Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Friday, 21 December 1917

 

Opus[1] XL

 

 

11.30 p.m.

     

As III [Roddie Minor].

     

Object: Success with the Simon Iff stories.

     

Operation: p.v.n.[2] Amazingly good, orgiastically.

 

Mental concentration very strong, but almost overcome.

 

Elixir good and strong.

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

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

 

 

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