occultists

"A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, [this book] is a ... kaleidoscopic portrait of racism--the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today"--Page 4 of cover.

"This ... study unveils the esoteric masters who have covertly impacted the intellectual development of the West, from Pythagoras and Zoroaster to the modern icons Jean Gebser and Schwaller de Lubicz"--Back cover.

A biography of twentieth-century poet W. B. Yeats, discussing the early influence of his Irish mother who, with her ghost stories, steered him onto his occultist path; looking at his experiments with his much younger wife George in Automatic Script; and analyzing his public career in Ireland, his late poetry, and other aspects of his life.