The conjunction of letters as a method of creating telesmata was not entirely new; Angelic names were sigillated in a similar fashion by Medieeval sorcerers and Renaissance High Magicians – and from early times in Northern Europe the Rune letters were bound together to create certain magical alignments. What was peculiar to Spare’s eclectic and pragmatic system was his dismissal of all ritual, trappings and dogma in favour of the use of sigils in conjunction with divertive techniques and control of the dreaming body via the Death Posture. He evolved a creative formula of initiation not predicated upon any religious basis and requiring no faith in any particular pantheon or hierarchy. Identifying the source of magical power as a triune essence of Will, Desire and Belief, Spare claimed the only requirement as being sufficient Belief on the part of the magician to permutate Desire according to his Will. Thus, the magical Current is ever at hand, and may be realised at any moment by a spontaneous and immediate apperception through aesthesis…

Gavin W Semple– ‘Zos Kia- An Introductory Essay on the Art and Sorcery of Austin Osman Spare’ (via iseesigils)