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Yeats’s memories of his friends and enemies within the Golden Dawn, and the records of the part he played in the Order’s fissiparous history are both well known, but there is only one published account (and that both late and clairvoyant)1 of his ritual working within it. Clearly a more detailed knowledge of his activities in the Order is desirable — if not essential — for a full understanding of his intellectual development, and such a knowledge can only be gained from a proper study of the primary sources of the Order’s history and ethos. In the past such a study has not been feasible, but it is now beginning to become a possibility.
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Printed as Appendix T, pp. 306–7, of George Mills Harper, Yeats’s Golden Dawn ( London: Macmillan, 1974 ).
The principal sources for published texts are Harper (op. cit.);Ellie Howe, The Magicians of the Golden Dawn; a Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887–1923 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972; new ed.: 1985);
and R. A. Gilbert, The Golden Dawn, Twilight of the Magicians ( Wellingborough: Aquarian, 1983 ).
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Gilbert, R.A. (1987). Magical Manuscripts: an Introduction to the Archives of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In: Gould, W. (eds) Yeats Annual No. 5. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06841-8_10
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