shadesandshadows:

  Ascension of the Ego from Ecstasy to Ecstasy, illustration from The Book of Pleasure published in 1913 by Austin Osman Spare, English, 1886-1956. Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, a museum and bar in London.

  Spare was an artist, occultist and draughtsman associated with the artistic movements of symbolism and surrealism.