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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Rex de Arte Regia Wednesday, 30 December 1914
Opus[1] XIX
10.46 p.m. Weather fine; colder after thaw with rain. Light only that of a gas stove.
[Assistant] As XIV [Lea Dewey].
Object: Sex attraction.
The Operation was really very good. Most orgiastic, yet with excellent control, such as I have not been able to obtain since Opus II. It lasted about forty minutes. The Elixir was of super-excellent quality. Concentration fairly good. (I must remark on the extreme difficulty of gauging these points. The opinion of the observer is naturally inflamed by mere pleasure, and the judgement consequently palsied. Adjuvet Maat!)[2]
Result: 2 Jan. Apparently better at the time than after, though today Aimée Gouraud called here of her own accord.
1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.] 2—[‘May Maat help us!’ Maat, the goddess of truth and justice.]
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