
The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley
Ritual, Poetry, and Hermetic Initiation in the Golden Dawn and Thelemic TraditionBy Aleister Crowley, S. L. MacGregor Mathers, Mary d'Este SturgesLength38h 2m
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The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley gathers poetry, dramatic writing, fiction, criticism, translations, and occult-inflected prose into a capacious portrait of fin-de-siècle and early modernist experimentation. Its pages move between decadent lyricism, Symbolist theatricality, satirical fantasy, philosophical speculation, and ritual imagination, revealing a literature determined to test the boundaries between art, religion, sexuality, and esoteric knowledge. Standout dramatic and visionary pieces illuminate the collection's restless negotiation of inherited forms and radical self-fashioning. The volume's associated voices—Aleister Crowley, S. L. MacGregor Mathers, and Mary d'Este Sturges—belong to a wider Anglo-European occult revival shaped by ceremonial magic, comparative religion, aestheticism, and the late Victorian fascination with hidden traditions. Their presence situates these writings within the cultural networks surrounding the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and related literary circles. Across differing registers and commitments, the contributors deepen the collection's engagement with translation, ritual, myth, and the imaginative uses of forbidden or marginal knowledge. This volume rewards readers interested in modern occultism, Decadence, early modernist literary culture, and the history of alternative spiritualities. It offers an unusual opportunity to encounter competing styles and intellectual ambitions in one archive, while tracing the dialogue between imaginative literature and esoteric practice.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion, Literary Classics
Length38 hrs 2 mins
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Publish dateJul 16, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (Illustrated) (Annotated)
26Liber III vel Jugorum
2Thelema Texts:
270
3The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis)
28I
4Chapter I
29II
5Chapter II
30III
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6Chapter III
31Prologue of the Unborn
7The Law of Liberty (Liber DCCCXXXVII)
32I
8Ecclesiæ Gnosticæ Catholicæ Creed
33II
9Liber A'ash vel Capricorni Pneumatici
34III
10Liber B vel Magi
35IV
11Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni
36V
12Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente
37VI
13I
38VII
14II
39Liber Librae
15III
40Liber LXI vel Causæ
16IV
41The Preliminary Lection
17V
42The History Lection
18Liber DCCCXIII vel Ararita
43Liber Porta Lucis
19I. א
44Liber Resh vel Helios
20II. ר
45Liber Stellae Rubeae
21III. א
46Liber Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus
22IV. ר
47Mysticism & Magick
23V. י
48I - Mysticism
24VI. ת
49A Note
25VII. א
50Preliminary Remarks