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by Austin Osman SpareAustin Osman Spare
30 December 1886 – 15 May 1956
English artist and occultist. Briefly cohort of Aleister Crowley but the two had a falling out.
Wrote on Desires , primordial magic, genius and madness
pub 1913
This book deals deeply with desire and belief. Spare suggests many practices but his fundamental theories are based around some core ideas:
- What is desired will come to be if it is believed
- When beliefs are destroyed they release intense energy that can be used to manifest other desires
- this same energy is released by the destruction of the concept of opposites
- Desires can be redericted ( Desires can be fed to other desiresDesires can be fed to other desires
Because Desires eat each other when they conflict we can perform a sort of sacrificial magic by "feeding" a lesser desire to a greater one. Austin Osman Spare proposed this idea initial... Semen retention Private or Broken Links
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