Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Ascension of the Ego from Ecstasy to Ecstasy
An antlered skull crowns a vertical arrangement of pale bodies, curling horns and dark wings. A prominent human torso turns above smaller bent figures, while a narrow spiral climbs beside them. The printed title names the movement as an ascension of the ego through successive states of ecstasy.
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Austin Osman Spare. "The Ascension of the Ego from Ecstasy to Ecstasy" [editorial title]. In The Book of Pleasure, Austin Osman Spare. Complete historical pages of The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy (1913), reproduced within From the Inferno to Zos, Volume1 (First Impressions,1993). Four preliminary pages and60historical pages, including Ernest H.R.Collings’s introduction and the original printer colophon. Supplied custom cover; not a direct scan of an established1913physical copy., 1993, First Impressions. Source scan leaf 10. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0373-0010
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Austin Osman Spare. The Ascension of the Ego from Ecstasy to Ecstasy. The Book of Pleasure. Scan leaf 10. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0373-0010