Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Rex de Arte Regia Sunday, 17 January 1915
Opus[1] XXV
1.11 a.m. Approx. Weather colder. Pitch darkness in temple.
Object: Money. Part of Sacrament offered to Ic-zod-heh-ca.[3]
The ceremony was difficult and not very well performed. But the Elixir was extremely copious and of splendid quality.
Result: (Note close dates of XXIII, XXIV, XXV as shewing extraordinary success of XXIII.)
18 Jan. I did sell a copy of Book 4 [Part I & Part II] for 25 cents!
Letters containing $62.50 despatched to me from Vancouver.[4]
1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.] 2—[The god, Hermes, and Crowley conjoined, i.e. Crowley is visualizing the god, while he, Crowley, is masturbating. Furthermore, the god is using Crowley as a woman.] 3—[The Great King of the North in Dr. John Dee's Enochian system; he presides over the Tablet of Earth which is visualized by the 5th Call or Key.] 4—[From Charles Stansfeld Jones, for Canada.]
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