Le prime opere (1898-1905) di Crowley comprendono: Aceldama (1898), The Tale of Archais (1898), Jezebel (1898), Songs of the Spirit (1898), Jephthah (1898), An Appeal to the American Republic (1899), The Mother's Tragedy (1901), The Soul of Osiris (1901), Carmen Sæculare (1901), Tannhäuser (1902), Berashith (1903), Alice, An Adultery (1903), The God Eater (1903), Summa Spes (1903), Ahab (1903), The Star and the Garter (1903), In Residence (1904), The Argonauts (1904), Why Jesus Wept (1904), The Sword of Song (1904), Oracles (1905), Orpheus (1905), Rosa Mundi (1905), Gargoyles (1905), Rodin in Rime (1905). Queste furono raccolte, con revisioni e qualche modifica nei titoli, in The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley (3 vol., 1905-7), che ometteva The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King (1904, in qualità di editore), le poesie pornografiche inattribuite White Stains (1898) e Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden (c. 1904).