Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Sunday, 17 March 1918

 

Opus[1] LXXVIII

 

 

Morning.

     

As LXIV [Roddie Minor].

     

Object: The Supreme Experience.

     

Operation: p.v.n.[2] Climax of Long Operation begun on previous day. Very orgiastic. Elixir fine in quality.

     

Result: The 'wonderment' vision—Beatific Vision of Binah.

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

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

 

 

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