There are adepts outside what exactly is called alchemy who have attained ideal factors within these areas and there are alchemists before Socrates and Aristotle, or Da Vinci and Newton; who all true specialists recognize were alchemists. For any author or journalist who would make a TV documentary about the topic and not even interview a hermeticist (much less an alchemist) it's apparent their intent is to not teach. So when you see Time/Life videos doing which type of show I hope we recognize we are being provided lies. In February, 1925 Yeats published this in Capri.
"The End of the Cycle
A Vision A
In the initial edition of A Vision the section 'Dove or Swan' contains a relatively lengthy passing about the relationship of the gyres to the modern period and also the near future (AV A 210-215), which had been omitted in the 2nd edition. It is given here for reference, with the page breaks indicated. The initial term given here (in italics) is the last ab
out AV B 300, and also the text continues following that.
Having bruised their hands upon which restrict men, first since the seventeenth century, see our society as an object of contemplation, less anything to be remade, and several some, meeting the restrict in their special research, even question if there is any popular experience, in other words question the possibility of research.
It is said which at Phase 8 you can find civil conflict, with Phase 22 usually conflict, so that this conflict is always a beat in case you have conquered, we have repeated the wars of Alexander.
I discover already the first phase--Phase 23--of the last quarter in certain friends of mine, and in writers, poets and sculptors admired by those friends, who have a kind of sturdy love and dislike hitherto unfamiliar in the arts. This is of them a matter of conscience to reside in in their obtain actual instant of time, plus they protect their conscience like theologians. These include all
absorbed in several technical research to the entire expulsion of the private dream. This is like the forms in the stone or in their reverie started to move with an electricity that is not which of the human attention. Very often these forms are mechanical, are as it were the mathematical forms which maintain the physical primary--I think of the work of Mr Wyndham Lewis, his powerful "cacophony of sardine tins," and of those marble eggs, or items of burnished steel too drawn up or tapered out to be called eggs, of M. Brancussi [sic], who has gone further than Mr Wyndham Lewis from recognisable topic matter so from personality; of sculptors who would be declined as impure by a true sectary of this moment, the Scandinavian Milles, Mestrovi? perhaps, masters of the geometrical pattern or beat that appears to impose itself wholly from beyond the mind, the performer "standing outside himself." I compare them to sculpture or painting where today the performer today the model imposes his character. I think particularly of the art of the 21st Phase which had been sometimes so anarchic, Rodin creating his powerful art from the fragments of those Gates of Hell which he had found himself unable to hold together--images out of a private dream, "the sin of Baudelaire not of Dante," he had said to Symons. I find at this 23rd Phase that is it's said the initial where there is hatred of the abstract, where the intellect turns upon itself, Mr Ezra Pound, Mr Eliot, Mr Joyce, Signor Pirandello, who either eliminate from metaphor the poet's phantasy and replace a strangeness discovered by famous or modern research or who break up the logical processes of thought by flooding them with connected inspirations or words which appear to move into the mind by chance; or who set side by side as in "Henry IV," "The Waste Land," "Ulysses," the physical primary--a lunatic amidst his keepers, a man angling behind a gas works, the vulgarity of the single Dublin day prolonged through 700 pages--and the spiritual main, delirium, the Fisher King, Ulysses' wandering. It is like myth and truth, united until the tiredness of the Renaissance, have fallen thus far aside which man knows first the rigidity of truth, and calls up, by which pretty recognition, myth--the Mask--which today but gropes its option from the mind's dark but can soon follow and terrify. In practical life one wants the same technical inspiration, the doing of this or which not considering 1 would, or could, but considering 1 can, consequent licence, and with those "out of phase" anarchic violence without sanction in general principles. If there is a violent change, and it's the last phase where political change can be done, the dish can be created from what exactly is found in the pantry and also the cook can not open her book. There may be greater ability which hitherto for men can be set clear of aged restraint, but the aged intellectual hierarchy gone they can thwart and make each other. One tries to discover the type of the 24th Phase that will offer peace--perhaps by several generally accepted political or religious action, perhaps by several more profound generalisation--calling up ahead of the attention those who talk its thoughts in the code of our earlier time. Peguy in his Joan of Arc trilogy showcases the national and religious tradition of the French bad, while he, a man perhaps of the 24th phase, would have it, and Claudel in his "L'Otage" the religious and secular hierarchies considered background. I foresee a time when the majority of men can so accept an famous tradition which they can quarrel, less to who is able to impose his character upon others but as to who is able to right embody the common aim, when all character can sound an impurity--"sentimentality," "sullenness," "egotism"--something which revolts not morals alone but superior taste.
There can be no longer ideal intellect for a ceaseless activity can be needed of all; and where liberties a
re ingested up in duties, and solitude is difficult, creation except amidst avowedly archaistic and unpopular groups can grow impossible. Phase 25 can arise, as the code wears out from repetition, to provide modern motives for obedience, or out of several scientific discovery that appears to comparison, a merely famous acquiescence, with an enthusiastic acceptance of the general can conceived as a present energy--"Sibyll [sic] what would we?" "I would die." Then with the last gyre must come a aspire to be ruled or very, viewing which desire is all but dead, an adoration of force spiritual or physical, and society as mechanical force be complete at last.
Constrained, arraigned, baffled, curved and unbent
By those wire-jointed jaws and limbs of hardwood
Themselves obedient,
Knowing not bad or superior.
A decadence can descend, by continuous moral improvement, upon a community that can sound like several woman of New York or Paris who has renounced her rouge po
t to get rid of her figure and grow coars of skin and dull of mind, eating her calves and infants around about the edge of the wilderness. The decadence of the Greco-Roman planet with its violent soldiers and its wood dark young athletes was as ideal, but which recommended the bubbles of life turned into marbles, whereas what awaits you, being democratic and main, can suggest bubbles in a freezing pond--mathematical Babylonian starlight.
When the modern era comes delivering its flow of blind force it can, as did Christianity, discover its idea actually amazed upon the minority who have, faithful phase, turned away at the last gyre within the Physical Primary. And it must awake into life, not Dürer's, neither Blake's, neither Milton's human shape divine--nor yet Nietzsche's superman, neither Patmore's catholic, offering "a language that's dead"--the brood of the Sistine Chapel--but organic groups, covens of physical or intellectual kin melted from the
freezing mass. I imagine modern races, as it were, seeking domination, a planet resembling but for its immensity which of the Greek tribes--each with its own Daimon or ancestral hero--the brood of Leda, War and Love; background developed symbolic, the biography converted into myth. Above all I imagine everywhere the opposites, no mere alternation between nothing the other like the Christian brute and ascetic, but true opposites, each life the other's death, perishing the other's life.
It is said which the main impulse "creates the event" but which the antithetical "follows it" and by this I recognize which the Second Fountain arise after a lengthy preparation so that it were from the pretty heart of human knowledge, and sound when it comes no interruption but a climax. It can be done which the increasing separation within the community all together of the cultivated classes, their increasing certainty, which falling in two of the human attention that I have enjoyed in cer
tain works of art is preparation. During the period said to commence in 1927, with the 11th gyre, must arise a kind of idea, that will become religious and ethical in the 12th gyre and be in most factors other of which massive plaster Herculean image, final main thought. It will be concrete in expression, establish itself by immediate experience, seek no general agreement, make small of God or any outside unity, and it can call which good that a man could consider himself as doing usually and no additional man doing at all. This make a cardinal truth of man's immortality which its virtue can not lack sanction, and of the soul's re-embodiment it can restore to virtue which lengthy preparation none may give and hold death an interruption. The supreme experience, Plotinus' inspiration, inspiration of the Saint, can recede, for men--finding it difficult--substituted dogma and idol, abstractions off kinds, factors beyond experience; and men can be lengthy content with those more insignificant supernatural benedictions as when Athena took Achilles by his yellow hair. Men can no longer separate the thinking behind God from which of human genius, human productivity in most its forms.
Unlike Christianity that had because of its initial Roman teachers cobblers and weavers, this thought must discover expression the which are many subtle, many high in memory; which Gainsborough face floats up; amidst the learned--every kind of learning--among the rich--every kind of riches--and the greatest of those which express it will probably be given power, less due to which they guarantee than of which they sound and are. This much is thought considering it is the reverse of everything you recognize, but those kindreds when created must obey blind force so create hitherto unfamiliar experience, or which that is incredible.
Though it cannot interrupt the intellectual stream--being delivered from it and mobile within it--it can grow a fanaticism as well as a terror,
with initial outsetting oppress the ignorant--even the innocent--as Christianity oppressed the wise, viewing which the day is remote when the two halves of man could define each its own unity in the additional as in a mirror, Sun in Moon, Moon in Sun, so escape from the Wheel." (1)
When he says 'the Christian brute and ascetic' is he generating reference to the family of stoic philosophers or Bruttii as an example the Admiral who supported Julius Caesar when they met the Keltic fast and invaded what exactly is called Britain now after them? This same family involves another Brutus we learned about from another Hermetic named Shakespeare. That family was nonetheless standing up for Keltic egalitarianism when it killed Julius Caesar or when Rome was based. Did he recognize the background of the Milesian Stuarts from ahead of the various influxes to the Emerald Isles as they returned several millennia after exiting due to glacial effects? There is so very much code in this p
rose and poetry. The sunlight and moon surely make a wheel and this historic knowledge possibly pre-exists the coming of white men through any adept mutation or happenstance which allowed it. I implore the subscriber to spend a lot of time with this sentence--"This much could be thought considering it is the reverse of everything you recognize, but those kindreds when created must obey blind force so create hitherto unfamiliar experience, or which that is incredible."
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