Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

[no date] November 1917

 

Opus[1] XXXI

 

 

[no date] 11.30 a.m.

     

As III [Roddie Minor].

     

Object: Red Gold.

     

Operation: p.v.n.[2] cum El[ixir] Rub[eus].[3]et aliis![4] All admirable.

     

([Note added] 27 Nov. These Opera—XXX, XXXI—worked admirably and instantly, gold literally pouring in from all sorts of unexpected sources).

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

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

3—['Red Elixir', i.e. the menses. Crowley was using the lunar current.]

4—['and other things']

 

 

[78], [80]