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.]
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