cabbalistic

Even if he never looked more striking, with cheekbones like razor blades, there was nothing very pretty about his coke addiction or his dabbling in the works of Aleister Crowley (interestingly, in the new reissue there's no place for the photo that appeared in the 1999 reissue of Bowie drawing a cabbalistic tree of life).

Why there will never be another David Bowie Caspar Llewellyn Smith 2010

In summer he always had the same little house at Rosses Point,12 and it was at Rosses Point that he first became sensitive to the cabbalistic symbols.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

When I had finished ‘Rosa Alchemica’ for the Savoy, I had a return of the old trouble and went to consult a friend34 who, under the influence of my cabbalistic symbols, could pass into a condition between meditation and trance.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

He said, ‘Red dancing figures’, and without commenting, I imagined the cabbalistic symbol of water and almost at once he said, ‘There is a river running through the room’, and a little later, ‘I can sleep now’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I decided to repeat the names associated with the moon in the cabbalistic tree of life,36 the divine name, the name of the angelic order, the name of the planetary sphere, and so on, and probably, though my memory is not clear upon the point, to draw certain geometrical forms.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

He reminded me that the cabbalistic tree has a green serpent winding through it which represents the winding path of nature or of instinct, and that the path Samekh is part of the long straight line that goes up through the centre of the tree, and that it was interpreted as the path of ‘deliberate effort’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

He said, ‘Red dancing figures’, and without commenting, I imagined the cabbalistic symbol of water and almost at once he said, ‘There is a river running through the room’, and a little later, ‘I can sleep now’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I decided to repeat the names associated with the moon in the cabbalistic tree of life,36 the divine name, the name of the angelic order, the name of the planetary sphere, and so on, and probably, though my memory is not clear upon the point, to draw certain geometrical forms.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

When I had finished ‘Rosa Alchemica’ for the Savoy, I had a return of the old trouble and went to consult a friend34 who, under the influence of my cabbalistic symbols, could pass into a condition between meditation and trance.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

In summer he always had the same little house at Rosses Point,12 and it was at Rosses Point that he first became sensitive to the cabbalistic symbols.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965