Author: Austin Osman Spare
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ISBN: 9781872189260
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Languages : en
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Author: Austin Osman Spare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781615345038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This wonderful book contains four of the most popular writings of Austin Asman Spare, including Automatic Drawings, Anathema of Zos, The Book of Pleasure, and The Focus of Life

Author: Austin Osman Spare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 21

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Author: Austin Osman Spare
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ISBN: 9781617430398
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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This edition collects three books written by the famous artist and occult author: " Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites, The Book of Pleasure: The Psychology of Ecstasy" and "The Focus of Life: The Mutterings of Aaos."

Author: Phil Baker
Publisher:
ISBN: 1583947167
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Austin Osman Spare is the definitive biography of the controversial occultist and artist, an enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world whose work was both hailed as genius and decried as immoral decadence. As George Bernard Shaw reportedly said, "Spare's medicine is too strong for the average man." Trained as a draughtsman, Spare enjoyed early acclaim when, at the age of seventeen, his work was shown at the Royal Academy in London. But his star soon declined; Spare went underground, falling out of the gallery system to live in poverty and obscurity. After a brief association with Aleister Crowley, he became absorbed in occultism and sorcery, voyaging into inner dimensions, while developing his own magical philosophy of pleasure, obsession, and the subjective nature of reality. All the while, Spare continued to produce extraordinary art, and held his exhibitions outside of the conventional art world, in London pubs. Today Spare is both forgotten and famous, a cult figure whose modest life has been much mythologised since his death; the world's largest Spare collection is held by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Biographer Phil Baker separates fact from myth, providing wide-ranging insights into Spare's art and mind, reconnecting him with the art community that ignored him and exploring the rich tapestry of the culture that surrounded him, interweaving the birth of psychoanalysis, the historiography of the occult, and the British class system. This richly readable and illuminating biography, containing 50 black and white and 8 color photographs of Spare's art, takes us deep into the strange inner world of this enigmatic artist.

Author: Austin Osman Spare
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781984994844
Category : Occultism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Book of Pleasure could be regarded as the central text among Austin Osman Spare's writings. It covers both mystical and magical aspects of Spare's ideas; as the modern ideas on sigils (as now have become popular in chaos magic) and Spare's special theory on incarnation are for the first time introduced in this book.There are some chapters in The Book of Pleasure that Spare has referred to within the text, but are omitted. It seems that they were destroyed during World War II

Author: Austin Osman Spare
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ISBN: 9781670072092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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A masterwork of the renowned artist and magician Austin Osman Spare. This New Edition features all the original illustrations, accurate paragraph division, and text formatting as compared with the original printing. The Focus of Life is one of Spare's greatest and most accessible works.

Author: Greg Humphries
Publisher: Mandrake
ISBN: 9781869928742
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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"Examines the theory behind many techniques used in magical, artistic, religious, and scientific systems of thought; then links and applies them towards desired goals"--Back cover verso.

Author: Austin Osman Spare
Publisher: Trident Business Partners
ISBN: 9781951226039
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Working on the cutting edge of both magic and art, Austin Osman Spare developed a unique synthesis of older ritual magic systems with post-modern, erotic, and surrealist themes. His theory of magic eschews complex formula and ritual to favor creativity, spontaneity, and ecstasy, embracing artistic expression and alternative sexualities. Collected here are some of Spare's most important works. Though dense and esoteric, these texts bear repeated study by the serious occultist, for they speak to the human drives that make real magic possible.

Author: Austin Osman Spare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781872189284
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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