{"product_id":"the-works-of-aleister-crowley-vol-1-crowley","title":"The Works of Aleister Crowley  Vol 1 by Aleister Crowley","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBy Aleister Crowley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is Volume One of a three-volume set  comprising much of Crowley's early material  written mostly between 1898-1902. His earliest works  written between 1887-1897  were almost entirely destroyed by authorities due to their offensive nature. In writing the material that appears in this volume  Crowley toned things down a notch and moved away from the more lurid and graphic sexual themes he had been primarily focused on. He concentrates almost entirely on religion and mythology in this collection. This reflects a time in his life when he was awakening to an important mystical and spiritual level. It can be seen by the reader how Crowley continues to grow and mature into more advanced ideas in the two remaining volumes  as well. It is hard to think of Crowley as a poet  but his style and advanced mystical vocabulary are unique and go beyond that of everyday poets. His plays are also interesting. Crowley once said that the last play  \"Tanhauser: The Story of All Time \" contained the theory of special relativity  which Einstein clarified more fully and scientifically three years later  in 1905. This volume contains four poems  five plays  four sections of shorter poems  an Epilogue  and an interesting Appendix on Qabalistic Dogma.","brand":"Lushena Books","offers":[{"title":"PAPERBACK","offer_id":52502342631704,"sku":"9798890961426","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"HARDCOVER","offer_id":52502342664472,"sku":"9798890961525","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/8203\/8296\/files\/9798890961426.jpg?v=1786283167","url":"https:\/\/lushenabooksinc.com\/products\/the-works-of-aleister-crowley-vol-1-crowley","provider":"Lushena","version":"1.0","type":"link"}