The Book of Pleasure
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| Author | Austin Osman Spare |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Occult |
| Publisher | Cooperative Printing Society Limited, Tudor Street, E.C. |
Publication date | 1913 |
| Publication place | England |
| Media type | Limited print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 68 pages |
| ISBN | 1-872189-58-X |
| Preceded by | A Book of Satyrs (1907) |
| Followed by | The Focus of Life(1921) |
The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): Psychology of Ecstasyis achapbookwritten byartist-occultistAustin Osman Spareduring 1909–1913 and self-published in 1913.
Overview
[edit]The book is generally regarded as the core text of Spare's philosophy. It covers bothmysticalandmagicalaspects ofSpare's ideas.As the modern ideas onsigils(as now have become popular inchaos magic) and Spare's special theory onincarnationare for the first time introduced in this book.
Some chapters of the text are referred to internally but are omitted. Apparently that they were destroyed duringWorld War II.[1]
The book had originally been planned as amutus liberof illustrations only – "the Wisdom without words",[2]but was expanded later.
Partial list of ditions
[edit]- Quebec: 93 Publishing, 1975.
- Northampton: Sut Anubis, 1987 (facsimile).
References
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