Austin Osman Spare.... Redundant Isle

Redundant Isle

Forthcoming exhibition this autumn..... Austin Osman Spare

 

Austin Osman Spare: Fallen Visionary

 Tuesday 14 September 2010 to Saturday 13 November 2010

PURGATORIAL PURGE (INSATIABLE DESIRE) 1955

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind.

You are still in great company
AOS



 
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Austin Osman Spare... drawing

Astral Body 1925

"Know the subconsciousness to be an epitome of all experience and wisdom, past incarnations as men, animals, birds, vegetable life, etc., etc., everything that exists, has and ever will exist."

essay > Janus Incarnate?

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Austin Osman Spare...The Focus of Life... a video by Darius Meilus

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The 'Self,' will pleasure in all things. There is only one sense,-the sexual. There is only one desire,-procreation. I am the cause-thou the effect. I am all that I concieve. Not for all time but at some time. 'I multiply I' is creation: The sexual infinity. There is no end to the details of my extreme likeness.

The more chaotic-the more complete am I. The soul is the ancestral animals. The body their knowledge. This omnivorous soul, how lusty: it would seem to be everlasting in its suicide. These modified sexualities are the index of knowledge; this realized; the dualities do not obstruct with associations that involve infinite complexities and much education. Existence is a continuation of self-realization. To create value where there is none.

By all desire being one there is no overlapping nor the later necessity of undesiring. Complex desire is the further creation of different desire, not the realization of [particular] desire. O Zos, Thou shall die of extreme youth! Death is a disease of fear. All is a backward walking-realized incapacity of volition: To walk towards thyself. With thine infinite self multiplication of associations Thou knowest all things. Among sentient creatures human birth is highly desirable, man desires emancipation-liberation to his primeval self.

Remember! Didst thou leave the high estate for worse things? Man becomes what he relapses into.

AOS

Austin Osman Spare (1888-1956) ...Protection Against Evil People ...1955

Ex libris...Austin Osman Spare...

"Thought is the negation of knowledge.
Be thy busyness with action only.
Purge thyself of belief:
live like a tree walking!
Take no thought of good or evil.
Become self-active causality by Unity of thine, I and Self."
-AOS - Aphorism I; The Focus of Life

"Nothing is attained merely by 'wanting'; epistemology, even eschatology will not help,
 not Gods; but-spake Zos- the 'as if' simulations have been prolific as objective realities. Sublimation of all 'reason' to the 'blind'  life-force is the whole of wisdom"

AOS - The Grimoire of Zos


~ Live Like a Tree Walking! ~ Essay

Austin Osman Spare... Self Portrait....

Pastel on wooden board

Birthday Greetings... John Balance on AOS...

¤ Austin Osman Spare ¤
(30 December 1886 - 15 May 1956)

Artist, Occultist, Sensualist

Austin Osman Spare Artist, Occultist, Sensualist - by John Balance

Austin Osman Spare...drawing

from A Book of Satyrs

Austin Osman Spare... Self Portrait....

¥ Austin Osman Spare ¥

'Self as Hitler'

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, replying
"Only from negations can I wholesomely conceive you. For I know of no courage sufficient to stomach your aspirations and ultimates. If you are superman, let me be for ever animal".

Austin Osman Spare...drawing...self portrait with natives and reptiles...

Ex libris... AOS

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Austin Osman Spare...drawing

Crucifixion

Austin Osman Spare...drawing

Zos dancing with a Kia bird

"I believe what I will, and will what I want" AOS

Austin Osman Spare...Portrait of Sigmund Freud

“Words, words, words, however used – whatever they symbolise, request, or tell – say

more! – showing in between, the antics of all motives! Yes, word rendering offers the quickest of deaths to flabby ideas, and also the most poignant, suggestive, contagious substitutive, and lasting means known to convey anything. Most deadly virus! most potent abcreation, and magic subtley... even your erasure has you believing... We are overstuffed with words – now a veritable systole and diastole of mind: whether or not we correctly articulate, we suffer post-prandial torpor.”

Austin Osman Spare, ‘Micrologus’, (Number 7) c.1952

AOS 1955

"Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power. By words one of us can give another the greatest happiness or bring about utter despair; by words the teacher imparts his knowledge to the student; by words the orator sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth emotions and are universally the means by which we influence our fellow-creatures."

Sigmund Freud

Austin Osman Spare...drawing

from The Book Of Ugly Ecstasy circa 1924

Austin Osman Spare...a favourite...

The New Eden, lithograph. Originally published by The Golden Hind 1922

Ex libris... Austin Osman Spare

  few scans from one of my favourite books...

by Robert Ansell 1988

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Gynander: Mutation by Besz-Mass (1955).

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Ex libris... Austin Osman Spare