Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Rex de Arte Regia

Wednesday, 17 April 1918

 

Opus[1] XII

 

 

2.20 a.m.

     

As II [Roddie Minor].

     

Object: To perfect Achitha's [Roddie Minor] communications with Amalantrah.

     

Operation: p.v.n.[2] Admirable, but Elixir hard to obtain.

     

Result: very good.

 

 

Opus XIV

 

4.15 p.m.

     

As [Assistant] Gerda von Kothek (Gebauer). See previous record.

     

Object: To spread wide the Law.

     

Operation: I.M.D.[3] Most orgiastic.

 

 

1—[Crowley performs a magical sexual operation.]

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

3—[In Manu Dominae, 'in the hand of his mistress.']

 

 

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