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ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.29 pp.145-164
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2008.29.145

Anima Mundi in “Anima Mundi”

Kim Jooseong

Abstract

The concept of Anima Mundi (or World Soul) pervading all of nature is so oldthat its origins are very obscure. Yeats has kept developing his own philosophy (orsystem) regarding this Anima Mundi for his art and belief all his life. In thisarticle, I try to treat Yeats's theoretical statements on the Anima Mundi which canbe easily found in his essay "Anima Mundi" in Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918),one of the greatest watershed document in his theory of the Anima Mundi, thepoet's ultimate expression of his belief.
Like many of ancient western and eastern mysterious religions, Yeats no longerdistinguishes between the great memory of Anima Mundi and the minds andmemories of its occupants. Also he reaffirms the four elements as integral to theWorld Soul concept. He assigns elemental attributes to the images glimpsed invisions, creating a fourfold model of perception. This short but important essayconstitutes the outstanding feature of Yeats's newly evolved concept, the AnimaMundi is not merely a place, a shadowy subliminal Hades. It is a congeries ofsouls, of discarnate intelligences whose multifarious activities range from regulatingnature's cycles to potential anamnesis.

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