Цитаты из книг — Остин Осман Спэйр

There is a Grimorium of graphic symbology and vague phonic nuances that conjoin all thoughts and is the language of the psychic world. Mind is a continuant and all concepts are relatable to preceptions and contact, therefore real; the continuum of all aspects of memory and learning - the past again becoming explicit, more…

The virtue of Art is that it can contradict (any law of) Science, to be Art it need not be true to Science. It teaches that composition, balance, or proportion, can be obtained by any principle or exaggeration, so points at freedom in a deliberation that already exists. Were you to say a certain principle is bad as Art…

All mendacity, self-punishment, sacrifice, etc., is but an attempt to escape the law of reaction or Karma, and by symbolising the reading of these laws, they hope thereby to wrest that power from Nature. Fakirs, mendicants, symbolise in fact, those incarnations that are unpleasant (due to them as punishment) from choice…

Know all ritual, ceremony, conditions, as arbitrary (...), a hindrance and confusion; their origin was for amusement, later for the purpose of deceiving others from knowing the truth and inducing ignorance; and as always happens their high priests were the more deceived themselves. He who deceives another deceives himself…

The symbolism of crowning a man King, is that he, resembling God (on earth), has reached the lowest strata of his sub-consciousness (those one-cell organisms if you like), which predominate as governing his functions. (Of course, those crowned Kings are never such, they symbolize the "hope", not the reality.) (...) He is…

The law of Evolution is retrogression of function governing progression of attainment, i.e., the more wonderful our attainments, the lower in the scale of life that governs them. Our knowledge of flight is determined by that desire causing the activity of our bird etc. Karmas. Directly our desire reaches the stratum…

Know the sub-consciousness to be an epitome of all experience and wisdom, past incarnations as men, animals, birds, vegetable life, etc., etc., everything that exists, has and ever will exist. (...) A microbe has the power to destroy the world (and certainly would if it took an interest in us). If you were to dismember…

(...) faith moves no mountains, not until it has removed itself. Supposing I wish to be great (is not counting that I am), to have "faith" and believe that I am, does not make me great - even were I to keep the pretence to the end... it being ceremonial insincerity, the affirmation of my incapacity. I am incapable,…

In point of virulence spiritual desire is as fatal as the sensuous. Aspiration towards a "supreme" is a network of deadly desires because of cowardice within, ergo, some unsatisfied wisdom awaiting exploitation to suffer its evolutions. There is no final wisdom - there is no final desire. How can anything end? Has today…

Other believe in prayer... have not all yet learnt, that to ask is to be denied? (...) Unless desire is subconscious, it is not fulfilled, no, not in this life. Then verily sleep is better than prayer. (...) Utilize prayer (if you must pray) as a means of exhaustion, and by that you will obtain your desire.

Only the refrangible 'comes through", a filtrated quasi-reality, not the "thing" itself; the noumenon of mind, is seemingly susceptible only by partitiveness - as phenomenal form. Thus all our awareness is reflected, partitive, and with a linear "I" as consciousness, and so motivates our faculties into actuations. But over…

When thought disassociates from the correspondences and gradations between contrasting things, this will reform abundantly with new correlatives as emotional content in our resultant process of rearrangements; final representation is an asymmetrical balance. This "seeing strangely" is the level of our genius.

Beauty alone reaches simplicity, because it is basic "economy". Envy over-adorns, paints, ostentatiously clothes and transfers to mode. The naked figure is a more fluid and truthful beauty: hence to marry a 'face' is often to marry a fiction.

We are millions of yesterdays, and what appears autogenic is the work of unknown mediators who permit, or not, our acts by the mysterious chemistry of our believing.

What stupidities benight the assertion that anything was created - unrelated to all else; if things were entirely separate, complete, they would be static and quickly exhaust. Life, growth, change, into and out of things to all transmutations possible; all things serve each other, willingly or otherwise. Yet we live by…