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A reasonable lucid quote from the man himself, from The Book of Pleasure, section entitled "The Storehouse of memories with an Ever-Open Door":
"Know the sub-conciousness to be the epitome of all experience and wisdom, past incarnations as men, animal, birds, vegetable life etc etc. everything that exists, has and ever will exist. Each being a stratum in the order of evolution. Naturally the lower we probe these strata, the earlier will be the forms of life we arrive at; the last is the almighty simplicity. And if we suceed in awakening them, we shall gain their properties, and our accomplishment shall correspond....Now if we observe nature, the early forms of life and wonderful in their properties, adaptability etc; their strength enormous, and some are indestructible. No matter what there desire is, it always is its accomplishment. A microbe has the power to destroy the world (and certainly would if it took an interest in us). If you were to dismember its limb it would regrow etc. So by evoking and obecoming obsessed or illuminated by these existences, we gain their magical properties or knowledge of their attainment. This is what already happpens (everything happens at all times) though exceedingly slowly; in striving for knowledge we repel it, the mind works best on a simple diet."
Spare is not anymore explicit elsewhere about working with atavism (I think) but you'll find several a couple of stories in the works of Kenneth Grant, his liteary executor and influential occultist in his own right, though their truth or otherwise is debatable (like a lot else in KG's books). The most well-known story concerns Spare carrying a huge amount of wood over a long distance in London and most importantly, not realising what an extraordinary feat of strength this was. The "not realising" bit is important because it denotes the "sub-conciousness" or whatever at work, earlier sigils coming to fruition without his concious knowledge. |
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