장미와 탑과 같은 예이츠의 주요 상징을 전통적인 십자장미회의 하그레브 제닝의 상징과 비교하면, 장미와 탑의 상징이 십자장미회와 관련이 있다고 추론할 수 있다. 아더왕 기사와 템플 기사단은 십자장미회원이 되었는데 지상의 성배를 찾아 나선다. 본고는 예이츠가 성배와 불멸의 장미를 찾아나선 아더왕 기사의 전통에서 영향을 받은 위대한 마법사임들 보여준다.

이 논문은 마법사로서 예이츠의 시에 나타난 마법의 상징성에 대해 중점적으로 고찰한다. 연금술의 정수 “철학자의 돌”의 획득을 위해 사라진 여성 원리인 기독교 영지주의의 소피아를 추구하였다. 이를 위해, 달, 무희, 미이라, 비웃음, 죽음, 화살 등의 서로 상반된 두 요소의 평형을 추구하여, “철학자의 돌”을 찾는다. 이렇게 “존재의 합일”을 이루어 불멸성을 달성하는 것임을 역설한다. 특히 비웃음을 통해서, 예이츠는 인간의 죽음을 부정한다. 그리고 사후 영혼은 진정한 창조주로서 달로 상징되는 성모 소피아의 심판을 받아 “다이몬”이 되기까지 죽음과 탄생을 지속한다.

There were so many similarities between Yeats's and Keats's poetry of the Goddess's poetic theme. They were eager to search for “Immortal Rose” or “Intellectual Beauty” as the Goddess; Keats said that “Beauty is truth, Truth Beauty󰠏󰠏that is all.” From this perspective, Yeats and Keats became pilgrims for the Goddess who is called Binah in Cabala. They wanted to be a Binah's priests in their works. They went on a pilgrimage of long and old mythological tales for “Immortal Rose”. For example, Yeats wrote “The Wandering of Oisin” where he wished to meet “Immortal Rose” as Goddess image. Oisin (as Yeats) went to the world of Ireland Goddess called to Tin-na-nOg (It means eternal Youth Country). As Yeats did, Keats searched for Cynthia (Goddess of the Moon) or Moneta as Saturn's priestess, too. During their pilgrimage, knowing goddess as the Mother of the universe, they were confronted with a tragic situation and continually agonized in their souls. They had to overcome the tragic boundaries between the Goddess of the Universe and themselves. The “Unity of Being” can be identified with ‘androgyny’ which is similar to God's trinity in gnostic thoughts. At last, Yeats and Keats saw the Goddess as their “Anti-selves”, and they achieved the “Unity of Being” through the long and uncomfortable journey. Yeats had a gnostic vision. His poetry owes much to a symbolism derived from the Rosicrucianism. His main idea of all works was attempting to meet the Goddess. Yeats believed in God's trinity(Man, women, son or daughter) and believed in the androgyny of God. From this concept of androgyny of God, a gnostic searched for the hidden God called Binah (Mother of God) as well as Saturn. It is Yeats's main idea that God is androgynous. This thought came from Christian Gnosticism based on the diagram of “Tree of Life” in Cabalah. Also, Keats's main idea of poetry was his searching for the lover who was also the Goddess. Even though Keats didn't write about Cabalism, he wrote that he wished to become a pagan while writing Endymion. Keats might suggest that pagan mean a gnostic. It was suggested that Yeats's and Keats's souls were triumphed by the action of Cuchulain and Hyperion. As Yeats described arriving in Byzantium, Keats's poetic career won the heaven which was the Goddess's bower. Although Keats's life was shorter than Yeats's and he had not written about Cabala, many similarities are discovered between them.