Austin.Osman.Spare.-.The.Book.of.Pleasure.(Self.Love).-.The.Psychology.of.Ecstasy.pdf

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE (SELF-LOVE).

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ECSTASY.

BY AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE.

DEFINITIONS.

The words God, religions, faith, morals, woman, etc. (they being forms of belief), are

used as expressing different "means" as controlling and expressing desire: an idea of

unity by fear in some form or another which must spell bondage-the imagined limits;

extended by science which adds a dearly paid inch to our height: no more.

Kia: The absolute freedom which being free is mighty enough to be "reality" and free

at any time: therefore is not potential or manifest (except as it's instant possibility) by

ideas of freedom or "means," but by the Ego being free to recieve it, by being free of

ideas about it and by not believing. The less said of it (Kia) the less obscure is it.

Remember evolution teaches by terrible punishments-that conception is ultimate

reality but not ultimate freedom from evolution.

Virtue: Pure Art

Vice: Fear, belief, faith, control, science, and the like.

Self-Love: A mental state, mood or condition caused by the emotion of laughter

becoming the principle that allows the Ego appreciation or universal association in

permitting inclusion before conception.

Exhaustion: That state of vacuity brought by exhausting a desire by some means of

dissipation when the mood corresponds to the nature of the desire, i.e., when the mind

is worried because of the non-fulfilment of such desire and seeks relief. By seizing

this mood and living, the resultant vacuity is sensitive to the subtle suggestion of the

Sigil.

DIFFERENT RELIGIONS AND DOCTRINES AS MEANS TO PLEASURE,

FREEDOM AND POWER.

What is there to believe, but in Self? And Self is the negation of completeness as

reality. No man has seen self at any time. We are what we believe and what it implies

by a process of time in the conception; creation is caused by this bondage to formula.

Actions are the expressions of ideas bound up in the belief; they being inherent are

obscure, their operation indirect, easily they deceive introspection. Fruits of action are

two-fold, Heaven or Hell, their Unity or Nothingness (Purgatory or Indifference). In

Heaven there is desire for Women. Hell the desire intense. Purgatory is expectation

delayed. Indifference but disappointment till recovery. Then verily they are one and

the same. The wise pleasure seeker, having realised they are "different degrees of

desire" and never desirable, gives up both Virtue and Vice and becomes a Kiaist.

Riding the Shark of his desire he crosses the ocean of the dual principle and engages

himself in self-love.

Religions are the projection of incapacity, the imaginations of fear, the veneer of

superstition, that paradox is truth, * while ofttimes the ornamentation of imbecility.

As a virtue in the Idea to maximize pleasure cheaply, remit your sins and excuse

them-is but ceremonial, the expression of puppetry to the governing fear. Yes! What

you have ordained in your religiousness, is your very rack, imagined though it be! The

prospect is not pleasant; you have taught yourself! It has become inborn and your

body is sensitive.

* That God is always in Heaven or that the Almighty inconceivable emanates its

conception or negation-commits suicide, etc.

Some praise the idea of Faith. To believe that they are Gods (or anything else) would

make them such-proving by all they do, to be full of its non-belief. Better is it to

admit incapacity or insignificance, than reinforce it by faith; since the superficial

"protects" but does not change the vital. Therefore reject the former for the latter.

Their formula is deception and they are deceived, the negation of their purpose. Faith

is denial, or the metaphor Idiotcy, hence it always fails. To make their bondage more

secure Governments force religion down the throats of their slaves, and it always

suceeds; those who escape it are but few, therefore their honour is the greater. When

faith perishes, the "Self" shall come into its own. Others less foolish, obscure the

memory that God is a conception of themselves, and as much subject to law. Then,

this ambition of faith, is it so very desirable? Myself, I have not yet seen a man who is

not God already.

Others again, and those who have much knowledge, cannot tell you exactly what

"belief" is, or how to believe in what defies natural laws and existing belief. Surely it

is not by saying "I believe"; that art has long been lost. They are even more subject to

bewilderment and distraction directly they open their mouths full of argument;

without power and unhappy unless spreading their own confusion, to gain cogency

they must adopt dogma and mannerism that excludes possibility. . . . . . By the

illumination of their knowledge they deteriorate in accomplishment. Have we not

watched them decay in ration to their expoundings? Verily, man cannot believe by

faith or gain, neither can he explain his knowledge unless born of a new law. We

being everything, wherefore the necessity of imagining we are not?

Be ye mystic.

Others believe in prayer . . . . have not all yet learnt, that to ask it to be denied? Let it

be the root of your Gospel. Oh, ye who are living other peoples lives! Unless desire is

subconscious, it is not fulfilled, no, not in this life. Then verily sleep is better than

prayer. Quiescence is hidden desire, a form of "not asking"; by it the female obtains

much from man. Utilize prayer (if you must pray) as a means of exhaustion, and by

that you will obtain your desire.

Some do much to show the similarity of different religions; certainly by it I prove the

possibility of a fundamental illusion, but that they never realise-or this Ukase they are

the mockery, for how much they regret! They suffer more conflict than the

unenlightened. With what they can identify their own delusion of fear they call truth.

They never see this similarity and the quintessence of religions, their own poverty of

imagination and religion's palliation. Better is it to show the essential difference of

religions. It is as well to know that various means; is not their object to deceive and

govern? Surely then, for the attainment of the transcendental, God and religion should

have no place.

Some praise truth so-called, but give it many containers; forgetting its dependence

they prove its relationship and paradox, the song of experience and illusion. Paradox

is not "truth", but the truth that anything can be true for a time. What supersedes

paradox and its implicit ("not necessary"), I will make the foundation of my teaching.

Let us determine the deliberative, "the truth" cannot be divided. Self-love only cannot

be denied and is Self-love as such when paradoxical, under any condition, hence it

alone is truth, without accessories complete.

Others praise ceremonial Magic, and are supposed to suffer much Ecstasy! Our

asylums are crowded, the stage is over-run! Is it by symbolizing we become the

symbolized? Were I to crown myself King, should I be King? Rather should I be an

object of disgust or pity. These Magicians, whose insincerity is their safety, are but

the unemployed dandies of the Brothels. Magic is but one's natural ability to attract

without asking; ceremony what is unaffected, its doctrine the negation of theirs. I

know them well and their creed of learning that teaches the fear of their own light.

Vampires, they are as the very lice in attraction. Their practices prove their incapacity,

they have no magic to intensify the normal, the joy of a child or healthy person, none

to evoke their pleasure or wisdom from themselves. Their methods depending on a

morass of the imagination and a chaos of conditions, their knowledge obtained with

less decency than the hyena his food, I say they are less free and do not obtain the

satisfaction of the meanest among animals. Self condemned in their disgusting

fatness, their emptiness of power, without even the magic of personal charm or

beauty, they are offensive in their bad taste and mongering for advertisement. The

freedom of energy is not obtained by its bondage, great power not by disintegration. Is

it not because our energy (or mind stuff) is already over bound and divided, that we

are not capable, let alone magical?

Some believe any and every thing is symbolic, and can be transcribed, and explain the

occult, but of what they do not know. (Great spiritual truths?) So argument a

metaphor, cautiously confusing the obvious which developes the hidden virtue. This

unnecessary corpulency, however impressive, is it not disgusting? (The Elephant is

exceeding large but extremely powerful, the swine though odious does not breed the

contempt of our good taste.) If a man is no hero to his servant, much less can he

remain a mystic in the eyes of the curious; similarity educates mimicry. Decorate your

meaning, however objectionable (as fact), after you have shown your honesty. Truth,

though simple, never needs the argument of confusion for obscurity; its own pure

symbolism embraces all possibilities as mystic design. Take your stand in

commonsense and you include the truth which cannot lie; no argument has yet

prevailed. Perfect proportion suggest no alteration, and what is useless decays.

They reject all the modern symbolism*(1) and reach an absurd limit very early. Not

counting on change*(2) and (at times) the arbitrary nature of symbolism or the chance

of a preserved folly, by their adoption of the traditional without a Science, as having

reading to the present, their symbolism is chaotic and meaningless. Not knowing the

early rendering, they succeed in projecting their own meagreness by this confusion, as

explaining the ancient symbols. Children are more wise. This conglomeration of

antiquity decayed, collected with the disease of greed-is surely the chance for charity?

Forgetting trumpery ideas, learn the best tradition by seeing you own functions and

the modern unbiassed. Some praise the belief in a moral doctrinal code, which they

naturally and continually transgress, and never obtain their purpose. Given the right

nature, they succeed fairly in their own governing, and are those most healthy, sane

and self-pleased. It may be called the negation of my doctrine, they obtain tolerable

satisfaction, whereas mine is complete. Let him tarry here, who is not strong for the

great work. In freedom he might be lost. So fledge your wings fearlessly, ye humble

ones!

*(1) All means of locomotion, machinery, governments, institutions, and everything

essentially modern, is vital symbolism of the workings of our mind, etc.

*(2) The symbol of justice known to the Romans is not symbolic of Divine, or our

justice, at least not necessarily or usually. The vitality is not exactly like water-nor are

we trees; more like ourselves, which might incidentally include trees somewhere

unlearnt-much more obvious in our workings at present.

Others say knowledge only is eternal, it is the eternal illusion of learning-the Ukase of

learning what we already know. Directly we ask ourselves "how" we induce stupidity;

without this conception what is there we could not know and accomplish? Others for

concentration, it will not free you, the mind conceiving the law is bondage. Arrived at

that, you will want deconcentration. Dissociation from all ideas but one is not release

but imaginative fulfilment, or the fury of creation. Others again, that all things are

emanations of the Divine Spirit, as rays from the Sun, hence the need of

emancipation? Verily, things are of necessity through their conception and belief.

Then let us destroy or change conception, and empty the belief.

These and many other doctrines, are declared by me as the perpetuators of sin and

illusion. Each and all depending on a muddled implication, obscuring, yet evolved

from the duality of the consciousness for their enjoyment. In fear they would vomit

hot blood were they to see the fruits of their actions and pleasures. Thus believing in

widely different doctrines, they are of the dual principle, necessary parasites on each

other. Like drugs and the surgeon's knife, they only annul or at best remove an effect.

They do not change or remove the fundamental cause (the law). "Oh, God, thou art

the stagnant environment." All is quackery: these religions whose very existence

depend on their failure, are so full of misery and confusion, have only multiplied

arguments, as full of argument as they are evil, so crowded with non-essentials, being

so barren of any free pleasure in this life or another, I cannot uphold their doctrines.

Their criterion for enjoyment-death! Better it were a man renounce them all, and

embrace his own invincible purpose. He cannot go further, and this is his only release.

By it he may put his pleasure where he will, and find satisfaction.

THE CONSUMER OF RELIGION

Kia, in its Transcendental and Conceivable Manifestation.

Of name it has no name, to designate. I call it Kia I dare not claim it as myself. The

Kia which can be expressed by conceivable ideas, is not the eternal Kia, which burns

up all belief but is the archetype of "self," the slavery of mortality. Endeavouring to

describe "it," I write what may be but not usually-called the "book of lies"*(1). The

unorthodox of the originable-a volant "sight," that conveys somehow by the

incidental, that truth is somewhere. The Kia which can be vaguely expressed in words

is the "Neither-Neither," the unmodified "I" in the sensation of omnipresence, the

illumination symbolically transcribed in the sacred alphabet, and of which I am about

to write. Its emanation is its own intensity, but not necessariness, it has and ever will

exist, the virgin quantum-by its exuberance we have gained existence. Who dare say

where, why and how it is related? By the labour of time the doubter inhabits his limit.

Not related to, but permitting all things, it eludes conception, yet is the quintessence

of conception as permeating pleasure in meaning. Anterior to Heaven and Earth, in its

aspect that transcends these, but not intelligence, it may be regarded as the primordial

sexual principle, the idea of pleasure in self-love. Only he who has attained the death

posture can apprehend this new sexuality, and its almighty love satisfied. He that is

ever servile to belief, clogged by desire, is identified with such and can see but its

infinite ramifications in dissatisfaction*(2). The progenitor of itself and all things, but

resembling nothing, this sexuality in its early simplicity, embodies the everlasting.

Time has not changed it, hence I call it new. This ancestral sex principle, and the idea

of self, are one and the same, this sameness its exaction and infinite possibilities, the

early duality, the mystery of mysteries, the Sphinx at the gates of all spirituality. All

conceivable ideas begin and end as light in its emotion, the ecstasy which the creation

of the idea of self induces. The idea is unity by the formula of self, its necessary

reality as continuity, the question of all things, all this universe visible and invisible

has come out of it. As unity conceived duality, it begot trinity, begot tetragrammaton.

Duality being unity, is time, the complex of conception, the eternal refluctuation to

the primeval reality in freedom-being trinity of dualities, is the six senses, the five

facets of sex-projecting as environment for self-assimilation in denial, as a complete

sexuality. Being tetragrammaton of dualities is twelvefold by arrangement, the human

complex, and may be called the twelve commandments of the believer. It imagines

the eternal decimal, its multiplicity embracing eternity, from which spring the

manifold forms, which constitute existence. Vitalized by the breath of self-love, life is

conscious of one. Self being its opposing force, is alternately conflict, harmony, life

and death. These four principles are one and the same-the conception considered as

the complete "self" or consciousness-hence they may be blended into unity and

Symbolized. One form made by two, that is three-fold and having four directions.

*(1) About this "Self"; all conception is the dual principle, the law which is its

conception.

*(2) The unmodified sex principle refracted through the dual principle emanates the

infinite variety of emotions or sexualities, which may be called its ramifications.

The Transcendental Law, the Law and Testament of the "New."

The law of Kia is its own arbiter, beyond necessitation, who can grasp the nameless

Kia? Obvious but unintelligible, without form, its design most excellent. Its wish is its

superabundance, who can assert its mysterious purpose? By our knowledge it

becomes more obscure, more remote, and our faith-opacity. Without attribute, I know

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