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“A couple of hours after Sunset Michael Robartes returned and told me that I would have to learn the steps of an exceedingly antique dance, because before my initiation could be perfected I had to join three times in a magical dance, for rhythm was the wheel of Eternity, on which alone the transient and accidental could be broken, and the spirit set free.”

Book:Rosa Alchemica

Source: Rosa Alchemica

“Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.”

Soul Work Dance

Book:The Tower

Source: The Tower

“O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

Book:The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

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