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  Angel Art, the worlds greatest manifestants: Austin Osman Spare. Chaos Magick
Often considered the grandfather of Chaos Magick, Austin Spare was born on December 30th 1886 at Snowhill, London, the son of a City of London policeman.
Spare became a Probationer of Crowley's order Argenteum Astrum ("Order of the Silver Star") in July 1909, but was not initiated as a member, although he contributed four small drawings to Crowley's publication The Equinox.
Spare's artistic and magical publications include Earth Inferno, The Book of Pleasure, The Focus of Life, manuscripts of 'Logomachy of Zos' and 'Zoetic Grimoire of Zos' which remained uncompleted at his death on May 15, 1956.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Austin Osman Spare   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Often considered the grandfather of Chaos Magick, Austin Spare was born on December 30th 1886 at Snowhill, London, the son of a City of London policeman.
In 1908 Spare opened an exhibition at the Bruton gallery in in London, and not long thereafter came to the attention of Aleister Crowley who was impressed by Spare's artwork, and commissioned Spare to create some of his drawings in the early issues of his magazine The Equinox.
Austin Osman Spare was born in Snow Hill, near Smithfield Market, London on December 31 1888, the son of Philip Newton Spare, A City of London policeman.
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 Austin Osman Spare
Austin Spare, an artist of unusual gifts and attainments and of an even more unusual personality, died on May 15th 1956, in hospital in London at the age of 67.
Spare was convinced that there was a great potential demand for pictures at 2 or 3 guineas each, and condemned the practice of asking L20 for "amateurish stuff'.
Spare's alleged 'automatic' and 'psychic' drawings tended to lack discipline, and were on the whole inferior to his 'straight' work.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /ARTspare.htm   (695 words)

  
 Austin Osman Spare
Spare did not get on with his mother, and at an early age he formed a close friendship with a strange old lady who claimed to be a witch.
In 1908 Spare opened an exhibition at the Bruton gallery in in London, and not long thereafter came to the attention of Aleister Crowley who was impressed by Spare's artwork, and commissioned Spare to create some of his drawings in the early issues of his magazine The Equinox.
Spare was for a time a member of Crowley's A.:A.: (Argentum Astrum), the Order of the Silver Star which Crowley founded and which he joined in 1910, and where he learned Golden Dawn type ceremonial magic.
www.kheper.net /topics/Hermeticism/Spare.html   (1128 words)

  
 Austin Osman Spare's Obituary
Austin Osman Spare was born in Snow Hill, near Smithfield Market, London on December 31 1888, the son of Philip Newton Spare, A City of London policeman.
Thereafter Spare was rarely found in the purlieus of Bond St. He would teach a little from January to June, then up to the end of October, would finish various works, and from the beginning of November to Christmas would hang his products in the living-room, bedroom, and kitchen of his flat in the Borough.
Spare's alleged `automatic' and `psychic' drawings tended to lack discipline, and were on the whole inferior to his `straight' work.
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 Austin Spare - FT 144   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At the age of 18, Austin Osman Spare was being exhibited at the Royal Academy and hailed as an artistic genius.
Spare was occasionally bothered by dilettantes and thrill seekers of one kind or another, and on one occasion two dabblers asked him to evoke an "elemental" to visible appearance.
Spare tried to dissuade them, explaining that these entities embody atavistic forces from deep in the unconscious, and that it is better not to bring them up to the surface.
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 Austin Osman Spare
Spare is emphatic on the importance of the state of mind during the reading, and comprehending the combinations of cards rather than individual cards.
Spare was one of the great Occultists of the century, and finally he is receiving the recognition he justly deserves.
Spare enjoyed the company of working class people in pubs, and he was well acquainted with the prostitutes of the area as the letters and diary entries make clear.
www.supertarot.co.uk /adept/aos.htm   (1727 words)

  
 Austin Osman Spare  §  Austin O. Spare by R.E.D. Sketchley
Spare has realised his power to control and purify his imagination, it must be that the forms of his art will image no more a “Chaos of the abnormal”, but a Cosmos, an ordering of beauty in the image of perfect beauty.
Spare, as it now is, is not the true reflection of what is essential in his vision of life.
But already Austin Spare is reaching towards greater simplicity if idea, and, at the same time, towards a fuller technical accomplishment, more assured draughtsmanship and composition, the use of colour in oil and tempera as well as water-colour.
www.fulgur.co.uk /authors/aos/articles/sketchley   (1329 words)

  
 Spare Parts : Ramsey Dukes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Spare describes how science has 'discovered' new diseases, thus creating then in our beliefs so that we suffer them and need to call again on science for their cure.
Spare starts by warning that ideas of self in conflict cannot be slain, for it is your resistance that gives them their reality.
Spare suggests that the state of mind most productive of genius is one which is open to all perceptions and is immoral in that it allows free association of ideas without the strict rules of past belief or knowledge.
www.occultebooks.com /essays/spare_parts.htm   (7496 words)

  
 Compulsion: An online version of the alternative culture magazine featuring Friend of the Great Beast, an article on ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The reputation of Austin Osman Spare, one of the oddest characters in 2Oth century British art, is being rehabilitated by a new exhibition in London's Clerkenwell.
Spare was an accomplished draughtsman, a child prodigy and the youngest artist of his time to exhibit at the Royal Academy He was also deeply interested in magic and became a friend and then almost as inevitably an enemy of Aleister Crowley, the notorious occult practitioner.
Spare could be choosy about commissions, even turning down Adolf Hitler In 1936 one of Hitler's aides at the German Embassy in London bought a self-portrait by Spare, which he thought bore a strikng resemblance to the Fuhrer.
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 Austin Osman Spare   (Site not responding. Last check: )
AUSTIN SPARE (1886-1956), an artist of unusual gifts and attainments and of an even more unusual personality, died on May 15th 1956, in hospital in London at the age of 67.
A.O. Spare was the son of a policeman, born in late Victorian London thirteen years after Aleister Crowley and only a few years removed from the founding of the Order of the Golden Dawn, though he was never a member.
This in itself is "magic." Spare's most significant contribution to modern magickal practice, however, was his creation of the "Alphabet of Desire," a system of distilling desire down to its essence and implanting it in the subconscious to do its work.
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 Austin Osman Spare and the Zos Kia Cultus
Spare too was able occasionally to conjure thought-forms to visible appearance, but whereas in the old witch's case it was an unfailing power, in his own case it was erratic and uncertain.
Spare's frequent traffic with denizens of invisible realms led to his evolving a graphic means of conjoining all thoughts- past, present, and future- in the ever-fluid ether of Consciousness.
Spare drew one of his magical sigils, which, instead of being symbolic of the unknown desired object, was the ideograph of a familiar spirit whose services he frequently employed when any mind-reading was required.
www.luckymojo.com /austinosmanspare.html   (5663 words)

  
 Forgotten master who lived like a swine and painted like a dream | Art And Architecture | Arts | Telegraph
Spare's reputation in the art world is as something of a mystery man - a psychic weirdo whose obsession with the occult has somehow obscured his brilliance as a draughtsman.
The son of a policeman, Spare was born in Holborn in 1886 and showed talent as an artist from the age of four.
'Austin Osman Spare 2005' is at the Maas Gallery, London W1 (020 7734 2302) from Mon to Nov 11, coinciding with the publication of 'Borough Satyr: the Life and Art of Austin Osman Spare' by Fulgur Press (www.fulgur.co.uk).
www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/10/29/baspare29.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/10/29/ixartleft.html   (720 words)

  
 Magick - Aleister Crowley - Austin Osman Spare - Sigils - Lam - 23 - SimonIff.com
Details on the construction of sigils, and to dispatch them into the void of the subconscious to do your bidding, is given in greater detail in the Sigils area of Simon Iff.
Austin Spare died in London on May 15, 1956 at he age of 70.
Spare bequeathed all of his manuscripts to Kenneth Grant.
www.simoniff.com /zos_kia   (260 words)

  
 Austin osman spare - Robert Ansell - The Bookplate Designs of Austin Osman Spare
Austin Osman Spare-some history Austin Spare was born at midnight, Dec. 31st, 1886 in a London suburb called Snow Hill.
Austin Osman Spare and the Zos Kia Cultus
Austin Osman Spare was a graphic artist whose work has been compared with that of Aubrey Beardsley and Sidney Sime.
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 Fulgur Limited
We have taken opportunity to include many new features, including biographies for our authors together with galleries, articles and bibliographies concerning their work.
Austin Osman Spare: A Note on His Work
Symbology in Aesthetics in Relation to the Art of Austin O. Spare
www.fulgur.co.uk   (434 words)

  
 Austin Osman Spare - [ChaosMatrix.org]
The Anathema of Zos: The Sermon of the Hypocrite, by Austin Osman Spare
Austin Osman Spare and his Theory of Sigils, by Frater U.D. Austin Osman Spare and the Zos Kia Cultus, by Kenneth Grant
Blackout and Gnosis, on gnosis and A.O. Spare's Death Posture
www.chaosmatrix.org /library/spare.php   (134 words)

  
 AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE AND KENNETH GRANT BOOKS
Here may be found a unique insight into Spare's method of working with familiar spirits, "Delphic Oracles" and other strange formulae, including the legendary Witches' Sabbath that Zos claimed to have attended on many occasions.
Spare;s essay Mind to Mind and How was first published in the respected Two Tracts on Cartomancy as it deals with divination.
The front cover utilises a fine picture of Spare at one of his exhibitions fixing the camera in his gaze, with the editors of the London Mystery Magazine behind him.
www.anathemabooks.com /spare_grant_maat.shtml   (1413 words)

  
 Austin Osman Spare at { feuilleton }   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Spare was born in London in 1886 and like many other artists from the 19th and early 20th century had come back into favour thanks to the attentions of a new generation with an interest in mysticism and decadence.
This view can be reinforced in many of Spare’s self-portraits whereas Crowley’s reputation as “the wickedest man in the world” tends to be undermined by photographs of him in later life as a genial old duffer, albeit one with a formidable heroin habit and a talent for ruining the lives of those around him.
Occult matters aside, what I value in Spare’s work is his uniqueness of vision, exceptional draughtsmanship and a rare ability to produce a drawing or painting where the quality of distinct “otherness” is so pronounced you can’t help but feel that the image of something genuinely non-human had been captured on paper or board.
www.johncoulthart.com /feuilleton/?p=481   (1370 words)

  
 Defining Chaos
Austin Spare understood this principle in regard to magical phenomena long before scientists discovered photons or began experiments in the area of chaos science.
Austin Spare was born at midnight, Dec. 31st, 1886 in a London suburb called Snow Hill.
Spare is certainly not the first person in history to practise this sort of magic, but he is credited with the first associations to magic, of the word chaos.
www.paganlibrary.com /reference/defining_chaos.php   (2850 words)

  
 The Perpetual Edge
Spare spent these years concentrating more on his magical philosophy and observing a different part of society than that from which he had turned away.
Spare was not blind to the faults of the lower classes either, but money did not hold much importance for him.
Art school was a hardship for the family, and it is likely that Spare was able to appreciate the sacrifices that his family would have to have made to provide tuition and materials.
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 Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick | Austin Osman Spare
Austin Osman Spare (December 30, 1886 - May 15, 1956 EV) was an English artist and magician.
Spare expressed contempt at the idea of selling his works at higher prices - an option he could easily have had.
His iconoclasm and aversion to moralism as well as his sigilization served to distinguish his personal style of magic (the "Zos Kia Cultus") from others, and were influential on the Western esoteric tradition that later came to be known as chaos magic.
www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Austin_Osman_Spare   (401 words)

  
 Austin Spare's Philopsophy and Magic - FT 144   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A firm believer in reincarnation, Spare felt that each person's past lives, in a variety of human and animal forms, were retained in the subconscious.
Spare sought ultimately to pass back through the various levels of being until he had reached the very end, and so the beginning, the Almighty Simplicity.
Spare is said to have used this technique to do all sorts of wonderful things: lifting heavy objects, mind reading, manifesting hideous thought forms, even magically procuring a pair of slippers for one startled gent, the Hon Everard Fielding (an associate of Bligh Bond [See FT143:40].
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 Austin Osman Spare
Austin Osman Spare was born on the 30
A portrait drawing Spare drew of her at the time, is reputed to change before the eyes of those who look upon it.
By 1924, Spare was at the height of his artistic success, but his success as an artist began to conflict with the philosopher within.
www.controverscial.com /Austin%20Osman%20Spare.htm   (2288 words)

  
 Weiser Antiquarian Books - Catalog
In particular we are pleased to offer an unusually good selection of Spare’s first editions, the majority of which were privately published in beautifully produced limited-edition printings, and are, of course, resplendent with his beguiling illustrations and profound and challenging text.
Austin Osman Spare, Edited by Frederick Carter and with an introduction by Francis Marsden.
Austin Osman Spare, (author and illustrator) Edited by Frederick Carter and with introductions by Francis Marsden and Stephen Skinner.
www.weiserantiquarian.com /catalogfour   (4337 words)

  
 Austin Osman Spare :: lashtal.com :: Thelemic News and Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Spare Places: A Psychogeograpical Guide to AOS's London demonstrates that there are some interesting parallels between AOS's life and the areas in which he lived with regard to previous occupants or sites and monuments.
The drawings, with colour pencil flourishes, were executed by Spare in 1944 and 1945, whilst he was still recovering from the injury and trauma of being ‘bombed out’ during the Blitz, a few years earlier.
The growth of interest in Spare over the last several decades has also witnessed the publication of a number of new books which focus on Spare and his art, notably by the specialist press Fulgur, and a good selection of these beautifully illustrated works is also available.
www.lashtal.com /nuke/Topic17.phtml   (1188 words)

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