The book of pleasures by Austin Osman Spare
These and many other doctrines, are declared by me as the perpetuators of sin and
illusion. Each and all depending on a muddled implication, obscuring, yet evolved from
the duality of the consciousness for their enjoyment. In fear they would vomit hot blood
were they to see the fruits of their actions and pleasures. Thus believing in widely
different doctrines, they are of the dual principle, necessary parasites on each other. Like
drugs and the surgeon’s knife, they only annul or at best remove an effect. They do not
change or remove the fundamental cause (the law). “Oh, God, thou art the stagnant
environment.” All is quackery: these religions whose very existence depend on their
failure, are so full of misery and confusion, have only multiplied arguments, as full of
argument as they are evil, so crowded with non-essentials, being so barren of any free
pleasure in this life or another, I cannot uphold their doctrines. Their criterion for
enjoyment-death! Better it were a man renounce them all, and embrace his own
invincible purpose. He cannot go further, and this is his only release. By it he may put his
pleasure where he will, and find satisfaction.
