Sigil

Reduces a statement of intent to its letters, removes vowels and repeated letters, and overlays the remaining letterforms into one glyph, showing each step, with SVG download. The method of condensing a written desire into a single monogram comes from Austin Osman Spare’s The Book of Pleasure (1913) and later became a staple of chaos magic; versions differ on which letters are removed.

• Austin Osman Spare, The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy (London, 1913)
• Phil Baker, Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist (Strange Attractor, 2011)