- Joined
- Jul 3, 2023
- Messages
- 4,535
- Reaction score
- 21,042
- Awards
- 15

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was an organization devoted to the study and practice of the occult, metaphysics, and paranormal activities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Kathleen Raine, an internationally distinguished poet and scholar, is known for the work "Blake and Tradition." This is her in-depth study of Yeats with relation to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which he joined in 1890. "I became curious about Yeats's use of the Tarot cards because my attention had been caught by an observation in Hone's Life that among the young poet's few and treasured possessions in his rooms in London in the 1880's was a Tarot pack. His allusions to certain Tarot Symbols- Tower, Wheel, Magician, Chariot - are bound to strike anyone who has played at fortune-telling."
Buy: