Art, Symbol & Imagination
Stealing the Fire from Heaven
A pale figure lifts a small flame in one hand while a great wing and a skull extend behind the shoulders. Below, another body rises from sweeping feathers, horns and curling lines. The title names the theft of heavenly fire without assigning the composite figures a conventional mythological identity.
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Austin Osman Spare. "Stealing the Fire from Heaven" [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 40. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0373-0040
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The Book of PleasureAustin Osman Spare1993More from this book
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Austin Osman Spare. Stealing the Fire from Heaven. The Book of Pleasure. Scan leaf 40. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0373-0040