secrets of western sex magic by d u frater pdf

However, we are primarily interested in two volumes, namely his well-known Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy (London, 1913) 3 and Kenneth Grants excellently researched book 4 in which he, as leader of his own brand of O.T.O.

Lovecraft, and certainly he too was an explorer of the dark levels of the soul.Īround the beginning of the First World War, he released some privately published editions, and today one can acquire-at least in Great Britain-numerous, usually highly expensive, reprints of his works. People have compared his life with that of H.

Spare found his intellectual and creative vocation as an artist and illustrator, and he attended the Royal College of Art, where he soon was celebrated as a forthcoming young artist.īut he rebelled against a bourgeois middle-class career in the arts.ĭisgusted by commercialism, he retreated from the artistic scene soon afterwords, though he still continued editing various magazines for quite a while.įrom 1927 until his death, he virtually lived as a weird hermit in a London slum, where he sometimes held exhibitions in a local pub. Paterson who, as far as we know, must have been quite a Wiccan-like character. He claimed to have experienced while a child an initiation of sorts by an elderly witch, one Mrs. Nevertheless, this important work has at least led many an occult researcher familiar with literature to Spare.Ĭompared with Aleister Crowleys enigmatic and infamous life, Austin Osman Spares existence certainly seemed to befit only a footnote.ĭespite his various publications after the turn of the century, he remained practically unnoticed until the late sixties. In brief, it was a time when it seemed appropriate to question the belief in technology and the omnipotence of the celebrated natural sciences.Īustin Osman Spare (1886-1956) was a typical child of this era and, after Aleister Crowley, he was definitely one of the most interesting occultists and practicing magicians of the English-speaking world.

Secrets of western sex magic by d u frater pdf