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    William Butler Yeats

    Sunday, April 13, 2008, 01:34 PM AEST [General]

    I had to catalogue a book the other day on W. B. Yeats. I discovered something the entire pagan community probably knows - that Mr Yeats was a member of the Golden Dawn and was in discussion with Madame Blavatsky. I was supposed to be cataloguing but I spent a good ten minutes reading the book. I never knew he had occult interests. I never knew that he believed he chanelled his complete opposite as a spirit and wrote letters/responses from him. I was completely amazed! I've now gone on this huge Yeats information gathering session. I found his serial 'Samhain' and had a look at some of the plays in there. I've also borrowed a few books on him. I'm thinking of writing a paper and submitting it to the local pagan magazine as an article (as if i'm not already busy enough). It has probably been done many times before but I really want to do this. I really want to find out more about this fellow. I almost feel cheated that I only just discovered him.

     

     

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