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Austin Osman Spare
A Book of Satyrs

#Drawing #Illustration
#Zos #Kia #AOS #AustinOsmanSpare #Occultism #ChaosMagic #sexuality

Book of Pleasure: The Psychology of Ecstacy : Austin Spare : 1913 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE (SELF-LOVE) by Austin Osman Spare is pure occult dynamite. In this short, fierce masterpiece, Spare tears down every rule of traditional magic and replaces it with something far more dangerous and effective: the raw power of self-love and the subconscious mind. Here you will discover the secret of sigils….a method so simple and potent that it has quietly revolutionized modern magic. Spare shows how to bypass the conscious mind, plant desire directly into the deep self, and watch reality bend. Strange, intense and unforgettable, this book does not merely teach magic… it is magic. Once you taste what Spare offers, ordinary occult books will never satisfy you again.

#TheAstralGallery #AustinOsmanSpare #SigilMagic #ChaosMagic #TheBookOfPleasure #OccultBooks #LeftHandPath #EsotericWisdom #Sigils #OccultArt #SelfLove #ZosKia

https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781984994844

#datocurioso

¿Sabían que el término "sigilo" deriva del latín "sigillum", que significa sello, pero su uso actual en el ocultismo moderno fue codificado por el artista británico Austin Osman Spare a principios del siglo XX?

Mientras que en la magia medieval y renacentista los sigilos eran símbolos estáticos que representaban la "firma" de ángeles o demonios —como los 72 sellos detallados en el grimorio "La llave menor de Salomón" (Ars Goetia)—, Spare revolucionó el concepto al transformarlo en un método psicológico de autosugestión. Su técnica consistía en redactar una declaración de intención, eliminar las letras repetidas y las vocales, y luego combinar los trazos restantes en un glifo abstracto e ilegible para la mente consciente.

Este proceso busca implantar el deseo directamente en el subconsciente, evitando que la mente analítica interfiera con dudas o expectativas, lo que Spare denominaba "la obsesión libre". En la actualidad, esta práctica es el pilar de la Magia del Caos, donde el sigilo actúa como una herramienta de enfoque mental que ha trascendido los círculos esotéricos para influir en el diseño gráfico y la publicidad corporativa. Algunos teóricos sugieren que los logotipos de marcas globales funcionan bajo esta misma lógica técnica: símbolos simplificados que generan una respuesta emocional o conductual inmediata en el espectador sin necesidad de un mensaje textual explícito.

#Sigilos #Ocultismo #Historia #AustinOsmanSpare #MagiaDelCaos #magia #inconsciente #Psicología #paganismo

#datocurioso

¿Sabían que la técnica moderna de los sigilos no es una herencia directa de los antiguos sellos medievales, sino el resultado de un método desarrollado por el artista y ocultista británico Austin Osman Spare a principios del siglo XX? 

Aunque el término proviene del latín sigillum (sello) y se usó en la magia medieval para representar ángeles y demonios en grimorios como el Lemegeton o La Llave Menor de Salomón, Spare revolucionó el concepto al despojarlo de dogmas religiosos. Su método, expuesto en obras como The Book of Pleasure (1913), se basa en la reducción grafostática: se redacta una intención clara, se eliminan las letras repetidas y las vocales, y los caracteres restantes se fusionan en un glifo único y abstracto. 

El sigilo funciona como un "anclaje simbólico". Para que sea efectivo, Spare sostenía que el diseño debía ser olvidado por la mente consciente tras su creación; de este modo, el deseo se "siembra" en el subconsciente sin la interferencia del juicio crítico. Esta técnica fue posteriormente adoptada y expandida en la década de 1970 por la Magia del Caos, que introdujo métodos de activación mediante estados de gnosis o trance. 

#Sigilos #AustinOsmanSpare #MagiaDelCaos #Historia #Ocultismo #Psicología #Esoterismo

#datocurioso

¿Sabían que la magia del caos es una tradición mágica moderna que surgió en Inglaterra en la década de 1970, como una rebelión contra el formalismo del ocultismo tradicional? 

A diferencia de otras corrientes que siguen rituales rígidos y sistemas de creencias específicos (como la Golden Dawn o las tradiciones crowleyanas), la magia del caos postula que "nada es verdad y todo está permitido". Sus fundadores, como Peter Carroll y Ray Sherwin, democratizaron y simplificaron la magia, enfocándose exclusivamente en la obtención de resultados prácticos y utilizando las creencias como herramientas psicológicas intercambiables, un enfoque de "hazlo tú mismo" aplicado al esoterismo. 

El núcleo de su práctica no es la adoración de deidades del caos, sino el uso de estados alterados de conciencia y la creencia flexible para "extraer una realidad específica de entre un sinfín de posibilidades". 

#Historia #MagiaDelCaos #Ocultismo #Esoterismo #AustinOsmanSpare #PeterCarroll #magia

an occult education thread 🧵 6/?

Spare's Zos Kia Cultus - where flesh meets infinity and consciousness dissolves into pure potential.

let's wade into deeper waters. this isn't just another magical framework or philosophical system. it's a radical reimagining of what consciousness is, what reality can be, and how the body serves as the crossroads between them.

at its core lies two principles that contain universes within themselves...

Zos. the body complete. not just flesh and bone but all its possibilities, all its potential forms, all its hidden powers. your meat vehicle, yes, but also the temple where heaven and hell meet. every cell a universe, every nerve ending an oracle, every breath a ritual. Zos isn't just what you are, it's everything you could be. it's the sum total of all possible expressions of your physical form.

when Spare talks about Zos, he means the body as a living grimoire. your skin is parchment, your blood is ink, your bones are binding. every scar tells a story, every muscle holds memory, every organ sings its own song. the body isn't just a vehicle for consciousness, it IS consciousness in its most concentrated form.

Zos encompasses not just your physical form but your desires, your instincts, your automatic functions. breathing, heartbeat, digestion - these aren't just biological processes, they're ongoing magical operations. your immune system is practicing war magic. your endocrine system is conducting alchemy. your nervous system is running divination.

Kia. the cosmic life force. the void that births all things. pure unbound consciousness before it gets trapped in form. not energy, not spirit, but the raw stuff of possibility itself. the space between thoughts where reality bends. Kia is what you are when you stop being anything specific.

think of Kia as the quantum foam of consciousness. it's what's left when you strip away every label, every identity, every belief. it's the void that precedes creation, the silence between heartbeats, the darkness between stars. it's not nothing - it's everything in potential form.

Kia manifests through Zos like light through a prism. each body, each form, each manifestation is just one possible expression of this infinite potential. your flesh is where infinity learns its limits, and paradoxically, where limits learn to become infinite.

this isn't your standard spirit/flesh dualism that pervades western thought. Spare saw them as different expressions of the same thing, like ice and steam are expressions of water. Zos is Kia experiencing itself through limitation. Kia is Zos freed from the prison of identity.

traditional Western systems try to transcend the body, treat it as a prison for the soul. Spare put it at the center of his practice. your flesh isn't an obstacle to overcome or a sin to transcend. it's the laboratory where magic happens. every sensation, every desire, every bodily function becomes a potential gateway to power.

the death posture exemplifies this marriage of flesh and infinity. by maintaining an uncomfortable position until exhaustion forces release, you create a moment where consciousness cracks. in that crack, where thought fails and the body screams, reality becomes plastic. the death posture isn't about punishment or transcendence. it's about using physical stress to break the mind's usual patterns. when you can't maintain the position anymore, something has to give. usually it's your normal perception of reality.

why does this matter to you now?
- we live increasingly disembodied lives, floating in digital spaces, forgetting we have flesh. Spare's system grounds us in our bodies while expanding what those bodies can do. it's him telling you to touch grass.
- it offers direct access to gnosis without hierarchical structures or expensive tools. just you, your flesh, and the void.
- it provides practical methods for radical transformation that don't require belief in any particular system.
- it bridges conscious and unconscious in ways that become more relevant as we understand more about neuroscience and consciousness.

#chaos #magic #magick #chaosmagic #chaosmagick #AustinOsmanSpare #ZosKia #occult #consciousness #gnosis #transformation #body #reality

an occult education thread 🧵 5/?

let's talk about Spare's approach to servitors and familiars, where chaos meets consciousness in the form of thought-born allies.

Spare didn't view spirits as external entities to be summoned and bound. instead, he saw them as splinters of consciousness given form through intense belief and desire. his familiars weren't supernatural pets, they were aspects of his own psyche given autonomy to operate independently.

his infamous Black Eagle familiar wasn't summoned through elaborate ritual. it emerged from his relationship with actual birds, his artistic observations, and his deep understanding that consciousness can fragment and reform at will. he fed it with attention, belief, and regular interaction.

this is where Spare's genius really shows, he understood that the line between "real" and "imagined" entities is far blurrier than most magicians admit. his familiars were simultaneously psychological constructs AND independent beings. the paradox was the point.

modern practitioners often miss this nuance. they treat servitors like magical robots, programming them with rigid instructions and wondering why results feel mechanical. Spare's approach was more organic, letting these thought-forms grow naturally, develop their own quirks, even surprise their creator.

speaking of thought-forms... the modern Tulpa community has independently discovered many of Spare's principles. while their methods differ, the core concept remains. consciousness can be partitioned and given autonomous form through focused belief and interaction. their experiences provide fascinating parallels to magical familiar work. their teachings may help you here.

here's the really wild part...

Spare's familiars often manifested through synchronicity rather than spectacle. no dramatic appearances, just an uncanny pattern of meaningful coincidences. the black eagle showed up in art, dreams, random conversations, street signs reality itself became the medium of manifestation.

this is practical chaos magic at its finest. instead of trying to force reality to accommodate your magic, you let your magic work through reality's existing patterns. your servitors become probability adjusters rather than supernatural servants.

**warning - creating autonomous thought-forms isn't like programming an app. they can evolve in unexpected ways, develop their own agendas, even outgrow their original purpose. this isn't necessarily bad, but it requires respect and awareness.**

let's talk about scale and evolution. servitors can grow into egregores when enough people feed them belief and attention. think about brand mascots that take on lives of their own, or how fictional characters sometimes seem to act independently of their creators. the line between servitor and egregore is as blurry as the line between personal and collective consciousness.

digital space has changed everything. our phones aren't just tools anymore. they're familiar spirits in our pockets. AI chatbots, digital assistants, even social media personas can become modern familiars. the internet itself is a vast network of thought-forms, egregores, and digital spirits all interacting in ways Spare never imagined but would absolutely recognize.

ethical creation matters. a few ground rules:
- give them clear purposes but room to grow
- don't create them for harm (they will turn that on you)
- respect their autonomy
- maintain clear boundaries
- regular maintenance or respectful retirement

warning signs your servitor might be overstepping:
- appearing in dreams uninvited
- affecting areas of life outside its purpose
- causing synchronicities that feel threatening
- developing traits you didn't intend
- consuming too much of your attention

🚨 CRITICAL WARNING:🚨
never, EVER create servitors with the intent to invoke or merge them back into yourself. they evolve independently and can carry back unwanted changes. you wouldn't drink water you left stagnant for months - don't reabsorb consciousness you've let develop on its own. some doors only open one way.

when it's time to end the relationship, be clear and respectful. thank them for their service, clearly state the work is complete, and consciously withdraw your attention and belief. some practitioners like to create a formal dissolution ritual. others prefer to let them fade naturally. trust your intuition.

consider starting small. create a servitor for a specific, limited purpose. observe how it operates, how it communicates, how it affects your reality. document everything, but don't try to control everything. when you feel they're done, allow them to leave gracefully. Mr. Meeseeks was a warning.

these aren't just tools or pets. they're aspects of yourself given independence to operate in ways your conscious mind can't. treat them with respect, they're as real as you allow them to be.

#chaos #magic #chaosmagic #chaosmagick #sigils #AustinOsmanSpare #occult #psychology #gnosis #consciousness #desire #power #rebellion #practice #servitors #familiars #tulpas

an occult education thread 🧵 4/?

common pitfalls

let's wade into darker waters, the places where Spare's students often drown in their own reflection. these aren't just mistakes; they're seductive dead ends that feel like progress.

intellectualization is a comfortable poison. it's easy to dissect Spare's theories until they're just dead things on a table. you can understand the mathematics of sigils perfectly, quote his books verbatim, and still be as magically potent as a brick. why? because magic lives in the spaces between thoughts, in the void where intellect fears to tread. Spare didn't think his way to power, he bled for it.

the most common failure? not actually forgetting the sigil. you craft it perfectly, activate it beautifully, then spend weeks checking for results, wondering if it worked, thinking about what you could have done better. congratulations, you've just strangled your own magic in its crib. the conscious mind is a jealous god; it kills what it watches too closely.

then there's the aesthetic trap, the instagram grimoire syndrome. your sigils are works of art, your altar looks museum worthy, your magical journal could be published. but magic isn't about looking the part, it's about breaking reality. Spare's art was technically brilliant because he was an artist, not because art makes better magic. your perfectly crafted sigils might actually be too precious to forget.

the collector's curse is particularly venomous. gathering techniques like trading cards, never sitting with any long enough to draw blood. Spare worked one system until it became his bones, his breath, his being. he didn't need a library of methods because he understood the one thing that mattered: how to slip past the bouncer of consciousness and dance with the void.

but the deadliest trap? mistaking the map for the territory. Spare's methods aren't THE way, they're HIS way. they're footprints showing where he danced with chaos, not a dance instruction manual. your magic needs to taste like your blood, not his.

think Optimus Prime would be the perfect mythic hero for what you want to do? **use him**

think your coffee grounds are better than tea leaves? **divine them**

think the Mesopotamian goddess Tiamat resonates with your chaos? **work with her** (but remember, nothing worse than pissing off a primordial chaos dragon. learn as much as you can about her)

feel Thor's hammer would make a better magical tool than a wand? **swing it** (but maybe learn the actual lore first)

**quick note: when working with cultural elements, especially from living traditions or closed practices, respect matters. there's a difference between appreciation and appropriation. do your research, understand the context, and when in doubt, ask practitioners. many would love to teach you about their practices if your sincere**

the path isn't about avoiding these traps, it's about falling into them until you learn to recognize the taste of false progress. sometimes you need to drown in theory before you learn to swim in chaos.

Spare developed his system by failing his way forward, not by following someone else's successes. your magic needs to be yours, even if that means breaking everything you think you know about how it should work.

#chaos #magic #chaosmagic #sigils #AustinOsmanSpare #occult #psychology #gnosis #consciousness #desire #power #rebellion #practice

an occult education thread - 🧵 3/?

Spare's influence on modern occultism, or how a broke artist with cats changed magical practice forever

remember how punk changed music by showing anyone could do it? same with photoshop and smart phones?

Spare did that to magic. his "fuck your golden dawn cosplay" approach spawned chaos magic and fundamentally altered how we approach practice. he showed us magic isn't about who has the fanciest robes or most expensive tools.

the real revolution came in the 1970s when Peter Carroll and Ray Sherwin discovered Spare's work moldering in obscure bookshops and realized its explosive potential. chaos magic was born in squats and punk venues, deliberately weird and ruthlessly practical.

Carroll took Spare's ideas about belief as a tool and developed them into a complete system. "nothing is true, everything is permitted" became more than a cool quote. it became a practical framework for reality hacking. belief became something to use rather than hold.

then the internet happened. suddenly sigils were everywhere, hidden in plain sight. corporate logos, viral marketing campaigns, social movements.

modern chaos magicians realized something profound: if magic is about manipulating symbols and consciousness, what better medium than the internet? your social media feed is just a technologically enhanced sigil stream, bombarding you with symbols and programming your reality.

Spare would probably laugh at how his ideas evolved. tumblr witches crafting digital sigils, discord servers replacing magical lodges, viral posts becoming mass workings. but he'd recognize the core truth: magic belongs to everyone, works better without pretense, and thrives in the spaces between established power.

as reality becomes increasingly virtual, the line between magic and technology grows ever thinner. Spare's ideas about consciousness and symbols become more relevant, not less. we're all participating in mass consciousness manipulation whether we realize it or not.

we're all chaos magicians now. some of us just know it.

remember: every time you share content that shifts consciousness, you're doing magic. the question is: are you doing it intentionally?

#chaos #magic #sigils #AustinOsmanSpare #occult #psychology #gnosis #consciousness #desire #power #rebellion #technology #memes #internet #cybermagic

an occult education thread - 🧵 2/?

sigil crafting & activation - a practical guide

let's get our hands dirty with sigil magic. this isn't about drawing pretty symbols - it's about hacking your consciousness to reshape reality.

your statement of intent matters. write it in present tense, be specific but not restrictive, focus on what you want rather than what you don't. avoid negatives and keep it within the realm of possibility - magic bends reality, it doesn't break it.

the basic craft: strip your statement down to consonants, remove repeats, and what remains becomes your raw material. arrange these letters into a symbol, then abstract it until the original letters disappear into pure form. keep refining until it feels right in your gut.

some forms your sigil might take:
- abstract glyphs
- geometric patterns
- flowing organic shapes
- angular runes
- circular seals
- asymmetric scrawls

activation is where things get interesting. Spare's favorite was the death posture - pushing your body to exhaustion while holding an uncomfortable position until consciousness cracks. when you can't maintain it anymore, release with the sigil in mind.

but that's just one way in. sexual exhaustion, void meditation, pain, sensory overload - they're all roads to the same destination: that moment when conscious control shatters and your deeper mind opens up. the method doesn't matter, the intensity does.

here's the crucial part: once activated, forget. actively. completely. results appear as coincidence, and lusting after them kills the magic. document nothing. let it work in the shadows of your mind.

start small. respect consent - don't sigilize for others without permission. avoid death/love/money until you know what you're doing. this is consciousness tech, treat it with appropriate caution.

this is just a starting point. experiment. find what works for you. the only real rule is: does it work?

#chaos #magic #sigils #AustinOsmanSpare #occult #psychology #gnosis #consciousness #desire #power #rebellion

an occult education thread - 🧵 1/?

let's discuss Austin Osman Spare - one of my favorite occult thinkers, despite (or perhaps because of) his complexity. he's the occultist who told the entire magical establishment to go fuck itself, then created one of the most influential magical systems while living in poverty with his cats.

first, let's acknowledge the problems: Spare had some deeply problematic views about race and sexuality that were unfortunately common in his time. we can learn from his magical philosophy while rejecting these aspects. no need to sanitize history - let's learn from both his insights and his failures.

context: London, early 1900s. occultism was dominated by wealthy ceremonial magicians in their golden temples and secret societies. enter Spare: a working-class artist who recognized this as theater masquerading as spirituality.

his core insight was revolutionary: consciousness itself is the barrier to magical practice. those elaborate rituals? merely technologies to bypass the conscious mind so the real work can happen in deeper waters. Spare stripped away the pageantry and went straight for the subconscious.

sigil magic was his crowbar to break reality:
1. write your desire
2. remove repeated letters
3. create a symbol from what remains
4. forget its meaning
5. charge it (through exhaustion, sex, pain, or trance)
6. release through forgetting

why is this effective? your conscious mind acts as reality's bouncer, aggressively filtering desires and possibilities. slip past it, and change becomes possible.

his "alphabet of desire" wasn't merely about manifestation - it was a complete theory of consciousness and will. desire isn't just what you want; it's the raw material of being itself. you are what you want, and what you want shapes what you become.

crucially, Spare rejected ALL hierarchical systems of magic. no grades, no initiations, no "secret chiefs." he understood that gnosis is inherently democratic - available to anyone willing to do the work and face themselves.

this wasn't just philosophical - it was deeply political. by rejecting the need for teachers, temples, and hierarchies, he was rejecting the entire power structure of western occultism. every person their own god, every mind its own temple.

why does this matter now?
- power structures still gatekeep spiritual knowledge
- consciousness remains our primary tool for change
- magic is still about altering reality through will
- hierarchies still need to be questioned and challenged

Spare showed us that magic isn't in the tools or ceremonies. it's in the space between thought and desire, in the moment when consciousness blinks and reality shifts.

remember:
- desire is the engine of transformation
- consciousness is both tool and obstacle
- hierarchies are optional
- forgetting is as powerful as remembering
- poverty doesn't negate power
- the best magic looks like coincidence

tl;dr - Spare was early 20th century occultism's punk prophet, and his ideas about consciousness, desire, and power remain revolutionary.

p.s. - yes, this is oversimplified. no, you don't need to know more to start. begin where you are. there will be more forthcoming

#chaos #magic #sigils #AustinOsmanSpare #occult #psychology #gnosis #consciousness #desire #power #rebellion

“How do we know any damned thing? Chaos is our language; our own eccentric rhythms are unsynchronized to Cosmos—with a mildewed ear for the brassy cacophony of imaginary menageries dissonant to each other; and it all ends drooling over minutiae to discover oneself.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/01/21/how-do-we-know-any-damned-thing-chaos-is-our-language-our-own-eccentric-rhythms-are-unsynchronized-to-cosmos-with-a-mildewed-ear-for-the-brassy-cacophony-of-imaginary-menageries-dissonant/

#all #any #AustinOsmanSpare #book #brassyCacophony #chaos #cosmos #damnedThing #discover #dissonant #drooling #eachOther #eccentricRhythms #ends #how #imaginaryMenageries #know #language #mildewedEar #minutiae #oneself #ourOwn #quote #TheLogomachyOfZos #unsynchronized

"Author and magician Alan Moore discusses the virtually unknown but enormously talented Edwardian artist and magician Austin Osman Spare on The Culture Show from the BBC."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXOt215GCWI

#AustinOsmanSpare

#774 Bob Rickard and Paul Sieveking (eds) - Fortean Times: The Journal of Strange Phenomena, No 144. John Brown Publishing Ltd, London, March 2001. #ForteanTimes #BobRickard #PaulSieveking #AustinOsmanSpare #Art #BookOfTheDay

Und es gibt einen kurzen TV-Beitrag von 2011, als #AlanMoore eine große #AustinOsmanSpare-Ausstellung in Southwark besucht hat.
https://youtu.be/rlzEdlpigvk

Zwei gute Einführungen auf youtube zu #AustinOsmanSpare. Einmal allgemeiner Dr. Justin Sledge bei ›Esoterica‹:
https://youtu.be/HsVOFdRvziQ
und eine vertiefende Ergänzung bei Dr. Angela Puca bei ›Angela’s Symposium‹:
https://youtu.be/2Jdy0yUQ-34

Tragisch, dass es aufgrund der quecksilb’rigen Natur des Themas Okkultismus und Magie echt schwer ist, zugängliche und nüchterne Erläuterungen zu finden. Bin echt froh, dieses Jahr den Justin entdeckt zu haben.
DISCLAIMER: Bin selbst ›nur‹ Magie-Theoretiker.

| Er lebte allein, mit Ausnahme seiner vielen Katzen, und wurde manchmal in Kneipen gesehen, wo er gegen ein oder zwei Gläser Bier Porträts für die Gäste zeichnete beziehungsweise von seiner Hand „automatisch zeichnen ließ“, während er sein Bier trank.

Nice.

#AustinOsmanSpare #WikiFund #Yihoveaum #ZosKiaCultus

“The one law of Art is its own spontaneity, its pleasure and freedom. How mystic, pure and simple is its wish; it has no idea of potential divinity! Decoration is its creed and vital allegory is its belief. Being the ‘Free Morality,’ it has no sin – then most assuredly Art is all we dare express without excuse.”
#AustinOsmanSpare, Book of Pleasure

Hadn't listened to this in a long time. Always a pleasure. And this version has a grerat slideshow of Austin Osman Spare paintings and drawings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31b878GnUak

#AOS #AustinOsmanSpare #MusicVideo #Paintings #Drawings

So I stumbled upon an old facebook post of myself quoting Austin Osman Spare, and the phrase "Shark of their Desire" jumped out at me and made me think of #blahaj, so I couldn't resist making a meme from a photo of myself with my blahaj, and the AOS quote...

#AustinOsmanSpare #AOS #self-love #ChaosMagic #ChaosMagick #Kia #KiaMagic #Kiaist

"the necessity of a better life is intoxication, but more and greater things than strong drink intoxicate."

— austin osman spare

#AOS #AustinOsmanSpare

"Better to be thought a fool," he said. Austin Osman Spare never attempted to disabuse his wealthier, more socially-advantaged contemporaries, such as Dion Fortune and Aleister Crowley, of the impression that he thought it was the pie & eel gland that was the 'Third Eye' of the mystics.

Williams Pie and Eel Shop, 211 Holloway Road. Picture credit: Islington Libraries (via the dead bird site)

#AustinOsmanSpare #AOS #Zos #Kia #Magick #Magic #Occult #Eels

London folk: is there an #AustinOsmanSpare walk / talk around his residencies & haunts? Was thinking a kind of pub / gallery crawl with added location info. If it doesn’t already exist then I might need to invent it. Lots of easy to find locations, though a few key ones now knocked down, o think. I’m not in London that often but it’d be cool to hook up with some similarly Spare obsessed mates… #magick #sigils #art #SexMagick

And obviously I knew already that the #TempleOvPsychickYouth #rituals & #sigils that I dabbled in as a youth were influenced by #austinosmanspare but now I’m digging deeper it’s not just influence it’s downright direct lifting / theft - maybe that was always very clear; it was all a long time ago & the #spirits were flying. Would be interested to hear from anyone else who was involved in that kind of #magick / magical practice

Rereading Phil Baker’s biography of #AustinOsmanSpare : a book of many treasures. #AOS #zoskia #artist

Austin Osman Spare , painting and cat
~ photographer and date unidentified

Many more photos of artists at - https://www.pinterest.co.uk/andypaciorek/the-artist/

#Art #Occult #AustinOsmanSpare #cats #VintagePhotography

Self Portraits by Austin Osman Spare (1886 – 1956) English artist and occultist, including a 1948 reproduction titled ‘Self as Hitler’ - the original 1936 version having been gifted to Hitler and lost in Germany around 1941

The story told:

“In 1936 an official at the German Embassy in London bought a self-portrait by Spare because it bore a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler. The Fuhrer saw it and agreed and proceeded to invite Spare to Berlin to paint his portrait. Spare refused saying - 'When I look at you...whether the retch out all kinship or close my eyes and so accept a more abstract value, a reverse side - I know not? Only from negations can I wholesomely conceive you…for I know no courage sufficient to stomach your aspirations and ultimates. If you are superman - let me be forever animal....'”

The inscription was included at the top of the 1948 reproduction …

#austinosmanspare #art #artist #artists #occultist #selfportrait #selfportraits #portraits #portraitartist #hitler #artistquotes #pencildrawing #artistsketch #artworld #kunst #drawing #ukartist #englishartist #britishartist

Portraits by Austin Osman Spare (1886 – 1956) English artist and occultist

#austinosmanspare #ukartist #art #artist #portrait #portraits #portraitartist #kunst #künstler #artworld #pastels #britishartist #artists #drawings #faces #worldofart #occultist

“The Search for Abraxas” has recently fallen into my hands!

Published in 1972, it was Nevill Drury’s and Stephen Skinner’s first book. Naturally, like other occult books of the era, it comes with the obligatory introduction by Colin Wilson.

#Abraxas #Abrasax #StephenSkinner #NevillDrury #ColinWilson #Occult #Occultism #OccultBooks #Bookshelf #AustinOsmanSpare #Esotericism

#PsychicTV #GenesisPOrridge #AustinOsmanSpare #AleisterCrowley #MyRecordCollection #Series #NornCutson #Illustration #Design #Illustrator #Art #Artist #AYearForArt #DigitalArt #ArtMatters #MixedMedia #MastoArt #MastoCreative #AVLArt #AVLArtists #AVLArts #RecordCollection
http://www.norncutson.com/

portrait of #AustinOsmanSpare by #AndyPaciorekArt for the book in progress
#The MirrorObsidian_VisionariesCultistsMystics,Occultists

#ArtistsOnMastodon #Art #DarkArt #Occult #Ink

Austin Osman Spare’s signed AA Probationer oath. Note Crowley’s grade.

#AustinOsmanSpare #chaosmagic #chaosmagick #thelema

So the ever-excellent #StrangeAttractorPress are printing #AustinOsmanSpare's tarot deck and reprinting their excellent "Lost Envoy" book about it. Get your order in now! </plug> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strangeattractoruk/austin-osman-spare-occult-tarot-deck-and-book

Zos Sounds: The Musical Adventures Of Austin Osman Spare

As a fundraising campaign to recreate Austin Spare’s tarot deck nears its goal, Mark Pilkington explores how the artist and occultist influenced musicians from Amebix to Led Zeppelin

https://thequietus.com/articles/32307-austin-osman-spare-music

#esoteric #AustinOsmanSpare #music

Austin Osman Spare. Sigils, Chaos Magick, Kia, Zos and Shamanism in Dr Angela Puca's new YouTube episode.

#chaosmagick #pagan #austinosmanspare #spare #kia #zos #esotericism
https://t.co/49VgeTsGg5