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The Collected Works - Volumes I, II, & III
The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley, Volume I, Volume II & Volume III were privately published by the Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.) in 1905-1907 at Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness. Many print variations are extant. Copies are known to be bound in camel's hair wrappers, limp vellum, buckram and leather. Editions were offered as three separate volumes or three volumes bound as one. The three main print variations are: - Volume I - Essay Competition Edition (1905) - Volume II - Essay Competition Edition (1906) - Volume III - Essay Competition Edition (1907) - Three volumes bound as one - Essay Competition Edition (1907) - Three volumes bound as one - Travellers' Edition (1907)
The contents of Volume I consist of: - Aceldama - The Tale of Archais - Songs of the Spirit - The Poem - Jephthah - Mysteries - Jezebel and Other Tragic Poems - An Appeal to the American Republic - The Fatal Force - The Mother's Tragedy - The Temple of the Holy Ghost - Carmen Saeculare - Tannhäuser - Appendix: Qabalistic Dogma
The contents of Volume II consist of: - Oracles: The Autobiography of an Art - Alice: An Adultery - The Argonauts - Ahab and Other Poems - The God Eater - The Sword of Song - Berashith - The Excluded Middle - Time - Epilogue
The contents of Volume III consist of: - The Star and the Garter - Why Jesus Wept - Rosa Mundi, and Other Love-Songs - The Sire De Malétroit's Door - Gargoyles - Rodin in Rime - Orpheus - Epilogue and Dedication - Appendix A: Bibliographical Note - Appendix B: Index of First Lines
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