Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Sunday, 9 December 1917

 

Opus[1] XXXVI

 

 

12.20 a.m. circa.

     

As III [Roddie Minor].

     

Object: Literary current.

     

Operation: p.v.n.[2] Sudden: not specially good.

     

These Opera, XXV, XXVI, came off. Cf. 'Simon Iff in America.' Story on 8 Dec. Five others from 16 to 22 Dec. This goes on: four more to 27 Dec.

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

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

 

 

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