Description
Zos-Kia: An Introductory Essay on the Art and Sorcery of Austin Osman Spare by Gavin W. Semple is an exploration of the magick of one of the Twentieth Centuries most fascinating occult personalities.
Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) was one of the most enigmatic artists of this century. His powerful and idiosyncratic art masks a philosophy of arcane beauty, often overlooked by the undiscerning eye. In this essay his personal systems are explored, clarified and augmented with judicious application of the artist’s own words. Here are excerpts from Spare’s last unpublished grimoire The Logomachy of Zos alongside the early text of The Book of Pleasure, clearly demonstrating the strength and consistency of his vision through life.
With the hindsight of many years biographical research and experimentation exploring Spare’s system with his own, the author Gavin Semple here gives emphasis to the techniques of sorcery that imbued Spare’a art with such power and demonstrates to the reader the methods by which these potentials are controlled and made manifest. First published in Starfire magazine, the essay has been considerably revised and expanded, including a glossary, and is fully illustrated.
About the Author
Gavin W. Semple was the co-founder of FULGUR in 1992, conceived in part as a ‘propaganda vehicle’ for the artist Austin Osman Spare. Around the same time he entered into fruitful collaboration with several modern practitioners of the magic arts, including Andrew Chumbley. A practitioner, writer, photographer and musician of acknowledged integrity, Gavin continues to pursue his interests in Austin Spare, music and the liminal.
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