William Butler Yeats was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, he won the Nobel Prize for poetry in 1923. He and his wife were very interested in things spiritual. He published one of the most famous poems of the 20th century, The Second Coming, in 1920. Where he mentions the second coming of the Messiah:
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction; the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand;
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
There is no coincidence that he published this in the same year (1920) that Sun Myung Moon was born. Father Moon is the Second Coming of Christ. The spirit world was working to prepare mankind for the new messiah.
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