Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Saturday, 9 March 1918

 

Opus[1] LXXV

 

 

10.40 p.m.

     

As LXIV [Roddie Minor].

     

Object: to create Belial as 2nd dec[anate] Aquarius, night-demon, to bring 'Earned Success', of Tarot.

     

Operation: p.v.n.[2] Most demoniacally orgiastic; this is a dangerous type of Work, because of Sacrament. Elixir, quality not observed.

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

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

 

 

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