This neither-neither I, shall transvalue ennui, fear, and all diseases to my wish. Dead is my misery in suffering! How could it exist in my Zodiac, unwilled?

Austin Osman Spare, The Focus of Life

Hermetic quote Spare The Focus of Life neither transvalue ennui fear diseases wish dead misery suffering how could it exist zodiac unwilled

Consider also:

  1. “The pain-bearing obstructions are — ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion and clinging to life.”
  2. “Gravity grew such radiant adornments, its morbid simplicity compared to snakes, its secret wars torn from hidden promises, and all the while the only things that float defy nothing.”
  3. “O thou, of Angels fairest and most wise, God by Fate’s treachery shorn of liturgies! O Satan, have pity of my long misery!”
  4. “This time she set her will against my will; Swore that she would not come: in my despair I half believed her an enchantress fair Cruel as hell and dowered with subtle skill To strain my life out with her love, and kill My soul with misery: suddenly a rare Swift smile set shimmering all the ambient air, And then I knew she was my true love still.”
  5. “I have not me tragedy, no, not in this life! Yet, whether I have spewed their doctrines upon the tables of the Law or into the troughs, at least I have not cast away the flesh of dreams.”