Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Saturday/Sunday/Monday, 9/10/11 February 1918

Opus^[1] LXIV

9-11 Feb.

Assistant: as III and T.H.T.I.T.I. [Thrice Holy Thrice Illuminated Thrice Illustrious] Soror Ahitha [Roddie Minor] IX°.

Object: To write a Treatise on Light.

Operation: p.v.n.^[2] Impulse [to commence the operation] arose immediately, as below.

Opus LXV

11 Feb.

[Assistant] n.

Object: as LXIV.

Operation: פf^[3] Impromptu and swift.

Result: Success in this at once, same night.

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

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

3—[The Hebrew letter Pe, the mouth.]

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