W.B. Yeats Twentieth Century Magus - An In-Depth Study of Yeat's Esoteric Practices and Beliefs, Including Excerpts from His Magical Diaries

W.B. Yeats -- Twentieth-Century Magus is a comprehensive study of his magical practices and beliefs. Yeats moved through many different phases of spiritual development, believing that his life was an intellectual, spiritual, and artistic quest -- a quest greatly influenced by Celtic lore, Theosophy, Golden Dawn ceremonial magic, Swedenborg's metaphysics, the works of Jacob Boehme, and Neo-Platonism. For Yeats, writing poetry was an act of divine possession, and he believed that a perfected soul was the source of his inspiration, visiting him during times of superconscious awareness. Susan Johnston Graf meticulously documents and provides evidence that Yeats's poetry is a brilliant, lyric narrative of reality captured through the mind of a practicing magician working in the Western Tradition.

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Tenzin Gyatos, His Holines the XIV Dalai Lama, is the exiled spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He is widely rrecognized as an advocate of world peace and has received many honors, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Johnston Graf
• Publisher: Red Wheel
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2000
• EAN: 9781578631384
• ISBN: 978-1-57863-138-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 209 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 322 g
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies