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The Power and the Glory

 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
21:17 / 29.07.05


This is a drawing of Judy Garland by Austin Spare.

That is all.
 
 
LVX23
01:10 / 30.07.05
you're a strange little monkey, bias.

i like how the mirror image is uglier and darker.
 
 
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01:28 / 30.07.05
Yeah, that thread title and summary, I thought you'd seen Jesus back on the streets or something!

Or I could just be pissed....seeing as it's friday night and all..........but either way, I wouldn't have posted if it wasn't to say that that is a nice picture. Definately good stuff.
 
 
macrophage
01:42 / 30.07.05
Do you think he wanked all over it, to give it some power?! How sweet!!! I thought he was a Fat Babalon Chubby Chaser my self as well!!! Watch out for the subliminal cluster fuck of sabbatical sigils contained herein! It will turn you into a Goat Fucker!!!
 
 
macrophage
02:09 / 30.07.05
Im gonna wank over this picture as it deserves an eighth degree work ethic over. I like it. Better than Dwarve cumshots. I'll cast a sigil over it astrally and I'll tell you the results!!! Banish by Anokhuz!!!!!
 
 
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02:29 / 30.07.05
One of my favorite Zos pictures was this little sketch he did of a penis with four legs. His writing style is very entertaining... One second he'll say something that is deeply profound, then he'll go and say he desires sexual congress with a fat-assed woman. Zos rocks.
 
 
Alpha Beth
13:48 / 30.07.05
Power & Glory.

July 23rd.
 
 
Joetheneophyte
18:01 / 31.07.05
that picture of Judy Garland was weird

was it really a Spare picture?

looks like his style

to me I got the impression that somehow, Judy was the image in the glass, as the one nearest to us was the sort of idealised version. She is 'traditionally' the prettier of the two

If you look at what Judy is holding, it seems to be the frame of a picture or I even got the impression that she is climbing out of the frame

Maybe Spare meant nothing at all and it was just a sketch but I get the impression he is conveying something here....whether it be that Judy saw herself as uglier than she was or maybe that Spare could see the beauty within Judy

considering that Spare didn't know of Judy's future unfortunate demise, it is interesting and thought provoking

Has anybody got any idea or background to this picture?
 
 
A0S
18:24 / 31.07.05
Nice!
Where did you find it?
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
07:40 / 01.08.05
I love the fact that Austin Spare drew loads of pictures of Judy Garland and Katharine Hepburn. I went to a talk by Michael Staley last year where he showed loads of slides from his collection of Spare paintings and it really was like:

"Yes, and here's a picture of atavistic resurgence, and a picture of Katharine Hepburn. Here's a picture of the death posture... aaand, another picture of Katharine Hepburn. Here's a picture of Katharine Hepburn in the death posture..."
 
 
illmatic
07:49 / 01.08.05
Has anybody got any idea or background to this picture?

Spare used everything as fuel for his art, so it's obvious he'd draw contemporary stars and celebs. My copy of the collected works has various "unoccult" people as drawn by Spare - my favourite being a series of drawings of old Cockney guys, with the most brillant weatherbeaten faces.

Just think if he were alive today, he'd be drawing John Prescott and Bruce Forsyth.
 
 
LykeX
09:11 / 01.08.05
Can anyone make out the writing at the bottom?
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
11:07 / 01.08.05
Just think if he were alive today, he'd be drawing John Prescott and Bruce Forsyth.

I actually own a premonitory painting of Bruce Forsyth by Austin Osman Spare. It was painted when Brucie came through to Spare as an inner planes contact, following a series of little known workings he undertook to gain the knowledge and conversation of the next generations most immanent sorcerer.

'The Generation Game' quite explicitly deals with the mysteries of atavistic resurgence and ancestral consciousness, and his well known phrase "What do points make? Prizes" is a subtle meditation on the Naples Arrangement and the manifestation of the universe from a single point. The white cube at the centre of the Rosy Cross.

Forsyth's television show 'Play your cards right' is perhaps the greatest work on the tarot produced this century, both building on and surpassing the work of Aleister Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris, and delivering the most profound teachings about the cards in plain sight, every Saturday evening at 8pm.

Perhaps his greatest occult achievement, however, can be found within the magical formula "Nice to see you, to see you nice" or NTSYTSYN. A cryptic, yet devastatingly simple riddle that brilliantly and concisely reveals the heart of the western mysteries, if it is paid sufficient study and close meditation.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:46 / 01.08.05
Avon and Blake, sharing a passionate embrace. (c) Austin Osman Spare.


The man was a genius. And a wizard.
 
 
Joetheneophyte
11:58 / 01.08.05
Gypsey

fugging great!!!!!!!!!!!!!


laffing my bad spelling head off here

Higher than Ipsissimus you say?




HIGHER
 
 
FinderWolf
13:58 / 01.08.05
I had no idea Spare could draw so well. This is inspiring me to research further into the old chap.
 
  
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