Images and Oracles is an occult book much sought after but look at the price and you can guess it is not one often found. But don't Despair a publisher is London reissued this a few years ago (2003) at a reasonable price. The publishers were Fulgur and it is still available.
About this book, does the price reflect a real gem to be sought and bought. For me the answer is yes. Austin Osman Spare is an artist who was totally forgotten. His life and work lost. In Kenneth Grants earlier books the first seeds where sown to resurrect this neglected Genius. This was the first real book to bring the art and magic of Spare to life again. Kenneth Grants books are at times difficult if approached on the literal level. To be blunt they can be an assault on the mind. But this book is not that. It is lucid, well layed out and full of interesting and beautiful images. It takes us into the world of Spare.
The book also works on quite a few levels. It documents Spares Magical life. His art, His ideas and a few interesting stories about his experiences. I love this book. I have the original Muller edition picked up in a London book shop in 1990 for £2, and I recently bought the renewed edition from Fulger. The renewed edition is even better than the original as the images are better reproduced and the paper of better quality. also it doesn't cost $$$$$$$ My only gripe. It's not in colour.(Nor was the Muller original edition).
But if you want a lucid idea on Magick and why it might not all be hocus pocus here Grant is at his very very best. Instead Of Grant trying to shake us out of our dreamless sleep through words he gives us the art and words of Spare to get the dreaming mind active and willing to travel again. But at this price It's too expensive for most people who could use or just love this great book. Instead look for the reissued edition at a reachable price.
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