Christina Oakley Harrington doth schreibble:
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> *3rd  May 2007 (Thursday)*
> *Ella Young & Ireland: Myth and Mysticism*
> Aurelia spottiswoode Annat
> £5. Treadwell's. 7.15 for 7.30pm start
>
> Ella Young (1867-1956; born in County Antrim, Northern
> Ireland), was a significant figure of the Irish Literary
> Renaissance, writing poetry, mystical prose, and
> children’s versions of Celtic myths and legends.
> She was an occultist, lesbian, poetess, folklorist and
> republican – a great friend of Maud Gonne's.
> Tonight's talk introduces Ella Young, puts her in context
> then goes on to look at her magical and mystical pagan
> practices – considering always how these shaped her image
> of Ireland as a nationalist. Aurelia will take in her
> occult group, ('the Fine') her independent work as a
> folklorist, and her encounters with the supernatural
> world around Ireland, both in the oral traditions she
> collected, and as phenomena directly experienced.
> Ultimately, she suggests, Young’s life and writings allow
> us to witness the role of occultism in the formulation of
> a new Ireland in the early twentieth century.
> Aurelia Spottiswoode Annat is researching for her
> doctorate at Oxford.

Ella Young, author of *Celtic Wonder Tales* -
http://tinyurl.com/3bw5f6 - was part of the Yeats'
circle, along with George Russell and Maud Gonne
< who illustrated the book just mentioned >, and
later emigrated to the California, where she
lectured in Celtic Mythology at Berkeley.

If you refer to this Wiki article ~
http://tinyurl.com/3chd8j
~ you will see that she lived for some while at
the Halcyon artists' colony near Pismo Beach.

This was Katherine Tingley's offshoot of the
Theosophical Society, and it was actively
and pro- Spiritualist as well as pro-Pagan;
see, for example:

Was Mrs. Tingley Ever a Spiritualist?
http://tinyurl.com/yvk4fy

See also:

Susan Johnston Graf ~ Heterodox Religions in Ireland:
Theosophy, the Hermetic Society, and the Castle of Heroes,
Irish Studies Review, Volume 11, Number 1, April 2003,
pages 51-59.

Peter Cawley ~ The Castle of Heroes: W. B. Yeats' Celtic
Mystical Order, in Alexandria 2: The Journal of Western
Cosmological Traditions, Edited by David Fideler, Phanes
Press, 1994, ISBN 0933999976.

Women, Magic and Power - 1800-1960
Robert Mathiesen
http://tinyurl.com/2wwedb

Mara Freeman
http://tinyurl.com/22esvr

This 2006 interview with Mara Freeman mentions the
Fellowship of Shasta, an organization established
by Ella in California.

Cors in Manu Domine,


~ Khem Caigan
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" Aliquid est in anima quod est
increatum et increabile;
si tota anima esset talis,
esset increata et increabilis;
et hoc est Intellectus. "

" There is something in the soul which
is uncreated and uncreatable;
if the whole soul were such, it would
be uncreated and uncreatable;
and this is the Intellect. "

~ Meister Eckhart