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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Rex de Arte Regia Sunday, 6 December 1914
Opus[1] XII
10.35 p.m. BABALON m[anibus] p[lenis].[2]
Object: Success tonight, i.e. in lecture on Magick at 32 West 58th Street.
The Operation was very easy and enthusiastic, and the Elixir of excellent quality in my judgment. In Opus X this was not the case.
Result: Really a marked success. Pouring rain, and I had a bad cough. Yet this left me while I spoke and I was eloquent. (Yet this impression is mostly subjective.) I spoke without notes, yet never faltered. Truly say I, Let there be glory and thanksgiving to the Holy One!
N.B. Abramelin demons did their utmost to stop this lecture. A 70-mile gale blew and they tried to upset me both physically and mentally.
1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.] 2—[‘Babalon with full hands’, that is, while holding in his mind the image of Babalon, the Scarlet Woman, he masturbated.]
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