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Francis Barrett (born probably in London around 1770–1780, died after 1802) was an English occultist. Barrett, an Englishman, claimed himself to be a student...

George Francis King (10 January 1934 – 8 November 1994), known as Francis X. King, was a British occult writer and editor from London who wrote about tarot...

Turban Rebellion leader (died 184) Zhongli Chun – Chinese occultist and consort of the King Xuan of Qi (r. 342–324 BC) Zoroaster – Founder of Zoroastrianism...

fables in such texts as The Wisdom of the Ancients as succeeding earlier occultist and Neoplatonic attempts to locate hidden wisdom in pre-Christian myths...

Masonic scholar, to the Rev. A. F. A. Woodford, whom British occult writer Francis King describes as the fourth founder (although Woodford died shortly after...

substitution cipher of the Latin script, that was used by early modern occultists and is popular in the Wicca movement. It was first published in Johannes...

Elizabeth of England John Dee, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator Dmytro Vyshnevetsky, Lithuanian prince The Lowlands of Scotland...

Elijah Jefferson Bond (January 23, 1847 – April 14, 1921) was an American lawyer and inventor. He is best known for patenting the ouija board. Elijah Jefferson...

In various occultist movements, Secret Chiefs are said to be transcendent cosmic authorities, a spiritual hierarchy responsible for the operation and...

teachings of sex magic in the Western world come from 19th-century American occultist Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825-1875). Son of a wealthy Virginian father...

high in Hell's hierarchy. According to the stories of the 16th-century occultist Johann Weyer, Beelzebub led a successful revolt against the Devil, is...

the court of King Louis XII together with his brother Claude, and became friends with the Duke of Angoulême, the future King King Francis I. After the...

sense of authenticity because of their antiquity. The German abbot and occultist Trithemius (1462–1516) supposedly had a Book of Simon the Magician, based...

early 1900s by Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), an English writer, mystic, occultist, and ceremonial magician. Central to Thelema is the concept of discovering...

the Golden Dawn. Woodman was a medical doctor, horticultural expert and occultist. He was also a member of several metaphysical orders in England. Woodman...

character of Agliè in the novel Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco is an occultist who claims to be the Count St. Germain. The character of Jack Elderflower...

the majority were men. Johann Weyer (1515–1588) was a Dutch physician, occultist and demonologist, and a disciple and follower of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa...

The King's School, Worcester is a private co-educational day school refounded by Henry VIII in 1541. It occupies a site adjacent to Worcester Cathedral...

George King's books, "this book is now and forever will be – Holy." King is referred to by the society "as an author, inventor, metaphysician, occultist, prophet...

chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Parsons converted to Thelema, the new religious movement founded by the English occultist Aleister Crowley. Together...