Earth Inferno
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| Author | Austin Osman Spare |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Occult |
| Publisher | C.H.L., London |
Publication date | Feb 1905 |
| Publication place | England |
| Media type | Limited print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 34 pages |
| ISBN | ISBN 1872189563 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| Preceded by | - |
| Followed by | A Book of Satyrs (1907) |
Earth Inferno is the first book by English magician Austin Osman Spare written in 1904. The first publication, in 1905, limited to 265 numbered and signed copies has 11 illustrations and many decorations by Spare[1].
The book is decorated with poems and aphorisms in an aesthetic style. Each pair of pages contains two pallets: One showing a painting and another a commentary toward that painting.
This book was published when the artist's was 19 years of age[2] and its importance lies in the fact that it is the first time that Spare has introduced his fundamental ideas like Kia, Ikkah and Sikah. It also includes other ideas like The Dwellers on the Threshold and Chaos of Normal which he fully explained 22 years later in Focus of Life.
The book contains citations of Dante's Inferno and three poems excerpted from Edward FitzGerald's translation of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
On page 10, Spare alluded the title "The Book of KIĀ" to this book.
Notes
- ^ Revised Notes Towards A Bibliography of Austin Osman Spare, Clive Harper and Mandrake Press, 2007
- ^ Page 13 contains a self-portrait entitled "PORTRAIT OF HISSELF AGED 17" AUSTIN O SPARE 1904; this raises the question that it may have been written one or two years before its publication