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Why was the 10 th Æthyr torn out of Crowley’s
Algerian notebook?
Hi Joel—( Just went down to get a cup of coffee, and saw a white-breasted nuthatch
working-over the dead tree outside the kitchen window. Haven’t seen one of those
around here before. There’s something fascinating about seeing a bird walk up and
down a vertical surface like that. He was confidently making his way up the trunk: I’ll
take that as a good omen.)
I’m afraid you’ve lost me when you say, “And then, why exactly did he tear the 10 th
out of the ms. notebook, even if he edited it the day after why tear the original out?” I
was under the impression that the record preserved in the notebook was the original. I
have it somewhere, it being one of the few portions of his notebook that I copied from
the microfilm. The hard copy I have includes the diagram of the Triangle, showing in a
crude sketch the three dead pigeons at the three points, with Crowley’s position in the
center. This, I was told, was that which it was sought to conceal, that he acted as an oldfashioned
trance medium for the operation, channelling Choronzon directly. When
you read the Vision of the 10 th , it is the only explanation that makes sense. The pages I
have are hand-written, presumably by Neuburg. If it was instead a clear copy
transcription, I wasn’t made aware of this. So, yes, the microfilm, and what few pages I
yet possess, are indeed from the original notebook, so far as I know. It was originally at
the University of Texas at Austin, but I assume thugs from the [deleted for legal reasons—
Ed] have long since spirited it away. Let me get back to you on this, as against my better
judgment, I may start burrowing through my archives, and attempt to locate my pitifully
partial copy. I’d hoped to dodge this one, but perhaps that is no longer an option. As it
happens, the text of the Vision of zax was the only thing that I desired at the time,
because it was proof that the story of Crowley “abiding apart” during Neuburg’s ordeal
was a lie.
SATYR
[Ed’s note—Concerning theft of Crowley material from university archives, much has
gone missing from the Warburg Institute in London, the Yorke collection is these days
indicated on the shelves by place-markers, special permission being required to access
the material. Much of this was doubtless stolen by people associated with a certain
occult organisation, not mere souvenir collectors acting alone. It was even rumoured
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