![]() Despite his inability to remember quite when he was born, the place was certainly Snowhill, London: he was the only son of a City of London policeman. ![]() That his life was a curious blend of past and future. But whichever aspect of the deity he more closely represented, it is a fact He told me he was not sure whether he was born on the last day of December 1888, or on New Year's Day, 1889 whether, as he put it, he was Janus backward-turning, or Janus forward-facing. The circumstances of his birth emphasize the element of ambivalence and inbetweeness which forms the theme of his magic. They walk calm and primal, of no dimensions, and to us unseen." This aptly describes Austin Osman Spare. Lovecraft, in one of his tales of terror, alludes to certain entities which have their being "not in the spaces known to us, but between them. Austin Osman Spare and the Zos Kia Cultus By Kenneth Grant (From the Magical Revival)
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