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During 1885, Yeats was involved in the formation of the Dublin Hermetic Order. That year the Dublin Theosophical lodge was opened in conjunction with Brahmin Mohini Chatterjee, who travelled from the Theosophical Society in London to lecture. Yeats attended his first séance the following year. He later became heavily involved with the Theosophy and with hermeticism, particularly with the eclectic [[Rosicrucian|Rosicrucianism]] of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]. | During 1885, Yeats was involved in the formation of the Dublin Hermetic Order. That year the Dublin Theosophical lodge was opened in conjunction with Brahmin Mohini Chatterjee, who travelled from the Theosophical Society in London to lecture. Yeats attended his first séance the following year. He later became heavily involved with the Theosophy and with hermeticism, particularly with the eclectic [[Rosicrucian|Rosicrucianism]] of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]. | ||
He was admitted into the Golden Dawn in March 1890 and took the magical motto ''Daemon est Deus inversus''—translated as "Devil is God inverted." He was an active recruiter for the sect's Isis-Urania Temple, and brought in his uncle George Pollexfen, Maud Gonne, and Florence Farr. Although he reserved a distaste for abstract and dogmatic religions founded around personality cults, he was attracted to the type of people he met at the Golden Dawn. He | He was admitted into the Golden Dawn in March 1890 and took the magical motto ''Daemon est Deus inversus''—translated as "Devil is God inverted." He was an active recruiter for the sect's Isis-Urania Temple, and brought in his uncle George Pollexfen, Maud Gonne, and Florence Farr. Although he reserved a distaste for abstract and dogmatic religions founded around personality cults, he was attracted to the type of people he met at the Golden Dawn. | ||
In 1901, with the dissensions in the Golden Dawn, Yeats questioned the validity of the mysterious [[Cipher Manuscripts]] in a privately published a pamphlet titled ''Is the Order of R.R. et A. C. to Remain a Magical Order?''. He became involved in the Order's power struggles, both with Farr and [[Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers]], and was present when Mathers sent [[Aleister Crowley]] to repossess Golden Dawn paraphernalia during the "Battle of Blythe Road." After the Golden Dawn ceased and splintered into various offshoots, Yeats remained with the Stella Matutina until 1921. | |||
Yeats was an early influence on child prodigy [[Frederick Santee]], having met him while Santee was pursuing his graduate degree at Oxford. | Yeats was an early influence on child prodigy [[Frederick Santee]], having met him while Santee was pursuing his graduate degree at Oxford. | ||