Month: February 2004

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Found this entry in Kennth Grant's Images & Oracles of Austin Osman Spare... <!-- --> I'm currently reading Images & Oracles of Austin Osman Spare, published by, and available from Fulgur. I don't know that much about Spare, but enough to mention him in my recent Fucking Magic article (also published in The Yoke) and that he was a noted artist and occultist of his day. The following appears to be summarisation (By Kenneth Grant) of Spare's The Zoëtic Grimoire of Zos. The original can be found online in many places, such as here, but I decided to quote the below version, as the language of the original is rather turgid. I'll be reviewing the Images & Oracles as soon as I finish it. I've bolded phrase which I think is of relevance to my original sex magic article: The Sabbath is neither black nor white but a highly colourful...

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The value of looking up. Big lights in the Dublin sky! I was just outdoors - around 19:36 GMT, when I saw a large fireball right over Dublin, travelling in an West-East direction, about 85° from the southern horizon... it burned out in a couple of seconds, but it lit up the sky momentarily. I thought it was about 1/8 - 1/10 (conservative estimate) of the moon's luminosity, and there seemed to be a flash of colour - yellow or orange. The sky was almost clear, but it was hard to make out stars due to light pollution... more as I hear about it!