Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Sunday, 4 November 1917

Opus^[1] XXVI

7.30 p.m.

As III [Roddie Minor].

Object: Health.

Operation: p.v.n.^[2] Eth₂O [Ether]. Good, excellently so. Elixir mostly lost in the Gold of the (modern) Philosopher..

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

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

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