Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Friday, 25 February 1916

 

Opus[1] I

 

 

5.25 p.m.

     

Assistant: 'Laylah'

     

Object: Power over LXXVI [Jeanne Foster].

     

Result: Failure, I suppose.

     

Weather: warm and wet.

     

Operation: Very good considering long restraint.

     

Elixir: Absorbed in cucurbit.

     

Mental concentration: Medium, below average. No success, worked wrong way around, but Laylah hated LXXVI.

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

 

 

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