Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Sunday/Monday/Tuesday, 14/15/16 October 1917

 

Opus[1] XIII

 

 

14-16 Oct. Hours forgotten.

     

As III [Roddie Minor].

     

Object: prosperity.

     

Operation: p.v.n.[2] The General Invocation of Demeter upon an earthen altar,[3] as assuring prosperity.

     


 

Result: 7 Jan. [1918] So far, so bloody good.

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

2—[Per vas nefandum. By the unmentionable vessel, i.e. anal intercourse.]

3—[The 'altar' is her fundament, hence the mode of operation.]

 

 

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