W B Yeats, Magus

[Paul Ferguson]

"If the paramount project of W.B. Yeats’ professional life was the perfection of the art of poetry, it was intertwined with a personal preoccupation, the study and practice of magic—not in any metaphorical sense, but the dedicated pursuit of supernatural powers based upon the ancient traditions of alchemy and necromancy, which began in his youth and persisted to the end of his long life."

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/magic-s...eats-magus

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Yeats' mystical stuff is here:

https://sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/index.htm