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THE
WORKS
OF ALEISTER
CROWLEY
- VOLUME
III
ESSAY
COMPETITION
EDITION
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The
Collected Works of Aleister Crowley (Volume III). |
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Volumes 1, 2 & 3
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- Volumes 1, 2 & 3
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Printed on India paper.1
Bound in either black camel’s hair wrappers or limp
vellum with silk ties.1
Upper cover lettered in white ‘THE | COLLECTED WORKS |
OF | ALEISTER CROWLEY | VOL. III.’.2
7 3/4” x 5 3/8”3 |
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Publisher: |
Society
for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.).1 |
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Printer: |
Ballantyne,
Hanson & Co. |
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Published At: |
Boleskine,
Foyers, Inverness.1 |
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Date: |
1907.1 |
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Edition: |
1st
Edition. |
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Pages: |
viii +
248.1 |
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Remarks: |
This is
the “Essay Competition” edition.
Ivor Back, an
old friend of Crowley's who was both a practicing surgeon and an
enthusiast of literature served as the editor for the
Collected Works.3
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THE STAR
AND THE GARTER
- Argument
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI.
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- XXIV.
- XXV.
- XXVI.
- XXVII.
- XXVIII.
- XXIX.
- XXX.
- XXXI.
- XXXII.
- XXXIII.
- Appendix
WHY JESUS WEPT
- Persons Studied
- Dedicatio Minima
- Dedicatio Minor
- Dedicatio Major
- Dedicatio Maxima
- Dedicatio Estraordinaria
- Why Jesus Wept
- Scene I.
- Scene II.
- Scene III.
- Scene IV.
- Scene V.
- Scene VI.
- Scene VII.
- Scene VIII.
- Scene IX.
- Scene X.
- Scene XI.
- Scene XII.
- Scene XIII.
- Scene XIV.
ROSA MUNDI, AND OTHER LOVE-SONGS
- I. Rosa Mundi
- II. The Nightmare
- III. The Kiss
- IV. Annie
- V. Brünnhilde
- VI. Dora
- VII. Fatima
- VIII. Flavia
- IX. Katie Carr
- X. Nora
- XI. Mare
- XII. Xantippe
- XIII. Eileen
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII. Friendship
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI.
- XXII.
- XXIII. Protoplasm
- XXIV.
- XXV.
- XXVI.
- XXVII.
- XXVIII.
THE SIRE DE MALÉTROIT’S DOOR
- Scene I.
- Scene II.
- Scene III.
GARGOYLES
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To L. Bentrovata
Images of Life
- Prologue – Via Vitae
- The White Cat
- Ali and Hassan
- Al Malik
- Song
- Anicca
- Tarshitering
- A Fragment
- The Stumbling Block
- Woodcraft
- A Nugget from a Mine
- Au Caveau Des Innocents
- Rosa Inferni
- Diogenes
- Said
- Epilogue – Prayer
Images of Death
- Prologue – Patchouli
- Kali
- The Jilt
- The Eyes of Pharoah
- Banzai!
- Le Jour Des Morts
- Ave Mors
- The Moribund
- The Beauty and the Bhikkhu
- Immortality
Epilogue – The King-Ghost
RODIN IN RIME
A Study in Spite
Frontispiece – Rodin
Various Measures
- The Tower of Toil
- La Belle Heaulmiere
- Femme Accroupie
- Caryatide
- Jeune Mere
- L’amour Qui Passe
- Tete de Femme (Musee du Luxembourg)
- La Casque D’or
- Les Bourgeois de Calais
- Reveil d’Adonis
- La Main de Dieu
- Desespoir
- Epervier et Colombe
- Resurrection
- L’Eternel Printemps
- Acrobates
- L’Age d’Airain
- Fauness
Sonetts and Quatorzains
- Madame Rodin
- Le Penseur
- La Pensee
- Le Baiser
- Bouches s’Enfer
- La Guerre
- W. E. Henley
- Syrinx and Pan
- Icare
- La Fortune
- Paola et Francesca
- Les Deux Genies
- La Cruche Cassre
- La Tentation de Saint-Antoine
- Eve
- Femmes Damnees
- Nabuchadnosor
- Mort d’Adonis
- Balzac
- Le Cyclops surprend Acis et Galather
- Octave Mirbeau
- Socrate
- Colophon – An Incident
ORPHEUS
- Warning
- Exordium
- Liber Primus vel Carminum
- Liber Secundus vel Amoris
- Liber Tertius vel Laboris
- Liber Quartus vel Mortis
EPILOGUE AND DEDICATION
- Epilogue and Dedication of Volumes I., II., III.
- Eleusis
APPENDIX A
- Bibliographical Note
APPENDIX B
- Index of First Lines |
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Author’s
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Other
Known
Editions: |
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Bibliographic
Sources: |
1. |
Gerald
Yorke, A Bibliography of the Works of Aleister Crowley
(Expanded and Corrected by Clive Harper from Aleister
Crowley, the Golden Dawn and Buddhism:
Reminiscences and Writings of Gerald Yorke, Keith
Richmond, editor, The Teitan Press, York Beach, ME,
2011, pp. 44-45. |
2. |
Dianne Frances
Rivers, A Bibliographic List with
Special Reference To the Collection at the University of
Texas, Master of Arts Thesis, The University
of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1967, pp. 51-52. |
3. |
Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of
Aleister Crowley, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002, p.
142. |
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Comments
by
Aleister
Crowley: |
We
wandered back to Boleskine, after arranging with a doctor named
Percival Bott to come and stay with us and undertake the
accouchement. I asked my Aunt Annie to preside over the
household, and an old friend of Gerald’s (Kelly) and mine, Ivor
Back, at this time a surgeon at St. George’s, to make up the
house party. Ivor Back is one of the most amusing companions
possible, to those who can stand him. He knows a good deal about
literature and had published in The Hospital magazine
some of the poems in which I had celebrated various diseases. I
dedicated my In Residence, a collection of my
undergraduate verses, to him, and he collaborated with me to a
certain extent in the composition of various masterpieces of the
lighter kind. He and Gerald are also responsible for numerous
improvements in the preface to Alice, An Adultery. He
also edited the three volumes of my Collected Works,
supplying learned notes to divers obscure passages.
— The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.
New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Pages 405-406.
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My
activities as a publisher were at this time remarkable. I had
issued The God-Eater and The Star & the Garter
through Charles Watts & Co. of the Rationalist Press
Association, but there was still no such demand for my books as
to indicate that I had touched the great heart of the British
public. I decided that it would save trouble to publish them
myself. I decided to call myself the Society for the Propagation
of Religious Truth, and issued The Argonauts, The
Sword of Song, the Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King,
Why Jesus Wept, Oracles, Orpheus,
Gargoyles and The Collected Works. I had simply no
idea of business. Besides this, I was in no need of money; my
responsibility to the gods was to write as I was inspired; my
responsibility to mankind was to publish what I wrote. But it
ended there. As long as what I wrote was technically accessible
to the public through the British Museum, and such places, my
hands were clean.
And yet I took a course implying a diametrically opposite state
of mind. I printed a large edition of The Star & the Garter,
and issued it at a shilling, with the idea of reaching the
people who might have been unable to buy my more expensive
books. I printed a leaflet and circularized the educated
classes. (I have no copy available.) The meat of the circular
was the offer of one hundred pounds for the best essay on my
work. The business idea was to induce people to buy my
Collected Works in order to have material for the essay.
This offer led ultimately to far-reaching results; in fact, it
determined the course of my life for a number of years. The
winner of the prize became an intimate friend and colleague. His
scholarship, acumen, enthusiasm and indefatigability proved most
important factors in the execution of the orders of the Secret
Chiefs.
— The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.
New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Page 406. |
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