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Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535) was an important occult philosopher whose seminal work, Occult Philosophy, had a profound impact on the ...
Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) was an English magician and occultist. Aleister Crowley was adept at dealing with spirits, including powerful Demons ...
ANTOINE FABRE D'OLIVET

ANTOINE FABRE D’OLIVET

ANTOINE FABRE D'OLIVET , WRITER , PHILOLOGIST , AND OCCULTIST (1767-1825) D'Olivet started his literary career as a writer publishing ...
ATKINSON, WILLIAM WALKER

ATKINSON, WILLIAM WALKER

American occultist, author, and secret society member. One of the leading figures in the occult scene in turn of the ...
BAILEY, ALICE

BAILEY, ALICE

Anglo-American occultist and secret society founder, 1880–1949. Born in Manchester, the daughter of an engineer, Bailey was a devout Christian ...
BALLARD, GUY

BALLARD, GUY

American writer and occultist. Ballard (1878–1939) was born and raised in Kansas, and worked as a mining engineer all over ...
Franz Bardon

BARDON, FRANZ

Franz Bardon (1909–1958) was a Czech occultist, Hermetic Adept, and magician whose work has influenced magical methods and practices. Franz Bardon ...
Barrett, Francis

Barrett, Francis

Francis Barrett (19th c.) was an English magician and occultist. Little is known about Francis Barrett beyond his authorship of ...
Allan Bennett

Bennett, Allan

Allan Bennett, (1872–1923) was an English occultist and a principal member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.  Allan ...
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna

Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891) Author, occultist, psychic, and cofounder of the Theosophical Society. Known as Madame Blavatsky or HPB, she ...
Brodie-Innes, J. W.

Brodie-Innes, J. W.

Brodie-Innes, J. W. (1848–1923) Scottish occultist, lawyer, and author, noted for his involvement in the Hermetic Order of the Golden ...
Count Alessandro Cagliostro

Cagliostro, Count Alessandro

Count Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) was an Italian occultist and alchemist, reputed to be one of the most celebrated magicians of ...
Paul Foster Case

Case, Paul Foster

Paul Foster Case (1884–1954) was an American occultist and founder of the Builders of the Adytum. Paul Foster Case was ...
Cheiro

Cheiro

Cheiro (1866–1936) Professional name of famed Irish palm reader “Count” Louis Hamon. Cheiro was a charismatic and flamboyant personality who ...
David-Neel, Alexandra

David-Neel, Alexandra

David-Neel, Alexandra (1868–1969) French explorer, occultist, and Tibetan scholar. Alexandra David-Neel led an exotic life and was the first Western ...
Julius Evola

EVOLA, JULIUS

Italian philosopher, writer, occultist, and Fascist. Born Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, into an aristocratic Sicilian family, Evola (1898–1974) rebelled against ...
Farr, Florence Beatrice

Farr, Florence Beatrice

Florence Beatrice Farr (1860–1917) was an English actress, occultist, and an important member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden ...
Dion Fortune

Fortune, Dion

Dion Fortune (1891 -1946) The magical name of Violet Mary Firth, British occultist and author whose books continue to have ...
Gray, William G.

Gray, William G.

William G.Gray (1913–1995) was an English Ritual magician, occultist, and founder of the Sangreal Sodality. William G. Gray was born ...
HITLER, ADOLF

HITLER, ADOLF

Austrian politician and occultist, 1889–1945. Born in the small border town of Braunau-am-Inn, Hitler was a moody and difficult child ...
Hyatt, Christopher S.

Hyatt, Christopher S.

Books by Christopher S. Hyatt ...
Eliphas Levi

Levi, Eliphas

Eliphas Levi (1810–1875) French occultist who was a leader of the occult revival of the 19th century. Eliphas Levi has ...
MADOLE, JAMES H.

MADOLE, JAMES H.

American occultist and fascist, 1927–79. The forefather of American fascist occultism, James Hartung Madole was born in New York City ...
Mathers, Moina

Mathers, Moina

Moina Mathers (1865–1928) was an occultist, artist, wife of Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, and influential member of the Hermetic Order ...
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers

Mathers, Samuel Liddell MacGregor

Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918) was an English occultist, author, and founding chief of the Hermetic Order of the Golden ...
Franz Anton Mesmer

Mesmer, Franz Anton

Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815) was an Austrian physician and Freemason whose method of “magnetic healing” was based on alchemical principles ...
Victor Neuberg

Neuberg, Victor

Victor Neuberg (1883–1940) Initiate of Aleister Crowley. Victor Neuberg, a poet and an editor, broke ground with Crowley in Crowley’s ...
Papus (Gerard Encausse)

Papus (Gerard Encausse)

Papus (Gerard Encausse) (1865–1916) Physician, occultist, and author, known for his work on the Tarot and the Kabbalah and his ...
PIKE, ALBERT

PIKE, ALBERT

American soldier, author, occultist and Freemason, 1809–91. Born in Massachusetts to a working-class family, Pike showed intellectual promise from an ...
RANDOLPH, PASCHAL BEVERLY

RANDOLPH, PASCHAL BEVERLY

American occultist, spiritualist, physician, politician, author, and founder of secret societies, 1825–75. A leading figure in nineteenth-century American occultism, Randolph ...
SCHWALLER DE LUBICZ, RENÉ AOR

SCHWALLER DE LUBICZ, RENÉ AOR

French esoteric and secret society member, 1887–1961. One of the most influential figures in twentieth-century occultism, René Schwaller was born ...
STANISLAS DE GUAITA

STANISLAS DE GUAITA

STANISLAS DE GUAITA , POET AND OCCULTIST (1861-1897) Cofouder with Joséphin Péladan of the ''Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix', he ...
Occultists

Waite, Arthur Edward

Arthur Edward Waite (1857–1942) Author, mystic, magician, alchemist, and occultist/Arthur Edward Waite is probably best remembered as the cocreator of ...
Westcott, William Wynn

Westcott, William Wynn

William Wynn Westcott (1848–1925) was an English occultist and founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.  William Wynn ...
Williamson, Cecil Hugh

Williamson, Cecil Hugh

Williamson, Cecil Hugh (1909–1999) English researcher, occultist, and magical Adept. Cecil Williamson knew Aleister Crowley and Gerald B. Gardner and ...
Woodman, William Robert

Woodman, William Robert

William Robert Woodman (1828–1891) was an English occultist and a founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. William ...
YARKER, JOHN

YARKER, JOHN

English occultist and Freemason, 1833–1913. Born in the Westmoreland village of Swindale, he moved with his parents to Lancashire in ...

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