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The Book of Pleasure
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- Traditions
- Twentieth-century magic
- Role in the tradition
- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
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- Minor Wikipedia has an article about it in 2 languages.
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From Wikipedia
The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): Psychology of Ecstasy is a chapbook written by artist-occultist Austin Osman Spare during 1909–1913 and self-published in 1913.
From the Wikipedia article The Book of Pleasure, revision 1338400039, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q7719289: “book written by Austin Osman Spare”.
In this study
In the chronology, in Austin Osman Spare's account.
Spare's central statement on desire, the subconscious, sigils and the state he called neither-neither.