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Aberdeen Bestiary, 438n6

Abbey Theatre, Dublin, xxxiii, 320n51, 467n11

Academy of Florence, 211

Academy of Plato, Athens, 203, 448n64, 456n105

Achilles, 42, 132, 380n203, 446n54

and Athena, 151, 342nn9–10

and Cuchulain, 438n10

and the tortoise, 159, 400n4

Adam and Eve, 35, 210, 212, 335n36, 449n67

Adam, Denise de L’Isle, xxxvi–xxxvii, 23, 25–32, 36, 38, 329n9, 332n23, 332n25

Adams, Henry Brooks, xxvi, 191, 335n39, 436n68, 455n95, 455n96

Degradation of the Democratic Dogma, The, 435n65

Education of Henry Adams, The, 435n65, 462n132

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, 435n65, 455n92

Adam, James; Republic of Plato, The, 427n25

Adams, Steve L., 317n34

Æ. See Russell, George William

Aeneas, 152, 393n50

Aeschylus, 196, 336n45, 437n3, 439n15

Aestheticism, 339n61

After Life States, 314n28, 375n163, 381n210, 404n22, 411n50

life after life, 173–74, 288–89

Beatitude, xxix, 285–86, 295, 411n54

and Marriage, 169, 282, 291

Dreaming Back, 163–68, 171–72, 282–87, 406n28, 409n40

Foreknowledge, 44, 171, 282, 288

Marriage, 171, 208, 212, 285, 287

Meditation, 162, 171, 282–83, 286

Purification, 169–73, 286, 289, 399n72

First Purification, 282–87

Second Purification, 282, 285, 287

Return, 22, 164–67, 171–73, 181–82, 282–89, 406n35, 426n23

Shiftings, 168–73, 282, 285–86, 289, 411n50

Vision of the Blood Kindred, 162, 282, 404n23

Agamemnon, 194, 336n45, 342n9, 437n3

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 18, 168, 284, 321n58

Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres, De (Three Books of Occult Philosophy), 322n60, 410n48

Ahasuerus (in Shelley), 106, 109, 358n66, 370n127, 372n145

Aherne, John, xxxvi–xxxvii, 40, 327n1, 328n1, 339n59, 340n62, 367n112

Aherne, Owen, 38, 327–28n1, 328n4, 339n59, 342n14

Introduction to A Vision (1925), xxxvii, 329n13, 339n60, 341n6

in “Stories,” A Vision (1937), xxxvi, 24–39, 332n23, 337n51

in A Vision (1925), 315n28, 328n1

“Phases of the Moon,” A Vision (1937), 41–46

Ailill mac Máta (king of the Connachta), 326n75

Air. See Elements

akasa, 387n12

Alastor (communicator), 358n66

Alatiel, 324n65

Alcmaeon of Croton, 50, 346n8

Alexander III of Macedon (Alexander the Great), 114, 197–98, 205, 374n154, 431n43, 442n28, 446n54, 452n79

Alexandria, 203, 414n1, 450n68

Algeciras, Spain, 16, 321n56

All Souls College, Oxford, 6, 311n18

Altar. See Cavern and Altar

Ambrose, Saint, 311n18

Ameritus (communicator), 353n37

Ammonius Saccas, 202, 447n56, 447n58

“Among School Children” (Yeats), 401n9

Anastasius, 446n53

Anatolius of Alexandria, 422n11

Anaxagoras, 196, 198, 439n15, 443n31, 445n40

Anaximander, 180, 424n17, 444n40

Anaximenes, 444n40

Ancients, The (Shoreham Ancients), 341n5

angel, 18, 167, 168, 205, 323n63

and Daimon, 154

as messenger, 199

Guardian, 175, 206

in Aquinas, 50–51, 347n10

represented in art, 159, 204, 210–14

Anglo-Irish Treaty, 382n216

“Anima Hominis.” See Yeats, William Butler: Works: nonfiction prose: Per Amica Silentia Lunae

“Anima Mundi.” See Yeats, William Butler: Works: nonfiction prose: Per Amica Silentia Lunae

Antheil, George, xxxiii, 305n3

Anthony the Great, Saint, 376n165, 444n38. See also Flaubert, Gustave: Tentation de Saint Antoine, La

Antibes, France, 32

Antioch, 207, 444n35

antithetical, li

and Automatonism, 108

contests within itself, 76

love and pity, 445n43

Antoinette, Marie of France (queen), 165, 408n38

Antonines, The, 37, 336n43

Antoninus, 447–48n60

Antro Nympharum, De (On the Cave of the Nymphs) (Porphyry), 401n9

Aphrodite, 194, 369n124, 437n4

Apocalypse of St. John, 203, 212, 448n63, 457n108. See also Revelation

Apollo, 177, 309n13, 326n74, 437n5

Apollodorus, 336n44

Aquarius (image), 153, 394n54, 414n1

Aquinas, Thomas, Saint, xxviii, 50, 86, 347n10, 368n119, 449n68

Arabia, 36, 149, 443n28

Aram, Eugene, 325n70

Aran Islands, Co. Galway, Ireland, 123–24, 130, 161, 340n1, 377–78n179

Ararat, Mount, 182

Archer, William, 25, 329n8

Aretino, Pietro, 102–3, 213, 367n115

Argus, 437–38n6

Aries (image)

and faculties, 145, 152, 156

and precession, 149, 184, 414n1

and principles, 146f–47f, 148, 162, 293

and tinctures, 291

Great Wheel, 48f, 60f, 150, 185, 186

Great Year, xxx, 182, 300n31

in zodiac, 301n31, 344n1, 394n54, 430n40

Aristophanes, 197, 442n25

Aristarchus of Samos, 445n40

Aristotle, 49, 197, 278, 320n52, 345n4, 442n26

Arkins, Brian, 336n44, 398n71

Arnold, Matthew, 108, 216, 358n61, 372n142

Arthur of Britain (king), 208, 455n96

asceticism, 152, 174–75, 203, 205, 207, 212

Ashdown Forest Hotel, East Sussex, England, 8, 314n26

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, 196, 439n14, 467n9

Asia, 149–51, 204, 441n18, 443n28, 445n41

and Europe, 131, 172, 188, 205, 292, 452n81

eastern, 182, 188, 291, 444n36

on historical cones, 184, 195–98, 205, 208, 211

Astraea, 177–78, 417n4

Astral Light, 140, 386–87n12, 389n20

Assyria, 161, 329n12

astrology, 145, 152, 179, 347n10, 352n33, 391n38

astrologers, 294, 330n15, 386n115, 467n9

Babylonian, 195, 438n9

precession, 414n1, 429n39

signs and symbols, 168, 309n13, 345n1, 350n21, 360n76, 394n54

astroeides. See augoeides

astronomy, xxix, 149, 179, 352n33, 414n1, 429n39

Athena, 42, 342n9

Athens, Greece, 21, 326n74, 335n39

Atticus, Titus Pomponius, 178, 418–19n7

Attis, 177–78, 415–16n2, 421n10

augoeides, 387n12

Augustine, Saint, 436n70, 455n97

Augustus (Caesar, Gauis Julius Caesar Octavius), 295

Aurelius, Marcus (Caesar, Marcus Aurelius Antonius Augustus), 295, 297, 336n43, 444n39

Austen, Jane, 216–17, 460n124, 461n127

Authentic Existant, 142, 143f, 254, 389n23

automatic script, xxxvii, 11, 14, 39, 61, 147, 286, 293

and After Life States, 162, 168

and Faculties, 64, 162, 187, 315n29, 384n8, 411n53

and Principles, 162, 405n25

as a source of concepts, 150, 170, 190, 367n114, 370n128, 382n213, 384n8

communicators and frustrators, 10, 16, 314–15n28, 316n31, 412n58

from others, 403n19, 408n38

GY, xxvii, xxxiii, xxxiv, xliii, 7–8, 16, 190, 312–13n23, 314–15nn28–29, 318–19nn42–45

phase examples, 375nn162–63, 386n115 380n201

automatonism, 70, 76, 108

AVA-Laurie, xxiii–xxv, xxviii, 302n59, 320n49

as setting copy for AVB, xxxix–xxx, 302n59, 320n49

illustrations, xxxvii, 343n17, 344–45n1

Avadhūta Gīta, 299n12

Babylon, 151, 155, 195, 438n9

Bacchus, 358n60, 397n64

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 4, 307n9

Bacigalupo, Massimo, 310n15, 324n65

Bacleones, 331n21

Bacon, Francis, Sir, 215, 458n117, 462n132

Baedeker, Karl; Handbook for Travelers: Southern Italy and Sicily, 457n108

Bahinabai, 299n12

Bald, R. C., xlv

Balzac, Honoré de, 219, 376n170, 460n123, 463n135

as phasal example, 112, 114, 120, 296, 373n151, 374n153, 377n175

Works:

Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu, Le, 4, 308n12, 310n14

Comédie Humaine, 374n151

Louis Lambert, xxviii, 140, 385n11

Bardesanes (Bar Daisan), xxix

“Hymn of (or on) the Soul,” 169, 285, 411–12n55

Barrow, Robin, 324n65

Baudelaire, Charles, 97, 326n72, 365n102

Beardsley, Aubrey, 97, 210–11, 357n57, 365n102, 368n115, 444n34, 456n100

Beatitude. See After Life States

beauty, 43–46, 164, 207–9, 222, 307n8, 358n60, 452n85

and Body of Fate, 109, 120, 141

and love, 200, 209

and Phases, 80, 82, 92, 96–106

and tinctures, 125, 141, 367n114

and truth, 180, 426n21, 457n110

at Phase 14 & 16, 98–99, 102–5, 341n6, 368n115

at Phase 15, 60, 101–2, 367n112, 458n112

in Art, 196, 212, 214, 216, 369n122

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 109, 372n146

Beerbohm, Max, xxxiii, 305n3

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 19, 324n65

Bell, Mary, xxxvi, 30–38, 332n24

Bembo, Pietro, 82, 358–59n68

Benedict, Order of Saint, 454nn91–92

Benét, William Rose, xliii, xlv

Bengal, India, 393n51

Bergson, Henri, xxvi, 308n11, 324n67, 375n163, 400n5, 466n5

Berkeley, George, xxv–xxviii, xxxiii, 15, 51, 320n51, 385n11, 387n14

Commonplace Book, 140, 349n20, 385n12, 388n18

Principles of Human Knowledge, The (ed. Simon), 140, 388n14

Siris, 140, 385n11

Works of George Berkeley, The, 320n51

Bernard, Émile, 308n12

Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint, 209, 454n91

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 215, 458n117

Bhagavad Gītā, 299n12, 434n62

bhakti, xxvi, 299n12, 413n66

Birdalone (character in Morris, Water of the Wondrous Isles), 83, 359n72

Blair, Robert, 405n25

Blake, William, 53, 328n3, 345n1, 461n129

as author or commentator, 18–19, 142, 216–17, 277, 323n64, 389n20, 454n91, 459n122

as illustrator, 405n25

as phasal example, 102–3, 365n102, 367–68n115, 461n128

prophetic works, xli, 10, 316n29

Works:

“Auguries of Innocence,” 67, 356n49

“Descriptive Catalogue, A,” 103, 358n60, 368n117

Eternity, 82, 358n63

Europe a Prophecy, 125, 378n187

Jacob’s Dream, 347n12

Jerusalem, 53, 122, 142, 316n30, 350n24, 376n168, 377n176, 389n20

“Long John Brown & Little Mary Bell,” 332n24

Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The, 380n205, 409n40

Milton, Book the Second, 350n24

Milton: A Poem, 19, 53, 316n30, 324n66, 350n24

“Mental Traveller, The,” 80, 139, 156–57, 192, 201, 357n58, 384n9

“Several Questions Answered,” 358n63

Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting with Life, The, 405n25

Tiriel, 316n30

Visions of the Daughters of Albion, 119, 376n168

Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (Madame), 386–87n12, 406n30

Isis Unveiled, 387n12

Secret Doctrine, The, 328n5

Bocca Baciata (Rossetti), 324n65

Boccaccio, Giovanni; Decameron, The, 324n65, 371n137

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 408n38

Body of Fate, li, 57f, 58f, 193f, 356n52

defined, 54, 61–64

General Character of, 75. See also Four Faculties

Boehme, Jacob, 10, 53, 316n30, 323nn63–64, 350n22, 368n115, 381n211, 386n12

Bolton, Lyndon; Introduction to the Theory of Relativity, 462n132

Bombay, India, 173, 289

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 7, 120, 215, 218, 313n24, 374nn153–54

as phasal example, 112–15, 117, 313n24, 373n151, 375n160

Bonaventure, Saint, 385n11

Bond, John, xxxvi, 30–36, 332n24

Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, The, 207, 453n88

Bornstein, George, 372n140

Borrow, George, 86–87, 360n80

Botticelli, Sandro (Alessandro Filipepi [di Mariano diVanni]), 100, 150, 212–13, 366n106, 369n126, 397n64, 457n109

Mystic Nativity, 212, 457n108

Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de, 374n153

Bradford, Curtis, 352n35

Bradley, F. H. (Francis Herbert), 159, 400n5

Brahmin, 150, 190, 402n17

Brancusi, Constantin, 19, 324n67

Brihadāranyaka Upanishad, 160, 190, 401nn7–8, 434n62

British Library, London, xlvi, 303n78, 436n67

British Museum, London, 191, 344n1, 403n19, 437n2

Bronowski, J., xlv, 303nn73–74

Brontë, Anne, 88, 361n85

Brontë, Charlotte, 88, 361n85

Brontë, Emily, 88, 361n85

Brontë, Patrick Branwell, 88, 361n85

Browne, Thomas, Sir, xlii, 215, 459n119

Browning, Robert, 307n10, 333n31, 373n149, 410n43

Paracelsus, 8, 313n25

“Pauline,” 83, 359n70

Pippa Passes, 83, 359n71

Bruegel, Pieter (Brueghel) the Elder, 458n116

Brueghel, Jan the Elder, 458n116

Brueghel, Pieter the Younger, 458n116

Brutus, Marcus Junius, the Younger, 178, 356n50, 418nn5–6, 421n9

Buddha, 17, 153, 313n24, 394n54

Buddhism, 161, 172, 316n30. See also Zen Buddhism

Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody), 308n11

Bunting, Basil, xxxiii, 305n3

Burke, Edmund, 34, 334n33

Burkitt, F. C. (Francis Crawford); Early Eastern Christianity, 412n55

Burne-Jones, Edward, Sir, 100, 112, 366nn106–7, 369n126, 373n150

Briar Rose, 366n107

Golden Stair, The, 100, 366n107

Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon, The, 100, 366n107

Burnet, John, 49, 345nn2–3, 346n6, 353n35, 395–96n61, 442n26, 443n31, 444n40

“Burning Babe, The” (Southwell), 104, 369n121

Burton, Richard, Sir, 333n31

Burton, Robert, xli–xlii

Bushrui, S. B., 331n21

Byron, Lord (George Gordon), 107, 110, 373n149

Deformed Transformed, The, 380n201

Don Juan, 85, 359n75

Giaour, The, 85, 359n75

Byzantine

art, 14, 201, 207, 212, 449n66, 450n71, 452n83

Byzantium, 37, 335n42

culture and thought, 203–5, 207, 209–10, 428n32, 431n46, 444n35, 448n61

Empire, 197, 202, 335–36n42, 443n29, 446n53, 448n64

teacher, 8, 313n25

Cabbala, 10, 18, 27, 29, 219, 316n30, 320n52

Cassandra, 336n45, 437n3

Caesar, Gaius Julius, 132, 380n203, 418–19n7, 420–21nn8–10, 423n12

and Christ, 178, 192, 414n1, 418n5, 422n11

death of, 141, 178, 185, 418nn5–6

Julian Calendar, 179, 421–22nn10–11

Café Royal, The, London, 25–26, 30, 329n10, 362n89

California, USA, 8

Caliph of Bagdad. See Rashid, Harun al-

Callan, Edward, 303n76

Callimachus, 196, 217, 441–42nn20–22

Calvin, John, 128, 379n197

Cambrensis, Giraldus (Gerald de Barry), 329n13, 331n16

Cambridge Platonists, xxvii, 140, 386n12, 419n7. See also Platonist

Campbell, Mrs. Patrick (née Beatrice Stella Tanner), 110, 111, 373n149

Cancer (image), 48f, 60, 60f, 146f–47f, 169, 279

and Capricorn, 146, 180, 182–83, 344n1, 425n18

Cannes, France, 16, 32, 321n56

Capri, Italy, 212, 218, 293, 450n71, 457n108, 462n133

Capricorn (image), 48f, 60, 60f, 146f–47f, 184, 300n31, 430n40

and Cancer, 146, 180, 182–83, 344n1, 425n18

Carlyle, Thomas, 86–87, 90, 360–61nn80–81, 374n153

Carr, H. Wildon, 52, 354n38

Castiglione, Baldassare, 212, 359n68, 457n110

Castor, 37, 336–37nn44–45. See also Pollux

cat(s), 5, 8, 13, 144, 310n15, 311n17, 314n28, 390n27

Catherine of Genoa, Saint (Caterinetta Fieschi Adorno), 21, 327n77

Catullus, Gais Valerius, 295, 297

Cavalcanti, Guido, xxxiii, 12, 307n10, 310n15, 318n40

Cavern and Altar, 150, 189–90, 433n59

Cazamian, E. A., xliii

Cefalù, Sicily, Italy, 207, 453n86

Celestial Body

and after life states, 162–64, 166, 169, 170, 171, 277–79, 282–87, 409n41, 411n53

and time, 141, 387n13, 407n37

as symbol of the soul, 102, 384n8, 412n55

defined, 137–39, 140

on cones, 144–46

quality in poetry, 216

with reference to Plotinus, 142–43, 143f. See also Four Principles, Husk, Passionate Body, Spirit

Censorinus; De Die Natali, 424n18

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 368n115

Cézanne, Paul, 4, 308n12, 367n110

Chapman, Wayne K., 299n9, 341n3, 341n5, 341n7, 434n61, 332n25, 356n51

Charlemagne (king), xxxiii, 3, 205, 306n5, 451n78, 452n79

Charles I of England (king), 458n116, 467n9

Charles II of England (king), 334n34

Chatham, Earl. See Pitt, William, Sir

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 210, 373n151, 455n96, 456n99

Chekhov, Anton, 329n7

China, 151, 188, 201

Chinese, 3, 12, 276, 318n38, 323–24n65, 394n51, 466–67n3

Chrétien de Troyes, 208, 453n89

Christ, 123, 191, 313n24, 451n73, 451n76, 458n114

and Buddha, 153, 313n24, 394n54

and Caesar, 178, 192, 414n1, 418n5, 422n11

and calendar, 7, 177, 183, 396n63, 418n5, 421–22n11

and Christianity, 150, 157, 192, 382n213, 392n43, 447n59

and Great Year, 191, 292

and Judas, 380n204, 418n5, 445n43, 445n46

as primary man and Teacher, 102, 168–69, 191–92, 367–68nn114–15

as symbol, 207, 285, 291, 297, 313n24, 370n128, 394n54

crucifixion of, 21, 331n20, 361n86, 418nn5–6

imagery, 204, 212, 444n35, 447n59, 453n86

in art, 188, 198, 377n177, 444n35, 445n46

in “Stories,” A Vision (1937), 29, 39

love, 156, 397n64

pity, 368n115, 445n43

resurrection of, 182–83, 421n11

Christ Church, Dublin, 221

Christian/Christianity

and Great Year, 182, 188

and other religions, 292, 337n45, 445n41, 447n60, 457n108

and Principles, 142, 167

astronomy, 415n1, 429n39

calendar, 156, 178–79, 185, 396n63, 421–22n11

doctrine and practice, 18, 128, 335n36, 413n68, 445nn41–42, 447n55

historical dispensation on Great Wheel, xlii, 149–50, 194, 199–214, 291–92, 439n11, 447n59, 465n140

images and art, 188, 443n32, 449n67, 451n73

in various thinkers and writers, 165, 213–14, 323n64, 383n2, 391n39, 395n57, 415n2, 429n39, 464n137

monasticism, 376n165, 444n38

moving toward a new unity, 297

mysticism and asceticism, 316n30, 442n27, 449n68

Platonism and, 192, 197, 436n70

WBY’s reading in, xxvi

Christmas, 161, 317n37, 396n63, 407n36

Chrysippus the Stoic, 426n20, 428n36

Chrysostom, John, Saint, 396n63

Church of England, 379n198

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, xxxi, 178–79, 183, 301n33, 418n5, 420n8, 421n9, 428–29nn36–37

De Divinatione, 178, 418–19n7, 420n7

De re Publica, 348n14, 423n13, 428n37

Epistolae ad Familiares, 419n7

Somnium Scipionis (Dream of Scipio), 348n14, 416n3, 423n13, 424–25n18, 427n25, 428n37

Clare, County, Ireland, 178, 184

Clarke, Austin, xxxviii

Clement of Alexandria, 447n58

closing of the tinctures. See tinctures

Clovis, Saint, 455n96

Clytemnestra (Clytaemnestra), 37, 336nn44–45, 437n3

Cnoc Meadha. See Cruchmaa

Coleridge, Hartley, 88, 361n84

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 342–43n15, 361n84

Friend, The, 137, 383n3

Collier, Jeremy, 158, 391n38, 398n71

Collins, Michael, 383n216

Colm Cille (or Columba), Saint, 423n11

Colonus, Greece, 21, 326n74

Colum, Mary M., xlii

Commedia dell’arte, 62, 296, 354n39, 359n74

communicator. See Alastor, Ameritus, Dionertes, Fish, Frustrators, instructors, Leo, Thomas of Dorlowicz

communist, xliv, 219, 294, 435n66, 464n138

concord, 325n68

and cardinal signs, 142

and cones, 49–50, 389n18

and Faculties, 61

On Nature (Empedocles), 345n4. See also Discord, Love, peace

Conder, Charles, 100, 367n110

cone, xlvii, 351n29, 388n18

and Great Year, 186–88

and gyre at opening of the tinctures, 65

defined, 50–52

diagrammed, 50f, 52f–53f, 55f–59f

drawn on paper, 9

historical, 191–93

in relation to gyre, 196, 440n17

of the Faculties, 52–59

of the Principles, 138–40, 143f, 146f–48f, 278–80, 290

of twelve months or cycles, 154–55. See also gyre, Thirteenth Cone

Connemara, Ireland, 41, 340n1

Constantine I (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus), 202, 209, 336n42, 447n59, 455n96

Constantinople, 336n42, 447n59, 448n65, 449n66, 450n70, 455n96. See also Byzantium

control. See Alastor, Ameritus, Dionertes, Fish, Frustrators, instructors, Leo, Thomas of Dorlowicz

Coole Edition (Yeats), xlvi, xlvii, 304n80

Coole Park, Co. Galway, Ireland, xxviii, 304n1, 333nn30–31, 347n12

WBY at, xxvii, xxxi, 13, 161, 312n21, 418n7, 430n43

with GY, 8, 314n26

Cordelia (character in Shakespeare, King Lear), 21, 326n73. See also Shakespeare

Corinthians (book of the New Testament), 382n213

Cosgrave, W. T., 311n17

Cosimo de’ Medici, 456n105

Cossa, Francesco del, 309n13

Cotswold Hills, England, 219, 294, 464n138

Cotta, Lucius Aurelius, 178, 418n7

Cowley, Abraham, 214, 458n115

Cracow (Kraków), Poland, 27, 330n13

Creative Mind, li, 56f–58f, 77, 193f, 217, 375n160

defined, 54, 61–64

General Character of, 75

True and False, 67–68. See also Four Faculties

Crete, Greece, 195, 283, 439n11

Crickmaa. See Cruchmaa

Crimea, 161, 403n19

Critical Moment, 280–81, 291, 293. See also Initiatory Moment, Lightning Flash

Crivelli, Carlo, 212, 457n109

Croce, Benedetto, xxvi, 53, 61, 191, 353n35, 354n38, 400n5

Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept, 351n25

Philosophy of Giambattista Vico, 394n52, 435n66

What Is Living and What Is Dead of the Philosophy of Hegel, 53

Cromwell, Oliver, 373n149

Cronus, 437n4

Crowley, Aleister, 329n10

Cruachan, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, 21, 326n75

Cruchmaa (Cnoc Meadha, Crickmaa), 21, 326–27n75

Crump, Lucy; Nursery Life 300 Years Ago, 167, 283, 410n46

Crusoe, Robinson (character in Defoe, Robinson Crusoe), 166, 409n42

Cuala Press, xxxiii, xxxv, xxxviii, 305n2, 321n53, 467n4

Cubism, 324n67

Cuchulain, 407n36, 438n10

Cudworth, Ralph, xxvii

True Intellectual System of the Universe, The, 418n5, 419n7

Cumaean Sibyl, 177–78, 417n4, 429n37

Cumont, Franz, 438n9, 444n35

Cusanus, Nicolas. See Nicholas of Cusa

Cyrannid books, 185, 431n46

d’Annunzio, Gabriele, xlv, 110, 373n149

da Vinci, Leonardo, 156, 212–13, 457n109

St. John the Baptist, 397n64

Daimon, xxvii–xxix, li, 105, 313n24, 321–22n58, 352n33, 445n42

and after life states, 138–39

and automatic script, 17, 319n44

and expiation or Victimage, 173–75, 289, 445n42

and Faculties, 61–62

and Principles, 142, 145, 277–78, 281–82, 285–87, 387n13, 388n15

and Thirteenth Sphere, 155, 170, 290, 389n18

of nations or cultures, 154, 195

relation between human and, 98, 141, 365n103, 413n64, 465n4

Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock); Byzantine Art and Archaeology, 444n39, 449n66

Danaides, The (Ricketts), 217

Dancing Faun (Drunken Faun), 80, 358n60

Daniel (book of the Bible), 18, 322n63

Daniel, Arnaut, 307n10

Dante Alighieri, 210, 215, 353n37, 367n111

as phasal example, 105–7, 369n126, 370n128, 371n137

Unity of Being, 61, 188, 212

Works:

Commedia, 18, 106, 210, 323n64, 370n128, 370n130

Il Convito, 61, 188, 210, 353n37, 455–56n97

Inferno, 141, 178, 418nn5–6

Paradiso, 106, 359n73, 370n130

Vita Nuova, La, 370n130

Darby, Mildred, 405n26

Darwin, Charles, 117, 119, 375n162

David, Jacques-Louis, 378n185

Davies, W. H. (William Henry), 406n31

“Body and Spirit,” 163, 164, 406n31

de Breteuil, Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier, marquise du Châtelet, 332n28

de Castries, Duchesse (Claire Clémence Henriette Claudine de Maillé de La Tour-Landry), 219, 463n135

de Rachewiltz, Mary, 311n19

de Selincourt, Ernest, xxiii

Decadent movement, 357n57, 367n110, 444n34

Dee, John, Dr., xxix, 18, 51, 323n63, 330n13, 347–48n13, 447n55

Defoe, Daniel; Robinson Crusoe, 166, 409n42

della Quercia, Jacopo, 211, 456n104

Delphi, Oracle of Apollo at, 21, 326n74

Denis, Saint, 395n57

Descartes, René, 6, 311n19, 432n53

Destiny, 80, 101, 113, 139, 157, 184, 384–85n10

and Daimon, xxvii, 139, 465n4

and Faculties, 58, 64, 84, 139, 465n4. See also Fate

Deutsch, Babette, xliv

devils, 6, 116, 276, 395n57, 411n48, 461n127. For “the devil,” see Satan

Diana (god), 369n122

Diane de Poitiers, 369n122

Dickens, Charles, 217, 373n151, 375n160

Pickwick Papers, The, 217, 461n127

Diocletian, 431n46, 443n29

Diogenes Laertius, 346n8

Diogenes of Apollonia, 444n40

Dionertes (communicator), xxx, 301n32, 314–15n28, 316n32, 317n36, 405n25

Dionysius the Areopagite. See Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria, 422n11

Dionysus (god), 156, 358nn60–61, 397n64

Dioscuri. See Castor, Pollux

Discord, 346n4, 351n27, 425nn18–19

and cardinal signs, 142 180, 182

and cones, 49–50, 53, 389n18

and Faculties, 69–70, 78, 95–96, 125–26, 128

and Phases, 111, 125–26, 128

On Nature (Empedocles), 321n55, 345n2. See also concord, Empedocles, strife, war

Dolabella, Publius Cornelius, 178, 420n8, 421n9

Dominic, Saint, 455n94

Dominican Order, 209, 455n94

Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi), 211, 456n104

Doneraile (Dún ar Aill), Co. Cork, Ireland, 160, 401–2n11

Doric, 196, 204, 439n12. See also Greece/Greek culture, Ionic

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 116–17, 119, 121, 361n82, 375n162

Idiot, The, 88, 116, 361n82, 375n161

double cone. See cone

Douglas, Lord Alfred, 395n57

Dowden, Edward, Sir; Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, The, 371n135

Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, The, 366n108

Dowson, Ernest, 97, 365n102

Doyle, Mary Aloysius, Sister, 403n19

Dreaming Back. See After Life States

Dryden, John, 158, 214, 398n71, 458n115

“Dublin” Edition (Yeats), 303n76

Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, 460n122

Dublin Museum. See National Museum of Ireland

Dublin, Ireland, xxxi, 3, 6, 15, 20, 227, 308n12, 311n18, 314n26, 332n29, 339n59, 378n182, 382n216, 395n57, 461n127

Duddon, John, xxxvi–xxxvii, 23, 25, 30–31, 38–39, 328n2, 340n62

Duhem, Pierre, xxvii, 140

Discord, 49, 345n2, 425nn18–19

Great Year, 182, 415n1, 424nn16–17, 426n20, 427–28n32, 429n39, 431n47

Greek texts, 180, 346n8, 423n13, 426n24, 444–45n40

Neoplatonism, 386n12, 391n39

precession, 429n39

Dulac, Edmund, xxvii, 319n46

as phasal example, 372n142

diagrams by, 28f, 47f–48f, 300n31, 343n17, 344n1

illustrator, xxxvii, xli, 330n15

Dumas, Alexandre, 86, 87, 360n80

Duncan, Allan, 301n33

Dürer, Albrecht, 212, 331n15, 372n142, 457n106

Earth. See Elements

Easter, 178, 418n5, 422n11, 423n11

Eden, Garden of, 35, 335n36, 344n1, 449n67

Edition De Luxe (Yeats), xxv, xxxi, xxxviii, xlvi, 303n77

Edwards, Oliver, Dr., 305n1

egg, 38, 335n37, 336n44

ant, 87, 361n81

bird, 158, 335n40

Leda’s, 37, 49, 195, 336n43, 438n8

swan, 36

world, 24, 328n5

Ego, 354n38

Egypt/Egyptian culture

and astronomy, 185, 346n7, 438n9

Desert Fathers, 376n165, 442n27, 444n38, 449n68, 450n68

in military and political campaigns, 374n154, 419n7, 442n28

in mysticism or magic, xxv, 161, 169, 202, 285

in race theory, 151, 392n42, 393n49, 432n56

in the arts, 188, 214, 216, 393n48

Elements

Air, 48f, 68, 77, 321n55, 345n1

Earth, 48f, 68, 77, 321n55, 345n1

Fire, 48f, 69, 77, 180, 182, 321n55, 345n1, 350n21

Water, 48f, 68, 77, 180, 321n55, 345n1, 350n21

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), xxxiv, xliv, 310n16, 400n5

Waste Land, The, 295, 467n10, 467n12

Elizabeth I of England (queen), 323n63, 458n115

Elizabethan Age, 458n115

Ellis, Edwin John, 139, 323n64

Ellis, Mary Helen, Sister, 403n19

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 359n76, 371n139

Emery, Florence Beatrice Farr, 161, 222, 402n17

Emotion of Sanctity, 134, 162, 216, 282, 381n210

Empedocles, 16, 49, 321n58, 346n5, 354n38, 426n20

concord and discord, 49, 53, 61, 180, 321n55, 345n2, 346n4, 351n27, 425nn18–19

On Nature, 321n55, 345n2

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 440n18, 449n68, 336n44

Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics. See Hastings, James

Engels, Friedrich, 377n171

England, 161, 214–15, 326n72, 335n39, 347n10, 377n171, 422n11

Epaminondas, 21, 327n76

Epicurus, 198, 443n31

equinox, 149, 185, 300n31, 414n1, 422n11

autumnal, 344n1, 396n63

precession of, 391n38, 414n1, 429n39

vernal, 145–46, 178, 184, 186, 279, 344n1, 390n28, 396n63, 414n1, 416n2, 418n5, 422–23n11

Erigena, Johannes Scotus (Eriugena), 205, 451n78

Etruscan civilization, 185, 189, 417n3, 433n59

Eunapius; Lives of the Philosophers, 447n60

Europe/European culture, 441n18

and Asia, 131, 172, 188, 205, 292, 452n81

in nineteenth century, xxix

in race theory, 149, 151, 157, 186, 432n56, 433n58

on Great Wheel, 66

on historical cones, 9, 208, 214–15, 219, 295–96

philosophy, xxvi, 191, 386n12

Eusebius of Caesarea, 422n11, 448n60, 449–50n68

evil, 37, 102, 116, 126, 139, 175, 278, 339n60, 371–72n139, 411n54

and good, 45, 107, 112, 115, 133, 136, 168–69, 284–86, 344n1, 368n116, 372n140, 411n48

spirit, 163, 405nn26–27

Vision of, 108, 359n76

exchange of the tinctures. See tinctures

Exodus (book of the Bible), 342n12, 438n10

Ezekiel (book of the Bible), 132, 380n205

Fall, 60, 60f, 345n1

Fallon, Gabriel, 361n82

Farr, Florence. See Emery, Florence Beatrice Farr

Fascism, xliv–xlv, 219, 350n21, 351n25, 373n149, 435n66, 462n134, 464n139

Fate, 64, 83–84, 89, 96–97, 101, 103, 114, 139, 465n4. See also Destiny, Necessity

Faure, Élie; History of Art, 437n2, 441n20, 446n49, 450n72, 459n121, 459n122

Fechner, Gustav Theodor; On Life After Death, 404n23, 406n28

Fenollosa, Ernest; “Nō” or Accomplishment, 401n10, 402n16

Ficino, Marsilio, 415n1, 456n105

Fielding, Henry, 373n151

Finneran, Richard J., 304n83, 395n57

Finvarra, king of the Sidhe, 326n75

Fire. See Elements

First Purification. See After Life States

Fish (communicator), 354n38

Fitzgerald, Edward, 308n11

Fitzgerald, Mary, 395n57

FitzPatrick, Bernard Edward Barnaby (2nd Baron Castletown), 402n11

Flaubert, Gustave, 117, 121, 375n160, 375n162, 376n166, 377nn172–73

Bouvard et Pécuchet, 119–20, 376n165

“Spirale, La,” 51, 349n18

Tentation de Saint Antoine, La (Temptation of Saint Anthony, The), 119, 218, 376n165, 462n131

Fletcher, Ian, 305n1, 437n2

Fletcher, John; Nice Valour, The, 107, 371n131

Fleurs du mal, Les (Baudelaire), 21, 326n72

Florence, Italy, 31, 211–12, 353n37, 358n68, 364n100

Flower, Robin Ernest William, 184, 430n43

Fool, 46, 72–73, 80, 100, 102, 135, 382n213. See also Hunchback, Saint

Fool, The (Tarot card), 382n212

Foreknowledge. See After Life States

Foster, Roy F., 321n56, 350n21, 462n134

Four Faculties, xxx, xlvi, li, 370n128, 381n208, 404n22, 407n35, 413n64

and Automatonism, 70

and Commedia dell’ Arte, 62

and Discords, 69–70

and Great Wheel, 61–63

and opening, closing, and interchange of the tinctures, 65–66

and past incarnations, 167, 283

and Principles, 137–38, 140–41, 143–48, 146f–48f; 277–88, 290

cone of the, diagrammed, 52–59, 56f–58f

directional movement, 351n29

distinctions among, 64

distinctions with Principles introduced, 17

equidistant at Phase 12, 95

introduced, 9

on historical cone, 187–88, 193f

Table of the, 70–73, 315n29. See also Body of Fate, Creative Mind, Mask, Will

Four Principles, xxix, li, 404n22

and after life states, 162, 285, 391n37, 410n47

and Daimon, 139, 281, 388n15

and time, 52, 140–41

cones of, 141, 145–48, 155, 183, 188, 278–80, 192

defined, 137–39, 61, 140, 144, 175

in story of automatic script, xxxiii, 17

interchange of Sage and Victim, 118, 169, 290

WBY’s writing about, xxx, 152, 295

when Faculties wear thin, 63, 65, 355n47, 381n208

with reference to Plotinus, xxvi, 142–43, 143f. See also Celestial Body, Husk, Passionate Body, Spirit

Fowler, W. Warde, 415n2, 421n10

Fra Angelico (Il Beato Fra Giovanni Angelico da Fiesole), 210, 456n98

France, 32, 36, 215, 296, 452n83

France, Anatole, 121, 373n151, 377n173

Frazer, James George, Sir, 336nn43–44, 363n94, 415–16n2, 423n11, 443n30, 465n1

Freemasonry, 322n63

Freud, Sigmund, 409n43, 412n61

Frobenius, Leo Viktor, xxxiii, 150, 189, 190, 335n39, 433nn58–59

Froissart, Jean, 210, 456n98

Froude, James Anthony, 361n81

Frustrators, 10–13, 171, 316n31. See also Leo (frustrator)

Furtwängler, Adolph, 196, 441–42nn21–22, 456n104

Gainsborough, Thomas, 34, 216, 334n33, 459n121, 461n127

Galsworthy, John, 125, 378n189

Galway, Ireland, 312n21, 319n46, 333n31

and Coole, 314n26, 402n12

clergyman, 219, 294, 464n137

county, 165, 178, 326n75, 340n1, 408n38

Garden of Eden. See Eden, Garden of

Gemini (image), 168, 337n45, 360n76

Genesis (book of the Bible), 35, 335n36, 358n59

Genetica (Hermes Trismegistus), 185, 431n46

Gentile, Giovanni, xxvi, 52, 60, 353n35, 394n52, 400n5

Reform of Education, The, 352n35

Theory of Mind as Pure Act, The, 52, 350n21, 387n14, 388n14

George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (character in Shakespeare, Richard III), 90, 362n88

George, Saint, 103, 311n18, 368n116, 449n67

George, Stefan, xlv

Gerard (or Gerald) of Cremona, 329n13, 331n16

Germany, 319n46, 380n199

ghost, xxix, 204, 210, 281, 411n53

encounters with the living, 12, 163, 168, 221–23, 284, 371n135, 465n2

in Greek mythology, 307n10, 407n36, 438n9

of Sir William Gregory, 161. See also spirits

Ghostly Self, li, 17, 142, 155, 174–75, 290–91, 321–22n58, 389n18

Gibbon, Edward; History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The, 335–36nn42–43, 423n12, 442n24, 443n29, 445n45, 446nn53–54, 447n59, 452n85, 455n96

Gibbon, Monk, 399n2

Gibraltar, 321n56

Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco), 98, 365n103

Giotto di Bondone, 210, 456n98

Giraldus, 27, 29, 37, 39, 329n13, 330–31n15, 347n10

portrait of, xxxvii, xli, 28f, 340n17, 343n1, 344n62, 362n89

Gladstone, William, 364n98

Glanvill, Joseph, 386n12

Glastonbury, England, 12, 317–18n37

Glendalough, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, 8, 314n26, 440n17

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 108–9, 216, 372n142, 372n146

Faust, 92, 189, 216, 363n92, 433–34n61, 460n123

Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, 109, 313n25, 372n144

Gogarty, Oliver St John, 405n26

Golden Bough, The (Frazer), 363n94, 415–16n2

Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the, 309n14, 310n14, 316n30, 321n58, 323n63, 343n17, 357n57, 374n159, 402n17, 465n2, 466n5

Goldsmith, Oliver, 34, 334n33

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, 121, 377n172

Gonne, Iseult (Stuart), 159, 312n23, 365–66n103, 367n111, 400n6

Gonne, Maud (MacBride), xxx, 310–11n17, 367n111, 368n115, 369n122, 369n126, 375n163, 400n6, 454n92

good, 21, 61, 93, 127, 129, 166, 372n139, 376n163, 461n127

and evil, 45, 107, 112, 115, 133, 136, 168–69, 284–86, 344n1, 368n116, 372n140, 411n48

goodness, 34, 37, 116, 382n213

the Good, 21, 354n38, 389n23, 468n13

Good Samaritan (character in the New Testament), 200, 445n44

Golden Number (Perfect Number) (Plato), 156, 181, 393n44, 397n66, 427n25

Gordon, D. J., 305n1

Gort, Co. Galway, Ireland, 312n21, 403n19

Gothic, 186, 209, 334n34, 452n83, 456n103

Gould, Warwick, xxxix, xlix, 303n77, 304n80, 308n12

Gourmont, Rémy de, 377n172

Goya, Francisco, xlii

Grahame, Kenneth, 357n57

Grandison, Charles, Sir, 216

Gray, Thomas, 215, 459n118

Great Wheel, The, xxxiii, xli f, xliii, 48, 49–136, 145, 148, 150–51, 156, 162, 293, 343n17, 344n1

Great Year, The, xxx, xxxi, 75, 149, 154, 177–92, 300n31, 391n38, 392–93n44, 414–15nn1–2, 423–24nn15–16, 427n32, 428nn36–37

Greece/Greek culture

and Great Year (start of year), 182, 185, 427n30

art, 14, 201, 203–4, 209, 211, 437nn2–5

astronomy, 179

fatalism, 185

Greco-Egyptian, 204, 450n72

Greece, 149

ideas, 195, 199, 369n124

in race theory, 152, 201, 205, 294, 335n39, 439n11–13

language, 212, 276, 310n14

literature and philosophy, xxvi–xxvii, 36, 196–98, 213, 307n10, 346n8, 428n36, 442n26

military and political campaigns, 337n50, 441nn18–19, 442–43n28

on historical cones, 195–99, 296–97

periods in history, 438n9, 439nn12–13

religion and mythology, 198, 211, 336n43, 337n45, 357n57, 358n60, 415n2, 437n6, 438n9, 442n22. See also Doric, Ionic

Gregory I, Saint (Gregory the Great) (pope), 379n191, 423n11

Gregory of Nyssa, 448n65

Gregory, Isabella Augusta Persse, Lady, 312n21

and Hugh Lane affair, 409n43

as phasal example, 125, 378–79nn189–90

conversation with, 7, 361n82

correspondence with, xxx, xxxii, 311n17, 312–23nn23–24, 325n69, 400n6, 403n19, 460n124, 461n127, 461n129

library at Coole, 417n3

stories told to, 161, 184, 402n12

WBY staying with in 1931–32, xxvii, 418n7

Works:

Cathleen Ní Houlihan, 369n122

Pot of Broth, The, 430n43

“Raftery,” in Poets and Dreamers, 379n192

“Tree Planting,” 333n30

Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, 317n37, 382n212, 386n12, 389n20, 398n69, 402n16, 408n38

Gregory, Robert, 333n30, 406n28

Gregory, William Henry, Sir, 161, 333n30, 402n12

Grigson, Geoffrey, xlii–xliv

Grillion’s Club, London, 34, 333–34n31

Grosseteste, Robert (bishop), 140, 385–86nn11–12

Grout, James, 396n63

Grubb, W. T. Hunt, xlv

Gyraldus. See Giraldus

gyre, xlv, 29, 347n10, 347nn12–13, 348n16

repeating and expiation, 172–73, 289. See also cone, Thirteenth Cone

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, 203–4, 448n64, 450n70, 451n74

Hamilton, William, Sir, 10, 315n30

Hammersmith, London, 219, 294, 463n136

Hamsa, Bhagwān Shri, 384n4, 391n40, 413n70, 423n15, 435n62

Hannay, James O., 449n68

Harper, George Mills, 310n14, 312n23, 316n30, 317n34, 364n100, 403n19

Thomas Taylor the Platonist (with Raine), 320n52

W. B. Yeats and W. T. Horton, 465n2

Harper, Margaret Mills; Wisdom of Two, 312n22, 313n23

Harris, Frank, 144, 361n81, 390n27

Harris, Thomas Lake, xlii, 114, 375n159

Wisdom of the Adepts, The, 114, 374n159

Hartmann, Karl Robert Eduard von, xxvi

Hastings, James; Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, 415n2, 421nn10–11, 424n15, 427nn30–31, 429n39, 438n9, 447nn59–60, 449n68, 451nn76–77

hate, 77, 171, 287, 292

Hauptmann, Gerhard, xxxiii, 3, 305n3, 306n5, 311n19

Hávamál, 363n94

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 358n60

Head, li, 60, 60f, 110, 345n1

Head, Heart, Loins, and Fall, 60f, 345n1

Heard, Gerald, 191, 335n39, 435n65

Heart, li, 60, 60f, 74, 110, 345n1

Hector, 43, 342n10

Hegel, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm, xxvi, 53, 139, 149, 294, 320n52, 351n25, 354n38, 400n5

Lectures on the Philosophy of History, 149, 191, 391n40, 435n63, 436n67, 449n65

Science of Logic, The, xxiv, 15, 181, 219, 294, 427n28, 464n138

Helen of Troy, 37, 99, 194, 336nn44–45, 363n92, 366n103, 367n111, 437nn3–4

Helvetius, John Frederick (Johann Friedrich Schweitzer), 137, 383n3

Hemsterhuis, Franciscus, 383n3

Henslowe, Philip, 374n156

Hera (god), 165, 220, 437–38n6

Heracles, 164–65, 220, 407n36

Heraclitus, 49–50, 60, 145, 180, 321n58, 345nn2–4, 346n6, 385n11, 425n18, 439n12, 465n4

Herbert, George, 128, 130, 379n197

Hermes (god), 437n6

Hermes Trismegistus, xxv, 184–85, 340–41n3, 384n10, 431n46

Hermetica, xxviii–xxix 139, 155, 189, 384n10, 395n59

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. See Golden Dawn

Hermetic Students, 10, 316n30

Herod Antipater (character in the story of Salome), 198

Herodotus, 307n10

Hesiod, 437n3

Hinduism, xxvi, 138, 299–300n12, 316n30, 384n4, 413n66

Hipparchus, 184, 429n39

historical cones. See cone

Hobbes, Thomas, 217, 461n128

Hobgoblin, 168, 284, 410n48

Hodos Chameliontos, li, 5, 217, 309–10n14

Holmes, W. G.; Age of Justinian and Theodora, The, 443n29, 446n53, 448n61, 449n65

Holy Ghost, 142

Holy Grail, 317n37

Holy Sepulcher, Church of the, 29, 331n20

Homer, 4, 21, 195, 369n126, 437n3

Iliad, 307n10, 342nn9–10

Odyssey, 164, 307n10, 401n9, 407n36

Homeric Age, 208, 439n12

Hone, Joseph M., 140, 317n35, 374n151, 385n11–12

Hood, Connie K., xxxi, xxxvii–xxxix, xlviii–l

“A Search for Authority,” 304n81

“Remaking of A Vision, The” 322n62, 328n1

Hood, Thomas; “Dream of Eugene Aram, The,” 19–20, 325n70

Hood, Walter Kelly, xxxi, 301n35, 304n81, 364n100

Horace, 375n160

Odes, 378n189

horoscope, 114, 130–31, 136, 157, 370n126, 430n41

Horton, William Thomas, 221, 374–75n159, 465n2

Howth, Dublin, Ireland, 39, 339n59

Huddon, Peter, 23–32, 36, 328n2

Hueffer, Ford Hermann (Ford, Ford Madox), 308n11

Hugo, Victor, 363n93, 380n201

Hume, Robert Ernest, xxviii

Hunchback, 46, 72–73, 96, 131–33, 135, 296, 380n201, 405n27, 467n13. See also Saint, Fool

Husk

and after life states, 162–71, 282–83

and time, 140–41, 387n14

defined, 137–39, 277–80, 412n56

on cones, 144–48, 154

with reference to Plotinus, 142, 143f. See also Celestial Body, Four Principles, Passionate Body, Spirit

Huysmans, Joris-Karl, 444n34

Hyde, Douglas, 327n75

Ibsen, Henrik, 25, 329nn7–8

Iconoclasm (Byzantine), 205, 451nn76–77

Ides of March, 145, 178, 390n28, 418n5, 422n11

Image, 44, 50, 62, 64, 68–70, 77, 81–86, 90–91, 95–109, 111, 114, 210, 213

India, 36, 138, 151, 172, 174, 188, 190, 201, 374n154, 414n1

Inge, William Ralph, 447n60, 448n60

Initiatory Moment, 280–81, 293. See also Critical Moment, Lightning Flash

instructors (communicators)

and theories of the Great Year, 181, 183, 187–89, 191, 292–93, 391n38, 414n1, 429n39, 432n58

basic symbols given by, 50–53, 55

continuing consultation, xxvii, xli, l

details about Great Wheel given by, 63, 74–75, 357n57

geometry of Principles explained by, 137, 139–42, 145–47, 149, 153–58

information about after life states given by, 165, 168–69, 172–75, 277–81, 281–89, 387n13

methods and purpose, 8–17, 314n28, 412n58

reviewers’ explanations of, xxxv, xliii, xlv

understanding of history, 294, 440n16

WBY’s promise not to read philosophy, xxv, 10. See also Alastor, Ameritus, Dionertes, Fish, Frustrators, Leo, Thomas of Dorlowicz

interchange of the tinctures. See tinctures

“Introduction” to AVA (Yeats), xxxvii–xxxviii, 329n13, 339n60, 341n6

Io (nymph), 437n6

Ionic, 196, 204, 211, 217, 440–41n18, 441n21. See also Doric, Greece/Greek culture

Iphigenia, 437n3

Ireland/Irish culture, 311n17, 340n1, 405n26, 422n11, 454n92

Anglo-Irish, xliv, 305, 334n33

fictional characters in, 27, 30, 32–38

folklore and mythology, 160, 166, 438n10, 465n1

in arts and philosophy, 327n76, 335n39, 440n17

politics and history, 337n52, 362–63n90, 364n98, 382–83n216, 464n138

travelers to, 329n13, 332–33n30

Yeatses’ travel to, 8, 314n26, 318n42

Irish Citizens Army, 464n138

Irish Free State, 38, 311n17, 337n52, 383n216

Irish Republican Army, 20, 383n216

Isaiah (book of the Bible), 322n63

Islam, 316n29, 391n39, 452n83

Italy, 34, 60–62, 216, 305n3, 306n6, 358n68, 417n3, 443n28, 450n71, 452n83, 455n97, 457n108, 464n139. See also Rome/Roman culture

Ithaca, Greece, 212

Jacobean Age, 458n115

Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, 137, 383n3, 424n15

Jacobus de Voraigne, 453n87

James I of England (king), 458n115

James VI of Scotland (king), 458n115

James, Henry, xxvi, 217, 400n5, 461n127

James, R. A. Scott, 305n1

Jeffares, A. Norman, 303n77, 349n18

jelly fish, 147, 466n4

Jerusalem, 119, 331n20, 448n63

Jesus. See Christ

Jocasta, 325n71

John of Patmos (“the Divine”), 397n64. See also Revelation

John the Baptist, Saint, 156, 198, 396n63, 397n64, 444n34

John, Augustus, xli, 2, 91, 304n1, 305n1, 333n31, 362n89

Johnson, Lionel Pigot, 154, 380n198, 395n57

Johnson, Samuel, 215, 312n20, 361n80, 375n160, 410n46, 459n118

Johnston, Charles, 395n57

Johnston, G. A., 349n20

Jonson, Ben, 114, 374n151, 374nn155–56, 374n158

Joseph of Arimathea, 317n37

Jourdain, Eleanor Frances (Frances Lamont); An Adventure, 165, 408n38

Joyce, James, 308n11, 311n17

Ulysses, 4, 295, 308–9n12, 310n14, 467n10, 467n12

Work in Progress (Finnegans Wake), 394n52

Judaism, 151, 182, 195, 316n30, 421–22n11, 438n10, 457n106

Judas Iscariot, 132, 178, 380n204, 418nn5–6, 445n43, 445n46

Judea, Israel, 151, 212

Judith (character in the Bible), 27, 329n12

Judwalis, 29, 37, 39, 330n15, 404n23

Julian Calendar, 178–79, 421–22nn10–11

Julian the Apostate, 416n2

Julius II (pope), 211, 457n106, 458n113

Juno (god), 195, 438n6. See also Hera

Jupiter (god), 395n60, 420n8

Jupiter (planet), 153–54, 156, 219, 394n54, 465n140

Justinian I (Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Justinianus), 203, 204, 336n42, 448n64, 449n66

Kagawa, Toyohiko, 219, 294, 295, 463–64n137

Kant, Immanuel, xxvi, 29, 37, 52, 337n46, 348n17, 400n5

Critique of Pure Reason, 331n18

Karma, 190

Keats, John, xxxii, xlvi, 98, 100, 305–6n4, 364n101, 365n103

“Ode on a Grecian Urn,” 3, 305n4

Endymion, 81, 358nn61–62

Keith, Arthur Berriedale, 401n8, 434n62

Kelley, Edward, 18, 323n63, 330n13

Kelly, John, 314n26

Kelmscott House (Hammersmith, England), 463n136. See also Morris, William

Kendall, John D., 304n81

Kenner, Hugh, 342n15

Ker, Walter C. A.; Philippics (Cicero, tr. Ker), 420n8

Kiltartan, Co. Galway, Ireland, 51

Kings (book of the Bible), 438n10

Knockmaa. See Cruchmaa

knots, 12, 318n39

Krishna, 173, 289, 367n114, 413n66

Kusta ben Luka (Qusta ibn Luqa), 39, 330–31nn15–16, 338nn53–54, 367n112, 404n23

Kyd, Thomas; Spanish Tragedy, The, 373n148

Laius, 325n71

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, 115, 119, 375n160

Landor, Walter Savage, 62, 82, 105, 108, 120, 355n42, 358n64, 369n126

Imaginary Conversations, 354–55n42

Lane, Hugh, 409n43

Langhorne, John and William, 417n3

Larkin, James, 464n138

Laurie, Werner, xxiii, xxxviii, 14, 320n49

Law, William, Rev., 18, 323nn63–64

Lawrence of Arabia. See Lawrence, Thomas Edward

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 413n65

Rainbow, The, 173, 413n65

Women in Love, 173, 413n65

Lawrence, Thomas Edward (Lawrence of Arabia), 30, 331n22

Lazarus (character in the New Testament), 200

Leadbeater, Charles Webster, 387n12

Leap Castle, Co. Offaly, Ireland, 163, 405n26

Lear (character in Shakespeare, King Lear), 21

Leda, xlv, 37, 49, 195, 336nn43–44, 437nn2–3, 439n11

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 154, 348n17, 394n56, 432n53

Lely, Peter, Sir (Pieter van der Faes), 34, 334n34

Lenin, Vladimir, 191, 436n67

Leo (image), 169

Leo (frustrator), 316n31

Leo Africanus (Al Hassan Ibn-Muhammed al-Wezar Al-Fasi), 316n31, 317n34

Leo III (emperor), 451n76

Leonides of Alexandria, Saint, 450n68

Leopardi, Giacomo, 325n68

Leto, 437n5

Leukippos, 445n40

Lévi, Éliphas (Alphonse Louis Constant), 386n12

Lewis, Percy Wyndham, xxxiii, 19, 184, 296, 308n11, 324n67

as phasal example, 90–91, 362n87, 362n89

Time and Western Man, xxvi, 4, 307n11, 311n17, 430–31n43, 433n61

Libra (image), 48f, 60, 60f, 146, 146f–47f, 148, 156, 162, 291, 344n1

Liebregts, Peter Th. M. G., 336n42, 336n44, 436n70, 441n18

Lightning Flash, 280. See also Critical Moment, Initiatory Moment

Lilly, William, 294, 467n9

Locke, Amy Audrey, 465n2, 221

Loins, 60f, 345n1

London, England, 36, 38, 161, 312n23, 314n26, 316n30, 328n3, 328n6, 334n31, 334n34, 434n62

Longenbach, James, 365n102, 366n108

Longinus (supposed author of On the Sublime), 442n24

Longinus, Gaius Cassius, 418n6

Lord Dunsany (Edward Plunkett), 357n57

Love, xxx, 29, 105, 109, 120, 133, 144, 156, 292

after death, 161, 163, 170–71, 175, 287

and Denise, Huddon, and Duddon, 27, 30–32

and pity, 200, 445n43

and symbol, 157, 293

and the Daimon, 173, 289

at Phase 15, 101, 153

in the arts, 4, 20, 183, 309n13, 313n25

or Concord, and War or Strife, 49–50, 180, 182, 195, 321n55, 345n2, 346n4, 351n27

sexual, 65. See also Concord, Discord, peace, pity

Lovell, Hin-Cheung, 323n65

Lover’s Nocturne, A (Shelley), 108

Loyola, Ignatius, 379n197

Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), 158, 398n71

lunar, xxviii, 54, 60, 133, 138–40, 146, 160, 169, 178–83, 192, 279, 285, 300–301n31, 347n10, 352n33, 365n102, 381n208, 390n28, 422n11, 425n18

month, 144–45, 150–51, 178–79, 183, 421n10, 422n11

phases, 29, 42, 48f, 58–61, 60f, 279, 344n1, 391n38

year, 144–46, 156, 177

Luther, Martin, 128, 130, 379n197, 380n199

Lydwine of Schiedam, Saint, 290

Machen, Arthur, 357n57

MacGreevy, Thomas, xxxi

MacKenna Stephen, xxvi, 15

Impassivity of the Unembodied, The (Plotinus), 169

Plotinus, 320n53

Enneads (Plotinus), 51, 286, 321n58, 349n20, 353n36, 386n12, 389n23, 401n9, 411n52, 426n22, 430n42, 466n1

MacManus, Dermott, 384n4

Macmillan of London, xxiii–xxv, xxxi–xxxiii, xxxvii–xli, xlvi–li, 301n47, 302n59, 302n61, 305n1, 313n24

Macmillan of New York, xxiv, xli, xlvii–xlix, 227, 304n81

Macmillan, Harold, xxiii, xlvii, 305n1, 343n17, 352n32, 355n48, 436n1

Macpherson, James, 86–87, 360–61n80

Ossian, 361n81

Macran, Henry S., 427n28

Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, 51, 347n10, 348n14

Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, xxix, 348n14, 428n36

Maeterlinck, Maurice, 373n149

Magnus Annus, 185, 397n66. See also Great Year, The

Mahabharata, 380n206

Mahon, Christy, 123, 377n178

Malatesta, Sigismondo, 307n10

Mallarmé, Stephane, 357n57, 444n34

Man Friday (character in Defoe, Robinson Crusoe), 166

Man of Ur (Man of Er) (Plato), 150, 181, 184, 392–93n44, 415n1, 423n13, 427n26

Mandukya Upanishad, 160, 162, 401n7, 403–4n20, 435n62

Mann, Neil, 322n58, 381n208, 381n211, 382n213, 387n12, 399n72, 412n56, 440n16, 450n68

A Vision [1925]: A Review Essay,” 448n60

“Life and the After Life,” 404n22

“Numbers, Accuracy and Precision,” 429n39

Mannin, Ethel, xli, 385n11

Mantegna, Andrea, 212, 457n109

Manu, Code (Laws) of (Manusmimagexti or Mānava-Dharmaśāstra), 179, 424n15

Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony), 420n8

Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso Emilio, 308n11

Marius, Gaius, 177, 416n3, 420n8

Mark (gospel), 90, 174, 361n86

Mark, Thomas

corrections, xxv, xlviii, l–li

proofing, xxxii, xli, xlvi–xlviii, 303n78, 304n83, 356–57n52

notebook, 232, 342n13, 352n31, 355n44, 369n125, 378n188, 399n3

Maro, Publius Vergilius. See Virgil

Marozia, 452n85, 453n85

Marriage. See After Life States

Mars (god), 421n10

Mars (planet), 152–56, 183, 394n54, 430n40, 465n140

Marx, Karl, 121, 191, 294, 296, 377n171, 435n66

Marxian, 60, 295, 467n10

Mary II of England (queen), 398n71

Masaccio (Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone Cassai), 210, 212, 456nn99–101, 457n109

Masefield, John, 332n27

Mask, li, 57f, 58f, 77, 193f, 370n128

defined, 54, 61–64

Four Conditions of, 76

True and False, 66–67. See also Four Faculties

Mathers, Moina Bergson (“Vestigia”), 466n5

Mathers, Samuel Liddell (MacGregor), 223, 309n14, 316n30, 363n94, 466n5

Kabbalah Unveiled, The (tr.), 322n63, 339n59

Matthew (gospel), 90, 174, 362n86

Maxentius (emperor), 447n59

Mazarin, Jules, 378n189

McMillan, Margaret, 382n213

McNeill, Dorothy (Dorelia), 91, 362n89

McTaggart, John McTaggart Ellis, 387n13

Mead, G. R. S. (George Robert Stowe), xxiv, 387n12

Medb (Maeve) (queen of the Connachta), 326n75

mediaeval (Middle Ages)

arts, 175, 307n10, 348n17, 358n65, 456n103

characters in Pound’s Cantos, 4

medieval Europe, 348n14

mysticism and magic, 15, 398n69

science, xxvii, 356n51

thought, 140, 348n14, 361n83, 385n11, 391n39, 395n57, 428n32

Meditation. See After Life States

Meister, Wilhelm, 8, 313n25, 465n4

Melchiori, Giorgio, 328n5, 380n201

Menelaus (king), 336n45

Mephistopheles, 363n92

Meredith, George, 373n151

Merlin, 208–9

Merovingian Gaul, 423n11

Mesmer, Franz, 386n12

Mesopotamia, 188, 442n28

Messiah, 182, 444n37

Messianic Eclogue. See Virgil: Eclogue IV

miaphysitism, 451n76

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 18, 21, 323n64, 458n113, 459n122

as phasal example, 213, 377n175

Renaissance, 211, 456n104

Middle Ages. See mediaeval

Middleton, Thomas, 371n131

Milan, Italy, 6

Milbank, Ralph, Earl of Lovelace, 373n149

Mill, John Stuart, 10, 316n30, 461n128

Milton, John, 41, 42, 215, 375n160

“Il Penseroso,” 340–41nn3–5

“On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity,” 214, 458n114

Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, The, 341n7

Minoan culture, 438n9

Mirandola, Pico della, 15, 320n52, 329n13, 456n105

Mithra, 198, 212, 457n108

Moberly, Charlotte Anne Elizabeth (Elizabeth Morison), 165

Adventure, An, 165, 408n38

Moberly, George, 408n38

modern/modernity

arts and letters, 34, 114, 119, 160, 175, 210–11, 307n10, 308n12, 324n67, 326n72

astronomy, 149

historical period, 4–5, 209, 215–16, 295

mind or character, 189, 198, 276

thought, 60, 171, 311, 335n39

WBY’s knowledge of, xxvi, xxxiii

modernist. See modern/modernity

Mommsen, Christian Matthias Theodor, 179, 423n12

Monaco, 32

monophysitism, 451n76

Monreale, Sicily, Italy, 207, 453n86

Mont Saint-Michel, France, 209, 454n92

Montaigne, Michael de, 372n142

Monticelli, Adolphe Joseph Thomas, 100, 367n110

moon, 19, 27, 41–42, 48f, 58–60, 69, 104, 125, 153, 179, 222, 318n44, 324n65, 352n33, 356n50, 372n140, 412n55, 421n10, 440n17

full, 42–44, 99, 196–97, 206–7, 344n1, 392n43, 421n10

full in March, 145, 150, 178, 183, 390n28, 418n5, 422–23n11

Moore, G. E. (George Edward), xxvi

Moore, George Augustus, 115, 375n160

Moore, T. Sturge, xxvi, 329n9, 330n15, 390n27, 397n66, 400n5, 430–31n43, 434n62

Art and Life, 349n18, 376n166, 377nn172–73

Frobenius and Spengler, 433n59, 435n65

More, Henry, 321n58, 386n12

More, Thomas, Sir; Utopia, 393n50

Moreau, Gustave, 130, 380n200, 444n34

Morley, John, 93

Morris, William, 120, 219, 294, 306n5, 463n136

Collected Works of William Morris, The, 407n36

Gothic Architecture, 454n91

Odyssey of Homer, The, 164–65, 220, 407n36

Sundering Flood, The, 409n43

Water of the Wondrous Isles, The, 82–83, 358n65, 359n72

Moses (character in the Bible), 93, 342n12, 364n95

Motokiyo, Zeami; Nishikigi, 161, 402n16

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, 34, 334n35

Murphy, Russell Elliott, 457n108

Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry; Oxford English Dictionary (ed.), 54, 351n26, 379n194

Musée du Louvre, Paris, 369n122, 397n64

Muses, 19, 323n65

Mussolini, Benito, 350n21

Myers, Frederic W. H., 375n162, 404n22

Myron of Eleutherai, 211, 456n104

Myshkin, Prince Lyov Nikolaievich (character in Dostoyevsky, The Idiot), 361n82

mysticism, 12, 15, 142, 178, 281, 316n30, 364n100, 382n213, 383n2

and Swedenborg, 51, 348n17

Egyptian or Greek, xxv, 322n63, 346n7

Indian, 81, 393n51

practice of WBY and acquaintances, xlv, xlviii, 10, 343n17, 347n10, 379n197

Shelleyan, 155, 396n61