Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Sunday, 26 December 1915

 

OPUS CXXXVIII[1]

 

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[5:40 p.m.]

     

[Assistant: Rita Gonzales.]

    

[Object:] Health.

     

What I need is recreation, friends, amusements, and if I don't get them my reason will go. The continuous eyestrain is always instantly relieved by sexual intercourse. If H.[ilarion] [Jeanne Foster] were always with me, and I could lead the normal life of a man of my station, I should be healthy, happy, and virtuous. As it is, I'm going the way of the Artist! Magick must come to the rescue.

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

 

 

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