THE REVELATIONS of
AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE The Occultist Who Used Art to Bring Manifestations into Reality From the Editors of Modern Occultist
You’ve almost certainly encountered Austin Osman Spare without knowing it. If you’ve ever written a desire in a sentence, crossed out the repeating letters, woven the remainder into a symbol, charged it in a moment of mental blankness, and then deliberately forgotten what it meant—you were using Spare’s method. If you’ve come across the phrase "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" in a chaos magic context, you were operating inside a paradigm that Spare’s work made possible. If you’ve read Peter Carroll’s Liber Null—the foundational text of the movement this very issue is devoted to—you were reading a book that Carroll himself described as having been shaped, at its root, by a reading of Spare.
And yet Spare—an artist as dedicated to his craft as he was to his occultist leanings—spent the last thirty years of his life in a damp basement flat in South London, surrounded by cats, and
MODERN OCCULTIST MAGAZINE
SUMMER SOLSTICE 2026
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