| [This diary is extremely incomplete and fragmentary. Many entries, too, are evidently irrelevant or blinds. We omit much of the latter two types.]
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| This eventful year {-1} finds me at a nameless camp in the jungle of Southern Province of Ceylon; my thoughts, otherwise divided between Yoga and sport, are diverted by the fact of a wife. . . .
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| [This reference to Yoga is the subconscious Magical Will of the Vowed Initiate. He was not doing anything; but, on questioning himself, as was his custom at certain seasons, he felt obliged to affirm his Aspiration.]
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{ 11} | . . . [Much blotted out] . . . missed deer and hare. So annoyed. Yet the omen is that the year is well for works of Love and Union; ill for those of Hate. Be mine of Love! [Note that he does not add and Union.]
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{ 7} | Embark of Suez.
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{ 17} | Suez.
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{ 18} | Landed at Port Said.
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{ 19} | To Cairo.
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{ 21} |
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| [This entry is quite unintelligible to us.]
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{ 29} | To Helwan as Oriental Despot.
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| [Apparently P. had assumed some disguise, probably with the intention of trying to study Islam from within as he had done with Hinduism.]
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{ 30} | Began golf.
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{ 24} | Began INV. [invocation]. .
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{ 25} | 9 appeared.
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{ 26} | Told to INV. [invoke] 10 as by new way.
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{ 27} | Did this badly at noon 30.
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{ 0} | At 10 p.m. did wellEquinox of GodsNov [? new] C.R.C. [Christian Rosy Cross, we conjecture.] Hoori now Hpnt [obviously Hierophant].
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{ 1} | in . I. A. M. [? one oclock.]
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{ 2} | X. P. B.
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| [May this and the entry {Aires 4} refer to the Brother of the AA who found him?]
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| E. P. D. in 84 m.
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| [Unintelligible to us: possibly a blind.]
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{ 3} | Y.K. done [? His work in the Yi King.]
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{ 4} | Met again.
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{ 5} |
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| [Blot] wch trouble with ds.
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| [Blot] P. B.
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| [All unintelligible; possibly a blind.]
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{ 17} | Go off again to H, taking As p.
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| [This probably a blind.]
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