Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Tuesday, 1 January 1918

 

Opus[1] XLIV

 

 

About 5.30 p.m.

    

As III [Roddie Minor].

     

Object: Dramatic power, especially to finish Simon Iff stories.

     

Operation: p.v.n.[2] Excellent. Elixir more sweet than strong. (So was the finish to the stories!)

     


 

Result: Immediate success.

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

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

 

 

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