Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Rex de Arte Regia Wednesday, 3 May 1916
Opus[1] XXIII
10.00 p.m.
[Assistant] As XIII [Alice Coomaraswamy].
[Object] Namo shivaya namaha Aum![2]
[Operation] Very pure and passionate in all ways.
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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