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THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY - VOLUME III

ESSAY COMPETITION EDITION


 

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Title:

The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley (Volume III).

   

Upper Cover

 

Lower Cover

  

Spine

 

Interior Cover

 

Volumes 1, 2 & 3

 

Vellum - Volumes 1, 2 & 3

 

Vellum - Volumes 1, 2 & 3

 

Title Page

 

Essay Competition

 

"India Paper" Watermark

 

Contents

 

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Contents - Continued

 

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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

 

Publisher:

Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.).1

 

Printer:

Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.

 

Published At:

Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness.1

 

Date:

1907.1

 

Edition:

1st Edition.

 

Pages:

viii + 248.1

 

Price:

 

 

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

 

Pagination:2

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‘ESSAY COMPETITION COPY’

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Title-page

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Contents

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Divisional title ‘APPENDICES’

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Contents:

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

- 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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Editions:

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The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley (Volumes I - III).  Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.), Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness., 1907.  “Essay Competition Edition”.  Three volumes bound as one.

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The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley (Volumes I - III).  Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.), Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness., 1907.  “Traveller’s Edition”.  Three volumes bound as one.

 

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.

 

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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