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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

ESSAY COMPETITION EDITION


 

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The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley (Essay Competition Edition).

   

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Publisher:

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

 

Printer:

Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.2

 

Published At:

Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness.1

 

Date:

1905-1907.1

 

Edition:

1st Edition.

 

Pages:

(x + 270)+(viii + 282)+(vii + 248)4

 

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Remarks:

This is the “essay competition” version of the collected works bound as 3 volumes in 1.

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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Contents:

VOLUME I

ACELDAMA

- Dedication

- Aceldama

THE TALE OF ARCHAIS

- The Author’s Ballade of His Tale

- The Tale of Archais - Part I

- The Tale of Archais - Part II

- The Tale of Archais - Part III

- The Tale of Archais - Part IV

- Epilogue

SONGS OF THE SPIRIT

- Dedication

- The Goad

- In Memoriam A.J.B.

- The Quest

- The Alchemist

- Sonnets to Night

- The Philosopher’s Progress

- Sonnett

- An Ill Dream

- The Priest Speaks

- The Violet’s Love-Story

- The Farewell of Paracelsus to Aprile

- A Spring Snowstorm in Wastdale

- In Neville’s Court, Trinity College, Cambridge

- Succubus

- A Rondel

- Nightfall

- The Initiation

- Isaiah

- The Storm

- Wheat and Wine

- A Rondel

- The Visions of the Ordeal

- Power

- Vespers

- By the Cam

- Astrology

- Dædalus

- Epilogue

THE POEM

- Scene I

- Scene II

- Scene III

- Scene IV

JEPHTHAH

- Preliminary Invocation

- Jephthah

MYSTERIES

- The Five Kisses

   I. After Confession

   II. The Flight

   III. The Spirit After

   IV. The Voyage Southward

   V. The Ultimate Voyage

- The Honourable Adulterers

   I.

   II.

- The Legend of Ben Ledi

- A Descent of the Moench

- In a Cornfield

- Dreams

- The Triumph of Man

- The Dreaming Death

- A Sonnett in Spring

- De Profundis

- Two Sonnetts

   I. “My Soul is Aching”

   II. “The Constant Ripple”

- A Valentine

- Ode to Poesy

- Two Sonnets

   I. “Self-Damned, The Leprous Moisture”

   II. “Lust, Impotence”

- Beside the River

- Man’s Hope

- Sonnet

- A Woodland Idyll

- Perdurabo

- On Garret Hostel Bridge

- Astray in Her Paths

- Sonnet to Clytie

- A Valentine, ‘98

- Penelope

- A Sonnet of Blasphemy

- The Rape of Death

- In the Woods with Shelley

- A Vision Upon Ushba

- Elegy

- Epilogue

JEZEBEL AND OTHER TRAGIC POEMS

- Dédicace

- Perdita

- Jezebel. Part I.

- Jezebel. Part II.

- Concerning Certain Sins

- A Saint’s Damnation

- Lot

- Epilogue

AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC

THE FATAL FORCE
THE MOTHER’S TRAGEDY
THE TEMPLE OF THEHOLY GHOST

I. The Court of the Profane:  Prologue-Obsession

- Fame

- The Mother at the Sabbath

- The Bridegroom

- The Altar of Artemis

- The Course of True Love

- Asmodel

- Madonna of the Golden Eyes

- Love at Peace

- Mors Janua Amoris

- The May Queen

- Sidonia the Sorceress

- The Growth of God

- To Richard Wagner

- The Two Emotions

- The Sonnet I.

- The Sonett. II.

- Wedlock. A Sonett

- Sonnet for Gerald Kelley’s Drawing of Jezebel

- Many Waters Cannot Quench Love

- Coenum Fatale

- The Summit of the Amorous Mountain

- Conventional Wickedness

- Love’s Wisdom

- The Pessimist’s Progress

- Nephthys

- Against the Tide

- Styx

- Love, Melancholy, Despair

II. The Gate of the Sanctuary

- To Laura

- The Lesbian Hell

- The Nameless Quest

- The Reaper

- The Two Minds

- The Two Wisdoms

- The Two Loves

- A Religious Bringing-up

- The Law of Change

- Synthesis

III. The Holy Place

- The Neophyte

- Sin:  An Ode

- The Name

- The Evocation

- The Rose and the Cross

- Happiness

- The Lord’s Day

- Cerberus

IV. The Holy of Holies

- The Palace of the World

- The Mountain Christ

- To Allan MacGregor

- The Rosicrucian

- The Athanor

- The Chant to be said or sung unto our Lady Isis

- A Litany

CARMEN SAECULARE

- Prologue - The Exile

- “Carmen Saeculare”

- In the Hour Before Revolt

- Epilogue

TANNHÄUSER

- Dedication

- Preface

- Tannhäuser

EPILOGUE:  A Death in Thessaly

APPENDIX:

Qabalistic Dogma

 

VOLUME II

ORACLES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ART

- The Death of a Drunkard

- A Peep Behind the Scenes

- Lines on Being Invited to Meet the Premier in Wales, September, 1892

- The Balloon

- Spolia Opima

- A Welcome to Jabez

- Elvina

- Adaptation of “Onward Christian Soldiers” to the Needs of the Brethren

- To Mrs. O...n C...t

- The Little Half-Sovereign

- Ode to Sappho

- In a Lesbian Meadow

- “ ‘Tis Pity—”

- Epilogue to “Green Alps”

- Two Sonnets in Praise of a Publisher

- My Wife Dies

- Ode to Venus Callipyge

- The Cannibals

- The Blood-Lotus

- The Nativity

- Translations from Baudelaire

- Chaldean Fools

- Call of the Slyphs

- Invocation

- Hymn to Apollo

- The Hermit’s Hymn to Solitude

- The Storm

- Assumpta Canida

- Venus

- A Litany

- March in the Tropics

- Night in the Valley

- Metempsychosis

- Advice of a Letter

- On Waikiki Beach

- The Triads of Despair

- The Dance of Shiva

- Sonnet for a Picture

- The House

- Anima Lunae

- “ ‘Sabbé Pi Dukkham”

- Dhammapada

- St. Patrick’s Day, 1902

- The Earl’s Quest

- Eve

- The Sibyl

- La Coureuse

- Sonnet for a Picture

- To “Elizabeth”

- Rondels (At Monte Carlo)

- In the Great Pyramid of Ghizeh

- The Hills

ALICE: AN ADULTERY

- Introduction by the Editor

What Lay Before

- White Poppy

- Messaline

- California

- Margaret

Alice: An Adultery

- The First Day

- The Second Day

- The Third Day

- The Fourth Day

- Reincarnation

- The Fifth Day

- The Sixth Day

- The Seventh Day

- The Eighth Day

- The Ninth Day

- The Tenth Day

- The Eleventh Day

- The Twelfth Day

- Red Poppy

- The Thirteenth Day

- The Fourteenth Day

- The Fifteenth Day

- The Sixteenth Day

- Alice

- The Seventeenth Day

- The Eighteenth Day

- The Nineteenth Day

- The Twentieth Day

- The Twenty-First Day

- The Twenty-Second Day

- The Twenty-Third Day

- The Twenty-Fourth Day

- The Twenty-Fifth Day

- The Twenty-Sixth Day

 - Under the Palms

- The Twenty-Seventh Day

- The Twenty-Eighth Day

- The Twenty-Ninth Day

- The Thirtieth Day

- The Day Without a Number

- The Thirty-First Day

- The Thirty-Second Day

- The Thirty-Third Day

- The Thirty-Fourth Day

- The Thirty-Fifth Day

- The Thirty-Sixth Day

- Lethe

- The Thirty-Seventh Day

- The Thirty-Eighth Day

- The Thirty-Ninth Day

- The Fortieth Day

- The Forty-First Day

- The Forty-Second Day

- At Last

- The Forty-Third Day

- The Forty-Fourth Day

- The Forty-Fifth Day

- The Forty-Sixth Day

- The Forty-Seventh Day

- The Forty-Eighth Day

- The Forty-Ninth Day

- The Fiftieth Day

   I.

   II.

   III.

   IV.

THE ARGONAUTS

- Actus Primus – Jason

- Actus Secundus – Argo

- Actus Tertius – Medea

- Actus Quartus – Sirenae

- Actus Quintus - Ares

AHAB AND OTHER POEMS

- Dedicace

- Rondel

- Ahab. Part I.

- Ahab. Part II.

- New Year, 1903

- Melusine

- The Dream

THE GOD-EATER

- Act I.

- Act II.

THE SWORD OF SONG

- Preliminary Invocation – Nothing

- Introduction to “Ascension Day and Pentecost”

- Ascension Day

- Pentecost

- Notes to Ascension Day and Pentecost

   Note to Introduction

   Notes to Ascension Day

   Notes to Pentecost

AMBROSII MAGI HORTUS ROSARUM

THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS

- I.

- II.

- III.

- IV.

- V.

- VI.

- VII.

- VIII.

- IX.

- X.

- XI.

- XII.

- XIII.

BERASHITH: AN ESSAY IN ONTOLOGY

SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM

- I.

- II.

- III. The Four Noble Truths

- IV. The Three Characteristics

- V. Karma

- VI. The Ten Fetters or San-Yoganas

- VII. The Relative Reality of Certain States of Consciousness

- VIII. Mahasatipatthana

- IX. Agnosticism

- X. The Noble Eightfold Path

- XI. The Twilight of the Germans

- XII. The Three Refuges

- XIII. Conclusion

THE EXCLUDED MIDDLE: OR, THE SCEPTIC REFUTED

TIME

EPILOGUE

 

VOLUME III

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

 

Author’s

Working

Versions:

 

 

Other

Known

Editions:

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The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley (Volume I).  (Essay Competition Edition) (Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.), Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness., 1905.

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The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley (Volume II).  (Essay Competition Edition) Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.), Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness., 1906.

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The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley (Volume III).  (Essay Competition Edition) Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.), Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness., 1907.

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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.

Personal observation of the item.

3.

Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt:  A Life of Aleister Crowley, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002, p. 142.

4.

Weiser Antiquarian Books, Catalog # 91, Aleister Crowley.  Books from the Nicholas Bishop-Culpeper Collection (Part I).”

 

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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