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London : Macmillan, 1937.
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Contents: a packet for Ezra Pound; stories of Michael Robartes and his friends: an extract from a record made by his pupils; phases of moon; great wheel; completed symbol; soul in judgment; great year of ancients; dove or swan; all soul's night, an epilogue. With many figures and illustrations.
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I have read portions of Yeats' "A Vision" quoted online, seeking to determine what and how Yeats learned ancient source texts.
Apparently Yeats wanted to look into cabbalistic texts
to derive his system of personality, but never actually did. Instead, it looks like Yeats stopped at the language
In a similar situation, James Joyce actually learned the languages of original cabbalistic texts. Joyce's written works after his cabbala are, linguistically, remarkably different than before. At least one great change in Joyce's writing is approximately close enough to his own language study, that is, learning to read Hebrew and Aramaic, to speculate that the language difference in his reading was adapted to his writing.
Apparently Yeats wanted to look into cabbalistic texts
to derive his system of personality, but never actually did. Instead, it looks like Yeats stopped at the language
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barrier and depended on others to digest source material. Thus it seems Yeats' system is based on his understanding of his aquaintances' translations/interpretations to him. In a similar situation, James Joyce actually learned the languages of original cabbalistic texts. Joyce's written works after his cabbala are, linguistically, remarkably different than before. At least one great change in Joyce's writing is approximately close enough to his own language study, that is, learning to read Hebrew and Aramaic, to speculate that the language difference in his reading was adapted to his writing.
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1925
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vii, 305 p.; 21 cm
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SS Includes Greg Staffford's hand-drawn diagram of the gyre worlds