AHA!
Liber CCXLII

Aleister Crowley

This new edition features a previously unpublished and invaluable Commentary by Frater Achad, one of Crowley's most important early students, which indicates a method by which the mystic depths of AHA! may be further explored. It includes an elaborate Commentary by Israel Regardie, a primary Crowley biographer and spokesman. An Afterword by Crowley scholar James Wasserman places the work within the context of Crowley's overall life and teaching. 

"The poem ends with 'Blessing and worship to the Beast, the prophet of the Lovely Star'. Henceforth I must be no more an aspirant, no more an adept, no more aught that I could think of as myself. I was the chosen prophet of the Masters, the instrument fit to interpret their idea and work their will. "
-Aleister Crowley 

"This poem is undoubtedly one of the most wonderful descriptions of the mystical path that has ever been written, and I shall endeavor to show, by means of a few short comments, what a great deal of symbolism is contained in almost every word." 
- Frater Achad 

"To have chosen so unlikely a title as AHA! for an almost epic poem about mysticism must require a strangely constituted mind. And this, of course, is supremely applicable to Aleister Crowley." 
- Israel Regardie