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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Rex de Arte Regia Saturday, 28 November 1914
Opus[1] X
1.45 a.m. BABALON manibus plenis.[2]
Object: 156 carnem factam.[3] The idea was of pure devotion to the Holy One, but secondarily to produce a vice-regent of Her as a partner.
The Operation was well carried out; though perhaps not quite so well as VI.
Result: Letter next morning from a woman in Stamford. This woman has Sagittarius rising and is of Mercury Mars type. Hair ashen and greying. She is, I think, to be my private secretary. Clearly not at all my need as 156. Yet may be right as Lady of Ascendant is in 3rd [house].
15 Dec. I class this as doubtful. I think fifteen days ought to be the limit in most cases. Otherwise ‘chance’ can operate easily enough.
2 Feb. 1916. But the woman described is like LXXVI![4]
1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.] 2—[‘Babalon with full hands’. i.e. an act of masturbation with the image of the Scarley Woman in mind. 3—[B=2 A=1 B=2 A=1 L=30 O=70 N=50. Total: 156. The object of the opus was to attract a woman who could fulfil the office of Scarlet Woman, hence the phrase carnem factam, made flesh. 4—[i.e. opus LXXVI. The record of it is not extant.
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