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The Household (Dublin theosophical commune, 1891-1896)

probably not it, but close [pic info]

rbd27 calls it "a Georgian house" [info] [pic]; AE called these the happiest years of his life

Maps: neighborhood

Ely: drawing; 1850? ditto; Black Jack Fitzgibbon; poem

Maud Gonne's sister Kathleen Pilcher lived at #14 Ely Place during the 1890s [gyL61]

3 Upper Ely Place is current address of REA Mortgage Services [website?] [info]

"A.E.'s and Yeats's interests in these other worlds led both to Madame Blavatsky's Theosophical Movement, with A.E. later joining the Dublin group in 3 Upper Ely Place, known as The Household. Although Yeats was never so closely connected with the movement as A.E., they collaborated on and jointly signed a series of murals on the walls of The Household, which symbolised the journey of the pilgrim soul, which are still there, treasured by the present owner of the house, Dr Colm McDonnell. Those on either side of the fireplace are reproduced in colour on the dustjacket of M.C.Flannery's Yeats and Magic, the Earlier Works" [cite]

WBY's 1922 Autobiographies p193ff:

The one house where nobody thought or talked politics was a house in Ely Place, where a number of young men lived together, and, for want of a better name, were called Theosophists. Besides the resident members, other members dropped in and out during the day, and the reading-room was a place of much discussion about philosophy and about the arts. The house had been taken in the name of the engineer to the Board of Works, a black-bearded young man, with a passion for Manichaean philosophy, and all accepted him as host [FJ Dick]; and sometimes the conversation, especially when I was there, became too ghostly for the nerves of his young and delicate wife [Annie P Dick, 1866-1904], and he would be made angry. I remember young men struggling, with inexact terminology and insufficient learning, for some new religious conception, on which they could base their lives; and some few strange or able men.

At the top of the house lived a medical student who read Plato and took hashish [EJ King], and a young Scotsman who owned a vegetarian restaurant, and had just returned from America, where he had gone as the disciple of the prophet Harris [qv] [etext], and where he would soon return in the train of some new prophet [Dwyer, or Dunlop?]... When he had gone, his room was inherited by an American hypnotist [André, or Dwyer?], who had lived among the Zuñi Indians with the explorer Cushing [qv: expeditions 1880-1886], and told of a Zuñi Indian who, irritated by some white man's praise of telephone and telegraph, cried out, 'Can they do that?' and cast above his head two handfuls of sand that burst into flame, and flamed till his head seemed wrapped in fire. He professed to talk the philosophy of the Zuñi Indians, but it seemed to me the vague Platonism that all there talked, except that he spoke much of men passing in sleep into the heart of mountains; a doctrine that was presently incorporated in the mythology of the house, to send young men and women hither and thither inquiring for sacred places.

On a lower floor lived a strange red-haired girl, all whose thoughts were set upon painting and poetry, conceived as abstract images like Love and Penury in the Symposium; and to these images she sacrificed herself with Asiatic fanaticism [Althea Gyles, 1868-1949] [poem] The engineer had discovered her starving somewhere in an unfurnished or half-furnished room, and that she had lived for many weeks upon bread and shell-cocoa, so that her food never cost more than a penny a day... The engineer engaged her as a companion for his wife... Most watched her in mockery, but I watched in sympathy... a little later, she had quarrelled with the engineer or his wife, and gone back to bread and shell-cocoa...

One rule was that if any member saw a fault growing upon any other member, it was his duty to point it out to that member...

I get in talk with a young man who has taken the orthodox side in some debate. He is a stranger [ie not a member of the Household], but explains that he has inherited magical art from his father, and asks me to his rooms to see it in operation. He and a friend of his kill a black cock, and burn herbs in a big bowl, but nothing happens except that the friend repeats again and again, 'O, my God', and when I ask him why he has said that, does not know that he has spoken; and I feel that there is something very evil in the room.

Related pages: Yeats, Maud, AE, The Household, Theosophy, gossip, 25 faves

1865: 13Jun: William Butler Yeats born in Dublin [bio&links]

1867: 17Feb: Charles Johnston born in Ballykilbeg

1867: 10Apr: born: George William Russell (AE) [bio&links] more [Bibliofind]

1875: Sep: HPB, HSO, and 24yo WQJ found Theosophical Society [cl1y480] [history] [WQJ&HSO links]

1881: late-autumn: WBY moves back to Dublin (Howth);, starts at Erasmus Smith HS; long talks about art with father [jk]

1883: AP Sinnett publishes Esoteric Buddhism, based on 'correspondence' with Mahatmas

1883: Dec: WBY leaves HS, planning to make poetry his career [rff33]

1884: May: WBY starts at Metropolitan School of Art in Kildare street, meets AE (and Althea Gyles?), experiments with 'odic force' with Charles Johnston (CJ) at Museum [rff36, 46] 'odic' coined by Baron Reichenbach from 'Odin' [wbya97]

1884? Dowden introduces WBY et al to Sinnett's Esoteric Buddhism [cite]

WBY: "I was unlike others of my generation in one thing only: I am very religious, and deprived by Huxley and Tyndall, whom I detested, of the simple-minded religion of my childhood..." [cite]

late 1884: WBY's London aunt Isabella Pollexfen Varley sends him Sinnett's Esoteric Buddhism

1885: WBY lends 'Esoteric Buddhism' to CJ [rff45] (cf rbd25 says converted to Theosophy in 1884 by Sinnett's 'Occult World')

1885: 21Mar: HPB resigns from TS amid SPR scandal, convalesces in Europe

1885: 29May: Hodgson's report to SPR [etext] more (heard in person by CJ? qv)

CJ to HPB in 1887: "...there is simply no backbone in the Report itself. It is the weakest thing of the kind I have ever read. There is not a shred of real evidence in it from beginning to end."

CJ also apparently got to know Bertram Keightley on this visit

1885: 16Jun: WBY, ?AE, and CJ found Dublin Hermetic Society (also 18yo Claude Falls Wright, 18yo 'doubter' Charles Weekes, WK (or HM??) Magee, Alaud Ali) [rff47, lfae274. rbd25 says AE stood away.] (this would be replaced by a Theosophical lodge in 1886, then revived by AE from 1898-1933)

WBY on Hermetic Society: "A little body of young men hired a room in York Street... and began to read papers to one another on the Vedas, and the Upanishads, and the Neoplatonists, and on modern mystics and spiritualists. They had no scholarship, and they spoke and wrote badly, but they discussed great problems ardently and simply and unconventionally as men, perhaps, discussed great problems in the medieval universities." [rff46]

WBY proposes "that whatever the great poets had affirmed in their finest moments was the nearest we could come to an authoritative religion, and that their mythology, their spirits of water and wind, were but literal truth." [wbya97]

AE takes 'haughty tone' with Weekes [lfae274]

1885: CJ interviews Sinnett and Chatterjee in London [rff552, maybe pre-June?]
1885: CJ hears Hodgson's SPR lecture debunking HPB [ygd158, post-June] (Ellmann thinks this shook WBY?)
1885: Jul: article in 'Dublin University Review' on CJ's visit to London [rff552] (August sequel expects Chatterjee visit)

1885: Jul: AE leaves art school fearing it's weakening his will [lfae-xvii]

1886: Kingsford and Maitland sponsor lecture series with Wescott, Mathers, Chatterjee [ygd9]

1886: Mar: Weekes enters Trinity [lfae274]

1886: Apr: Dublin Lodge of Theosophical Society founded by CJ [rff47] Charter members were: CJ, LAM Johnston (sister?), maybe WBY?, 22yo FJ Gregg, ?21yo HM Magee, EA Seale, WF Smeeth, RA Potterton [rff552]

FJ Gregg was living at 6 Eccles [cl1y7]
Hamilton Malcolm Magee was Eglinton's older brother [rff552]

1886: Apr: 28yo Mohini Chatterjee visits Dublin group for a week [rff48, yp600] (he soon broke chastity vows with UK admirers)

WBY's 1886 poems about MC: 'The Indian upon God' [txt], 'The Indian to his Love' [txt]

WBY also wrote a poem with his name in 1929:

I asked if I should pray.
But the Brahmin said,
'Pray for nothing, say
Every night in bed,
"I have been a king,
I have been a slave,
Nor is there anything.
Fool, rascal, knave,
That I have not been,
And yet upon my breast
A myriad heads have lain."'

That he might set at rest
A boy's turbulent days
Mohini Chatterjee
Spoke these, or words like these...

WQ Judge [pic source] [articles by WQJ]

1886: Apr: 35yo WQ Judge (editor, born in Dublin) and Arthur Gebhard found The Path magazine (USA Theosophical journal) [index]

1886: 30Oct: WQJ elected head of US TS [cite]

1886: autumn? AE praises 'Idyll of the White Lotus' [lfae5] [etext]

1886: Dec: CJ's 'Second Wave' in Theosophist

1886-87: spiritualist experiments are the rage in Dublin [rff51]

1887: early Apr: WBY moves back to London-- abrupt loss of social life [jk]

1887: May: HPB relocates to London, stays with Mabel Collins (Cook) [memoirs]

HPB in 1887

1887: spring: CJ meets HPB [memoir] introduces WBY [rff62] [cite] [cf CJ]

MacGregor Mathers in 1889

1887: 29Jun: WBY gets British Museum Reading Room ticket [rff104]

1887? WBY meets Mathers at British Museum

1887? WBY claims initiated into Hermetic Students in Charlotte street (in May or June???) [wbya160] included Mathers and 71yo WA Ayton

1887: Jul: 28yo James Morgan Pryse joins TS in Los Angeles [lfae267] (brother already a member; they travel Peru to Panama to NYC)

1887: Sep: HPB starts Lucifer journal [index] [articles by HPB]

1887: Dec: CJ and AE (as George W Russell) article "The Speech of the Gods" [etext] (AE views CJ as his ideal? lfae257)

1887: late Dec: AE in Dublin attempts thought transference with WBY in London [lfae5]

no-date: Douglas Hyde attends TS meetings in Dublin [dh130]

1888: FJ Dick joins Dublin Lodge [cl1y267n]
1888: Jul: Pryse brothers arrive in NYC [lfae267]
1888: Aug: WQJ mentions Dublin Lodge [passim]
1888: Oct: Esoteric Section of TS founded
1888: 14Oct: Charles Johnston marries HPB's niece (to AE's regret) [lfae256]
1888: 06Nov: AE writes HPB expressing concern apparently about WBY's experiments [lfae6, published 15Dec in Lucifer, signed 'AE']
1888: Nov: Secret Doctrine published; WQJ head of US TS ES
1888: Nov? WQJ visits Dublin? [hint]
1888: Dec: WBY joins TS ES

when WBY reads a paper to the Theo Soc, he reads so poorly that Blavatsky suggests he speak extemporaneously, which turns out to be very good advice

1887-88? AE likes 'Light on the Path' [etext]

1889: Jan: WBY essay "Irish Fairies, Ghosts and Witches" in 'Lucifer' [etext]
1889: 30Jan: WBY meets MaudG in Bedford Park

In 1889 members of the Aryan Branch TS [USA] purchased a press and type, and secured the services of a member {Pryse] to operate it. Aside from pamphlets, etc., the first publications included three small magazines for members, Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms (1889), Judge's Echoes from the Orient (1890), his recension of the Bhagavad-Gita with introduction and footnotes (1890), Letters That Have Helped Me (1891) and The Ocean of Theosophy (1893). In 1895 Judge estimated that a half million flyers had been printed by the Aryan Press. [etexts] more

cf AE (rbd25 suggests 1887?):

"I had no private doctrine: nothing but HP Blavatsky eked out for beginners by WQ Judge; the Bhagavad Gita; Upanishads; Patanjali; and one or two other classics." [source]

1889: WQJ letters to Dick and Pryse [letter] [letters]

1889: Pryse has vision of HPB [account]

1889: Aug: Pryse summoned by HPB from NYC to London with new printing press [passim] [lfae267] [memoir]

?1890-1900: AE stops painting [rbd29]

1890: Feb? CJ's sister Ada Johnston engaged to Claud Wright [cl1y212n]

1890: 07Mar: WBY joins Golden Dawn [wbya453]

MacGregor Mathers

1890: 22yo Scot DN Dunlop moves to Dublin, works as tea merchant [lfae249]

DN Dunlop in later years [pic source]

1890: 20Jul: HPB-expose in NY Sun attacks WQJ, JD Buck, et al and claims the Keightley brothers are heirs whom the TS group hopes to fleece [etext]

1890: 01Aug: AE starts at Pim's drapery store (Quaker, dry goods) for £40/year [lfae-xxxi] (he saves a lot for charities)

1890: Aug: CF Wright's engagement to Ada J broken off, he joins HPB in London [cl1y212n] FJ Dick replaces him as Lodge secretary [cl1y267n]

1890: Aug: HPB forms Inner Circle of 12 disciples: Countess Constance Wachtmeister, Mrs Isabel Cooper-Oakley, Miss Emily Kislingbury, Miss Laura Cooper, Mrs Annie Besant, Mrs Alice Cleather, Dr Archibald Keightley, Herbert Coryn, Claude Wright, GRS Mead, ET Sturdy, and Walter Old.

1890: Oct: HPB asks WBY to resign from TS ES after he criticises 'Lucifer' in the 'Weekly Review' because he won't promise not to criticise again [rff103]

1890: 08Nov? WBY mentions rumor of vegetarian restaurant started by Ada J [cl1y234]

1890: 09Dec: AE finally joins TS [rbd25]

1891: 01Jan: HPB sends New Year's card to Dublin Lodge [pix?] pic pic

early 1891: AE mentions that two Householders are opening a vegetarian restaurant [cl1y234n]

April 1891: Mr and Mrs Frederick J Dick, tenants of 3 Upper Ely Place, Dublin, establish a small residential community of Theosophists with 23yo DN Dunlop, ?24yo Hamilton Malcolm Magee, ?31yo Edmund J King, 24yo GW Russell [lfae-xxxii, 144]

1891: 08May: death of HP Blavatsky [cite]

1891: 15May: 'Lucifer' notes that "five members and one associate" of TS Dublin Lodge have started Household [cl1y264]

1891: Jul: WQJ, Olcott, and Besant in London [pic] ditto (succession flap, ditto)

1891: Jul: MaudG in Dublin, WBY with CJ in county Down, Maud dreams of brother-sister incarnation, WBY proposes on 03Aug [gyL19]

1891: Aug: while WQJ in London, US editor of 'Path' is 'Jasper Niemand' aka Mrs. Archibald Keightley aka Julia Campbell-VerPlanck

1891: Aug? WBY uses Household as Dublin refuge over next few years [rff114] writes "A Faery Song"

"A Faery Song" by WBY
(A song the Faery people sang over the bridal bed of Diarmuid and Grania.)

We who are old, old and gay,
O so old!
Thousands of years, thousands of years,
If all were told:

Give to these children, new from the world,
Silence and love;
And the long dew-dropping hours of the night,
And the stars above:

Give to these children, new from the world,
Rest far from men.
Is anything better, anything better?
Tell it us then:

Us who are old, old and gay,
O so old!
Thousands of years, thousands of years,
If all were told.

no-date: WBY witnesses sacrifice of black cock in rooms of 'a stranger'-- probably a visitor to the Household, not a member [wbya202]

1891: 11Oct: MaudG arrives Dublin, mourning baby Georges, consoled by WBY, and by AE with talk of reincarnation [gyL20]

1891: 02Nov: MaudG joins Golden Dawn [gyL21]

1892: 29yo Robert Emmet Coates joins Dublin Lodge [lfae268]

1892: Weekes drops out of Trinity after Hilary term [lfae274]

1892: 21Jan: Olcott retires as TS head from ill health, WQJ chosen successor but then Olcott un-retires [info]

1892: May? AE's parents move to Monkstown [lfae-xxxii]

1892: 09Jun: Nat'l Literary Society founded by JT Kelly, John O'Leary, WBY et al [rff120] Douglas Hyde president, others: Sigerson, Taylor, Furlong sisters [dh180] Rolleston, Duffy

no-date: AE converts Catholic 'official of NLS' to Theosophy within minutes [wbya203]

1892: Oct: WBY leaves 3 Ely for Sligo after unhappy stay? [rff125]

1892: Oct (to 1897): Dunlop edits Irish Theosophist [lfae250] INDEX! (also Robert E. Coates: cite)

October
DND: Editorial
AB (Annie Besant): The Theosophical Life
AE: The Singing Silences (poem)
'DEDI' (WB Yeats): Invoking the Irish Fairies [etext] ('DD' is probably Florence Farr)
DND: Review & Notes: ODL, The Path, Lucifer, Ethical Echo, Catholic Times, Dublin Figaro
anon: Our Work

November
AE: A Word Upon the Objects of the Theosophical Society
'Righ': Occultism & Modern Science
GAH Johnston: Work (poem)
HMM (H Malcolm Magee): Father Clarke & Theosophy
DND: Review & Notes: Lucifer, The Path, Theosophist, Le Lotus Bleu
anon: Our Work

1892: late Nov: WBY returns to 3 Ely [rff125]

1892: 25Nov: Douglas Hyde's famous pro-Gaelic speech [rff126]

December
DND: Theosophy in Plain Language (1) Introduction
anon: (four) Verses from the Dhammapada
AB: Problems of Death & the After Life
CJ (tr: Charles Johnston): Pages from the Upanishads (1) Mandukya Upanishad--The Four Steps of the Self
AE: Om (poem)
DND: Review & Notes: Theosophist, The Path, Lucifer, Ethical Echo
anon: Our Work

from 'Om': "And here the voice of earth was stilled,/ The child was lifted to the Wise:/ A strange delight his spirirt filled,/ And Brahm looked from his shining eyes." [rbd61]

1892: 17Dec: WBY answers Hyde in United Ireland affirming English [rff126]

1892: Dec (or Jan): Dunlop leaves to marry 25yo Eleanor FitzPatrick, living with her parents at 71 Drumcondra road [lfae-xxxii, 249]

no-date: Thomas Goodwin ?Keohler (b1874?) is an early member of Dublin Lodge [lfae257]

1893: Weekes to England [lfae274]

January
DND: Theosophy in Plain Language (2) What is Theosophy? (1) First Principles
KBL (Katherine B Lawrence): The Perfect Way
RH Fitzpatrick: A Fragment (poem)
'F': Jagrata, Svapna & Sushupti
CJ (tr): Pages from the Upanishads (2) The Meaning of OM
DND: Review & Notes
anon: Our Work

1893: 20Jan: WBY and Florence Farr in London for OGD ceremony [rff127]
1893: 26Jan: WBY reads 'Countess Kathleen' to Nat'l Lit Soc [rff127]
1893: 27Jan: WBY and JF Taylor battle, along with O'Leary (for WBY) and Sigerson and Duffy? (with JFT) at committee meeting, witnessed by Hyde [rff127, dh181 says had been going on for months]

1893: late Jan: WBY and Ellis's Blake edition published [rff129]

February
DND: (Editorial)
DND: Theosophy in Plain Language (2) What is Theosophy? (2) First Principles; (3) Universal Mind; (4) The Seven "Planes" & "Principles"
AE: Krishna (poem)
anon review: The Letter & the Spirit by George Trobridge
'F': Concentration
anon: Redemption
'HF': Love (poem)
AE: The Hour of Twilight (1)
MFW (MF Wright): The House of Tears
DND: Review & Notes
anon: Our Work

1893: Feb: WBY and MaudG quarrel in Dublin, Maud ill and Sigerson denies WBY access [rff127]

March
DND: Theosophy in Plain Language (5) Cycles of Evolution--The Days & Nights of Brahma
Karl Du Prel (1839-1899) (tr FJD): The Magnetisation of Plants
'HSG': Earth Life (poem)
HTE (H Travers Edge): The Three Paths
MFW ('Emeff Dubalyu'): Viola
AE: Pain (poem)
AE: The Hour of Twilight (2)
'EM': Interpretation of "House of Tears"
DND: Review & Notes (it was hoped to change the name of The Irish Theosophist to Isis)
William Blake: There is No Natural Religion
anon: Our Work

April
DND: Theosophy in Plain Language (6) The Seven Principles of Man (1)
AE: Three Councillors (poem)
Herbert Burrows: Theosophy & Life
AE: The Mask of Apollo
ed by Mafra: Seeking (1) Permitted Notes from the Experience of a Chela
DND: Notes by the Editor
DND: Reviews
anon: Our Work

1893: Apr: MaudG lectures in Ireland [rff127]

May
DND: Theosophy in Plain Language (7) The Seven Principles of Man (2)
AE: The Secret of Power
AE: The Element Language (1)
DND: Proteus (1)
AE: Dusk (poem)
KBL: Kshanti-- Patience sweet that nought can ruffle
anon: Our Work
DND: Notes by the Editor

1893: May: WBY returns to London after visit to Sligo [rff127]

1893: May: Charles A Weekes' poems Reflections and Refractions published (dedicated to AE) and partially withdrawn [cl1y347] (KTynan derided it as 'Mr Weekes, His Squeaks') CAW fled to London for a year

June
DND: Theosophy in Plain Language (8) The Secret Doctrine on Man's Evolution
AE: Dawn (poem)
MFW: The Four Lower Tatwas-- some thoughts on their functions
AE: The Element Language (2)
DND: Proteus (2)
AV (A. Varian): First Thoughts on Theosophy
DND: Notes by the Editor
FJD: Dublin Lodge

July
WQJ: Meditation, Concentration, Will [etext]
AE: A Priestess of the Woods
DND: Proteus (3)
AE: The Element Language (3)
anon: The Third Annual Convention of the TS (European Section)
DND: Notes by the Editor
FJD: Dublin Lodge
anon review: Reflections & Refractions by Charles Weekes
anon review: The Legend of the Golden Child by Dhorna Vhegge

August
DND: Theosophy in Plain Language (9) Man's Higher Evolution
DND: Proteus (4)
AE: Desire (poem)
'FR' [16yo Fred Ryan???]: The Theosophical Basis of Brotherhood
'HC' (?HAC): Remaining Five Years
AE: The Element Language (4)
FJD: Dublin Lodge
DND: Notes by the Editor
FJD: Dublin Lodge

September
DND: Theosophy in Plain Language (10) Reincarnation (1)
AE: A Tragedy in the Temple
AE: The Element Language (5)
AE: Day (poem)
AE: Deep Sleep (poem)
'K': The First Step
Sarah Corbett: Notes on the Adwaita Philosophy (1)
anon: Light from the East (1)
DND: Notes
FJD: Dublin Lodge

October
DND: Ourselves
DND: Theosophy in Plain Language (11) Reincarnation (2)
AE: At the Dawn of the Kaliyuga
'EMD': Loss & Gain (poem)
Sarah Corbett: Notes on the Adwaita Philosophy (2)
AE: The Great Breath (poem)
KBL: Unity
Alexander Fullerton: Proof as to Masters (reprinted from The Path Oct 1893)
FJD: Dublin Lodge
'Not Ashamed of my Conviction': Letter to the Editor: Expression of Belief is not Dogmatism
anon: Light from the East (2)

"The Great Breath" by AE

Its edges foam'd with amethyst and rose,
Withers once more the old blue flower of day:
There where the ether like a diamond glows,
    Its petals fade away.

A shadowy tumult stirs the dusky air;
Sparkle the delicate dews, the distant snows;
The great deep thrills-- for through it everywhere
    The breath of Beauty blows.

I saw how all the trembling ages past,
Moulded to her by deep and deeper breath,
Near'd to the hour when Beauty breathes her last
    And knows herself in death.

1893: Oct: Maud visits sister in London (not yet Ely) [gyL51] (also visit to Dublin?)

1893: Nov: Irish Theosophist publishes Dunlop's interview with WBY about HPB [rff133] [etext]

November
AE: The Ascending Cycle [etext]
DND: Interview with Mr WB Yeats [etext]
CJ Whitting: Theosophy & Commerce (1)
AE: The Meditation of Parvati [etext]
AE: To a Poet (poem)
Oliver Firth: Letter to the Editor: "NAomC" may be mistaken
anon: Light from the East
anon review: Reminiscences of HPB & "The Secret Doctrine" by Countess Wachtmeister & others
'CW' (?Weekes): Homesickness (poem)
FJD: Dublin Lodge

"To a Poet" by AE

Oh, be not led away,
Lured by the colour of the sun-rich day,
The gay romance of song
Unto the spirit-life doth not belong.
Though far-between the hours
In which the Master of Angelic Powers
Lightens the dusk within
The Holy of Holies; be it thine to win
Rare vistas of white light,
Half-parted lips, through which the Infinite
Murmurs her ancient story;
Hearkening to whom the wandering planets hoary
Waken primeval fires,
With deeper rapture in celestial choirs
Breathe, and with fleeter motion
Wheel in their orbits through the surgeless ocean.
So, hearken thou like these,
Intent on her, mounting by slow degrees,
Until thy song's elation
Echoes her multitudinous meditation.

December
DND: Notes by the Way
DND: Theosophy in Plain Language (12) What is Karma? (1)
anon: Gleanings from Theosophical Literature (1) Hints for Occult Students
CJ Whitting: Theosophy & Commerce (2)
AE: A Talk by the Euphrates
DND: Theosophical Education for Children
AE: The Place of Rest (poem)
JE Pardon: The Gnostics
anon: Our Children's Page
anon: Light from the East (3)
FJD: Dublin Lodge

1893: Dec: WBY's Celtic Twilight published [gyL23]

1894: 26yo Harry Felix Norman joins Dublin Lodge [lfae262]

January
DND: Notes by the Way
HMM: A Christian Theosophist (Jacob Boehme)
KBL: Letter & Spirit
anon: Gleanings from Theosophical Literature (2) Elementals
E Kislingbury: Some Thoughts on Education
'KEM': Our Lotus Circle-- Chats with Children
Caroline Marshall: Letter to the Editor: The Theosophical Education of Children
FJD: Dublin Lodge

1894: Magee leaves, Russell's new roommate is Arthur W Dwyer [lfae-xxxii]

February
DND: Notes by the Way
anon: Mrs Besant's Indian Tour
DND: Theosophy in Plain Language (13) Karma (2)
AE: The Cave of Lilith [quoted]
anon: Gleanings from Theosophical Literature (3) Dreaming & Deep Sleep (1)
AE: Comfort (poem)
'EW' (?Elin White): A Theosophic View of Life & Death
JE Pardon: The Gnostics (2)
AB: Mrs Besant on Education
anon: Lotus Circle for Children
Annie F Willson: Letter to the Editor: The "Lotus Circle" for Children
GH Whyte: Universal Brotherhood
anon: Questions from Members
FJD: Dublin Lodge

"Comfort" by AE

Dark head by the fireside brooding,
Sad upon your ears
Whirlwinds of the earth intruding
Sound in wrath and tears.

Tender-hearted in your lonely
Sorrow I would fain
Comfort you, and say that only
Gods could feel such pain.

Only spirits know such longing
For the far away.
And the fiery fancies thronging
Rise not out of clay.

Keep the secret sense celestial
Of the starry birth;
Though about you call the bestial
Voices of the earth.

If a thousand ages since
Hurled us from the throne:
Then a thousand ages wins
Back again our own.

Sad one, dry away your tears:
Sceptred you shall rise,
Equal mid the crystal spheres
With seraphs kingly wise.

from 'The Cave of Lilith': "From the Wise One I learned that the truest wisdom is to wait, to work, and to will in secret." [rbd75]

1894: Feb: WBY visits Mathers in Paris

March
DND: Notes by the Way
DND: Theosophy in Plain Language (14) Karma (3)
AE: A Strange Awakening (1)
FJD: Why Do We Not Remember Our Past Lives? (1)
AE: By the Margin of the Great Deep (poem)
anon: Gleanings from Theosophical Literature (4) Dreaming & Deep Sleep (2)
'A Fellow of the TS': A Few Ideas on the Educational Question
The Editor: Our Lotus Circle
anon: Light from the East (4)
FJD: Dublin Lodge
Lizzie M'Lachlan: Letter to the Editor: The Problem of Child Guidance

"By the Margin of the Great Deep" by AE

When the breath of twilight blows to flame the misty skies,
All its vaporous sapphire, violet glow and silver gleam
With their magic flood me through the gateway of the eyes;     I am one with the twilight's dream.

When the trees and skies and fields are one in dusky mood,
Every heart of man is rapt within the mother's breast;
Full of peace and sleep and dreams in the vasty quietude,     I am one with their hearts at rest.

From our immemorial joys of hearth and home and love
Strayed away along the margin of the unknown tide,
All its reach of soundless calm can thrill me far above     Word or touch from the lips beside.

Aye, and deep and deep and deeper let me drink and draw
From the olden fountain more than light or peace or dream,
Such primeval being as o'erfills the heart with awe,     Growing one with its silent stream.

1894: 26Mar: AE's letter "To the Fellows of the Theosophical Society" [lfae-xli]

April
DND: Notes by the Way-- The Sex Problem
Leon Landsberg: The Divine Man, as taught by Christianity, Judaism, Brahmanism, Theosophy
AE: A Strange Awakening (2)
'WK' (?Wm Kingsland): The Mission of the Christ
AE: The Secret (poem)
KBL: Our Lotus Circle-- All about the small people called Fairies
anon: Gleanings from Theosophical Literature (5) Dreaming & Deep Sleep (3)
FJD: Dublin Lodge

"The Secret" by AE

One thing in all things have I seen:
One thought has haunted earth and air;
Clangour and silence both have been
Its palace chambers. Everywhere

I saw the mystic vision flow,
And live in men, and woods, and streams,
Until I could no longer know
The dream of life from my own dreams.

Sometimes it rose like fire in me,
Within the depths of my own mind,
And spreading to infinity,
It took the voices of the wind.

It scrawled the human mystery,
Dim heraldry-on light and air;
Wavering along the starry sea,
I saw the flying vision there.

Each fire that in God's temple lit
Burns fierce before the inner shrine,
Dimmed as my fire grew near to it,
And darkened at the light of mine.

At last, at last, the meaning caught:
When spirit wears its diadem,
It shakes its wondrous plumes of thought,
And trails the stars along with them.

May
DND: Notes by the Way
'MEG': Thoughtfulness
'R': Comfort
'CC': North of England Federation of TS-- meeting at Harrogate 5-May-1894
AE: A Strange Awakening (3)
Edward Carpenter: A Visit to a Gnani (extracts from From Adam's Peak to Elephanta)
AE: Dust (poem)
?DND: Notes about Books
FJD: Dublin Lodge

"Dust" by AE

I heard them in their sadness say,
"The earth rebukes the thought of God:
We are but embers wrapt in clay.
A little nobler than the sod."
But I have touched the lips of clay--
Mother, thy rudest sod to me
Is thrilled with fire of hidden day,
And haunted by all mystery.

1894: no-date: AE in London for TS Convention 'glimpses WQJ's true greatness' [lfae14]

June
DND: Notes by the Way
AB: Mrs Besant on Meditation (notes from a lecture on "How Indians search for the Soul")
AE: A Strange Awakening (4)
Constance Wachtmeister: The Theosophical Society [etext]
James Duncan: A Philosophy of Life
anon: Gleanings from Theosophical Literature (6) The Potency of Sound (1)
Lilian Edger: Practical Theosophy-- Lotus Circle paper
?DND: Notes about Books
FJD: Dublin Lodge
AE: Magic (poem)

1894: Jun: AE's poems published by 27yo Charles Weekes under 'Whaley' imprint, dedicated to CW [lfae274]

July
AV: The Ethics of Theosophy
AE: The Midnight Blossom
'Psy': Pessimism, from an Optimist Standpoint
George André: The Study of Hypnotism-- a parable & two fables
Elin MC White: Is the Illusion of Devachan Necessary?
anon: Gleanings from Theosophical Literature (7) The Potency of Sound (2)
AE: Immortality (poem)
Letter to the Editor: WH Draffin: Lotus Circle
anon: A New Zealand Lotus Circle
'Carnation': The Masters
FJD: Dublin Lodge

1894: Jul (to Apr 1897): AE's return address is usually father's house at 5 Seapoint Terrace, Monkstown [lfae10-18]

1894: Aug: Dunlop starts the Lamp in Canada [index]

August
DND: Notes by the Way
WQJ: Hypnotism (reprinted from NY World)
AE: The Story of a Star [etext]
KBL: Silence (1)
'R': HPB-- In Memoriam (poem)
anon: Lotus Circle-- Half-Hour with the Children-- Where is God? (1)
anon: Gleanings from Theosophical Literature (8) The Potency of Sound (3) (anon)
FJD: Dublin Lodge

1894: Aug: AE protests Edward Dowden's criticisms of his poetry [lfae10]

September
DND: Notes by the Way
JJ Nolan: How Theosophy Affects One's View of Life
AE: A Doomed City
'TET': Conventionality
KBL: Silence (2)
AE: The Man to the Angel (poem)
'KEM': Lotus Circle-- Half-Hour with the Children-- Where is God? (2)
anon: Gleanings from Theosophical Literature (9) The Potency of Sound (4)
Oliver Firth: Hands Across the Sea
FJD: Dublin Lodge
GAH Brereton: review: Homeward: Songs by the Way by AE

"The Man to the Angel" by AE

I have wept a million tears;
Pure and proud one, where are thine?
What the gain of all your years
That undimmed in beauty shine?

All your beauty cannot win
Truth we learn in pain and sighs;
You can never enter in
To the circle of the Wise.

They are but the slaves of light
Who have never know the gloom,
And between the dark and bright
Willed in freedom their own doom.

Think not in your pureness there
That our pain but follows sin;
There are fires for those who dare
Seek the Throne of Might to win.

Pure one, from your pride refrain;
Dark and lost amid the strife,
I am myriad years of pain
Nearer to the fount of life.

When defiance fierce is thrown
At the God to whom you bow;
Rest the lips of the Unknown
Tenderest upon the brow.

1894: 06Sep: AE calls WQJ "the wisest and sweetest of any I have ever met" [lfae14] (especially recommends 'Letters that have helped me')

October
GAH Brereton: The Application of Brotherhood to Women & Children (1)
DND: Work Together (1)
anon: Soul-Death (1)
anon: Brevities
AE: The Mystic Nights' Entertainment (1)
Olcott: Solidarity & Ideals
various: Leading Articles in Theosophical Magazines
CJ: The Ethics of Study
anon: Lotus Circle for Littlefolk-- The Story of the Wild Thyme (1)
FJD: Dublin Lodge

November
JCK (Mrs Julia C Keightley): Letters to a Lodge (1)
Sinnett: Theosophy & the Expiring Cycle
GAH Brereton: The Application of Brotherhood to Women & Children (2)
AE: The Mystic Nights' Entertainment (2) The Gardens of Twilight
FJD: Dublin Lodge
Ivy Anderson: Lotus Circle

1894: 03Nov: split between WQJ and Annie Besant [info]

December
JCK: Letters to a Lodge (2)
WQJ: The World Knoweth Us Not (1)
AE: The Mystic Nights' Entertainment (3) Night on the Mountains
WQJ: Letter to the Editor: The Charges Against WQJ (1)
FJD: Dublin Lodge

1894: Dec: MaudG resigns Golden Dawn [gyL21]

1894: Olcott and Besant accuse WQJ of forging messages from Masters; charges dropped in July [Mead]

[wbya195] house is split between AE's faction (free speech) and Dick's faction (only Theosophical). AE always surrounded by misfits he's helping out

sometime after 06Sep 1894, AE's childhood friend Carrie Rea marries Robert Coates [cf lfae14]

1895: US TS splits off after choosing WQJ over Olcott

January
JCK: Letters to a Lodge (3)
WQJ: The Closing Cycle
anon: Soul-Death (2)
HTE: The "Row" in the TS
WQJ: The World Knoweth Us Not (2)
AE: The Mystic Nights' Entertainment (4) Night the Second
anon: Lotus Circle for Littlefolk-- The Story of the Wild Thyme (2)
Jirah Dewey Buck (1838-1916): Letter to the Editor: Occultism & Truth
FJD: Dublin Lodge TS
AE: In the Womb (poem)
Thomas Green: Letter to the Editor: closure of HPB press ordered by AB & BK

"In the Womb" by AE [lfae14]

Still rests the heavy share on the dark soil;
Upon the black mould thick the dew-damp lies;
The horse waits patient; from his lowly toil
The ploughboy to the morning lifts his eyes.

The unbudding hedgerows dark against day's fires
Glitter with gold-lit crystals; on the rim
Over the unregarding city's spires
The lonely Beauty shines alone for him.

And day by day the dawn or dark enfolds
With dreams of beauty eyes that cannot see
How in her womb the Mighty Mother moulds
The infant spirit for eternity.

no-date: HPB Press closed in London [lfae267]

1895: Feb? James M Pryse and Violet North move to Dublin, maybe to Household [lfae-xxxii, rbd27 says together, with printing press, to Household]

Pryse [pic source]

February
JCK: Letters to a Lodge (4)
Eliphas Levi (tr HTE): Teachings of a Western Occultist (1) The Neophyte
WQJ: Three Great Ideas [etext]
HPB: History Repeated (a letter of HPB)
AE: On the Spur of the Moment
anon: A Reminiscence
WQJ: The World Knoweth Us Not (3)
anon: Lotus Circle for Littlefolk-- The Story of the Wild Thyme (3)
WQJ: An Old Message from the Master [etext]
FJD: The Dublin Lodge of the Theosophical Society
HAC (Herbert A Coryn): Brixton Lodge TS
WQJ: Letter to the Editor: The Charges Against WQJ (2)
anon: Our AE
JCK & Archibald Keightley: Letter to the Editor: "that WQJ did not himself write Letters that have helped me is false"
AE: In the Garden of God (poem)
FJD: Dublin Lodge TS
HTE: HPB Lodge TS

March
Archibald Keightley: Truth & Occultism
anon: The Identity of CYT/ETH
WQJ: The World Knoweth Us Not (4)
FJD: The TS Constitution
AE: The Legends of Ancient Eire (1)
WQJ: Letter to the Editor: The persecution of WQJ
VJ & CJ (Mrs Vera and Charles Johnston): Letter to the Editor: The Priestess of Isis & Her Accusers
Sinnett: Letter to the Editor: re WQJ article
DND: To Correspondents (L, GL, CR, M, E, O, HH, JMcK, MFL, EC, Kathoras)
FJD: Dublin Lodge TS

[?earliest AE interest in Irish legends follows arrival of Pryse]

1895: no-date: AE joins Irish Literary Society [lfae-xxxii]

April
JCK: Letters to a Lodge (5)
Eliphas Levi (tr HTE): Teachings of a Western Occultist (2) The Neophyte
VJ & JCK: A Family of Mystics
AE: The Legends of Ancient Eire (2)
TH Willans: Mrs Besant as a Prophet
anon: Some Quotations
DND: A Prophetic Message (HPB to the American Convention TS, 1891)
JD Buck: Letter to the Editor: (WQJ controversy)
Tolstoy: Tolstoy & Karma (a letters)
FJD: Dublin Lodge TS
anon review: Phantasms by Wirt Gerrare

1895: Apr: WBY visits Douglas Hyde in west, sees Catle Rock and conceives Order of Celtic Mysteries [gyL63]

May
JCK: Letters to a Lodge (6)
WQJ: The WQJ Case-- Final Refusal to give copies of Documents to Accused
Basil Crump (d1945): Adepts & Mediums
AE: The Breath of Light (poem)
ETH (Ernest T Hargrove): Letter to the Editor: (controversy concerning AK, BK, WQJ, GRSM, AB)
Gordon Rowe & Walter H Box: Letter to the Editor: re Vahan & WQJ
Gordon Rowe & Walter H Box: Bow Lodge, TS
Wm Lindsay: Letter to the Editor: Countess Wachtmeister
anon review: The Dream of Ravan-- a mystery
DND: Notes by the Way
anon review: The Yoga of Christ, or the Science of the Soul
anon: First Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society In America
FJD: Dublin Lodge

"The Breath of Light" by AE

From the cool and dark-lipped furrows breathes a dim delight
Through the woodland's purple plumage to the diamond night.
Aureoles of joy encircle every blade of grass
Where the dew-fed creatures silent and enraptured pass:
And the restless ploughman pauses, turns, and wondering
Deep beneath his rustic habit finds himself a king;
For a fiery moment looking with the eyes of God
Over fields a slave at morning bowed him to the sod.
Blind and dense with revelation every moment flies,
And unto the Mighty Mother, gay, eternal, rise
All the hopes we hold, the gladness, dreams of things to be.
One of all thy generations, Mother, hails to thee!
Hail! and hail! and hail for ever: though I turn again
From thy joy unto the human vestiture of pain.
I, thy child, who went forth radiant in the golden prime
Find thee still the mother-hearted through my night in time;
Find in thee the old enchantment, there behind the veil
Where the Gods my brothers linger, Hail! for ever, Hail!.

June
JCK: Letters to a Lodge (7)
'Aretas' (James Morgan Pryse): A "Master Builder" to the Society in Korinthos
HPB [quote]: HPB (Letters)
WQJ: The WQJ Case-- Letter to Colonel Olcott
JCK: Letter to the Editor: re Vahan
JCK: Letter to the Editor of the Vahan
ETH: Letter to the Editor: (controversy AB, AK)
Basil Crump: Letter to the Editor: (re ET Hargrove letters)
ETH: Letter to the Editor: (AB & the May Vahan)
Roger Hall: Letter to the Editor: (AB, WQJ, HPB)
AE: review: Lyrics by RH Fitzpatrick
DND: Notes by the Way
FJD: Dublin Lodge

July
'Campeon': The Wisdom of the "First People"
CJ: Uncomfortable Brothers-- to one of them
'PGT': A Dream
'R': Brotherhood (poem)
?AE: A Basis for Brotherhood
Lizzie Arthur Russell: Countess Wachtmeister's Opinion in 1894
anon: Fourth Annual Convention of the TS European Section
anon review: The Bhagavad Gita tr by Annie Besant
anon: First Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society in Europe (1895)
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)
anon: Notices

August
AE: Yes, & Hope
AE: illustration: The Speech of the Gods-- Master of the Green Waving Planisphere
JCK: Letters to a Lodge (8-1)
Aretas: Songs of Olden Magic (1) The Silent Seer (poem)
AE: illustration
WQJ: The World Knoweth Us Not (5)
Alice Leighton Cleather (1846/54-1938): The Sweet-Tongued Voices of Illusion
'EW': The Constitution of Man
WQJ: Words to Remember
DND: Notes by the Way
anon: The Theosophical Society in Europe-- England
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

September
JCK: Letters to a Lodge (8-2)
'Che-Yew-Tsang' (ETH): An Old Story
tr Aretas (illus AE?): The Sermon on the Mount (1)
AE: Songs of Olden Magic (2) The Robing of the King (poem)
AE: illustration
'A. Stral' [lame pun]: The Sixth Sense & the Seventh, Which is Non-Sense
DND: By the Way
anon review: A Modern Panarion by HPB
anon: Bow Lodge TSE (E)
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

October
CYT/ETH: The Warrior Eternal & Sure
illustration: AE
Aretas: Songs of Olden Magic (3) Our Lost Others (long poem)
CJ: The Books of the Hidden Wisdom
tr Aretas: The Sermon on the Mount (2)
AE: Content
JCK: Methods of Work (1)
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

1895: early Oct: WBY in London moves in with Symons [gyL52]

1895: Oct: WBY's Poems published [lfae16]

November
JCK: Letters to a Lodge (9)
AE: illustration
AE: Songs of Olden Magic (4) The Free (poem)
WQJ: The World Knoweth Us Not (6)
AE & Aretas: The Enchantment of Cuchullain (1) The Birds of Angus
Charles Weekes: The Young Man (poem)
Burcham Harding: Methods of Work (2)
anon: The TS in Europe (England)
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)
anon: A New Magazine-- Isis (to be edited by HAC) (eventually became The Grail)

1895: 01Nov: AE hopes to see Katharine Tynan again 'after so many years' [lfae16]

1895: Nov? AE to WBY: "I think you should clear out of Arthur Symon's vicinity, and come over here. It will be much better for you morally, and as a place to get inspiration. CJ is here, and is going to make a long stay" [lfae16]

1895: 15Nov: Maud asks WBY for Althea Gyles' address (in London?) [gyL56]

December
Aretas: The Coming of the Christos
CJ: A Trap for a Friend
AE: illustration
Aretas: Songs of Olden Magic (5) The Solar Bark (poem)
AE & Aretas: The Enchantment of Cuchullain (2) Cuchullain's Dream
JCK: Autonomy; Solidarity; Criticism
Annie P Dick: The Study of Theosophy (1)
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

"The Solar Bark" by Aretas

Having asked the Deity whither he was to sail? He was answered, "To the Gods." --Berosus

The soul is like a glad canoe
    Upon a sea of sunlight gliding;
Though crystal sprays its course bedew
    No sail is set, no hand is guiding.

What breeze could drive the solar boat?
    What had direct, where ways are boundless?
They swiftest go who peaceful float,
    They wisest teach whose voice is soundless.

The spirit needs no outward sign,
    Nor guilding star of earthly seeing;
It seeks no port save the divine,
    The Gods, beyond the sea of Being.

1896: Jan: Weekes/Whaley publishes CJ's translation From the Upanishads dedicated to AE [lfae257]

January
DND: Greeting!
AE: Shadow & Substance
Emerson: My Garden (poem) (portion only)
WQJ: The World Knoweth Us Not (7)
AE: Songs of Olden Magic (6) The Magi (poem)
Annie P Dick: The Study of Theosophy (2)
AE & Aretas: The Enchantment of Cuchullain (3) The Slumber of Cuchullain & the Message of Angus
tr CJ: Rajput & Brahman-- From the Brhad-Aranyaka Upanishad
?DND: Around the Hearth (1) Our Hopes
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)
anon review: Old Diary Leaves by HS Olcott

February
'Finvara': Freedom
AE & Aretas: The Enchantment of Cuchullain (4) The Maidens of the Sidhe
anon: WQJ (1)
FJD: The New Light
CJ: The White of the Dawn
?DND: Around the Hearth (2) Magic
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)
anon review: From the Upanishads by Charles Johnston
AE & Aretas: The Enchantment of Cuchullain (5) The Mantle of Mannanan

March
Edgar A. Coryn: Cycles & The Secret Doctrine
anon: WQJ (2)
anon: Good & Evil
various: Propaganda (Fergus, Emer, Omar, Alecto, Pan, Redman, Opal)
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

1896: 21Mar: death of WQ Judge [WGR's eulogy]

1896: Pryse moves back to USA after Judge's death, lecturing in USA and Canada [lfae-xxxii, 267] [index] Violet North takes over printing [rbd28]

1896: Apr: DND (? 'The editor') goes to USA for a month, leaving AE as editor [lfae16]

April
AE: WQJ (poem)
'J': WQJ (obituary)
various: obituary-- WQJ
AE: (obituary)
FJD: (obituary)
Laon (Violet North) (d1932): Ye Are Gods!
AE: illustration: The Wings of the Dove
AE: From the Book of the Eagle (long poem)
CJ: The World-Without-End Hour
DND: Casting the Lead
'Finvara': Peace
various: Other People's Problems (Alecto, Redman, Roy, Emer, Omar, Opal)
anon review: Septenary Man by Jerome Anderson
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

May
anon: WQJ (3)
AE: The Protest of Love (poem)
CJ: Eloquent, Just & Mighty Death
'WL' (?Wm Lindsay): An Old Celtic Mystic (from The Division of Nature bk V 39 of Joannes Scotus Erigena)
AE: Self-Reliance
Polonsky (tr VJ): Phantasia (poem)
AE: The Mountains
various: Why Do We Not Remember Our Past Lives? (2) (Roy, Redman, Omar)
DND: Convention of the TS in America-- 1896
FJD: The nucleus is formed
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)
Thomas Green: The TS in Europe (England)

1896: 02Jun: AE return address is Ely again, momentarily [lfae17]

1896: 02Jun: AE to WBY: "The gods have returned to Erin and have centred themselves in the sacred mountains... I believe profoundly that a new Avatar is about to appear..." [lfae17; rff164 says 'Eri'] invites WBY to tour the west in August, mention of WK Magee, "May the Opal Fire Kings have you in their keeping"

June
anon: WQJ (4)
JCK: Since the above memoir was written our Brother & Leader has died
AE: Works & Days
Laon: Ideals & Ethics
AE: illustration: The Crown of Thorns
'A': On Power
AE: The King-Initiate (poem)
JCK: Devotion
John M Pryse [last Pryse]: Letter to the Editor: An Interesting Letter
Patrick Kennedy: The Vision of St Brigid (from Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts)
DND: Keynotes
various: Why Do We Not Remember Our Past Lives? (3) (Alecto, Exile, Opal, Emer)
anon: obituary-- Death of Madame Jelihovsky
DND: The TS in Europe (England) Annual Meeting of 1896
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)
JCK: Notice re The World Knoweth Us Not (by WQJ)

July
DND: Keynotes
CJ: Thyself & Thy King
AE: The Dream of the Children (poem) ["my 1st definitely Irish poem": lfae18]
AE: illustration
'A': On Steadiness
'Omar': Synthesis
FJD: The Crusade
'C': The Mysteries
DND: Hearts & Hands
Ivan Kriloff: The Eagle & the Hens (poem) (note by VJ re HPB)
various: The Revival of the Lost Mysteries (Fand, Pax, Redman, Roy)
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

1896: Aug? AE in Sligo for a week [lfae18]

1896: 15Aug: MaudG's return address is 14 Ely [gyL61]

August
CJ: Fear & Valor
AE: The Chiefs of the Air (poem)
AE: illustration
'A': On Helping Others
VJ: The Mystery of the Mysteries (1)
James Duncan: Brotherhood
DND: Second Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society in Europe (1896)
Tingley: Letter to the Members of the TSE

"The Chiefs of the Air" by AE

Their wise little heads with scorning
They laid the covers between:
"do they think we stay here till morning?"
Said Rory and Aileen.

When out their bright eyes came peeping
The room was no longer there,
And they fled from the dark world creeping
Up a twilight cave of air.

They wore each one a gay dress,
In sleep, if you understand,
When earth puts off its grey dress
To robe it in faeryland.

Then loud o'erhead was a humming
As clear as the wood wind rings;
And here were the air-boats coming
And here the airy kings.

The magic barks were gleaming
And swift as the feathered throng;
With wonder-lights out-streaming
They blew themselves along.

And up on the night-wind swimming,
With poise and dart and rise,
Away went the air fleet skimming
Through a haze of jewel skies.

One boat above them drifted
Apart from the flying bands,
And an air-chief bent and lifted
The children with mighty hands.

The children wondered greatly,
Three air-chiefs met them there,
They were tall and grave and stately
With bodies of purple air.

A pearl light with misty shimmer
Went dancing about them all,
As the dyes of the moonbow glimmer
On a trembling waterfall.

The trail of the fleet to the far lands
Was wavy along the night,
And on through the sapphire starlands
They followed the wake of light.

"Look down, Aileen," said Rory,
"The earth's as thin as a dream."
It was lit by a sun-fire glory
Outraying gleam on gleam.

They saw through the dream-world under
Its heart of rainbow flame
Where the starry people wander;
Like gods they went and came.

The children looked without talking
Till Rory spoke again,
"Are those our folk who are walking
Like little shadow men?

"They don't see what is about them,
They look like pigmies small,
The world would be full without them
And they think themselves so tall!"

The magic bark went fleeting
Like an eagle on and on;
Till over its prow came beating
The foam-light of the dawn.

The children's dream grew fainter,
Three air-chiefs still were there,
But the sun the shadow painter
Drew five on the misty air.

The dream-light whirled bewild'ring,
An air-chief said, "You know,
You are living now, my children,
Ten thousand years ago."

They looked at themselves in the old light,
And mourned the days of the new
Where naught is but darkness or cold light,
Till a bell came striking through.

"We must go," said the wise young sages:
It was five at dawn by the chimes,
And they ran through a thousand ages
From the old De Danaan times.

1896: Aug: MaudG at 14 Ely for a month with pregnant sister and ill niece [gyL61]

1896: Jul-Sep: WBY essays on Blake in 'Savoy' [gyL462]

1896? late summer: WBY returns from west "wrapt in a faery whirlwind, his mouth speaking great things. He talked much of reviving the Druidic mysteries." [sb-xxv]

September
JCK: Man as a Force
AE: The Palaces of the Sidhe (poem)
AE: illustration
VJ: The Mystery of the Mysteries (2)
'Melchior': An Allegory
DND: The Outlook (1)
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

"The Palaces of the Sidhe" by AE

Two small sweet lives together
From dawn till the dew falls down,
They danced over rock and heather
Away from the dusty town.

Dark eyes like stars set in pansies,
Blue eyes like a hero's bold--
Their thoughts were all pearl-light fancies,
Their hearts in the age of gold.

They crooned o'er many a fable
And longed for the bright-capped elves,
The faery folk who are able
To make us faery ourselves.

A hush on the children stealing
They stood there hand in hand,
For the elfin chimes were pealing
Aloud in the underland,

And over the grey rock sliding,
A fiery colour ran,
And out of its thickness gliding
The twinkling mist of a man--

To-day for the children had fled to
An ancient yesterday,
And the rill from its tunnelled bed too
Had turned another way.

Then down through an open hollow
The old man led with a smile;
"Come, star-hearts, my children, follow
To the elfin land awhile."

The bells above them were hanging,
Whenever the earth-breath blew
It made them go clanging, clanging,
The vasty mountain through.

But louder yet than the ringing
Came the chant of the elfin choir,
Till the mountain was mad with singing
And dense with the forms of fire.

The kings of the faery races
Sat high on the thrones of might,
And infinite years from their faces
Looked out through eyes of light.

And one in a diamond splendour
Shone brightest of all that hour,
More lofty and pure and tender,
They called him the Flower of Power.

The palace walls were glowing
Like stars together drawn,
And a fountain of air was flowing
The primrose colour of dawn.

"Ah, see!" said Aileen sighing,
With a bend of her saddened head
Where a mighty hero was lying,
He looked like one who was dead.

"He will wake," said their guide, "'tis but seeming,
And, oh, what his eyes shall see
I will know of only in dreaming
Till I lie there still as he."

They chanted the song of waking,
They breathed on him with fire,
Till the hero-spirit outbreaking,
Shot radiant above the choir,

Like a pillar of opal glory
Lit through with many a gem--
"Why, look at him now," said Rory,
"He has turned to a faery like them!"

The elfin kings ascending
Leaped up from the thrones of might,
And one with another blending
They vanished in air and light.

The rill to its bed came splashing
With rocks on the top of that:
The children awoke with a flashing
Of wonder, "What were we at?"

They groped through the reeds and clover--
"What funny old markings: look there,
They have scrawled the rocks all over:
It's just where the door was: how queer!"

1896: Oct: CJ and VJ to USA [lfae257]

October
JCK: The Bhagavad Gita in Practical Life (1)
'A': The Place for Each
AE: The Voice of the Wise (poem)
AE: illustration
WQJ: The World Knoweth Us Not (8)
CJ: The Lesson of Loneliness
Charlotte E Woods: The Virtues That Do Most Easily Beset Us (1)
DND: Living Theosophy
'M': Work Among the Children
AS Malcolm: Hints on Theosophical Correspondence
DND: International Representatives (Suggestions)
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)
anon: Activities-- Scotland-- England

November
JCK: The Bhagavad Gita in Practical Life (2)
AE: The Childhood of Apollo
CJ: To Die, To Sleep
AE: A Dawn Song (poem)
Charlotte E Woods: The Virtues That Do Most Easily Beset Us (2)
Annie P Dick: The Power of Thought
'AMS': Needs of the Times
various: Activities
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

December
JCK: The Bhagavad Gita in Practical Life (3)
Laon: A Whisper from the Past
'A': On Ideals
AE: An Ancient Eden
AE: The Fountain of Shadowy Beauty (long poem)
DND: International Representatives' Suggestions
DND: Editorial Notes
FJD: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

c1896: WBY's stories of 'Michael Robartes' use AE as model (also Mathers) [anj96]

1896: Dec: WBY to Paris

1897: 24yo James Henry Sproull Cousins moves to Dublin from Glastry [lfae247] (enthusiastic fan of AE's poems: rbd50)

January
DND: Greeting
JCK: The Bhagavad Gita in Practical Life (4)
AE: The Awakening of the Fires (1)
Basil Crump: The Third Eye
CJ: New Year in the New Land
'A': On Attention
KBL: The Land of Youth-- A Story for Children
'Omar': Sentiment
anon review: Pleasure & Pain by Mabel Collins
REC (Robert E Coates): The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland) 2nd Annual Convention

Dec 1896 (or Jan 1897): community moves to 13 Eustace street (NE of Castle) [lfae-xxxii] maybe because Dick resigns? [wbya196]

no-date: RE Coates succeeds Dick as secretary [lfae268]

February
JCK: The Bhagavad Gita in Practical Life (5)
AE: The Awakening of the Fires (2)
'E': Education in America
AE: A New Earth (poem)
JCK: The Future of the TS
DND: Golden Grain (1)
?DND: Friendship
DND: The Outlook (2)
REC: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland) Important Notice-- change of address

March
JCK: The Bhagavad Gita in Practical Life (6)
VJ: What the Other Man Says
AE: Duality [last poem]
'Capricorn' (?DND): By-Paths in Occult Progress
AE: Our Secret Ties
anon: Letter to the Editor: Extracts from a Child's Letter
anon: A New Translation of the Gospels
DND: The Outlook (3)
REC: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)
anon: Children's Day
anon: Dress Reform

1897: Mar? AE's "The Future of Ireland and the Awakening of the Fires" [lfae-xli] ends:

"Dear children of Eri, not alone to the past but to to-day belong such destinies. For if you will you may enter the enchanted land: The golden age is all about us, and heroic forms and imperishable love. In that mystic light rolled round our hills and valleys hang deeds and memories that yet live and inspire... A new cycle is dawning: the sweetness of the morning twilight is in the air. You can breathe it if you will but awaken from your slumber." [rbd91]

1897: Mar: MaudG and WBY are organising Centennial, MaudG getting slandered by Teeling [gyL64]

1897: 03Apr: AE to WBY: Pryse left legacy of melancholy when he went to USA; "I am not a Celt inside, not for many lives"; "I think I would break any woman's heart whoever happened to love me. She would find me as elusive as the spirit itself... I have I believe inwardly passed out of love and cannot write any true love poems." [lfae19] (WBY worries he's suicidal) (rbd28 says he was struggling against feelings for Violet)

no-date: 'path of initiation beginning to tell on AE's health' [lfae-xv]

April
JCK: The Bhagavad Gita in Practical Life (7)
Laon: The Fire-Fountain of Loch Lein
AE: Priest or Hero (1)
Rafe Hopton: A Warrior's Weapons-- The Sword
Paul Gregan: The Supreme Moment (poem)
'Omar': Robert Browning (1) His Inspiration
Annie P Dick: Some Aspects of Brotherhood
DND: Golden Grain (2)
DND: The Outlook (4)
DND: Note
REC: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

1897: Apr: Pryse in California? [hint]

1897: Apr: WBY's The Secret Rose published (cover by Althea Gyles)

1897: May? MaudG at 14 Ely [gyL70] (WBY has given her 'dream drug', maybe mescaline)

May
JCK: The Bhagavad Gita in Practical Life (8)
Laon: In Danaan Days
AE: Priest or Hero (2)
'Omar': Robert Browning (2) His Inwardness
'a psychometrist': At League with the Stones of the Field
Paul Gregan: Inward Voices (poem)
Basil Crump: The American Convention
anon review: The Treasure of the Humble by Maurice Maeterlinck
REC: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

1897: May? AE's "Ideals in Ireland: Priest or Hero?" [lfae-xli] attack on Catholic priesthood as outmoded an anti-heroic [rbd91]

"The choice here lies betwen Priest and Hero as ideal, and I say that whatever is not heroic is nor Irish, has not been nourished at the tue fountain wherefrom our race and isle derive their mystic fame." [rbd91]

June
JCK: The Bhagavad Gita in Practical Life (9)
'Cave' (L Genevieve Griscom): The Maelstrom
AE: The Age of the Spirit
WQJ: An Interesting Letter (1) to the London Household
'T': The Unconquerable
Iko (Isabel Cooper-Oakley): Be Brave! Go On!
Paul Gregan: Nature & Man (poem)
'Omar': Robert Browning (3) His Faiths
DND: The Outlook (5)
REC: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

1897: 22Jun: MaudG provokes Jubilee riot, one dead

July
AE: A Thought Along the Road
WQJ: An Interesting Letter (2)
WQJ: Letter to the London Household (2)
Laon: The Founding of Emain Macha (1)
CJ: The Three Gods of Man
Iko: Spirit & Matter
HTE: The Secret Heart
last DND: Notes by the Way
REC: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

1897: Jul: WBY to Martyn's, then Coole [gyL74]

1897: autumn: Dunlops join Tingley in USA [lfae249] (back to London 1899, regular summer visits to AE)

August
Laon: The Founding of Emain Macha (2)
'Omar': Robert Browning (4) His Magic
Annie P Dick: The White Spirit of Solitude
'Rollo': Abram Tegner: A Narrative
Charlotte E Woods: Scraps from a Sketch-book
anon: Convention of the TSE (England)
HAC: Notice (The Home Crusade) (Cleather & Tingley)
REC: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

September AE: The Fountains of Youth
Laon: The Founding of Emain Macha (3)
'Omar': Robert Browning (5) His Art
DND: Editorial Note: The Irish Theosophist-- Announcement of name change
Iko: A Student's Notes
REC: The Theosophical Society in Europe (Ireland)

1897: Sep: AE's The Earth Breath published [lfae-xli]

Oct 1897: AE's 61yo mother dies [lfae-xxxii]

Nov 1897: AE leaves Pim's for Plunkett

1897-1898: HAC (in London) & AE publish The Internationalist

1898: Mar: AE quits Theosophical Society, disapproving of Katherine Tingley [lfae-xxxii] [bio&pic] (rbd25 says dispute of article he wrote, plus hierarchical procedures)

Tingley

The International Theosophist, 1898-1904 Dublin, Alice L Cleather & Fred Dick

1898? AE revives Hermetic Society, weekly meetings [rbd25]

1898: Jun: AE ?leaves, marries

1898: Sept: JAJ starts UC

1899: Nov? Leonard Smithers starts affair with Althea Gyles [rff221] (abandoned a year later, aided by Horniman)

Smithers [pic source]

1901-1910: George Moore lives at 4 Upper Ely [cite]

1908: Mar: Gogarty moves in next door to Moore

1915: Keightleys die on Lusitania? [cite]

FJ Dick: geological speculation; megaliths; Lucifer index; on Blavatsky

Daniel Nicol Dunlop: [German bio- Amazon] Path index;, [ABE]

H Malcolm Magee

EJ King: [passim?]; harp??; pub?

Althea Gyles: member of Golden Dawn, designed covers for WBY's 'Secret Rose', 'Poems', 'Wind Among the Reeds' (1897-99). Aleister Crowley wrote a story about Gyles, WBY and Smithers called "At the Fork of the Roads" [etext] (he claimed [qv] it was the exact truth)

James Morgan 'Jim' Pryse: [bio at lfae267] born 14Aug (14Nov?) 1859 in Ohio; lawyer and printer [cite]; joined TS in Los Angeles 1887; founded Aryan Press in NYC 1888; HPB's rings, [passim]

rff = RF Foster's WB Yeats [Amazon]
dtm = Gomes's Dawning of the Theosophist Movement [Amazon]
gds = RA Gilbert's The Golden Dawn Scrapbook [Amazon]
wbya = WBY's Autobiographies (Collected Works Vol 3) [Amazon]
anj = AN Jeffares' WBY: a new biography [Amazon]
gyL = MacBride and Jeffares' The Gonne-Yeats Letters [Amazon]
sb = WBY's The Speckled Bird (O'Donnell, ed) [Bibliofind] [ABE]
ygd = GM Harper's Yeats's Golden Dawn [Bibliofind] [ABE]
dh = JE&GW Dunleavy's Douglas Hyde [Bibliofind] [ABE]
lfae = Alan Denson's Letters from AE [Bibliofind] [ABE]
rbd = RB Davis's George William Russell ('AE') [Bibliofind] [ABE]
cl1y = John Kelly's Collected Letters of WBY: Vol 1, 1865-1895 [Bibliofind] [ABE]
mgyb = Samuel Levenson's Maud Gonne: Yeats' Beloved [Bibliofind] [ABE]

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theory: AI : archetypes : WakeOS : notes : origin : Scribble

Portrait:
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SHero: outline : quotes : PoA04

Dubliners:
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