Part of Crowley’s ritual creation of the homunculus in the womb of the chosen woman was to steep the woman in the magical influences of the Moon. This was presumably intended to render her more receptive to spiritual impressions. In Moonchild he describes how the woman who is supposedly to bear the homunculus conducts an invocations in the hour of the rising of the moon wearing a crescent-shaped tiara, presumably of silver, in which are set nine moonstones. Another invocation was made at the hour of the setting of the Moon. The woman had lunar poetry read to her, listened to lunar music, ate only lunar foods such as milk, the whites of eggs, venison, crescent cakes, and cheese, and spent most of the day sleeping, during which magic words were chanted into her ears that were intended to induce lunar visions. When the moon was not above the horizon, she spent her time contemplating the waters of the sea.