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The Book of Pleasure
Title page
AuthorAustin Osman Spare
LanguageEnglish
GenreOccult
PublisherCooperative Printing Society Limited, Tudor Street, E.C.
Publication date
1913
Publication placeEngland
Media typeLimited print (Paperback)
Pages68 pages
ISBNISBN 187218958X Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
Preceded byA Book of Satyrs
(1907) 
Followed byThe Focus of Life (1921) 

The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love), Psychology of Ecstasy is a book written by Austin Osman Spare during 1909-1913.

The book could be regarded the central text among his writings. It covers both mystical and magical aspects of Spare's ideas[1]; as the modern ideas on Sigils (as now have become popular among Chaos Magic) and Spare's special theory on incarnation are for the first time introduced in this book.

There are some chapters in The Book of Pleasure that Spare has referred to them within the text, but are omitted. It seems that they are destroyed during World War II[2].

The book had originally been planned as a mutus liber of illustrations only -"the Wisdom without words"[3], but expanded later.

Notes

  1. ^ Check here for more information.
  2. ^ Grant, Kenneth, Outer Gateways
  3. ^ Semple, W. Gavin, ZOS-KIA, 1995, Fulgur Limited, page 8

See Also

Austin Osman Spare