Yeats' mystical inclinations was stimulated by the Hindu religious philosophy of the Theosophical Society. In his sixties he became friends with a Hindu monk Shri Purohit Swami.
Yeats eventually became a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an English Rosicrucian society founded in 1888.
7 For instance, Yeats's Rosa Alchemica contains a ritual climax relying heavily on the Golden Dawn. However, Yeats's works are not meant to be rituals themselves, nor do they support a system and cosmology, as Crowley's do.
The scholar Frances Yeats' book, Giordano Bruno and the HermeticTradition demonstrates the importance of iconography, philosophy, and Hermetic idealism during the period crucial to the development of the Tarot imagery.
[9] "Morning Star." Yeats joined the Stella Matutina and was a member of that group for twenty years.
[10] "Emerald Seas" ...
Yeats, "Consume my heart away; sick with desire and fastened to a dying animal, It knows not what it is..." The Great Work is the attempt to undo the damage, and it consists of two parts.
William Butler Yeats born in Ireland
1875
Eliphas Levi, (Constant, Alphonse Louis) dies (May 31)
1875
Aleister Crowley (Crowley, Edward Alexander) born (October 12)
1889
Mathers' edition of Kabbalah Unveiled published
1888 ...
Yeats, and the artist Aubrey Beardsley. Westcott soon withdrew, and Mathers authoritarian tendencies soon led to conflict and schisms Yet this small organisation exerted an influence out of all proportion to its size, ...
Despite the twisted background of this text, it has a definite resonance which students of the Esoteric will enjoy. Indeed, W.B. Yeats, who moved in Theosophical circles, was an admirer of this text.
Many of the images will be familiar while others will surprise you with their depth and symbolism. This was the secret deck used by A.E. Waite, Aleister Crowley, William Butler Yeats, and Israel Regardie.
to the present day, although it has remained a small body with a worldwide membership of some 25,000. Swedenborg's ideas, however have had a greater effect the secular world, influencing individuals as diverse as Blake, Balzac, Emerson, Yeats, and D.
 See also: Ritual, Mystic, Magic, Golden dawn, World
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