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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Rex de Arte Regia Monday, 24 April 1916
Opus[1] XVI
10.00 p.m. circa.
[Assistant] As XIII [Alice Coomaraswamy].
[Object] Namo shivaya namaha Aum![2]
[Result] I felt very weak at first; climax too, not so good as has been the case hitherto. (Relations awkward all day; feeling of something wrong.)
1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.] 2—[The celebrated Hindu mantra in praise of Shiva, the god of universal dissolution.]
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