“Alas!’ he writes, ‘I am morbid, And have put a purple colour about my brow. All men seem eating and drinking the “Joy of the Round Feast,” while I am Melancholy and silent, as though in a Gloomy wood, astray.… — 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 life and inability to accept 'this reality'. They were hurt? Or was the odalisque unsatisfactory or too expensive? They expected too much for too little, or were too mean to pay—therefore: "All is illusion". But the… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share
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 cannot believe the ‘Truth’ into existence either, but you need not compromise yourself. The Way of Life is not by ‘means’, not even of my own doctrines, though they may allow the self-appointed to emulate my… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share
“Sigils are made by combining the letters of the alphabet after a process of simplification. For example, the word ‘Woman’ in Sigil form is or or , etc. The word ‘Tiger’ or , ‘Hat’ , ‘Come’ , ‘Moon’ , ‘It ’ or , etc. The idea is to obtain a simple form that can be easily visualised at will, yet… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share
“Sigils are the art of believing; my invention for making belief unconscious66 and therefore true belief. A wish to believe something is of necessity incompatible with the existing belief it is to replace, and cannot be realized through the inhibition of the unconscious belief – the negation of the wish. Faith moves no mountains, not until it has removed itself.… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share
“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 enshrined as the very keystone of the Book of Pleasure.To this, he wedded a new and radical model of transcendental sorcery that completely rejected all religious ethos and utilised instead those techniques that were most familiar… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share
“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
