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The Confessions of Aleister
Crowley: An Autohagiography is a partial autobiography
by Crowley. It covers the early years of his life up until
the mid-late 1920s but does not include the latter part of
Crowley's life and career between then and his death in
1947.
Mandrake Press published the first
two sections as separate volumes under the title The
Spirit of Solitude in 1929.
Background:
Crowley had originally intended
that the work would be published in six volumes, but only
two of these had been published before the Great Depression
and various internal disputes led to the demise of the
publishers. The project languished uncompleted throughout
Crowley's lifetime, and it was not until 1969 that the
Confessions were issued in a single volume edition,
edited by
John Symonds and
Kenneth Grant. Whilst the single volume edition includes
much of the text of the first two volumes (and of course
that of the latter four) it is nonetheless an abridgement.
These original volumes include a considerable amount of
text, and many photographs—particularly pertaining to
Crowley's travels and mountaineering exploits—that were not
reproduced in the later single volume.
Per Crowley:
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