Full board designs, details of talismanic constructions, suggested pieces, and my account of Yeats's magickal feud with McGregor Mathers, is published here - much for the first time. This amazing sixteen board sub-elemental extension to the Golden Dawn Enochian Chess system was the culmination of such endeavours by W.B. The name comes from the Enochian system of magic of Dr. Yeats and Pollexfen went or thought they. Enochian chess is a four-player chess variant, similar to Chaturaji, associated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Trips continued to Findias (air), and Gorias (fire), where Pollexfen saw the lower part of the fire God Aengus ("passive form of Lug"). Beyond these Elemental Initiations came that of the White Globe, governed by the elder-god Elathan (front cover). Next they went to Murias (water), where a Druid showed them a bath full of indolent bathers. It is a complex system that requires a strong foundation in the study of the Qabalah, Geomancy, Tarot, Alchemy, and Astrology. It is both a game and a divination tool, derived from the original tablets of John Dee. Yeats and Pollexfen went - or thought they went - with help of talismans to Falias, wherein a rough stone house George saw a skeleton of gold with diamond teeth. Another aspect of modern Enochian magic is Enochian chess. Beyond these Elemental Initiations came that of the White Globe, governed by the elder-god Elathan (front cover). John Dee (magus and astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I), which was later adapted by Victorian members of the Golden Dawn into 'a complete system of training and initiation.'. Gonne also received the Initiation of the Stone (earth) whereas Yeats had attracted the powers of the Wand (air) signifying supernatural inspiration. Enochian chess is a four-player chess variant, similar to Chaturaji, associated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.The name comes from the Enochian system of magic of Dr.
On questioning the four Druids, Maud Gonne discovered she and Yeats had received the Initiation of the Cauldron (purification/water). Virginia Moore transcribes in 1954 this record of these three Celtic Twilight magicians exploring the four fabled "Cities," of Falias, Murius, Findias, and Gorias - regions of the four elements, earth, water, air, and fire - under their respective Gods (the Dagda, Danu, Brigid, and Lugh) and High Druids. A black imitation-leather, gold unpublished notebook dated December 1898, shows us the Yeats-Gonne-Pollexfen team at work.