“Others praise ceremonial Magic, and are supposed to suffer much Ecstasy! Our asylums are crowded, the stage is over-run! Is it by… — Austin Osman, Spare Bad taste Copy Share Image
“Oh, God, thou art the stagnant environment." All is quackery: these religions whose very existence depend on their failure, are so full… — Austin Osman, Spare Art Copy Share Image
“If you could truly believe, we should realise the virtue of it. We are not free to believe . . . . … — Austin Osman, Spare Art Copy Share Image
“There is no illusion but consciousness! This consciousness is ever the smiling monument commemorating "Whether you ever really enjoyed Life"! ” — Austin Osman, Spare Life Copy Share Image
“Sigils are the means of guiding and uniting the partially free belief[27] with an organic desire, its carriage and retention till its… — Austin Osman, Spare Desire Copy Share Image
“Something is causing Pain and something energizes the Agony: may it not be caused through the latent Idea of Supreme Bliss? And… — Austin Osman, Spare Enjoying life Copy Share Image
“Belief well earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. Belief is not freedom. Belief creates its necessary experience, progress germinates in retrogression.… — Austin Osman, Spare Faith Copy Share Image
“The difference between good and evil is a matter of profundity. Which is nearer you, self-love and its immorality or love and… — Austin Osman, Spare Animal instinct Copy Share Image
“The law of Kia is its ever original purpose, undetermined, without change the emanations, through our conception they materialize and are of… — Austin Osman, Spare Life Copy Share Image
“The "I" principle has reached the "Does not matter- need not be" state, and is not related to form. Save and beyond… — Austin Osman, Spare Freedom Copy Share Image
“Man in the misery of his illusions and unsatisfied desires, wings his flight to different religions, and doctrines, seeks redeception, a hypnotic,… — Austin Osman, Spare Wise man Copy Share Image
“MAGICAL obsession is that state when the mind is illuminated by sub-conscious activity evoked voluntarily by formula at our own time, etc.,… — Austin Osman, Spare Psychology Copy Share Image
“You remember in your youth the thought "that this world is a curious place" in the emotion when you felt "why" as… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Assimilated by the deceit of its divine origin, its tenets are reward for obedience, punishment for transgression, both holding good for all… — Austin Osman, Spare Moral code Copy Share Image
“He who deceives another deceives himself much more. Therefore know the Charlatans by their love of rich robes, ceremony, ritual, magical retirements,… — Austin Osman, Spare Love Copy Share Image
“a process of self-deception to satisfy and summarily persuade yourself of righteousness. What one among us has any excuse but self-love? We… — Austin Osman, Spare Ethics Copy Share Image
“Servitude to law is the hatred of Heaven. Self-love only is the eternal all pleasing, by meditation on this effulgent self which… — Austin Osman, Spare Happiness Copy Share Image
“Faith is denial, or the metaphor Idiotcy, hence it always fails. To make their bondage more secure Governments force religion down the… — Austin Osman, Spare Faith Copy Share Image
“The wise pleasure seeker, having realised they are "different degrees of desire" and never desirable, gives up both Virtue and Vice and… — Austin Osman, Spare Desire Copy Share Image
“The conception of "I am not" must of necessity follow the conception of "I am," because of its grammar, as surely in… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“belief, to be true, must be organic and sub-conscious. The desire to be great can only become organic at a time of… — Austin Osman, Spare Faith Copy Share Image
