A Vision: Anima Hominis

At this point in our exploration of Yeats’s great occult synthesis A Vision, it will help to step back and glance at an earlier work of his that provided that synthesis with many of its core ideas. That essay is “Per Amica Silentia Lunae,” and we’ll explore the first half of it here, titled “Anima Hominis,” the Human Soul. (If you haven’t read it yet, you can download it free of charge here.) It originally saw print in 1917, just before Yeats’s marriage and the experiment in automatic writing th...