Dolorosa... a drawing for Austin O Spare ..2011

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Dolorosa  ~ A drawing for AOS on his birthday ~ Raving Mouthed 30th Dec 2011

                                                              White pencil on black paper

Austin Osman Spare... Happy Birthday!

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Stealing the Fire from Heaven 1911-12

 

The Complete Ritual and Doctrine of Magic

Ecstasy in Self-love the Obsession

My dearest, I will now explain the only safe and true formula, the destroyer of the darkness of the World, the most secret among all secrets. Let it be secret to him who would attain. Let it cover any period of time, depending on his conception. There is no qualification, nor ritual or ceremony. His very existence symbolising all that is necessary to perfection. Most emphatically, there is no need of repetition or feeble imitation. You are alive!

from my favourite AOS book The Book of Pleasure (self-love) The Psychology of Ecstasy

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Lettice Sandford.. illustration from the Song of Songs 1936

1:1 The Song of Songs, which is for Solomon. 1:2 Kiss Me with the kisses of your mouth, for your love is better than wine. 1:3 Your oil has an excellent scent, but your name is the most exquisite oil – for this, all the maidens love you. 1:4 Draw Me after you. Let us run. The king has brought Me to his chambers. We will delight and take joy in you, savoring your love. Like new-pressed wine, they love you.

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T. Sturge Moore (1870-1944)... Pan as an Island...c1902

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 a scan from The Modern Woodcut by Herbert Furst 1924

Johannes von Schwarzenberg... bookplate...1534

a scan from The Devious and Grotesque in Art by Wilhelm Michel 1919

James Ensor... print....1895

Skeletons warming up 1895

H Meyer...Bookplate... c1793

bookplate from Letters to the advancement of humanity by Johann Gottfried von Herder

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)...Zur Farbenlehre ...bookplate 1810

"To divide the united, to unite the divided, is the life of nature; this is the eternal systole and diastole, the eternal collapsion and expansion, the inspiration and expiration of the world in which we move."  ~ Goethe

Based on his experiments with turbid media, Goethe characterized colour as arising from the dynamic interplay of darkness and light. Rudolf Steiner gives the following analogy:

    Modern natural science sees darkness as a complete nothingness. According to this view, the light which streams into a dark space has no resistance from the darkness to overcome. Goethe pictures to himself that light and darkness relate to each other like the north and south pole of a magnet. The darkness can weaken the light in its working power. Conversely, the light can limit the energy of the darkness. In both cases color arises.
    —Rudolf Steiner, 1897 >

Ex Libris... Martin Erich Philipp... 1914

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Ex Libris... K. Schönberger... 1899