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It seems that all versions to the book "Book of Pleasure" by Austin Osman Spare that are now available on the net lack these three chapters:
1. Self-attraction
2. Day and night dreaming for pleasure
3. Symbolism, Automatic Drawing As Means To Art, & Note on Sacred Letters
Does anyone here own the full version?
1. Self-attraction
2. Day and night dreaming for pleasure
3. Symbolism, Automatic Drawing As Means To Art, & Note on Sacred Letters
Does anyone here own the full version?
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Re: "Book of Pleasure" full version
Thu, February 22, 2007 - 2:32 AMI am looking at my PHYSICAL copy of the book I-H-O Books 2005
ISBN 1-872189-58-X
and I see no chapters or sections with those titles.
all best
revRob -
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Re: "Book of Pleasure" full version
Thu, February 22, 2007 - 9:30 AMRev-
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Re: "Book of Pleasure" full version
Thu, February 22, 2007 - 12:50 PMOh right, but I think you meant actually -
"The Extra Double Super Secret Chapters."
hee hee
cheers
revRob -
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Re: "Book of Pleasure" full version
Fri, March 2, 2007 - 11:15 AMDear revRob,
Please check this link: www.hermetic.com/spare/pleasure.html
In this document you will find three footnotes that mention about the "omitted" chapters. So what your Original copy contain at the place of those footnotes?
Actually there is one older publication of this book at 1975 with ISBNl 0919690025 which MAY contain these lost chapters... But this publication is only available in a limited publication of just 1000 copies!
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Re: "Book of Pleasure" full version
Sat, March 3, 2007 - 11:03 PMalmost any answer with the right google terms....
book-of-pleasure spare omitted
gives an article with the following.
(so it looks like the chapters were never in the book they were
originally omitted by Spare).
all best,
revvrob
One of the intriguing features of the 'Book of Pleasure' is its footnote reference in the introduction to several chapters which Spare had to omit. The list of omitted chapters sounds more exciting than the actual published contents, and a lot of people would welcome proof that they ever existed !
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Re: "Book of Pleasure" full version
Sun, March 4, 2007 - 11:51 AMISBN 1-872189-28-8 (IHO) contains "Automatic Drawing As Means To Art" on p.139
Not quite: "Symbolism, Automatic Drawing As Means To Art, & Note on Sacred Letters "; but it seems close. -
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Re: "Book of Pleasure" full version
Mon, March 5, 2007 - 10:35 PMSardonyx - are you looking at the book or a reference to it.
First off a BOOK of Pleasure with 139 pages would have to
be in SUPER BLIND font size or have about two paragraphs per page.
Also a reference to a similar term could be another footnote.
Since my quote above indicates that spare omitted them from the
original version - and since no one has seen any of these anywhere
else - it is fairly safe to assume - they've never been in an official
or even know - seen held edition.
I'm no expert but that's my sense.
One other thought - this reminds me just how much more
interesting / tempting hidden or deleted information can be
than accessible information, even if the accessible information
is just as good or better.
cheers
revvrob
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Re: "Book of Pleasure" full version
Tue, March 6, 2007 - 12:56 PMThere are a lot of other ommited parts also including "posession" "black magick with protection" and the like.from what i recall weren't they destroyed in a fire during the war? -
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Re: "Book of Pleasure" full version
Tue, March 6, 2007 - 1:02 PMThere are some aspects of this in the "Grimiore of Zos", but it was never completed. There is a great chapter about automatic writing in association with sigilization in "Visual Magick" by Jan Fries.
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Re: "Book of Pleasure" full version
Thu, March 8, 2007 - 10:08 PMI owned the version reprinted in 1975, about 15 years ago and I do vaguely remember the last page of this edition had "Symbolism, Automatic Drawing As Means To Art, & Note on Sacred Letters", but there was speculation that Kenneth Grant had written this...A bookstore in Toronto called Seekers books had several copies of a black marketed reprint of the 75 edition for sale for about 100 bucks...I can't afford that...lol...but I'll try and go down there and see if they have any left and at least look through it...
