Yeats was an initiate of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (http://www.yeatsvision.com/GD.html) , in which 'blood' and 'beast' are symbolically linked within a vast, tangled web of lore. The Hermetic traditions make sense only within their own context, if they can be considered to make sense at all.
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Date: 2011-10-02 12:19 pm (UTC)