Occultists
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 (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 , WRITER , PHILOLOGIST , AND OCCULTIST (1767-1825) D'Olivet started his literary career as a writer publishing ...
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
Anglo-American occultist and secret society founder, 1880–1949. Born in Manchester, the daughter of an engineer, Bailey was a devout Christian ...
BALLARD, GUY
American writer and occultist. Ballard (1878–1939) was born and raised in Kansas, and worked as a mining engineer all over ...
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
Francis Barrett (19th c.) was an English magician and occultist. Little is known about Francis Barrett beyond his authorship of ...
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
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. (1848–1923) Scottish occultist, lawyer, and author, noted for his involvement in the Hermetic Order of the Golden ...
Cagliostro, Count Alessandro
Count Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) was an Italian occultist and alchemist, reputed to be one of the most celebrated magicians of ...
Case, Paul Foster
Paul Foster Case (1884–1954) was an American occultist and founder of the Builders of the Adytum. Paul Foster Case was ...
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 ...
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
Florence Beatrice Farr (1860–1917) was an English actress, occultist, and an important member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden ...
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.
William G.Gray (1913–1995) was an English Ritual magician, occultist, and founder of the Sangreal Sodality. William G. Gray was born ...
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 ...
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.
American occultist and fascist, 1927–79. The forefather of American fascist occultism, James Hartung Madole was born in New York City ...
Mathers, Moina
Moina Mathers (1865–1928) was an occultist, artist, wife of Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, and influential member of the Hermetic Order ...
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 ...
Mesmer, Franz Anton
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815) was an Austrian physician and Freemason whose method of “magnetic healing” was based on alchemical principles ...
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) (1865–1916) Physician, occultist, and author, known for his work on the Tarot and the Kabbalah and his ...
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
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
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 , POET AND OCCULTIST (1861-1897) Cofouder with Joséphin Péladan of the ''Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix', he ...
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
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 (1909–1999) English researcher, occultist, and magical Adept. Cecil Williamson knew Aleister Crowley and Gerald B. Gardner and ...
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
English occultist and Freemason, 1833–1913. Born in the Westmoreland village of Swindale, he moved with his parents to Lancashire in ...
