Spiritus Mundi
is Latin, meaning
spirit or soul of the world -
the spirit or soul of the universe
with which all individual souls are connected
through the 'Great Memory,'
which Yeats held to be a universal subconscious
in which the human race preserves its past memories.
It is thus a source of symbolic images for the poet.
Counterparts for the Garou include the Past Life background,
and the Umbra and its denizens.
---. "The Second Coming."
Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Eds. M. H. Abrams, et al. 6th ed. Vol. 2. New York:
Norton, 1993. 1880-81.
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