Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Tuesday, 16 December 1941

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 47.

     

5 2nd waking. Some 241 [asthma symptoms], depressed (1)[Heroin] inadequate.

     

7 1/2 (2)[Heroin].

     

Went shopping in sunny air.

     

11 o’c. Quite ok but (3)[Heroin] as routine.

     

Tried Veeraswamy [restaurant] after 7 years: coarse and bad as ever.

     

Slept heavily & at once till 4 o’c (4)[Heroin].

     

Alice [Alice Florey] here: can’t take any interest in reading or anything else.

     

7 1/4 M&A[tropine].

     

9 1/4 still dull at this time.

     

7 1/2 [Henry] Swansy: he called it off.

     

So (5)[Heroin]. One dream was that we had an Alert, but the ‘planes, which were very many, were all smashed or driven off: none reached us. I gave a sort of lecture about this.

 

 

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