Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Self’s Vision of Enlightenment
A seated pale figure turns towards a shadowed face at the lower edge of a broad triangular field. Faint hands and fragments of bodies hover in the light above. Spare’s printed title makes the drawing a vision of enlightenment within his own philosophical system.
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Austin Osman Spare. "The Self’s Vision of Enlightenment" [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 24. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0373-0024
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Austin Osman Spare. The Self’s Vision of Enlightenment. The Book of Pleasure. Scan leaf 24. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0373-0024