文档介绍：THE BOOK OF PLEASURE (SELF-LOVE).
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ECSTASY.
BY AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE.
DEFINITIONS.
The words God, religions, faith, morals, woman, etc. (they being forms of belief), are
used as expressing different "means" as controlling and expressing desire: an idea of
unity by fear in some form or another which must spell bondage-the imagined limits;
extended by science which adds a dearly paid inch to our height: no more.
Kia: The absolute freedom which being free is mighty enough to be "reality" and free
at any time: therefore is not potential or manifest (except as it's instant possibility) by
ideas of freedom or "means," but by the Ego being free to recieve it, by being free of
ideas about it and by not believing. The less said of it (Kia) the less obscure is it.
Remember evolution teaches by terrible punishments-that conception is ultimate
reality but not ultimate freedom from evolution.
Virtue: Pure Art
Vice: Fear, belief, faith, control, science, and the like.
Self-Love: A mental state, mood or condition caused by the emotion of laughter
ing the principle that allows the Ego appreciation or universal association in
permitting inclusion before conception.
Exhaustion: That state of vacuity brought by exhausting a desire by some means of
dissipation when the mood corresponds to the nature of the desire, ., when the mind
is worried because of the non-fulfilment of such desire and seeks relief. By seizing
this mood and living, the resultant vacuity is sensitive to the subtle suggestion of the
Sigil.
DIFFERENT RELIGIONS AND DOCTRINES AS MEANS TO PLEASURE,
FREEDOM AND POWER.
What is there to believe, but in Self? And Self is the negation pleteness as
reality. No man has seen self at any time. We are what we believe and what it implies
by a process of time in the conception; creation is caused by this bondage to formula.
Actions are the expressions of ideas bou