
Lionel Snell
Lionel Snell
BIOGRAPHY
Lionel Snell is among the founding names in chaos magic – though better known as Ramsey Dukes. In 1970 Gerald Yorke (keeper of the Crowley archive) introduced him to the writings of Austin Osman Spare and he wrote “Spare Parts” – an introductory article about Spare’s system of magic – which was published in Agape 4 in 1973 together with a facsimile of Snell’s copy of The Anathema of Zos. This, together with his first self-published books SSOTBME – An Essay on Magic and Thundersqueak played a seminal role in the nascent Chaos current. He is also known for his contribution to cyber magic, having already pioneered the ‘information universe’ concept twenty years before The Matrix.
OUR WORK TOGETHER
The Witches’ Sabbath and Axiomata
AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE
With texts from Gavin W. Semple, Lionel Snell and Robert Shehu-Ansell
– 900 hand-numbered copies only