Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Prophets and the Goddess: W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves and the Chthonic Esoteric Tradition

This text discusses how W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound and Robert Graves had access to the forbidden knowledge of the Goddess. These four poets experienced a confrontation with their unconscious and let the grace of the Goddess touch their heart strings. Consequently, through this surrendering, they created avant-garde poetry and were inspired to write seditious manifestos that would teach humanity an esoteric creed. This creed, based on humans’ eternal divine essence, aspires to liberate the eternal feminine. These poets became the instruments of the Goddess. As defenders of the Light, they took arms against the forces of inertia and proclaimed the eleusis of a new faith. This creed pledges to overthrow the anachronistic religious and social institutions and initiate a new world order and a new divinity based on the ancient rites of the Great Goddess. No matter how disparate these four were in character, they shared the vision of transmitting esoteric knowledge to profane humanity. They were specifically chosen by the Goddess as Her troubadours and they pave Her way to the religious consciousness of the people. Review "This is an erudite and very well informed discussion that sheds new light not only on esotericism and the goddess generally, but also the different ways in which the authors featured approach it as part of the re-emergence of a gnostic impulse in our time."David LorimerParadigm Explorer, 2017/3 About the Author Dr Dionysious Psilopoulos is Assistant Professor of English and Academic Writing at Deree – The American College of Greece, and holds a PhD in English from the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research and published essays focus on the influence of the esoteric tradition on modernist literature.