“The wise pleasure seeker, having realised they are "different degrees of desire" and never desirable, gives up both Virtue and Vice and becomes a Kiaist. Riding the Shark of his desire he crosses the ocean of the dual principle and… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Others praise ceremonial Magic, and are supposed to suffer much Ecstasy! Our asylums are crowded, the stage is over-run! Is it by symbolizing we… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
“Oh, God, thou art the stagnant environment." All is quackery: these religions whose very existence depend on their failure, are so full of misery… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
“If you could truly believe, we should realise the virtue of it. We are not free to believe . . . . however much… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
“There is no illusion but consciousness! This consciousness is ever the smiling monument commemorating "Whether you ever really enjoyed Life"! ” — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
“Sigils are the means of guiding and uniting the partially free belief[27] with an organic desire, its carriage and retention till its purpose served… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
“Something is causing Pain and something energizes the Agony: may it not be caused through the latent Idea of Supreme Bliss? And this eternal… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
“Belief well earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. Belief is not freedom. Belief creates its necessary experience, progress germinates in retrogression. Consider the… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
“The difference between good and evil is a matter of profundity. Which is nearer you, self-love and its immorality or love and morals? Not… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
“The law of Kia is its ever original purpose, undetermined, without change the emanations, through our conception they materialize and are of that duality,… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
“The "I" principle has reached the "Does not matter- need not be" state, and is not related to form. Save and beyond it, there… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
“Man in the misery of his illusions and unsatisfied desires, wings his flight to different religions, and doctrines, seeks redeception, a hypnotic, a palliative… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
“MAGICAL obsession is that state when the mind is illuminated by sub-conscious activity evoked voluntarily by formula at our own time, etc., for inspiration.… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
“You remember in your youth the thought "that this world is a curious place" in the emotion when you felt "why" as to whether… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
“Assimilated by the deceit of its divine origin, its tenets are reward for obedience, punishment for transgression, both holding good for all time (this… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
