ermetikon

The Archive

Authors

245 authors across occultism, astrology, Hermeticism, Kabbalah, alchemy, and comparative religion — from ancient Hermetists and Renaissance magi to Victorian occultists and twentieth-century initiates. Each page links directly to their texts in the archive, with related works and thematic connections.

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A.W. Buckland1
1832–1899Victorian anthropology and comparative mythology
Abraham of Worms1
Jewish Kabbalah and practical magic
Adolphe Franck1
1809–1893Jewish philosophy and Kabbalistic scholarship
AE (George William Russell)1
1867–1935Irish Theosophy and mystical poetry
Alan Leo (William Frederick Allan)1
1860–1917Modern Western astrology and Theosophy
Albert Churchward1
1852–1925Masonic Egyptology and comparative symbolism
Albert G. Mackey1
1807–1881American Masonic scholarship and encyclopedism
Albert Pike1
1809–1891Scottish Rite Freemasonry and esoteric philosophy
Aleister Crowley15
1875–1947Thelema and ceremonial magic
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
1865–1921Symbolist literary translation, fin-de-siècle
Alfred Cruikshank Haddon1
1855–1940British ethnology and anthropology
Algernon Blackwood1
1869–1951Supernatural fiction and occultism
Alibeck the Egyptian (Pseudonym)
Alice A. Bailey2
1880–1949Esoteric Theosophy and occult teaching
Andrew Lang6
1844–1912Victorian folklore and anthropology
Angelo John Lewis1
1839–1919Victorian conjuring and magic literature
Annie Besant1
1847–1933Theosophy and esoteric spirituality
Annie Besant, C.W. Leadbeater
Antoine Fabre d'Olivet1
1767–1825French Pythagorean esotericism and linguistics
Apollonius Rhodius1
b. 295 BCEHellenistic epic poetry and mythology
Arnold Ipolyi1
1823–1886Hungarian mythology and folklore scholarship
Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe)1
1865–1936British Orientalism and Hindu Tantra scholarship
Arthur Conan Doyle1
1859–1930British Spiritualism and psychical research
Arthur Edward Waite6
1857–1942Christian mysticism and Hermetic occultism
Arthur Machen1
1863–1947Supernatural fiction and occult mysticism
Arturo Graf2
1848–1913Italian medieval mythology and demonology
Athanasius Kircher1
1602–1680Jesuit Hermeticism and universal knowledge
Augustine Calmet1
1672–1757Benedictine biblical scholarship and vampire lore

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J. B. Dale1
J. Courtenay Locke
J. S. Forsyth1
Early 19th-century British demonology and folklore
J.K. (Common attribution)
Jacob Boehme2
1575–1624Christian theosophy and mysticism
Jacob Bryant2
1715–1804Comparative mythology and mythography
Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy2
1793–1881Demonology and occult encyclopedism
James Anson Farrer1
1849–1925Victorian comparative religion writing
James George Frazer17
1854–1941Victorian comparative religion
James Grant2
1822–1887Victorian folklore and superstition studies
James H. Leuba1
1868–1946Psychology of religion and skeptical naturalism
James Hastings6
1852–1922Biblical and comparative religion scholarship
James Legge
1815–1897Scottish Sinology, Chinese Classics translation
James M. Robinson
James Mooney1
1861–1921Native American ethnography and religion
János Varga
1844–1881Hungarian folk superstition scholarship
Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla)1
1738–1791French occultism and esoteric tarot
Joan Riviere
1883–1962British psychoanalysis, Freud translation
Johann Valentin Andreae (Attributed)2
1586–1654Rosicrucianism and Christian utopianism
Johann Weyer (Johannes Wierus)1
1515–1588Skeptical demonology and early psychiatry
John Aubrey1
1626–1697English antiquarian folklore and occult
John Dee1
1527–1608Elizabethan Hermetic philosophy and Enochian magic
John Everard1
1575–1650Hermetic mysticism and Christian esotericism
John Fiske1
1842–1901Evolutionary philosophy and science-religion synthesis
John Gadbury1
1627–1704Western Astrology / Traditional Astrology
John George Hohman1
Pennsylvania Dutch folk magic and powwowing
John Gregorson Campbell2
1836–1891Scottish Gaelic folklore and fairy belief
John Hill1
1714–1775Georgian botanical and herbal medicine
John Maxwell Wood1
Scottish folklore and witchcraft record
John Netten Radcliffe1
1826–1884Victorian epidemiology and supernatural folklore
John Partridge3
1644–1715Western Astrology / Traditional Astrology
John Robison1
1739–1805Scottish Enlightenment and Illuminati conspiracy
Joseph H. Peterson
Joseph Jacobs (collector/editor)2
1854–1916Victorian folklore and fairy tale scholarship
Joseph Jastrow1
1863–1944Experimental psychology and occult skepticism
Jules Michelet1
1798–1874French Romantic historical witchcraft
Julius Kohn
Hermetic alchemy and Golden Dawn

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