Writings of Austin Spare: Automatic Drawing

by Austin Osman Spare

This is a collection of drawings and writing of Austin Spare consisting of; Automatic Drawing by Austin Spare and Frederick Carter Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites The Focus of Life with all the original Illustrations!!! The Book of Satyrs.

Genres: Art, Occult, Magic

102 pages, Paperback

First published May 18, 2005

About the author

Austin Osman Spare was an English artist who developed idiosyncratic magical techniques including automatic writing, automatic drawing and sigilization based on his theories of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious self. His artistic work is characterized by skilled draughtsmanship exhibiting a complete mastery of the use of the line[1], and often employs monstrous or fantastic magical and sexual imagery.

Some of Spare's techniques, particularly the use of sigils and the creation of an "alphabet of desire" were adopted, adapted and popularized by Peter J. Carroll in the work Liber Null & Psychonaut . Carroll and other writers such as Ray Sherwin are seen as key figures in the emergence of some of Spare's ideas and techniques as a part of a magical movement loosely referred to as Chaos magic.

Reviews

[Liz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very cool artwork and interesting concept, unfortunately it was a bit of a difficult read (though short) and not as useful as a tutorial (perhaps look to Crowley for more assistance in that regard).

[Regulus · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was hesitant to rate this cause what if I ruin the 4.20 average rating?😨
(Also cause this review is pointless...I'll probably never rate anything made by Spare with less than 5 stars)