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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Thursday, 4 March 1943
[I Ching hexagram] 8.
4.24 AM [Air Raid] Alert.
5.35 R.[aiders] P.[assed].
RUSSOPHOBIA did not begin with Lenin. Kipling blatantly & Conrad subtly led a choir of fear & hate: the responses were unanimous. Stephen Grahame (or Black?) was practically the only writer of note that admitted that Russia might be even interesting.
The only hope of friendly understand is through Atonement on the higher planes:—the spiritual, the worlds of Literature, Art, Music of humanity stripped of political top-hampers, and of that philosophy which finds perfect concord in and through extremes.
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