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đź”– Title: Black Magic Against White: Aleister Crowley Versus W. B. Yeats
🗓️ Published: 1948-09-01
📄 Summary: Richard Ellmann’s incisive essay in Partisan Review exposes the profound dialectic between Aleister Crowley and W. B. Yeats, two titans of early 20th-century mysticism and poetry. Their confrontation is not merely personal but emblematic of a greater clash between occult modernity and Celtic traditionalism. Crowley’s audacious, often chaotic invocation of black magic starkly contrasts Yeats’s ethereal, white-magical aspirations, revealing deeper tensions in the pursuit of transcendence and artistic truth. Ellmann’s nuanced portrayal compels us to reconsider the spiritual battleground on which poetry and magic entwine.
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https://hermetic.com/crowley/articles/partisan-review/index
🗞️ Source: librarian@undisclosed.example.com (John Bell)
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