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.
Grant in the library of his Golders Green home. Taken by Jan Magee in 1978.
Aleister Crowley, who became Grant's guru.
Grant befriended the occult artist Austin Osman Spare (pictured in 1904).
Grant became a follower of Indian guru Ramana Maharshi
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
Kenneth Grant (occultist)
…his heir apparent in Great Britain, and was appointed as such by the American head of O.T.O., Karl Germer. In 1949, Grant befriended the occult artist Austin Osman Spare, and in ensuing years helped to publicise Spare's work. In 1954 Grant founded the London-based New Isis Lodge, through which he added to many of Crowley's…
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