THE WORKS OF

ALEISTER CROWLEY

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PREFACEIT is not without some misgiving that I have undertaken to editthe collected writings of Aleister Crowley. The task has beenno easy one. His numerous references to the obscurer bypathsof classical mythology, and his not less frequent allusions to theworks of Qabalistic writers, have demanded much elucidation.In making the explanatory notes, I have endeavoured] to strikea golden mean between the attitude of Browning, when he pub-lished “Sordello,” and that of Huxley, who took it for grantedthat his readers were entirely ignorant: and only such passagesor phrases have been annotated as were thought likely to presentany difficulty to the student of ordinary intelligence.

It is no part of the duty of an editor to assume the roleof critic. But I must explain that I am conscious of Crowley’sweaknesses. They are in the main the outcome of his astonish-ing perversity; nowhere more strikingly demonstrated than in“The Poem,” throughout which there is a struggle for the supre-macy between his sense of the ridiculous and his sense of thesublime.

I am also aware that his views on religious matters will befound unpalatable in some quarters. But it should be re—

membered that these writings represent the ideas of a man ofan unconventional mind brought up in conventional surround—ings. When he came to man’s estate he not unnaturally revolted:and the result has been, as in many such cases, that his searchfor the truth has led him to investigate the religious beliefs ofmany nations ; nor have those investigations tended to lessen thegulf which separates him from the orthodox point of View.

The edition is authorised, and, as such, complete: thereinare contained all the important works of Aleister Crowley.

I. B.

LONDON, Marc/z 1905.

CONTENTS(H7VOLUME L

ACELDAMA—

DEDICATION .

ACELDAMA

THE TALE OF ARCHAIS—THE AUTHOR’S BALLADE OF HIS

TALETHE TALE OF ARCHAIS—

PART I.,, II.,, III. . . . .

,, IV. . . . ,

EPILOGUE

SONGS OF THE SPIRIT—DEDICATION .

THE GOADIN MEMORIAM A. J. Β.THE QUEST .

THE ALCHEMIST .

SONNETS TO NIGHT .

THE PHILOSOPHER’S PROGRESS .SONNET.AN ILI. DREAMTHE PRIEST SPEAKSTHE VIOLET’S LOVE-STORY.THE FAREWELL OF PARACELSUS

TO APRILE .

A SPRING SNOWSTORM IN VVAST-

DALE .

IN NEVILLE’S COURT, TRINITYCOLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE .

SUCCUBUSA RONDELNIGHTFALL .

THE INITIATION .

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ISAIAH .

THE STORM .

WHEAT AND WINEA RONDELTHE VISIONS OF THF ORDEALPOWER .

VESPERSBY THE CAMASTROLOGYDAEDALUS

EPILOGUE

THE POEM——

SCENE I.,, II.,, III.‘,, IV.

JEPHTHAH—-PRELIMINARY INVOCATION .'

JEPHTHAH

MYSTERIES—THE FIVE KISSES—

I. AFTER CONFESSIONII. THE FLIGHTIII. THE- SPRING AFTERIV. THE VOYAGE SOUTHWARDV. THE ULTIMATE VOYAGE

THE HONOURABLE ADULTERERS—I.II. . . . . .

THE LEGEND OF BEN LEDIA DESCENT OF THE MOENCHIN A CORNFIELD.

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DREAMS . . 103THE TRIUMPH OF MAN . 105THE DREAMING DEATH .. 108A SONNET IN SPRING. . 109DE PROFUNDIS . 109TWO SONNETs——-

I. “My soul is aching,” &c. . 113II. “The constant ripple,” &c. . 113

A VALENTINE . 113ODE TO POESY . 114Two SONNETS—-

L “ Self—damned, the leprousmoisture,” &c. . . 115

II. “Lust, impotence,” &c. . 116BESIDE THE RIVER . 116MAN’S HOPE . 116SONNET. . 117Ἀ WOODLAND IDYLI

. 117PERDURABO . . 118ON GARRET HOSTEI BRIDGE

. 118ASTRAY IN HER PATHS . 119SONNET TO CLYTIE . 120A VALENTINE, ’98 . 120PENELOPE . . 121A SONNET OF BIASPHEMY . . 122THE RAPE OF DEATH. . 122IN THE WOODS WITH SHELLEY. 124A V-ISION UPON USHBA . 125ELEGY . 127EPILOGUE . 127

JEZEBEL, AND OTHER TRAGICPOEMS——

DEDICACE . 129PERDITA . . 129JEZEBEL. PART I. . 129

,, ,, II. . . 131CONCERNING CERTAIN SINS . 132A SAINT’S DAMNATION . 132LOT .... . 133EPILOGUE . 135

AN APPEAL ΤΟ ΤΗΕ AMERICANREPUBLIC. 136

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THE FATAL FORCE . 141

THE MOTHER’S TRAGEDY. . 154

THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLYGHOST——

I. THE COURT OF THE PROFANE—PROLOGUE.-—OBSESSION . 166FAME. . 167

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THE MOTHER AT THE SABBATH 167THE BRIDEGROOM . 168ΤΗΕ ALTAR OF ARTEMIS . 169THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE . 171ASMODEL . . 171MADONNAOF THE GOLDEN EYES 173LOVE AT PEACE . . . 174MORS JANUA AMORIS .-175THE MAY QUEEN . 177SIDONIA THE SORCERESS. . 178THE GROWTH OF GOD . 178To RICHARD WAGNER . 179THE TWO EMO'I‘IONS . 179THE SONNET. I. . 180

,, II. . 180WEDLOCK. A SONNET . 180SONNET FOR GERALD KELLY’S

DRAWING OF JEZEBEL . . 180MANY WATERS CANNOTQUENCH LOVE . 181

COENUM FATALE . 181THE SUMMIT OF 'IHE AMOR-

OUS MOUNTAIN . 181CONVENTIONAL WICKEDNESS . 181LOVE’S WISDOM . . 182THE PESSIMIST’S PROGRESS . 182NEPHTHYS . . 182AGAINST THE TIDE . . 182STYX. . . . . 183LOVE, MELANCHOI.Y, DESPAIR 183THE GATE OF THE SANCTU-

ARY—TO LAURA . 184THE LESBIAN HELL . 185

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PTHE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY

GHOST—ContinuedTHE NAMELESS QUESTTHE REAPERTHE TWO MINDSTHE TWO WISDOMS.THE Two LOVESA RELIGIOUS BRINGING—UPTHE LAW OF CHANGESYNTHESIS .

III. THE HOLY PLACE——

THE NEOPHYTESIN: AN ODE .

THE NAMETHE EVOCATION .THE ROSE AND THE CROSSHAPPINESSTHE LORD’S DAYCERBERUS . . .

IV. THE HOLY OF HOLIES—THE PALACE OF THE WORLD.THE MOUNTAIN CHRIST.TO ALLAN MACGREGOR .

EPILOGUE

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SUNG UNTO OUR LADY ISIS. 211A LITANY. . 211

CARMEN SAECULARE—PROLOGUE—THE EXILE ?־

. 214“CARMEN SAECULARE” . . 215IN THE HOUR BEFORE REVOLT . 218EPILOGUE . 220

TANNHAUSER—DEDICATION . . 222PREFACE . 223TANNHAUSER . 226

ACT I. .226,, II. . 230III. . װ?239

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The Table of Correspondences has been delayed owing to the

extreme complexity of the subject, and mechanical difficulty in

diagrammatizing. It will be issued with Vol. II., but should be

bound up in its proper place, at the end of this volume.

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