Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves — are there!… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company. — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things. — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“Quietism, Buddhism, and other religions, everything which denies the flesh—is the great inferiority to God in ourselves, an escapism seeking sanctuary through fear of… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“Belief is ever its own tempter to believe differently. You cannot believe freedom into existence, but can you free yourself from belief ? You… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“Sigils are made by combining the letters of the alphabet after a process of simplification. For example, the word ‘Woman’ in Sigil form is… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“Sigils are the art of believing; my invention for making belief unconscious66 and therefore true belief. A wish to believe something is of necessity… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“The intrinsic non-existence at the heart of entity is what Spare designated the Kiã, and he strove to convey his vision in a theory… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“In what way can it act as master? Through scores of incarnations, the ‘self ’ we end up with is derived from the attributes… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“Oh, you men of small pleasure and enterprise, oblivious to your purpose, fault-finding, avaricious and sinful, who cannot live without women and cannot enjoy… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“Oh God, thou art the stagnant environment’.12 All is quackery: these religions, whose very existence depends on their failure, are full of misery and… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
