Austin Osman Spare

A weary one asked: 'Is it not written on the sandals of the prostitute-follow me?' Kiaist. #aos #zoskia #AustinOsmanSpare

[Austin Osman Spare @AustinSpare]

No matter what the desire of some species of organism is, it always becomes its accomplishment. A MICROBE HAS THE POWER TO DESTROY THE WORLD (and certainly would if it took an interest in us)." Austin Osman Spare: The Book of Pleasure 2/2

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Of whom do we ask forgiveness when we hate ourselves?

[Austin Osman Spare @AustinSpare]

Thinking is an inverse reflection of emotional needs, its resultants being changed by some other immediacy.

[Austin Osman Spare @AustinSpare]

We are ever ultimate and all ultimates ultimately sublimate in Auto-Ego.

[Austin Osman Spare @AustinSpare]

The Life-force and the Ids have their logic, which does not preclude our having our own diversity of will. There is virtue in all non-conformity because it makes new forms.

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#fool #AprilFoolsDay #tarot #austinosmanspare

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"Now, if we observe Nature, the earliest forms of life are wonderful with respect to their properties, adaptibility, etc.; their relative strength is enormous, and some are indestructible. 1/2

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Let us desire no better pantheon than the zoomorphic in which to find a place: better to venerate our animal ancestry (until fully human), then the least attainable and most unknowable will disclose our next step. #AustinOsmanSpare

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Honest was Sodom! your theology is a slime-pit of gibberish become ethics. In your world, where ignorance and deceit constitute felicity, everything ends miserably-besmirched with fratricidal blood. #zos #aos

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Poor ideas need extravagant arguments to hide their poverty. Religious revelation is mainly hyperbole and promise without contexture of immediacy, and so almost worthless. Artists gave it what life and merit it had. #AustinSpare

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Sorcery may be good or evil, as predetermined by its purpose, and is your responsibility. Corrective punishment, being amoral, is the only legitimate motivation. Ability is the determining factor of success. #sorcery #austinosmanspare #Zoëtic #grimoire #zos

[Austin Osman Spare @AustinSpare]

The mind has no known purpose except that which it surmises from previous conations; all our motives are thus related processes springing from a basic urge deep within us and manifesting as Self-love.

[Austin Osman Spare @AustinSpare]

There is more truth in our erotic zones, than in the whole of religions and mathematics. #logomachyofzos #zoskia #austinspare

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Life loveth life as adventitious. #Aos #ZosKia

[Austin Osman Spare @AustinSpare]

Judging by expression alone-which of you appears enjoying Life most? May not this “belief” in death be the “will” that attempts “death” for your satisfaction, but can give you no more than sleep, decay, change-hell? This constant somnambulism is “the unsatisfactory.” 2/2

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Strange no one remembers being dead? Have you ever seen the Sun?-If you have then you have seen nothing dead-in spite of you different belief! Which is the more dead “you” or this corpse? Which of you has the greater degree of consciousness? 1/2

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The Witch so engaged is old, grotesque, worldly and libidinously learned and is sexually attractive as a corpse; yet she becomes the entire vehicle of consummation.

[Austin Osman Spare @AustinSpare]

There is not only erotic satisfaction; the sensualist is made detached and controlled until final sublimation; his whole training is submissive and obedient until, by cold amoral passion, he can transmute control and divert him- or herself where desired.

[Austin Osman Spare @AustinSpare]

The Sabbath is an inverse-reversion for self-seduction, an undoing for a divertive conation. Sex is used as the technique and medium of a magical act.