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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 12 January 1942
[I Ching hexagram] 57.
NB Incense last night started bad 241 [asthma symptoms].
7 o’c Tremendous in pulse: poem on “our inbred fucked-out families” ["Landed Gentry"] who are strangling us.
Letter from Saturnus [Karl Germer] dated Dec 12. Hope for cable Jan 15.
Letter from Dion Fortune. Replied, sending her T.U.! [Thumbs Up!] both editions [Thumbs Up! A Pentagram - A Pantacle to Win the War & Thumbs Up! Five Poems by the Author of "The V Sign"].
9-9 1/4 F.H. [Frieda Harris] insane, bullying and threatening: disloyal mouton enrage, crazy to put Williams’ rubbish on the screen. The tantrums of a spoilt schoolgirl.
Ill all AM—sick as a dog after lunch—couldn’t sleep.
4 o’c (41)[M&A[tropine]].
Alice here and Bayley [James Gilbert Bayley]—so quiet and sensible and comforting: saved the day from utter loss.
Asthma almost continuous:
10 3/4 pm (7)[Heroin].
12 3/4 Woke 241 bad from dream see Memo at end (41)[M&A].*
* 6 1/2 woke 241 alarmingly bad (1) [Heroin] n.[o] g.[ood]. n.[o] b.[loody] g.[ood].
6 3/4 (2)[Heroin] Relief at once,
but imperfect. Believe 41 [M&A] would have been wiser, but
the
8 1/2 still XOP. Coramine[1] (3)[Heroin].
11 o’c Really ill from Frieda’s savage ravings (4)[Heroin].
12 3/4 ditto (5)[Heroin].
Sick after lunch.
7 3/4 (6)[Heroin].
1—Coramine is a circulatory stimulant and was used in the mid-twentieth century as a medical countermeasure against tranquilizer overdoses.
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[Heroin] was in the Pravaz ready.