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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