®RM70¯®LM1¯®FC¯The Evocations of the Cromlecs A Celtic version of Enochian or Rosicrucian Chess by W.B. Yeats ®FL¯ The chess board was undoubtedly of great mystical importance and in ancient times is attributed to certain cromlecs. There are twenty different attributions corresponding to the reflection of the powers of the four gates of each of the four cities and to the reflections of the four gates of the city that is above the gods and above form. As these cities correspond to the four elements and the spirit so do the reflections of their gates correspond to the subdivisions of the elements and of the spirit. Each square of the chessboard represents a cromlec as seen from above and all the uppermost stones of the cromlec of the chessboard when it is attributed to the city of fire are red or red yellow, and when to the city of air as blue green, and when to water violet or silver, and when to the earth yellow. Each uppermost stone is supported by four supports corresponding to the four angles of each square, and these supports are allotted to the elements and the colours in certain order. I will take the allotment of the chessboard to the forces of the western gate of the city Gorias for an example. Gorias corresponds to the element of fire and as the west is the place of water the western gate is the water of fire. The upper left hand quarter corresponds to the east and the air, the upper right hand quarter to the south and fire, and the lower left quarter to the north quarter and earth, and the lower right corner to the west and water respectively. Each of these quarters is again divided into four quarters which are again divided into four quarters containing a single square each. The place of earth is considered the place of greatest elemental power and the place of water the next and the place of air the next and the place of fire is the least, for the elements decline in weight in this order. The strongest sub-element, in the allotment, which will be earth in the chessboard allotted to a northern or earth gate of a city and fire if the allotment be to a southern gate. Each will always belong to the northern support which will therefore be coloured yellow; and the next strongest sub-element, which will be fire in the case of a southern quarter of the board, will be allotted to the west; and so on. I will take the square marked X as an example. It is the eastern square of the western quarter of the western quarter of the chessboard allotted to the western gate of the city of Gorias. Its cromlec will therefore be cromlec of air of water of water of water of fire. The main element fire is represented by the uppermost stone the most powerful sub-element water by a violet or silver northern support, and the next most powerful sub-element which is still water by a violet or silver western support, and the next sub-element water by a violet or silver eastern support, and the least powerful sub-element air by a blue green southern support thus. [This is Ms 13568 (2) from W.B.Yeats' papers in the National Library of Ireland.]