Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Tuesday, 23 November 1915

 

OPUS[1] CXXVI

 

[EXTRACT]

 

 

[Around 11:30 p.m.]

     

[Assistant: Jeanne Foster.]

     

[Object:] Semper eadem!ever the same.

 

This does not appear to have worked well. Vide infra!!!

 

[Later:]

The three previous operations had been unsuccessful, though some effect was evident. The return current may have hit us. Soror H. [Jeanne Foster] has been very ill ever since leaving Buffalo, and I the day after I arrived in Chicago. We are still far from well. These operations may be all wrong; but we had better go on if it kills us both. Mr. . . . . [Matlack Foster] has become very violent and aggressive.

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

 

 

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