SIGILS. BELIEF WITH PROTECTION.
Magickal Obsession.
“…I will now explain their creation and use; there is no difficulty about it, how pure and clear it alls. Out of love for my foolish devotees I invented it. All desire, whether for Pleasure, Knowledge, or Power, that cannot find “Natural” expression, can by Sigils and their formula find fulfillment from the sub-consciousness. Sigils are the means of guiding and uniting the partially free belief with an organic desire, its carriage and retention till its purpose served in the sub-conscious self, and its means of reincarnation in the Ego. All thought can be expressed by form in true relation. Sigils are monograms of thought, for the government of energy (all heraldry, crests, monograms, are Sigils and the Karmas they govern), relating to Karma; a mathematical means of symbolizing desire and giving it form that has the virtue of preventing any thought and association on that particular desire (at the magical time), escaping the detection of the Ego, so that it does not restrain or attach such desire to its own transitory images, memories and worries, but allows it free passage to the sub-consciousness.”
~AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE – THE BOOK OF PLEASURE (SELF-LOVE)