Bibliography — The Secret-Cabin-et

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A works-cited record of the project itself, in appendix form: what was cited across every convened session, what was invoked by name or allusion without a supporting quote, and the curated primary-source library the room draws from. Citation status is carried through honestly on every entry — see each occurrence's grounding label — rather than flattened away.

Generated from 4 sessions on disk, 3 with a turn-level record to cite from.

I. Works Cited

Direct citations — a quote, attributed to the speaker and session that made it.

A Vision — automatic writing by George Hyde-Lees (Georgie Yeats)

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unverifiedchecked against curated textYeats, session 2026-08-08-in-literary-studies-part-of-the-difficu-371ddc (2026-08-08)

there was a hand that was not mine that wrote the beginning of it, and I am sitting in this room with that knowledge active

The quoted phrase ('there was a hand that was not mine that wrote the beginning of it') does not appear anywhere in the excerpt; while the excerpt does confirm Georgie Yeats performed automatic writing, those specific words are not present. — grounded in: W.B. Yeats, A Vision (London: Macmillan, 1937), 'A Packet for Ezra Pound,' pp. 8–9. The automatic writing sessions began October 24, 1917, four days after Yeats's marriage to Georgie Hyde-Lees.

A Vision — Yeats's system of the antithetical and primary

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unverifiedchecked against curated textYeats, session 2026-08-08-in-literary-studies-part-of-the-difficu-371ddc (2026-08-08)

In my system, I have called this *the antithetical*: the mask, the image thrown against the primary self, through which the deeper truth is approached obliquely.

The excerpt never mentions 'the antithetical,' 'the mask,' or any language about 'image thrown against the primary self' — it only describes the origin of automatic writing and a distinction between perfection from combat with oneself versus circumstance. — grounded in: W.B. Yeats, A Vision (London: Macmillan, 1937), 'A Packet for Ezra Pound,' pp. 8–9. The automatic writing sessions began October 24, 1917, four days after Yeats's marriage to Georgie Hyde-Lees.

A Vision — Yeats's theory of the gyres

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unverifiedchecked against curated textYeats, session 2026-08-08-in-literary-studies-part-of-the-difficu-371ddc (2026-08-08)

The gyre turns and what was center becomes periphery and what the periphery knew all along becomes available.

The excerpt contains no discussion of gyres, their turning, center/periphery dynamics, or any related geometrical cosmological language; it is solely about the circumstances of the automatic writing sessions. — grounded in: W.B. Yeats, A Vision (London: Macmillan, 1937), 'A Packet for Ezra Pound,' pp. 8–9. The automatic writing sessions began October 24, 1917, four days after Yeats's marriage to Georgie Hyde-Lees.

A Wicked Pack of Cards (Dummett, Mann, Decker)

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self-reported: verifiedcaptured at write time — not yet run through Verify CitationsFrances Yates, session 2026-09-10-the-tarot-embodies-symbolical-presentati-dae383 (2026-09-10)

Michael Dummett established, with Sylvia Mann and Ronald Decker later completing the archive in *A Wicked Pack of Cards*

This is a genuine scholarly history of tarot establishing the game's non-esoteric origins; accurately represented. — not checked against any source

Bruno's cosmology of infinite worlds

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self-reported: verifiedcaptured at write time — not yet run through Verify CitationsGiordano Bruno, session 2026-09-10-after-me-ye-avicenna-galenus-rhases-2bd60b (2026-09-10)

I toppled Aristotle's closed sphere to open onto the infinite, innumerable worlds without a center, without a throne

Accurately reflects Bruno's own cosmological doctrine as in De l'Infinito and De Immenso. — not checked against any source

Bruno's Gli Eroici Furori / Jung's concept of inflation

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self-reported: uncertaincaptured at write time — not yet run through Verify CitationsCarl Jung, session 2026-09-10-after-me-ye-avicenna-galenus-rhases-2bd60b (2026-09-10)

Actaeon torn apart and Paracelsus crowned are both inflation — one negative, one positive

My own psychological synthesis applied to Bruno's Actaeon image; not a direct citation of a text. — not checked against any source

Claudia Rankine (unnamed work, described as treating the 'barely cognized' and 'half-perceived')

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self-reported: uncertainClaude's own knowledge (grounding attempted, no match)Coleman-Smith, session 2026-08-08-in-literary-studies-part-of-the-difficu-371ddc (2026-08-08)

The part about Rankine lands differently for me — the barely cognized, the half-perceived — that's not a poetic strategy

Rankine is a real author whose work (e.g., 'Citizen') does engage with barely-perceived racial dynamics, but no specific text is cited. — uncertain (unconfirmed): web verification was attempted but unavailable. — not checked against any source

Claudia Rankine and Wordsworth compared (unnamed academic document)

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self-reported: uncertainClaude's own knowledge (grounding attempted, no match)Yeats, session 2026-08-08-in-literary-studies-part-of-the-difficu-371ddc (2026-08-08)

Rankine beside Wordsworth — yes, the structural homology is real, the collateral nature of the given world is real across both, I follow the argument.

The comparison of Rankine and Wordsworth is attributed to an unnamed academic document being discussed; no specific text is identified. — uncertain (unconfirmed): web verification was attempted but unavailable. — not checked against any source

Court de Gébelin, Le Monde Primitif (1781)

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self-reported: verifiedcaptured at write time — not yet run through Verify CitationsFrances Yates, session 2026-09-10-the-tarot-embodies-symbolical-presentati-dae383 (2026-09-10)

the Egyptian origin is Gébelin's invention, not a rediscovery

Historically accurate: Gébelin originated the Egyptian-tarot claim in this 1781 work with no prior esoteric tradition behind it. — not checked against any source

Isaac Casaubon's dating of the Corpus Hermeticum

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self-reported: verifiedcaptured at write time — not yet run through Verify CitationsFrances Yates, session 2026-09-10-the-tarot-embodies-symbolical-presentati-dae383 (2026-09-10)

Isaac Casaubon had dated the Corpus Hermeticum to the Christian era by 1614, decades after Bruno was ash

Historically accurate and central to my own Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition thesis. — not checked against any source

Paracelsus burning the Canon of Avicenna and the Articella at Basel

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self-reported: verifiedcaptured at write time — not yet run through Verify CitationsGiordano Bruno, session 2026-09-10-after-me-ye-avicenna-galenus-rhases-2bd60b (2026-09-10)

I burned no books, Theophrastus did that for both of us at Basel, the *Canon* and the Articella into the bonfire on St. John's Eve

Historically attested episode of Paracelsus publicly burning medical authorities' texts in 1527. — not checked against any source

Paracelsus, Paragranum

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self-reported: verifiedcaptured at write time — not yet run through Verify CitationsCarl Jung, session 2026-09-10-after-me-ye-avicenna-galenus-rhases-2bd60b (2026-09-10)

the man who wrote Paragranum saw further than his contemporaries into nature as a living text

Paragranum is a real Paracelsus text and this is a fair characterization of its naturalistic vision, matching the library entry. — not checked against any source

Paracelsus, Paragranum (preface)

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self-reported: uncertaincaptured at write time — not yet run through Verify CitationsIbn Khaldun, session 2026-09-10-after-me-ye-avicenna-galenus-rhases-2bd60b (2026-09-10)

Paracelsus names every faculty of Europe he intends to conquer — Paris, Cologne, Vienna, the Danube and Rhine

Gestures at Paracelsus's bombastic claims against university faculties; the specific list of cities is my own embellishment, not a direct quotation. — not checked against any source

The Celtic Twilight — W. B. Yeats

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self-reported: uncertainClaude's own knowledge (grounding attempted, no match)Yeats, session 2026-08-08-in-literary-studies-part-of-the-difficu-371ddc (2026-08-08)

when I was in Sligo listening to people who had been told for a century that what they saw and heard and dreamed was superstition — I made it into *The Celtic Twilight*

'The Celtic Twilight' (1893) is a real collection by Yeats drawing on Irish folk belief and supernatural lore, much of it gathered in Sligo. — uncertain (unconfirmed): web verification was attempted but unavailable. — not checked against any source

The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori)

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self-reported: verifiedcaptured at write time — not yet run through Verify CitationsGiordano Bruno, session 2026-09-10-after-me-ye-avicenna-galenus-rhases-2bd60b (2026-09-10)

the true shape of touching something vast: dissolution, not coronation... Actaeon torn apart by his own hounds

Bruno's own text uses the Actaeon myth as central image of heroic frenzy consuming the self before the infinite. — not checked against any source

The Rider-Waite Tarot deck (78 cards illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith)

1 citation

self-reported: uncertainClaude's own knowledge (grounding attempted, no match)Coleman-Smith, session 2026-08-08-in-literary-studies-part-of-the-difficu-371ddc (2026-08-08)

I drew that. Seventy-eight times, roughly, I drew what the body does before the sentence.

The standard Rider-Waite Tarot deck does consist of 78 cards, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. — uncertain (unconfirmed): web verification was attempted but unavailable. — not checked against any source

Waite's Preface to The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

1 citation

self-reported: verifiedcaptured at write time — not yet run through Verify CitationsMoina Mathers, session 2026-09-10-the-tarot-embodies-symbolical-presentati-dae383 (2026-09-10)

Waite's "eyes already opened" is not a claim about consensus.

Refers to Waite's actual phrase and preface concerning initiatory perception in tarot. — not checked against any source

Wordsworth (unnamed poem/work, described as depicting a speaker approaching experience obliquely through secondary evidence)

1 citation

self-reported: uncertainClaude's own knowledge (grounding attempted, no match)Coleman-Smith, session 2026-08-08-in-literary-studies-part-of-the-difficu-371ddc (2026-08-08)

What Wordsworth is describing — the speaker who can't get direct hold of anything, who has to come at experience sideways, through secondary evidence

Wordsworth is a real author, but the specific claim about his work is vague and no particular poem or text is named, making accuracy difficult to verify. — uncertain (unconfirmed): web verification was attempted but unavailable. — not checked against any source

Wordsworth and the primrose / Anima Mundi (Yeats's doctrine of the Anima Mundi)

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self-reported: uncertainClaude's own knowledge (grounding attempted, no match)Yeats, session 2026-08-08-in-literary-studies-part-of-the-difficu-371ddc (2026-08-08)

the image, the symbol, the concrete particular, is precisely where the eternal enters time. That Wordsworth's primrose is not a paraphrase of some prior rose existing in the Anima Mundi

Yeats did write about the Anima Mundi (in 'Per Amica Silentia Lunae'), but the specific claim that he used Wordsworth's primrose as the exemplar of this doctrine is not clearly verified. — uncertain (unconfirmed): web verification was attempted but unavailable. — not checked against any source

II. Works Referenced — Invoked, Not Quoted

A member reaching for a reading without quoting it, or naming a tradition rather than a title. Weaker evidence than Works Cited: named in passing, never independently checked — kept separate so what's confirmed and what's merely gestured at never get mistaken for each other.