William Butler Yeats — Library Set (1st edition)

First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies
 
The W. B. Yeats “Library Set” presents three hardcover volumes—Spiritus Mundi, On Magic and the Occult, and A Vision—offered together as a collector’s treasure.
 
Spiritus Mundi—In Yeats’s conception, the spiritus mundi is a universal memory, a collective unconscious that serves as the wellspring of creative inspiration and symbolic imagery. This volume includes selections such as The Second Coming, The Adoration of the Magi, Swedenborg, Mediums and the Desolate Places, and The Celtic Element in Literature.
On Magic and the Occult—This collection delves into Yeats’s esoteric philosophy, revealing his intellectual path shaped by Kabbalistic and Hermetic traditions, particularly the Rosicrucian renaissance of alchemy and magic, with echoes of figures like Maier, Fludd, and Ashmole.
A Vision—Yeats’s metaphysical cornerstone, originally published privately in 1925 and revised in 1937, is an exploration of life’s cyclical rhythms. Drawing on automatic writing (with his wife Georgie Hyde-Lees) and influences ranging from astrology to mystical doctrines, this philosophical treatise illuminates the imaginative and occult dimensions of his art.
 
Yeats’s lifelong fascination with mysticism, spiritualism, occultism, and astrology profoundly shaped his poetic vision—he once declared that “the mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.” Inspired by Hinduism, Theosophy, and his experiences with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, his late poetry is deeply rooted in occult symbolism and spiritual inquiry