The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster

The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster. For two thousand years, the Chaldean Oracles have preserved the most ancient strands of the Western Mystery Tradition, encapsulating the magical philosophy that lies behind even the oldest texts of the Hebrew Qabalah. Westcott's edition, skillfully drawn from the translation of Thomas Taylor, is among the most significant, for it was this text that exerted such a powerful influence on the work of W. B. Yeats, placed in its proper context here by Kathleen Raine, an authority on Yeats and the Neoplatonist tradition.