not too hot, but as if the air were devitalized. I
have taken three sniffs of heroin and now two of cocaine between t.oo P.m.
and 8.5o, but I still feel rotten'
8.yo p.m. Strange too is an entirely new consciousness, hard to describe,
and very vague. Shall I say that I feel as if my whole past wefe dead, that I
am 'somebody else' tather than 'I'? I don't mean that my memoty is gone;
it is a deeper ihing than that. It seems as if my wodd were newly presented
to me, I being new too like a man aftet a long illness. But the springtide
which gilds the heart of such an one is'not in me. I feel a distaste for the
restorel contact. Life seems a soft of 'compulsory cdcket' but with no
prospect of leaving school in a yeat or two, nor any rvish to do_so.
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Love of Leahif I could only wing to it! I'm physically deptessed.
Work: I may do some as I might go to play, to thtovr a gaudy rag ovet the
face of my soul's co{Pse. But I'm not dull or bored; I simply shrink from
getting back into training because I know that the 'condition' is not a
p.t-"tt.t t gain, and the tace itself and its prizes only the more bitter fot the
ieality of thiir sweetness. Life is Calvary.I am scourgedt'y my ambition; I
am bound by *y oature; I am mocked by my sense of Truth; I am spat
upon by my sense of Fatuity; I stagger under the ctoss of the Fate I have
eirned,-to torture me, slay me, and exalt me. Thrust through my hands are
spikes: Thou canst not Do; Thou canst not Hold; Thou canst not Go' My
tiroughts, sharp tough and smooth, their tangle (for a1l its _complexities)
closel in a cirCle; these are the thorns of my crown. My body's weight-
dull agony, stafk shame, loathed impotence. My throat's thirst-Love!
Quencbless ait thou, o Love-alas ! Seven times, alas ! and alas !
Gall on the sponge and in the cup a btew of poppy and wine; though
canst nof sleep nor dream! Darkness is on me, soul-sick; is not the Light
my God? Clamour and curses of the ctowd, wails of the thieves my peers,
so-bs, cacklings, lies, brutalities-and it was I whose soul loved Silence,
would not that even the one word Truth profane it.
Earth spins, and moon reels round her. Shel is the skeleton at the feast!
Where is ihine air, Selene ?2 \illhere is the gauze that wrapped thee, maiden
of Night ? Did we not watch thee dance, hail thee most pufe, stainless and
silverlArtemis ?3 nfle focussed lense: thou art anhag. Thy corpse is leprous
I 'She' is the Eternal Feminine ot the Scarlet Woman or Leah Hirsig who was
thin to the point of emaciation Crowley referred to het on more than one occasion
as a'skeleton'.
2 The lunar goddess. 3 In this context, the Virgin Moon.
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with burst pustules; thou art ice-cold; the sun's light shows thine ulcers,
deserts for seas_, dry, dark and vast; shows thy volJano-."rr..rr, even they
that slew thee slain!
. Jhou speakest: 'So shall it be with thee.' Earth wheels in the sun-system;
it is a watch without a dial. The sun himself? His light and force. I share
them-Hail thou Sun, my-sire, my mind's appreciation of the power and
wisdom that made the machine thlt He g"n. -" these, and thatrind by so
much as these are greater than I, by so much does their aimlessness appal
me!
The stars ? Madness immeasurable, madness most madly multiplied by
madness ! There, on this cross there, where once One, God_man, who had made
all wodds, one that w1s very God, that was the word., one ihat was Trurh,
one. that was Hanged even as I _h"g now. But he one roll of the ball,
Td h: turned away from the table, though the croupier was his Father,
though the wheel was lo-aded- r
I, playediever less than the maximum, i
31*"y.t play_e{ en plein. }Ier-he *"r thi"ty and thtee when he quit; I beat
him there. ] h_g "pgr_Ty cros,s; my senseless pain that purges not, that
warns not, have I made virt'e of it, deemed it my service tirat lnau *ir, *"
hortour? Have I spun myself a web of poesy-gossamer, v/oven of fancy,s
silk an irridescent veil, thinking to tangle a Godis feet, wiih this to blind the
eyes of a God ?
Hlye. I lulled myself, as if r were a trd !t a fairy-tare in which my
crucifixion is the adventure whereby I win the princess ? Have I said: Life is
a nightmare-when r choos.]-oo pinch myself, wake to delight? It may be
that at one time or another I havJdone au lrres things; it f;", u.." rJr,g,
1nd my brain has ry.T with- the spasms o! mine time
To-night? Does a soldirl-porh rrp .pong.? That ^giny, "nd ^g^ti'.
the witch-phiftre that whelms " iJgeilaaonna,r I tfrink,
ttreihip seni with the billow of Madness. Its
foam dances bright on the o.tt-".fo hath no substance. It,s rhythm and
music, as it -leaps and exults, this is not in itself, is onry the poppei of !7ind,
*. yHg of-a. purposeless Fool. In itself it is bitter and idle, tiJ .esspoot of
Earth. Yy:rup is no longer the shallop of twenty y."r, ,go; Love cannot
start a plank, nay' nor send qualm to -y most delicat. p"rrinler! It cannot
:.l..u.y me up and on withit-and r do not even wisir it coild.I tum my
dry lips frop lle spgnge. Another? Who is this sinister legionary, with the
{eep eye-s, darkly and fearfully glowing, and the mouth twiJted lnto a smile ?
Strange he should be so tall; hJ does iot strain, yet the cup in his hand is at
my mouth. Tr is.of gold, chased exquisitely. It'has an minner of ptecious
stones. Its wine is wonderfully perfumed, my nostrils pulse; it soothes and
excites at the same time, it cleais and calms the mind, it aeugt ts desire, it
gives ease and activiry to the body. It offers itself like an inc&rse, assuring
its God that all his hosts, archangels, men, and all manner of fiends and
arch-fiends but await his commands; that each one stand.s eager to offer his
service, that the unspeakable variety of the universe, being hii, is one in one
I
Jesus.
2 A narcotic and anodyne, Atropa berkdoma, commonly known as Deadly
Nightshade.
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thing only, passion to minister to his pleasure. I turn the anguish of mine
eyes from the blackness of heaven; below them, brimming the cup, is the
wine.
It glitters and foams; it is cdmson, and vital as blood, it is golden and
luminous as the sun; it is crystal and calm as the moon. f see Force swid in
it, scadet tongues flame in its depths. I see Wealth fructify in it, it breeds
tawny globes at its edge. I see Wit flash in it, pale lightnings like snakes dart
hither and thither. I see Love blossom in it, green islands of calm in its
waves. I see Delight su'ell in it, skies of stillness without bound and seas of
musical motion. I see Wisdom veiled in it, subtler than light its shadow's of
indigo lure me. I see Beatitude sweep in it, violet subtlety is its essence, the
dominant that its hatmonies reveal by concealing. I see moreover Mystery
as the soul of the wine, black that alltrres me and fascinates me more than all
else therein. I imagine; I lust. It is a snake, its coils strain, cmshing mine
heart; its fang spurts, convulsing my soul. Black! Is not Heaven Black?
Have not I gazed and desired as I hang ? Yet my mouth at the cup's lip
drinks not. I say to the soldier-who att thou?What is the cup? Wiat is
the wine? He answered me: I am that I am. The Cup is the Form that
contains all; it is the Breast that suckled thee, it is the Womb that served
thee, when thou wouldst make thee idols in thy likeness, setting them up that
men might rvorship them. Aiso this Cup is the Mouth that devoureth thec;
for he that suckleth Life the same is toothsome for Death's feasts. This cup
is also the Bovrel that voideth thee; for who create himself God, and
maketh idols, shall not his Godhead dwell therein, and his V?aste self bc
thrust from Life, swept through the sewers of Time, and be no more ?
The Wine of the Cup is all thou wouldst. Wisdom, Intelligence, Joy'
Might, and Beauty; Pleasure, Activity, the tendrils of thy Root through
Space extended, and thy Tree's flowers and fruit not servant of Time's
seasons: drink, and all's thine'
Thou shalt be God, one ineffable brilliance, these but thy prism's play,
shalt be Being's clown beyond all conception, Thou from three veils that
are called Naught, Space and Light,t shalt flame the Sole Star-eye'2 And thou
shalt be thy \il7orld, Virgin and Bride,3 by whom thou shalt renew thee as
thou wilt.
And I said again to the soldier: I am a man called God, and I hang on u'
cross called Life; but, prithee, speak to the man. He said; this Wine is Aru
This is the Blood of God. Drink! It is life and loy; thou shalt be God, and
pour thine essence of Rapture, molten gold, leaping with heat of thy love
into the moulds of clay, the Empty Language-Forms, to make thee idols of
thee.
Quoth I-the metal cools. He said: what Virgin hath wiped thy face?
Who hath been Asiaa to thy Prometheus ? Whom hast thou wooed, nigh
forty years, nor slackened suit? \7hom hast thou won again and again, and
I Ain, Ain Soph, Ain Soph Aur. 2 Kether. 3 Malkuth.
-of
a Asia was tlie mother Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods for
mankind and was punished for it by being chained to a rock and having his liver
devoured by an eagle. Crorvley means: $fho is mother to thy suffering ?
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yet to-night wouldst win ? wrro hath displayed to thee mosr her beauties,
who hath seduced thee most, hath borne th.. .o* and-daughters most?
\vho hath been subtler and roverier? wr; il;;;ffi#i might? Thy
virgrn, thy true Love, and thou her chosen ;en alive_the
English Language! ^b;";--;ii
I said to the so'ier: Ay! well I know this vintage. r can intoxicate
myself, inspire or initiate; r can twine wreathes of ecstasy and at the
symposium of the saints sup with my -"t., i--ort"rrri.""tput Beauty,s
girdle about my loins and .h"ll.rrg. i<."i, ,o try a faJrwith me; I can bind
on my sandals of rhought, sprinr five ,.o". yrrd, with Sterne or sray the
Marathon course with rrismegistus.l I can snatch op rrry r*ord if th. bogt.
of Freedom sound, or my harimer and smash the coproJite idol of Jesus. I
can if I be drunk in the right way and degtee, .";;;;;; ;;thes with a
shout, reel to the brothel Ly aesg rra" t rrrr ritgt" Ni;rJoor., hy her
before me' open her, an. then with madness and viirence art night long, I
violate hgr,-an{ get on her some b"st"rJb"be of mine, who knows how it
may fare? or else, it might even be thaimood or-this might get mine ear,
and seeing own lureJapridpt"y pimp for Leah my b";G:Jy?wns (it may
urge) at having got Ev-rywrr.r. and man snarls 1, t""irg i'o"rXo*ir.r.; u. ,
Beastfor an hour, and git somevrhere! i, it all I asked the Soldier.
only one word morg rike Browning ! I ^,
think me capricious; but_just am grateful, and yet please don,t
thir-orr. *"gtt_t'*"*,;;-;;;; h*.
absolutely alone, with neither frienJ ,ror -^r., with no Elixirs either as
stimulant or anodvne, and to examine tt..,rrrirr.rr" i;; ;. p.int of view
of the Man-in-the-stree! only an o-rrir.l.nt one. I want to feel without
trying to explain "w1I the agony. r *r"i to estimate the present without
leferengq.lo past or future. I ivill not r*a r.lL[j.;;: w; Kr"';r^ Renoaatur
Ifltcgra,s like a Maeus; or as Inuenis Nibil ierunt Inaginefi,ntit . My.ti.; o,
as Ipum Nomet Ri linulik. m.taprr/ria11t o_r as Irgcnio "
Iacebi, rike a poet, butonlv ^ I Numen Resplendet
middle-class'plain man'. "r N:;;;-Risk_Inqoiry'iik.-;;;st English
foot of yout piram? I refuse to crave'as I have!or. or".-or twice, a
addition to between my ribs, and somethi.rg to ke.p oot angers in
my your-guard at my J.p"r.ir*. r', ;"rii"igi.'".lr"i^-. And I
ffil mouth from the bop. Tt.r, he laughed, ;i it;; he was the
'My son!'e A smile shimmered in-his eyes; the words rose and feil like the
song of the sea. 'My son! True-born'of my lust! on the flesh of the
Goddess I gat thee; on her trt"t i" trr. sliinx, on rr.i irr*-i, ?igr"r,
Snake and Ape and Sow, ow1 daughier, my dearesr, sweet Sin, on "rrd
whose catesses tire !r her
1 Thrice Greatest never, f gat thee, i.y L"rtr"a, and branded thy brow,
Hermes.
2 fcsat NaTarenus Rcx ftddcorrm, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the
3
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* 'Natutj is completety;;;;e6;;.li Jews.
5 r ou flnd the rmage of things to be nothins.,
6 'The.name itself iJthe *i"fl,r.fi;
? 'Divinity shines in tt. *tu?.oiSacchus.,
A spear.'
8 This is the Devil addressing Crowley.
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and thy breast, and thy body before and behind; with my tongue did I brand
thee, Alastot; and I blessed thce, that thou shouldst be lonely, the wanderet,
the soul of the wilderness, and that thou shouldst avenge and destroy, attatn
to be God and the brute that should hunt and devour Him. I blessed thee,
that thou shouldst help Man; I prepated thee a Temple, that men should
worship thee by thy name, The Beast, and by the number thereof. And thy
motherwrote secretly, AlJst iD thine heart for thy name, and blessed thee
with an hidden nature to console thy solitude, and gave thee herself for thy
mistress and proclaimed that to sin without shame should be a gift on thine
altat.
'Then did we drive thee forth. My passion impelled thee, and hers alluted
thee; swift were thy goings, my sonl And in season also we gave thy sister
for thy mate that yout flesh might have heirs, Sin's dading delight conceived
at my daughtet's darkest desire, and she loved me and [] called her-
Alostrael. I blessed her with my pervetsity, and she with her hunger. !7e
gave her to thee, her perversity for thy pleasure, her dowty, and thy flesh as
her carrion to sate her. She stands thete-the sponge ready in her hand-o
my son, wilt thou hang there and thirst?' ,
12 said: 'O my father, forgive me; for I know not what I do. But I will
know. I will not moisten my tongue vdth het spoflge. Is it not She that hath
soaked up my blood with it? Nor will I taste thy wine; from my brains and
my seed thou didst distil it, that its fumes might dtzzy my soul till it fell and
dissolved. Hast thou not drained me of Life, the God that is I, all given to
mine Art, as the sponge of thy daughter, my sister, of my Leah, my mate, of
me The Beast, the Woman of Scadet, Alostrael, hath sucked up my Lovc,
the Brute that is I, all given to my lust ?'
z8 August, ft.
But he laughed.
'My light! O my fatheg the DeviMt hath made all things one, being
perfect, even as doth the Darkness !
'My Liberty! Every Restriction is gone; all Ways are as one; why then
should I move ? It were thus were I ftozen stiff in the heart of a mountain of
ice !'
He laughed.t'MI son! thou art mine; thy tongue is a liar's; I, Satan, thy
sire, am not shamed! And thy dam hath not stinted her son! thine itch of
corruption is Sin's, she is proud of her son!
'l heard thy Word. "Let me hang! I'll not taste; let the Cup and the
Sponge pass from me !" I watched thy Deed. The first pang of pain in thy
soul made thee offer thy prayer to a Devil of Poison. Then thy fancy
portrayed the obscene and blasphemous image of thyself crucified. Thou
hadst had delight in life as maybe no man has surpassed; at least, thou
thinkest so; and such pdde can sczrtce bewail itself decently. Thou art the
1 Alys v/as the name Ctowley, in his feminine mood, gave himself. Alys is thc
feminine form of Aleister.
2 Crowley is speaking, replying to his father, the Devil.
3 The DeviJ ansv/ers his son, Crowley.
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greatest, highest, deepest, btoadest-ad flan.team, Thou art Saint, poet, Seer;
art God and Brute, my son; by Sin, h"st made.htil;;;ancing_hall of
drugs, disease and dung, *a il.*iJ?r-*^l and woman, babe and. beast.
Pride! thou art no lesJson
eight hours thou hast "r -y1"i"t.by that ,r,",'"rl'ri"rt rhen these
swined -f *i".r fir"" rr"r-i.*rli i" writing_I,
#:ff ,ffT,;T'J:r,T;',Tlffi ll'.'d"'pltr';ir"*'i"'a'",;1f, i";;
'The sponge? These eight hours'ronqthou hast slylysqueezed its juice,
sucked it with **1,.:r: ,il"-"t.r, nlr-ty ror".ry most obscene. For thine
heart spake in thee : wrote on let me g'loat silently.,
Let spinthriaer feast mine eyes, foii -o_rds min. ."rs! Let my nose scent
corrupdon, my tongue taste carrion; let sin il;kt";ret s"tan so.k
my soul! r tove to iantarize myself! r rove "";.;;
Let drowsilv dav drag dreams rr.ti i"t t" 1oy. -i i.i iirrr. by little.
by little mv lovl! Rit ,oorri "r luptiar night not need her! Little
tongue, that it mav prophery .rry'p^i"* ,it. dr"-; T.;ir, .;;;"r roose thy
sip, till the sensoouJmuse t" ,i,y ltood what ir;;;;;;t
thy dram to the d":gt rrr the sensual; then as the brain swims, swa'ow
Law in the ha' or l ,*""iy *i""tes to six when my love cries the
6.oo a.m. I did. q9i Abley. l'' it"r.. il"se rwenry minutes immortal t
All my old,"g. of torr. came seething in spate!
n.fi"iiT;rtiln o^ had to g"" '"J iazki' f h";;;;;i;-,."s in my
It 4'r J p'm. oh damn it! yes, I sang it. zg verses of 6 rines in about g hours.
a is absurd. I find my fluency i" *i* rtrieressly impaired. I make lines rike
Jigsaw.
ro.oo p.m, circa. Opus I, 3t_666_3r. Operation: very brief. I was fagged
our, and over excited. g''*ir, _orr-"lror'U.J,;;; ;;ilt;.'bi;..r, a new
scenario (badly held). Result, no ia"", ,i At.
3o Augusr, tv . Called on prefect of Cefalu.2
3 r August, J. Cleaning house for Temple.
r September, p. Nothing special happened.
z Septembet, '2I. z.jo^?.m. Opus tI, 3v6661t, p.a.n. Operation: excel_
lent. Elixir: admirable. Object: ,'"...rrij r"ip to Naoles.
P.m. Swam clear aroun4 6"16orrr; il; ;;?;". I have had no
$:r::l: in stopping cocaine absolutely; no hankering or symptoms of
,*l Sgptember, p. A rather dull day, though I painted a bit and reviscd
'The Asffologer,.r
I'Sparks.,
2 The hcad of the Iocal police.
I * :fkl:ryr, jutting tut inio the bay.
- l\ filrn treatment; it is not extant.
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rr.ro p.m. Alostrael and I are smokingl-since ro.oo of so. I begin the
new day-by Considerations of Temples.
4 September, ft. Temple must hlve (r) Boundaries-Nuith;2 (z) Light-
H"bi*i;' (3) a-gocl-R-H-K;o (+) Atr altat with four elements; (t) a priest,
A-"-"-f.r'tiut i shall now ask Alostrael for a Vision of our Temple. Its
colour? Black. Its shape? Has a pyramid top, with a globe at the point'
Walls perpendicular-plan, polyg.o-n of thirteen sides' Very high compared
t" .itJr#.tence. Inside, black *ith de.orations, mostly in red. Golden in-
side of spire; silk floor, ted soft carpet.-Thfee steps at one end to altar like a
sfreff; Af *friie marble. Trvo huge candlesticks, white, on silver stands' This
i, ,.jty the Throne ; in S[outh] Et"*l.Irn N.nf. is a door, r] as broad as the
ort.t ria.r. The plan is-roughly circular., 6666 in violet tobe. Russell? in
black Phoenixt roLe. Alostrael in white-yellow robe' A T[aa] & Kfaph)s on
apapff in hand of an angel on a^window-sill in anothet foom. Lotus on
pjp.r. Howardlo takes a *.tt"ge. Gold Cross on paper. Means: phallic sym-
f"ir- in weapons. Two spearJ by throne, r[ight] h[and]. Silver disk on l.h.
Nott ittg .lr. is in thc temple by dghl ; ^lve .can Put in "th"! Y: need' I need
(r) Tripod, (z) Silver Censer (Air), (3) Chalice (Water), (a) Light (Fire)' (5)
ir",." (u"t,g. My coloors are Black and Gold; hers, Cdmson and White.
No Green, rryr rtr.. No Blue, says r. Ail this seems doubtful. It's one
o'clockl I want to sleeP.
),oo a.m. No; I thought of a poem on Leah, and wrote it. Fooling about
most of the daY.
5 September, O. Nothing much aftct 6'oo p'm'
6 septcmbef, v. r2.4J p.m. Finished the {stolen P.o.'lr-made it redly
first raie. I,m an ass; I've bien moping in my diary as if I had been idle; but
in the last four days I have done ^ gte t deal of work both att and letters'
Alro odd jobs. I distinctly doubt whether the hothouse gtapes are better
than the natural.
7 September, d. A good day on the whole' ro'oo p'm' circa' Opus Il'
r Ooium.
; Hffiqi'P&::'J"gtJ$rlltg:fffi:j, one or the names or Horus, thc
uq*J:ft::?-flotit,
anothet name of Horus, 1n lis dy-namic aspect.
u AnLir-^f-na-Kh;ns", litcrally 'His life' is in Khont" Iqg .moon g"+ 9f
Thebes]', the name oi " pti"rt tf ttr" z6th dynassy, one of Aleister Ctowley's
formet incarnations.
6 The number of the Beast, i.e. Crowlcy'
? C. F. Russell, Brother Genesthai'
r iir;-ph;;;ir ttrc Uira of tesurrection. Hete the robe is black to indicate the
datkness of death ftom which he re-cmerges'
- t Ttt" ff"trew letter ior 1" asymbol ofthe phallu s, Kaph of the kteis (vulva)'
10 The son of Ninette Shumway, Sister Cypris'
11 This short story is not cxtant.
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3r-6661, p.a.x. operation: excellent. Elixir: most 4trrr'radmirabre. object:
lncrease of Magical trletabolism 'rvDL
8 September, B. considerations of the Equinox [which occ'rs on the]
z3rd [at] 8'28 a'm. 38'N. r4'E. This-seems very good for me and for
magick.r
9 Septembet 2!. Leah and I go off to Naples. Train late. Drive to
headland rt,S.fi Of"_, fri 3. r, p.m., 1t_666_3 r. operation:
good of its 'fl[est] "UJ.r.
mentioned kind' Eri*'* Good Lion.2 oblect: success to journey. rt was not
to Eagle-bearer.a
At Hotel des palmes. Early to bed, very tired.
ro September, Q. re.;o a.m. Woke at a nightmare of Leah,s. Thirsty,
drank u/ater and wrote tiris diary "p ," a"r.. STent off[to sleep].
rr September, ft. At Naples. Hotel de Londres.
Shopping-oh, I,m tircd.
n;tr"Tn"-ber' o' opus X"''' 3v6.66-3r, p.u.n.a Eliit: . . .? object:
13 September; \r'. Shopping.
14 September, J. Ditto: OpT-Tr pl,rr. r_Vittorio. (Baph. XXX*II.)6
Elixir: grcat. Operation: ditto. Object': Nreute.
opus X" plus z-3 t-666-3r-z bbj".tr more. Erixir: grear. operation:
great, in tdad.
rr.oo p.m. Oh, but I,m tired_"qy ,IJ:. a Spanish gi' with a big
moustache' There was a w-_-oman in Gambini's, too, with a RA.otr mouth.
Raw is the word I've been wanting t" a.r.tiu. rrr.,yp..i-lot, too..
r5 september, p. Lobster and excitement made-me ranguish rong upon
m)'bed but I'll start,shopping early. Di;-ro. No shops open, from ,.oo to
9'oo! very tired all day untilTbo,ri ,r.oo p.m. whenit. ioda-grew right.
o.irl$otiffient is on an horary figure which accompanied the original
2 Vell-formid semen.
3 Leah.
a crowley has lost count of the number of opera_tions performed since he left
one *"' -itii r.;;' (;;:iZ;: ;;,r ;;hi; i;;;L"
,?'il*;l*'his t, )' method or
5 Excrement, probably an allusion to monev.
6 Opus Xz (fbilowina d op;;- xt";;;rii. for a sexual operation berween
Babaton and the s."rt;'.piu* ;,';;r;i";ii"! pf v","ii"HJ"#^: probably a
H*r*li*;;**r,ffr **1E$'Lir-ffi fi,,ay,"'i';'I*
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Shortly aftersunset saw and saluted the new Moon' very clear and golden'
in a rose-purPle skY.
16 September,2). tz.4o a.m' (Actually rr'4o P'm'' E') Opus I' 7r-6664'
pVrl oli. The Ceremony of the Equinox'
I chose to advance'the time so that the Mysterjuml might not be
self-conscious" she uttefed the r0ford: 'oh, so much!' op-us most admirable
i;.;;t*"y. I had the idea as OCELLI' had teferred to Sun and Moon' the
N"* W"ta *ould refet to Star' She says: '\ilord means Plenty"
- 1."" p-. I note in CCXX,3 Sun : zoo' Moon : roor Wnged Secret
ffi-" I Uoorstooping Starlight - t, 6ot'a Look this up further!
r7 Septembet, Q. Dentist says, 'No work to do!' Malachite bracelet'
r""ir', ,i... .o-pi.t.d. Wonderful spectacles; see a quirk's antlets !5 Elixir:
ro.rt P.rn. Opus II, y-666-y,-p'u'n' Opetztion: magnificent'
ditto. Object: Eo{oc llatpo6 9t
u)'s
r8 September, h. 2.oo a.m' I note that I have had no desire soever fot
Co.uit.; I note a ,i*il"t note on September z' It was asinine to doubt the
promise (as to this) inThe Book of the I aw'?
t';'.'ld. [" C"ptil ii6"rio Paiace.' Flirtations: Leah's Col-Virgin'e The
Polish Jew and FlaPPedno'
rgSeptember,O.Thetillhite,I{arvellous,Green'RedandBlueGrotto'l0
r."'fNiif.. Fine cliffs, arches, colouts, now and then' I love Cefalu' Fighl
withbarber.Defeatora*.'i.uns'BacktoNaples..SeeCapriandvomit!'
Great dinner-bed is sweet.
1 ,MysTERy, BABYLON THE GRE4I TqE M.OTHBR. OF HARLOTS
AND ABOMIN,tI5N"S-Or,-tue-ranTH.' Revelation' ch. 17' v. ;. An
allusion to Leah, the Scatlet Woman'
2 The Word of the Spring Equinox, see Pages rot arrd 243'
3 The Book of the law.
a Crowley is addinfi up the numbers of the Hebrew letters for Sun, Moo,n and
Fi." ;;;;;,"+;;t*i; H#"f." ilmselt F"h, and_their coniunction ; or Hadit,
Nuit and Ra-Hoor-t{h"ii,^lfr" g"ar *fri.n^rn"y embo$. 'St<ioping Starlight',. 5
(r is the number ri!]^ri,rrli"?.Jt" tn" sttt'in the iarot) is a. re-ference to thc
"r tnt Beast conjoinea tk{ uPon the earth'
iig"""." iit*'s;Ud,"" the horns
"^; ""a c;nJ'" the child o'f a barren woman,
a q"iiil""""., r,"".i;;;. tu.t. so excellent, one could see with thcm
of a hare, and so "".-il;^;F;,r.l.r
thines which urete not there'
"'iitiri^pri.,Jipr. .i,ir" r",ir"t', i.e. Thelema (gi); the Hebtew lettel^s Shin ^nd
Teth formulate ihis Cabbulistica$' , I will tell my prophet,
? .To worship -. of.. *ine ind strange drugs whereof of the Law, chapter
& be drunk thereo [.] il;/ ;ili ;;i t ".fi yet & alll The Book
tt'r"ft1l
't'*n"ro, Tiberius conducted the affairs of the Empire from Capd duting
the last t"n vL".. of his life' He died in r"o' 17' to clphers and
"^;'a",:;r:i;"; ;;rd;;';il';;-;;J;A hts,agicat Retord
iottings. the'Island of the Blue Grotto"
'"ii--&pti has becn called
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zo september' \7. r.ro a.m. chimanzzitnever sent myproofs: curse
No' porter's fault. r'm awake *ith;;;;t;il;;?f,;;, himt
colt for the Apoplexy Strokes. I feeilike a poem: a promising
'Buy a little dawg, sir ?' Done !
_I1 this world " dog', the one
Friend a man can b*uy!,
'Nonsense' laughed-my lazy Leah
'That's an imbecile idea_
Don't I prove it, I ?
You can buy a second friend
If you.know just how ro spend
Jot it in your log!
Woman can be trusty-true
As any dog, so long as you
Treat her like a doj.,z
4.jo ^.m. opus III, 3v666-3r. operations: A.r. prolonged and
irresistible impulse. Etixir: .'r.ry .oriolrJ;;;*i. 'ob;;;;: iir"r.B with
Result:
man came to tefms at once.
6'3o p'm' Disturbed night, diarrhoea, raudanum, no afternoon
rotten. Designed Alostrael-Flag. Mine ow-n has a braci ,t"tri ir.tr"s sreep,
crowned lion at the top, and"a snake of ,r .oirr;;il;,;;th long, a
There are rr cords of 'whir. ," flrg, which is Black, in gold.r
triangle of Horus and the "ir^.rr"th. with the
has the three ranks and golden;;; three gold streamers. The crown
not quite right. th"e s*"ni" inorr. This ;."g"';;;E; our here is
I thought our lfouse pign, be Euclid r 47 !
9.to p.m. Give symbot, f9r pt<ing Viiiorio to Cefalu. Hexagram XI.
Naturally! ought we to do it from-the point ;i i,i rr.*"go-
xvl'', Earth of Air (Troubles). ar"rt*.r iries "f "i*
th, gl ?5 A long upright prtari.-rir..- ov for u air.o "rrlir,.r. Shall we,
above it' i\{y first and general imprersion "t light, with eight sim'ar rays
*", a collection of exclamation
points.
zr Septemb.*. 3. 6.4?p.m. Curse Cook,s to hell for evert So tired, BUT.
Hope springs eternal in irti t uma" r"or,.^cont starts the show and absinthe
does the rest!
zz September, U. W: are getting tired that Cook,s have been now
days in not cashing a cheque-1cria" r" to me and more also if I 7
I don,t
- lhim-1nzzi (?) Apat from contributions on drugs.and other subjects to the
ff;r?rff"f:'i17n#.t^""e, Ttte Ens,titb Riiew, c..'*r"y "i ri'i' "time was not
z The a-ilusio n i{to per aas nefandnm.
. ril i; ;; ;'i;:
:,t;,#
:ii'i;!Sia gician,s * "a. ??g ;ne. number o r Metcu ry
3'i*{lfi'!,1i#,.*4li$J.?:,'#:ffi"i:'H;",i:'fff':ffi ii'J"b'}T"':if I
5 vYv.r4ir
Crov'tey is invoking Ail;;6;'
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strike theq a shrevrd blow somehow. Saw Petrova in Figlia del Destdo.
Wrote her.
ro.ro p.m. Opus IV, 3t666-y, p.utt. Operation: Shott but tremendously
passionate. Elixir: very line and strong. Object: to get new current going.
z3 September, 4. 6.4o a.m. Woke an hour ago; began a Petrova
film-finished it. Leah went to Palermo.
z4 September, Q. Alone in Naples ! (Pious and melancholy reflections are
momentarily deferted.) Only half a bottle of absinthe between me and utter
destitution! I suspected Green, the tailor: it was unpleasant. Greedy,
cringing, lying, mean, servile, cowardly, nine of his v'ould only make a
Bengali.
The Three Tailors of Tooley Street were laughed at for saying, 'Sile, the
people of England'-but they rvere! I am suddenly stricken with remorse. I
simply can't believe that a human being can be so abject as the avetage
free-born Briton. I find myself taking his side, in a mood like Dickens at his
wofst.
I am sick with myself, for ',vhile I know in my mind that man is mostly
muck, I deny it passionately in my soul and raise my Will-wand, my Word
'It shall not be' echoing immutable hollows of thought 'It is not'.
,.ro p.m. By a strong effort of vzill I have refrained from apologizing
to the tailor. I also saw a film a hgge of 'Dota'. Excellent-makes me quite
hopeful.
I had a battle royal with the man ger before lunch-lion against cat.
z5 September, h. rz.oo a.m. I had an idea for afrlm, 'The Tailor', where
a mean meek little man, say the giri's father, despised and forgotten in the
course of the film, strikes a cunning blow at the end. The interest. is
absorbed by the fight of two men fot the gid, and then the tailor pops up,
and sticks his scissots in her iugular.
z6 September, O. Morning at Museum. Idea, 'The Throat Specialist',
really the hangman.
7.r t p.m. I have discovered the Formula of the Mysteries of Dionysus; I
amamazed at the physiological saaoirfaire. r. The Bath. z. The Meal. 3. The
Alarm. Here the candidate can stay or go.4. Caresses' 1. Stripping,
Drinking. 6. Flagellation. 7. The Dance. s' The Mystic Martiage. I will
establish this in Cefalu. The initiation fee vdll be only one thousand lire, but
no one will be accepted v'ithout sevefe examination.
ro.oo p.m. Have perfected my first 'Song of the Holy Ghost'.l The best
song of its kind I have done yet'
z7 September, rv. Messing most of day. Dinnet vdth Vittorio at
Posilippo.
1 First published in Olla, An Antltolog of Sixtl Years of Song, t946, vrhere it
appeats under the title of 'The Jolly Batber'.
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z8 September, J. Money at last. Clearing up debris, excavating myself,
so to speak I Dawg.
. z9 scptember, {t Eady. I hope to get offtoday, and to rcad. Atarantar on
!!e vl1y. r've an idea to write "n Ag"amemnon, folrowing Aeschylus-and
verrall!s but not a ftanslation ; afiercicrowley in rove *ii;h; Adultress.
2.oo p.m. circa. Opus V, Netzach,B i.o.M. Operation: all night. Elixit:
plentiful, soft, sweet. Object: amorem. . . . tlt ad'. . . .1l1ri ii.,
I hope to sail at sunset.
3o September, 2f. palermo in sight.
!..t l p.*. Flave done pentagram, etc. Good night!
I love Leah more than err.r, I expected.
"s
9.oo p.m. Have begun Opus VI.
r October, Q. r.ro !.\. ry-_e6e-3r-. Operation: very long and persistent,
complicated with 'c, c, & c's and otherihings. one lr,rr.-u.r, of my life,
all round. Elixir: unintelligible. Object: praisJof 93.u
2.oo a.m. I wish to consult the yi .r#orrs matters. r. General
symbol of the ne$/ current "boot got -f.it. irrrrotiig
Tahuti? last night, an Omcle "lg: .Eqd"11_g_had
of Thelema: CC*i, ,rrpLgraph.r)
l.+i -;; lt
gives._Lingam of Water,,+i,.9he.JiSer t.*"g."-.-'8. calm and
Tao-like, but creative and bold witholt r^shnErs o, fr"r"-irtion. Seize
opport'nities but do not seek them. Thelema oracle for the ,rr.riirg of .oh,
so much!'e ccxx, r. zz: 'Bind nothing!' etc. General symbor ro" trr. work
of the coltwan) a( spirit:/nl sfaneianlto in cefalu'duri"g^ilr. next six
months. Earth of Eartri: absol.rte t.por", with soridifi.atio'n. Beware of
emotional activity and of discussions.
-symbol for finances of cotl. ad s.s.,cefalu, during next six months. Earth
ojMogg. Inexpetienc_e and ignoranr"-r,o a.".lopir.",r. lin",1rr"[ we do
3!:": Soro,r N[inette] F[raui]'s French Bondsl iui""" f,ir", U.rrgrr_
lrr, Kun. Make a fresh siart. i think this means keep "f
chance arises to statt a business with them. them orriil " d;i;;
- -ly:F for my plan to distil a liqueur of the college ? Air of Moon. Hvar,
rvjl, pignersion-but read chaptei. It's good and dlscribe, ,obi".t.
Symbol for scenario work. Liigam of 5on. Ttrug ioo,i*o' ir str.rrgth.
1 Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydot fi6<.
2
Tbe'Agamemnon' of lri* Ln introdaction, comntentarlt and translation
Ar-t\u1 Woollgar ,AetcbJint. by
Verrill, r a f9.
3 The sevei.th seohiia (sfhere) of the Trec of Life, attributed to venus.
Netzach means Victoirr.
a The passage is indecipherablc.
5 'Cognac, eunt and C6caine.'
6 Eithet Thelema or Aiwaz.
I Ii:*,,the.{srptian god of wisdom and magic.
" I he _6ook of tlse Law, see Appendix.
of e rhe 'rvord' Alostrael rec6ived while undet inspiration during the ceremony
the Fquinox, see entry foue S.ot"*U"it".i-
ro rhe college of the Hory cnoJt, i... ttr" a-ir"y of rhelema at cefaru.
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z October, h. I feel intensely the magical freedom arising from this act.
(Jane etc. to new house.) I with Alosttael alone-we shall do Magick unto
our Lord the Devil such as the Earth hath never known. It is amazing that
our passion is so keen and fresh. The original pact [with Leah], the lapse of
time, the complications of pregnancy-all against it; and it grows stronger
and deeper.
n(/e are now, 8.4o p.m., about to try the formula of Dionysus as
discovered by me in Naples.l
ro.ro p.m. A brief repose.
rr.2, p.m. Opus WII, 3v6661. Operation: very wonderful in all ways,
but especially Will-concentration. Elixir: admirably sweet and strong,
copious. Object: administered to Anu2 Leah, 'To make her sttong and
well'. Give a symbol for Alostrael's vision-developments. Eath of Fire, ^[,
Nourishment. obvious meaning here is 'The l7ord'. Give
symbol for her smoking opium in this connection. Kba4 the
-. G,
defile. Purity-truth -clarity, the High Priestess of the Ta;; dilIuho danger,
of sevetal kinds. She should do it with precautions. How shall I act so as to
avoid unpleasant reactions from smoking? Earth of \ffater. #, Snu.
Stay quiet and don't eat much; diminish the number of pip"r.:
4 October, v. Midnight.I continuewith theYi as to mywell-loved Jane.
Give a symbol fot her present magical stage. # ,'Pa and Ma, not
intercourse',3 Out of harmony with her own natG frt-lfy uprooted. I?'ant
of understanding of het associates. Patient and obedient, though in distress.
Ashamed of her subconscious feelings. Acting rightly to cure these
maladies, committing no efrof, her associates happy in her success. Success
through humility and persistence. Emancipation to mown all.
Describe the natute of the dangers which threaten her. Water of Water,
Tai.ft: Desire, pleasure, laziness, inconstancy, mistaking images
:
for realities. Generally speaking, theu the Watery Forces. Indicate her
Right way. Lingam of Water, , Li,'The Tiger'. Act boldly,
despising danger. Proceed ,t""dEfr-ithout hesitation ot turning aside.
Make your way level and easy, being quiet and solitary. Don't seek for
-
'action in the film', avoid judging a question from one side of it. Don't
r See entry z6 Septembet 192c..
2 Ctowley and Leah's baby gid who dieda few days later.
3 This is Crowley's, not Legge's, summary comment on Hexagram XII ofthc
Yi King (I Ching). Crowley added: 'This hexagtam shows Phallus trying to boss
Kteis [vulva] too crudely: no proper preparation, no adroitness. It wins in thc end
but at too gteat (and needless) cost.'
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think too hg-trty of yout progress. Don't be rash, although fearless. Don,r
shrink fr_o_m-dangers, butwalk warily through them. Be?erolor., seek the
ordeals. Meditate on your whole way in the"past, ,nd divine its course in
the future therefrom. Describe the nature of her $fill in this incatnation, the
Goal of her Attainment, Kwei Mei, Hexagtam LIV, Fire of szater, Learn:
non-action, unselfishness, progress under difficulties, humility, patience,
killing 'lust of result'.l Describe ihe proper means auxilirry,o ,t . action of the
Elixir to fortify Anu Leah. sun of Fire, # , sbib Ho:.Union by
gnawing'. Be-passionately devoted to h.tffistanr active attention;
sacrifice comfort etc. for her; make trer irre symbol of the Glodfied
Manifestation (sof) of our passionate mill (FirE. Give symboi fo, -y o*.,
proper Magical rfork for the rest of the month of october. Earth of Sun, pz,
Hexagram XXII: 'orn1m9nt'. work very hard at Art. symbol for Arostrael,s
vork for the same period. Moon or Earth, Khien, Heiagram XXXIX: do
what seems most difficult (attend to Anu Leah) -sy-l"Tfor our joint IX.
y-gt!-f"_t same period. How to do it? Lingam'of Fire, Hexagram XXV,
va vang. seek rruth, seek success (reapirig), invoke irot..frorr, a.qoir.
l"_d$: thanksgiving. It's all creative. symu"i for Ninette's confinemenr.z
K[teis] of sun, Ming I. Might easily mean death. symbol for Ninette,s child:
Earth of Ait, Ku. A son*troubles-a
E=E , work to do-an
indepen-dent .'uffimbol for my next new pi*ure. Moon of $'ater.
Moon-water, showing the order of tire Universe. The Symbol for object
of our IX" work till end of october. rya lyang againl I think this means to
develop moral excellence in ourselves, and to-iniiiate ourselves through it.
*t.zr- a.m. Talking with Leah. I've just understood her vision of th"
Iemple. It is the High priestess, the Moon, (ccxx,I: .she is a moon')
white and silver, between the pillars. She wouldn't have any other symbols,
naturally; she is the Goddess, the Oblation, and the Altar.
z.4o ^.m.I had no craving for cocaine at all through all september, but I
seem to fall into the'alternate night'habit quite."rily oo* iiis to my hand
again. However, the action and reaction btth seem- quite dissimilai, phy-
sically and mentally, from _August experience. I am not so parenthetical
and expository, a 'bitter-ender' of argument; and I'm not so riuch affected
in my nerves. I'm not so anxious about its efiects. The month's .wagon, has
given me confidence. But I still urant to go on to a limit dose when I start.
I'm still impatient to get a Masterpiece for my pains, though not neady so
much. I don't suffer from- exhausting r*.^i. ^during the- absorption, or
yo"T about makjng up for lost sleep afterwards, as I u-sed to d.o. IL taking
it easier all round, in fact. But I stili smoke pipe after pipe as before, orlyi
keep them all alight berter.
. 1 A. phrase ftom Tbc Book of tbe Law, meaning that one should work without
thought of praise or blame.
iliffJfrffi:i,iff? tn"mway, the Second Concubine of the Beast. Crowtey was
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9.oo a.m. I have just finished a Madrigal and a Sonnet-Sequence for
Leah;l so the night has not been wasted.
8.3o p.m. '!ilomanhood is a secret vice' (after a long talk with Ja=ne). \fas
it not Jesus Christ who said of Editors, 'Father, forgive them, for they
know not what they do'? P.S. \Tomanhood is first a mere lack like idiocy. It
only becomes a vice if its reality is shirked.
; October, sz . A good working day, sleeping a lot but faidy notmal.
6 October, J. Mote work. Began 'The Dead Emperor' view of Capri.
6.zo p.m. Yes, meals at ro.oo and 4.oo make the day delightful[long.-!
have revised scenarios, tinkered pictures, stafted a flew one, amused myself
very much sexually, played some capital Fives-and the day is fat from done.
Leah and I are about to tfy whether the diminished dose of Our Lady's
Breath-three pipes and no more-will give her, as the Yi seems to
promise, the Clear Vision, without the reverbetate heaviness of sleep upon
her ey.s to avefige the Lords of Inertia. This makes me think again-as so
often before-whether I do truly acquiesce in the Universe of None and
Two.z Am not I always aspiring to a 'Highef level', unwilling to compen-
sate for attainment? I evidently prefer a Cteative Orgie of two nights and
days and a Reaction of similar length to the commonplace four days and
nights of normal activity and normal sleep. That is, I prefer mountainous
.onntry to flats. Does it follow that I should like the valleys filled up, and
then start a new catastrophic geology with the old Chogo Ris as 'sea-level'?
This is evidently impossible in Nature, whose total must always be Zerc;
but am I ass enough to wish things otherwise? Am I still so stupid as not to
see that the space-marks ate atbitnry, that thete is no high ot low, no A or
not-A, save in conditional relation with some equally fetishistic idea? Why
then do I want my Aetna in eruption, valuing its spasms, impatient of its
intervals? My poetry? I spend my soul in blazing torrents that roar into
Night, streams that with molten tongues hiss as they lick, and consume the
slopes of-not Parnassus! But that's no v/orth; it's time and peace that
crombl. my cold lasrato an oil that's fit for Dionysus, fot vines whose purple
and gold may make men drunken, make them gods. My spilth can only
make them gods in the fierce fashion of Death! Then by analogy, why
should Alostrael lust after the Lords of Vision, that in tumultuous chariots
lash stallion teams full gallop up the sky-steeps, with helmets golden and
bejewelled and plumed, with monstfous se{pent sceptf�嫳, with selfluminous
irridescence of mantle afloat in the gale of their rushing ? Bold are they,
comely and terrible, with eyes beholding all, and in theit mouths the !ilord
1 Both 'A Madrigal' and the sequence of three sorinets are extar\t. They are part
of a collection of unpublished poems entitled'The Book of Oaths'-
2 Crowley re^sonid thus: plus one added to mious one, the gr�墑t active and thc
great passive, cancel each oiher out, equal nguglrt, i.:.., -.g.ny-ana-l9Sy, th9
irariage of opposites in consciousness (in tle Crowleian philosophy, Nuit and
Hadit) producEi Samadhi, which is the Bliss of Nothing ot Nirva_na.
g Crowley was a membet of the Chogo Ri expedition, led by Oscar Eckenstein,
it't rgoz.It was the first, and unsuccessful attempt on this Himalayan peak.
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of rruth that is Death; and to her they are as Apes to her vanity. But why
should these be her- pleasure -;;; J;;i' than oui Lady ofsleep? Alas!
are yet blind, yet deaf,^ she and I, ;, *. writhe in th. mire, she red we
white, moon,s bti..O.?i;;gt.li ash of *irJ.rrrr, I gold and
btack, sun's fire of hell ^'rJ_oort and
twin heirs of pan' trat ^"d:;;;;;;lioi. :1r""'r'^ti.",illi ar"gor,r, *h.
from 'lust of resurt', t he.be-g1t orct i*. w-e arg not yet oufserves, not crean
Aethyr.l $(/e "t ina?it.t; ;i;td and in'nitely elastic as our mother
distinguitrr u.r-.."r-;il;gr, not indeed as absolute but as
'good'ot'bad'in re.-lation ro ,or* i"r";, or .w'lr-whi;; st'l think of
as 'ou1s'' Thereby *-g ody confess rimitations. F.;;, is clear that
my creative orsies disturb Naturg ""r-o*r,
and even *r" ihi' welr to r.*. u*atorro.trrili;;.;;ress Mankind;
that we make and ;i'r;;;;,. and heal rhe other, it st'r stands
workers and the ^f^and buttress?a p.rp.auate division between the
most high if on work. And t'.".ro..in *nitoriorr-o", uigr, Magick is
to have its snow^-wfapped crater-cone,we stand, in air too virginal
known dust of prai'ris .i-"-"r..- .iri.r,';ir',J'irrro*i"r,.
laughing-mad' so that h1"! ."" "f .Love ,r,
silill, indeed; the -9 rirlr.lu*"d and scream, under
when u.-e pay cudger "r;3'y ntffis! vision, ay so! to dirr.rt us!, And
who are the price"in ,t.Jp, it ilit. ,ro l.rr'*!li, il not sure, .,*e
chosen df Ai*"ss l"sr".p r*11 r*i, or "r.
Tree that our will pranted; ir9 i,. t .l of Life, the
monstfous, fantastic, r*ri-r"i"ra, ordiver;;ffiand shapes;
taste; madness fascinating to sight, to scent; stfange to ailure the
Life's or noison, food ""r -.J!i"., in our brood. dur dreams fulfir
Tree passiotr; ,hilr "or rrr.-J"n;;;. soul be yet diviner fruit on the
then of Death ? Be then our rir. org"r.n our Death of Exhaustion, be
our Light of "r
tt:T.t:r";1"* riigit ",
her v'ith mv Beast-Lust, accounting of obscure Brindness! I w'r to
beads of poppv *i,r' -v iltia_spirit as naught; r w'l smoke
ctouds as r'ii-L*a';i;"ilL bhcklv gold, ind'tasting in its
shall be thev bear us aroft the f;;;; ;;t""f ,rd -virio' o? r"otn. rr,.y
when trot -or. desirabre th* til;i.h"tt.r.d bone and of bruised flesh
come we fall thence-into the ;;;. ;;i;.e of the rooi-rirr, stagnation.
thy now' Alostraer t" aurtor,r .;;; #"-an of whoredom to the Beast
lover! Come without lust ;i,;;;r;.Tust and ir, iome, let us
praise Priapus not regarding rrir .iJ"tJ! come, r., ".r"rri
with no heed unto *li-r r'.".r, .r.l of *-l"r"ih. i.r..rr..,
Persephone! Come- t u- *udq, "'",i"n poppy with no prayer to
limbs trembtng; is ilffi odirot,._'1r fu"J^*irirring, my
mine ? Come, the nor,your'F.tb .*u, electric, clamorous arso for
waits' its bowr a lamp also waits, ""a in..smooth purple trrl. of hcquer
blosiom; and th! vase bdmm"a
-r,rrioiroois ready as r
lffit{H:i:l5,*}: srim aeaary iLa"Jr p*i",J. i#:T,,", rust, ror
It is now g.z5 p.m._go to it!
g'30'r give Alostrael a first half-pip_e. I think six such, at intervals of ten
minutes, should be the arrangementi.-sh. has made up her mind not to seek
r Infinite soace.
2 Thelemitls.
3 Alastor, the S7andeter of the Waste, one of Crowley,s titles.
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visions; they began instantly as she lay back after the pipe. They ate all
outline;-bird., ho*"tr, whlat in sheaves, stars, lamps etc. Yellovr, then
blue, predominating colours; the blue brighter than the yellow. I ask her to
invok. Aiwaz. Tlings now heavy-trees, landscapes, buildings, one a
palace, ot town, yellow with red roofs'
' 6.or'. A second half-pipe for Leah-she sees a stotk and cescent moon.
'Reject dl but Aiwaz!'
f155. A third Doorl-through it-ruins within-then long Passage-
Pillar with four limbs at toP.
- 9.ro. She sees Aiwaz's airm sweeping away things.from the Universe. Is
,fri. Uit message? Huge sweeping movements, also fum quick wrist-
fr,rries-His lefi eye, n6w*it's- all colours- dazzting. Concentric rings-
i"pif "f """re light. ihi, b."o-es a fiower, lotusJike; now in that a radiant
Llri" and a circle within that'
"tort postpones further prpes.) I ask for proof of identity.2 she sees a
g.r 5 . (she
n*a,'ut nails, iewels on fingets. (This corresponds with my
"t,'pointed Four petalled rose-golden-I ask Him fot a Word'
own visions of Hi-.;
He says SEN (? rrr ?)s YAN' These y?n-" tube leading into a mountain'
Then a series of dois and dashes. (? interptet symbol by Yi?) The atm
again-sweeping yet broader, but slower. Now-she's within. His eye sees
oiet all th. -X.t. The hand is over the land only. 'The arm and the
eye!'-*rat is His message. 'Keep q-o-ing steadily at your Ygtk' Beast!'
.t)br.*" vigilance, Whore!' Our IX' work? An impossible-to-climb-
ladder-a tree with unripe yellow apples though not an apple-tree' (Infinite
progress is possible-the way 'against Nature' is the !7ay')
9.4o-Begarr-
to.5 y. Ol"t VIII, 3r-666-3r- Opention:.vety simple, very intense' very
monadogenous' to coin a word. Elixir: very homogenous and copious'
Object: depth of Truth ^ gl.
ro.zo. I want to write a Poem ' ' '
6 October, H. ,.+t a.m. I vrfote it: 'why I like cefalu'is the idea. There
are eighty-four lines. I mean to write'To Him that shall gqrns'-i1 went all
-ro"i. f forgot the idea, side-tracked by jumping from 'The Spirit
"l."tr Come' to silly New Jerusalem phantasy'
and tie Bride say John's
2.4o a.m. Recalled to -y original intention by analysing.the disctepancy
between rny written title and thi subiect of the Poem, I easily concentfated
and wrote tv/o sonnets 'To Him tbat shall Come"
3.4y. Wrote a thfud sonnet-very hard'
7 October, 2f. Nothing sPecial'
1 An astral doot, seen in the vision'
z Crowlev co--"rd, i.ah to ask the astral entity whgP *" sees in the vision to
ia""ifr liiir;ii;i;;i;;tect being .to communicale with Aivtea, not any false or
deceptive spirit, masquerading- as {t^Xg'
3 i r r is in enume6tion ofSEN if E is taken as aleph'
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8 October, t. Leah to palermo with poup�墈.
7'oo p.m. I am about to try an-experimint. $fhen r s,"ft coeaine, I find
:3:*:T'j-"111I' rl excus e ("". ll. S gr,e s t Grounds, ril.. shman)
rof gomg on to the physiorogical rimit. I am going to say, "r,-engr
I begin"now ani
-n r.,1p-uj 9.oo p.m. what&er happens. Tf"I f;t,I be kicked
round Cefalu 333 times. ";gh;;"
. t:.r t q.-. All right so_far, feeling fit, eaget, wakeful, poetry-mad. I don,t
l*\:r after snow, in a drawer at riy righirid.; ;; i';"rriirr"r"r__oort
dry (from a cold, I think). I do feef thol"gh if .toppi"g *.r. ,om.ho*
unnatural, as I do on leaving even a very ",
b.-ad play befiie ,f," .rra of the last
act' But this thought came only now, ,i l"yl rr,a, q*rr.i ,,,"ppi"g
cocaine, and a minure and a quarter after finishing ^tt stanzas to
the Introit to the Leah po.-r. -i;ddi;i;al
- 9 october, T2. rz.5o a.m. $Triting a poem. Thedesireforsnowcontinues
t]rough I've tried counter-irritationi. Ii's a sort of perpetual reminder that
there is a want.
19 O-clober, O. 7.2.o a.m. Iso_on got all right as to the Friday night stuff. I
worked faidy hard ar day and slept-from s.;o right througt iiit t ur^r, t oo,
ago.
-*I note my planets fot tz october.l New moon-ne* current of rife.
Neptyl3 squaring my radical {ercury "riglt be very bad for my mind,
especially as he retrogrades over it in Noveirber. Herschel i, ,r"ot.", Saturn
ilonnoji"g- my Moon, semi-sextile !o -y Herschel. venus and. Sol, trine
Mars' Good for exect'tive.work. Jupiter is sextile r.ry;opit.r. u"rs is good
except to Luna, and that is_rather past the s?u.are. -Cenemt symbol ,; ;;
plan of 7th and 8th houses. H.*"gr"- Mo'.t_be oUoioorlg'irr. oppo*orr_
ity a chance but don't force i-tr How shall I act? Hexllram XXIV,
'Returning'.-i.e. -go over old paths, i.e. seek i;i;J;;;l;" heresies,
preen fan. But don't overdo it, be balan:-.d_ "H
*q high;;d.iJ. Don,t go
!3:f ,. the wrong things, such as Dingwalllz In what?ired;t B
$shryr-ledges and rushes-bambJos-blue united ;i;h ;;i;ffir"
about the place ? Air.oJ Lingam. sounds ril.. trt. i.t. t:i,-"- ili-pl^ce. The
blue and yeltow seem like sea=and sand. Biskra;r;;;;*Jiirrri"g
well' Describe the ruler of the 7th house. The ram-a - pretty
,r"orrg, foolish,
passionate, hot-tempered person. symbol for gth house? E, .Th.
Boat'-movgs pigs etc., fish-absolutely successful.
---
,'to p.m. I started to write a short poem after avety hear,y sleep of nearly
J J
three hours. f was ass enough to start snow agun.
rr October, \y. r.ro a-m. Finished -ryr qraryne of snow, also my .shoft,
poem-about 4oo lines' I'm a damned foo"l-oh, bot poot,-" por. root.
I Crowley's birthday. "
2 He married Rose Ke'y at Dingwall in scotrand in rgo',and tegretted it.
3 The trigram for water.
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Really life ought to take care of itself. If one is altogether God, working
without lust of result, why all this arxiety about result? The God can take
no hurt, and the man mattefs no more than any other dead dog. Only this
God needs the man to be sound in body and mind as His Tool; He is
creating a new wodd of men that shall know that they are Gods, and so
shall His loneliness find solace.
This God suffers when he stops ceating and inspects the results. But the
protest about cocaine and insanity and death comes from the animal. This
brute should never think at all, but attend strictly to the business of doing
what the God wills-y'erinde ac cadauer.r
r.ro a.m. I am now faced with the usual problem: my brain is working at
high pressute, without the clutch in, ot a ma,fl at the steering-wheel. I want
only on thing, bodily, more snow. O^ly one thing mentally; that the
reaition were all over, and I entitely nomal, rtens safia in copore sano, though
well aware that rationally that state leads to nothing worth while. My magical
self-the unity of the various ofgans below the Pure God Self-wants to ask
Thelema about this cocaine-act. Yet Thelema says CCXX, lT, zzz 'To
worship me take wine & strange drugs wheteof I shall tell my prophet, and
be drunk thereof ! They shall not hatm ye at all.' Dare I, the Beast, doubt it ?
I still need faith and courage. I don't believe in my Work as I believe that
fire burns. To-night, a day befote my bithday, I invoke! Give me a Ifotd.
CCW,I, 7: 'Behold, it is revealed by Aiwass the ministet of Hoor-paat-
Kraat.'A most relevant answerl He did reveal it! Also, he is ministet of the
Lord of Defence and Protection.
For a joke, let us see what the enemys has to say. I get Canticles VIII, rz.
Rather jolly! Shall I, Yi King, make a definite oath about cocaine? Give
symbol for my proper course of action. Sun of Ifater, Khwei----a state of
disunion exists. My general coufse is to redlize that cocaine's pleasure is not
worth the candle. I should go bathing daily for a while; sun and sea will
calm my rnind's dissentions and make my body normal.
z,oo a.m. Still 'all dressed up and nowhere to go'.
4.4o. Four sonnets, 'The Etemite'.3 I feel rather like the virgin who
pouted, 'By Jingo, I never yet fucked a flamingo!'
P.m. Took Yi's advice, and a pint of alcohol. The train to Palermo.
Poup6e very sick indeed. I think it may be her Will to die; as when I
thought I would do Magick for her, I couldn't.
Opus IX, 3r-666-7t. Operation: fierce and tremendous' Obiect: to help
Poupde. Felt it was 'all wrong' and stopped the 'second part'. Elixir:
hence-unknown.
rz Octobet, 6. My saddest birthdaY.
r 3, October, P. Back to Cefalu.
14 October, 4. At Cefalu. Got a painting fit; did a panel of a dancing
ilLike a corpse.' 2 The Bible.
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gitl; retouched my .fris', and my .Dead Emperor,. Began my .Green
Grotto'.
,.ro p.m. Alostrael is back, poupde died this moming . . .
I don't doubt Going;l we Gods go, but f was born in the old Aeon,z and
f've got a 'human, all ioo human'iimy godhead.
r; October, Q. z.z7.a.m. All night writing the prologue to .Thuestos,B
-a bitter drink of bruised spices, i'nd r.mirriing one oiT'ty..,.r,,a at the
-Jn
accursed feast. Thus i .g:?d two_edged title fof tn. a.gf my poupde
(Leah's Poupd_e too)_whiih I am writiig so as not to go mad.
i.to a.m. Opus XI, 3v666_1r. Operation: faslnating fond. Object:
inu'ard to 93. Elixir: immensely copious^ and powerful.
9'4o a'm' As a lad I 'qas taoght to snifi at the simpre-mindedness of
chemists before they found that a-burnt element was not de.troy.d. Because
the carbon disappeared they thoughtli*"r i;rrt"r;:;; rrrL."a-", orr"
{stt' say' B.ut appiy the analoglito death-change; horio"t r can,r see
why a 'soul' should not be ii El.-.nt. It "nd ;ryiptoms,
h"as'-or. trran
Argon-eh? we cannot isolate and weigh it, true; but that was the case
with fluorine a generation ago.
A name for a lawyer-.Hangman's pimp'.
16 October, ft.
' r7 October, O. Three days of silence. Annoycd by". . . .? boil.
18 october, tu. Leah very much in dangcr; made her rest sri' more
completely. she got a lot better; but at nlight pains *a rr".r"l*r.""g.
became unmistakable.
r r.4o p.m. Went over and got Ninette.
r9 october, g. tz.'o a.m' Ninette offto the town with the old peasant
next door.5
2.oo a.m. A competent I/ise_Woman is here.6
8'45 a.m. Leah at ease but bar miracles, a miscarriage is certain. In the
aftemoon, we had a second thunderstorm with hail. It b-roke windows, tore
and uprooted trees, made the hillside a pocket Da{eelingl
rGoing' from one incarnation to another is the main chatacteristic of the gods
:'iTi::11'J'JrEr;ft 13;T;a't;lrn,;:ny*:;',ilTj."j:+gd[ff .
father of Horus.
I 4 po.* by crowley consisting.of a prologue and three pa..s; it is not extant.
a Atreus, son of pelops, 'servii up to Th'yestes the flesh of thc latter,s own
children, at which the suri rurned r".t 'o.,lt. .;";;; i;;;; fbcdxford cksstcar
Dictionary.
,iNinette, herself in an advanced statc of prcgnancy, went to gct a midwife for
I The midwife.
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zo October, p. I notice that 'Oh, so much!'l requlres little exegesis. r.
Our baby dies; z. Our next baby isn't born; 3. I have a bad boil; 4. The
Detroit-books, Arctaeonz ill; y. The London books;s 6. The dog Satana
murdered, etc. etc. In the month more has happened than in any one year of
my life.
er October, 21. We go on suffering and affrrming our Oath to petform
the Great \ililork.
zz October, Q. As Thursday.
9.4t p.m. My Boil burst this morning; I have given it a Number One
clean out with most substances known to Organic and Inorganic Chemistry.
It-and the two shocking disasters to my Race-have depressed me un-
speakably; I am simply a poultice on the physical plane, and the mental and
moral apes it. Mens inanit in corpore inani.6 But, after the Lustration of my
Boil, I lnake Oath and say these things following.
I have not falteted in the Great Work since the Miracle of St. Jane
Chdron in Paris,T I have merely refused to rnake bricks without straw. I sent
the books from Mawers [?] to Detroit 'without haggling', and I snatched at
the Chiswick Press stock with instant decision when the crisis leapt from its
ambush on me, broken as I was by sickness and agony.8 Thete is still much
to be done before I can resume publicity but though the Chiswick press
demands over one third of my total fesources metely to release my stock, I
shrink not; nor shall I, should the next step strip my shirt from my back.
Flope's anchor has dragged in quicksand; Faith's compass has been
lightning-wrecked; Love's engines have exhausted all my fuel. But to my
r The u7otd ofthe current Equinox.
2 Chades Stansfeld Jones or Frater Achad of Vancouver.
3 Tl-rc !1e art- printers _and publishe',", the Chiswick Press, who had published
several of Crowley's wotks,circa ryo7,had copies of his books in store. They re-
fused to release them. See below.
a TheAbbeydog.
6 His mental and motal state apes or copies his physical state.
6 'A worthless mind in a worthless body.'
_.7 J^_!: C-!6tgl was on9 of _Crowley's Paris mistresses in the years preceding the
First Wodd \Var. He desctibes 'the Miracle' on r February r92o, see p ge 93,
and in The Coxfessions, page t 99.
t lMI first objective was obviously to obtain possession of my published works
vrhich had been warehoused vrith the Chiswick Press . . . Oa my atrival in
Lond_on,the position was that after paying watehouse charges to date, they owed
me a little over tefl pounds. They had written several timeslo urge me to remove
the stock , . . I found a new rparehouse in due course and call=ed to ett^trge L
convenient day to remove the books. To my surprise a perfect stranger camelnto
the outer office, a vzeird cteatrrte_of nightmare,-long, lbose-jointed, shaking and
tottering with palsy, vdth a head gtotesque and ghastly, rocking upon narrow
sloping shoulders that seemed to shrink from its-weight. This laniastic horror
announced itself as the managing ditector of the new company. I stated my
bu^siness. T" Ty amazefiretat, he broke out into a spate of unmeaning insults. Ht
refused point-blank to deliver the books on the gtound that Scotland Yard
would be down on him if he did ...' The Cotfeisions of Ahiskr CrowleS p.
89o-r.
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oath I stand; I am the captain, I't stay by the ship. Alastor, wanderer
the \i/aste-how close the iegend of tfre'ftyirrg O"rih_#i', of
o Make port-who cares foi land that roves the sea ? .Afloat in the aethyt,
my god, my God !' 'rs there not joy ineffabre in ,rrir'"i-i.r, *i"gi"g ?,, Ay,
though I burst my heart *ith ';;;g, ret trr.r. b. r.ither goar nor
guerdon! I've watched the Bear all summer; steady he turns about the pore.
In March he hung above the sea *h.i. the cliff rear, ,*t -rrom cefalu;
tonight he glitters across the neck of our hillside. D; ;; ask How, or
Wliy? He is a God, the Seven_in-On. "rd O.r"_irrj"r.# H. go"r.
^.I^"3 the Beast; I am the Word of the Aeon;u I "rri I am the
sixfdd one Extended,a the sun Six Hundred "-'fl.i.ma.
and the Formula of Force is Eleven-in-one ""a si" r"illa units six
Four Hundred and F.ighteen;6 and the and orr.-in-gt..rren,s that is
Lord of the AeL
Harpocrates, . is Horus_
and the one-in-Tw-o and rwo-in-one, in his Name n"-uoor-tctoit;,
mine Herald of the Aeon is the wordi thereof, r.i"g a;i He is also
orvn Hory Guardian Angel, Aiwaz, who hath " ",
Love, and the Wav and.the WJup"", Theiema, ii, Nuior., $/in, and
that arc all Ninetv and,Three,jh;'.;tei. ag"pe, nA---,lqd tr4**r.**,n
wherein is Naught made one-in-ThrJe thought enfolding Thirty one,
and.Tiree-i"-o";:ru*ning and
returning even from LA that is nor to AL that ir, f";; K; oi'"u trr.r" crt.,
of Going, and for a sign unto the scarlet wornan -r;;";;;e inasmuch
as her name openeth with LA, also to me tte geast who;;-;;-. hath AL
upon its forehead.
Tonight r am sure, sure with most uttef surety, sure in my sour and sealed
by my mind, that so, not-otherwise at -"ri i.-,'rr."t so they
ate, amen without lie, and amen of "li;rh.r;iiil;
amen.
r r ' r t p'm' f note that I did not investieate The Word of the Equinox as I
had taken nct ccXX or.yi.tg Naples- Di? ro o" o.roi."
an oracle from Aiwaz in this ruri in the 'oh, ,o ,. i*'r now ask
message to minds rT1{^rt- through -o.tri-r;;;o", a direct
b:gr*lg (above the title) of chapt& v drum_fire "f Ois",slerr. t g.t th"
otttt* tiv.iir--*r,, thatthe
whole chapter is a Message for the moment.
z3 october, h. Midnightr I have iust read aloud the chapter above
indicated to Alostraer. It i-s as a King's'Daughter, all-glorious within, and
| !!.ber LXV, Tttc Book of tbc I{eart Girt uitb tbe Scrbent. rcrrt.
2 The seven stars in ondconstella.i., *r,i.i, i";;tk':ii;;Bear,
or Chi_ef of these Seven, the pole jt"i.-- ' '--- and thc one
3 Abrahadabra.
,n:;',ij:,*:,3;TFif;""{# f"?,.# centrar sephira, riphereth (Beauty). 666 is
5 Abrahadabra, the r r-lettered W"ia.
6 Abrahadabra eouals 4r8, thc number of the Great Work, the union of the
Macrocosm and Mic'rocosm.
,J*T,"r.;#[_(3:::s) and Hoor- p aar-Ktaat (Halpocrates) are the one.in_
8 Nwaz.
e crou'lev had a reason.fior kryping thesc two words secret. All we know is that
their numbir in each case is 91, rii" ,fi";;iT;;i.;;;;g"d *a'ail""li,imselr.
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its kiss has.kindled me to very ecstasy of Love. I doubt myself at times;
it is because the worm Hope, instead of writhing under mine atheist feet,
occupies my Rectum. My divination still goes astray, far too often. The
symbol errs only when my desire does violence to my method. But even
when I divine freely, I frequently read it with spectacles of hope and fear.
For instance, Poupde's symbol was 'Diminution'; and she wasted slowly
away almost from birth. I knew it at the time, but forced myself to find a
less fatal interpretation. Then, when she was ill in May, I took a nevr
symbol and got 'Increasing'. She did pick up for a while; but this symbol
was, as I knew in my heart, merely a temporary modification of the General
Symbol. And linc (-(qn6 to whose increase none vrill contribute'-we tried
every food known, but she wasted away to death. I knew it all along; but I
would notface truth, and fooled myself. I clung more closely to her, against
my general and my particular knowledge alike; so made I fi.ercer texture for
myself when Death tore her from me. Once a c:urcer is diagnosed, it is
madness to poslpone the operation. Desire-fear-folly: we want the impos-
sible, pretend that its poor image is itself, then fear to lose that wor*rless
thing, then suffer, losing it, as if it had been the true thing rve never had. Mrs
Solnessl and het dolls! That is Humaniry more than the Master Builder's
self.
Death's night [?]-and left at my gid summer-sojourning and at my boy
birth-bared struck me as Job was stricken.2 Nay, more; I had no God to
cufse, no faith in Righteousness, no confidence in Nature's purpose. My
love's close coils were smitten asundet by the same axe-stfoke that cleft her
and him; my love lay writhing and bleeding, a dead snake in the dust. I
should have watched them from the Tree of Life, aloof and wary, warned
them and whispered them my wisdom, made them as Gods. Had I done so
it may be Death himself had feared to huht these woods; for my fang's
poison is death to Death; I am he that holdeth Knowledge high, my head
Truth-crested, Silence-hooded, so leaveth Life to wind its way on the earth,
no more to me than a means of mising up that holy head, fearless to g ze
upon the world with lidless eyes.
But I let life love life; I clung; minc eyes saw only theirs, and in them
mine own image. Their innocence dazzled me; their bteath dtzzied me. The
Woodcutter saw his chance; he stnrck; the mortal put on immortality.
Oh Sweet, oh frail, my love made flesh for my delight, oh living laughing
eyes, blue heavens of light star-peopled, oh mouth smile-gadanded with
poppy, oh tiny and tenacious hands that fastened so firm-fondly on my
fingers, oh tender flesh of mine own flesh, in thee was wisdom beyond
mine. Thou knewest thou must come to me for this one summer, then go
thy way among the stars as star, whispedng me thy word that I should love
no more things perishable, no more prefer the pat before the whole, no
more distinguish dream from dream, but with whole Godhead maffy
Heaven, adore Her undivided body, all stars thereof one soul of Her. Go
then serene, my daughter; thou hast been wine bright-bubbling at thy birth,
1 Aline Solness, the vdfe of the mastcr buildet in Ibsen's play.
2 The baby, Anu Leah (Poup6e) had died and Leah had miscarried.
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T-1 "" my parate rapture; the sour of sunright and the body of earth mine
rncense and my sacrament; but in trry g.^d-rr"i;#ffi;i blood, and in
my brain been the One Miracl., n'., tr'. i"iti"ti"!
inioxication *r,.r.uy r am that, o,llrlifi'H--ils':
Anu Leah, go' brossom or "*, thy wan
thee from my stem, -., to-t blown on the wind that
.tore bendini-_.-ror.iy, ;r,"p;;ri"; me; go, thou
wast born to make me trulier _;" by-il;;;;;-,;:i,Xo n"rt died to
make me trulier God by losing theet iiait thou, and fare thee well!
But thou, mv son, *ho th'en *rrtito.rl Th;;;;"'iJ u rrry holiest
hope, my pride and pi*ror., hiJa"ri u.rr""tr, the heart
LTI -y love, Alostiael my sister. - of my true feilow, of
How was the hap that thou wourdst not abode in the ark, thou who
shouldst suv. my raie when Freaven flings wid. its floods, and all its waters
cover my head ? At the solstice of the r.qrqr"r, in ,pr.ndooitr si"ity,
thou begotten of these loins, in p"*i""'"i"r""; ;; H" ,r;i" raprrre -r,
of these suave slopes, i" fo"" strong and deep, as shining eager
l:J*" ", as this
we yearned for spring, when thou sho,urdst leap-to the light, challenge
the world with a str?ngiry
upon us, sweeping with -y son, my r.";, *rrirpl;;r,;ri*.v/as selrce
jagged levin and storms, savage and heavy;fn t*;moniac with
tossing oak and crowded thoniers, ii, -i"a *'a rr"* ,-rr. i"Irt tearing and
faced our orive. silent *. ,iood-at y mother and r, our stern sours
Stubborn sorro\il. tf,"t a.fight.d or; .fr. *", U,i ii" days dead.
we stood,
"T^lTfy
of the future. Thou' denying ourserves-even a tear,flint-steady for the steer
Then he that hateth oh mv i", tr'"";"';;#;;d ffiffiH"sity of hope.
..s h^iled,6."tb ;J; him strike home ro ourhearts-to
our one heatt-a second,-a fourer f.toof. My love rr"il""i i'a, tatt tov/er
impregnable; Fate yler tleac!.a. iili*rault, Life ,r"o., *rrr.r.d it by
tfeason' But in their camp they hold an hostage, her flesh, royaithrough all
their torture. Thev toreihe first child lr"-i;;;;;;;;g it to the
dogs; now from hir hoti.st,tr"iuorrrF;ft*g thee, thy sister,s blood scarce
clotted on their hangman's hands. i"'rr."i.*.iih. d"gg., of
agony, and broke her limbs with the .lrrb
'rey'twistla
of desp ajr.
My son, I looked upon thee as I thoughr rr*." to look. Thou wast my
son, my flesh, mv blood, my seed, my s8ul,s .i"_p"" rn # yorr*.y of
$::;lfff il:?s,inl;#"l-:"r#av"1tr'."r,"p"'ori,*,atlip
coafse, cauous, nmv-minaed foors. a"J ,# tr*T*
Tll:1#f*3I
in thee, though noi to rigrrt uiitl,lil."ry or *ooigs, i"". ,r puberry
mightiest thou came; "r Uf. *"s thine?
\x/hat is thy word "rrJro, -fr"r \X/hat soul aft thou?
sickness I keep from the *tar, -y ron? Thy word to me as mine own
begetting, the vigil night rlr"q"gh bi;;i"".'s bed, the uea su.t from thy
bed yet bloody fr#" thv a'.^tf,I
Is thy word this,-that "f itu"Jy l.ia ,r,r' stem the centuries, no son
succeed to guardianship of in. "'"
helm, and bear mv banner Utrt S".i.a Lance,."rry _f-.r.st on his
one thing by the iorrg,r. forward i" ,rr. u*J.il ,J?,#i I"r, ,pok.r,
of thy ;ilef,,-r; me, thy boy,s obscene gibe at
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my manhood, articulate to my soul that shall not swefve from this or that,
scorned howesoevet and scourged, hete spat upon, thete stoned, now
swinging on the gallows, then blackening at the stake. Thou art indeed my
.ot, 6oiy.t not more my son than I am my father's, he of his, and so of
hairy cavi-creatufes that bare chipped stones for swords of apes fout armed
and gross of jaw.
M! son, tirou wouldst not add a link to that our chain of sand, thou
*ooidrt not share out pride in shot-drill, or add a chaptef to ouf dull novel;
we know the ink fadei almost ere it dries, we know thete is no plot; we
know each page is ttagic; we know there is no hope to avoid fatuity, to find
coherence, to see *or1h in its continuance' of to make its end excuse its
course, though a God start from the machine. It cannot end, it can but stoP
and thou *"rt *ir., my son that mightest have tricked me with false hopes,
made my insensate longings take dead leaves wind-rustled in the cave of
Despair for Oracles of Apolo, wise wast thou, wiset than I, to fling away
the penl
For what of me shouldst thou inherit? Behold the heirlooms of mine
house! Here is the gilded pewter afmouf of pdde, thete the fierce high-
bridged nose, the beak of our Viking ship. Here is our wofm-eaten mask,
retglon, and this, with the Phallic handle, is our scourge, Putitanism. Look
wef at this purse with glue at the top and a hole in the bottom; that's out
greed and our folly. These handcuffs afe our conventionality-I nevef wore
t-h.-, ,or, o' mine-and this painted pig's bladder is our family eloquence,
the first who had it was Fool to a King. But now we come to the tfeasules
of our clothes marked out tfllest plain with ouf name; you would have had
to weaf them, had you braved birth, son o' mine! No, not in that cupboard
with all those locks and bolts; that's new, for the family skeleton, which is
of course myself. The boots with the spikes inside Me my gtandfathet's
gout, and thi waistcoat lined with quicklime is my aunfs consurnptiot. Th.
f,tutr b.tt is riveted on when you came of. age; it is Indigestion. See that
glorious old watch? How loud it ticks, how fast! That's our ureak heart.
th" qo."r-rhaped hat on the hook is insaniry; unless youf head. is unusually
large it .oo.ti your face. I weat it over one eaf myself. AII that rotten
,r.rl.r,w.u, stained with blood and pus is our Legend of Love, so to speak;
the neatly chalked gloves are our rheumatism.
A preity collection my son? You showed sense to insist on moving into
jar of alcoitolafterthree months of matedal testriction' We ovedooked that
corkscrew on the watch-chain, by the way, it dates from the First Crusade,
and is ouf Entail of Drunkenness. Our Ctest is the Sun sufmounted by a
rose shining on a mossy bank and it means Luxuty-Idleness inflamed by
Passion P"id. well 'under the fose' of Secrecy. The motto is .per-
"rrJ be found out. Nay, son o'mine, thou hast this wotd to
Hope; that we shan't
-",^ thoo Hermes, soul flashing thtough the sanctuary of my love's temple
tbat I might seek no son of flesh to shoulder that rotten old log'
These-are my sons, o thou Imp of my Bottle, thou ounce of homunculus
in my hatf-pini of Grand Marnier, the souls that my soul hath begotten, ftee
souls of my soul,s stock, of me in my god-passion, of me, tfuth naked who
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whirled my word by music,"or hu*icane, my $'ord to the heart of my
heart's desire' to the rJ7oman I call mankina. r'"* y"*;;. Titan to get
god-men for my sons, though her burden a"-."r'rr.i rr.rl'ru"* disrupt
her, and her delivery destroy"her. These are my sons, thou freak of the flesh
that I loved, if they bear on their forehead fot mind, on their breasts for
passion, and in the palm of their-right hands f"; dil;-;" ru"rt of the
Beasr' And this is my Mark that th& minds rh"ll il;Lrrr] rrotairrg ort,
thoughtin its purity, and marrying one with another at tn1 i.tt"r of Truth.
Then naked and equal let each on"the other 1."; i;;; ;;"il ,h", the Babe
may be both and more also; Truth se^riI'g itserf. Andihis is my mark that
thcir passions shail be Love, and edged li q" ir,"a whirling and
flying flame that shail suffer not th", t ""d;i..t
"visible ,,rbrt-..loqporeal, but
with most fervent hear consume "oih, "tr,
candescence of-spirit, all .rri"tr, airrJ".-"il grorr..r, io
m1ffy these Ta ry$* mattef ininite by might of infinite
po.ri9", twain, and knJw itr.E trr.i. p;rr;_'B;;i;", Love
hath formulated his father and made ferile his mother. o- --' that
And this shall be my^Ma1k h lh:- palms of their right hands, that their
Deed shall be Liberty,-for they shall do each man hf wili;';ch function
freely in its fitness fuifilling itself, each acr the witness judge of its
righteousness by.that singre and sufrcient ";i;h"
-:y" -*?l r"*- *ut hath one
W'ord: Thelema. For even if one UEf,oU .rot fri, Wry, ,irr"ra err, or if,
*"*t:.y:arying of..it-lag, ot if a third impati"rrt orii, h;;", unto each
one shall his own w-ill be mento!, ro the first tne bride, ;;;; second the
sput, and to the third the curb.
. These b: *y sons) o thou that heedest not my speech, thou of mine oak
the acorn that falring in soil too soft wast rooted by the brind Boar_Death!
These, and not thoi, are of me, ,or* of mine, o thou coy cuckoo in the
sparrow's nest that took thine ease until the hawk.spi.d iiliiil they that
bear my word and do;aclr.one his will, that turneth-unto his own $7ay and
keepeth it, that hath for his Law Libeity, and his *ork i;;;, Iove under
will, he is my son, my souls own, being i soul, nor can he perisir, as thou!
Thou too wast ouick, thou hadst a"sool f;;;;;;ffi;- our own
Lord it."me hotfoit to.do hir biidi";, rnd r.rr.. r"raJorrrtrapped to
hurry elsewhere. Thou then hast o*"r?d thy "
thou the mandrake torn from the garden of word, ^"a a.*'trry $/ill, o
my Love.
The darvn breaks, my Love stiri and sighs;'but rhoo, _y mannikin, thou
offal that the Harpies flung in my face, s&eaming i" -y u'rrir, Ld chwing
mv heart, cold carrion "ll -y thanks for th"t.onip;Ji;;;;dce that I
had given to the Gods, thou stirrest not nor sighesi. n"rit'y-r""I sang ere it
-Tl lt: still it sings, thy soul, the Swan whose wings encompass the
oayrtr_.' it sings the song that hath but one word and ,t"i*oiilrreffable!
, Fly free, my daughtet, Td ling; fly free my son, and sing thou too! I
kl:* y:, y_hy y. came and *].f -f. "r. gorr.j and f was sleEpy_souled to
wish to hold you from your going tf C"ait
. Inyour_qladness, I am ghl; I"gaze on heaven, and see ye not. But I have
heard, Td I, being God "i y. "r{*ust be abou; _y g;;;r. i;"y not casr
my body away for awhile; *y goitrg is up and ar*i, iprrirrr. I strip
"""n.
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the gross garments and fi.le the fetters from my brother gods; I break
enchantments, making manifest things in their true shape: I waken Beauty
that hath slept, and from the Oak in Broceliande I rescue Medin's Wisdom,
I ride Pegasus; my whip's of hide from the hippopotamus Hathor, so with
fierce Love I lash him; my spurs I stole from Hermes and rowelled them
with the teeth of Sekhet the tigtess; so his flanks drip with most savage ntrit,
my saddle is of the same skin that covers the throne of Minos, so do I keep
my seat on Justice. There needs no bridle or bit; Pegasus knoweth his Will.
My lance is that strange tree 'whose flame m y not be spoken; the reed
wherein Prometheus brought down fi.re, whereof Pan made his pipe, the
rood vrhereon Gods suffer death, the rod that blossometh and becometh a
setpent, striketh forth water from the rock, and maketh dead men live. This
lance is the measure of Heaven and Earth and Hell; all things adore it and
love it; all obey it and fear it; all seek it and if they find it, hide it; it hath
the Flame-plumed Orb and the twin snakes of the Caduceus, as also the
Pine-cone and Ivy tendrils of the Thyrsus; it is the Sceptre of Zeus, the
Hammer of Thor, All Trees, all Hills, all fires, all Men that live uprightly,
are its kin; nay all that seeketh Heaven or Hell, all things that are not of it
lie before it prostrate.
It pierceth all, yet healeth every v/ound, giving its blood, and sealing
Light in Darkness. ft is so heavy that earth trembles under it; so light that a
child's hand may lift it. It is so strong that the armed might of empires falls
before it; so weak that a gid's breath may furn aside its thrust. So stout it is
that time and Death have notched their scythes on it; so delicate, that one
chance thought can cn-rmble it. So much renowned is it, nigh all lay tongue
to it, it is a thing common in vulgar mouths; yet also is it secret in such
wise, that no man knoweth it for what it is, who doth so growing instantly
to be a god; nor hath he name for it. I carved upon its shaft five words; Vir,
Virtw, Veritat, Virus, Viridis; and six words more, but these I may not
uttcr.
I graved three words upon its tipt Pan, Paapbage, Pangenetor;L and eight
words more I may not utter. I inlaid this one wotd in gold upon its grip:
GN;z and ten words mote I may not utter.
. Its Silence is a world of Song; its Death a world of life.
I seek to commune with it, invoking it by this name: Ego lpse . More-
ovet, such is my Lance.
I belt me in the skin of the boar that slew Adonis studded with fangs of
the asp that suckled Cleopatra. None but sleek Aphrodite fastened it about
me, with the buckle wrought of the gold she earned with her first shame,
what time I wrestled and threw Catullus at the court of Erato.3
In this brace-belt my Sword is thrust. So fearful is this my sword I
though I gird it dare hardly to speak of it. He forged it who forged first
I Pan, All-devourer, All-begettet.
2 Not letters of a word, rrlhet vibration. Cp. OM, the pranava or cteative
vibmtion of the Hindus. ^
3 One of the nine Muses. Ctowley implies that he sulpassed Catullus in the
writing of crotic verse.
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that flaming srvord, edged,every yay ttat drove out man from Eden, he,
master-smith that tempered once Exltbur, and Roland,s sword. He too it
was rhat smelted the biave steer foi N;;""& ,rd gro..rrJ iiJ
Patacelsus' rapier' He hath a diamond u,h..ii r^roredge of
edge; the sparks destroy the worlds. wi rr a"r.?.1-rr"-.iHe grinds my
a god; there is no word no, thoogt i rrri. *t;;;il;.I rluir, -r.ry
tfrrimay withstand it.
But by my side my Loye ,tiff i"ff"pr; ,nl ,rr"li"r*rt i gr.", Ass of her
:,*::fr#;i::f*" the cup;;JF;;"", that brimmea i"iir, brood, this
Then,tomywork ......Ieo.
ro.oo a.m. Thank Goodness that,s oier!
z4 October, O.
z5 October, tz.
e6 October, 6i.
-27 october, p. pulling body and soul together; don,r ask why: .Enough
of Because, be he damnel f", a' a"g,__orf.,
z8 October, 2{.
z9 Octobeg Q. Some work.
3o October, h. Hard at scenarios all day.
3 r October, O. S.+S a.m. Up all night writing two poems in Thuestos.
r November, tz.
z November, 6i.
3 November, p. opem r, i.o.d.rAlostrael. opera rr, i.m.D.2Alostrael.
Read through the biary of J\Irs N' F. il"-way. I am utterry appated at
the horrors of the human heart. I never dre"-.d J;.l-,^l;;, ir.r. porriut..
I am phvsicallv sick-it is the greateil;.k';i;;rr;r?;JIi,i, ir,
mv own circle. It ooisoned m! work; it murdered ;t;iil;; . -.r,
does seem as if a magick circle ;.r"; ;;;; f advantage. rt teary
4 November, A.'what am I to do about Mrs s? It would be unerly
impossible for me ro decide, .o"ria.ti"fly Balance as explained in this
Record. Thetema gives the *.rrrg.;;C;*;'r, ;;il#''Jr"ii'1"*r*
letter, i.e. the Law shall stand. Ifihat shall be my action? "".
I 'In the mouth of the lady.,
2 'fn the hand of the lady.l -
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Diminishing, I must usc approPliate formulae and elimioate defects in the
circle so long as I am in one! The lesson for me seems to be that I must deal
with 'things' as if they wete realities.
5 November, !. Took definite magical action and banished the intruding
dcmon from this Circle. She went to Cefalu accordingly in the aftetnoon. I
attach here a copY of the Exorcism.
Coll[egium] Ad S[piritum] S[anctum]. Cefdu, An[no] XVI [r9zo], Sol in
Scorpio, Luna in Virgo.
N[inette] F[raux], Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
lnitiation puiges. There is excteted a stench and a pestilence. fn youf c,rse
two have been killed outright, and the fest made ill. There ate signs that the
ptoccss may lead to purification and make things safe within a- short time.
bot *. cannot dsk further damage; if the hate is still in coutse, it had better
coil back on its soufce. Keep yout diaty going carefully. Go and live in
Cefalu alone; go to the hospitai alone; the day before you come out send
up your diary and I will reconsider things. I shall hope to see the ulcers
h-atng. Do not answet this; simply do as I say.
Love is the law, love undet will.
666
9.ro p.m. Opus III, 1v6661t, p.at. Opcration: excellent, considering
conditions. Elixir: very admirable indeed. Obiect: to praise Our Lord that
'we can staft work agun.
6 November, h. 4.4t a.m. Woke at )4o and have decided to do some
work. Low diet and genenl hygenic measufes have made me feel nicely
normal, thank you.
General symbol for the Initiation of Genesthai: Sbang, Advancing and
Ascending! About the best in the Yi for such a q$eneml symbol
for the Magick of Genesthai and Thcrion together. #, Li.My A[rse]
c[ock] rclation to him: , sbilt bo.*", n.f
Climbed Deep Ghyll ?r-. and Howatd-new ridge above second
Cave Pitch. -
7 Novembct, O. Got through alive.
8 Novembcr, v. General symbols for renewed sexual relations with
Alostrael. Kn. Setious work. What particular work ought
,
and I to tackle in the Gnosit I # Regulations' It seems as
Alostrael == ,
:
though we should get mofe self, control. What should be the object of our
ncxt operati""? ft! , Abundance of strength.
9.t p.m. op"Jffir-e 661r. operation: one of the best I have ever
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known, the climax worked steadily and s*ongly up with real union. Elixir:
copious and well mixed; other-ise ntt remarkable. object:.abundant
strength.
9 November, d. Nothing much.
ro November, p. To palermo.
rr_Novembe\ 4. peace Day. I went through the whole scene_knew ir
yr jrd":rsary of the victory' and so or, ,r.rr." it was
Armistice Day till now twenty_four hours "nd "._._bered
eye ! And what a peace t 'peaie hath her later when ,h. i;;; caught my
War.' d.isasters ,ro l.r, ,"rro*rr.a trr"r,
rz November, d. Slept and read Symons,r Anatole France, and
Meredith.
6.oo p.m. I feel like writing poerry.
r3 November, h.ro.rr- a.m. This poem seems more or ress finished.
Damn everything but love rydcs!I think wander back to cefalu.
r.oo p.m. ''
pity is the last insolence of pdde.
There was a young poet named Keats
Who shagged every day in the streets.
He did it because
The alternative was
To shit every night in the sheets.
There was a young poet named Shcllcy
Who much preferred bottom to belly.
He argued the former
Was tighter and warmer.
There u/as a young poet named Swinburne
UTho swore ,May my soul and my skin burn.
The prospect appals
Not a person whose balls
To bugger a Siamese twin burn,.
There was ayoung poet named Browning
Vlho rescued a virgin from drowning.
Next day they got married;
Next month she miscarried.
His philosophy kcpt him from frowning.
r Arthur Symons, the poct.
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. An old poet named Coventry Patmore
Would say he thought no man had shat more
of wettef ot wofse
Or a niftier verse
And added: I Piss and I cat motet
r3 November (continued). Cefalu in p.m. Opus V, y-6664' Operation:
supremely orgiastic. Elixir: strong, rich, copious. obiect: Magnun Optts.
14 November, O. Sleeping most of day.
r5 November, \r'. opus vI, y-666-1t and Ethyl. operation: excellent.
Elixir: left mostly-very fine and sweet and rx,-ell-charged. Object: Magrun
o?^.
16 November, {. cleaning things up after three days of bad weathef.
17 November, p. Mostly mending paintings.
18 November, 4. 4.44 The Day of My Birth is nigh its dawnll I
^.m. fout scenatios to illustrate the action of
have been at work all night on
Karma. And idea for affih, sttonger still, has iust come! I must jot down
the outlines.
t.tt a.m.Opus VII, 1t-666-5t. Operation: fast and furious' Luscious
with snow.z Elixir: out of reach'3 Object: !il.L.O.R.4
ff you asked for btead and they give yorr a stone, better disgrrise yourself
as a geologist. If you statt bread riots, they will call the soldiers out and
shoot you.
r9 Novembet, !. In my Rabelais, vol.-I, p. t98, last chapter -of Book I,
Paritagruel, the editor, says that Medin is usually spelt Melin. Can this be
the origin of. -txbnnelin?5
P.m. Opium.
ro.tt p.m. circa, y-666-3r. Opetation: orgiastic. Elixir: copious, vcll-
made but not very tich. Object: CCXX.
zo November, h.
zr November, O. Russell, Fra.'.6 Genesthai arrived.
zz Novembef' \r'.
r Ctowley's birth in the Golden Daw'n on the 18 November 1898'
2 Cocaine.
3 Lost in the curcrrbite (vagina).
a Identitv unknown.
5 Cf. Abla-Melin, the Mage.
6 This pyramid of dott i"ndicates that this brother, Russell, is a mcmber of a
secret socitty, in this case, the A.'.4".
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2, November, ir.
z4 November, p. Opus VIII, lzr_6661r, p.o.L
Opus IX, r4f DB
zy November, h.
z6 November, Q. Astarte Lulu panthca born.a
z7 November, ft.
z8 November, O. Considerations of the Cephalocdium Working.a
z9 Novembet, v. Working on Record for Cephaloedium Sforking.
1o Novembet,;f.
r December, p.
z December, 4. On with Fish.6
1 December, g. Very sick boytz
- 4 December, h. ditto. one should be a kinder master to women than to
dogs, for the good sense of dogs makes their misbehaviour lcss excusable.
y Dccember, O. I have had a Campaign of rgrg against the Hun,
o --.
Pythagoras and broken up the lines of Generll tysis.i
I felt sure that as pytdagoms made Numb., ih" base of his system, the
Golden verses must enshrine -his teaching, dogmatic piu.ti.a, in one
way or the other. on the surface they seimed-little ""a
more'tha' pt"titoa.r;
Fabre d'olivet'se excursus was to me tot a bdlliant series of conjectures. r
tricd repeatedly to discover some esoteric impor in the T*r 1", without
avau.
- Last night I began a neu/ translation, for I had noticed that d,orivet,s was
full of loose paraphrase, and even ar times injustifiably alien from his
I Per os.
2 Russell's numbet in the A...A...
3 The Hebrew letter pe means a mouth, in other words, the two magicians
practised fellatio.
a Ninette's child.
.- 5 A magicat- rite which crowley. performed with the scadet rzoman and
Brother Genesthai. A typescript of ii is^extant.
6 Fisb, an unfnished'ind *ip"btish"J ;;;;i by crowley. The fitst nine chaptets
are extant.
beginning to have their adverse efiect.
; Ei:*:late
e Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, I*s Vers doris de plttbagore, cxpliErcs, ct traduits...,
tBt1,
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author. The Greek, too, is precise and compact, rather in the style of a
mathematical or chemical treatise, and I suspected technical words of the
Jabulonl type. I then translated the three lines of the Paraskeue and found all
the important wotds to be significant of number, order, etc. Thus 'cr,g,cr is
only 'esteem' secondarily; its radical sense is 'estimate'. I am encoutaged to
continue.
Latet I am apparently convalescent. I read Claude Fatrdre's Fumees
d'Opiun and want to write a Hymn to the Pipe.
Note: C H A T T I N G is absolutely ptohibited unless the chatters feel
chatty. Otherwise chatting is the hardest and most tedious kind of work.
6 Decembet, V. ro.rt p.m.After an effort, Ihave ended my Hymnto
Opium.2
ro.J t p.m. A lexicographer is one who explains words in terms of othet
words. So of course, ultimately, is a writer. This involves the assumption
tirat there are some words whose meaning does not have to be explained.
Otherwise one gets metely a series of indeterminate equations. But how do
any words become known ? If not explained in other words, they are
explained by gestures, such, for example, as pointing. These gestures are
really words in another form. A11 knowledge is therefore impossible. It
merely consists in a sedes of propositions about x, y, and z, statements of
relations between unknown and unknowable things.
7 December, J. Painting all day with interruptions.
ro.oo p.m. Starting on Fish again-dication.
8 December, p. Painted panels, etc.
9 December , 2I. 7 .zo p.m. Opus XI, y-666-F, p.!.n. Operation: good,
considering lapse of time. Elixit: strong and fine. Object: the Current of the
New Moon.
ro December, t, and rr, h. Painting, etc. The onc inalienable right of
mankind, its one priceless pearl of privilege, the only thing that saves life
from being intolerable petry, dull, contemptible and null, is Death. Only
those who posscss our infinite aim can endure immortality.
rz December, O. 6.5 p.m. I have been painting most of the day; mending
various old cocks, but especially making a Trump IX, The Hermit, as
seen in a vision last night. Also I began the Trump V, the Hierophant.
6.ry p.m. Genesthai has been making an Ether experiment since about
half past rz o' the afternoon. He only says-'God damn!' at infrequent
intervals, and laughs coarsely at lascivious suggestions. In brie{ it is a
drunken sailor boy to the outward eye; but he seems to get certain interior
1 A Masonic password, around which a great deal of controversy has raged.
2 The 6nal title to this poem of Crowley's was'The Opium Pipc'but no copy
is extant.
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states of considerable interest, and possibly of great value. This Brother has
a husk of rcoo/o American v"rg-ttf *hi;h'.orr."."1, Gi.", ai.p,. The task
of his Holy Guru is rhen to wlork on the husk in "
to us by the universities of cambrigge and the -"i"."'-"ae familiar
Obscure, a gentleman, scholar,. and oxford. H;;;" of Jude the
Hooligan' This is difficult loi.rrtirt Saint in ,f* U"aify garb of a
being told "-":ry ritoitiorr, as people who don,t in the least
:i:"j pr^it'ry that thev are co*"rds, riars, and sodomites take
umbrage at a guarded hint that their methoa ,r,rr"r.,'j;}i, is six weeks
behind the fashion. llowever, rat* Hory Guru, and I shal tell him
in plain terms 'Be not.animal, "i.ri"r " i."...d
there be subtrety t.n". ,iy opt*i, "od by delicacy,
#.'t" therein'-.,.,-'u, it is written ii-it, Book of the
He has the instinct of a gentleman not to wound another person,s most
exquisitely frail fancy-feeririgs; but tt" t u, been brought up in an environ_
ment of coarse reering j.."frg brutes. H. onderst^.ra-, .r,iir.l, in my dial,
kid!' but not the nrglirh .qoio"r."ior ri"r phrase, .spring,s sm'e depends
on_April showers' o, th. r"in .Sit."". *lr. ,lr,,".r"r,.
He wants pure L_ove, r7_years_old with rg] gold'lr"i, and d guaranteed
blush and the Ideal ldeal, and :.p;," tsru,.r. i"v Thrle D"[;rJ;; it, that being
the recognized price all over ,ir.'uJr"J The passi,on of a prortitot.,
the Vice of a vampire, seem
coprophile and bestial joys of ,. rrit"-r""ny: how much more then the
having achieved and. thos. -rro Lo*-know all anJ Jelght in all,
cream and marrons ixperie"J;i;-;; that they have tumed from ice_
glaces to Bombay Duck
"p"a,i,i.r!'"ra and iaiiir-friZ)n ge
his salad days, ad.iring rtr'r. refusing to look . is in
Pheasant when it ftgt, qr:f.Fd jam to chutney, and upon the
Roquefort. yet in | treacle to
his own ,ool h. kooirr'b.tt.r, h.;;;'.rd;een taught
by Amedcan public opinion ,rr", H""r"td chandrer christy and charles
Dana Gibson are Artisis, 1o the pt.;"ai* of roolooseril;; and Goya.
He must leam that th; so-u]_tha, riri'.".r, ,rr. tltro-"r oirxn.r.a"-, must
indwell rhe worn flesh of u.rori"";-rrr"i r,." i"rr-;";;k;;, her rank;
and to gloat upon the corruption of the "rrt
scars of her syphilis as sheerci".r, body of s""rr*rrr, i"unting the
,.ao.tions, becau* ,G-**ess
wantonness' as to scorn the fatuous ft.rh".;;-;i -t^# Joli.t, her
Desdemonas, who are only b"dr ;;;i; Tree of Lust, whose-fruit ^rd
Medlar, the \x'rore. He must t.",,, ,rr* iis animar suength and is the
the pride thereo{ are not more his than they are the *r��, spirits, an.
experience, and inten-sity of the sworn iorr* ;;;-Aat the skill,
desirable to the soul- beyond *t ".ra Daughters of satan are
;i;; excitants of passion; that the
:ff;|
::::H: spring are not to-be compared with ir,. ,t."ay savase
He wants old Brandy, I am sure; but he expects it to come in a new
bottle -with a gay laber;'h. r'r,-rro; r-h;, the dust and the cobwebs are
signs that the spirit is mellow.
From every rottenness of Leah I get He.vord of sorcery; the rength of
her term of service r. n:t, *triT"ni?f G.a ti pri"p"r"'i# in. is past
Mistress of the Lodge of Lust; the thickriess of ihe -ia "o rrr. .=o* prorr",
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how richly.she has tolled in the stye. I lust fot her as I could never fot a
novice ; her wrinkled ripeness guafantees her.
This truth learn thou, Geneithai, brothA of mine! Leatn this, thou Bull
in my Pasiphae-pastutel Leafn thou that I, worn out with wallowing
though I be, or r^..- to be to thee, can breed thee Minotaut, while those
*..f.^Io., that temPt thee with soft comeliness will but give birth to their
base kind, to kine potential of no more than milk, veal, beef, and leather.
Come, brother, *y Bull! Desire me thou, delight me! Defile me and
"ori., the. my Magick shall repay thy pains. come, seize
destroy me; I swear to
me, master me, come, Bull of mine, teach out and take me roadng! I am thy
mate, thy meat not natulal to thee, therefote thine most surely as in thine
Oatlr-ani mine thatwewould conquet Natutewehave swofn. I love theenot;
lloathe thee and I fear thee; therefore, I say my body be thy brotheM yield
myself to thee, I shrink from thee; thou art to me the uttermost
Abomination; come thetefore thou, and sin with me the Sin of Shame,
commit this crime thus trvofold against Nature! In thy distaste for me, in
thy contempt for me, my shameless- soul, my soddenness, my soiled
strlpration, in these devouring them with cold and carnal acts' find thou the
splindoors and serenities thou hast sought, the sanctities that none but Sin,
tire Sin against thyself, hath power to givc'
I also,-every nirve deep-bitt.tt, as urith vitriol at thy touch, my delicacy
quivering at ihy coarseneis, thy gross beastlust an outrage- to mine every
d"irrti.r.i, I too vdll take thee to me that I may make no diffetence between
any one thing and any othet thing, and love thee as I love myself, feeling
the cruelty "f thy cluich mofe deat than Death's, the thfust terrific of thy
thunderbolt not othef than the Life of Zeus, begetting in my soul's womb
one, so mote it be! one Fleracles to achieve the \fodd's Twelve Labours.
Come, brother mine in the One Ordet, eleet thy brow as mine to bear the
Silver Starll Come, Knight Kadoschz ordained, the Templarsg hail theit
comrade, cast thou thy peafls before the Sow of Purple,a in the mire of this
my Sty.. Come, Cecil,s^.o-., my mlste:' come to Alysc thy slave; the god
thy soul secfete in seed, and in the devil her body scatter it; she shall bear
,rnto thee a son of this night's Sorcery, a son of song to bear thy name and
fame on every wind of the wotld vrhen thou thyself att dust, thy body, and
farfromearth, fofgetful, thou steefest through-strange stafs theship of thy
soul. Yea ! as I loatle, I lust; I prostitute myself to thee, pervetsely prurient-
\Wilt thou not make tiris night ihe nameless nuptial, the Devil thy Lotdr and
mine at Our Black Mass-8.21 P.m.
I The symbol of the Great White Brotherhood or the A"'4"'
2 A Ma'sonic Grade, relating to the Knights Templars'
t the .econd greai Ordei to rvhich"Crowley-belonged was. the Order of
Ori.ntai Templari (O.T.O.); it claimed. descent from-the original Knights
Templars *hoie ord'., *". iestroyed at the beginning of the r4th century. The
O.T.b. was ficunded bv KarI Kellner in r895
- n T.t. ffigh pri.rt.rr'oi the Scadet !flomio or the Great Whore of Babylon or
(at this period) Miss Leah Hirsig.
' s Cec^il Frederick Russell, Fra"ter Genesthai, r47'
6 Crowley. ? Aiwaz'
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r 3 December, :^. .::: i.T. A long preliminary with Alostrael, Snow, and
the Sacrament of Deathl led to ,ro .ii^-"*, but io air*rrioo as to why I
was worded. It had been obvious to Leah tfr"t f "
distressed. I searched, and found the shock or fr"* 1..r, il;;I"il;i;
unde'ying cause. But our children were taken mf ,*"-"f""i.s to be thl
from us u'.oor. we
neglecting our Work in our love. My remedy is ttrenit;;;;* "'ere
establish the Law of rhelema. So-then, at two o'clock this mysetf to
moming, I raid
my hand upon the Sacred Lotus of Alos*ael and swore these oaths:
r. I, TO ME'A @H'ION, The Beast, 666, her;;y'iiri-t.r.o., ,r,or,
solemnly promise and sweat, to devote my *hoi. *ort irrg ti-e exclusively
""'
,o rh: completion of my Comment2 on rni nrri rj iiit)r7
z' r, etc., as before, etc.) swearr that as ,oon as the comment is ready, I
rvill take the Book and cause it to be printed, uoooJ-"rrJlrro.d in the
the Book itself, thougi r r."".
ffinT::::::1e -y'.ir*iir,"", money to
,n;:",:n... Oaths I called Nuith! Hadithl Ra_Hoor_Khuit as witness
,.|*l#Hli_Air;1z to aid me to keep them, and in all other ways soever
z.zo ^.m.I therefore open my MS of the Comment.
r4 Decembef, d. uttedy fagged with a sorr of low fever; taking
vehement measures to clean'my ,y"rt.*.
15 December, p.
16 December, 2f. Letter from Hansen.tr-r1rg Equinox,IIf,s z fpr $r1oo.
sThat course shat we pursue in the matter? Hexagram xxxvrr. Kia Zban.
Family. Get ahead with the publication.
At night got a wonderfui poem and fine scenario .The Death-Dram, or
'The Capsule'.
r7 December, !. All day dictating the Capsule.
9.oo p.m., 3 r-6661 r, p;u1.__OOention : -superb_orgasm
Elixir: excellent. Object : ZCXX.' acutely painful.
r 8 December, h ' woke froS-1-royar and rerigious dream. In particular a
procession headed by F,dward VII, in Derty_b-;;.";il;;fi;,T;
'ivid even now I'm awake. At wori
The Name of One Letter is ShT 'rJ"'i"y;.;;;;'Z;XX.
I A reference
p.a.n. and the o, On
' Lrowley wrote five XI" generally.
in Tl:e Eqniro.x. The comments oi Tbc Book of tbc Law, two of which appeared
comment he is writns;l,y + " h;g. ;;.i. Ti; very brief
;?"ry#9illi"t"",L;:.T*l3, Lt-",:,xii:i i ,;i fi;.i;';;E;;; ,f ;;;
" rne deal drd not oo through andthis book was never published.
,#'0,1,*".illfl1l j;:l}::;.,lmnf..Jxli:fl
::,.**!i.j:"*11":::rifi ,,*:
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That of Two is ?Nl
That of ihree is [omittedl
That of Four is pgz
That of Five is AIAIIH3
That of Six is @EAHMAa
That of Seven is tyTN:x:u
That of Eight is-Baphomet.
That of Nine is [omitted]
That of Ten is [omittedl
That of Eleven is ABRAIIADABRA.
That of Twelve is TO MEIA OHPION
r9 Decembet, O. Revised Comment onCCXXin confetence, etc.
zo Decembef, v.
zr December,;f. Celebrated entry of o in yJ.
r. Give general symbol for the Comment as it stands. Hexagram LVI,
Strangers-people travelling abroad. I am ill at ease.
z. Should I scrap the Comment and try to do it all over again on different
principles ? Hexagram LIII, Gradual advance. Go on with it the wav it is.
1. \irhat course of action should I adopt to complete it? Hexagram XX,
'Big Earth', Air of K[teis]. Contemplate !
+. Shall I use any special means besides straightforward study and
meditation? Hexagram XXVI, Earth of P[hallus]. Accumulation. (I suppose
of the phallic power.)
5. Give symbol for complete Comment. Hexagram VIII, 'Union and
Attachment'. Luna of K[teis]. Re-examine by Divination!
6, Shall I use cocaine to assist me in the work ? Hexagram LVIV, Air of
Moon, Hwan. An amazingly detailed reply on the whole chapter. Evidently:
YES.
zz December, {.
23, December,2f . Painting to fill in the time while accumulating force for
cuffent.
tr.oo eirca. A vision of the card XIV. Crown of twelve stars. Artemis
figure naked, snake tibbon as dress, rainbow colours, head over right
shoulder, yellow, black, vrhite and red gitdling her three and a half times.
She has three heats in an inverted triangle. The sun is her umbilicus: it
bears an oblong with the word [undecipherable] and 666 underneath;
it adds to 666. There are severr letter groups with O in the middle. The
vulva is hairless, the legs close together, standing on a moon with the bright
edge uppermost. She repeats the black red white and gold combination with
1 AL. 2 Aislaz.
3 AGAPE,. 4 THELEMA.
5 BABALON.
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11".. "i-_r!" background. She has hounds, horses and deer. She pours
Black-!7hite from a phallus into a yoni which g"rt.. ,.J-gold into her
mouth' But there are many variations in alr this: i ,hrn i""r.t before
painting the card. "gri'
e4 December, Q. Shall I begin my contemplation to&y? Give the
symbol for my proper action today. o of o 1. F. w.ork with
Genesthai. .-'
-
8.3o p.m.I have doneCCXX,I and II with him.
jater' wtrat steps do I take, if any, in the mattef of v'holonl ?
:: . Read whole chapter but-ask for it! Give a symbol of my work
tomoffow, Saturday. : Met on to the job! Note: the formula of
-
fbin, v,lnch tl gr.".,;F;ing, penerration, advanrageous, corre* and
t-. ]: Lurk! Begin by a piriod o?rlil"n.". .. Set to .,,o.f;; irrrrtt" the Holf
Guardian Angel. 2. B.e actiye, vigilant; and do ,ro, ,.1^" caution and
wariness even at the close of the Jay's work. 4. Restrain ihe imp,rlse to
create until it becomes ovelpowedng. ;. Having leapt up, fly high; and
invoke the Holy Guardian Angel, keeping cloiely i" ri".r, with Him
throughout. 6. Adjust_the force imploy.d ; th. m^tter of the work. For
instance, don't take a sledge hammei to crack a nutshell. 7. s".rifi." the self
wholly to the work, and avoid lust of result.
-rs Kbien possessed. of .four pdnciples, Gebarah, cberetr, Tiphererb and
D
lr?' That is, as given in Appendirrv?B 'Great otiii#ing, is fire,
,advantageoo",,
?Al.t'pe_netrating', nflater, Nisc/tanab; "na fir, T;pberetb in
Ruacb; and'correct Td 1t-_,,-.Earth, Nepbevb.a Tiey "r" G..rio, (or,$'ill)
imagination formulating it, -&Iind otgantzing it, and ih. Ir,rt--ent giving
effect to it. But kt Hsi translates theibtaan Jifferently, makingihe qualities
of Kbien two only instead of four. Thus: 'greatly p.rr.tr"ti.rgii, it, N"tor.,
and it requires (finds it advantageous) to be .firm and .o"r..i. This does not
appeal to me so strongly as the fourfold measure of confucius, which is
such incomparably good Cabbala.
rr.4t p.m. Jane Iilolfe has obtained by grace of Our Lady,5 acting
through Her right, Milk of poppy,u ^ nu^, for herserf. This name is
1 wholon, one of the magicar mo,ttoes of Ma{e Lavrov. The name is taken from
p^hg:" ittTimaeas,meanin!.the whole of wholes,, i.":;h; A;;i;tirtot..
" 2 The four orincinlgs Strength -kiia\-, -nn
(T1pQr1t!), and Rnowl^ed 11e .. o ' \-lCetriab), ry
eg (Daath). '"irr.
3 Of Legge's vetsion otitie I Chinp.
I
According.tg tq9 .Cvb!a!a, the s6ul of man-is sub-d-ivided into four principles
or parts of which cbiab. (Fre) stands for wisdom, t t*rttiii (wrtli), in.oitio.,,
ru1c!-$!r), Reason, and Nepiucb (Earth), Animal N"t"i.. -
5 Nuith.
6 opium. The sentence is a bad one but the meaning is clear: through Milk of
Poppy (Opium) came the name, Matunith, from .O"r i?ay,.-
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MAT\/NITh, 5 16, an interpretation of which will be duly entered in Liber
D.r
z9 December, V. r.tt p.m.Note g2 shines by reflected light from
Binab,s and ]a b)' ditto of Chokmah.s Thus Parzival is a Fool, to look at
from below, and I am a Magus.6
1 An extensive Cabbalistic dictionary of Hebtew and Greek wotds wtrich was
published as a supplemerrtto Tbe Eqainox, volume I, numbet 8, r9tz.
- 2 Ahph, the Path of the Fool'
s Binih (Understanding), the Third Sephira.
a Betb, tLe Letter of thC Magician, attributed to Mercury.
5 Cboknah (Wisdom), the Second Sephira.
6 Parzival (Fratet Achad) has the lettet Ahph (the FooI) atttibuted to him;
this is a dig ai Achad (Jones) for te-arranging the Paths on the Tree of Life-see
hispBL, ry23-and claiming to be an Ipsissimus.
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AL VtrL
LEGIS
S UB FIGURA
CCXX
AS DELIVERED BY
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TO
DCLXVI
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I
r. Had! The manifestation of Nuit.
z. The unveiling of the company of heaven.
3. Every man and every womanis a star.
4. Every number is infinite; there is no difference.
r' Ilelp me, o warrior lord of rhebes, in my unveiling before the
Childrcn of men!
6. Be_thou Hadit, my secret centfe, my heart and my tonsuel
7. Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister i{";r:;;; _kmat.
8. The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the "f r----
Khabs.
9. W_orship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you!
ro. Let my servants be few & secret: they"shall & thc
known. ""i;.ltany
rr. These are foors that men adore; both their Gods & their men are
fools.
rz' come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love!
-"^l:.,]_-"- above you and in you. My ecstasy i, t yl"ir. ,r;", is to see
your Joy.
14. above, the gemmBd azure is
the naked splendour of Nuit;
She bends in ecstasv to kiss
The secret ardoors of Hadit.
The wingdd globe, the starry blue.
Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!
is r 5. Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space
the prince-pdest the Beast; and in his woman called the scadet s/oman
is all power given. They shall gather my children irrto tt.i, iod: they shall
bring the glory of the stars intJthe hearis of men.
16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret
flame, and to her the stooping stadight.
r7. But yeafenot so chosen.
r8. Burn upgn their brows, o splendtous seqpentt
t9, O azute-lidded wolnan, bend upon theml
. . zo. The kcy of the rituars is in the secret word which r have given unto
him.
zr' with the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They
are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there iJno other c.a ,ir"" me, and
my lord Hadit.
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zz. Now, ,b::.I"_*,-Iam known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a
secret name which I shall give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am
Infinite space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing!
Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & aiy
other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt.
4.But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of alll
z4.I am Nuit and my word is six and fifty.
25. Divide, add, multiply, and understand.
26. Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: who am I,
and what shall be the sign? So she answered him, bending down, a lambeni
flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black
earth, & her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the
little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasyf the
consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body.
27.. The priest answered & said unto the eueen of Space, kissing her
, drw
lovely brows, and the of her light bathing his whole body"in a
sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it
be ever thus ; that men speak not of rhee as one but as None; and let them
speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous !
28. None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two.
z9.For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.
3o. This is the creation of the wodd, that the pain of division is as
nothing, and the joy of dissolution all.
3r. For these fools of men and their woes c,rre not thou at all! They feel
little ; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones.
?r: 9l.y my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me
only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. ihis is so: I
swear it by the vault of gr bodl; by -y sacred heart and tongue; by all I
can give, by all I desire of ye all.
31' Then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon, & said unto the
Queen of Heaven: sfrite unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals;
v/rite unto us the law!
14. But she said: the ordeals I write not; the rituals shall be half known
and half concealed; the Law is for all.
3 5. This that thou writest is the threefold book of Law.
16. My scdbe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in
one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment
thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Ku-it.
37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of
the wand and the rvork of the sword: these he shall leam anJ teach.
38. He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals.
59.The word of the Law is O"Ilp".
4o. vho calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into
the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Flermit, and. the Lover,
and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
4r. The word of Sin is Restriction. o man! refuse not thy wife, if she
will! o lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the
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;}lrilru but love: all else is a-curse. Accurs.d! Accursdd be it to the aeonsr
4z' Let it be that srate of manyhood bound and loathing.
'
thou hast no right but to a. tfrf'*iif. - So with thy all;
4t. Do that and no other shail say nav.
44. For p"r. Tjl,^ }T_rsuaged tf forpor., delivered from the lust of
result, is every way perfect.
,rolr.,tn. perfect and the perfect are one perfect and not two; nay, are
,- ^1!: Nrltng is a secret key of this raw. Sixty-one the Jews called it; I call
rt ergh_t, eighty, four_hundred & eighteen.
47. But they have the half: orrit."Uu ttu.
';'T'i3"H:::"fi
:,'*:*,lnX"T
x,and
"#'ylrh::'-,"""?ifi
49' Abrogate are an rituars, an ordeals, a' words and signs. Ra_Hoor-
Khuit hath taken his seat in the Er;;;;rh.-"0*;; ,rr.%ras; and ret
Asar be with rsa, wfro also ,t. o".. i.J th.y "i
adorant, Isa the sufferer; uo"r i" ut|"r;;i;;';.t Ar". be the
initiating. r,i,,;;;;;;".';ilr;ffi;lr is the Lord
50' There is a word ,? _ruy about the Hierophantic task. Behord! there are
rhree ordeals in one, aad,it may b. g;; ,f,r.. *"y* if,;;;;r, must pass
through fire ; ret the fine u. i:,
rii.Jri-i"r.'..,,-^rra it. r"iry?i.osen ones in
:i:,lfllHJf", r. have star t;;;;;,,em & system; rlt not one know
5 r' There are four,gates.to one parace; the floor of that palace is of s'ver
and gold; lapis lazuli &^jasper il;;., and all ,rr. rJ*i* jasmine &
rose, and the embrems of death. ^;.
gates; let him stand on the floor Let him enter in turn o" "i o*. the four
warrior, if thy servant sink? "f tl, prtr... lfi' ;.;.i,*il Amn. Ho!
therefore: dress ve ail in fine But ,'.i.'lr. means and means. Be goodly
and wines that foamr "pp"tJ, *rrich foods ;;;;;r*eet wines
'uvhere and with atro,-t#.'|;;; di and w'l of rove as ye will, when,
whom ye will!g;, unro me.
5z.If this be not zright;if ye "f*"y,
confou"li*. rpul.__rrt r, saying; They are
:,ii:,ijiill?_*?J:?trfr j::H;$be,,o,.";;;;;.;J,ir,.,,.;p;;;
y 3. This shall regenerlte th9 worlJ, if* fi"f. worlf my sister, my heart &
my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o r-*.
thou bg of the princes, it shalr ,roi urr,.rg. thee "1ra^pl"phet, though
ecs_tasy^fe thine and joy of earth: .v.r To met To nor absolve thee. But
me!
t4. Lnange not as Tl* ". the style of a letter; for beholdl thou o
prophet, shalt not behord a' these ,rryriJ., hidden therein.
r t. T. child of thy bowels, t , ,h^il ;;;"td them.
to' 'trxpect rum not from the East, nof from the west; for from no
expected house cometh that ch'd. A";r Ail words are sacred and alr
prophets true; save only that ,rr"y a rittle; sorve the first half of
the equation, leave the second ""a.^or"d
light, and some, though ,r.r"t,""t.a. uuL But thou Lu(rLr rlast hast all all lIin the crear
""t "tt, irr-trr.;;-'
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5 7. Invoke me under my stars I Love is the law, love under wilL Nor let
the fools misiake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and
there is the serpent. Choose ye welll He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing
the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God.
All these old letters of my Book are aright; but s is not the Star. This
also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise.
y8. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life,
upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in
sacrifi.ce.
J9. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; and there is no blood
therein: because of my hait the trees of Eternity.
6o. My number is rr, as all their numbets who are of us. The Five
Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red. My colour is
black to the blind, but the blue and gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have
a secret glory for them that love me.
6r. But to love me is better than all things: if under the night-stars in the
desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a
pure heart, and the Setpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in
my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso
gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods
and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the
nations of the earth in splendour and pdde; but always in the love of me,
and so shall ye come to my ioy. I charge you earnestly to come before me in
a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. I love yout I yearn to youl
Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and
drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and
atouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me!
62. Atall my meetings with you shall the priestess say-and her eyes shall
burn with desire as she stands bate and rejoicing it *y secret temple-To
met To met calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her love-chant.
61. Sing the rapturous love-song unto mel Burn to me perfumes! Wear to
me iewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love youl
64.I am the bluelidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of
the voluptuous night-sky.
6y. To mel To me I
66. The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.
II
r. Nu! the hiding of Hadit.
z. Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. I,
Hadit, am the complement of Nu, my bride. I am not extended, and Khabs
is the name of my House.
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I am everpvhere, the centre, as She, the circumference, is
"r';i:r*:*:re
4.Yet she shall be knowa and I never.
y' Beholdr the rituars of the "rati-. are brack. Let the ev'ones be cast
il3iri[.H f,?-f, ones be p"'s'd bv 'h' ;'.ph"ri ir'." ,h"r ,hi;
6' r am the flame that burns in every. heart of man, and in the core of
ffi: :ffd#tlf: #$ll;.*'"'" or Lire; vo tn;;;i;";lJ,r,. knowredge
7' r am the Maqician and the Exorcist. r-.am the axre of the wheer, and
cube in the circleiCo-. *Ti,lil"u.rr;;.J;;;ilr-t,r,", the
*orshipped "". go.
*i:^s" Heru-pa-kra",''"o. worshipped me; in, for I
v/orstupper. am the
as 9. Remember all ye rhat existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but
shadows;
ro. thel nass g "re {one; l"rirr." is that which remains.
O prophet! thou hast ill willto tearn tt is writins.
rr. I see thee hate the hand & th. t;;;;J"_;:;g.r.
rz. Because of me in Thee which,f,o., orr.*.st not.
rr. lgt why? Because thou -"* rfr. t rrower, and me.
r4. Now let there b: ,a.v:ilTg .i,hi. shrine: ,ro*'t.t the light
men and eat them up with bli"d;.r;i -- devour
r 5. For I am oerfict, being Not; and my number is nine by the fools;
with the just I am.igt., "ria-onJi"irgrrr, Which is vital, for I am but
The Empress"und il Ki";'^J nor of me; for there is a none
::*..r1 further
16. I am The Enopress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my
eleven. bride is
t7. Ffearme, ye people of sighingl i
The sorows of pain ir,d rle".t
Are left to the dead and rh.;;;
The folk that not t"o* _.,", ?ir.
;',;iT;;ffi:'ir';#;:,f'"':.tjlii,*f.t. we a,e not ror the poo,
r9' Is a God to live in a dog? ilril the highest are ofus. They
rejoice, our chosen: *ho ro-oi,,L,ir'i, sha'
strength, feupi"g "J"r"r.
,#::iyrand la"gi;, ""a delcious languor, force and
zr' we have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them d.ie in
misery' For they feel +.. c.oqe"r-rion i, li. .rr." of kings: stamp their
wretched & the weak: this is rli. i;;;i;e sffong: this is our down the
joy of the world. Thi.nk :*, ;kt";,Irplrr,rir",lie: That raw and the
verilv thou shalt not die, but'tiviili;;fi it u. Thou Must Die:
the King dissolve, he sirall ,.mrirr-;; o'a.rrtil;'If ,h" body of
Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The o*. ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit!
seryants ;o1. s!*"grrr^^d-iigtrr, Light; these are for
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ofthe Star & the Snake. the
zz' r am the snake that giveth Knowredge & Delight and bright
and stir the hearts of men riith drunke;;;r. To worship me take glory,
wine and
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strange drugs whereof I will tell rny prophet & be drunk thereof! They
shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of
innocence is a lie. Be strorlg, o man! lust, enjoy all things of Jense and
rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.
z3.Iam alone: there is no God where I am.
24. Beholdl these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who
be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain;
lut in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of rvomen with large
limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about
them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious
armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater
than this. Beware lest any force another, King against ICngl Love one
another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of
your pride, in the day of your wrath.
z 5 . Ye are against the people, O my chosen I
z6.I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is
joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head,
and shoot forth venom, then is rapfufe of the earth, and I and the eafi}- arc
one.
27. There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes
shall make gteat miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and
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there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason.
28. Now a curse upon Because and his kin!
zg.May Because be accursid for everl
1o. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops &
does nought.
1r. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness.
3,e. Also reason is a lie; fot there is a factor infinite & unknown; & all
their words are skew-wise.
3 1. Enough of Because ! Be he damned for a dog I
14. But ye, o my people, rise up & awakel
11.Let the rituals be rightly performed with foy & beautyl
36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times.
37. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bridel
I 8. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law.
19. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet-secrer, O prophetl
4o. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the
Gods.
4r. A feast for fire and a feast for v/ater; a feast for life and a greater feast
for death!
42. A feast every day in your hearts in the ioy of my rapture !
41. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight !
44. Ayel feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the disso-
lution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.
45. There is death for the dogs.
46. Dost thou fail ? Art thou sorry ? Is fear in thine heart ?
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47. Where I am these afe not..
48. Pity not the failen! r never knew them. I am not for trrem. I consore
not: I hate the consoled & the consoler.
49' r am unique & conquero t I am not of the slave-s_that perish. Be they
damned & dead! 4*:r. phis is of the 4: there is a 6fth *iro is invisible,
& therein am I as a babe in an egg.]
5o. Blue am I and,gord in ttrJtight of my bdde: but the red gleam is in
my eyes & my spangles are purple & sreen.
5 r. Purple beyond purple: * ir tl. fgfrt frigtrer than eyesight.
it ;2. Thete is a veil: that veil is blackllt islhe veil oritre'moaest woman;
is the veil of soff-olr & the pal of death: this is none of me. Tear down
that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words:
these vices are mv service; ye do well, & I will reward yoo h.re
hereafter. "nd
53' Fe.at not' o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be
'ltly: Thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed *r.,t" eyes that thou
shalt look upon with gJadness.'gut I will rua. trr.. i" r;ri of sorrow:
they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen; but I lift thee uo.
t+' Nor shall they --h9 oy aloud their folly thai itto,i *."n.st nought
avail; thou shalt reveal it: tirou availest: they are tt. ,t,.rr., of because:
Thev are not of me. The stops as rhou wilt; thl [rr.;t;;;; them not in
style or value !
15. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Arphabet; thou
shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto.
. 56-' Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall
laugh not long: then when ye are sad kiourthat I-h"rr" foisaken you.
-.r.7'\:-that is righteous shal be righteous still; he that is filthy shal bc
filthy still.
;8. Yea! deem nor-of change: ye shall be as ye & not othcr.
Thereforc the kings of the earth shall be Kings ^re,
foi.rr"rithe sraves shall
servc. There is none that shall be cast down or ifrted op: aiir-""", as it was.
Yct there are masked ones my servants: it_may be that yonder beggar is a
Sing'-A King may "lg":: hii garment as he will: there is no ce*ain test:
but a beggar cutnot hide his p"".rry.
59. Beware thereforelJove alr, list perchance is a King concealed! Say
you so ? FooMf he be a King, thou canst not hurt him.
6o' Therefore strike hard e lo* and to hell with them, masrer!
, 6r. Therc is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light ood.rir.d, _ort
desirable.
6z. r am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stats min hard upon
thy body.
63. Thou art cxhaust in_th9 voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the
expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughte'f"r;t;" caress of
Hell's own worm.
6a. Oh! thou art c
thee:ha'th;rap;df :?fr :iff;:,:?T":1?.,if".Tl*:;:;l1,ff:i
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Now rejoice! now come in our splendour & rapture! Come in our
passionate peace, & write sv/eet words for the Kings!
65.I am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One.
66. Write, & fifld ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working!
Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso
seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our
agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart & tejoice! We are one; we are none.
67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent
kisses !
68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep-die!
69. Ah ! Ah ! What do I feel ? Is the word exhausted ?
7o. There is help and hope in other spells. Silisdom says: be strong! Then
canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink,
drink by the eight and ninety rules of art:7f thou love, exceed by delicacy;
and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!
7r. But exceed! exceed!
72. Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine-and doubt it not,
and if thou art ever joyous !-death is the crown of all.
73. Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death is forbidden,
o man, unto thee.
74.The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that
lives long and desires death much is ever the King among the Kings.
75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words:
t6. + 6 3 8 A B K z 4 AL G M O R 3 Y X z489RP S T O VA L. What
meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou knorv ever.
There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o
chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to
look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word.
77. Obe thou proud and mighty among men!
78. Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among
Gods ! Lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars.
They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of
the man; and the name of thy house 418.
79. The end of the hiding of Hadit; and blessing & worship to the
prophet of the lovely Star!
III
r. Abrahadabra! the reward of Ra Hoor Khut.
z. There is division hithet homeward; there is a word not known.
Spelling is defunct; all is not aught. Beware! Holdt Raise the spell of
Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
1. Now let it be first understood that I am z god of War and of
Vengeance. I shall deal hardly with them.
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4. Choose ye an island!
5. Fortify it!
6.P*g it about with enginery of wart
Z.lyll give you " *"r_.igin..
8' rrith it ye shat smite thJ peopres and none shall stand before you.
9. Lurk! withdraw! upon th.m! this is trr. r"**"ilhe Battre of
Conquest: thus shall 1f *o"rfrin U. my secret house.
ro. Get the stil6 rry:Ang ^loot
temple is already :f. itself; set it in thy secret temple_and that
shall not fade, aright aispoid-*'ir shall be-;;ilj;ii;. ;;'i;
Close itin but. miraculous "oloot ,hrll .o*"'u.r. ,"1, Ly after day.
locked glass for a proof to the ,"vodd.
rr' This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. conquer! That is
enough' I will make easy io you the abstruction irom the house
in the victorious city. rntu shart thvself 'l-ordered
prophet, thou rikest it not. Thou :"r".r;;-;; wonhip, o
9-o"grr shalt h";. ;;;;; & trouble.
Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. $forship _. *itfr- fire.& il,";?l;worship me
with swords & with spears. tet *l *"-".r be girt with a sword before
me: let blood fow to mI {1e..T1ample dorvn tfr.?."tfr*;il oporr,h._,
o warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat!
rz. Sacrifice cattle little and big: after a child.
r3. But not now.
14' Ye shan see that hour, o blessdd Beast, and thou the sca'et
Concubine of his desitet
r 5. Ye shall be sad thereof.
16' Deem not too eage'y to catch the promises; fear not to undergo the
curses. Ye, even ye, know not this meaning all.
tT.Feat not at all; feat neither -.r, ,n-, Fates, nor gods, nor.anything.
Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in
heaven or upon the eartrior under the eartt. irio i, y;;-f"g. as Hadit
your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms.
18. Mercy let be off: damn them whopi{,! fru ana,";;;;; spare nor; be
upon them!
,-'2: M! s.tiri tl:y sha' call the Abomination of Desolation; count well
rts name, & it shall be to you as 7rg.
zo. why ? Because of the fall of Because, that he is not there asain.
zr. Set up my image in the East: thourrr"r, i"y rrr;';;;?g. which I
will,show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest. And it shall be
suddenly easy for thee to do this.
zz. The other images group around me to support me: let all be
worshipped, for they shallllusier to exalt me. I am ihe visible object of
worship; the others are secret; for the Beast & his Bride ,h"y, and for
the winners of the Ordeal X. Wtrat ls ttris iTtrou shalt "r.
know.
4.For perfume mix..meal..& hgney & thick f."oirrg, oi redwine: then
oil of Abramelin and olive oil, arrd afteiard ,oft.o and smooth down with
rich fresh blood.
z4' The best blood is of the moon, monthly: then the fresh brood of a
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child, or dropoing from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of the
priest or of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what.
25. This burn: of this make cakes & eat unto me. This hath also another
use; let it be laid before me, and kept thick with perfumes of your orison: it
shall become full of beetles as it were and ceeping things sacred unto me.
26. These slay, naming your enemies; and they shall fall before you.
27. Also these shall breed lust & power of lust in you at the eeting
thereof.
28. Also ye shall be strong in war.
29. Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for they swell with my
force. All before me.
,o. My altar is of open brass work: burn thereon in silver ot gold.
1r. There cometh a rich man from the !7cst who shall pour his gold
uPon thee.
32. From gold forge steel:
tt.Be ready to fly or to smite!
34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries:
though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisiblc
house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox;
when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne
and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies;
another woman shall awake the lust and wonhip of the Snake; another soul
of God and beast shall mingle in the globid priest; another sacdficc shdl
stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured
To the Hawk-headed mystical Lotd!
3 y. The half of the word of Heru-n-ha, called Hoor-pa-kraat and
Ra-Hoor-Khut.
16. Then said the prophet unto the God: :
37. I adore thee in the song-
I am the Lord of Thebes, and I
The iospired forth-speaker of Mentu;
For me unveils the veildd sky,
The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu
I(rhose words are truth, I invoke, I greet
Thy ptesence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuitl
Unity uttermost showed !
I adore the might of Thy breath,
Supreme and terrible God,
Who makest the gods and death
To ttemble before Thee :-
I, I adore theet
Appear on the throne of Ra!
Open the ways of the Khu!
Lighten the ways of the Ka !
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,ff,",xJ::|.1i.ff o' run through
Aum!letitfill met
ia' P that thy light is in me; & its red flame is as a sword in my hand
to push thy order. There is a sectet door that I shall m"k. to .rt"brish thy
,:3,il all the quarters (these are the adorations, as thou hast written), as i,t
The light is mine; its rays consume
Me: I have made a secret door
Into the House of Ra and Tum,
Of Khephra and of Ahathoor.
I am t\ Theban, O Mentu,
The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu !
By Bes_na_Maut my breast I beat;
By wise Ta_Nech f weave my spell.
Show thy star_splendour, O Nuiti
Bid me within thine House to dwell,
" ffi?f:x;ff *;'.1:i,: Itff i,,,
19' All this and a.book to say how thou didst come hither and a
reproduction of this ink and paper for ever-for in it is the word secret &
".ot..ogy in the English-and trry .o--ent upon this the Book of the Law
shall be printed berutifully in rei ink and black upon u."o-,irJpuper made
by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine
or.to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then tnef ,h"ll;iil;;;;d;i;
this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do thil quickly | '
4o. But the work of the comment ? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy
heart shall make swift and secure thy pen.
4r. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-iouse: a[ must be done welr and with
business way.
4z' The ordears thou shalt ovefsee thyself, save only the brind ones.
-Rgfule none, but thou shalt know & desiroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-
Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. success is thy proof: argue
not; conveft not; talk not overmuchi Them that seek ," .ir,l"p thee, to
overthrow thee, them attack without pity 9l quarrer & destroy them
utterly. Swift as a trodden serpenr-turn arii strit e r 'n. tiroo y.tl.adrier tha'
lrtjj** down their souls tJau{ut torrrr.rrt, raugh at ttr.ii i."r, spit upon
4. Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and compassion and ten_
derness visit her heatt; if she leave -y *.1r. to toy with ord s.weetnesses;
then shall my vengeance be known. r tii rr"y me her child: I will alienate
her heart: I will cast her out fro- ,*n; ,s a shrinking and despised harlot
shall she crnwl through.dusk-wet rrr..,r, die.old
44. But let her raise herself in pride ! "rrd "?J-rri"Tg.*a.
Le, r,., rolo*;;ii way! Let
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her work the work of 'wickedness! Let her kill her hear! Let her be loud
and adulterousi let her be covered with jewels, and rich garments, and let
her be shameless before all men!
45 . Then will I lift her to pinnacles of powet: then will I breed from her a
child mightier than all the kings of the earh. I will filI her with joy: with
my force shall she see & strike at the worship of Nu: she shall achieve
Hadit.
46.T am the wardor Lord of the Forties; the Eighties cower before me,
& are abased. I will bring you to victory & joy: I will be at your arms in
batde & ye shall delight to slay. Success is your proof; courage is your
armour; go on, go on, in my strength & ye shall turn not back for any!
47. This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the
original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the letters
and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall
divine. Let him not seek io try: but one cometh after him, whence I say not,
who shall discover the Key of it all. Then this line drawn is a key: then this
circle squared in its failure is a key also. And Abrahadabra. It shall be his
child & that strangely. Let him not seek af,ter this; for thereby alone can
he fall from it.
48. Now this mystery of the letters is done, and I want to go on to the
holier place.
49,I am in a secret fourfold rvord, the blasphemy against all gods of men.
yo. Curse them! Curse them! Curse them!
5r. With my Hawk's head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon
the cross.
5z.Iflap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him.
y3. ITith my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Buddist,
Mongol and Din.
54. Bahlasti! Ompedha! I spit on your crapulous creeds.
5 5. Let Maty inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste
women be uttedy despised among you!
56. Also for beauty's sake and love's !
;7. Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but
play: all fools despise!
5 8. But the keen and the proud, the royal and the lofty; ye are brothers !
t 9. As brothers fight ye I
6o. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
6r. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra's seat,
lightening the girders of the soul.
62. To Me do ye reverence; to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal,
which is bliss.
61. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its comment; and he
understandeth it not.
64. Let him come through the fitst ordeal & it will be to him as silver.
65. Through the second, gold.
66. Through the third, stones of precious water.
67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate frre.
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68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are mere
liars.
69. There is success.
7o. I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss
shrouds the night-blue sky.
. 7r._Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time
is nigh at hand.
7z. r am the Lord of the Doubre wand of porver; the wand of trre Force
of coph Nia-but my left hand is empry, for I have crushed an Universe
& nought remains.
73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then
behold!
.f.. Th..* is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of
midnight is ever the son.
75. The ending of the words is the $7ord Abrahadabra.
The Book of the Law is Written
and Concealed.
Aum Ha.
THE COMMENT
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the
first reading.
rfflrosoever
disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are mosr
dite.
Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as
centres ofpestilence.
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings,
eachfot himself.
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love under will.
The pdest of the princes,
ANKH-F-N-KHONSU
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A,'.A.., (Argenteum Astrum) xii, 5, zr, 9t, Alchemy, ryz
I'I
Alcohol, zo4,249, z8o
A'ag,9o
Aleph, r89, r98, 3oo
Abbott, &atfice, r3g Alexander the Great, 163
Abel, r8o
Abiegnus, I\{ount, zr7 Algeria, 94 96, ro7
Abiff, Hiam, rr3, r81 4!!r' T!?E tbe r-uh,ins-G tar (Carrot), r I 3
Allen, Maud, r38
ABRA-ALAL-ALABRA, r89 Alostrael; see Hirsig, Leah, x, g6, gg,
ABRA-LA-ShT-ALABRA, r 9o 9j,. too, to2, tt7, tzt, rz6, 127, 91, 96,
Abmha&bm, ry1, 283, z9t,' 3io, 3r4,,r, t98, zoo, zto-tt, z2o,22tr:223, tr4, tg3,
^Dfatneln, 9,292, ttt 276-8, 244-7, 24g, ""7, r3r_4,'
Abrasax, r88 ,z4o-2, z5r, 2,14,'r6i,
Absintle, 27t,212 2oo, 2ou, 27t, z7r_7, zgt, zg3, zg5, zg9,
zgo,2g7
Abuldiz, z4a
Alostrael Flag, z7r
Alyss, the,_87, tt3, t2t, r3z, t46, r49 Alys(Crowley), rgt, 23o, 247, 266, 296
Aceldama (Crowley), r 75 Amalanttah,6T, r5r, tJz, 244
Achad, Frater; raa Jones, Charles Stansfeld, Amdantrah f8,7o,76_9, ' '
t6,99, r37, t45, 248, 3oo Amerrca, \0orking, The, 54,67
Act of tbe Beginning, r f z 92,zotr 2t4
Amethyst, z5o
Adam, r79, r8r Amoun,66
Adonai, 44, t8o, r97, 246 Ananda,5z
Adonis, r8o, r97, z8g Anhalonium Lewinii, 9o
Adonit (Ctowley), rg7 Anima,54
Aeon, r44
Ankh, z16, z8r
Aeon of Horus, 258 Aakh-f-n-Khonsu (also Ankh-af_na_Khonsu),
Aesopus Island, 8r
Aeschylus, 221, 27, . 197,_268, 3o3, 3o4, 3t2, 3t3,3t,
Eo. c r rro (Aescbylus), z7 ^.T3 f,1i..9 Poup�墈, 97, rg2, 274, 275, 285
I 3 Antigone (Sophocles), r36
Agap��, rz^3,134, r43,-rgo, zt2, z4t,247,248, Apas, r8z
287, 298
Agapemone, rz7 Aphrodite, 57,59, rz7, z8t
Apocalypse, zor
Agrippa, Comelius, 66
Apollo, rol
Ahathoor, 3r3 Apollonius of Tyana, r
Ahitha, Sistet; .rce Minor, Roddie, 7c.,7r,74_7, Apophis, t3z, r49
t4t,244, 24t
A:.r:',264 Aquarius, 72, r8g, r9o, t97, t9g
Ain Soph, 264 Arcadia, 9o
Ain Soph Aut,264 Arctaeon, Frater; see Jones, C, S., zgz
Atgos,46
Aiwass (also Aiwaz), xi, xii, xiii, 3, 92, t3r, Aries, r89
r34, rt9, t4o, t4r, r44, t46, t47, t61, fiq Artemis, z6z,298
r89, r9o, rg2, tgg, zt6-r9, 223, 224, 229, As in a L.ookingG&r (phillips), r9r
23:, 234, 46, 48, 49, 24t, 244, 245, 246, .trsana, I t 3
256.,2t9,zot, z7t, zjj,277, z7g, zgo, zg3, Asar, r8o,3oy
296-8,3o3
Ashtaroth, r77
Aina Chakra, r3t, 248,249 Ashur, r8o
Akamrach, T4 Asia,264
Akasa, r8z
AL,^gr, t:2, 143, r44, r88-9o, 229, 244, 247, Asmodee, 7t, trr, 2to
Asp, zlr
283,298
Assyria, z3o
Albus, 65
Astart��, t7j,23o
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Astral Light, ix Boleskine, g, r57
Astral Plane, ix,68, 244 Bolyai, J., ryo
Astrohger, T be (Ctowley), z y 9, 267 BookForr (Ctowley), 16, r4t, 244
Astrology,6 fuok of the Heart Girt pith tbe Serpcnt,Tbc (Libcr
At tbe Feet of Our l-afu of Darbter (Kranil), LXV),q5,283
tJ9 Book of thc I-.au, Tbe, xi, zt, 29, 7t, 85, 92, 97,
Atalanta in Caldor (Swinburne), 273 toz, to6, ro9, rrr, ,21, r3r, rtz, r34, t4r,
Athanor, 258 \44, t4t, 165, 167, ry3, ry4, q6, fi9, t9z,
Atmadatshana, ro9 tgj, 224, zz6, z4r, 244, z4j, 247,256, z7o,
Atman, 8;, rz4 zjt,27t, z8o, 283, 289, 295,297,3o8, 3r3,
Attopine, 9o 3t4
Atwood, Maty A., rlz Book of Oatfu (Crowley), 276
Atys, r8o, 238 Book. of tltc Sacred Ll.agic of Abranelin tbe luIage,
Aum, 3o5, 3r1,3rt T/e (tr. Mathers), 9
Autum,37, zzo Bookof Thotb,Tbe (Ctowley), xii, r89, r97
Autolycus, 224 Book of tbe Unaeiling of tbe Sattgraal, The (Liber
Ayesha, i9r,195 Q, vg
Ayin, r43, 16z, r9o, rg7, t98 Book of Visdon or Fol!,The (Liber Alepb), to3
Bomless One, The, 29, 244
Babalon, t,6,8,9, 14, r8, 87, 92, t44, t88, Boston (Mass.),4o
tgz, t97, r98, zoz, 249, z7o,298 Bou-Saada, rz5, r98
Babel, r98 Bourcier, Nfons., r79
Babylon, z3o, z7o, z96 Bourgogne, Hotel de, 9r
Bacchus, r88, z5o, z4r,265 fun' atrt the Btaux,Tbe (Ctowley), z5B
Bacchus Diphues, 94, r88 Brzbizon, 96
BaIl, V. lW. R., zz6 Brahm4 t34
Balzac,H.,2r j, zzt Brz,hrrian, rzz
Baphomet, x, J, rg, 49, ,3, 14,68, r4o, t43, Brahmatandta, r3t
tj9, r97, tg9,269,298 Brandy, 6o, zr3, 228, 27j
Basilisk, zy r Broceliande, 288
Bastard, r98 Btown, Lauta, z7
Bastien-Lepage, rr4 Browning, Robert, ro8, r84, zo5,265, z9r
Bathurst, Leila (nee Vadddl, L.),4, to, 18, zo Bruce, Kathleen; sec Prykryl,B. A., r37, t39,
Baudelaire, Chades, ttr, zo7, zr7,22r,225 14t
Bayie, Germaine, 89 Brunt, Nfiss Yao, tz6
Beast, The, xii, r44, q6, q7, r88, r97, tg8, Buddha, Gautama, 86, r3z, 163, t64, zz4
zr8, z37, z4z, z4g,266, 268, 27o, 277, z8o, Buddha-rupa, rr8
283, 297, ,o3, itt, 31+ Buddhi, rz4
Beatific Vision, 73 Buddhism, 8, 86, r6y, zo6
'Beauty'; see Shumway, Ninette, ro6, ro9, tt7, Bunyan, John, zr5
r18, r58, 16o,t69 Bsried Aliae (Poe), rr5
Beetle, rzr Butns, Robert, rz9
Belasco, Gladys, r38 B*t terfl t,
N e h
T e ; see Mooncb i ld (Ctowley), r 7 8
Belial,72,73 Bytne, Chdstine Rosalie, 4
Belladonna, z6t Byron, Lord, zz8
Bennett, Allan, 85, zo6
Berafiith (Ctowley), r zz Cabbala, ry7,21t, 2gg
Berkeley, Bishop, t46, 162,zot Cabell, James 8., zzy
Bes-na-maut, rr3 C.abo,Lydta., 35, r39
Beth, 68, r98, ,oo Cadmus, r77
Bhavani, rz3 Caduceus, tor zg, r4o, zt6, zBB
Bibh,The, z8o Cain, r8o
Binah,73,9o, 3oo C-,aito,9z, r34, z1t
Bindu, rr, 89 Cairo \forking, The, 245
Biskra, 279 Calabar Bean, 9o
Black Brothers, 146 Caldura, zz7,243,267
Black Magic, r5z Cambddge,6,97
Black Mass, 296 Camel, The; neMinor, Roddie,67,68
Blake, \William, r j4, 2rt, zz5, zz6 Canada, 16
Blavatsky, H.P., zz4 Cancet, q7
Blood,6r Cannabis, rz8
Bodhisattva, r65 Cantichs, z8o
Boehme, Jacob, rz9 Capti, z7o, 216
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. Consciousness, gg
?.i::;:,+;nzy"#?,;,';;' Conider tbe Liliet (Crowlev)- r r:
Larcer,67
Carlyle, D.otis;.raa Gomez, Dods, eo Contenptatiow SiJm.t u.ri;, ,yi
Carmen-Filleul Eleanor de, r39 Cook, Florence, 9r
Carringon, Hereward, r 16 Coomaraswamy, Alice Ethel, 35
Carroll, Lewis, rr3 Coomat"swamy, Ananda, 96', iL6
Carter, Edward, 9i Coph Nia, 3r5
Carter, Howard, 97, to9, fig, :59, 236, 268, Courtiet, Jules, 93, roo
290 Cowie, George M., ro
Carthage; rar Tunis. rzo Crookes, Sir !7illiam, 9r
Catullus, r39, zzs, zgd' lrowley, Lilith, zoy
Cauda Draconis, 65 Curtius, Mettius, 167
Caxton Hall, 4 Cypris, 57
Cefalu, 98, 99, roz, ro4_7, tog, rrz, r17, rrg, Cypris, Sister; rea Shumway, Ninette, 95, z6g
r24, t47, 16o, r9r, rg3, 2r2, 2r3, 2r9, 227, Daith,299
z3z, z4o, 253, 267, 269_73, 279, z8o, zg3, Damrosch, Leopold, rg4
2go, zgt, 292 Dante, r39
Ccphaloedium; see Cefula, tor, t j4 Darwin, Chades, r4o
Cephaloe.dium Votking, fii, igl Datura, 9o
Ceremonial I\[agic, ix, r 5o Day, Olive, r39
Ceres, 89, z5o
Cervantes, M., zr P.D:S., F-ttter. ne Jones, Geotge Ce cil, g7, r 37
-
Chaldea, r8r 5 De Arte Magica (Ctowley), 4
Chandler, Bob, roz De Honntcslo (Ctowley), 4
Change, r2r, r22 De Natsra Deorun (Ciowley),4
Cbatts Beforc Batile (Crowley), z6r De _Naptiis senellr Deonnt cam Horyinil,at
(Crowley),4
Chaos, r8r,277 De Quincey, Thomas, r39
Chariot, the, r4y Death, Sro
Chau, Duke of, 85, 87 Deatb Dram,Tbe (Ctowley), 297
Dedit (Crcwley), i79
9F,,h, r77, r98,245 Dee, Dr. John, y, ro, r5, rr8
Lnlah, '+1, Demeter, 6o, r9o
zgg Demogorgon, z5o
China, r8r
Chiswick Ptess, z8z 'Demon Ctowley, The', go
Chit, 5z Dentals, ry5, ry6
Detceto, z3o
Chlotal, zo6
Chloroforrn, zo7 Deroxe,Ilyriam, 4o, 4t, r3g
Desti's CIub, 88
!!ogo Ri (K,), 166, zo6,276 Devil, Thc, 68, t43, r98, 47, 238, z4r, z4z,
Chokmah, go,9r, 3oo 265,266,274, z96
Choronzon, 79 Dewey, I-ea, to,3z
Christ, Jesus, r r9, r 8o, 263, 265, 276 Dhamma, 163
Lnflstlatuty, gt, r3r, r6a, zgr Dhatana, z9
Chtisty, H. C., 291
Dhyana,29, rz4
Chrysostomus, J., 246 Diana, ro5, tz6, t9o
lluang-fzu; sec Kwang-Tze, rt3 Diarrhoea, 2t3, zjr
Cleopatra, 288 Diarl of a przgFiend,Tbe (Crowley), 66
Cjodl Vitblut Vater (Ctowley), :.4, zr5 Dickens, Charles, z7z
Locarne, 18, 19, 46, 47,6o,89, tz1, izg, r7g, Dictionary of Medicine, A (etain), z6o
r79, 203-5a 2o7-ro, 2r2, 2rr, z16, Pl"grvutt (Scotland), 279
2t9-23, zz6, 227,, 22g, z3o, ,4e_9, .ai, lJronysus, 89, r16, rtg,272,274, zt6
243, 247-9, 2524, z58_6o, z6z, 267, z7o Doq. The; "cre Miller, A. C., 5z
273, z7j, 279, z8o, z9g D'Olivet, Fabre, 293
Coleridge, S. T., r39, io6, zo7, z4o Dorde, Maison, r9r, tgz
Colonel Paetoz's Brotber eiowliy),'26r, z6z Dostoevsky, Fyodor, zr 5
Lompassron, r3t
Confessiou of Ahistcr Croohy, Tbe, ix, xiii, 26, Douglas, George, zrz
5, Douglas, Norman, z6r
12,^68,78,7g, Br,97,97, ror, ro_1, ro6,'rr9, Dove, 3o6
r38, 254 z8z
Conium, zo6 Doyle, Conan, r9r
Coniunctio, 65 Draco, r97
Conrad, Josepb, rz7 Drey, O. R., r9
Dumas, Alexandre, rz6, t6o
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Duncan, Isadora, r 39 (Goodwin), z9
Dunsany, Lotd,266 France, 88
Du Potet, Barcn, g France, Anatole, tgt, zoj, zgt
Duranty, rValter, 4, z4o Fraux, Ninette;.raa Shumway, Nincttg 2:1, zgo
Duval, Violet, 4, r39 Ftaznt,Sit. J. G., r16
DqTeller on the Threshold, r49 Freud, Sigmund,96, ro3, r8o,256
Dysentery, rz7 Fu-Hsi,89
Fuller, J. F, C., r48
Eagle, ro, 248,249, 269 Fmu d'Opim (Farrdre), 294
Eckenstein, Oscar, ro3, 16z, zo6,276
Eden, 289 Galahad, 16r
Hinblrgb Rcaiew, r54 Galy, Flotence, 7
Edward YII,297 Gambini's,269
Edwards, Elsie, 6 Camiani, ou Dcux Nilts D'Excr (ADM), zr9
Egg ofBlackness, rtr, rtz Gaima,54
Eigbt L.eAurr on Yoga (Ctowley), ra6, rz4 Geburah, 9o, 299
Elementals, r;o Gemini, r44, tgg
Elisha, r8r Gencsis, lzz, t79
Elixir, 7, ro, tr, rt, r83,244, 249,256 Genesthai, Brother; rae Russell, C.F., 268, z9o,
Elixir of Life, r1z, 156, zt3 z9z-4,296, zg9
Elixir Rubeus, t6, 4J, +7, 54, 58,6r,61,66,69, Geomancy, r4, 65
7r, 7 z, 76, 77, 79, 8r, 96, t z6 George, Madeleine, 8t
Eiizabeth I, J Gethsemane, r74
Emperor, The, r89 Gibsonl Chades Dana, z9y
Empress, The, 3o7 Gilbert, Yera, 44
Encrgind Enthrciasm (Crowley), 14 Giles, H. A., rr3
Endlmion (Keats), z4o Gimel, go
Englisb Reuicw, Thc, 99, z6r, z7r Gnana,54
Enoch, Tablets of, ro Gnosis, r49, rjo, r5z, 168, r79, r8z, 242, 247,
Enteritis, r34, r1t 248, z9o
EqzinoxrTbc,ix,xi, T, rz, r4-t6, zo, zr,29,58, Gnostics, r 88
68,9r1, r57, 16z, t1.r, 224, z6r, 291, 3oo Goat, r43, t9o
Equinox Ceremony, zo, 42, 58, 1 3,14, 269, z7o, Goetia,7l
273 Goetia oJ Soloaon tbe King, Tbe (tt. Mathets), 1z
Equinox ofthe Gods, 297,1o1,3o8 Gold, 257
Erato,288 Golden Dawn, The, ix, j, 14, 2c., zr, 85, 87,
Ero, ro; tzt, 16r" zo6, z9z
Ethyl Oxide (Ethet), 4t, 42, 62, go, 97, 99, Colden Verscs of Pythagorat, Tbc (tt. d'Olivet),
roo, ro6, tt7, rjJ, 169, zo4, ?o7, 242, 247, 293
249, 292, 294 Golgotha, r74
Euclid, r7o, z7r Gomez, Dotis, r9, 24, 28, 34,4c.,4r, 4J,74, ztt
Eve, r79 Goodwin, Chatles Vycliffe, z9
Eve; rcc N{inor, Roddie, 68 Gormley, Colonel, r17
Excalibur, 289 Gospel According to St. Bernard Sbau, Tlte
Bye; su Ayin, t43 (Crowley), 4r
Gouraud, Aim�墈, 7, 9, 13, 14, 11, 3t, roo, r48
Farrlte, Claude,294 Goya, Ftancesco, z9y
Fatal Forcc,Tbe (Crowley), 4o Graal, Holy, gr, r4j, 16r, r77, r93, zoz, z16,
Fatbtland, Thc, 96 2t7, 232, 24t
Faarl (Goethe), 98 Grass; ree Hashish, 96, ro7
Feilding, Hon. Everard, 9r, ro4 Gray, Valter, 66,61,69-7r,73, rzo
Fermat, Pietre de, rog, tri, 232 Gralnalkin (Crowley), zzr
Fiat Lux, Brother, rr Great Beat, 283
Fichte, J. G., ry4 CreatBea$, Tle(Symonds), ro, E7, rr7, ryr
Fildes, Luke, rr4 Great Equinox, 3rz
Fire, z7o Great l\,Iagical Retirement (GNIR), 8o
Fisb, Tbe (Crowley), 2g1,, 2g4 Great White Btothethood; see A...A...,9r, 296
Fives, zzo, 2zt, 221, 224, 227, 216, 249, 276 Great Vork, The, ror, 4J, r73, t74, t97, zEz
Fontainebleau, 89, 9o, 9+, 96, 97, roo Green, Bella, r38
Fool, The, go, t92,3oo Grenville, Sir Richard, zo3
Foster, Jane; ree I{ilarion, 24,5r, r11, r38 Grey, Anna, 44-1,49, 5t, r38
Fowth Dimension,Tbe (Hinton); zz6 Grumbacher, Lola Auguste (nie O[vieta), 15,
Fragmcnl of a Graeco-Egtptian Vork apon lllagic 1t, r37
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Gtumbacher, I\{auricia, 16 Hotel des Palmes, 269
Gunas, r44
Gr.rttutals, r9y Horcc of Eld (Stevenson), 96
Gymkhana, e5 y Howe pitb the Grun Sbsltert,Tbc (Douglas), zrz
Howard, Hilda, t39
Hrumachis, 3rz
Had, r88, r}g,1o3,3o9 Hume, David, er9
Hades, 9o lrltiyS of tk Snark, Tbe (Catroll), r r 3
Hadit, 54,89, ro4, 167, q6, tgo, t9z, t97, tg8, Hybris, r49
2bE, 27o,276, 297,3o3,1o6, 1o7, 3to, ,tt, H.1mn to Astarti (Crowley), tz1
3r3, tt4 !1nn to Flora (Ctowley), t37
Ham, Lilian, 35 Hymn to Pan (Crowley), 18
Hansi, 9r, 99, tt j, 46, 249 Hlmns to tbe High Gods (Crowley), rz
Flappl Drct (Crowley), rzo
Harmon, Gladys, r38 Iacchus, go, r9o
Harpocrates, r77, r88, rg9, z3o, zg3 L{O, r8, 3t, J2, 132, t1o, rgo
Harris, Gtace, 7 Ibsen, Henrik, 146, zz5,284
Haris, Morgan, roz Ic-zod-het-c4 t5, 18, z4
flartison, Austin, 99 Ida, 89
Hashish, 87, go, gS, ro2, t79, zo4, zo6, 44, Iehi,Aour, Brother; ree Bennett, Allan, 16r
46,243 Ifr_Simon, 5r,64,65,67,7r, toz, ro4, r78
Hathot, r34, t3t, 289 IHV,76, r98
I1��., t97, t9B Indi4 x, r8r
Headland Press, rr7 Indo-China, 86
Heartb, The (Crowley), r r6 INRI,265
Hecate, t93, 247 Inkrnational,Tbe, 5o, 5r,64,72, 78,87, 96, rfi,
Heidseick, zoz tj8, t39
Heine, H., zz; Ipsissimus, xii, 85, r16, 12r, t24, t4o, 17r,3oo
Hell,9o Itis, r41
Heracles, 296 Isa, 3o5
Hermes, ro-rz, t5, 16, zg,4c.,,r, t4o, t44, r77, Isatva, 54
r88, r89, r97, 288 Ishtar, z3o
Hermit, r44, to4 Isis, r3z, r77, z16, 4r
Hermit, The (Trump IX),294 Islam, rz5
Heroin, 42, go, t7 t, zo4, zzo, z6z
Hertha, z5o Jabulon, rtj,294
Hettz Rays, 91 Jackson, Eleanote, 48
Heru-pa-Kraath, 3o7 Jesus, 314
Heru-Ra-Ha,3rz Jiva, rzz
Hierophant, 3o7 John, Augustus, t8,97
Hierophant, The (Trump y), rg+ tobn Ball, 96, s9
High Ptiestess, .i+, ,ls' John, Peggy, r38
]]ihtt""t.ree Fostet, Jane, 24, t37, 14, Jobn St. John (Ctowley), xi, zg
Himalayas, 89, zo6, z4r Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 146, zo5
Hinton, C.H' zz6 tol! Bmbcr,Tbe (Crowley), z7z
Hirsig, Leah, x, xii, 89,9r, roo, ror, ro7, ro9, Jones, Charles Stansfeld (Frater Achad), 8, 16,
rro, r12, rrt, r19, rz5, tz6, trr, t1'z, t3r, 7r, z2r, too
r47, 156, tS1-, 165, t69, r9r-4, t9:7,2o2, 22o, Jones, George Cecil; rea D.D.S.
22r, 223, zz6, zz1, zz9, z3z-6, 4g, 49, z4r', Jung, Catl, zz8 rot, r9r
,t3, ,7t-, 247-9, 2r2, 213, 2t5-9, z6r, z6z, Jupiter, tr, 9c., 9t,
265, 266, 269-74, 276, 279, z7g, z}r, 284', Juppiter, 3r, tor, ro7, t16, tt4, 14,
285, z9S-7 Justice, r89, r9z
Hollis, Helen, try, r36, t3B, r4z, 254 Juventus Expetiment, 4o
Holy Books (of Thelema), y, r39 Juventutem, 38, 169, q8, ry9, ryl, ry7
Holy Ghost, r8r, r89, z3o Ka,3rz
Holy Guardian Angel, xi, 52,244,246,258, zB3 Kazbq 3r3
Homer, r9r
Hoor, 3o5 f:b?kb Uweihd, T/c (tr. Mathets), z7
Kadosch, Knights, 296
Hoor-paat-Ktaat, z$o, 3o3, 1tz Kaiser, the, 5o
Hopkins, Captain, 87 Kant, Immanuel, r33
Hotacc, zo7
Kaph, 268
Horus, 54, 68,89, ro4, t4j, r77, r97, z68, z|t, Karma, 163, z9z
283
Hotel de Londtes, 269 5"::r,JgE, rt.3. 224, zzt, 2tt, 21,o, 265, zgr
Kelly, Sir Gerald, x, rr7
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Kelly, Rose, t38, z7g Liber I-XXIII (Tbe Un) (Crowley), 33
Kennedy, Leon Engen, ;7 Liber LXXXI (futtc{$ Net, Tbe,see Moonchiln
Kennerley, Mitchell, 9 Liber CCLXV (Tbe Stnutare of tbe Mind; q.v.),
Kephta, t2t, rj1., r78, z6o,3t3 77
Keral, de, r9z Liber D (Sepber Scpbiroth) @ennett, Crowley
Kether, 9o, t46,22t, 2t7 and others), 3oo
Khabs, 3o3, 3o6,3t3 Liber DCCCLXXXVilI,4r
Khem, 176 Libry fi9, t97
Khonsu, 268 Liddell and Scott, 9
Khu,3o3,3rz Lilith, r79
Kiblah, lrr Lincke, Elsa (Soror Bazedon), 7z
King, the, 3oj,3og,3to Lion, ro, 72, r5r, t5z,249,269
King, Lavinia, r39 Liverpool, r8
Kismet, rz5, rz6 Loch Ness, 9
Kothek, Gerda von, 35, 38, 4z-q,76, t38 Logos, 7
Kranil,Izeh, r3g Lotus, z16
Kteis, 93, 149, zj4 Loye's Middle Age (Crcsiley), r57
Ktenoproct, City of, 246, 247 Low, Marie, z5
Kubelik, J., zo6 Lwcifer, Tz
Kabla Khan (Coleddge), zo6 Lupin, Atsdne, ror
Kundalini, xii,89, t9z Lux, 7o
Kundry, 79
Kwang-Tze; see Chuang-Tzt, rr3 NI.'.M.'.M.'., r8
Maebeth (Shakespeare), zr3
LA, t43, r44, t89, t9o, 245, 283 trfacrocosm,281
Ltghimz,54 Nfaddingley, Matie, 3, r39
Laixd, Ada, t39 Ir[adrigal, A (Ctowley), 276
Lamb, Euphemia,91, r39 Maeterlinck, Maurice, zr5
Lamb, Henty, 97 Magick, to2, to4, r2;,,74g, r5o, r88, t9z, tgt,
Lamed, r88-9o, r97, r98 2o2,2oj, zt6, 229,2j4,23j, z4r, 247, 248,
Lampada Tradam, Brother; .ree Neuburg, 269, 274, 277, 296
Victor 8., r3, ro8 Magick in Theor1 and Praclice (Crowley), ix, xii,
Lao-tze, rz2, r34, tj4,zrt,22J 85, r8z, z2o, 244
Lapdtouse, 9o Magtetism (Du Potet), 9
LAShTAL, :.44, tgo, z44 Magus, xii, xiii, 5, 7, t2, 29, j3, 4o, 48, 49,68,
Last Stran,, Tle (Crowley), ror 8j, gr-3, gj, to2, 116, trg, t2t, r3r, t34,
Laudanum, r35,2o6,22o, 242, 27t r45, r8o, 2rz, zt4, z65,3oo
Lavrov, Marie; see Rdhling, N1.,78, r45 MahaBtahma, zz3
Lawtcnce, D. H., z6r Mahima, 54
Laylah; rce \fladdell, Leila', 4 l\{aison Julia, 88
Leab Subline (Ctowley), r93 Malaria, 56
Leamington (Varwickshire), rzr Malkuth, r39
Leda, z5o Maloty, Thomas, 16r
Legge, James, 85, 89, 9z, t zo, 244, 248, z7 4, z9g Manas, rz4
I*o, r44, t89, t97 Mantta, 3o, 3r, rz6
kroux, Berthe, r39 Manvantara., tz4
L�嫛i, Eliphas, x, 68, rr5, r4o, r98 Mata, to9
Levy, Beatdce, r7 Marchmont, Peggy; rce Byrne, C. R., +, rr9
Lewinstein, May, 5o Marlotte, 9c.,94, 95
Liber Agap[ (Liber C) (Ctowley), r49 Matsala, rz7
Liber AL ael l-.egtu (Liber CCXX); ne Book of the Marseilles, rz5
I-^aw,Tbc,1ot-t5 Marshall, Helen, z3
Libcr Alepb Q-iber CXI) (Crowley), 7r Matin, Belle, r38
Liber Ararita (Liber DCCCXIII) (Crowlel), q6 Mary, Virgin, 3r4
Liber B uel Magi (Liber I) (Ctowley), r 34 Masochism, 257
Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente (Liber LXV) h[aroxic Iniliatiox, 7]a (\flilmshurst), r 5 z
(Crowley), r75, q6, zz4 Master of the Temple (Magister Templi), 86,
Liber Israfel (Liber LXIV) (Crowley after 91, r2t, r34
Bennett), 1, rz, z8 Mathers, S. Liddell MacGregor, 9, zj, j2
Liber Jagorxm (Liber III) (Crowley), zzo Mathews, F., roz
Liber Liberi ul Lapidis I-a4uli (Liber VII) Matisse, Henri, rr4
(Ctowley), J, r34, r75 Mattei-Motion, r2,
Liber Samekh (Liber DCCC) (Crowley), 244 Matunith; ree \7olfe, Jane, z9g, 3oo
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Maupassant, Guy de, zo7 Newton, Isaac, 163, 164
J\faut, r8r
Maya, ro9, tzz, t6z Nibbana (or Nirvana), 81,86, r3z, r34, t64,
t6t
Memling, rrr
Mendes, Goat o{ r4o Nietzsche, F., roy, 2tj, z2j
Menstfuum, rtr Ninus, I(ing, z3o
Mentu,3rz,3r3 Nirvana (or Nibbana), 85,86, t53, t63, 165, 276
Mercury, ro, rr, 12, rg, zo, zg, 3r,65,9o, rgg, Nothung, 289
27r I": l2o, ts7, 22g, 3o6, 3o8_rt, 3r4
l\{eredith, George, z9r Nui(h), xii, 54,89, s3, io6, ,oj,"rr5, 167, fiL,
Merl.in, 288, z9z r7z-4, t76, q7, t8r, rA9, r9o, ,9r,,' ,97,
Metlinus, Frater; ree Reuss, Theodor, 94, 96, r98, 246, 247,268, z7o, 276, ,gl, lir',
132 3o4,3o6-8, 3r3 "Si,
Messalina, 295 Nut; rdd Nuit(h), 54
lletamorphotes (Ovid), r r z
I{dtropole, }Iorel, roz Oaxaca, z4t
Ifetteya, Bhikku Ananda; uc Bennett, Allan, Obeah, 3o4
85, zo6 Occasio, Santa, 6z
trIichael, Archansel- zro Ocelli, ror, 24a, 27o
"
-NIicrocosm, "g3" Odd Boott (Crowley), 243, zy
Midas, r3z O^de.to tbe lVest Vind (SheUiyl, 255
Mietk4 r38
Oedipus, zzz
l\Iiller,,A,nn Catherine (the Dog), j2, ,3, ,g, ,g, fejlnulcoy^,p1ex,87, e5, eB, fi4, ft5, fi7
66, 67, 69, p, tt. tz} U^e(i4as Rex (Sophocles), r 36
trlilton,_John, rr4,,,ri, zr7, 2zj, 238 O.I. V.V.l.O. t ree Io.,"*.- Charles Stansfeld,
lVlin^or, Roddie (Sister Ahirh;, tf,e Cimet, etc.;, Old Aeon, xi I 3
^,78-6o, 66, 67, 7r-4, 77, Bo, t38, r5r Ojlr, A:: Anrbologl (Ctowtey), z7z
frttnos,28g Olun, Sister; rre Rcihling, Muir, Ta
Minotaure, 296 O.trrt. (Crowley), ze
Mithra, 68 Om, roz, 288
\firylene, 247 Onan, z4r
Xlohammed, ror, 3r4 o!,,1-, zz, 3r,67-9, 9c., 92,93, rgt, zo4, 24o,
Moksha, rz4 2bo, 2b8, 274,27r, 277
Montauk (New Hampshi rc), r78, _
zz5 Opit4n Pipe, The (Crowley), 294
l\',toon, r45, 27o Ordo Templi Orientis 1O.f.tj.y, x, xii, z, rz,
f,t-ooncbitd (Crowley), r39, t1B 52' t4' e6' r3r' t12' t4s,247'
,lloonwane (Crowlev), r rz
hl
ora li
sl, T bc (Croiie vi.' t z6 Osiris, ",.i'tihi]',i''
r3z, z8r
Mordt, 9r, 96 O.T.O.; see Ordo Templi Orientis
N{orphia, 3r,9o, rzl, zrt Otter, Gwendolen, g7
Morphine, zrz Otz Chiim; rceTrce of Life, 16z
(:rt:!'t!y (Crowrey), tr1, 2tJ Ouarda_the_Seet; rea Kelly, Rose, r45
Mudd.,_ Norman (Frater, O. p. y.), t93 Outer Head of the Order-(o.H.q:i, ,4
Muladhara Chakra, z4g', 249 Ovid, r 17
Muldoon, Sylvan J., r36
Musset, Alfred de, zrc) Pacceka-Buddha (or pratyek-Buddha), 86, r65
'Afusterion', zor
rzctolus, 247,249
'Mystery' (Babalon), zzo Painred Liliu (Crowley), zor
'Mystery of Mysteries', zor Palermo, rot, ro7, t2o,124, r35, 136, t69, zz9,
Mples,. roz, tz3, 267, 269, z7o, z7z, 274, zg3 272,273,279, z8o, zgt
Necrophilia, z5z Palmerburg, Dorothy van, 9
Nelidoff, Ida, t37 Y^n, t7, 19, jj, ,6, 58-62,72,79,8o, 9o, g4_g,
Neophyte, 2r ^ I Io, r r 3, tt7.-t,g> t2t, t34-6, ry3, 277, zgg
Nephesch, 299 Panormusj scc Palermo, t3r, r7g, tgi,, 2rz, zr7
Pantagruel, 2ro,292
Neschamah, 299
Paracelsus, zzo, 289
Netzach, 273
Paradise L,ost (Milton), zra
Neuburg, Victor B., ro, roy Paradise Regaincd (Milton), zr4
New Aeon, xi,3, r9o PatamaLnnsa, tz4
New Hampshire, 39, ro6, ryg,22, l*1., l_:, rr, 88, 9o, 92,1o2, z4o, zlz
New Orleans, 47,9r, tzg,243 Patis Vorking, The, io, rr, ro5
i,T{i:t,rl;!;,31, 37, 4s, 1'r,6o,66, 136 Parke Davis, zo6
Parsifal, ?3o, 24t
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Parzival;.raa Jones, Charlcs Stansfeld, 79, 248, Qliphoth,257
300 Quain, Sir Richard, z6o
Pasiphae, 296 Queen of Heaven, 3o4
Pasquanay, Lake (New Hampshite), ro6 Querouaville, de; rea Kerval, de, r9z
Patmore, Coventry, z9z Quinn, John, 5, 9, ro
P6, CS-t, 49, tt,7o, 295
Pegasus,288 Ra, rz6, 48, 3rz-r4
Pentfagram, i4o, tjz Ra-Hoor-Khu, ,og, 3tr
Pentagram fti1ral, 3o-2, 17 4, 244, 249, 46, 27 3 Ra-Hoor-Khuit, 89, r9o, tg1., tg8, 268, z7o,
Pet Vas Nefandum (p.v.n.), 943, 66, 67, 285, 297, 3o4, tot, to7, 3ro, tt2, ttt
69-74,76-8o, 94, gj, gg, roz, to3, to6-8, Ra-Hoor-Khut, 3rz
rro, rrr, trt, tr4, tt7-2o, r2t, t36, 156, Rabelais, F., zz1, z9z
t79, 2oo, 261,269-12,29o,294, zg7 R*qwt (Crowley), r37
Perdurabo (Ctowley), zo, rzr Radclyffq Raymond, 87,88, rz6
Perfection, Knights of, ro5 Radium, 146
Persephone, 9o, 277 Rainbow, go
Pettatch, r39 Raj a Yoga (Vivekananda), r 7 3
Phaedra (Senecz), 4z Rajas, r44
Phallus, 6,1, ,9, 4t, 44, 48, 68, r49, r8r, r88, Ramakrishna, Sri, r73
t98, 274,297 Ratan Devi; Coomaraswamy, Alice E'.,96, r38
Philadelphia,3l, 17 Ratoum, zg;
Phillips, F. C., r9r Red Gold, 6r, $, 64, 66, 69, 7, 72, 77, 79
Phlebitis, 4 Reuss, Theodo\ x, 2, t, t4, tr2
Phoenix, z3o,268 Reaelation, z7o
Picasso, Pablo, rr4 Retenge, Tbe (T ennyson), zo 3
Pineal gland, r3r Riche, A. V.,65
Pingala, 89 Ringler, Ann, r38
Pisces, r89 'Rites of Eleusis, The', 4
Pitchet, Matgatet, r 5 Ntul de Ia Ha#e Magie (Iivi),68
Pbto,299 Robertson, J'iia, z6
Pletoma, rzr &ock, Tbe (Ctowley), r 57
Plotinus, r44 Rdhling, Matie; ne Lavrov, Matie, 7z
Poe, Edgar L., zo7, zz9 Rose, Mil&ed, rr
loen of Hashiil (Baudelaire), zzr Ross, David, r48, zzj
Folitt, Hetbert C. J., 6 Rosy Ctoss, zr7
Popsy-'Wopsy, r19 Rota, 176
Posilippo, z7z Roussel, Mariq, 4o, 4r
Poupde; ne AnneLe:'97, toz, to7, ro8, rro, Ruach, 299
rz3, 236, 242, 2to, 279-8r, 284 Ruach Elohim, r8r
Prakamya, 54 Russell, Cecil Frederick (Brother Genesthai),
Ptalaya,124, t44, t7t 72, zo6,268,293
Prarn, zo, zz, t53
Ptanava,288 Sactament, r49-r t r
Ptanayma,56 r53 Sadism, zy4
Prapti, y4 Sahata Desert, r48
Priapism, zrl Samadhi, 9, 2c', 44, Jt,8j, t24, t7t, 276
Priapus, ro;, ro8, rtg, 277, z9g,295 Sammasati, 46
Prie$er of Panormita,Thc (Ctowley), r79 Sangha, The, 163
Prisoncr of Cbillon (Byron), zz8 Santa Barbara, Villa, ro4
Prithivi, r8z Sarlor Resartts (Carlyle), r 36
Prcjection of tbe Astral fud1, Tla (Muldoon and Sat-Chit-Ananda, r34
Carrington), 116 Satan, x, xii, 68, r88, rg2, tg1, rg8, zr4, z3o,
Prometheus, 264,288 239, 247, zy, 266, 26j, zgt
Pryktyl, Bertba B.; ece Bttce, Kathleen, 87 Sattvas, r44
Ptalnr (Crowley), tz Saturn, r89
Puella, 6y Scatlet rVoman, xii, 4, 6, 7, 7 l, 86, 9r, r oo, r r r,
Puet, 56 tjt, rtz, rJg, r4t, t5r, t76, tg2, tgl, zr2,
Pncb, rz9 zz8, 234, 236, 237, 24t, 242, 244, z4j, 247,
P.v.n.; rea Pet Vas Nefandum z4g, 256, 49, z6z, 2jo, z1-r, 283, zg1, 296,
Pythagoras, 293 \ot, trt, ,7t
Schimeon ben Yochai, Rabbi, z7
Qabalah; see Cabbila, rr1 Scholes, Percy, r84
p.B.L. (Jones), 3oo Scbool for Scandal, 7/a (Sheridan), zr 3
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Schopenhauer, Atthur, 163 S^ong of the Hofi Gboil (Ctowley), z7z
Scorpio, t1-7, tgo, rg2 Sophocles, 136, t4r
Scorpions, 78, 79 Sorrow, 86, tzt, t35
Scotland, 98, r57, 279 Sovereign Saocruary (O.T.O.), r3r
Scotland Yatd, z8z Space, rz4
Scott, Sir \Valter, 258 Spencer, Herbett, t47
Seabtook, Kate, r38 Sphinx, 9r
Seabrook, Villiam, r38, u ro Sptague, Matgatet, r38
Secret Chiefs, 2c., tjr, 24t Standfield, Irene, 48
Secret Path, r5r Stanford, Angela'Lou', 87
Sekhet, 288 Star, The, fi9, 3o6, 3o7, 3to
Selcctiorc fron the Pbilotopbl of Chuang-T4t (tt. Star in the Vest,Tbe (Fuller), r4S
Giles), r13 'Star-Sponge'Vision, ro6, tog, rr3, tz4, t66,
Seiene, z6z r9r, 22t
Self, rzz St6ld ofRevealing, gz, 93, t97, 244, 3tt
Selflessness, rzt, t2z Stetne, L., z6y
Semen,7, rr, z3o Stevenson, R. L., z4o
Semiramis, 23o, zgJ Stolen P.O.,The (Ctowley), 268
Senecz, z3z S tratagem, Tbe (Crcwley), z6 t
Sephitoth, 9r Stutges, Mary d'Este, r39
Serpent,3o6 S*ggestiuc E qnirl into tbe Hermetic My$crjr, A
Serpent Power, xii (Atwood), r5z
Set.x, r8o, r88-9o, r9z, rg3, r97, zz3,244,24, Sumer, r79, zt6,244
Shaitan, x, xii, 7, r92, r93, r97, z16,2"3, z4i, Sun, r9, z7o
247 Surface, Chatles, zr3
llrakespeare, ViIIiam, r7,g, zr1,, zit, z2r,2ro Sushumna, 89
Shakti, 73, t 23, t3r, t96, zz9 Swastika, r8z, r89
Shaw, Betnard, 4r Swedenborg, Emmanuel, zr5
Shelley, Percy 8., zt2, 2zj, zgr Swift, Dean, tz8, r53
Sheridan, Richard B., zr3 Swinbune, A. C., rr9, zz6, 273, z9t
Shew-Stone, r18 Suord of Vellera4 Tbe (D:unsaray), z6o
Shigety, Sasaki, 87 Symonds, Jotn; see Great Beast, Tbe, ro
Shin, r44, t89, r97, t98,244, zy6, z7o Symons, Athur, z9r
Shinto, 87
Sbip, The (Ctowley), r6 Tacitus, z5o
Shiva, rz3, t3t, t34> zzj, zz9 Tahuti; ree Thoth, zg, 48, z-lr, tol
Shivadatshana, ro9 Talisman(s), 149-12
Sht, r88, r89, r9o, t97,244, 297 Tamas, r44
ShTN, r9z Tmech,313
Shu, r8o, r8r, r88, r97 Tanha, t64
Shumway, Ninette Que Ftawx), 95-ro3, ro6, Tanguay, Eva, 78,79, t38
rro, t14, rt9, ,zo, rzt, tzj, r35, 136, r57, Tankerille, Ead of, r48
t78, rg4, 236,254,275, z9r, 289, 293 Tao,69, 8r, 86, rzz, t23, t34, t6z, t63, zz3,
Sicily, ro4, r56 22r, 229
Siddhasana, zz, z4 Tao Teh King (Lao-tze), rrc
Siddhi,53-y Tarot, xii, 63,72, 9o, 94, tt6, t43, r44, rEg,
Silver Star, The, 296 t9'7, 244, 274
Simmons, Etnest, 9 Tathagata, ry4
Simpson, Rev. Holden, r3 Tatq/as, r8z
Simpson, Sir J., zo7 Tau,6, 45, 5o,61-1t" 73, r8t, zor, 268
Simpson's Restaurant, 88 Tautus, t44, r9o, r98
Sin, r73 Taylor, Tom, rz9
Sin of Adan Gregg, The (Crowley), r 79, r 8o Teh, rzz, r2t, t1,4, 16z, 196, zz9
Smat, Desda, r38 Teias, r8z
Snake, the, 1o7, ttz Telekhesis, 93
Snow; ree Cocaine, tz7, 168, ry1, zrt, zz},239, Temperance (Crowley), r2o, rz7
- 244, 248, 249, 2jj, 26r., 279, z8o, z9z, 297 Templats, Knights, 3, j4, 296
Snowdon, rr7 Tcnph of Solonon tbe King,The (Crowley), zr
Society for Psychic Reseatch, 9r, 93 Temples, Considerations of, 268
Socrates, ro6 Tennyson, Lotd Alfied, to6, zo3,238
Solat Plexus, 9o Tetminus, r36
Soldier and tbe Hmchback!?, Tbe (Ctowley), ftz Teth, t44, r88, t9o, tgz, tg7, 244, ;-49, z7o
Solomon, Solar Seal of, r44 Tbair (Ftance), tg4, Loj
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Thebes, to1, trz Victoda, 88
Theism, r3z Victorl (Corcad), rz7
Thelema, xi, 5, 4t, jo, j7,65, j4, gr, too, to2, Vierecl Geotge, 5o
rro, rIr, t23, t3I, 7 t2, 134, t4r, t43, r 5o,r9o, Vitakam; rea Sturges, Maty d'Este, 68, t39,
792, ztr, 272, 2t7, 241, 247, 257, 27o, 27r, t4t, 244, 245 I
z8o, 283, 287, 289, 297, 298, 3o4 Yitgo, t44, t77, r88, r89, r98
Thelemites, 277, 3o4 Vishnu, r34
Thedon, The Master, rii, 48, 69, gt, to4, rtz, Vision of\?onder, 73
r98, z9o, 297, 298 Vittorio, 269, z7t, z7z I
Third Degree, r49 Vivekananda, Swamy, r73
Thomson, James,2o7,48 Void, the, r43
Thor, 288 Vow of Holy Obe&ence, 22g, zt4
Thoth, ro, t2, 13, t1.,63, z16, z7r Vrittis, ro8
Three Pocms for tane Chdror (Ctowley), 9z V.V.V.V.V., z8
Thtombosis, 4 i
I
Tlt*stos (Crowley), z8r, 289 \Taddelt l-eila; see Bathumt, l-etla, ry, 33, 34, I
Tiberio Palace, z7o 41,99, t31, t38 I
Tiberius, Emperor, z7o Vaite, A. 8., 167 t
t
icke t-of-I-,ean (T aylot), r zg \Talpurgis Night, rr4
T Man
Timaess (Plato), 299 \lflan" King, 89
Time, rz4 '!?and, z7r I
Tiphereth, t9, 144, 283, 299 \{latga,3o4
Timgad, r38 Vanted (Crowley), r51 I
'Titusville' Maddy, 49 \Tashington, D.C., 38
Tobas, Millicent, r39 \fashington Square, 6o I
Topaz, rr8 \Tesrun; vc Trozel, Dorothy, 78
Toulouse, z3z rtrfestley, Helen, r38
Toulouse-Lautrec, Hend de, z9y \Thinetay, B. P., zzz
Traian, Emperor, r38 'S7holon, Sister; .rea Lavrov, Macie, 299
Tranvndcntal Magic (L6vi), r4o \7hore, the, r98
Ttapati, ztz Vilde, Oscar, t6g, zt5
Ttee of Ufe, ry, j 5, go, g\, zt7, z7r, zTj, roo \Tilmshutst, $7. C., r5z
Trigrammaton, 75 \findtam, Thomas, ro
Tdgtams, rzz \Tinged Beede, the, 68
Trimurti, r34 Vinged Butle, T/a (Ctowley), r39
Trismegistus, Hermcs, 265 rVinsor and Newton, 87 I
Troxel, Dotothy, 72, 78, 79 \Titches' Sabbath, ri4, tt,
True Vill, xr, r49, t65, zo8 \7olfe, Jane, 86,99, tz5, t32, rjj, t39, t4o,
Trump XIV, 298, z9g t45, t48, t9t, rgj,t98,2ot, ztr, zz2, zz-l, zt2,
Tsaida, Mohammed, r39, r9r 46, z4z, 243,246,249, z54,z55, z6o, z74,276,
Tum, rz6, 3r1 29o,299
Tunis, rzo, rzt, i1g,79o,227 Vorks of Aleistt Crowhl, Tbe, tzz, z3o
Twain, MarL, 258 Vorld Magaqine,The, Tz
Tzaddi, 44, t89, 3o6 Vmld's Tragedl, The (Ctowley), tgj, zr j, 223
University College, London, rz9 Yahoos, rz8
'Unspeakable Ctowley, Thc', zr8 Yzng, tzz, t44
Upanirhads, tzz Yatket, Joho, g
Urn, Thc (Ctowley) ; sec Liber LXXIII, :ii, 3 3 Yi King (tr. Legge), 85,92, t5o, ztg, 244, 248,
z1j, 274, z8o, 283, 299
Vacad, Eliane, 94, 9; Yin, tzz, l'44
Valhalla ry3
Yod, r98
Vamachatis, x
Vancouvet, 8, ft, 1r, rt7, 22t Yoni, 73 0
Vasiwa, 54 Zarn,44 t
Yaqt44, r88, r98
Vayu, r8z Zeto, zo3
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THE MAqteAL REeoRD OF THE BEAST 666
Crowley called his Diary a Magical Record because it contains
accounts of his magical experiments, including the details of his
secret sexual magick and of his consumption of a variety of dangerous
drugs. lt was not written with an eye to publication. 'l don't
particularly expect anybody to read it,' he wrote. Hence the
unguarded way in which he recorded his innermost thoughts and
performances of secret rites. There is a veiled reference to this
extraordinary journal in his Magick in Theory and practice, 1929.
'Yea, he [Crowley's Holy Cuardian Angel, Aiwaz] wrought also in me
a Work of Wonder beyond allthis, but in this matter lam sworn to
hold my peace.'The 'Work of Wonder' was his supreme initiation
into the highest grade of the mystical Order of the Silver Star, the
beginning of which is described in this volume. Crowley, who died
in1947, had to hold his peace about that, and certainly about his
sexual magick. Today, in these confused times, strange creeds thrust
themselves forward, asking to be examined. Everything is in the
melting pot and a way out of the chaos is being anxiously sought.
There is no stranger creed than Crowley's doctrine of Do What Thou
Wilt. Nor are there any experiences more exotic than his mystical
illuminations and initiations.
John Symonds is Crowley's literary executor and biographer. Kenneth
Crant is the present world head of the Order of Oriental Templars, the
magical order which Crowley reorganized in the 1920s.
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