Major Figures in Divination and Occult Matters
This index of major occultists, like any reference work of
such magnitude, must by its very nature remain a continual work of
progress. New research on the past continues to add to our store of
knowledge on the subject, new seers may appear in our present time,
and we have no desire of declaring a work "complete" when it can be
improved upon.
All persons are listed alphabetically,
last name first. Links to related websites or
web pages on the person discussed will be made available when such pages
exist, and when we in our estimation find such pages to be of value in
adding to a reader's store of knowledge on the subject.
- Agrippa Von Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius
(1486-1535)
- Baring-Gould, Sabine
- Cagliostro
- Crowley, Aleister
- Etteilla. French, real name Alliette, of which Etteilla is a
reversal. Early writer on tarot cards, was also a practitioner of tarot
readings and an astrologer.
- Flamel, Nicholas
- Gébelin, Antoine Court de. b. 1728. d. 1784.
French. The first occultist to write on tarot cards from a divinatory
standpoint, devoted a chapter to this subject in his Monde Primitif analysé,
in which he proposed that Venetian tarot cards were of Egyptian origin and
embodied Egyptian occult teachings. He followed up these teachings with Researches
on Tarots and Divination by the Tarot Cards.
- Hall, Manly P. Author of The Secret Teachings of All Ages.
- Hauffe, Frederike.
- Lenormand, Mademoiselle. French. Card-diviner in the early
19th century, said to have been consulted by Empress Josephine and
Napoleon. A fortune-telling pack of cards issued under her name has been
more or less continually in print from her day to the present.
- Leland, Charles G. Author of Aradia,
Gospel of the Witches.
- Levi, Eliphas.
- Lilly, William. Astrologer.
- Lull, Raimon. b. ? d. 1315.
- Mathers, S. L. MacGregor. Member of Golden Dawn.
- McAdam, Daniel
- Nixon, Robert. Known as the Highland Seer.
- Nostradamus
- Ouspensky, P. D.
- Panchadasi, Swami
- Saint-Germain
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Shipton, Mother
- Spence, Lewis
- Writings
- The Encyclopedia of the Occult
- Waite, A. E.
- Writings
- The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. The designs of tarot cards in
this book, published by Rider in London in 1911, are now known to us as
the Rider-Waite
Tarot.
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