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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Monday, 13 December 1920
2.00 a.m. A long preliminary with Alostrael [Leah Hirsig], Snow [Cocaine], and the Sacrament of Death led to no climax, but to a discussion as to why I was worried. It had been obvious to Leah that I have been subconsciously distressed. I searched, and found the shock of my two agonies to be the underlying cause. But our children were taken from us because we were neglecting our Work in our love. My remedy is then to consecrate myself to establish the Law of Thelema. So then, at two o'clock this morning, I laid my hand upon the Sacred Lotus of Alostrael and swore these Oaths:
1. I, ΤΟ ΜΕΓΑ ΘΗΡΙΟΝ, The Beast, 666, hereby and hereon most solemnly promise and swear, to devote my whole working time exclusively to the completion of my Comment on The Book of the Law.
2. I, etc., as before, etc., swear: that as soon as the Comment is ready, I will take the Book and cause it to be printed, bound and issued in the manner ordained in the Book itself, though I leave myself without money to buy my next meal.
To these Oaths I called Nuith! Hadithl Ra-Hoor-Khuit as witness thereof.
I then invoke Aiwaz to aid me to keep them, and in all other ways soever to forward the Work.
2.20 a.m. I therefore open my MS of the Comment.
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