Austin Osman Spare
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Austin Osman Spare was an English artist and occultist who worked as a draughtsman, writer and painter. Influenced by symbolism and Art Nouveau, his art was known for its clear use of line and its dep
Spare in 1904
Spare's Portrait of the Artist (1907). An "important self-portrait", it would later be bought by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.
"Ascension of the Ego from Ecstasy to Ecstasy", an image taken from The Book of Pleasure (1913). now owned by The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History
Kenneth Grant (occultist)
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Kenneth Grant was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, writer, and advocate of Thelema. He founded his own Thelemic organisation, the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis with his wife Steffi Grant.
Austin Osman Spare
…War, although he continued exhibiting until his death in 1956. Spare's spiritualist legacy was largely maintained by his friend, the Thelemite author Kenneth Grant, in the latter part of the 20th century, and his beliefs regarding sigils provided a key influence on the chaos magic movement and Thee Temple ov…
Grant in the library of his Golders Green home. Taken by Jan Magee in 1978.
Aleister Crowley, who became Grant's guru.
Grant became a follower of Indian guru Ramana Maharshi