Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Thursday, 4 April 1918

 

Opus[1] VIII

 

 

1.30 a.m.

     

As II [Roddie Minor].

     

Object: To have the Secret of Gold.

     

Operation: p.v.n.[2] A1. Elixir A1.

     

Result: Cabbalistic revelation of Secret, at once.

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

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

 

 

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