Occult poetry, ceremonial magic

A Vision

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.