YARKER, JOHN
English occultist and Freemason, 1833–1913. Born in the Westmoreland village of Swindale, he moved with his parents to Lancashire in 1840 and nine years later…
Category: Occultists
STANISLAS DE GUAITA
STANISLAS DE GUAITA , POET AND OCCULTIST (1861-1897) Cofouder with Joséphin Péladan of the ”Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix’, he wa s greatly influenced by…
ANTOINE FABRE D’OLIVET
ANTOINE FABRE D’OLIVET , WRITER , PHILOLOGIST , AND OCCULTIST (1767-1825) D’Olivet started his literary career as a writer publishing a novel, founding different journals,…
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 in Alsace and served an…
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 was the illegitimate son of…
PIKE, ALBERT
American soldier, author, occultist and Freemason, 1809–91. Born in Massachusetts to a working-class family, Pike showed intellectual promise from an early age and mastered Latin,…
MADOLE, JAMES H.
James Hartung Madole (1927–1979): Architect of American Occult Fascism James Hartung Madole was an American political extremist and esoteric ideologue whose strange and disturbing career…
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 with a passion for reading,…
EVOLA, JULIUS
Italian philosopher, writer, occultist, and Fascist. Born Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, into an aristocratic Sicilian family, Evola (1898–1974) rebelled against his family’s strict Catholicism in…
BALLARD, GUY
American writer and occultist. Ballard (1878–1939) was born and raised in Kansas, and worked as a mining engineer all over the western United States for…