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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 1 January 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 56.
1.3o’c am Woke: proclaimed the Law 241 [asthma symptoms]: (1)[Heroin].
6 3/4 (2)[Heroin].
8 1/4 sudden attack gasping and choking (3)[Heroin].
12 3/4 Ill from rage (4)[Heroin].
6 1/2 to dinner (5)[Heroin].
Think one [Heroin] omitted at 3.3 o’c PM
The Oracle for the year is AL I 62. My ring covered the word “eyes”.
Wrote with Liber 77 [Liber OZ] to T.W. Earp [Tommy Earp] & C. K. Ogden.
Cecil [Robert Cecil] called off our date.
12 o’c FH [Frieda Harris] has not rung up, & I can’t get her. “Nick” I suppose: I am really angry at this shish(?). She found me at Oddy’s:
Good PM at Pic Brasserie: long argument, very tiring.
Met Ethel! outside New “Vine St”.
10 1/2 M&A[tropine] to sleep.
A ‘bad’ day for 241.
Heppells short of
FH gave me 1/4 lb Earl Grey’s tea. Decent of her.
MEMORANDA
DWTWSBTWOTL [Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law]
When Duty bellows hoarse “Thou must!” The Yough replies: “Pike’s Peak—or bust!” But Age, as cheerful as a throstle Chirps, jeering: Yeah? In a pig’s _______!”
[Articles pasted in: ALEISTAIR CROWLEY: “La Gauloise”, said the title of the card which lay before me on the table of the little Soho French restauarant. And underneath, in brackets, “Song of the Free French.” But it was the author’s name that attracted my attention—”par Aleistair Crowley”—and there was an address given at a big block of flats in Piccadilly. It was long since I had heard of Aleistair Crowley, though in the years following the last war he achieved a considerable notoriety in the High Court, where he was cross-examined about his alleged belief in the efficacy of “blood sacrifices” and the practice of “Black Magic”. HE HATES GERMANS NOW. He brought a libel action over statements made in “Laughing Torso” etc. “Star” July 20.]
[Newspaper article: DAYLIGHT SAVING BLAMED FOR EXTRA FATIGUE. Crowley notes “I have pointed out this fact since 1923”]
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[Heroin]:
say B&W won’t issue more.