Description
Aceldama
A Place to Bury Strangers In
A Philosophical Poem
A reprint of what is thought to be Aleister Crowley’s first published book, and also – by his own account – his “first published poem of any importance.” In his “Confessions” he wrote “But in Aceldama, my first published poem of any importance, I attained, at a bound, the summit of my Parnassus. In a sense, I have never written anything better. It is absolutely characteristic. Its technical excellence is remarkable and it is the pure expression of my unconscious self. I had no corresponding mental concepts at the time. It enounces a philosophy which subsequent developments have not appreciably modified. I remember my own attitude to it. It seemed to me a wilfully extravagant eccentricity. I had no idea that it was the pure water of the Dircean spring.”
