Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Tuesday, 26 February 1918

 

Opus[1] LXIX

 

 

7.45. p.m.

     

As LXIV [Roddie Minor].

     

Object Magical Energy.

     

Operation: p.v.n.[2] Short but snappy Operation; very spontaneous. Elixir difficult to obtain in quantity, but of fine vintage.

     

Result: immediate and lasting, most admirable. Very tired when I began. I sat up till 5.30 a.m., writing in the Book of my Wisdom [Liber Aleph] that I am making for my Son [Charles Stansfeld Jones], and after two hours' sleep, conceived and commenced the Great Operation next to be described [see Opus LXX - LXXIII].

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

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

 

 

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