American occultism and ceremonial magic

Willis F. Whitehead

1854 – 1922

Willis F. Whitehead (1854–1922) was an American occultist based in Chicago who served as self-styled Supreme Grand Vizier of the Ancient Order of the Oriental Magi and founded the Royal Adept Mystics. He is best known for The Mystic Thesaurus, or Initiation in the Theoretical and Practical Secrets of Astral Truth and Occult Art (first published 1899), a widely read synthesis of Kabbalistic, Solomonic, and astrological occultism in early American esoteric publishing.