Image: Mural painting (left part) by W. B. Yeats and George William Russell (Æ), with Theosophical themes. In the Drawing Room, at 3 Ely Place Upper, Dublin (former meeting place for the Theosophical Society)
Description: Left side part of a Theosophical mural painting in the drawing room at 3 Ely Place, Dublin (former Theosophical Society meeting place). There, according to Sally North (15 February 2023), "A Labyrinth of Images: WB Yeats and the Celtic Order" (29 minutes and 40 seconds in the seminar video uploaded to Youtube: [1]), George William Russell and W. B. Yeats painted it in the late 1880s. According to Summerfield, Henry (1975). That Myriad-minded Man: A Biography of George William Russell "A.E.", 1867-1935, p. 66 ([2]), a Theosophical writer described this painting as "an arrangement of nature spirits" between a heavenly Deva and a crouched human figure over our globe. Among the spirits is a winged angelic figure, an "augoeides" (originally a Neoplatonic term for "body of light", adopted by the Theosophists) or Yeats' daimon.
Title: Mural painting (left part) by W. B. Yeats and George William Russell (Æ), with Theosophical themes. In the Drawing Room, at 3 Ely Place Upper, Dublin (former meeting place for the Theosophical Society)
Credit: North, James (5 April 2023). "AE Russell, the Dublin Theosophists, and the Irish Avatar". Study of Religions Research Seminar. Study of Religions Department, University College Cork. Photo at 21 minutes and 20 seconds of the video uploaded to Youtube: [3]
Author: George William Russell ("AE") (1867-1935) and William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
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