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Austin Osman Spare

Austin Osman Spare (30 December 1886 – 15 May 1956) was an English artist and occultist who worked as both a draughtsman and a painter. Influenced by symbolism and art nouveau his art was known for its clear use of line, and its depiction of monstrous and sexual imagery. In an occult capacity, he developed idiosyncratic magical techniques including automatic writing, automatic drawing and sigilization based on his theories of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious self.

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Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist.

Art, Artist, Cease, Eternal, Reality, Unconscious

In our solitariness. . . great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.

Company, Depth, Depths, Hideth, Solitariness, Sometimes

The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

Animal, Animals, Body, Soul

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

Company, Doors, Mind, Room, Rooms, Shut

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 the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

Black And White, Paths, Prism, Sphinx, Unison, Vortex

Embrace reality by imagination.

Embrace, Imagination, Reality

Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied.

Belief, Denied, Genius, Giving, Heaven

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

Against, Conformity, Doctrine, Doctrines, Thoughts

It was the straying that found the path direct.

Direct, Found, Path, Straying

Art can contradict Science.

Art, Contradict, Contradiction, Science

Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love.

Death, Give, Giving, Self, Soul

The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that accidents be not but arabesques within some wider figure? Of this nothing is known.

Accident, Accidents, Existence, Figures, Sundered, Three

The more Chaotic I am, the more complete I am.

Chaotic, Complete

In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.

Belief, Description, False, Universe

My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness

Desire, Enjoy, Forth, Sprang, Sun, Vortex

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves — are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire.

Company, Dead, Doors, Light, Media, Numen

I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.

Birth, Excreating, Form, Gods, Imagery, Serve

And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.

Remember, Remember You, Remembers You, Suffer, Suffering, Things

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

Application, Art, Latent, Subconscious