Unsolved:List of occultists

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This list comprises and encompasses notable people, both contemporary and historical, who are or were involved in occult, esoteric, mystical or magical practices or traditions.

Before common era

  • Abe no seimei, Japanese painter and alleged mage.
  • Abaris the Hyperborean, a legendary sage, healer, and priest of Apollo[1]
  • Alexander of Abonoteichus, founder of Glycon-worship and oracle
  • Apollonius of Tyana, wizard[2]
  • Apuleius, author of a magical novel[3]
  • Apsethus the Libyan, magician who attempted to prove he was divine[4]
  • Atomus, Magus who worked for Antonius Felix at Caesarea
  • Empedocles, Philosopher who advocated the idea that all matter is composed of water, fire, air and earth.
  • Elymas, Jewish Magus who opposed Paul on Cyprus[5]
  • Gyges of Lydia,[6] king said to possess magical artifacts
  • Heraclitus, philosopher important in occultism[7]
  • Hermes Trismegistus/Thoth[8]
  • Iamblichus,[9] neo-platonist philosopher, espoused theurgy
  • Iannes and Mambres, magicians at Pharaoh's court mentioned in the New Testament
  • Julian, Theurgist
  • Mary the Jewess, 4th century alchemist[10]
  • Merlin, Druid advisor to Vercingetorix, a king of the Celts 58 bc, before the invasion of Julius Caesar into the Western Isles. Veni, vidi, vici. Wizard in Arthurian Legend
  • Morgan le Fay, Goddess, whose name is used in the legend of her being the witch sister of fictitious King Arthur who is portrayed as a savior of his people from tyranny, pre-Roman invasion of the West Isles[11]
  • Plato,[12] philosopher
  • Plotinus, neo-platonist philosopher important in occultism[13]
  • Pythagoras, Greek mathematician, numerologist, philosopher important in occultism[14]
  • Ptolemy,[15] astrologer
  • Simon Magus, magician mentioned in New Testament of the Christian Bible.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
  • Solomon, reputed inventor of the Seal of Solomon and supposed author of the Testament of Solomon, Key of Solomon, Magical Treatise of Solomon, Lesser Key of Solomon
  • St Cyprian of Antioch, Sorcerer supreme of Antioch who was alleged to be in league with fallen arch-angel/Seraphim; Lucifer (who became known as 'Satan' after his fall). Cyprian eventually abandoned sorcery and became a Bishop after he had summoned the entity Satan to assist him on a deed, of which Satan supposedly failed.[23][24]
  • Virgil, subjected to magical legends
  • Vyasa, author and character of Mahabharat
  • The Witch of Endor, witch and spirit medium of King Saul in the Old Testament
  • Zhang Jiao,[25] leader of the Yellow Turban Rebellion
  • Zhuge Liang, advisor to Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms period
  • Zoroaster, founder of the order of the Magi
  • Zosimos of Panopolis,[26] Egyptian alchemist and gnostic mystic

Middle Ages

  • Abraham Abulafia, kabalist "messiah"
  • Albertus Magnus, had many magical texts attributed to him
  • Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond, associated with the goddess Áine
  • Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, shapeshifter skilled in the black arts
  • Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, alchemist thought to have magical powers
  • Gilles de Rais, serial killer accused of sorcery
  • Jābir ibn Hayyān, Persian-Arab alchemist that influenced all Medieval alchemy
  • Joachim of Fiore, Christian esotericist who founded his own group called the Joachimites
  • John of Nottingham and Robert Marshall, accused of attempting to kill Edward II with magic
  • Nicolas Flamel,[27] considered one of Europe's greatest alchemists[14]
  • Pietro d'Abano astrologer and purported author of the Heptameron
  • Ramon Llull, syncretic mystic
  • Roger Bacon, philosopher accused of magic
  • Michael Scot, Magician[28]
  • Ímar Ua Donnubáin, Norse-Gaelic navigator and sorcerer

Renaissance

  • Abramelin the Mage, Egyptian sage[29]
  • Ali Puli, anonymous author of seventeenth-century alchemical and hermetic texts
  • Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, occult philosopher, astrologer
  • Roger Bolingbroke,[30] astrologer and alleged necromancer
  • Olaus Borrichius, Danish alchemist
  • Thomas Browne,[31] hermetic philosopher
  • Giordano Bruno,[32] occult philosopher
  • Benevenuto Cellini, sculptor whose diary relates experience summoning spirits
  • Cosimo Ruggeri, Italian astrologer and occultist
  • Arthur Dee, hermetic author, and son of John Dee
  • John Dee, occult philosopher, mathematician, alchemist, Queen Elizabeth's advisor[14]
  • Gerhard Dorn, Belgian follower of Paracelsus
  • Faust, made a pact with the Devil, also see Doctor Faustus
  • Marsilio Ficino,[33] astrologer and translator of the "Corpus Hermeticum"
  • Robert Fludd, occult philosopher and astrologer
  • Edward Kelley, spirit medium and alchemist who worked with John Dee, founder of Enochian magic[14]
  • Athanasius Kircher, Jesuit priest, wrote on magical subjects
  • John Lambe, astrologer to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
  • Nostradamus,[34] one of the world's most famous prophets[14]
  • Paracelsus, medical pioneer and occult philosopher
  • Henry Percy,[35] "Wizard Earl"
  • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, humanist and Neoplatonist
  • Sir Walter Raleigh, practiced alchemy
  • Johannes Reuchlin, German cabalist magician, summoned angels
  • Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor, patron of alchemists
  • Ursula Southeil
  • Johannes Trithemius,[36] cryptographer and magical writer
  • Johann Weyer (aka Johannes Wierus), German physician, occultist and demonologist.
  • Elias Ashmole, The first known speculative Freemason.

Seventeenth century

  • Isobel Gowdie, self- confessed witch
  • Margaret Matson, New Sweden (colony) witch
  • Françoise Athenaïs Rochechouart, marquise de Montespan, royal mistress
  • Sir Isaac Newton, renowned physicist and alchemist
  • "La Voisin", French sorceress

Enlightenment

  • Ulrica Arfvidsson, politically influential Swedish fortune-teller
  • Alessandro Cagliostro,[37] Italian occultist
  • Antoine Court de Gebelin, connected tarot and esotericism
  • Etteilla, fortune-teller
  • Marquis de Sade, the 18th aristocrat, writer and libertine
  • Jacques Collin de Plancy, French occultist, demonologist and writer
  • Count of St. Germain, alchemist and occultist[14]
  • Höffern, German-Swedish fortune teller
  • Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, founder of Martinism, writer known as the Unknown Philosopher
  • Emanuel Swedenborg,[38] alchemist, founder of Swedenborgianism
  • August Nordenskiold, alchemist and Swedenborgian

Nineteenth century

  • Albert Pike, An authority as regards Freemasonry and arguably the most imperative mason during his time.
  • Adolf Hitler, German politician who was a leader of the Nazi party. Adolf was also an occult zealot.[39][40][41]
  • Mirra Alfassa, Indian poet and mystic.
  • Evangeline Adams, astrologer to the famous
  • Francis Barrett, wrote a book on magic
  • Alexis-Vincent-Charles Berbiguier de Terre-Neuve du Thym, French demonologist
  • Algernon Blackwood, member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
  • Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, author of several occult novels
  • Constant Chevillon, head of FUDOFSI
  • Aleister Crowley, English occultist and ceremonial magician, founder of Thelema religion[42][14][43]
  • Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes
  • Robert Felkin, medical missionary and explorer, member of Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Stella Matutina, author on Africa and medicine
  • Henri Gamache, authority on the Evil Eye
  • A. Frank Glahn, German mystic
  • Rudolf John Gorsleben[44]
  • Stanislas de Guaita, occult author
  • John George Hohman, American wizard
  • Allan Kardec, founder of Spiritism
  • Giuliano Kremmerz alchemist and occult author
  • William Lyon MacKenzie King, prime minister of Canada
  • Siegfried Adolf Kummer, German occultist.
  • Marie Laveau, American New Orleans Voodoo practitioner
  • Marie Anne Lenormand, fortune-teller favoured by Joséphine de Beauharnais
  • Eliphas Lévi, French occult author and ceremonial magician[14]
  • Harvey Spencer Lewis, founder of AMORC
  • Guido von List, Austrian writer and mystic.
  • Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Austrian occultist and pioneer of Ariosophy
  • Arthur Machen, member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
  • Friedrich Bernhard Marby, German rune occultist.
  • Moina Mathers, first initiate in Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, wife of S.L. MacGregor Mathers, and Imperatrix of the Alpha et Omega
  • Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers, founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
  • Evan Morgan, poet and aristocrat Lord Tredegar
  • Papus, pseudonym for Gérard Encausse, occult author
  • Paul Foster Case, founder of BOTA, adept of the Western mystery tradition, teacher, occult author
  • Paschal Beverly Randolph, African American physician and sex magician
  • Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic and healer
  • Carl Reichenbach, Austrian Occultist.
  • Theodor Reuss, German mason.
  • Arthur Rimbaud, visionary poet, adventurer
  • Pamela Colman Smith, Golden Dawn member, artist, designed the Waite-Smith tarot deck
  • Austin Osman Spare, author, painter, magician
  • Ludwig Straniak
  • August Strindberg, dramatist, alchemist
  • Arthur Edward Waite, occult author and member of Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
  • William Wynn Westcott, cofounder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
  • Karl Maria Wiligut, Austrian occultist and SS-Brigadeführer
  • William Butler Yeats, poet, Golden Dawn member, astrologer
  • Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian occultist and philosopher, who was declared by the Theosophical Society Adyar as the incarnation of Jesus Christ[45] and Krishna,[45] and was destined to be a world teacher.[46][47]
  • Swami Vivekananda, Indian mystic who supposedly possessed all occult powers known and also was a chief disciple of Ramakrishna.[48]
  • Alice Bailey, English writer, mystic and Theosophist[49]
  • Charles Webster Leadbeater, occult books author and influential member of the Theosophical Society Adyar.[50]
  • Annie Besant, British writer, socialist and occultist[51][52]
  • Pierre Bernard (yogi), American occultist, businessman and yogi popularly known as "Oom The Omnipotent"
  • Damodar K. Mavalankar, Indian Theosophist.

Twentieth century

  • William Breeze, author, musician, occultist, member of rock band Coil and Current 93. Since 21 September 1985, Breeze served as the Head of Ordo Templi Orientis.
  • Christian Bernard, as of 2017, he is the current imperator of the mystical organization; Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC)
  • Margot Adler,[53] witch and NPR reporter
  • Antero Alli, author, artist, teacher
  • Kenneth Anger, filmmaker, author, and disciple of Crowley
  • Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, occultist, occult author, teacher
  • Franz Bardon, occult author, magician
  • Michael Bertiaux, author of the Voudon Gnostic Workbook, occult artist
  • Mort Garson, esoteric electronic music composer
  • David Bowie,[54] musician and actor
  • Brother XII, mystic and founder of Canadian cult
  • Ray Buckland, author, teacher
  • Stewart Farrar, Alexandrian Wiccan, journalist, author
  • William S. Burroughs, author, Beat writer
  • W. E. Butler, esoteric author
  • Laurie Cabot, witch, high priestess, author
  • Christopher Penczak, author
  • D. J. Conway, occult author
  • Marjorie Cameron, scarlet woman of Jack Parsons' rituals, artist, actress
  • Peter J. Carroll, occultist, author, founder of Chaos magic
  • Carlos Castaneda, sorcerer, writer, anthropologist
  • Jean Chevalier, occult author, philosopher, theologian
  • Jinx Dawson, ceremonial magician, artist, founder of rock band Coven (band), recording artist
  • Samson De Brier, Actor and occultist.
  • Maya Deren,[55] filmmaker and Haitian Vodou priestess
  • Ramsey Dukes, occult author
  • Gerina Dunwich, witch and occult author
  • Lon Milo DuQuette musician, lecturer, and occultist.
  • Julius Evola, Italian philosopher.
  • Dion Fortune, considered one of Great Britain's most famous occultists[14]
  • Fulcanelli, French alchemist and esoteric author[14]
  • Gerald Gardner, author and founder of the religion of Wicca
  • H. R. Giger, artist, designer, member of the O.T.O.
  • Kenneth Grant, occultist, author, pupil of Crowley
  • Eugen Grosche (known as Gregor A. Gregorius), German occultist, author, founder of the lodge Fraternitas Saturni
  • Manly Palmer Hall, occult author, teacher
  • Eddie Nawgu, Nigerian sorcerer and self-proclaimed prophet of the Biblical God[56][57]
  • Frieda Harris, occultist, artist
  • Max Heindel, author
  • Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Reichsführer SS
  • Phil Hine, occult author
  • Murry Hope, occult author
  • Christopher Hyatt, author, teacher, publisher
  • Alejandro Jodorowsky, filmmaker, comic book writer, author and teacher on 'Psychemagia'
  • Gareth Knight, occult author[58]
  • Kurt E. Koch
  • Bola Ige, Nigerian lawyer and former minister of power who was a Rosicrucian.[59]
  • Dora van Gelder Kunz, occult author
  • Roger de Lafforest, occult author
  • Anton LaVey, occult author, founder of the Church of Satan
  • Timothy Leary, psychologist, member of the Illuminates of Thanateros
  • Sybil Leek, witch and occult author
  • Martinus, Danish occultist
  • Alan Moore, British writer and occultist[60]
  • Grant Morrison, comic writer and magician
  • Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff, occultist, science fiction writer
  • Tommaso Palamidessi, Christian Occultist, founder of the Archeosophical Society
  • Jim Morrison, musician, occultist, member of rock band The Doors
  • Jimmy Page, musician, occultist, member of rock band Led Zeppelin
  • Jack Parsons, occultist, author, and rocket scientist
  • Genesis P-Orridge, of Psychic TV video group and TOPY chaos magician
  • Israel Regardie, occult author, magician, pupil of Aleister Crowley[61]
  • Jane Roberts, author[62]
  • Alex Sanders, founder of Alexandrian Wicca
  • Pekka Siitoin, Finnish occultist and neo-Nazi
  • Robin Skelton, British-Canadian witch, poet[63]
  • Stephen Skinner, Australian author
  • Starhawk, witch and occult author[64]
  • Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophy[65]
  • Gerald Suster, occult author[66]
  • Ralph Tegtmeier aka Frater U∴D∴, occultist, author, founder of Pragmatic Magic, Cyber Magic and Ice Magic
  • Mellie Uyldert, occult author[67]
  • Doreen Valiente, priestess and author[68]
  • Hannes Vanaküla, mage[69]
  • Leila Waddell, mystic and muse
  • Robert Anton Wilson, author[70]
  • Catherine Yronwode, occult author[71]
  • Rosaleen Norton, self-proclaimed Australian witch
  • Pericoma Okoye, Nigerian spiritualist, traditional prime minister, and musician who supposedly manifested several metaphysical abilities during his lifetime.[72]
  • Samael Aun Weor, theurgist and founder of the Gnostic movement[73][74]
  • Mark L. Prophet, founder of the Summit Lighthouse and proponet of the "I AM" movement who supposedly achieved unification with God and became an 'Ascended Master'[75]
  • Ralph Maxwell Lewis, former imperator of AMORC[76]
  • Konstantinos (occultist), American occultist and writer.[77]
  • Don Webb (writer), author of occult books and former high priest of Temple of Set [78][79]
  • Miguel Serrano, Chilean diplomat, author of books on Esoteric Nazism
  • Eckhart Tolle, German writer, mystic and spiritual teacher.
  • Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Indian mystic and yogi who (as of 2017) is the spiritual head of Siddha Yoga.
  • Nina Kulagina - Russian psychic who claimed to possess telekinetic abilities.[80][81][82][83][84]

See also

  • List of astrologers
  • List of alchemists
  • List of occult writers
  • List of spirituality-related topics

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