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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Rex de Arte Regia Wednesday, 30 January 1918
Opus[1] LVIII
As III [Roddie Minor].
Object: [see below]
Operation: p.v.n.[2] Marvellous, enthusiastic.
But from these Operations, I obtained the true Way of the Tao. 'Violent effort' is not contrary to that Way if one's nature happens to be violent or vehement. The mistake is rather to use introspection to criticize one's own Will too closely. This is quite in accord with modern psychological teachings.
1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.] 2—[Per vas nefandum. By the unmentionable vessel, i.e. anal intercourse.]
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