Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist. — 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
“The desire to be ‘great’can only become unconscious at a time of vacuity67 and by giving it (Sigil) form. If you become conscious of… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“Know all ritual, ceremony, and conditions to be arbitrary (you have yourself to please): in the end, they are just a hindrance and a… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“The one law of Art is its own spontaneity, its pleasure and freedom. How mystic, pure and simple is its wish; it has no… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
