Wilfred Talbot Smith Diary Entry

Thursday, 20 December 1917

J. [Charles Stansfeld Jones] tells me every thing is going on well. Taylor^[1] seems to be accepting things and has arranged another meeting, with J. for tonight. We lunched together, and afterwards he voiced the following to me. Which would reasonably seem to be the link or clue to the starting up of the current, so to speak; corresponding perhaps to A.C.'s accident, mentioned before.

I should first of all mention, that several weeks ago J. bought an Ouija Board, and with Mrs. J's  [Rubina Stansfeld Jones] assistance, made several experiments. The one I am about to refer to being done without an invocation, and in the case of Mrs. J, in an offhand inattentive manner.

They apparently got in touch with a former lover of J's whom he had known for a short time, when last in Paris. After saying one or two things that she and J. only, knew, I have forgotten what, she said that her love for him kept her bound to earth, and begged him to do something to release her.

Now to day he tells me that to do so, he formed a strong mental image of her and events as they transpired at the time he was with her. (He was aided, perhaps, in this, by her strong conditions, which were about the place after the experiment.) He then bid her good buy, consigning her to the bosom of Nuit, saying "That as one with Nuit he would always remember and love her."

This love, he suggested, might have been a stoppage or hindrance, on the astral plane, to a clear connection with other planes. Also it occurred to me, that by exalting an actual love that one had known, to a plane of the mind holding an abstract idea such as Nuit, one had formed a real link with her. He further pointed out that as the lady was practically a prostitute, it might have something to do with the mystery of Babylon and Nuit.^[2]

1—[Jones was trying to get Taylor to bring a Vancouver, British Columbia, "Aquarian Movement" under the O.T.O. This came about after Herbert (Harry?) Musclow, the leader of the movement was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for fraud. Mr. Taylor took control of the movement during Mr. Musclow's imprisonment.]

2—[In the holograph entry for this date, Smith adds: "This looks more like writing a diary for some one else; but as I am doing no practices except trying to improve my spelling, composition, also once more rewriting my diary, there is nothing to enter."]

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