“No man can improve an original invention; nor can an original invention...
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “No man can improve an original invention; nor can an original invention exist without...
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William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “Ideas cannot be given but in their minutely appropriate words, nor can a design be made...
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William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “Living in a time when technique and imagination are continually perfect and complete,...
View Article“The errors in the handiwork of exalted spirits are as the more phantastical...
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “The errors in the handiwork of exalted spirits are as the more phantastical errors in their...
View ArticleThe recorded voice of William Butler Yeats
There are several mp3 files of William Butler Yeats reading his own work recorded in the 1930s over at the website of PennSound, a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the...
View ArticleStolen Child Tarot
You may be interested in this project to develop a new tarot deck, the Stolen Child Tarot by Monica Knighton. The name of the deck is inspired by a William Butler Yeats poem, The Stolen Child: “Come...
View ArticleDerek Nikitas working on a semi-historical horror/fantasy novel about...
Derek Nikitas, author and MFA faculty at Eastern Kentucy University, is apparently “working on a semi-historical horror/fantasy novel about W.B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley and H.P. Lovecraft.” [via, see]...
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The Celtic Golden Dawn: An Original & Complete Curriculum of Druidical Study
The Celtic Golden Dawn: An Original & Complete Curriculum of Druidical Study by Hermetic Library fellow John Michael Greer is due Feb 2013, published by Llewellyn. “A century ago, groups...
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Yeats’ system
Yeats’ system, originally uploaded by chasing the rabbit. “after Yeats’ drawing in ‘A vision’ (1925).” The Hermetic Library visual pool is a visual scavenger hunt for images of a living Western...
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Mythologies
Mythologies by William Butler Yeats, the 1969 softcover edition from Collier Books, is part of the collection at the Reading Room. “Banshees and faeries, demons and curses, village ghosts and mystic...
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The Magicians of the Golden Dawn
Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order, 1887-1923 by Ellic Howe, with a foreword by Gerald Yorke, the 1984 second printing softcover from Samuel Weiser, is part of the...
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What You Should Know About the Golden Dawn
What You Should Know About The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie, with a foreword by Christopher S Hyatt, the fifth and enlarged 1988 printing of the paperback from Falcon Press, is part of the collection...
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The Battle of Blythe Road
The Battle of Blythe Road: A Golden Dawn Affair: Aleister Crowley and the Revolt of the Adepti edited and introduced by Darcy Kuntz, with material on and from Aleister Crowley, William Wynn Westcott,...
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The Nag Hammadi Library
The Nag Hammadi Library, edited by James M Robinson, the 1990 paperback from HarperCollins, is part of the collection at the Reading Room. There is a newer revision The Nag Hammadi Scriptures which may...
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Homage to Pythagoras
Homage to Pythagoras: Rediscovering Sacred Science, edited by Christopher Bamford, with essays by Christopher Bamford, Keith Critchlow, Robert Lawlor, Anne Macauly, Kathleen Raine, and Arthur G Zajonc,...
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