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In 1918, Crowley went on a magical retreat in the wilderness of [[Esopus Island]] on the Hudson River. Here, he began a translation of the [[Tao Te Ching]], painted Thelemic slogans on the riverside cliffs, and—he later claimed—experienced past life memories of being Ge Xuan, Pope Alexander VI, Alessandro Cagliostro, and [[Eliphas Levi]]. Back in New York City, he moved to Greenwich Village, where he took Leah Hirsig as his lover and next Scarlet Woman. He took up painting as a hobby, exhibiting his work at the Greenwich Village Liberal Club and attracting the attention of the ''New York Evening World''. With the financial assistance of sympathetic Freemasons, Crowley revived ''The Equinox'' with the first issue of volume III, known as ''The Blue Equinox''. He spent mid-1919 on a climbing holiday in Montauk before returning to London in December.