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.

Authors by Path

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Grimoires & Magic

Grimoires, Goetia, pentacles, and ritual magic

Hermeticism & Alchemy

Hermetica, alchemy, and the Great Work

Gnostic & Apocrypha

Gnostic scripture, apocrypha, and hidden revelation

Enochian Magic

John Dee, Enochian language, and angelic magic

Freemasonry

Masonic source texts and symbolism

Hermeticism

Hermetic texts and philosophy

Alchemy

Laboratory, symbolic, and spiritual alchemy

Ceremonial Magic

Ritual magic and ordered practice

Notable Authors

James George Frazer

1854–194117 texts

Victorian comparative religion Aleister Crowley

1875–194715 texts

Thelema and ceremonial magic Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

1831–18917 texts

Theosophy and occult synthesis Andrew Lang

1844–19126 texts

Victorian folklore and anthropology Arthur Edward Waite

1857–19426 texts

Christian mysticism and Hermetic occultism James Hastings

1852–19226 texts

Biblical and comparative religion scholarship F. Max Müller

1823–19005 texts

Comparative mythology and religion William Walker Atkinson

1862–19324 texts

New Thought and practical occultism G.R.S. Mead

1863–19333 texts

Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Theosophy Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

1486–15353 texts

Renaissance occult philosophy and ceremonial magic John Partridge

1644–17153 texts

Western Astrology / Traditional Astrology R. A. Nicholson

1868–19453 texts

Islamic mysticism and Sufi scholarship

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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

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

1844–1912Victorian folklore and anthropology

Angelo John Lewis1

1839–1919Victorian conjuring and magic literature

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

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

1863–1947Supernatural fiction and occult mysticism

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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Basil Valentine2

Early modern practical alchemy

Belle M. Wagner1

Hermetic Brotherhood and esoteric occultism

Benjamin Jowett

1817–1893Classical scholarship and Platonic translation

1867–1923Psychopathology and subconscious mind research

C

C. de B. Evans2

1866–1935Christian mysticism translation

1848–1931British philosophy and primitive belief

Catherine Ann White1

Comparative mythology and religious education

Charles F. Haanel1

1866–1949New Thought and mental science

1874–1932Anomalous phenomena and Fortean research

Charles Francis Keary1

1848–1917Norse mythology and primitive belief

Charles François Dupuis1

1742–1809Comparative mythology and astronomical religion

Charles Godfrey Leland1

1824–1903Folklore, Italian witchcraft, and Gypsology

Charles Johnston

1867–1931Irish Theosophist, Sanskrit scholar

Charles Kingsley1

1819–1875Victorian mythology and Christian socialism

Charles Mackay1

1814–1889Popular delusion history and crowd psychology

Charles Maurice Davies1

1828–1910Victorian occult journalism and Spiritualism

1866–1936Victorian palmistry, numerology, and astrology

Claudius Ptolemy1

100–170Hellenistic astrology, astronomy, and cosmology

Crawford Howell Toy1

1836–1919Biblical scholarship and comparative religion

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Daniel Garrison Brinton1

1837–1899Native American mythology and anthropology

Dion Fortune (Violet Mary Firth)1

1890–1946British ceremonial magic and Qabalah

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E. A. Wallis Budge2

1857–1934Egyptology, Orientalism, and ancient religion

E. Cobham Brewer1

1810–1897Victorian encyclopedism, folklore, and mythology

E. Foxcroft (1690)

E. Lynn Linton1

1822–1898Victorian journalism and witchcraft history

Edward B. Tylor2

1832–1917Cultural anthropology and animism theory

Edward Bulwer-Lytton1

1803–1873Occult fiction and Rosicrucian esotericism

Edward Carpenter1

1844–1929Socialist mysticism and cosmic consciousness

1840–1930Rationalist folklore and anthropological skepticism

Edward Everett Hale

1822–1909Unitarian ministry and liberal theology

Elizabeth Carter (18th c.) or George Long (19th c. common)

Emanuel Swedenborg1

1688–1772Christian theosophy and visionary mysticism

1849–1905Folkloric documentation and vampire mythology

50–135Ancient Stoic philosophy and ethics

Esoteric Compilers

Evelyn Underhill1

1875–1941Christian mysticism and contemplative spirituality

F

F. Max Müller5

1823–1900Comparative mythology and religion

Florence Scovel Shinn1

1871–1940New Thought and metaphysical spirituality

Francesco Maria Guazzo1

1570–1640Catholic demonology and witchcraft theory

Francis Barrett2

1770–1830Ceremonial magic and natural philosophy

1853–1922Gnostic and early Christian scholarship

1869–1957Folklore scholarship and lycanthropy studies

Frank S. Dobbins1

1855–1916Victorian comparative religion surveyor

Franz Dornseiff1

1888–1960German classical philology and alphabet mysticism

Franz Hartmann1

1838–1912Theosophy and mystical biography

Frederick Thomas Elworthy1

1830–1907Victorian folklore and folk magic

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G. Elliot Smith1

1871–1937Hyperdiffusionism and Egyptological anthropology

1863–1933Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Theosophy

George Lyman Kittredge1

1860–1941Academic folklore and witchcraft studies

George Sinclair1

1630–1696Scottish demonology and supernatural apologetics

1827–1902Victorian solar mythology and comparative religion

Giacomo Leopardi1

1798–1837Romantic pessimism and classical philology

Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola1

1470–1533Renaissance Christian skepticism and demonology

Goblet d'Alviella1

1846–1925Freemasonry, comparative religion, and symbolism

Grillot de Givry1

1874–1929French occultism and alchemical scholarship

Gustav Meyrink1

1868–1932Occult fiction, Kabbalah, and esoteric Buddhism

Gustave Le Bon2

1841–1931Social psychology and crowd theory

Gustavus Hindman Miller1

1857–1929Dream symbolism and interpretation

H

1859–1929Victorian mythology and folklore retelling

H. Clay Trumbull1

1830–1903Anthropology of religion and covenant theology

H. Stanley Redgrove2

1887–1943Occult history and alchemy

H.G. Evelyn-White

1884–1924Classical scholarship, Greek mythology

Hamilton Wright Mabie1

1846–1916American literary criticism and religious humanism

Hargrave Jennings1

1817–1890Victorian occultism and phallic religion theory

Hartley Burr Alexander1

1873–1939Philosophy and Native American religious symbolism

Harvey Wickes Felter1

1865–1927Eclectic medicine and botanical pharmacognosy

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim3

1486–1535Renaissance occult philosophy and ceremonial magic

Heinrich Kramer2

1430–1505Dominican inquisition and witch-trial theology

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky7

1831–1891Theosophy and occult synthesis

Henrietta Szold

1860–1945Jewish scholarship, Zionist activism

1633–1707Western Astrology / Traditional Astrology

Henry Steel Olcott1

1832–1907Theosophy and Western Buddhism revival

Herbert A. Giles

1845–1935British Sinology, Chinese literature translation

1796–1852Victorian physiology and mesmerism

Hermes Trismegistus1

b. 700 BCEAncient Greek mythological poetry

Hippolyte Bernheim1

1840–1919Scientific hypnotism and suggestion

Hippolytus of Rome2

170–235Early Christian heresiography

Historical Compilers

Honorius of Thebes (Legendary/Unknown)1

Howard Williams1

1837–1931Humanitarian ethics and Pythagorean vegetarianism

I

245–325Neoplatonist theurgy and divine mysteries

Isabel de Steiger

1836–1927Theosophy, Hermetic occultism, alchemy

J

J. Courtenay Locke

Early 19th-century British demonology and folklore

J.K. (Common attribution)

1575–1624Christian theosophy and mysticism

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

1822–1887Victorian folklore and superstition studies

James H. Leuba1

1868–1946Psychology of religion and skeptical naturalism

James Hastings6

1852–1922Biblical and comparative religion scholarship

1815–1897Scottish Sinology, Chinese Classics translation

James M. Robinson

1861–1921Native American ethnography and religion

1844–1881Hungarian folk superstition scholarship

Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla)1

1738–1791French occultism and esoteric tarot

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

1626–1697English antiquarian folklore and occult

1527–1608Elizabethan Hermetic philosophy and Enochian magic

1575–1650Hermetic mysticism and Christian esotericism

1842–1901Evolutionary philosophy and science-religion synthesis

1627–1704Western Astrology / Traditional Astrology

John George Hohman1

Pennsylvania Dutch folk magic and powwowing

John Gregorson Campbell2

1836–1891Scottish Gaelic folklore and fairy belief

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

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

Hermetic alchemy and Golden Dawn

K

Karl Grabner (Attributed/Editor)1

Karl von Eckartshausen1

1752–1803Bavarian Catholic Christian mysticism

Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie

1871–1940Neoplatonism, ancient philosophy translation

King James I of England (James VI of Scotland)1

1566–1625Royal demonology and witch persecution

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Lady Charlotte Guest

1812–1895Welsh mythology, medieval Celtic translation

Laozi (Laotse)1

Taoism, Chinese philosophy, cosmology

1874–1955Occultism, folklore, mythology scholarship

Logan Marshall1

1883–1937American popular religious writer

Lord Arundell of Wardour (John Francis Arundell)1

1831–1906English Catholic antiquarian scholarship

Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (Kerry Thornley)

1938–1998Discordian chaos religion founder

Louis Ginzberg1

1873–1953Jewish mysticism, Talmudic scholarship, aggadah

Louis Herbert Gray

1875–1955Iranian and Indo-European religious studies

M

Malaclypse the Younger (Gregory Hill)1

1941–2000Discordianism, chaos religion, countercultural occultism

1901–1990Perennial philosophy and Western esoteric synthesis

Maurice Maeterlinck2

1862–1949Symbolism and mystical philosophy

1865–1919Rosicrucianism, Christian mysticism, astrology

1876–1932German cultural-historical esoteric writer

1568–1622Alchemy, Rosicrucianism, Renaissance hermeticism

Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus)1

1503–1566Prophetic astrology, Renaissance divination

Moncure Daniel Conway2

1832–1907Freethought and comparative demonology

Montague Summers1

1880–1948Occult scholarship, demonology, Gothic supernaturalism

Morris Jastrow Jr. and Albert T. Clay1

Moses Maimonides1

1135–1204Jewish rationalist philosophy, medieval theology

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Nicholas Bessaraboff & Claude Bragdon

Nicholas Culpeper1

1616–1654Astrological herbalism, Paracelsian medicine

O

British occultism, spiritualist investigation

1825–1901German classical scholarship, comparative mythology

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)2

43 BCE–17Roman poetry, mythological transformation narrative

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P. D. Ouspensky1

1878–1947Fourth Way esotericism, Gurdjieffian mysticism

Padmasambhava (traditional attribution)1

Papus (Gérard Encausse)1

1865–1916French occultism, Martinism, Tarot mysticism

Paschal Beverly Randolph1

1825–1875Sex magic, American Rosicrucianism, spiritualism

Classical yoga, Indian contemplative philosophy

1852–1919Science of religion and Eastern philosophy

1875–1934Finnish Theosophy and Esoteric Christianity

Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus)1

1493–1541Alchemy, iatrochemistry, occult philosophy

428 BCE–348 BCEGreek philosophy, mystical cosmology, Platonic idealism

205–270Neoplatonism, mystical philosophy, theurgy

234–305Neoplatonist philosophy and theurgy

412–485Late Neoplatonist systematic metaphysics

R

R. A. Nicholson3

1868–1945Islamic mysticism and Sufi scholarship

Rasmus B. Anderson

1846–1936Norse mythology and Scandinavian studies

1538–1599Skeptical demonology and witch trial critique

Richard Harris Dalton Barham1

1788–1845Gothic humorous supernatural folklore verse

1577–1640Anglican scholarly encyclopedic occult medicine

Robert Hindmarsh1

1759–1835Swedenborgian New Church founder

Renaissance occult philosophy translation

Robert W. Chambers1

1865–1933Weird fiction, supernatural horror

Victorian occultism, graphology, palmistry

Rudolf Steiner1

1861–1925Anthroposophy, esoteric spiritual philosophy

S

S.L. MacGregor Mathers

1854–1918Ceremonial magic and Hermetic occultism

Sabine Baring-Gould1

1834–1924Anglican folklore, mythology, antiquarianism

Samuel Adams Drake1

1833–1905American folklore and antiquarianism

Sepharial (Walter Gorn Old)1

1864–1929Theosophical occultism and astrology

1856–1939Psychoanalysis and depth psychology

Sir Edwin Arnold

1832–1904Orientalist poetry and Buddhist popularisation

Snorri Sturluson1

1179–1241Norse mythology and medieval historiography

Solomon Trismosin (Legendary)1

St. Teresa of Avila1

1515–1582Catholic contemplative mysticism

Stephen Langdon1

1876–1937Assyriology and Sumerian religious studies

Hatha yoga and Natha tradition

Swami Paramananda

1884–1940Vedanta Hinduism and interfaith teaching

Swami Vivekananda1

1863–1902Hindu Vedanta, yoga, mysticism

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T. Adolphus Trollope1

1810–1892English history and Italian religious culture

Theodore Kirkringius / Richard Russell

Thomas Bulfinch3

1796–1867Classical mythology popularization

Thomas Dudley Fosbroke1

1770–1842English antiquarianism, archaeology, folklore

Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer2

1848–1923Victorian folk belief and plant lore

Thomas H. Burgoyne1

1855–1894Hermetic occultism, esoteric astrology

1758–1835Neoplatonism, Platonic mysticism, Paganism

Thomas William Doane1

1852–1885Freethought, comparative religion

Thomson Jay Hudson1

1834–1903Psychical research, hypnotism

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Viktor Rydberg3

1828–1895Germanic and Norse mythology scholarship

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W. Y. Evans-Wentz1

1878–1965Tibetan Buddhism, Celtic folklore scholarship

Wilhelm Ludwig Wekhrlin1

1739–1792German Enlightenment anti-clerical journalism

William Butler Yeats1

1865–1939Occult poetry, ceremonial magic

William Gemmell

Early Western Buddhist scholarship

William Grant Stewart1

Scottish Highland folklore, antiquarianism

William Henry Davenport Adams1

1828–1891Victorian supernatural folklore history

1842–1910Psychology of mystical experience

1602–1681English horary and judicial astrology

William Ramesey1

1627–1676Western Astrology / Traditional Astrology

William Seabrook1

1884–1945Occultism, Vodou, travel writing

William Thomas Pavitt1

1870–1937Theosophical talismanic gem lore

William Walker Atkinson4

1862–1932New Thought and practical occultism

William Wynn Westcott

1848–1925Hermetic ceremonial magic and Rosicrucianism

Willis F. Whitehead

1854–1922American occultism and ceremonial magic

1836–1883Welsh folklore and fairy mythology

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1857–1933Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeology

Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)1

369 BCE–286 BCEClassical Taoist philosophy and mysticism

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Éliphas Lévi (Alphonse Louis Constant)2

1810–1875French ceremonial magic revival