The Book of Pleasure

The Book of Pleasure

infobox Book |
name = The Book of Pleasure
title_orig =
translator =


author = Austin Osman Spare
cover_artist =
country = England
language = English
series =
genre = Occult
publisher = Cooperative Printing Society Limited, Tudor Street, E.C.
release_date = 1913
media_type = Limited print (Paperback)
pages = 68 pages
isbn = ISBN 187218958X
preceded_by = A Book of Satyrs
(1907)
followed_by = The Focus of Life (1921)

The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love), Psychology of Ecstasy is a book written by Austin Osman Spare during 1909-1913.

The book could be regarded the central text among his writings. It covers both mystical and magical aspects of Spare's ideas [Check here for more information.] ; as the modern ideas on Sigils (as now have become popular among Chaos Magic) and Spare's special theory on incarnation are for the first time introduced in this book.

There are some chapters in "The Book of Pleasure" that Spare has referred to them within the text, but are omitted. It seems that they were destroyed during World War II [Grant, Kenneth, "Outer Gateways"] .

The book had originally been planned as a "mutus liber" of illustrations only -"the Wisdom without words" [Semple, W. Gavin, ZOS-KIA, 1995, Fulgur Limited, page 8] , but expanded later.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.hermetic.com/spare/pleasure.html Online version] to "The Book of Pleasure".

ee also

Austin Osman Spare


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