Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Thursday, 3 August 1916

 

Opus[1] XL

 

 

11.50 p.m.

     

Χειρι [by hand], thinking of Myriam Deroxe.

     

Object: ()[2]

     

Operation: Very orgiastic and rather prolonged.

     

Elixir: Copious, fairly strong, fragrant. Weather: Warmish night. Damp. Light: Wood fire dimly glowing.

     


 

Result: Success. See XLI.

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

2—[Sign for the vesica or vulva which Crowley used to indicate women in general. In the original holograph it is followed by an indecipherable word.]

 

 

[78], [80]