Occult poetry, ceremonial magic

A Vision

Name: A Vision
Author: William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats1925

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A complex and highly idiosyncratic system of spiritual, psychological, and historical geometry. Yeats, a Nobel laureate and long-time member of the Golden Dawn, claims to have received this system through his wife's automatic writing. The book outlines a theory of 'the gyres' (spirals) and the 28 phases of the Moon, which provide a taxonomy of human personality types and a map of historical cycles. It is a fusion of astrology, psychology, and prophetic history, and it provides the philosophical and symbolic key to much of Yeats' later poetry.

Also known asYeats's A Vision · The Gyres · Yeats Philosophy

This edition1925

EditionT. Werner Laurie, London

Automatic WritingOccult PhilosophySpiritualismCeltic MysticismVisualizationMystical gnosisPhases of the MoonPoetic Mysticismspiritual initiationreincarnationWestern EsotericismHermeticismGolden Dawnesoteric symbolismmystical unionGyres & Historical Cycles

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