The World’s Tragedy

THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY

BY

ALEISTER CROWLEY

PARIS

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1910

Dedication
Preface
The Plymouth Brethren
A Boyhood in Hell
Adolescence
The Writing of the World’s Tragedy
Alice Wesley Torr or Aleister Crowley?
Pornography
Sodomy
Christianity
The Poem Itself
The English Spirit
Proem
The Persons of the Prologue
The Persons of the Tragedy
Prologue The Garden of Eros
The Red Star
The White Wind
The Blue Dwarf
The Black Bean
The Grey Night

The World's Tragedy — by Aleister Crowley

Original key entry of part of the play by Fr. H.B. in New York
1/26/90 e.v. ASCII conversion and entry of 1910 e.v. preface
by Bill Heidrick, T.G. of O.T.O.
Text completed by Fr. H.B.

Additional work by John Griogair Bell of The Hermetic Library at Hermetic.com

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