Anathema of Zos Quotes

“Farewell antithesis. I have suffered. All is paid. Let me go forth to recreate my sleep”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites

“Honest was Sodom! YOUR theology is a slime-pit of gibberish become ethics. In YOUR world, where ignorance and deceit constitute felicity, everything ends miserably besmirched with fratricidal blood.”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites

“At that time of ecstasy there is no thought of others; there is NO THOUGHT. Thither I go and none may lead.”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites

“[...] Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love. Teach me to sustain its freedom; for I am sufficiently Hell. Let me sin against the small beliefs.”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites

“Human nature is the worst possible! Once I lived among ye. From self-decency now I habitate the waste places, a willing outcast; associate of goats, cleaner far, more honest than men.”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites

“Is this world's worst reality more vicious than human behavior?”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites

“He who is lawless is free. Necessity and time are conventional phenomena. Without hypocrisy or fear ye could do as ye wish”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites

“Criminals of folly? Ye but sin against self”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites

“Empty of cosmos are they who hunger after righteousness. Already are the merciful spent. Extinct are the pure in heart. Governed are the meek and of Heaven earn similar disgust. Your society is a veneered barbarity. Ye are precocious primitives. Where is your success other than through hatred? There is no good understanding in your world.”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites

“Know my purpose: To be a stranger unto myself, the enemy of truth. Uncertain of what ye believe, belike ye half-desire?”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites

“Know ye what ye want? What ye ask? Know ye virtue from maniacal muttering? Sin from folly? Desiring a teacher, who among ye are worthy to learn? Brutally shall I teach the gospel of soul-suicide, of contraception, not preservation and procreation. Fools! Ye have made vital the belief the Ego is eternal, fulfilling a purpose, not lost to you.”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites

“To believe or unbelieve is the question. Verily, if you believe of the least-ye needs must thrive all things. Ye are of all things, of all knowledge, and, be like, will you or stupidity to further self- misery!”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites

“Unworthy of a soul-your metamorphosis is laborious of morbid rebirth to give habitance to the shabby sentiments, the ugly familiarities, the calligraphic pandemonium-a world of abundance acquired of greed. Thus are ye outcasts! Ye habitate dung-heaps; your glorious palaces are hospitals set amid cemeteries. [...] Can you realize of Heaven when it exists WITHOUT?”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites

“AGAPE of the Christos had spent its force. It laid upon the land as a shroud when once it had been a bright and shining spell of liberation. Under this pall the scorpion bred consciousness in the charnel house of putrefaction. Monsters arose and walked the earth in the guise of living men and women.These are the hypocrites to whom the sermon was delivered.”
― Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites