Occult Literature
Solar and Lunar Circles in A Vision
Two roughly drawn circles share a vertical axis with cardinal letters around their edges. Solar and lunar labels distinguish the outer circuit from the inner one. Yeats uses the diagram in his discussion of the Sun’s precession, annual movement and the different measures of symbolic time.
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Illustrator not identified. "Solar and Lunar Circles in A Vision" [editorial title]. In A Vision, William Butler Yeats. First edition, title dated 1925; privately printed for subscribers. Complete historical text, xxiii preliminary pages and 256 numbered pages, with Edmund Dulac illustrations and the original diagrams. Internet Archive scan; matching scanned title page used as cover., 1925, T. Werner Laurie, Ltd.. Source scan leaf 165. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0374-0158
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Illustrator not identified. Solar and Lunar Circles in A Vision. A Vision. Scan leaf 165. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0374-0158