…great eurasian African world mass, where the individual has stood forth, the throwing of the responsibility off on dharma and what Yeats called the primary mask. What is put on you by the society relieves you of personal responsibility. This is the attitude…

…meant a great deal to me as well. The magic mountain, I must say was tremendous for me in the world of poetry w e b Yeats has the messages, it seems to me, and t s Eliot in a somewhat more stilted way I feel that he knew about them but didn't…

…the real things. What about that? Well, I think one of the feelings today is that we lack roots. That wonderful poem of Yeats you know the second coming, where he says, turning and turning in the widening gyre the falcon cannot hear the falconer, things…

…tradition or his church or whatnot to follow. There's never any indication that you've got it right in yourself and that no one knows. Yeats in the vision speaks of the two masks, as he calls it that a life wears. The first is the primary mask that…

…at adolescence the individual has a sense of a potentiality within himself that has to throw off that mask and find what Yeats calls the antithetical mask, the mask contrary to that of the society. And then comes that struggle so characteristic of youth…

…They meant a great deal to me as well. The magic mountain, I must say was tremendous for me in the world of poetry, w b Yeats he has the messages, it seems to me and t s Eliot in a somewhat more stilted way I feel that he knew about them but…

…the real things what about that? Well I think one of the feelings today is that we lack roots. That wonderful poem of Yeats you know, the second coming where he says turning and turning in the widening gyre the falcon cannot hear the falconer, things…

…tradition or his church or whatnot to follow. There's never any indication that you've got it right in yourself and that no one knows. Yeats in a vision, speaks of the two masks, as he calls it that a life wears. The first is the primary mask that the…

…at adolescence the individual has a sense of a potentiality within himself that has to throw off that mask and find what Yeats calls the antithetical mask, the mask contrary to that of the society. And then comes that struggle so characteristic of youth…

…of the mystical moment of the virgin birth of the spiritual being in what had formerly been simply a human animal species. Now Yeats, in his wonderful work a vision, speaks of two masks, two orders of masks that are impressed upon us or that we impress…

…them for protection, dependency on them also for advice, dependency on them for approval and instruction, and what they put upon him Yeats calls the primary mask. Now he compares this which I'm about to talk about, namely the life curve of the individual…

…year. In our open society in our western world and the characteristic of the western mythologies is this this awakening of what Yeats calls the antithetical mask is fostered it's a wonderful word for it because it is antithetical in a certain sense it's…

…in such a way that they lead to disengagement. This is what a good functioning mythology does for you, the cycle that Yeats gives us of the world. Now comes an essential little question about orient and occident. We were speaking about that. There's a…

…the level of a human being, but what puts you one step beyond the first front of life. Now there's a wonderful work of Yeats, a vision I don't know whether you're aware of it fantastic work. Yeats is a relatively older man married a young woman who…

…front of life. Now there's a wonderful work of Yeats, a vision I don't know whether you're aware of it fantastic work. Yeats is a relatively older man married a young woman who very soon after the marriage began writing automatically and she began writing…

…older man married a young woman who very soon after the marriage began writing automatically and she began writing the whole philosophy. Of Yeats which he didn't even know about and that's the kind of girl to marry and what came out in that was a very…

…didn't even know about and that's the kind of girl to marry and what came out in that was a very mysterious thing and Yeats received this information as a revelation from informers. He was something of an occultist and this is in a vision. It's a very…

…the you might call it the amplitude of your spiritual experience the life of all creatures. This to me is a marvelous thing that Yeats gives us in that wonderful image. Now a point that I want to make, and it's a very important point is that in no…

…life all must pass on the journey from birth unto death. Now, this picture that I put on the screen is from w b Yeats, his curious and remarkable book a vision, and he has taken it from an alchemical work of the 16th century: speculum hominum et…

…a human lifetime, with the 15th night of the moon corresponding to the 35th year of a lifetime, using the terms that Yeats applies to this. We are born from the transcendent mystery, and immediately the society begins putting its imprinting upon us. The…

…the society begins putting its imprinting upon us. The mask that we are to wear is put on us by the society and Yeats calls this the primary mask. The eighth night of the moon is the night of adolescence and puberty. At that time, light begins…

…which itself has already been integrated in the environment. Now this picture that I've put on the screen is from w b Yeats, his curious and remarkable book a vision, and he has taken it from an alchemical work of the 16th century speculum hominum…

…a human lifetime, with the 15th night of the moon corresponding to the 35th year of a lifetime, using the terms that Yeats applies to this. We are born from the transcendent mystery and immediately the society begins putting its imprinting upon us. The…

…the society begins putting its imprinting upon us. The mask that we are to wear is put on us by the society, and Yeats calls this the primary mask. The eighth night of the moon is the night of adolescence and puberty. At that time light begins…