Earth Inferno

Spare first drew notice as an artist.

He entered the Royal Academy schools while young, exhibited Rorty and published Earth Inferno in 1905.

A 1907 art journal observation later cited by biographer Phil Baker said that few Londoners interested in art would not know Speer's name.

The statement captures the first reversal in Speer's career.

His magical philosophy is most comprehensively detailed in his 1913 self-published masterwork, The Book of Pleasure: Self-Love, The Psychology of Ecstasy.

This text, alongside other seminal works such as Earth Inferno, 1905, A Book of Satyrs, 1907, The Focus of Life, 1921, and Anathema of Zos, 1927, forms the bedrock of what would eventually be termed the Zos Kia Cultus.

[page turning] Within The Book of Pleasure, Spare introduces the foundational dualism of his system, the concepts of Zos and Kia.

The Zos represents the physical body, the mind, the empirical ego, and the entire spectrum of human incarnation and sensory experience.