International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals: People Index
Abbas, Abdoul Baha
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (1844–1921), born ʻAbbás, was the eldest son of Baháʼu'lláh and head of the Bahá'í Faith from 1892 to 1921. After decades of imprisonment and exile he was freed following the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 and travelled through Europe and North America carrying the Bahá'í message of the oneness of humanity; he was knighted by Britain in 1920 for wartime relief work in Palestine.
(Source: Gemini) Eldest son of Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith; born Abbás Effendi. Under his father's 1892 will, appointed the authorized interpreter of the teachings and head of the religion. Imprisoned or exiled by Ottoman authorities for much of his early life alongside his father, until freed in 1908 after the Young Turk Revolution. Travelled through Egypt, Europe, and North America between 1911 and 1913 to propagate the Bahá'í teachings of universal peace, gender equality, and racial unity. Organized agricultural relief in Palestine during World War I; knighted by the British Empire in 1920. His authority was contested by his half-brother Mírzá Muhammad 'Alí, producing a lasting split in the household. Died in Haifa in 1921; his will established the guardianship and administrative structure of the Bahá'í Faith.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBAbdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1
Related Periodicals: International Psychic Gazette | Alliance Spiritualiste
Abbot, Francis Ellingwood
Francis Ellingwood Abbot (1836-1903) was an American philosopher and theologian who sought to reconstruct theology in accordance with the scientific method. A graduate of Harvard University and the Meadville Theological School, he served as a Unitarian minister before his increasingly radical views led him to leave the ministry in 1868. He went on to found the Free Religious Association and became the first editor of its journal, The Index. A member of C. S. Peirce's Metaphysical Club, he is credited as the first American philosopher publicly to support Charles Darwin. His major works include Scientific Theism (1885) and The Way Out of Agnosticism (1890).
(Source: Gemini) American philosopher and theologian (1836–1903) who argued for a non-dogmatic, scientific approach to religion. Born in Boston; educated at Harvard and Meadville Theological School; ordained a Unitarian minister. Forced to resign his Dover, New Hampshire congregation after a court ruled his non-sectarian views disqualified him from a Unitarian pulpit. Founded the Free Religious Association and edited the radical weekly The Index from 1870 to 1880, holding that religion should rest on scientific realism rather than biblical authority or mystical intuition. Struggled to secure academic positions and was drawn into a bitter public dispute with Josiah Royce. Died 23 October 1903, by suicide.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ellingwood_Abbot
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Related Periodicals: The Index | The Open Court
Abbott, Anne
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Two Worlds of Attraction (1921)
Abbott, David
David Phelps Abbott (1863–1934) was an American amateur magician, inventor, and author from Omaha, Nebraska, best known for exposing the methods of fraudulent mediums. His book Behind the Scenes with the Mediums (Open Court, 1907) became a classic exposé of séance-room trickery, and he contributed related articles to The Open Court. A friend of Harry Houdini, he devised illusions such as the floating ball.
(Source: Gemini) American magician, inventor, and writer (1863–1934) active in the skeptical investigation of spiritualist mediums. A loan-business executive in Omaha, Nebraska, he built a home theater and developed illusions. Best known for Behind the Scenes with the Mediums (1907), which exposed the codes and mechanisms mediums used to fake telepathy, spirit writing, and materializations. Invented illusions including the 'Talking Teakettle' and the 'Floating Ball,' later performed by other magicians.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Abbott
Related Periodicals: The Open Court
Abbott, James
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The National Spiritualist | NSAC National Spiritualist
Abbott, Sarah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Sarah Abbott, an early-1850s American Spiritualist whose 1852 marriage — solemnized at Skaneateles and reported in Buchanan's Journal of Man — figured in the period's “marriage question” and free-love controversies.
Chasing Emma: 1852: The Marriage of Sarah Abbott and Samuel Sellers
Aber, Mabel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Mabel Aber, an American materialization medium of the 1890s associated with her husband W. W. Aber, caught up in the 1895 exposure of fraudulent mediums at Lily Dale.
Chasing Emma: Flashlight Pictures: Mabel Aber; and W. W. Aber
Aber, William W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) William W. Aber, American materialization medium active around Lily Dale in the 1890s, among the mediums exposed by flashlight photography in the 1895 fraud investigations.
Chasing Emma: Flashlight Pictures: Mabel Aber; and W. W. Aber
Abhayananda, Swami
Most likely Abhayananda (born Marie Louise, 1842–date unknown), the first woman initiated into Swami Vivekananda's mission and reputedly the first Western woman to become a swami, initiated at Thousand Island Park in 1895. A former suffragist and lecturer, she later broke with Vivekananda while continuing to teach under the same name. (Identification from the periodical context is probable but not certain.)
(Source: Gemini) Born Marie Louise (1858–after 1912); one of the first Western disciples of Swami Vivekananda. Active in socialist politics and labor advocacy in New York before attending Vivekananda's 1895 lectures at Thousand Island Park, where he initiated her into sannyasa as Swami Abhayananda. Founded Vedanta centers in New York and Chicago and lectured widely on Hindu philosophy — a rare Western woman as Hindu monastic. Later broke with Vivekananda's organization to teach independently, drifted toward esoteric and occult groups, and left the public record after about 1912; date of death undocumented.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Abhayananda
Related Periodicals: Immortality
Abhedananda, Swami
Swami Abhedananda (1866–1939), born Kaliprasad Chandra, was a direct monastic disciple of the mystic Ramakrishna. Sent to the West by Swami Vivekananda in 1897, he led the
(Source: Gemini) Born Kali Prasad Chandra (1866–1939); a direct disciple of Ramakrishna and an exponent of Vedanta in the West. Took monastic vows in 1886 after Ramakrishna's death. Invited by Swami Vivekananda to London in 1896 and then to the United States, where he spent twenty-five years, establishing the Vedanta Society of New York and lecturing on Indian philosophy and yoga. Wrote How to be a Yogi and India and Her People. Returned to India in 1921 after administrative conflicts within the Ramakrishna Mission and founded the Ramakrishna Vedanta Math in Calcutta. Died in Calcutta in 1939.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Abhedananda
Related Periodicals: Brahmavadin | International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | The Psychological Herald (Atlanta) | Star of the East (Seattle, Sydney) | Mind
Abiello, Raymond
Almost certainly Raymond Abellio, pen name of Georges Soulès (1907–1986), a French novelist and esotericist. A polytechnicien drawn first to far-left and then to collaborationist politics during the Second World War, he turned after 1952 to a literary and esoteric career marked by Gnostic thought, astrology, and theories of a numerical code in the Bible. ("Abiello" appears to be a spelling variant of "Abellio.")
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Abellio
Related Periodicals: L'Astrosophie | The Seer
Abrams, Albert
Albert Abrams (1863-1924) was an American physician based in San Francisco who became notorious for developing a series of diagnostic and therapeutic devices. Initially a respected neurologist and professor of pathology at Cooper Medical College (later part of Stanford), he departed from orthodox medicine around 1910 with a spinal-stimulation system he called "spondylotherapy." He subsequently promoted a theory he termed the Electronic Reactions of Abrams (ERA), claiming that all diseases emitted distinctive electronic vibrations detectable in blood samples or even handwriting. His devices -- the Dynomizer, Oscilloclast, and Radioclast -- were widely exposed as fraudulent during his lifetime and shortly after his death.
(Source: Gemini) American physician (1863–1924), founder of 'Radionics,' an alternative-medicine system condemned by mainstream science. Born in San Francisco; took his medical degree at Heidelberg (1882) and established a career as a pathologist. From about 1910 he promoted the theory that disease arises from electronic imbalances diagnosable and curable with machines of his own design — the Dynamizer and the Oscilloclast — operating on the 'Electronic Reactions of Abrams' (ERA). The
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Abrams
Related Periodicals: The Chapala Round Table | The Lindlahr Magazine | The Philosopher's Stone | Physico-Clinical Medicine | The Psychological Review of Reviews
Related Monographs: New Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment: Physico-Clinical Medicine (1922), The Electronic Reactions of Abrams: An Endorsement (1922)
Accomani, Cesare
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Cesare Accomani, also known by the pseudonym Zam Bhotiva, was an Italian-French occultist active in the 1920s and a leading promoter of the Groupe des Polaires in Paris, whose oracle of "astral force" and Bulletin des Polaires he publicized.
Related Periodicals: Bulletin Des Polaires
Achad, Frater
(Source: Gemini) Frater Achad was the primary magical motto and pseudonym of Charles Robert Stansfeld Jones (1886–1950), an English-born occultist, author, and ceremonial magician who resided primarily in Canada. Jones became an accountant before shifting his focus to esoteric studies, initially investigating Spiritualism. In 1909, he joined the A∴A∴, an occult order founded by Aleister Crowley, becoming the twentieth probationer to enter the organization. Crowley later identified Jones as his "magical child," believing Jones had discovered a qabalistic key to The Book of the Law. Jones advanced to the grade of Magister Templi and served as the principal organizer for the Ordo Templi Orientis in British Columbia. Writing under the name Frater Achad, derived from the Hebrew word for "unity," he published several treatises on ceremonial magic, the Qabalah, and divination. His 1923 monograph, Crystal Vision Through Crystal Gazing, provides step-by-step instructions for scrying, crystal preparation, and interpreting reflections. His other published works include Q.B.L., or The Bride's Reception (1922) and The Anatomy of the Body of God (1925). Following a breakdown and a schism with Crowley, Jones established the Fellowship of Ma-Ion.
Related Monographs: Q.B.L., or The Bride's Reception: Being a Short Cabalistic Treatise on the Nature and Use of the Tree of Life (1922), Crystal Vision Through Crystal Gazing, or The Crystal as a Stepping-Stone to Clear Vision (1923), The Chalice of Ecstasy: Being a Magical and Qabalistic Interpretation of the Drama of Parzival (1923), XXXI Hymns to the Star Goddess Who is Nuit (1923)
Acharya, P.S.
(Source: Gemini) P.S. Acharya was a twentieth-century Indian author who wrote on Yoga, Spiritualism, and Hindu philosophy. He contributed to The Kalpaka, a monthly periodical published by the Latent Light Culture that circulated as a psychic and spiritual review. Acharya authored the correspondence course Hindu Spiritualism. This text covered spirit communication, telepathy, self-purification, trance speaking, and automatic writing. His writings explained occult subjects through the framework of Vedanta, applying concepts like Brahma-Vidya to psychic phenomena. Organizations distributed his work internationally. In the United States, the Society of Transcendent Science sold his texts as part of their curriculum. In his articles for The Kalpaka and his separate courses, Acharya detailed methods for developing abilities. He provided instructions on breathing control, meditation, and diet. He instructed students to abstain from meat and tobacco before attempting exercises. The syllabus for his course instructed readers on interacting with entities and managing catalepsy. Acharya outlined steps for astral projection and transcendental consciousness, stating these required practice and focus. He argued that individuals could harness the vital principle of air to achieve states of suspension and transcend the body. His publications linked Eastern metaphysics with Western Spiritualism during the twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: The Kalpaka
Achzehner, Robert
(Source: Gemini) Robert Q. Achzehner was an optometrist, lighting specialist, and field investigator for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization in California. He resided in Costa Mesa. He served as vice president of the National Cat Protection Society in Newport Beach. Within esotericism, Achzehner was a member of The Prosperos. He held the degree of High Watch, Mentor, abbreviated as H.W., M..
Related Periodicals: Mentation
Adair, Alice
(Source: Gemini) Alice Adair was an English artist, lecturer, and prominent member of the Theosophical Society during the 1920s. She resided primarily at the Society's international headquarters in Adyar, India, where she dedicated her work to the intersection of art, beauty, and spiritual evolution. Adair was an advocate for integrating the arts into the core mission of the Theosophical Society. She believed that art and beauty were vital instruments of cultural and spiritual refinement. Adair traveled internationally—including a notable trip to Latvia in 1927—to lecture on Indian art to Western audiences. In January 1925, she was present when the Russian painter and mystic Nicholas Roerich visited Adyar to present the Society with his tempera painting The Messenger, which he dedicated to H. P. Blavatsky. Adair authored a detailed account of this event, titled "'The Messenger' at Adyar,"" highlighting the color harmonies and spiritual significance of the work. Adair actively campaigned for the establishment of a Blavatsky Museum at Adyar. She urged members worldwide to "shrine Beauty in Adyar" and formally create a dedicated space for art within the organization. Adair is historically noted for her influence on Eugenia Peterson, who would later become world-renowned as Indra Devi, the "Mother of Western Yoga". In 1927, while Adair was lecturing in Latvia, Peterson discovered that Adair lived at the Theosophical headquarters in India. Adair encouraged Peterson to attend the upcoming December Theosophical Society Convention in Adyar. Following Adair's guidance, Peterson sailed to India and began her immersion in Indian spirituality, classical dance, and ultimately, the global popularization of Hatha yoga.
Related Periodicals: Teozofija (Zagreb)
Adam, Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.85) Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838–1889), was a French Symbolist writer whose tales, and the drama Axël, became touchstones of fin-de-siècle occult and idealist literature. (Filed here under "Adam"; the canonical surname is Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.) (Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Appears to be a fragmentary rendering of the surname of Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838–1889), the French Symbolist writer — probably the same reference as the "Adam, Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle" entry rather than a distinct person.
(Source: Gemini) French Symbolist writer, poet, and playwright (1838–1889); Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Born in Saint-Brieuc to an impoverished aristocratic family and lived most of his life in poverty in Paris. Wrote the story collection Contes cruels (1883) and the drama Axël (published posthumously, 1890), a definitive Symbolist text. Married his companion Marie Dantine near the end of his life to legitimize their son. Died of stomach cancer in Paris.
Related Periodicals: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | L'Initiation | L'Etoile
Adam, Juliette
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Juliette Adam (1836–1936), née Lambert, was a French writer, feminist, and salonnière who founded the periodical La Nouvelle Revue in 1879 and was a prominent republican literary and political figure.
(Source: Gemini) French author, feminist, and salonnière (1836–1936); born Juliette Lamber. Her early forced marriage to Jean La Messine informed her first major work, Idées anti-proudhoniennes sur l'amour, la femme et le mariage (1858), a feminist reply to Proudhon. After marrying the republican politician Edmond Adam (1867) she ran an influential Paris salon frequented by figures including Léon Gambetta, and in 1879 founded and long edited the literary journal La Nouvelle Revue, publishing writers such as Pierre Loti and Paul Bourget. An advocate of French 'revanche' against Germany. Died at Callian at ninety-nine.
Related Periodicals: L'Initiation
Adam, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Paul Adam (1862–1920) was a French novelist associated with the Symbolist and occult-revival currents of the 1880s–90s; with Jean Moréas he co-wrote early Symbolist fiction, and his later work engaged esoteric and idealist themes.
(Source: Gemini) French novelist, essayist, and political commentator (1862–1920), active in both the Symbolist and Naturalist movements. Born in Paris; debuted in 1885 with Chair molle, prosecuted and acquitted for public indecency. Co-founded the Symbolist weekly Le Carcan and contributed to Jean Moréas's Symbolist manifesto. Works include La Force (1899) and Mystère des foules (1895). Politically shifting — from anarchism to support of General Boulanger (running as a Boulangist for the Chamber of Deputies in 1889) to wartime nationalist writing. Died in Paris in 1920.
Related Periodicals: L'Etoile D'Orient | Mondo Occulto
Adams, Adela Bee
(Source: Gemini) Adelia Bee Adams (often noted historically as Adela B. Adams or A. B. Adams) was an early 20th-century American author, esotericist, and a Western disciple of Baba Premananda Bharati. She was a prominent figure in the early dissemination of Gaudiya Vaishnavism in the United States. Adams was a contributor to The Light of India, a monthly periodical published in Los Angeles by Baba Bharati between 1906 and 1912. The magazine acted as the primary voice for his "Sree Krishna Samaj" (or "Krishna Home"), an organization dedicated to introducing Krishna Chaitanya philosophy to Western audiences. Adams's writings were instrumental in chronicling the movement's early presence in America. Outside her involvement with early American Hinduism, Adams was engaged with regional history and Native American folklore in the Southwest. She contributed to Out West (a prominent California magazine edited by Charles Lummis), where she co-authored culturally focused pieces alongside Indigenous contributors, such as a Yuma Indian writer named Goo-vai-en-yu.
Related Periodicals: Light of India
Adams, Edward H.
(Source: Gemini) Edward H. Adams was an early 20th-century American esotericist and publisher based in Waldron, Arkansas. He was a central administrative figure in the Ancient Order of Melchisedek (found under various spellings, including Melchezidek and Melchizedek) and was instrumental in the publication of its official periodical, the Voice of the Magi. Adams served as the "Supreme Scribe" for the Ancient Order of Melchisedek, which blended elements of Spiritualism, occult science, and religious reform. Operating out of Waldron, Arkansas, the Order actively sought national organizers to expand its membership, with Adams acting as the primary point of contact for recruitment and administration. Adams also managed the Magi Publishing Co., which produced the Order's monthly manifesto, the Voice of the Magi.
Related Periodicals: Voice of the Magi
Adams, Evangeline S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) Evangeline Adams (1868–1932) was a celebrated American astrologer who built a large clientele in New York, broadcast on radio, published widely read astrology books, and won a 1914 court case that helped legitimize astrological practice in the United States.
(Source: Gemini) American astrologer (1868–1932) credited with popularizing astrology in mainstream American culture. Born in Jersey City; moved to New York in 1899 and practiced from a studio in Carnegie Hall, with clients including J. Pierpont Morgan, Mary Pickford, and Enrico Caruso. Published Astrology: Your Place in the Sun (1927) and ran a syndicated newspaper column and radio show. Arrested several times under New York's anti-fortune-telling law; at an 1914 trial she reportedly read a blind chart for the judge's son and the charges were dismissed. Died in New York in 1932.
Related Periodicals: International Psychic Gazette
Related Monographs: Astrology: Your Place Among the Stars (1930)
Adams, John Bryce
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Text Book of Humanology: The Complete Science of Human Analysis, Analyzing People on Sight (1922)
Adams, John S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John S. Adams, associated with the launch of a Boston Spiritualist paper in 1857 — a minor figure in the early institutional press of American Spiritualism.
Chasing Emma: Beginning of an Era
Adams, W. Marsham
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Book of the Master of the Hidden Places (1933)
Adamski, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.90) George Adamski (1891–1965) was a Polish-born American who became the most famous of the 1950s UFO "contactees," claiming meetings with benevolent Venusian "Space Brothers." His books Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953) and Inside the Space Ships (1955) were international best-sellers and hugely influential on the early flying-saucer movement.
(Source: Gemini) Polish-American occultist, writer, and lecturer (1891–1965); one of the best-known UFO 'contactees' of the 1950s. Born in Bromberg; emigrated to the United States as a child and settled near Mount Palomar, California, where he founded the Royal Order of Tibet. Co-authored Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953) and wrote Inside the Space Ships (1955), claiming a 20 November 1952 desert encounter with a Venusian named Orthon and subsequent flights to the Moon, Mars, and Saturn. His 'scout ship' photographs were debunked as ordinary objects, and a claimed 1963 audience with Pope John XXIII was shown to be false. Died in Maryland in 1965.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Little Listening Post | Panorama | Saucer News (Moseley)
Adare, Viscount
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, Viscount Adare, later 4th Earl of Dunraven (1841–1926) — the aristocratic sitter whose published account of séances with D. D. Home, including Home's famous levitation out a window, is among the most cited testimonies of Victorian physical mediumship.
(Source: Gemini) Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1812–1871), known as Viscount Adare from 1850; Irish peer, politician, and archaeologist remembered in Spiritualism for his association with the medium Daniel Dunglas Home. Conservative MP for Glamorganshire 1837–1851; fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. From 1867 he attended more than seventy of Home's séances and recorded the phenomena — levitations, bodily elongation, handling of live coals — in letters to his father, compiled in 1869 as Experiences in Spiritualism with D.D. Home. Died at Great Malvern in 1871.
Chasing Emma: Emma; the Master of Lindsay and Elongation
Chasing Emma: Groping With Eager Hands: Dunraven on Spiritualism; 1922
Adaros, Cabir Premel el
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Psychic Power
Related Monographs: Things Kept Secret from the Foundation of the World (1922)
Adcock, Ann
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Ann Adcock, a thinly-documented figure encountered in the researches around Ada Goodrich Freer and late-Victorian scrying.
Chasing Emma: The Strange Story of Ada Goodrich Freer; Revisited
Adcox, Robert
(Source: Gemini) American physician (c. 1870–1944), a central broker in the 1920s "Missouri diploma mill" scandal that sold fraudulent medical degrees and state licenses to unqualified practitioners; convicted in the resulting prosecutions.
Related Monographs: Charlatry of Medicine and Medical Colleges (1925)
Addis, Yda
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Yda Addis, an American journalist and writer of the late nineteenth century entangled with the Gestefeld circle, who surfaces in the Mexico-City chapter of that story.
(Source: Gemini) American writer, translator, and educator (1853–c. 1902), a pioneer in translating Mexican folklore into English. Raised partly in Chihuahua, Mexico; later settled in California, contributing stories, translations, and historical sketches to Overland Monthly and The Argonaut. Her life was marked by public legal battles: an 1890 breach-of-promise and libel suit against attorney Theodore A. Coldwell, and a scandalous marriage to lawyer and Santa Barbara mayor Charles A. Storke, who had her committed as insane while she sued him for divorce. Disappeared from the record around 1902; her fate is unknown.
Chasing Emma: Information on Men and Schemes: Some Notes on Ursula Gestefeld; Part Three
Adkin, Thomas F.
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) American mail-order promoter (c. 1870s–1930s) in the patent-medicine and alternative-healing trade. Based in Rochester, New York, he founded the
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode Five: No Small Part In The Coming Generation
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 7: Making Love To A Broom
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 10: Birthed in Tippah County
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 13: This Method Is Original With Me
Related Periodicals: The Primitive Occult Journal | Weltmer's Magazine
Agabiti, Augusto
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Augusto Agabiti was an early-twentieth-century Italian Theosophist and writer, a contributor to Roman esoteric periodicals such as Ultra.
Related Periodicals: Ultra (Rome)
Agarwal, Hridaya Narain
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Agarwal, R. S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mind and Vision: A Handbook for the Cure of Imperfect Sight Without Glasses (1941)
Agnes, Jeanette
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Seventh Seal (1920)
Agobard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Agobard of Lyon (c. 779–840), archbishop of Lyon, is remembered in occult and folklore literature for his treatise against popular belief in weather-magicians and in "Magonia," a cloud-realm from which sky-ships were said to come — hence the periodical title.
Related Periodicals: Magonia
Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908) was the Indian religious leader who founded the Ahmadiyya movement in 1889, claiming to be the promised Messiah and Mahdi. His teachings — including the claim that Jesus survived the crucifixion and travelled east — circulated in Western metaphysical periodicals.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1908) Indian religious leader, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. Born in Qadian to a landed family. In 1889 he declared himself the Promised Messiah and Mahdi — condemned as heretical by orthodox Muslim theologians as contrary to the finality of Muhammad's prophethood. Held public debates and 'prayer duels' with Christian missionaries, Hindu scholars, and Muslim rivals. Wrote Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya. Died in Lahore in 1908; the movement afterward split into two branches.
Related Periodicals: Leaves of Healing
Aivanhov, Omraam Mikhael
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov (1900–1986) was a Bulgarian-born spiritual teacher who settled in France in 1937 and led the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1986) Bulgarian spiritual teacher and mystic; born Mikhael Ivanov in Macedonia. A disciple of Peter Deunov, founder of the Universal White Brotherhood, who sent him to France in 1937 to propagate the teaching. Established centers at Sèvres and Fréjus and lectured on spiritual development, vegetarianism, and solar meditation. Convicted on espionage and conspiracy charges after a 1948 trial and imprisoned two years; pardoned and rehabilitated by the French state in 1960. Died in Fréjus in 1986.
Related Periodicals: Ariel (Colombia)
Aksakov, Alexander
Alexandr Nikolayevich Aksakov (1832-1903) was a Russian writer, translator, editor, state official, and psychic researcher, credited with coining the term "telekinesis." Born into a noble family and educated at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, he became deeply interested in the works of Emanuel Swedenborg and went on to organise some of the first seances in Russia. While living in Germany he founded Psychische Studien (1874), the first journal dedicated to scientific investigation of spiritualist phenomena, which later became Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie. He served as Imperial Councillor to Tsar Alexander III and was a founding vice-president of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1903) Russian writer, translator, and psychical researcher; a pioneer of spiritualism in the Russian Empire and an Imperial Councilor to the Tsar. Translated Swedenborg and other spiritualist texts into Russian and, to evade Russian censorship, published his journal Psychische Studien in Germany. Took part in Dmitry Mendeleev's commission investigating mediumistic phenomena and defended mediums including Madame d'Espérance. Died in St. Petersburg in 1903.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Aksakov
Imperial councillor to the Tsar and pioneer of Spiritualism in Russia, Aksakov was a Swedenborg enthusiast introduced to modern Spiritualism by Andrew Jackson Davis. Unable to publish on Spiritualism in Russian due to censorship, he centred his literary activity in Germany, founding Psychische Studien in Leipzig in 1874 — the first journal dedicated to scientific investigation of spiritualist phenomena. He organised the first séances in Russia, introduced Daniel Dunglas Home to St. Petersburg professors, and was a founding vice-president of the Theosophical Society. He is credited with coining the term 'telekinesis.'
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/aksakof-alexander-n-1832-1903
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Aksakov, Alexander. A Russian civil servant (1832-1903) who became the country's first systematic psychical researcher, Aksakov organised séances in Russia from the 1860s, founded the influential German-language journal Psychische Studien in 1874, and helped link Russian Spiritualism to wider European debates. He is credited with coining the term telekinesis, and later left the SPR a substantial bequest.
Chasing Emma: Transcendental Photography: Aksakov; Eglinton and Abdullah
Related Periodicals: Psychische Studien | The Spiritualist | Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie | La Idea (Buenos Aires)
Alacoque, Margaret Mary
Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690) was a French Roman Catholic nun and mystic of the Visitation Order whose visions are credited with establishing the modern devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Born in Burgundy, she entered religious life at Paray-le-Monial, where she experienced a series of apparitions between 1673 and 1675 in which, she said, Christ revealed his Sacred Heart and called for a feast in its honour. She was beatified in 1864 and canonised in 1920.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1690) French Roman Catholic Visitation nun and mystic whose visions popularized the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Entered the Visitation convent at Paray-le-Monial in 1671, where she reported mystical visions of Christ, supported by her Jesuit director Claude de la Colombière. Died in 1690; canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mary_Alacoque
Related Periodicals: Le Rayonnement Intellectuel | Regnabit
Albert, Prince
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Prince Albert, the Prince Consort (1819–1861), noted here for the astrological footnote that “Zadkiel” (Richard James Morrison) was credited with predicting his 1861 death.
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Three: Richard Morrison Predicts...
Albro, Stephen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Stephen Albro was a mid-nineteenth-century American Spiritualist and editor of The Age of Progress, a Spiritualist weekly published in Buffalo, New York, in the 1850s.
Chasing Emma: The Little Things
Chasing Emma: June 19; 1856: John King; and Thomas King
Chasing Emma: Stephen Dudley; Eligibly Seated: Some (Further) Notes on John King
Related Periodicals: The Age of Progress
Alcan, Felix
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Félix Alcan (1841–1925) was a French publisher whose house issued much of the era's academic philosophy and psychology, including works on psychical research; the firm's name appears as publisher of journals such as the Annales des Sciences Psychiques.
Related Periodicals: Annales des Sciences Psychiques | Revue Metapsychique
Alcione
"Alcione" is the Italian form of "Alcyone," the Theosophical pseudonym given (by C. W. Leadbeater) to the young Jiddu Krishnamurti, under which the devotional classic At the Feet of the Master was published in 1910.
Wikipedia (At the Feet of the Master): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Feet_of_the_Master
Related Periodicals: Gnosi
Alden, W. L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) W. L. Alden, a New York Daily Graphic journalist suspected of driving the paper's 1875 campaign of coverage around the nascent
(Source: Gemini) (?–1908) American journalist, humorist, and diplomat, and a co-founder of the Theosophical Society. An editorial writer for The New York Times; in 1875 co-founded the Theosophical Society in New York with Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, serving as its first recording secretary, before breaking with Blavatsky over her occult claims. U.S. Consul General in Rome, 1885–1889. Died in Buffalo, New York, in 1908.
Chasing Emma: The Theosophical Blackboard: The Daily Graphic's Campaign Against The Theosophical Society
Alder, Vera Stanley
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) was a British portrait painter and esoteric author whose books, notably The Finding of the Third Eye and The Initiation of the World, popularized a theosophically inflected teaching that anticipated later New Age thought.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1984) English portrait painter, mystic, and author, a disseminator of Alice Bailey's teachings in early-20th-century Britain. Trained as a painter in London and Paris. Wrote The Finding of the Third Eye (1938) and The Initiation of the World (1939), synthesizing esoteric Christianity, astrology, and color therapy. Died in West Sussex in 1984.
Related Periodicals: The Golden Dawn
Alexander, C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Alexander's Book of Mystery: Astrological Forecasts, Crystal Gazing, Practical and Advanced Psychology, etc. (1923), Oriental Wisdom: Its Principles and Practice (1924), The Life and Mysteries of the Celebrated Dr. Q (1946)
Alexandrian, Sarane
Sarane Alexandrian (1927–2009) was a French essayist and art critic, the last secretary to André Breton and a central figure of postwar Surrealism. Alongside his Surrealist work he wrote extensively on occultism and eroticism, including a history of occult philosophy.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) French Surrealist writer, art critic, and historian of Western esotericism; born in Baghdad to a French family. Joined the Surrealist group in 1947 as a collaborator and secretary to André Breton, who expelled him from the group in 1948 over doctrinal disagreements. Wrote Histoire de la philosophie occulte (1983) and L'Art surréaliste (1969).
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarane_Alexandrian
Related Periodicals: La Fleche
Alfassa, Mirra
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) Mirra Alfassa (1878–1973), known to followers as "the Mother," was the French-born spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo and organizer of his ashram at Pondicherry; she later founded the international township of Auroville.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1973) French spiritual teacher known as 'The Mother'; the close collaborator of Sri Aurobindo. Born in Paris; traveled to Pondicherry in 1914 and settled in India, taking over administration of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1926. After Aurobindo's death in 1950 she continued to expand the community and in 1968 founded Auroville, an experimental township dedicated to human unity. Died in Puducherry in 1973.
Related Periodicals: Arya | Sri Aurobindo Circle
Allen, Don Cameron
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Star-Crossed Renaissance: The Quarrel about Astrology and Its Influence in England (1941)
Allen, Edward W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Edward W. Allen was a London publisher and bookseller who issued a number of British Spiritualist periodicals in the later nineteenth century, including titles associated with The Spiritual Magazine and Spiritual Notes.
Related Periodicals: New Ideas (Comprehensionism) | The Psychological Review | The Spiritual Magazine (UK) | Spiritual Notes | Spiritual Record | The Spiritualist
Allen, James
James Allen (1864-1912) was a British philosophical writer best known for his 1903 inspirational book As a Man Thinketh, which argues that a person's character is determined entirely by their thoughts. Born in Leicester, England, he worked in business until 1902, when he retired to Ilfracombe, Devon, to write. He produced nineteen books in roughly a decade, exploring themes of personal mastery, meditation, and the relationship between thought and circumstance. His work anticipated and influenced much of the twentieth-century self-help movement.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1912) British philosophical writer and a pioneer of the modern self-help movement. Born in Leicester; left school at fifteen after his father's murder to work as a clerk. In 1903 published As a Man Thinketh, on the power of thought in shaping character and circumstance. Lived reclusively in Ilfracombe, Devon; died in 1912 at forty-seven.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Allen_(author)
Related Periodicals: The Astrologers' Magazine [Williams] | The Business Philosopher | Clypeus | The Light of Reason (Allen) | Stendek
Allen, William Frederick
(Source: Gemini) (?–1917) English astrologer, author, and publisher who wrote as 'Alan Leo'; often called the father of modern astrology. Co-founded The Astrologer's Magazine (1890, later Modern Astrology) and the Astrological Lodge of London, recasting astrology as character analysis rather than fatalistic prediction. Prosecuted under the Vagrancy Act — acquitted in 1914, convicted and fined in 1917. Died in 1917.
Related Periodicals: The Astrologers' Magazine [Alan Leo]
Allen, Zachariah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Zachariah Allen, cited in connection with the nineteenth-century scientific claims that Spiritualist writers wove into works such as Art Magic.
Chasing Emma: Emma's Science
Alsop, Christopher
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Christopher Pierpont Brook Alsop (1829–1902), a participant in the 1870s English Spiritualist séance world — one of the sponsors, sitters and promoters who surrounded the period's physical mediums.
Chasing Emma: Moving Furniture: Some Notes on Christopher Pierpont Brook Alsop (1829-1902)
Alta, Abbe
(Source: Gemini) Calixte Mélinge (January 22, 1842 – December 3, 1933), writing under the pseudonym Abbé Alta, was a French Catholic priest who became a central figure in the late 19th-century French occult revival. Highly respected in Parisian esoteric circles, Alta collaborated with key journals like L'Initiation and taught at the Hermetic School. His erudition earned him seats on the Supreme Councils of both the
Related Periodicals: L'Etoile | L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique | Psyche [Beaudelot]
Altmann, Max
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Max Altmann was a Leipzig publisher of occult and theosophical literature in the early twentieth century, issuing periodicals such as the Zentralblatt für Okkultismus and Theosophisches Leben.
Related Periodicals: Theosophisches Leben | Zeitschrift fur Heil-Magnetismus | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
Amadou, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Robert Amadou (1924–2006) was a French scholar of esotericism and parapsychology, an authority on Martinism and the Élus-Coëns tradition, and a prolific editor and author on Western occult history.
(Source: Gemini) (?–2006) French esotericist, author, and parapsychologist, an authority on Western esotericism; also an ordained bishop in the Église orthodoxe de France lineage. Wrote extensively on Martinism, Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, and parapsychology. Died in Paris in 2006.
Related Periodicals: Atlantis (Le Cour) | L'Astrosophie | La Gnose | Revue Metapsychique | The Seer | Tomorrow (Garrett) | Tour Saint Jacques | Vaincre (Plantard)
Ambelain, Robert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: La Geomancie Magique (1940), Adam, Dieu Rouge: L'Esoterisme Judeo-Chretien (1941), Au Pied des Menhirs: Introduction a l'Etude des Doctrines Celtiques (1945), Le Martinisme: Histoire et Doctrine (1946)
Ambler, Russell Perkins
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) R. P. Ambler was a mid-nineteenth-century American Spiritualist, editor of early Spiritualist periodicals including the Spirit Messenger, and author of works on spirit communication.
Related Periodicals: The Journal of Progress | The Seraph's Advocate | The Spirit Messenger | The Spiritual Times
Amburgh, Fred De Witt
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Fred De Witt Van Amburgh was an early-twentieth-century American New Thought and business-inspiration author, associated with The Silent Partner and motivational-success literature.
Related Periodicals: The Silent Partner
Amerige, Lida Briggs
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Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Aletheian | Spiritualist Monthly
Ames, Julia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Julia Ames (d. 1891) was an American temperance journalist whose posthumous "communications" the editor W. T. Stead published as Letters from Julia (later After Death); the link to Stead's Borderland is via that episode.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1891) American journalist and temperance reformer; associate editor of The Union Signal, organ of the Woman's
Related Periodicals: Borderland
Ammann, David
(Source: Gemini) David Ammann (October 12, 1855 – February 20, 1923) was a Swiss-German publisher and teacher who established the European branch of the neo-Zoroastrian Mazdaznan movement. After residing in California, Ammann moved to Leipzig in 1907 to spread the teachings of Chicago-based founder Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish. He translated Ha'nish’s core texts, edited the progressive health review The Sun-Worshiper, and managed a thriving mail-order life-reform business. His physical regeneration methods significantly influenced the early 20th-century European Lebensreform (Life Reform) movement and Bauhaus artist Johannes Itten. Ammann’s doctrines synthesized Zoroastrianism, vegetarianism, glandular exercises, and conscious breathing (Gah-Llama) with controversial theories on racial hygiene and eugenics. In 1914, German authorities deemed Ha'nish’s Inner Studies obscene, leading to Ammann's official expulsion from Leipzig. Consequently, Ammann and his wife Frieda fled to Herrliberg, Switzerland, where they established Aryana, a cooperative Mazdaznan school and settlement. He continued to direct the Swiss community until his death in Frankfurt in 1923.
Related Periodicals: The Sun-Worshiper | Weisse Fahne
Amsumata
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Lord Maitreya, or the New Golden Age (1942)
Anderson, Florence Belle
(Source: Gemini) Florence Belle Anderson (birth and death dates unverified; active early 20th century) was an American New Thought writer, poet, and practitioner who played a significant role in bridging Western mental science with Eastern mysticism. Highly active in the early decades of the 1900s, Anderson contributed regular essays on practical psychology, creative visualization, and self-culture to The Kalpaka, India's premier monthly review of psychical and spiritual science. Her articles sought to harmonize Western auto-suggestion and mental discipline with Eastern yoga practices, advocating for the universal power of the human mind to manifest success, physical health, and spiritual harmony. Her core beliefs and esoteric ideas were captured in her major poetic work, Heart’s Ease, published in 1921 by The Harmonial Publishers in San Diego, California. Through many of her poems, Anderson taught that thoughts are energetic "boomerangs" that return actions of love or malice directly to the sender. Dedicated to her husband, Oscar Anderson, her spiritual verses on the soul’s light, nature, and the reality of spirits remain a testament to the early 20th-century harmonial philosophy.
Related Periodicals: The Kalpaka
Anderson, Helen Van
Helen Van-Anderson (fl. 1890s–1900s) was an American New Thought teacher and author, a student of Emma Curtis Hopkins who in 1894 founded the Church of the Higher Life in Boston — often called the first organized New Thought church. Her books include The Right Knock (1889) and The Mystic Scroll.
Wikipedia (Church of the Higher Life): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Higher_Life
Chasing Emma: A Charming Profession: Christian Science in Chicago; March 1888
Related Periodicals: International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | Mind | New York Magazine of Mysteries | Paragon Monthly | Purdy's Monthly | Universal Truth
Anderson, Jerome A.
(Source: Gemini) Dr. Jerome A. Anderson (1847 – December 25, 1903) was a prominent American physician and a leading pioneer of the early Theosophical movement in California. Based in San Francisco, Anderson practiced medicine while serving as a key pillar of the
Related Periodicals: New Californian | The Pacific Theosophist
Anderson, John
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To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Phrenological Journal | Transactions of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh
Anderson, John Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) John Henry Anderson (1814–1874), the Scottish stage conjuror known as “the Great Wizard of the North,” whose exposures of spirit-rapping made him a prominent public debunker of Spiritualism.
Chasing Emma: The Devils of London: August 1860
Anderson, Lewis H.
(Source: Gemini) Lewis H. Anderson (birth and death dates unverified; active late 19th and early 20th century), often referred to as L. H. Anderson, was an American mesmerist, hypnotist, publisher, and alternative mental science practitioner. Operating from Chicago, Illinois, Anderson founded and served as Principal of the National Institute of Science (originally the National Hygienic and Hypnotic Institute) and the Chicago College of Psychotherapeutics (1896 Anderson How To Win — Scribd). He edited and published the periodical Planets and People, which blended astrology, mental science, and physical culture to provide students with practical methods for alternative healing and self-development. Anderson’s practical doctrines centered on "personal magnetism" and the "science of personal power." He argued that individuals could manipulate their internal magnetic and psychic forces through conscious breathing, auto-suggestion, and hypnotism to cultivate perfect physical health and material success. He authored several highly popular guides, including Hypnotism, Its Uses and Abuses (1894), Ancient Magic, Magnetism and Psychic Forces (1895), and How to Win (1896). Although mainstream medical groups occasionally dismissed his commercial institute as showmanship, his instructional textbooks on mental therapeutics remained popular and were widely reprinted through the 1920s.
Related Periodicals: Mind Cure and Science of Life | Planets and People
Anderson, Pet
(Source: Gemini) Wella Percy Anderson (c. 1833 – after 1875) and Lizzie “Pet” Anderson (born 1836 – after 1875) were a celebrated husband-and-wife team of American Spiritualist mediumistic spirit artists active in San Francisco and Brooklyn. Operating collaboratively in the late 1860s and early 1870s, the couple specialized in producing highly sought-after "spirit drawings" of deceased individuals and historical figures. During darkened seances, Pet served as the medium who established contact with the spirit realm, while Wella entered an unconscious trance, acting as a physical conduit to execute life-sized pencil portraits of spirit guides under the direct influence of spirits. Their mediumship, physical manifestations, and direct slate-writing seances attracted substantial public fascination and intense skeptical scrutiny. Despite controversies regarding the authenticity of their art, they were widely celebrated by Spiritualist publications, and their works were later featured prominently in the Brooklyn-based Gallery of Spirit Art. Following their divorce in 1875, they dissolved their partnership and pursued separate mediumistic careers.
Chasing Emma: Recording Yermah: A Note on Wella and Pet Anderson
Related Periodicals: Gallery of Spirit Art
Anderson, Sherwood
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) was the American novelist and short-story writer best known for Winesburg, Ohio (1919), a central figure of early American literary modernism.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Digest
Anderson, Wing
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Wing Anderson was a mid-twentieth-century American publisher of prophecy and occult literature (
Chasing Emma: Sir John Franklin; Wella Anderson; Social Network Speed; and the Economics of Modern Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: Recording Yermah: A Note on Wella and Pet Anderson
Related Periodicals: Lemurian Ambassador | The San Juan Record
Related Monographs: The Light of Kosmon (1939), Seven Years That Change the World 1941-1948 (1940)
Andrea, Raymund
(Source: Gemini) Raymund Andrea (1882–1975) was a British esotericist and author, primarily known for his leadership within the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC (Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis). Born and based in Bristol, England, Andrea was a central figure in the organization's 20th-century expansion. In 1921, AMORC founder Harvey Spencer Lewis appointed Andrea as the Grand Master and Deputy Inspector General of Great Britain. Andrea served as the British Grand Master for 25 years, from 1921 until 1946, overseeing the Order's activities and administration throughout the British Isles. In addition to his organizational leadership, Andrea authored multiple instructional texts detailing the methodologies, psychological stages, and formal teachings associated with Rosicrucian initiation. His primary published works include: The Technique of the Master, The Technique of the Disciple, The Mystic Path, Discipleship on Trial and The Disciple and Shamballa. These books serve as procedural manuals for students of AMORC and remain an established part of the organization's literary catalog today.
Related Monographs: The Technique of the Master, or The Way of Cosmic Preparation (1932), The Technique of the Disciple (1935)
Andreae, Jean/Johann Valentin
(Source: Gemini) Johann Valentin Andreae (1586–1654) was a German Lutheran theologian, mathematician, and philosopher tied to the origins of the 17th-century Rosicrucian movement. He authored the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (1616), a foundational Rosicrucian manifesto. However, Andreae later disavowed the text and the broader Rosicrucian mythos, categorizing his work on the subject as a ludibrium — a literary jest or satire. In 1619, Andreae published Christianopolis, a utopian text describing an egalitarian society organized around a central college of science and religion. This publication served as a precursor to later European intellectual institutions, including the Royal Society. Professionally, Andreae spent his career as a Lutheran minister and church official in the state of Württemberg. His primary life's work involved establishing charitable organizations and restructuring the regional church and educational systems following the Thirty Years' War.
Related Monographs: Les Noces Chymiques de Christian Rosencreutz (1928)
Andrews, Henry
(Source: Gemini) Henry Andrews (February 4, 1744 – January 26, 1820) was an outstanding self-taught English mathematician, astronomer, and compiler of popular astrological almanacs. Residing in Royston, Cambridgeshire, Andrews earned professional esteem as a mathematical computer and astronomical calculator to the Board of Longitude. Working closely with the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne from 1768 to 1815, his calculations were foundational to the official Nautical Almanac. Concurrently, he compiled the tables detailing planetary transits for the Stationers' Company's famous Vox Stellarum, better known as Old Moore’s Almanack. Andrews' work on Old Moore's synthesized precise mathematical calculations of eclipses and astronomical transits with weather predictions, biblical prophecies, and popular astrology. His edits transformed the almanac into a massive commercial success, driving annual sales from 100,000 to over 500,000 copies across Great Britain. Despite the immense wealth generated for the publisher, Andrews contentedly accepted a modest stipend of just 25 pounds per annum throughout his 43-year tenure. He died peacefully in Royston, highly respected for his scientific contributions and serene character.
>Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Eight: Fun with Almanacks
Related Periodicals: Moore's Almanac | Old Moore's Almanack
Andrews, J.N.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) John Nevins Andrews (1829–1883) was an American Seventh-day Adventist minister and writer and the denomination's first official overseas missionary; the reference in Signs of the Times reflects the Adventist press.
Related Periodicals: Signs of the Times
Andrews, Marietta Minnigerode
(Source: Gemini) Marietta Minnigerode Andrews (1869–1931) was an American painter, designer, and author. Born in Richmond, Virginia, she studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., under Eliphalet Frazer Andrews, whom she married in 1895. She completed further artistic training in New York, Paris, and Munich. In 1890, Andrews became the first female instructor at the Corcoran School. She co-founded the Washington Water Color Club in 1896. In addition to portraiture and still-life painting, she received prominent commissions to design stained-glass windows for institutions such as the University of Virginia, George Washington University, and the American Society for Psychical Research. Later in her career, Andrews authored and illustrated several books, including: Memoirs of a Poor Relation (1927), My Studio Window (1928), Scraps of Paper (1929), and George Washington's Country (1930). Civically, she was active in historical preservation, founding the National Monticello Association in 1920 to raise funds for the purchase and conservation of Thomas Jefferson's historic estate.
Related Monographs: The Darker Drink (1922)
Andrews, Mary Meehan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Mary Meehan Andrews, the Moravia, New York materialization medium of the 1870s — the “Moravia wonders” — around whom a notable circle of spirit-manifestation sitters formed.
Chasing Emma: The White Leaves of History [3]: The Dog In The Room
Andrews, Stephen Pearl
(Source: Gemini) Stephen Pearl Andrews (March 22, 1812 – May 21, 1886) was a highly eccentric American individualist anarchist, linguist, abolitionist, and radical social philosopher. Influenced by the reformist ideas of Josiah Warren, Andrews became a leading theorist of "individual sovereignty" and co-founded the famous individualist anarchist community "Modern Times" in Brentwood, Long Island. He developed a universal social system called "Pantarchy," which proposed a voluntary, scientific, and spiritual government for humanity, and formulated "Universology," a philosophical science aimed at unifying all knowledge and human activities. Andrews' diverse intellectual pursuits ranged from Spiritualism to linguistics; he taught shorthand, mastered thirty languages, and invented a synthetic language called "Alwato." He authored several key texts, including The Science of Society (1851) and Basic Outline of Universology (1872). A passionate advocate of free love and labor reform, Andrews' radical views and close alliance with feminist Victoria Woodhull provoked immense public controversy, though his visionary synthesis of spiritualism and social science earned him a lasting reputation as a pioneering, multifaceted social thinker.
Chasing Emma: Spirito-Carnality: The Affinities of Free Love and Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: Try This At Home
Chasing Emma: Revived Priapic Orgies
Related Periodicals: Liberty | The Spiritual Telegraph | Tiffany's Monthly | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Andrus, Walter H.
Walter H. Andrus, Jr. (1920–2015) was a founding member of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in 1969 and its International Director from 1970 to 2000, as well as editor-in-chief of the MUFON UFO Journal.
Mutual UFO Network (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_UFO_Network
Related Periodicals: MUFON UFO Journal
Angell, J. B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) J. B. Angell, a Red Bank, New Jersey Spiritualist whose 1872 tract “Why I Am a Spiritualist, and Why I Am Not An Orthodox” is a representative first-person testimonial of the movement.
Chasing Emma: Looking for A (J. B.) Angel(l)
Angelucci, Orfeo Matthew
Orfeo Angelucci (1912-1993) was one of the original group of men who claimed to have made contact with extraterrestrial entities following World War II and the explosion of atomic weapons. Born and raised in New Jersey and working in an aircraft plant in Oakland, California, he reported a series of mystical contact experiences beginning on 24 May 1952, during which he encountered a large red ovoid craft and heard a benign voice. Subsequent contacts, including entering a craft he described as resembling a large soap bubble, led to experiences of timeless bliss and messages of extraterrestrial love. His accounts are recorded in his 1955 book The Secret of the Saucers.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/angelucci-orfeo-1912-1993
Related Periodicals: 20th Century Times
Anglicus, Merlinus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) "Merlinus Anglicus" ("the English Merlin") was an astrological pseudonym and almanac title most famously used by the seventeenth-century astrologer William Lilly and later revived as a persona in astrological periodicals.
Related Periodicals: The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century | The Straggling Astrologer | Urania (Aldersgate)
Anizan, R.P. Felix
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Father Félix Anizan (R.P. = Révérend Père) was a French Catholic priest and writer associated with the devotional-esoteric review Regnabit and Le Rayonnement Intellectuel, in the Sacred Heart milieu around Louis Charbonneau-Lassay.
Related Periodicals: Le Rayonnement Intellectuel | Regnabit
Annemann, Theodore
(Source: Gemini) Theodore Annemann (1907–1942), born Theodore John Squires, was an American professional magician, mentalist, and author. He is widely recognized as a pioneering figure in the development of modern mentalism. Throughout his career, Annemann refined and invented foundational mentalism methods that remain standard practice today. His technical innovations included advancements in the "center tear," billet reading, book tests, and his signature version of the hazardous "bullet catch" illusion. In 1934, Annemann founded The Jinx, an influential independent periodical dedicated to magic, mentalism, and escapology. Serving as editor and primary contributor until 1941, he utilized the publication to share techniques, routines, and essays with practitioners worldwide. His writings were later compiled into Practical Mental Effects (1944), a text that remains a definitive procedural resource for contemporary mentalists. Annemann struggled with severe stage fright and mental health issues throughout his life. He died by suicide in January 1942 in New York City, shortly before a scheduled performance where he intended to execute the bullet catch indoors for the first time.
Related Monographs: En Rapport (1937)
Anson, Harold
(Source: Gemini) Harold Anson (1867–1954) was an English Anglican priest and author, most prominently serving as Master of the Temple from 1935 until his death. Educated at Clifton College and Christ Church, Oxford, Anson was ordained as a deacon in 1890 and a priest in 1891. His ecclesiastical career included numerous postings, such as a curacy at St Pancras and incumbencies at Whitton, Hāwera, and St Martin-in-the-Fields. He also served as Warden of St John's College in Auckland, New Zealand, from 1902 to 1905. Anson was highly active in the Church of England's approach to the ministry of healing. He served as the chairman of the Guild of Health from 1908 to 1928 and participated in the Archbishop's Committee on the Ministry of Healing. In addition to his clerical duties, Anson authored several texts on faith, health, biography, and contemporary spiritual movements. His primary publications include: Spiritual Healing (1925), A Practical Faith (1926), Thinking Aloud (1928), The Truth About Spiritualism, Looking Forward (autobiography, 1938) and Life of T.B. Strong (1949).
Related Monographs: The Truth About Spiritualism (1941)
Anthony, Susan B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.90) Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) was a leading American social reformer and suffragist, central to the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Raised a Quaker, she moved in the overlapping reform circles — abolition, temperance, free thought, and women's rights — from which American Spiritualism also drew.
Chasing Emma: EHB and Susan B (Anthony): December 1866
Related Periodicals: The Alpha | The Occult Word
Antiga, Juan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Juan Antiga Escobar (1871–1939) was a Cuban physician and homeopath associated with Spiritist and esoteric circles in Havana.
Related Periodicals: Revista de Estudios Psiquicos (Chile)
Aphorel
(Source: Gemini) Aphorel (pen name of Frederick Lacey; birth and death dates unverified, active late 19th century) was an influential English astrologer, writer, and editor who played a pivotal role in the late-Victorian revival of astrology. Based in Brixton, London, Lacey was an active member of the occult "Brotherhood of Thomas" and co-founded The Astrologer’s Magazine with fellow astrologer Alan Leo in November 1889. Under Lacey's editorial guidance, the magazine achieved commercial success by offering free natal charts to subscribers, which significantly democratized horoscopic astrology. Writing as Aphorel, Lacey focused on mathematical precision, planetary directions, and mundane astrology. His technical articles and planetary tables sought to establish astrology as a legitimate, cyclic science. Lacey resigned from The Astrologer's Magazine in 1894 to pursue other personal commitments, leaving an enduring mark on the development of modern astrological publishing in both Great Britain and the United States.
Related Periodicals: The Sphinx (Boston)
Arbib, Rodolfo
(Source: Gemini) Rodolfo Arbib (birth and death dates unverified; active late 19th and early 20th century) was a pioneering Italian occultist, translator, and writer who was instrumental in introducing esoteric literature and psychological mystery to the Italian public. Based in Italy, Arbib was a prominent figure in the early Italian theosophical movement and a regular contributor to Ultra, the premier Rome-based review of theosophical and spiritualist studies edited by Decio Calvari. Through his writings in Ultra, Arbib sought to popularize the teachings of Helena Blavatsky, exploring the intersection of modern science, ancient eastern wisdom, and the hidden forces of the human mind. Beyond his direct theosophical work, Arbib achieved lasting cultural significance as a literary translator. He was a crucial pioneer in the Italian reception of Edgar Allan Poe; his translations of Poe's psychological and occult thrillers, including The Fall of the House of Usher and Berenice, were highly popular, undergoing numerous reprints and shaping early Italian interest in gothic esotericism.
Related Periodicals: Ultra (Rome)
Archer, Harry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) “Professor” Harry Archer, a Spiritualist figure noted in the Carrier Dove around 1893, otherwise little documented.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: A Candle for Professor Harry Archer
Areopagite, Dionysius the
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) "Dionysius the Areopagite" is the name attached to the anonymous late-fifth/early-sixth-century Christian Neoplatonist (now called Pseudo-Dionysius) whose mystical treatises on the divine names and the celestial hierarchy deeply influenced later Christian and esoteric mysticism.
Related Periodicals: Shrine of Wisdom
Arnold, Edwin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) was an English poet and journalist best known for The Light of Asia (1879), his verse life of the Buddha, which did much to popularize Buddhist ideas in the English-speaking world and was widely admired in Theosophical circles.
Related Periodicals: The Arena | The Light of Reason (Allen)
Arnold, Kenneth
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.85) Kenneth Arnold (1915–1984) was an American aviator whose June 1947 sighting of nine fast-moving objects near Mount Rainier gave rise to the term "flying saucer" and effectively launched the modern UFO era.
Related Periodicals: Fate Magazine (Palmer)
Arnold, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), the famous headmaster of Rugby, appearing through the von Bunsen family memoir of theological arguments at Rugby in 1837 — backdrop to the “Louis de B——” puzzle in Ghost Land.
Chasing Emma: The Nature of Prophecy: Baron Bunsen and Dr. Arnold; 1837
Arnould, Arthur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Arthur Arnould (1833–1895) was a French writer, journalist, and Paris Communard who became an early leader of the
Related Periodicals: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires) | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | Revue Theosophique | Lotus Rouge
Arundale, Francesca
(Source: Gemini) Francesca Arundale (1847 – March 23, 1924) was a prominent English theosophist, educator, and mixed-gender Freemason who played an integral role in the early development of the modern esoteric movement. Joining the Adyar
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Arundale
Related Periodicals: The Theosophical Review
Arundale, George S.
(Source: Gemini) George Sydney Arundale (December 1, 1878 – August 12, 1945) was a prominent English-Indian theosophist, progressive educator, and political activist who served as the third International President of the
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Related Periodicals: Australian Theosophist | Boletin de la Sociedad Teosofica Espanola | International Theosophical Year Book | Iz Teozofskoga Svijeta | Mothers' Occult Digest | The Prasnottara | Teozofija (Zagreb) | Theosophic Messenger | Theosophical Worker | Theosophy in Australasia | Theosophy in India | Virya | World Theosophy
Related Monographs: A Short History of the Theosophical Society (1938), The Lotus Fire: A Study in Symbolic Yoga (1939), Adventures in Theosophy (1941)
Aryan, Leon de
(Source: Gemini) Constantine Leon de Aryan (born Constantin Leon Legenopol; August 18, 1886 – 1967) was a Romanian-American occultist, editor, and radical nativist who became a prominent figure in the mid-century American far right. Immigrating to the United States in 1912, he legally changed his name in 1926, adopting "de Aryan" to reflect his devotion to (at that time) Mazdaznan. In 1930, de Aryan established The Broom which he used to promote vegetarianism alongside isolationist, anti-communist, and highly antisemitic conspiracy theories. Because of his intense anti-war and anti-government agitation during World War II, de Aryan was indicted for conspiracy and sedition in the historic Great Sedition Trial of 1944. Charges were dismissed in 1946. He remained an active, controversial publisher in San Diego until his death in 1967.
Related Periodicals: Pure Spiritualism | The Broom
Aseev, Alexandr Mikhailovich
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Alexander M. Aseev was a Russian émigré physician and occultist who edited the diaspora journal Okkultizm i Ioga (Occultism and Yoga), published successively in Belgrade and South America.
Related Periodicals: Okkultizm i Ioga
Ashburner, John
(Source: Gemini) John Archibald Ashburner (1793 – November 13, 1878) was an eminent British physician, mesmerist, and early Spiritualist who sought to synthesize physical science with esoteric phenomena (John Ashburner — RCP Museum). Born in India and educated at Edinburgh, Ashburner was a respected London medical practitioner who became fascinated by animal magnetism, collaborating with Dr. John Elliotson to clinically apply mesmerism as an anesthetic. In 1850, he translated Karl von Reichenbach's Physico-Physiological Researches, annotating it with his own theories on the universal "vital force." By the mid-1850s, Ashburner converted to Spiritualism, defending the mediumship of Maria Hayden, joining the Charing Cross Spirit Power Circle, and writing for early spiritualist periodicals. In 1867, he published his definitive treatise, Notes and Studies in the Philosophy of Animal Magnetism and Spiritualism, arguing that magnetic fluids served as the tangible medium between mind, matter, and spirit. This open embrace of the occult provoked fierce hostility and professional ostracization from the mainstream British medical establishment, which labeled him a charlatan. Nevertheless, Ashburner remained a dedicated defender of Spiritualism until his death.
Royal College of Physicians: https://history.rcp.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/john-ashburner
Chasing Emma: John Elliotson and Mrs. Hayden
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History; Part 2x10E4: The Rutter Magnetoscope
Chasing Emma: Utter Simplicity: Ashburner on Charles H. Foster
Chasing Emma: The Nature of Thought: Dr. John Ashburner; 1853
Related Periodicals: The British Spiritual Telegraph | The Spirit World (Hayden) | The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
Ashdown, A. J.
(Source: Gemini) A. J. Ashdown was a 20th-century British psychical researcher and inventor, best known as a co-founder of the Ashkir-Jobson Trianion. Formed in Britain during the 1930s, this nonprofit guild was dedicated to developing mechanical apparatuses intended to facilitate communication with spirits of the dead. The organization derived its name from its three primary founders: Ashdown, engineer George Jobson, and B. K. Kirkby. Working in association with the medium I. E. Singleton, who served as the guild's warden, Ashdown and his colleagues developed several notable esoteric devices. Their most prominent invention was the Communigraph, a specialized table featuring a free-swinging pendulum designed to complete electrical circuits and illuminate letters of the alphabet on its surface, purportedly without requiring a medium. The group's other inventions included the Reflectograph, an ultra-sensitive typewriter mechanism, and the Ashkir-Jobson Vibrator, a clockwork instrument designed to sustain a continuous "A" tuning fork tone for up to three hours to create a harmonious influence at séances. Ashdown later documented the historical efforts of his organization in his writing. His publications include "The Communigraph and Other Early Psychic Aids for Communications" (1975).
Related Monographs: A Review of the Work and Aspirations of the Ashkir-Jobson Trianion (1931)
Ashford, Robert P.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Seeker and the Serial Con: More on the Mystic Brotherhood
Related Periodicals: The Mystic Messenger
Ashwin, E. A.
(Source: Gemini) Edward Allen Ashwin (1892–1961) was an English translator best known for producing modern English editions of foundational 16th and 17th-century European treatises on witchcraft, demonology, and the legal procedures of witch-hunting. While credited on the 1930 edition of Demonolatry, Ashwin was the translator rather than the author. The original text, Daemonolatreiae libri tres, was written by French magistrate Nicolas Rémy and first published in 1595. Ashwin produced the English translation as part of publisher John Rodker's limited-edition "Church and Witchcraft" series. He frequently collaborated on these historical translation projects with the English clergyman and occult scholar Montague Summers, who served as the editor and provided extensive notes. Ashwin's English translations remain standard resources for historians studying early modern European witch trials and the theological frameworks of the era. His primary translated publications include An Examen of Witches (1929), Compendium Maleficarum (1929), and Demonolatry (1930).
Related Monographs: Demonolatry (1930)
Asmothiel
(Source: Gemini) Asmothiel (pseudonym of an unknown astrologer; birth and death dates unverified, active late 19th and early 20th century), also spelled Asmothel, was an esoteric writer and astrologer associated with late-Victorian Hermetic and theosophical circles in London and Boston. Active during the turn-of-the-century revival of esoteric studies, Asmothiel moved in the same occult milieu as prominent figures of the
Related Periodicals: The Sphinx (Boston)
Assagioli, Roberto
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) Roberto Assagioli (1888–1974) was an Italian psychiatrist who founded psychosynthesis, a transpersonal psychology integrating spiritual and esoteric ideas (including Theosophy and the teachings of Alice Bailey) with clinical practice.
Related Periodicals: The Beacon (Bailey) | Illumination
Atkins, Gaius Glenn
(Source: Gemini) Gaius Glenn Atkins (1868–1956) was an American Congregationalist minister, theologian, educator, and author. Born in Mount Carmel, Indiana, he graduated from Ohio State University in 1888 and earned a law degree from the Cincinnati Law School in 1891 before receiving theological training at Yale Divinity School. Atkins served as pastor for several prominent Congregational churches, notably the First Congregational Church in Detroit, Michigan, and the Central Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1927, he transitioned to academia, becoming the Professor of Homiletics and Sociology at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York. In 1923, he published Modern Religious Cults and Movements, a sociological and theological analysis of Spiritualism, Theosophy, New Thought, and Christian Science. Rather than strictly dismissing these groups, Atkins argued they flourished by addressing specific human needs—such as physical healing and empirical proof of the afterlife—that mainline orthodox churches were failing to provide. Atkins was a prolific writer and won the Church Peace Union prize in 1914. His primary publications include Modern Religious Cults and Movements (1923), The Making of the Christian Mind (1928), Religion in Our Times (1932), Preaching and the Mind of Today (1934), History of American Congregationalism (1942).
Related Monographs: Modern Religious Cults and Movements (1923)
Atkinson, William Walker
William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was an American attorney, merchant, publisher, and prolific author in the New Thought movement. He wrote under numerous pseudonyms, including Yogi Ramacharaka, Theron Q. Dumont, and Magnus Incognito, producing more than 100 books on topics ranging from yoga and Hindu philosophy to the occult and mental science. His best-known works include Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World (1906) and the "Yogi" series of instructional texts. He edited the New Thought journal The Advance Thought and was a significant figure in the early twentieth-century popular esoteric publishing world. (Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) William Walker Atkinson (1862–1932) was a prolific American New Thought and occult writer who published under his own name and numerous pseudonyms, most famously "Yogi Ramacharaka." He is widely regarded as one of the "Three Initiates" behind The Kybalion.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson
Chasing Emma: If The Book Does Not Suit You: 1903
Chasing Emma: The Mage's Voice: William Walker Atkinson; 1910
Chasing Emma: A Lesson in Soul-Culture: 1903
Chasing Emma: Workers in the Vineyard: David Metcalfe on De Laurence and Atkinson
Chasing Emma: Barrels of Money for Me: A Three-Panel Cartoon About The New Thought
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Gunpowder in Every Normal Man
Chasing Emma: Master Formulae: Atkinson & Beals; 1922
Chasing Emma: The Theological Capsule: William Walker Atkinson; August 1919
Chasing Emma: The Secrets of India: How Garble Becomes Fact
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Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought (Chicago) | American Rosae Crucis | The Breath of Life (Christopathian) | The Cosmic World | Eudia | The Hypnotic Magazine | The Inner Circle (Wells) | Kosmicke Rozhledy | Light of India | Mystic World | Nautilus | Neue Gedanken | New Thought (Chicago) | New York Magazine of Mysteries | Progress Magazine | The Radiant Centre | The Segnogram | Suggestion | Weltmer's Magazine | Wilford's Microcosm | Wings of Truth | The Yogi (Sydney Flower) | Zum Licht | The Kalpaka
Related Monographs: The Solar Plexus, or Abdominal Brain (1920), Character Power, or Positive Individuality (1922), Creative Power, or Your Constructive Forces (1922), Desire Power, or Your Energizing Forces (1922), Faith Power, or Your Inspirational Forces (1922), Perceptive Power, or The Art of Observation (1922), Reasoning Power, or Practical Logic (1922), Regenerative Power, or Vital Rejuvenation (1922), Spiritual Power, or The Infinite Fount (1922), Subconscious Power, or Your Secret Forces (1922), Thought Power, or Radio-Mentalism (1922), Will Power, or Your Dynamic Forces (1922), La Consciencia Interna (1924), The Development of Seership: The Science of Knowing the Future (Hindoo and Oriental Methods) (1925), The Solar Plexus, or Abdominal Brain (1925), La Force-Pensee: Son Action et Son Role dans la Vie (1927), The Shadow of the Unknown Master (1940)
Aubert, Georges
(Source: Gemini) Georges Aubert was a French spirit medium and author who actively participated in early 20th-century European psychical research. He is primarily remembered for documenting his own claimed mediumistic abilities and the formal scientific investigations surrounding them. Between February and May 1905, Aubert volunteered for a series of scientific experiments conducted by researchers at the Institut Général Psychologique in Paris. The institute's scientists sought to formally observe and validate his purported capabilities, which allegedly included entering mediumistic trances, inducing levitations, and conjuring apparitions. Throughout his involvement in the French spiritualist movement, Aubert associated with leading figures in esoteric research, including Colonel Albert de Rochas and Gabriel Delanne. Aubert later compiled his personal experiences with spiritualism and the empirical data from the 1905 psychological institute experiments into a single volume. This text remains a primary historical document illustrating the era's attempts to bridge mystical phenomena with early psychological methodology. His primary publications include La Médiumnité spirite (1920).
Related Monographs: La Mediumnite Spirite (1920)
Augustine, St.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430 CE) was the North African bishop and theologian whose Confessions and City of God shaped Western Christianity; he is invoked in esoteric and Spiritualist writing on questions of the soul, memory, and the afterlife.
Related Periodicals: L'Esprit (Paris) | Tempel
Aurand, A. Monroe
(Source: Gemini) Ammon Monroe Aurand Jr. (1895–1956) was an American publisher, bookseller, and regional folklorist based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Throughout his career, Aurand operated the Aurand Press and dedicated his work to preserving and documenting the history, customs, dialect, and folklore of the Pennsylvania German (Pennsylvania Dutch) people. Aurand is best known for his extensive writings on regional superstitions and Braucherei, a Pennsylvania Dutch system of folk magic and healing commonly known as "powwowing." In 1929, Aurand published The Pow-Wow Book. This text provided a comprehensive examination of powwowing traditions and was released in the immediate aftermath of the highly publicized 1928 "Hex Murder" trial in York County, Pennsylvania, which involved local practitioners of folk magic. The volume notably included a full English reproduction of Johann Georg Hohman's foundational 1820 grimoire, The Long Lost Friend. Beyond folk magic, Aurand authored dozens of brief pamphlets and books detailing various aspects of early Pennsylvania pioneer life, culinary traditions, and social customs. His primary publications include The Pow-Wow Book (1929), Little Known Facts About Bundling in the New World (1938), The Realness of Witchcraft in America (1942).
Related Monographs: The 'Pow-Wow' Book (1929)
Aurelius, Marcus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.85) Marcus Aurelius (121–180 CE), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, was the author of the Meditations. His Stoic reflections were frequently cited in New Thought and occult periodicals as a model of inner discipline and philosophical calm.
Related Periodicals: The Yogi (Sydney Flower)
Auro
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Fortune Telling by Cards, Numbers and Tea Leaves (1925)
Aurobindo, Sri
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) A spelling variant of Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghose, 1872–1950), the Indian nationalist turned yogi and philosopher who developed Integral Yoga at his Pondicherry ashram; his teaching reached Western esoteric readers through journals such as Arya.
(Source: Gemini) (1872–1950) Indian philosopher, yogi, and poet, born Aurobindo Ghose; originator of 'Integral Yoga.' Educated at Cambridge; an early leader of the Indian nationalist movement, editing Bande Mataram, and tried for conspiracy in 1908. After his acquittal he withdrew from politics to Pondicherry, founding an ashram and writing The Life Divine and The Synthesis of Yoga. Died in Pondicherry in 1950.
Related Periodicals: Tour Saint Jacques | Arya | Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship) | Sri Aurobindo Circle
Austin, Benjamin Fish
(Source: Gemini) Benjamin Fish Austin (September 10, 1850 – January 22, 1933) was an eminent Canadian Methodist minister, educator, and reformer who became a leading figure in the early 20th-century Spiritualist and New Thought movements. Born in Ontario, Austin was a highly respected scholar who served as Principal of Alma Ladies' College from 1881 to 1897, establishing it as a premier center for women's education. However, his public defense of mediumship and psychical phenomena provoked a highly publicized heresy trial in 1899, resulting in his expulsion from the Methodist Church. Following his expulsion, Austin dedicated his life to Spiritualism, lecturing widely across North America and editing the influential journal Reason: A Journal of the New Theology, Psychical Research and New Thought. His doctrines sought to synthesize Christian ethics with mental healing and spirit communication. He published several influential works, including The A.B.C. of Spiritualism (1909), which outlined the philosophical and scientific foundations of survival after death. He remained an active Spiritualist pastor in California until his death in 1933.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Fish_Austin
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Related Periodicals: Austin Pulpit | Fred Burry's Journal | The Hypnotic Magazine | Independent Pulpit [Waco] | The Occult (Detroit) | Radium | Reason
Related Monographs: The A.B.C. of Spiritualism (1920), Lincoln Was a Spiritualist / The Religion of Abraham Lincoln (1924)
Austria
Austria, in the context of Emma Hardinge Britten's The Western Star, was the pseudonym of the putative European occultist credited with the authorship of Art Magic and Ghost Land. Elsewhere, he is known as Louis de B____, and in the pages of The Two Worlds he is referred to as "Sirius." In all cases, he is a product of Britten's imagination, and wherever he is encountered, we are read Emma Hardinge Britten's prose.
Related Periodicals: The Western Star
Avalon, Arthur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) "Arthur Avalon" was the pen name of Sir John Woodroffe (1865–1936), a British judge in Calcutta and pioneering Western scholar and translator of Hindu Tantra, whose works (notably The Serpent Power) introduced kundalini and Tantric doctrine to Western esoteric readers.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Review
Avenal, Paul
(Source: Gemini) Paul Avenel (pseudonym of Mary Bunting Pearce, also spelled Paul Avenal) (born 1850 – death date unverified; active late 19th and early 20th century) was an American New Thought author, poet, composer, and lecturer. Born in Crosswicks, New Jersey, Pearce married in 1871 and lived in Philadelphia. Adopting her male pseudonym, she became a prominent contributor to turn-of-the-century metaphysical and alternative healing periodicals. Avenel's writings and poems appeared regularly in Leander Edmund Whipple's The Metaphysical Magazine (briefly renamed The Ideal Review). She also contributed heavily to Sidney A. Weltmer's magnetic healing publication, Weltmer's Magazine, which in 1901 praised her as a "sweet singer, deep thinker, and polished essayist." Her major publications under the pseudonym include New Thought School and High Lights in Science. Her doctrines sought to synthesize progressive science, ethical culture, and mental suggestion, positioning mental healing as a natural, universal law of energy.
Related Periodicals: The Ideal Review | Weltmer's Magazine
Ayton, William Alexander
(Source: Gemini) William Alexander Ayton (sometimes Aytoun) (April 28, 1816 – January 1, 1909) was a British Anglican clergyman, practicing alchemist, and prominent occultist of the Victorian esoteric revival. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Aytoun served as the Vicar of Chacombe, Northamptonshire, from 1873 to 1894. Underneath his orthodox clerical exterior, he was deeply committed to Hermeticism, joining the Society of Eight in 1883 and later becoming a founding, highly revered member of the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alexander_Ayton
Related Periodicals: The Alpha | Wings of Truth
Baader, Franz von
Franz Xaver von Baader (1765–1841) was a German Catholic philosopher, theologian, and mining engineer, and the leading figure of the "Munich circle" of Romantic Catholicism. Deeply influenced by Jakob Böhme, Meister Eckhart, and Saint-Martin, he developed an explicitly theosophical philosophy that conceived God as primal Will and living activity rather than abstract Being.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_von_Baader
Related Periodicals: Blatter aus Prevorst
Babbitt, Edwin D.
Edwin Dwight Babbitt (1828–1905) was an American physician and a pioneer of chromotherapy (color and light healing). His The Principles of Light and Color (1878) set out an "etherio-atomic" philosophy of fine forces, magnetism, and color therapeutics that circulated widely in Spiritualist and New Thought circles.
Biomedical Research (BRMI): https://www.brmi.online/edwin-dwight-babbitt
Related Periodicals: The Carrier Dove | Harmony (Ponca City) | Irradiacion (Madrid) | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | The Light of Truth | Spectro-Chrome
Related Monographs: Human Culture & Cure, In Five Parts (1923)
Babos, Agnes
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) Agnes Babos, a minor and thinly-documented figure surfacing in the blog's reflections on historical recovery.
Chasing Emma: History as Carnage; and the (Un)Burial of the Dead
Bach, Marcus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Marcus Bach (1906–1995) was an American writer and professor of religion who popularized the study of new and minority faiths and was associated with the
Related Periodicals: Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship
Related Monographs: They Have Found a Faith (1946), A Tribute to Dr. Frank B. Robinson, Founder of Psychiana (1948)
Bacon, George A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) George A. Bacon was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist writer and lecturer, a contributor to The American Spiritualist and related papers.
Related Periodicals: The American Spiritualist
Baerwald, Richard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Richard Baerwald (1867–1929) was a German psychologist and a leading skeptical investigator of occult and mediumistic claims, associated with the Zeitschrift für kritischen Okkultismus.
Related Periodicals: Zeitschrift fur Kritischen Okkultismus
Related Monographs: Okkultismus, Spiritismus und unterbewusste Seelenzustaende (1920)
Bagdadi, Zia M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Zia M. Bagdadi (1884–1937) was an early Baha'i of Arab origin active in the United States and a contributor to the Baha'i periodical Star of the West.
Related Periodicals: Star of the West (Bahai)
Bailey, Alice A.
Alice A. Bailey (1880–1949), née La Trobe-Bateman, was a British-American esotericist. After an early involvement with the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Bailey
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Beacon (Bailey) | Heraldo Rosacruz | Solograph | Voice of the I AM | The Glass Hive | Illumination | Light on the Path and Weekly Truth Sheet (Brotherhood of the White Temple) | Loto Blanco | Teosofia Madrid | Zanoni
Related Monographs: Initiation, Human and Solar (1922), Letters on Occult Meditation (1922), The Consciousness of the Atom (1922), The Light of the Soul: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (1927)
Bailey, E.H.
(Source: Kim Farnell) Bailey, Ernest Henry (29 Nov 1976, East Kent – 4 Jun 1959). From fifteen he’d worked in the offices of the Clerk of the Guardians of the Poor of the Union in which his home was situated, devoting his evenings to studying astrology and the occult. He worked for the Superintendent Registrar and had access to the registers of births and deaths—and he took advantage of that access. Trawling through the registers, he searched for details of birth times and corresponding death records. Soon, he had a collection of 500 cases together with the causes of death, later adding 400 more. He set to calculating as many horoscopes as he could find time for. Unfortunately, he didn’t know the time of his own birth. In 1897 Bailey had begun a new job and soon got involved in an argument with the office boy. Apparently, the boy was friendly with some of the village girls who Bailey had snubbed for being unladylike. Due to the gossip, Bailey stopped socialising to focus on his astrology. Unfortunately, the demands of his job placed him under stress and he offered his resignation. At least part of the stress was down to him being accused of neglecting his work. As soon as he left, the office boy he had previously clashed with was re-instated, so Bailey wrote to Alan, suggesting he might work for him. From 1899 Bailey edited a monthly almanac which was printed as a supplement to Modern Astrology and had his articles published within its pages. Worked for Alan Leo directly from 1901 and from Leo’s from 13 January 1902, producing horoscopes made from pre-printed sheets. In 1902 was on the committee of the Society for Astrological Research and became its secretary. I July 1903, believing Alan had conned him, Bailey led the nine staff of Modern Astrology out on strike complaining about their workload and the increasing commercialism of their work. That marked the end of Bailey’s working relationship with Alan and he continued to rail against him for the rest of his life, most notably in the British Journal of Astrology which he later edited. He immediately contacted Robert Cross and ended up helping to compile Raphael’s ephemeris for the next twenty years. In 1904 produced magazine Destiny, in which he gave a fictionalised account of leaving Leo and his dislike of Alan and Bessie under the name of Wilfred E Stanley. Editor of British Journal of Astrology and Fellow of Astrological Society of America. Member of British Institute of Medical Astrology and Metaphysical Science in mid-1930s. He strongly opposed theosophy and his extreme right wing political views lost him some of the support he may otherwise have had. Bailey was most well-known for his work on, and controversy surrounding, the pre-natal epoch. (Irrelevantly, he was also the subject of an Astrological Lodge secret meeting, held in a corridor in 1928, convened to work out how to not work with him on an astrological congress.)
Related Periodicals: British Journal of Astrology
Related Monographs: Astrology and Birth Control (1929)
Bailey, Foster
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Foster Bailey (1888–1977) was an American Theosophist and Freemason who, with his wife Alice A. Bailey, co-founded the Lucis Trust and the
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Related Periodicals: The Beacon (Bailey) | Yoga Union
Bailey, Philip James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Philip James Bailey (1816–1902), English poet and author of the once-immensely-popular “Festus,” quoted in Ghost Land — a touchstone in the puzzles around Emma Hardinge Britten's authorship.
Chasing Emma: Festus and Ghost Land
Chasing Emma: Ghost Land: A Further Bibliographical Note
Chasing Emma: Spasmodics and the Estranging Sea: Spiritualists' Favorite Poets
Bailliere, Germer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Germer Baillière, a nineteenth-century French publishing house (Germer Baillière) known for scientific, philosophical, and psychical-research titles.
Related Periodicals: Magnetiseur Spiritualiste
Bailliere, H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Hippolyte Baillière, of the Baillière family of scientific and medical publishers, whose London and Paris houses issued works on mesmerism and spiritualism.
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Herald | The Zoist
Bailly, Edmond
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Edmond Bailly (1850–1916) was a Paris bookseller and publisher whose Librairie de l'Art Indépendant was a gathering place for Symbolist and occultist writers of the fin de siècle.
Related Periodicals: Haute Science | L'Etoile
Baines, A. E.
(Source: Gemini) Arthur E. Baines was an autodidact British electrical engineer and occultist known for his early 20th-century fringe theories in electro-physiology. Originally employed in cable testing for the Eastern Telegraph Company, Baines applied his knowledge of telegraphic and electrical systems to biological research. He conducted extensive experiments on humans, plants, and seeds, hypothesizing that all living organisms generated measurable electrical currents. Baines theorized that an organism's health, vitality, and physical growth directly correlated with the tension and stability of these inherent electrical forces. He argued that biological processes and diseases could be diagnosed and understood through this electro-pathological framework. In 1921, Baines published The Origin and Problem of Life: A Psycho-Physiological Study. This text applied his concepts to broader biological questions, attempting to define the biological "life force" and human consciousness as functional electrical phenomena. Baines frequently collaborated with his relative, Gladys T. Baines, who provided detailed illustrations mapping the supposed electrical structures of flora for his texts. His primary publications include A Study of Mr. Harness' Electropathic Belt (1892), Studies in Electro-Physiology (Animal and Vegetable) (1918), The Origin and Problem of Life (1921), and Germination in its Electrical Aspect (1921).
Related Monographs: The Origin and Problem of Life: A Psycho-Physiological Study (1921)
Baker, Helen Wilmans
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Almost certainly Helen Wilmans (1831–1907), a prominent American New Thought and "Mental Science" teacher, editor, and healer, whose absent-healing practice led to a celebrated federal mail-fraud prosecution.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American New Thought leader, publisher, and journalist; founder of 'Mental Science' and of the Sea Breeze, Florida community. Worked as a journalist for the Chicago Express before founding her own publishing house in 1893, issuing the weekly journal Freedom, which advocated the power of mind over poverty, disease, and death. Authored The Conquest of Death (1900).
Related Periodicals: Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Baker, Norman
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Norman Baker (1882–1958) was an American radio broadcaster, publisher, and promoter of a fraudulent cancer "cure," operating from Muscatine, Iowa, and later a hospital in Arkansas; he was eventually imprisoned for mail fraud.
Related Periodicals: TNT
Baker, Rachel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Rachel Baker, the early-nineteenth-century American “sleeping preacher,” whose devotional utterances in a sleep-like state made her a widely-noted precursor to Spiritualist trance mediumship.
Chasing Emma: Fruits from a Walled Garden: More Incunabula and Ephemera
Baldwin, Frank
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Associated with the Baldwin ("White Mahatma") second-sight troupe; identity uncertain. Flagged for review.
Related Periodicals: Baldwin's Illustrated Butterfly
Baldwin, Kittie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Kittie Baldwin was the wife and stage partner of Samuel Spencer Baldwin ("the White Mahatma") in their touring second-sight/mind-reading act.
Chasing Emma: Beware of Humbugs: Some Notes on S. S. Baldwin [Part One]
Chasing Emma: S. S. Baldwin; Spiritual Exposer
Chasing Emma: Fake Spiritualists: Some Notes on Samri Baldwin (Part Four)
Related Periodicals: Baldwin's Illustrated Butterfly
Baldwin, S.S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) S. S. Baldwin — Samuel Spencer Baldwin (1848–1924), the "White Mahatma" second-sight showman; same person as the "Baldwin, Samuel Spencer" entry.
Chasing Emma: Decatur -- April 1877: The Wonders of S. S. Baldwin
Chasing Emma: Beware of Humbugs: Some Notes on S. S. Baldwin [Part One]
Chasing Emma: Humbug; Electricity or Whatever You Like: Some Notes on S. S. Baldwin [Part Two]
Chasing Emma: S. S. Baldwin; Spiritual Exposer
Chasing Emma: Fake Spiritualists: Some Notes on Samri Baldwin (Part Four)
Related Periodicals: Baldwin's Illustrated Butterfly
Baldwin, Samuel Spencer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Samuel Spencer Baldwin (1848–1924), "the White Mahatma," was an American stage mind-reader and second-sight performer who toured internationally exposing the methods behind spiritualistic effects.
Related Periodicals: Baldwin's Illustrated Butterfly
Baldwin, Steven Stiles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Steven Stiles Baldwin (1839–1909), an American Spiritualist minister — a distinct figure from the stage-magician Samri S. Baldwin, with whom he is easily confused.
Chasing Emma: Another S. S. Baldwin: A Note on Dr. Steven Stiles Baldwin
Balfour, Arthur James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930), British statesman and philosopher (later Prime Minister and an SPR president), whose Foundations of Belief (1895) sits at the respectable edge of psychical research.
Chasing Emma: This Strange Age of Ours: A. J. Balfour; 1898
Related Monographs: The Ear of Dionysius: Farther Scripts Affording Evidence of Personal Survival (1920)
Ballard, Edna Wheeler
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard (1886–1971) co-founded the "I AM" Activity with her husband Guy Warren Ballard and, writing as "Lotus Ray King," led the movement after his death in 1939.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: American Occultist | The Bridge to Freedom | The Diamond | Voice of the I AM
Related Monographs: 'I AM' Decrees (1937)
Ballard, Guy Warren
Guy Warren Ballard (1878–1939) was an American mining engineer who, writing as "Godfré Ray King," founded the "I AM" Activity with his wife Edna after a claimed 1930 encounter with the Ascended Master Saint Germain on Mount Shasta. His Unveiled Mysteries (1934) launched a movement that claimed up to a million followers by the late 1930s.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Ballard
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: American Occultist | Lemurian Ambassador | The New Liberator | Voice of the I AM | The Inner Life (Akron) | Light on the Path and Weekly Truth Sheet (Brotherhood of the White Temple) | Mentor (Myneta and Taylor) | Mystic World
Related Monographs: 'I AM' Adorations and Affirmations (1935), The Magic Presence (1935), Unveiled Mysteries (1935), Ascended Master Discourses (1937), Ascended Master Light (1938), Unveiled Mysteries (1939), Special 'I AM' Decrees (1940)
Balliere, J.-B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Jean-Baptiste Baillière, founder of the Baillière medical- and scientific-publishing house in Paris; the name appears as publisher of occult and psychical periodicals.
Related Periodicals: Revue Contemporain des Sciences Occultes et Naturelles
Ballou, Addie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Addie Ballou (1837–1916) was an American Spiritualist, trance lecturer, poet, painter, and reformer active on the Pacific Coast.
Related Periodicals: The Herald of Progress (US)
Ballou, Adin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Adin Ballou (1803–1890) was an American Universalist minister, Christian pacifist, and founder of the utopian
Chasing Emma: 1841: Other Spiritualisms
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: The Agony of Influence
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Annals of Phrenology | The Radical Spiritualist
Ballou, Hosea
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) was the leading American Universalist theologian of his generation, author of A Treatise on Atonement (1805).
Related Periodicals: The Spirit Guardian
Bangs, Lizzie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bangs, of the Chicago Bangs Sisters — the celebrated and much-exposed mediums of “precipitated” spirit paintings and typewriting.
Chasing Emma: Products of the Mysterious Art: Some Notes on the Bangs Sisters
Bangs, May
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Mary “May” Bangs, of the Chicago Bangs Sisters, famous for their “precipitated” spirit portraits and slate-writing.
Chasing Emma: Products of the Mysterious Art: Some Notes on the Bangs Sisters
Bankhead, Tallulah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) was an American stage and film actress known for her flamboyant persona.
Related Periodicals: The Psychological Review of Reviews
Banks-Stacey, May
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) May Banks-Stacey (1846–1918) was an American occultist whose bequest of documents to H. Spencer Lewis figured in the founding narrative of the Rosicrucian order AMORC.
Related Periodicals: Cromaat
Banning, Pierson Worrall
(Source: Gemini) Pierson Worrall Banning (born 1879) was an American esoteric author and genealogist, largely remembered for his writings on alternative medicine and human origins. In 1923, he published Mental and Spiritual Healing: All Schools and Methods, a textbook aimed at both physicians and metaphysicians. To generate publicity for the text, Banning orchestrated highly publicized hoaxes. He circulated reports claiming that the methods in his book had resurrected a deceased woman in an Albany, New York, hospital. In 1924, he successfully planted stories in major newspapers, falsely claiming he had won a lucrative major award from a nonexistent "Benjamin Franklin Fund" in London for the book. The Journal of the American Medical Association formally investigated and exposed these events as complete fabrications. Beyond his controversial writings on alternative healing, Banning authored esoteric texts focused on ancient human history, specifically promoting occult theories about Lemuria, Atlantis, and ancient root races. He also compiled extensive works regarding his own family genealogy. His primary publications include Mental and Spiritual Healing: All Schools and Methods (1923) and Maker, Man and Matter (1924).
Related Monographs: Mental and Spiritual Healing: All Schools and Methods, A Text Book for Physicians and Metaphysicians (1923), Maker, Man and Matter (1924)
Baptist, John the
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) John the Baptist, the New Testament prophet and forerunner of Jesus; invoked here within an occult/prophetic periodical.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Voice of the Magi
Baraduc, H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Hippolyte Baraduc (1850–1909) was a French physician who sought to photograph the "vital force" and the soul, publishing images he claimed captured psychic and vital radiations.
Related Periodicals: Fraterniste | Haute Science
Barbanell, Maurice
Maurice Barbanell (1902–1981) was a British Spiritualist, founding editor of the newspaper Psychic News (1932), and the medium for the widely published spirit teacher "Silver Birch." For decades a central organizer and journalist of British Spiritualism, he also edited Two Worlds.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/barbanell-maurice-1902-1981
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Psychic News | Psychic World (Barbanell) | The Two Worlds
Related Monographs: Rogues and Vagabonds (1944)
Barker, A. Trevor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) A. Trevor Barker (1893–1941) was a British Theosophist who compiled and edited The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (1923) and The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett.
Related Periodicals: Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
Related Monographs: Fundamentals of the Esoteric Philosophy (1932), The Complete Works of H. P. Blavatsky, Vol. III (1881-1882) (1935), The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (1948)
Barker, Elsa
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Elsa Barker (1869–1954) was an American poet and novelist best known for the Letters from a Living Dead Man (1914) series, produced by automatic writing.
Related Periodicals: The Channel | East and West | Light of India
Related Monographs: Fielding Sargent: A Novel (1922)
Barker, Gray
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Gray Barker (1925–1984) was an American writer whose They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers (1956) helped create the "Men in Black" mythos and who published several UFO newsletters.
Related Periodicals: Clypeus | Nexus (James Moseley) | Saucer News (Moseley) | Saucer News Non-Scheduled Newsletter (Moseley) | Saucerian
Barkhurst, Ann
(Source: Gemini) Ann Barkhurst was a deeply engaged figure in the mid-20th-century esoteric and Rosicrucian circles in California. Barkhurst was a prolific occultist, astrologer, and writer associated with the Rosicrucian Fellowship based in Oceanside, California.Throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, she was a frequent contributor to Rays from the Rose Cross (also known as The Rosicrucian Magazine), the official esoteric periodical of the Fellowship. Her writing focused heavily on esoteric astrology, spiritual anatomy (such as the relationship between astrology and the endocrine system), and the occult interpretation of Christian texts.
Related Monographs: The New Age Bible Interpretation, Old Testament, Vol. II: King Solomon and the Temple Builders (1946)
Barlet, F. Ch.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) "F.-Ch. Barlet" was the pseudonym of Albert Faucheux (1838–1921), a French occultist and astrologer active in the Papus/Martinist circle of the fin-de-siècle Paris occult revival.
Related Periodicals: Curiosite | Le Magicien | Monde Occulte
Barnes, E. W.
(Source: Gemini) Ernest William Barnes (1874–1953) was an English mathematician, scientist, and liberal theologian who served as the Anglican Bishop of Birmingham from 1924 to 1953. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was recognized for his mathematical advancements, including the Barnes G-function, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1909. Following his ordination in 1902, Barnes became known for his attempts to reconcile Christian theology with scientific discoveries, including evolutionary theory. He was also a vocal critic of esoteric movements. In 1918, he delivered the Liverpool Lecture, subsequently published as the booklet Spiritualism and the Christian Faith (1920). In this text, Barnes argued that spiritualism and attempting to communicate with the dead were fundamentally incompatible with orthodox Christian doctrine. He approached the subject with both theological and scientific skepticism, warning that deep involvement in spiritualist séances frequently led to mental instability and a loss of moral direction. His primary publications include Spiritualism and the Christian Faith (1920), Should Such a Faith Offend? (1927), Scientific Theory and Religion (1933), The Rise of Christianity (1947), and Religion Amid Turmoil (1949).
Related Monographs: Spiritualism and the Christian Faith (1920)
Barnes, Victoria
Rev. Victoria Barnes, M.D., Spiritualist writer and physician connected with the National Spiritualist Association of Churches. (Source: Claude, from a monograph title page, confidence 0.55)
Barnes, William Abner
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Related Periodicals: The Practical Psychologist (London) | Practical Psychology (Barnes)
Barr, Dudley W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Dudley W. Barr was a Canadian Theosophist and longtime editor of The Canadian Theosophist.
Related Periodicals: Canadian Theosophist
Barrett, Benjamin Fiske
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Benjamin Fiske Barrett (1808–1892) was an American Swedenborgian (New Church) minister and prolific author and publisher of Swedenborgian literature.
Related Periodicals: The Swedenborgian
Barrett, Francis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Francis Barrett (fl. c. 1800) was an English occultist and author of The Magus (1801), a compilation of ceremonial magic and natural philosophy that influenced later occultism.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part 11: The Case of the Credulous Amateur
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part 12: An Invisible Girl; a Few Maroons; and Two Little Animals
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part 14: The Grace of Francis Barrett
Related Periodicals: The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century | The Straggling Astrologer
Barrett, Grace Hodge
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Grace Hodge Barrett, wife of Francis Barrett, author of The Magus — a thread in the genealogical untangling of the early-nineteenth-century ceremonial magician.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part 14: The Grace of Francis Barrett
Barrett, Harrison D
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Harrison D. Barrett (1863–1911) was an American Spiritualist, first president of the
Related Periodicals: The Banner of Light | Religion
Barrett, J.O.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Joseph Osgood (J. O.) Barrett was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist author and lecturer; likely the same person as the "Barrett, James Osgood" entry.
Related Periodicals: The American Spiritualist | Spiritual Rostrum
Barrett, James Osgood
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Joseph Osgood Barrett, American Spiritualist author and lecturer; probably identical with the "Barrett, J.O." entry (given name sometimes rendered James).
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Republic
Barrett, William F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) William F. Barrett (1844–1925), Irish physicist and a founder of the
Chasing Emma: W. F. Barrett and Emily Kislingbury on Charles Carleton Massey
Related Monographs: Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde (1923)
(merged from barrett_william)
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Sir William Fletcher Barrett (1844–1925) was an Irish physicist and one of the principal founders of the
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Barrett, William F.. William Fletcher Barrett (1844-1925) was a British physicist and co-founder of both the Society for Psychical Research and the
Related Periodicals: Psychic Research Quarterly
Barrick, Jeannie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Jeannie Barrick, an American Spiritualist medium active around Hannibal, Missouri in the 1860s.
Chasing Emma: A Mighty Instrument: Jeannie Barrick in Hannibal; 1865
Barron, Henry D.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Henry D. Barron (1833–1882), an American journalist and judge connected to the Mountain Cove Spiritualist community.
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [3]: Henry D. Barron; Journalist and Judge
Bart, Belle
(Source: Gemini) Belle Bart (?-early 1930s), known also by her married name Belle Bart Dulany, was a prominent American astrologer who gained widespread national popularity during the 1920s. Operating out of her New York City home, she established the American Academy of Astrology in 1927 alongside her husband, J. Clark Dulany. Bart successfully commercialized astrology for a mass audience. She was heavily featured in women's magazines, contributed syndicated newspaper columns analyzing contemporary events (such as the 1924 Leopold and Loeb trial), and hosted a nationally broadcast radio program. Her highly visible media presence significantly contributed to the mainstreaming of astrology in early 20th-century America. In her writings, she positioned herself as a "scientific astrologist," attempting to modernize astrological interpretation by connecting it with psychology and character analysis. Her most notable work, The Heavens Proclaim (1928), detailed her updated methodological system, which she branded as the "New Astrology." Following severe financial difficulties, she and her husband filed for bankruptcy in 1932, and she died shortly thereafter. Her primary publications include Thru the Stars to Success (1923) and The Heavens Proclaim; Being an Analysis and Explanation of the New Astrology (1928).
Related Monographs: The Heavens Proclaim: Being an Analysis and Explanation of the New Astrology (1928)
Barton, Abraham Pool
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Related Periodicals: The Christian (Shelton) | International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | The Life [Kansas City] | Modern Miracles | Universal Truth
Barton, Catherine Josephine Wiggington
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Related Periodicals: International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | The Life [Kansas City]
Barton, Henry J.
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Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Betiero's Oriental Mysteries | Initiates | The Philomathian
Barton, Jessie R.
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Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Philomathian
Barwise, Mark A.
(Source: Gemini) Mark Alton Barwise (1881–1937) was an American attorney, politician, and prominent leader within the National Spiritualist Association (N.S.A.). Born in Chester, Maine, he was one of the few publicly practicing Spiritualists elected to state office in the United States, serving in the Maine House of Representatives (1921–1924) and the Maine State Senate (1925–1926). Within the Spiritualist movement, Barwise was a highly influential legal and administrative advocate. He represented the N.S.A. in court cases, served on its board of trustees, and operated as the Curator of its Bureau of Phenomenal Evidence. During the 1930s, he co-organized a formal correspondence course on Spiritualism to systematize the religion's teachings. He was also closely associated with Camp Etna, a historic Spiritualist summer camp in Maine. Barwise published numerous essays defining and defending the legal and theological rights of Spiritualists. His 64-page booklet, A Preface to Spiritualism, was published posthumously by the N.S.A. in 1938. His primary publications include a chapter in Charles Samuel Braden's Varieties of American Religion (1936) and A Preface to Spiritualism (1938).
Related Monographs: A Preface to Spiritualism (1938), A Preface to Spiritualism (1947)
Bassett, Caroline
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Caroline Bassett, who married the materialization medium Frank Herne — part of the domestic backdrop to the “Great Materializers.”
Chasing Emma: Anything But Truthful (Part Two): Some Notes on Frank Herne (1850-1887)
Basterfield, Keith
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Keith Basterfield is an Australian UFO and anomalous-phenomena researcher, associated with the
Related Periodicals: Journal of the Australian Centre for UFO Studies (ACUFOS)
Bastian, Adolf
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Adolf Bastian (1826–1905) was a German polymath and a founder of modern ethnology, whose theory of "elementary ideas" anticipated later notions of universal archetypes.
Related Periodicals: The Seraph's Advocate
Bastian, Harry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Harry (Jacob Henry) Bastian, an American materialization medium — with his partner Malcolm Taylor, one of the “Great Materializers” of 1870s Chicago, ultimately exposed.
Chasing Emma: Tools for the Dabblers In An Unknown Science; Part One: Some Notes on Harry Bastian and Malcolm Taylor
Chasing Emma: Tools for the Dabblers In An Unknown Science; Part Two: Some Notes on Harry Bastian and Malcolm Taylor
Bates, E. Katherine
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Emily Katharine Bates (d. 1918) was an English writer and psychical investigator, author of Seen and Unseen, who travelled widely reporting on mediums.
Related Periodicals: International Psychic Gazette
Baudouin, Charles
(Source: Gemini) Charles Baudouin (1893–1963) was a French-born Swiss psychoanalyst, educator, and author. He was a pioneering figure in attempting to synthesize the methodologies of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Émile Coué into a cohesive psychological framework. Baudouin spent much of his career in Geneva, where he taught at the University of Geneva and founded the International Institute of Psychagogy and Psychotherapy in 1924. His primary theoretical contribution was "psychagogy," an approach designed to not only analyze the unconscious but to actively guide patients toward psychological development and integration. He is best known to English-speaking audiences for his text translated in 1921 as Suggestion and Autosuggestion. This book provided a psychological framework for the theories of Émile Coué and the New Nancy School, detailing how conscious autosuggestion could influence the unconscious mind for therapeutic benefit. The text significantly popularized Coué's methods internationally and bridged the gap between experimental psychology and self-healing practices. Beyond psychology, Baudouin was a respected poet, literary critic, and philosopher. His primary publications include Suggestion and Autosuggestion (1921), The Power Within Us (1923), Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics (1924), The Mind of the Child (1933), and The Myth of Modernity (1950).
Related Monographs: Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study (1921), How to Practice Suggestion and Autosuggestion (1923)
Baughan, Rosa
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Rosa Baughan was a Victorian English writer on astrology, palmistry, physiognomy, and graphology, author of several handbooks on these subjects.
Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought (Chicago)
Baum, L. Frank
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) was the American author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and a member of the
Related Periodicals: The Hermetist
Baumann, F.E.
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Related Periodicals: >Wahrheit-Sucher | Christliche Theosophie | Das Wort (Dresden) | Der Gral | Mitteilungen des Gral-Ordens | Mitteilungen des Neuen Gral-Ordens | Oriflamme | Zum Licht
Bax, Clifford
(Source: Gemini) Clifford Bax (1886–1962) was a English playwright, poet, journalist, and esotericist. Born in London into an affluent family, he was the brother of composer Arnold Bax. After abandoning early studies in painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, he devoted his career to literature and drama. Bax was deeply involved in theosophy, astrology, and European mysticism. Between 1908 and 1914, he edited the theosophical magazine Orpheus and maintained prominent associations with occult figures like Aleister Crowley. In 1910, he contributed to English-speaking esoteric literature by translating Rudolf Steiner's Initiation and Its Results from German. This text, acting as a sequel to Steiner's The Way of Initiation, outlined the methodological awakening of chakras and the astral body. Professionally, Bax became a fixture of early 20th-century British theater. He helped found the Phoenix Society to revive Elizabethan and Restoration plays and authored numerous commercial plays, poems, and biographies. His primary publications and translations include Initiation and Its Results (1910), The Poetasters of Ispahan (1912), Inland Far (1925), Socrates (1930), The Venetian (1931), Leonardo da Vinci (1932), and The Rose Without a Thorn (1933).
Related Monographs: Initiation and Its Results: A Sequel to 'The Way of Initiation' (1910)
Baxter, Alastair
(Source: Gemini) Alastair Baxter was a 20th-century British writer and researcher known for his contributions to the reference work A Survey of the Occult (1935). The publisher credited Baxter with conceiving the original scope of the project. He served as a primary contributor alongside F. E. Budd, J. H. Mozley, and S. G. Soal. Within the text, Baxter authored the principal section on alchemy. His work detailed the origins of the discipline, its historical development from antiquity through medieval Europe, and its intersection with early modern chemistry.
Related Monographs: A Survey of the Occult (1935)
Baxter, Edward H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Edward H. Baxter, a figure in the early Spiritualist circles around the Apostolic Circle and Mountain Cove.
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [3]: Henry D. Barron; Journalist and Judge
Baxter, Francis K.
(Source: Gemini) Francis K. Baxter was an early 20th-century author whose work focused on the intersections of Christian theology, parapsychology, and the Spiritualist movement. His principal work, Does Telepathy Explain Spiritualism?, was published in 1920 by the Fleming H. Revell Company. In this text, Baxter analyzed the popularity of Spiritualism and the phenomena typically associated with mediumship, such as séances and purported spirit communication. Rather than dismissing these phenomena as fraudulent, Baxter posited that telepathy—rather than the spirits of the dead—was the actual mechanism responsible for the experiences reported by Spiritualists. Baxter extended this telepathic hypothesis into orthodox Christian theology. He suggested that telepathy, which he framed as a "new science," could explain various aspects of biblical history and provided a functional framework for understanding the theological concept of divine omniscience. Beyond this book, Baxter was a contributing writer to The Dream Problem (1922), an international philosophical and esoteric symposium edited by the Indian physician Ram Narayana. His primary publications include Does Telepathy Explain Spiritualism? (1920), The Dream Problem (contributor, 1922).
Related Monographs: Does Telepathy Explain Spiritualism? (1920)
Bazett, L. M.
(Source: Gemini) L. Margery Bazett (frequently published as L. M. Bazett) was an early 20th-century British author, psychometrist, and researcher active in the spiritualist and psychical research movements. Bazett is primarily known for documenting claims of extrasensory perception, mediumship, and post-mortem survival. She frequently engaged in psychometry—a practice where a sensitive attempts to derive information about histories or absent individuals by holding physical objects. She allowed her readings and visions to be recorded and analyzed by contemporary researchers studying paranormal cognition. In 1920, she published After-Death Communications, which featured an introduction by psychical researcher J. Arthur Hill. Drawing on testimonies and personal experiences gathered between 1916 and 1918, the book documented alleged spirit communication through dreams, visions, and automatic writing. Bazett presented these accounts as empirical evidence of consciousness surviving bodily death, examining the emotional healing such experiences provided to grieving individuals during and immediately after World War I. Her primary publications include After-Death Communications (1920), Impressions from the Unseen (1925), Beyond the Five Senses (1946).
Related Monographs: After-Death Communications (1920)
Beadnell, C. Marsh
(Source: Gemini) Charles Marsh Beadnell (1872–1947) was a British physician, Royal Navy officer, and author. Educated at Cheltenham College and Guy's Hospital, he joined the Royal Navy as a surgeon in 1896. Beadnell saw active duty during the Boer War and World War I. He was promoted to Surgeon Rear-Admiral in 1922, served as head of Chatham Hospital, and was appointed Honorary Physician to King George V in 1925 before retiring in 1926. Outside medicine, Beadnell was a secularist and evolutionary proponent. Describing himself as an agnostic, he served as president of the Rationalist Press Association from 1940 to 1947. In 1920, he published The Reality or Unreality of Spiritualistic Phenomena. The text specifically rebutted the findings of William J. Crawford, an engineer who claimed to have scientifically verified levitations and raps during séances. Writing from a strict materialist perspective, Beadnell argued that spiritualistic phenomena were incompatible with natural laws. His primary publications include The Reality or Unreality of Spiritualistic Phenomena (1920), A Picture Book of Evolution (1932), Dictionary of Scientific Terms (1938), and The Origin of the Kiss (1942).
Related Monographs: The Reality or Unreality of Spiritualistic Phenomena (1920)
Beale, Harriet Blaine
(Source: Gemini) Harriet Blaine Beale (1871–1958) was an American author and the daughter of U.S. Secretary of State James G. Blaine. She married diplomat Truxtun Beale in 1894; the couple later divorced. Following the death of her son, Walker Beale, during World War I, Beale engaged with the Spiritualist movement. Seeking communication with the deceased, she utilized a planchette and practiced automatic writing alongside her companion, Anne Wintermute Lane. The women compiled their purported spiritual communications into two texts published by Dodd, Mead and Company. In 1920, they co-authored Life in the Circles: Further Lessons Received Through Automatic Writing. This text functioned as a continuation of their other 1920 publication, To Walk with God, providing structured lessons allegedly transmitted from the afterlife. Outside her Spiritualist writings, Beale is recognized for a property donation. In 1919, she deeded her family's Augusta, Maine, estate to the state in memory of her son. The property, the Blaine House, became the official residence of Maine's governors in 1920. Her primary publications include To Walk with God (co-authored, 1920) and Life in the Circles (co-authored, 1920)
Related Monographs: Life in the Circles: Further Lessons Received Through Automatic Writing (1920), To Walk with God: An Experience in Automatic Writing (1920)
Beals, Edward E.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Master Formulae: Atkinson & Beals; 1922
Related Periodicals: The Cosmic World | Mind Inc. | Pitagoras (Mexico) | Progress Magazine
Related Monographs: Character Power, or Positive Individuality (1922), Creative Power, or Your Constructive Forces (1922), Desire Power, or Your Energizing Forces (1922), Faith Power, or Your Inspirational Forces (1922), Perceptive Power, or The Art of Observation (1922), Reasoning Power, or Practical Logic (1922), Regenerative Power, or Vital Rejuvenation (1922), Spiritual Power, or The Infinite Fount (1922), Subconscious Power, or Your Secret Forces (1922), The Inner Secret, or That Something Within (1922), Thought Power, or Radio-Mentalism (1922), Will Power, or Your Dynamic Forces (1922)
Beard, George M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) George M. Beard (1839–1883), the American neurologist who coined “neurasthenia” and turned a skeptical, medicalizing eye on Spiritualism and Salem witchcraft.
Chasing Emma: For Explanation See Appendix A: George M. Beard and Hegemony
Beard, Sidney D.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Almost certainly Sidney Hartnoll Beard (1862–1938), founder of the
Related Periodicals: Wings of Truth
Beard, Sidney Hartknoll
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) A variant spelling of Sidney Hartnoll Beard (1862–1938), founder of the
Related Periodicals: Herald of the Cross | The Herald of the Golden Age
(merged from beard_sidney_hartnoll)
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Sidney Hartnoll Beard (1862–1938) was a British food-reform advocate who founded the
Beasley, George Hayes
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Occult Life (LAX) | The Occultist (Los Angeles)
Beaudelot, A.M.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Psyche [Beaudelot] | Revue du Spiritualisme Moderne | Spiritualisme Moderne
Beauharnais, Eugene de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Eugène de Beauharnais (1781–1824), stepson of Napoleon and Viceroy of Italy; invoked here within a French Spiritist periodical.
Related Periodicals: Sauveur des Peoples
Beck, L. Adams
(Source: Gemini) L. Adams Beck (c. 1862–1931), born Elizabeth Louisa Moresby, was a British-born Canadian author and esotericist. (Note: The author is indexed as L. Adams Beck rather than L. Beck Adams). Beck traveled extensively throughout India, Tibet, and Japan before settling in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1919. Her exposure to Eastern religions directed her literary output. She wrote under multiple names, dividing her work by genre. As L. Adams Beck, she published fiction and non-fiction focusing on Eastern mysticism, Buddhism, and esoteric philosophy. Under the pseudonym E. Barrington, she authored fictionalized biographies of historical figures. She also published under the name Louis Moresby. In 1922, she published The Ninth Vibration and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction blending occult concepts, reincarnation, and Asian mystical traditions. Her primary publications include The Ninth Vibration and Other Stories (1922), The Key of Dreams (1922), The Treasure of Ho (1924), The Story of Oriental Philosophy (1928), and The Divine Lady (1924, as E. Barrington).
Related Monographs: The Ninth Vibration and Other Stories (1922), The Way of Power: Studies in the Occult (1928)
Beckett, L. C.
(Source: Gemini) Lucille Catherine Beckett (1884–1979), who published under the pen name L. C. Beckett, was an English philosopher, author, and early proponent of synthesizing quantum physics with Eastern mysticism. Born in Kirkstall to Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe, she lived extensively at Villa Cimbrone in Ravello, Italy. Beckett engaged deeply with early 20th-century scientific developments and esoteric traditions, maintaining personal associations with figures such as Carl Jung and Jiddu Krishnamurti. Her writings consistently attempted to bridge modern astrophysics and subatomic physics with ancient religious concepts. In 1935, she published The World Breath, a text dedicated to astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington. The book argued that the universe, atomic structures, and human religions all operate through wave mechanics and respond to a universal "Law of Periodicity". Her later works continued this trajectory, ultimately arguing that modern science was empirically verifying the historical teachings of the Buddha. Her primary publications include Everyman and the Infinite (1923), The World Breath (1935), Neti Neti (Not This Not That) (1955), Unbounded Worlds (1959), Movement and Emptiness (1968), and Insight and Solitude (1973).
Related Monographs: The World Breath (1935)
Beckwith, Martha Warren
(Source: Gemini) Martha Warren Beckwith (1871–1959) was an American folklorist and ethnographer. She was the first person to hold a university chair in folklore in the United States, appointed to head the Folklore Foundation at Vassar College in 1920. Beckwith completed her graduate studies in anthropology at Columbia University under Franz Boas, earning her doctorate in 1918. Her academic research focused on documenting the mythology, ethnobotany, and cultural practices of specific communities through direct fieldwork. She conducted field studies in three primary areas: Jamaica, the Dakotas, and Hawaii. In Jamaica, she documented traditions and Anansi stories. In the Dakotas, she worked with the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Oglala Dakota tribes to record their myths and ceremonies. In Hawaii, she translated traditional creation chants and analyzed regional mythology. Her 1929 publication, Black Roadways, was an early academic study of Black communities in the Americas. She spent her later years translating The Kumulipo, a Hawaiian creation chant. Her primary publications include Jamaica Anansi Stories (1924), Black Roadways: A Study of Jamaican Folk Life (1929), Mandan-Hidatsa Myths and Ceremonies (1937), Hawaiian Mythology (1940), and The Kumulipo: A Hawaiian Creation Chant (1951).
Bedford, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Paul Bedford, an English comic actor of the mid-nineteenth-century London stage, encountered in the theatrical chapter of Emma Hardinge Britten's early life.
Chasing Emma: January 1844: Emma at the Princess's Theatre
Bedoya, Enrique Pastor y
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Related Periodicals: El Criterio Espiritista | Revista de Estudios Psicologicos
Beecher, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Charles Beecher (1815–1900) was an American Congregationalist minister and writer, brother of Henry Ward Beecher, noted for his sympathetic interest in Spiritualism.
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Telegraph
Beecher, Henry Ward
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) was a celebrated American Congregationalist preacher, abolitionist, and reformer, brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal | New York Beacon Light | The Spiritual Age (Boston) | The Spiritual Telegraph | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Behmen, Jacob
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) A variant spelling of Jakob Böhme (1575–1624), the German Christian mystic and theosopher; see the Boehme, Jacob entry.
Related Periodicals: All-Seeing Eye
Behr, Herman
(Source: Gemini) Herman Behr (1847–1934) was a German-born American industrialist and later a publisher of Spiritualist texts. Emigrating to the United States as a child, Behr established Herman Behr & Co. in Brooklyn, New York, in 1872. He accumulated wealth manufacturing sandpaper, introducing innovations such as garnet abrasive paper and aluminous oxide coated cloth. He is also noted for commissioning the 1889 Herman Behr Mansion in Brooklyn Heights, a prominent Romanesque Revival structure. Following his retirement from the abrasives industry, Behr dedicated time to the Spiritualist movement, compiling and publishing channeled communications. In 1923, he compiled Light from Beyond, a collection of poems allegedly dictated by the spirit entity Patience Worth. In 1932, Behr published Letters From Eternity. The text was presented as a collection of communications received from deceased historical figures, including Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin. The book framed these figures as offering perspectives from the afterlife, aligning with contemporary Spiritualist efforts to validate mediumship through the invocation of historical authorities. His primary esoteric publications include Light from Beyond (compiler, 1923) and Letters From Eternity (1932)
Related Monographs: Letters from Eternity, Volume I (1932)
Behrend, Genevieve
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Genevieve Behrend (1864–1950), New Thought teacher and the only personal student of Thomas Troward, whose “mental science” was later mined by The Secret.
Chasing Emma: How To Get What You Want: Some Notes on Genevieve Behrend (1864?-1950)
Related Monographs: Your Invisible Power: The Mental Science of Judge Thomas Troward (1927), Attaining Your Desires by Letting Your Subconscious Mind Work for You (1929), Romance and Prophecies of the Great Pyramid (1934)
Beighle, Nellie Craib
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Related Periodicals: Aquarian New Age | La Courriere/The Messenger
Beilhart, Jacob
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Jacob Beilhart (1867–1908), founder of the Spirit Fruit Society, a communal-utopian group at the edge of the Spiritualist and New Thought world.
Chasing Emma: Haven Of All The Cults: March 1905
Related Monographs: Jacob Beilhart: Life and Teachings (1925)
Belasco, David
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) David Belasco (1853–1931) was a leading American theatrical producer, playwright, and director; invoked here in a metaphysical periodical.
Related Periodicals: The Aletheian
Beliard, Octave
(Source: Gemini) Octave Béliard (1876–1951) was a French physician and writer. Born in Paimboeuf, he successfully maintained parallel careers in medicine, historical research, and literature. He was a recognized figure in early French science fiction, notably winning the Prix Jules-Verne in 1927 and the Maurice-Renard Prize in 1930. In 1920, Béliard published Sorciers, rêveurs et démoniaques. The book is a historical study of superstitious beliefs, witchcraft, and occult practices. Béliard traced the origins of witchcraft from antiquity, through its developments in the Middle Ages, and examined 18th-century esotericism and contemporary occultism. Drawing upon both his medical background and historical research, he documented specific cases and examined the work of prominent scholars to provide a psychological and historical context for these phenomena. His primary non-fiction publication is Sorciers, rêveurs et démoniaques (1920), which he produced alongside his numerous works of speculative fiction.
Related Monographs: Sorciers, Reveurs et Demoniaques (1920)
Bell, Arthur L.
Arthur L. Bell (1899–1979) was an American religious leader who founded the utopian movement Mankind United in California in 1934. Bell established the organization during the Great Depression. He claimed to represent an advanced, secret group of individuals known as "The Sponsors," who he alleged had been conducting global economic research since 1875. In 1936, Bell published the foundational text Mankind United, asserting that a conspiracy of "Hidden Rulers" controlled the world's economy and orchestrated international conflicts for profit. Bell proposed a utopian society featuring a four-hour workday, guaranteed housing, and universal income. To participate, followers were required to transfer their property and financial assets to Bell's organization. The movement acquired substantial real estate, operating agricultural communes and commercial enterprises along the West Coast. During World War II, Bell openly opposed United States military involvement. In 1942, he was arrested and convicted of sedition for discouraging military enlistment. While the conviction was later reversed on appeal, the legal proceedings and public scrutiny fractured the movement. In 1944, Bell reorganized his remaining followers into a new religious cooperative, Christ's Church of the Golden Rule.
Related Monographs: Mankind United (1939)
Bell, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Robert Bell, the English man of letters whose 1860 Cornhill Magazine account “Stranger than Fiction” — a first-hand report of a D. D. Home séance — became a celebrated controversy.
Chasing Emma: Controversy Conducted; Part Two: The Immediate Surroundings
Related Monographs: Spiritism, Hypnotism and Telepathy as Involved in the Case of Mrs. Leonora E. Piper (1920)
Bellamy, Edward
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) was the American author of the utopian novel Looking Backward (1888), which inspired the Nationalist movement and its associated periodicals.
Related Periodicals: The Nationalist [Boston] | The Sower
Belton, Leslie J.
(Source: Gemini) Leslie J. Belton was a 20th-century British Unitarian minister, author, and editor. He served as the first President of the National Unitarian Fellowship (NUF) and edited The Inquirer, a prominent British Unitarian journal. In 1931, he authored the booklet Psychical Research and Religion, published by The Lindsey Press. In this text, Belton examined the relationship between religious faith and reported phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and out-of-body experiences. He argued against what he termed "unreasonable scepticism," stating that it was illogical to automatically dismiss testimonies of these experiences simply because they could not be explained by the five senses or contemporary science. To frame these events, he preferred using the term "supernormal" rather than "supernatural". His other publications include the booklets Can We Still Believe in Man? and World Vision (1938).
Related Monographs: Psychical Research and Religion (1931)
Bender, Albert K.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Albert K. Bender (1921–2016) was an American who founded the
Related Periodicals: Saucerian
Benedict, Daniel D. T.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Daniel D. T. Benedict (1814–1872), an organizer of the Apostolic Circle and the Mountain Cove Spiritualist community.
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [2]: The Death of a Spirit Agent
Benedict, Eliza Ann
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Eliza Ann Benedict, a medium of the Apostolic Circle, the revelatory group that fed into the Mountain Cove community.
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove: The Stakes in the Ground
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [2]: The Death of a Spirit Agent
Benedict, Elsie Lincoln
(Source: Gemini) Elsie Lincoln Benedict (1885–1970) was an American author, suffragist, and prominent public speaker who popularized applied psychology and self-improvement techniques during the 1920s and 1930s. Born Elsie Lincoln Vandegrift, she initially gained recognition as a political editor in Denver and as an organizer and orator for the national women's suffrage movement. Transitioning to motivational speaking, Benedict and her husband, Ralph Paine Benedict, founded the Benedict School of Opportunity. She became one of the most widely recognized lecturers of her era, speaking to millions on topics such as personality analysis, the subconscious mind, and success psychology. In 1920, she published Practical Psychology (later expanded and subtitled as How to Utilize Your Mind Through the Science of Practical Psychology). The book functioned as a manual outlining how readers could understand human behavior, overcome worry, build self-confidence, and apply psychological principles to achieve personal and financial goals. Her other primary publications and programs include Human Analysis (1919), How to Analyze People on Sight (1921), and the instructional course Brainology.
Related Monographs: Practical Psychology (1920), How to Utilize Your Mind Through the Science of Practical Psychology (1921)
Benedict, Ralph Paine
(Source: Gemini) Ralph Paine Benedict (1874–1941) was an American publisher, lecturer, and author who collaborated with his wife, Elsie Lincoln Benedict. He co-founded the Benedict School of Opportunity, an organization that managed the couple's lecture tours and correspondence courses. Ralph managed the publishing operations and co-authored multiple texts outlining their theories on human behavior. While the initial version of Practical Psychology was published under Elsie's name in 1920, Ralph was credited as a co-author on the expanded editions retitled How to Utilize Your Mind Through the Science of Practical Psychology. Together, they developed the "Science of Human Analysis," a system categorizing personality types based on physical attributes. His primary co-authored publications include How to Analyze People on Sight (1921), How to Unlock Your Subconscious Mind Through the Science of Mental Analysis (1921), and How to Utilize Your Mind Through the Science of Practical Psychology. The Benedicts' teachings are still repackaged and recirculated, to this day.
Related Monographs: How to Utilize Your Mind Through the Science of Practical Psychology (1921)
Benito, Manuel Sanz
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Related Periodicals: El Criterio Espiritista | Irradiacion (Madrid) | El Buen Sentido
Benjamin, Louis
(Source: Gemini) Louis Benjamin (b. 1883) was a Canadian traveling salesman and spirit medium from Toronto. He was a notable figure in the North American Spiritualist movement following World War I. Benjamin is primarily known for his association with Dr. Albert Durrant Watson, a Toronto physician and psychical researcher. Beginning in 1918, Benjamin conducted regular séances at Watson's home, initially using a Ouija board before utilizing automatic writing and trance channeling. Benjamin purported to receive messages from deceased historical figures, including Abraham Lincoln, Mozart, and Plato, describing an afterlife realm they termed the "Twentieth Plane". A stenographer recorded these sessions, and Watson compiled the transcripts into published texts. The 1920 monograph you are referring to is titled Birth Through Death (rather than North Through Death). Watson severed their association around 1920 after becoming skeptical of mediums. Benjamin briefly continued to hold independent lectures and séances. By 1932, his public prominence had diminished, and he had relocated to Illinois, where he was documented working as an astrologer and psychic. His primary associated publications, compiled by Albert Durrant Watson based on Benjamin's channeling, include The Twentieth Plane: A Psychic Revelation (1918) and Birth Through Death, the Ethics of the Twentieth Plane: A Revelation (1920).
Related Monographs: Birth Through Death: The Ethics of The Twentieth Plane (1920)
Benjamine, Elbert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Elbert Benjamine (1882–1951), who wrote as "C. C. Zain," founded the
Related Periodicals: Astrological Bulletina | Current Astrology | Modern Astrology (Rose Dawn) | World Astrology Magazine | The Beacon Light | National Astrological Journal | The Occult Digest
Related Monographs: The Sacred Tarot (Doctrine of Kabalism) (1936)
Benner, Joseph Sieber
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Joseph Sieber Benner (1872–1938) was an American New Thought author, best known for the anonymously issued The Impersonal Life (1914).
Related Periodicals: The Glass Hive | The Inner Life (Akron) | The New Liberator
Related Monographs: The Impersonal Life (1922), The Impersonal Life (1924)
Bennett, Arnold
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was an English novelist and journalist of the Edwardian period.
Related Periodicals: Mystic Light Library Bulletin
Bennett, DeRobigne Mortimer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) DeRobigne Mortimer (D. M.) Bennett (1818–1882) was an American freethinker and founder-editor of The Truth Seeker, prosecuted under the Comstock laws.
Chasing Emma: 500 Spiritualists (Not Woodhullites): June; 1874
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Buchanan's Journal of Man (First and Second Series) | Hesperian Bard | Pacific Liberal | The Spiritualist at Work | The Truthseeker | The Word (Princeton)
Bennett, E. N.
(Source: Gemini) Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett (1868–1947) was a British academic, journalist, politician, and psychical researcher. Educated at Oxford, he became a Fellow of Hertford College and later served as a Member of Parliament representing both the Liberal and Labour parties during his career. Beyond politics and academia, Bennett was an active member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). He investigated claims of mediumship and haunted properties, consistently advocating for the application of rigorous, empirical methodologies to the study of paranormal claims. In 1927, he authored Apollonius: or, The Present and Future of Psychical Research, published as part of the To-day and To-morrow book series. In this text, Bennett summarized the contemporary state of psychical research. He defended the scientific study of phenomena such as telepathy and clairvoyance, arguing that these subjects required serious academic investigation rather than immediate dismissal or uncritical acceptance. His primary publications in the field of psychical research include Apollonius: or, The Present and Future of Psychical Research (1927) and Apparitions and Haunted Houses: A Survey of Evidence (1939).
Related Monographs: Apollonius, or The Present and Future of Psychical Research (1927)
Bennett, Sydney Kimball
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Wynn's Astrology
Related Monographs: Your Future (An Occult Publication) (1935)
Benoit, Luc
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Probably Luc Benoist (1893–1980), a French art historian and writer on symbolism and esotericism associated with the traditionalist circle around René Guénon and Le Voile d'Isis.
Related Periodicals: Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles
Benson, Robert Hugh
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914) was an English Catholic priest and popular novelist; after his death, purported spirit communications from him were published in Spiritualist literature.
Related Periodicals: L'Astrosophie | The Occult Review
Bensusan, S.L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Samuel Levy Bensusan (1872–1958) was an English author and journalist who wrote on art, rural life, and occasional Theosophical and Eastern themes.
Related Periodicals: The Theosophical Review
Bentham, Jeremy
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) was the English philosopher and jurist who founded utilitarianism; cited here in an astrological/freethought periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century | The Straggling Astrologer
Bentley, Ida Lewis
(Source: Gemini) Ida Lewis Bentley was an American medium, graphologist, and author active during the early 20th century. In 1920, she published Sifted Through: Communications From the Invisible Side of Earth Life through the J. F. Rowny Press in Los Angeles. Bentley claimed to have received the contents of the book via automatic writing, framing the text as a collection of messages dictated by various spirits. The channeled material addressed topics such as the mechanics of the afterlife, the purpose of earthly existence, and the necessity of compassion, positioning Bentley as a communicative bridge between the physical and spiritual realms. Contemporary esoteric directories also record her practicing professionally as a graphologist in Miami, Florida. Her primary publications include Sifted Through: Communications From the Invisible Side of Earth Life (1920).
Related Monographs: Sifted Through: Communications from the Invisible Side of Earth Life (1920)
Bento, Waldemar L.
(Source: Gemini) Waldemar L. Bento was a 20th-century Brazilian author and early commentator on the syncretic religion of Umbanda. In 1939, he published A Magia no Brasil (Magic in Brazil) through the presses of the Jornal do Brasil. The text is recognized as an early documentary work from Umbanda's initial period of literary formalization. In the book, Bento detailed the religion's esoteric frameworks and theological structures. He specifically defined "magic" within the context of Umbanda as the corrective work executed by spirit entities (falanges) from the astral plane to neutralize negative energies on Earth. Alongside contemporaries such as Leal de Souza and João de Freitas, Bento contributed to establishing the early written record of Umbanda practices in Brazil
Related Monographs: Magia no Brasil (1939)
Beresford, J. D.
(Source: Gemini) John Davys Beresford (1873–1947) was an English writer primarily known for his early science fiction, horror, and psychological novels. Before his writing career, he worked as an architectural draftsman and a journalist. His association with the 1920 English edition of From the Unconscious to the Conscious is as the author of its foreword. The monograph itself was written by French physician and psychical researcher Gustave Geley, and it was translated into English by Stanley De Brath. Beresford maintained an interest in psychology, psychical research, and esoteric philosophy, which influenced his fiction. He transitioned from agnosticism toward Theosophy and pacifism later in his life. His primary publications include the science fiction novels The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911) and Goslings (1913), along with the critical study H. G. Wells (1915).
Related Monographs: From the Unconscious to the Conscious (1920)
Bergson, Henri
(Source: Gemini) Henri Bergson (1859–1941) was a highly influential French philosopher who achieved widespread international celebrity during the early 20th century. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, Bergson is best known for his arguments that immediate experience and intuition are more significant for understanding reality than rationalism and the scientific method. In 1920, his 1919 French publication L'Énergie spirituelle was translated into English as Mind-Energy: Lectures and Essays (translated by H. Wildon Carr). The monograph is a collection of previously delivered lectures and essays exploring the relationship between the mind and the body, memory, the subconscious, and the mechanics of dreams. Crucially for the context of early 20th-century esoteric and psychological studies, Mind-Energy includes Bergson's 1913 presidential address to the British Society for Psychical Research (SPR). In this address, Bergson advocated for the empirical study of phenomena such as telepathy. He argued that the mind is not entirely dependent on the physical brain, positing that consciousness overflows the neural structures and that the brain acts merely as a filter for memory and perception rather than the creator of it. This philosophical framework made him highly appealing to psychical researchers seeking academic validation for the survival of consciousness after death. His philosophical concepts—particularly élan vital (the vital impetus or creative force driving evolution)—had a profound impact on literature, theology, and philosophy, influencing figures ranging from Marcel Proust to William James. His primary publications include Time and Free Will (1889), Matter and Memory (1896), Creative Evolution (1907), Mind-Energy (1920), and The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932).
Related Monographs: Mind-Energy: Lectures and Essays (1920)
Berkeley, Francis Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Bristol Liberal MP, encountered in the Bristol chapters of Emma Hardinge Britten's world.
Chasing Emma: Ernest Reinhold (Again)
Berlitz, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Charles Berlitz (1914–2003) was an American linguist and best-selling author of popular books on the Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis, and other mysteries.
Related Periodicals: Probe the Unknown
Bernhard, Pierre Arnold
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Pierre Arnold Bernard (1875–1955), known as "Oom the Omnipotent," was an American pioneer of yoga and Tantra who founded the
Related Periodicals: International Journal of the Tantrick Order
Bernheim, Hippolyte
(Source: Gemini) Hippolyte Bernheim (1840–1919) was a prominent French physician and neurologist who became a foundational figure in the "Nancy School" of psychotherapy. Serving as a clinical professor at the University of Nancy, Bernheim championed the theory that hypnosis was essentially a manifestation of psychological suggestion and auto-suggestion. This challenged the prevailing ideas of his contemporary Jean-Martin Charcot, who believed hysteria and hypnosis were strictly physiological ailments. Bernheim's methodologies in suggestive therapeutics profoundly influenced the early development of psychoanalysis and figures such as Sigmund Freud, who translated some of Bernheim's work and directly observed his clinical experiments. His primary publications include De la suggestion et de ses applications à la thérapeutique (1886) and Hypnotisme, suggestion, psychothérapie (1891).
Related Monographs: The Rational Education of the Will: Its Therapeutic Value (1920)
Bernicie, Lillian
(Source: Gemini) Lillian Bernicie was a twentieth-century Spiritualist practitioner. She is associated with the 1922 monograph The Book of Clifford, or, "The soul of my son speaketh to me", published by the Cornhill Publishing Company. Bernicie shares authorship credit for the text with Clifford Bland. The title and prefatory materials identify Bland as Bernicie's deceased son. Within the framework of twentieth-century Spiritualism, Bernicie acted as the medium for the text. She stated she received the contents through spirit communication and transcribed the material from her son's dictation. The publication's subtitle, From the Original Dictation as Transcribed Without Alterations, emphasizes this methodology, framing the work as a transmission from the afterlife. The text documents Bland's experiences following his death and his observations of the spirit realm. By releasing these accounts, Bernicie contributed to a subgenre of Spiritualist literature wherein surviving relatives claimed to receive and record communications from deceased family members. Archival records offer little biographical data regarding Bernicie outside of her function in recording and publishing these channeled sessions.
Related Monographs: The Book of Clifford, or 'The Soul of My Son Speaketh to Me' (1922)
Berridge, E.W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Edward William Berridge (1843–1923) was an English homeopathic physician and a prominent member of the
Related Periodicals: Azoth | Christian Spiritualist (UK) | The Occult Review | The Unknown World
Berridge, Edmund William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Edward (Edmund) William Berridge (1843–1923), English homeopath and Golden Dawn member; same person as the "Berridge, E.W." entry.
Related Periodicals: Anubis (Voisin) | Out of the Silence (Voisin)
Berry, Catherine
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Catherine Berry (1813–1891), a well-known London Spiritualist and “drawing medium” of the 1860s–70s, and a sponsor and sitter in the era's public séance culture.
Chasing Emma: Ad Libitum: Sending J. M. Peebles Off; June 1870
Chasing Emma: Public Mediums and Public Circles: A Note on Catherine Berry
Chasing Emma: Moving Furniture: Some Notes on Christopher Pierpont Brook Alsop (1829-1902)
Besant, Annie
Annie Besant (1847-1933) was a British socialist, women's rights activist, Theosophist, and supporter of Indian independence. After an early career as a freethinker and social reformer -- during which she co-published a pamphlet on birth control with Charles Bradlaugh -- she converted to Theosophy in 1889 after reviewing Helena Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine. She succeeded Henry Steel Olcott as President of the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Besant
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Besant, Annie. Annie Besant (1847-1933) was an English theosophist, socialist, and women's rights activist whose interest in psychic phenomena was inseparable from Theosophical conviction. She fiercely rejected Richard Hodgson's denunciation of Madame Blavatsky, founded the
Chasing Emma: The Tyranny of Community Standards
Chasing Emma: We are all socialists now: Frank Podmore; Annie Besant and Fabianism
Chasing Emma: Bound in Cloth: Rudolf Steiner; 1909
Chasing Emma: Irreligious License: Annie Besant; 1907
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Related Monographs: The Inner Government of the World (1920), The War and Its Lessons (1920), Britain's Place in the Great Plan (1921), General Report of the 45th Anniversary and Convention of the Theosophical Society (1921), The Great Plan (1921), At the Feet of the Master (1922), General Report of the Forty-Sixth Anniversary and Convention of the Theosophical Society, Held at Benares, December 25-30, 1921 (1922), Man: Whence, How and Whither -- A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation (1922), General Report of the 47th Anniversary and Convention of the Theosophical Society (1923), Man's Life in This and in Other Worlds (1923), Man's Life in Three Worlds: A Booklet for Beginners (1923), The Druids and Theosophy (1924), The Masters and the Path (1925), Theosophy as the Basic Unity of National Life (Four Convention Lectures, Bombay, Dec 1924) (1925), How a World Teacher Comes, as Seen by Ancient and Modern Psychology (Four Lectures, Queen's Hall, June-July 1926) (1926), Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series (1926), Talks on the Path of Occultism, Vol. I: At the Feet of the Master (1930), Theosophy, Past and Future (Four Convention Lectures, 54th Anniversary, Dec 1929) (1930), The Masters (1932), The Theosophical Society and H. P. B. (1932)
Besant-Scott, Mabel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Mabel Besant-Scott (1870–1952) was the daughter of Annie Besant, active in Co-Freemasonry and Theosophical circles.
Related Periodicals: The Uplifting Veil
Bessaraboff, Nicholas
(Source: Gemini) Nicholas Bessaraboff (born Nikolai Bessarabov, 1894–1973) was a Russian-born engineer, translator, and author. Born in Voronezh, he studied mechanical engineering in St. Petersburg. In 1915, he traveled to the United States to manage equipment shipments during World War I. He remained in the United States following the 1917 Russian Revolution and became a citizen in 1927. Bessaraboff is associated with the philosopher P. D. Ouspensky through his translation work. When immigrating, Bessaraboff transported a copy of Ouspensky’s 1912 text Tertium Organum. Bessaraboff partnered with the publisher Claude Bragdon to translate the Russian text into English. Bessaraboff produced a direct translation, which Bragdon edited for publication. Bragdon issued the first English edition in 1920. Alfred A. Knopf published the 1922 second edition, which featured a preface contributed by Ouspensky. Beyond translating, Bessaraboff started a Theosophical Society lodge in Rochester, New York, with the astrologer and occultist Paul Foster Case, and studied organology, the classification of musical instruments. While residing in Boston during the 1930s, he cataloged the instrument collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. This research culminated in his 1941 publication, Ancient European Musical Instruments. In 1945, he legally changed his surname to Bodley, adopting his wife's maiden name.
Related Monographs: Tertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought, A Key to the Enigmas of the World (1922)
Besterman, Theodore
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Theodore Besterman (1904–1976) was a bibliographer, Voltaire scholar, and psychical researcher who worked for the
Related Periodicals: The Occult Review
Betanelly, Michael
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Michael C. Betanelly, the Georgian-American merchant who was, briefly, Helena Blavatsky's second husband.
Chasing Emma: 1875: Mr. Blavatsky
Betiero, Thomas Jasper
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Reliable Advertisements: The Life and Death of Thomas Jasper Betiero
Related Periodicals: Betiero's Oriental Mysteries | Immortality | New York Magazine of Mysteries | The Philomathian | Star of the Magi | Weltmer's Magazine
Bey, Serapis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) "Serapis Bey" is the name of a purported Ascended Master in Theosophical and "I AM"/Ascended-Master teaching, rather than a documented historical person.
Related Periodicals: Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Bez, Auguste
To be added.
Related Periodicals: La Ruche Spirite Bordelaise | Union Spirite Bordelaise
Bhakta Vishita
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Development of Seership: The Science of Knowing the Future (Hindoo and Oriental Methods) (1925)
Bharata, Baba
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Probably a variant of Baba Premanand Bharati (1858–1914), the early Indian Krishna teacher in America; see the "Bharati, Baba" entry.
Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought (Chicago)
Bharati, Baba
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Baba Premanand Bharati (1858–1914) was an early Indian teacher of Krishna bhakti in the United States and author of Sree Krishna, the Lord of Love.
Related Periodicals: East and West | Greeting Messenger | Light of India
Bhotiva, Zam
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) "Zam Bhotiva" was the pseudonym of Cesare Accomani, promoter of the Groupe des Polaires in 1920s Paris (see the Accomani, Cesare entry).
Related Periodicals: Illumination
Bielfeld, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Henry Bielfeld, a Victorian artist and painter-on-glass, a minor figure surfacing in the blog's bibliographical hunts.
Chasing Emma: H. Bielfeld; Esq.
Bigelow, J. P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) J. P. Bigelow, connected to the pre-history of the Banner of Light through the Bigelow brothers' publishing ventures.
Chasing Emma: The Citadel of All Truth: The First Prospectus for the Banner of Light
Bimstein, Louis Maximil(l)ian
The birth name of Max Théon, under which he is otherwise virtually unknown; see that entry.
Related Periodicals: Revue Cosmique
Birch, Silver
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) "Silver Birch" was the Native American spirit guide whose teachings were delivered through the trance mediumship of Maurice Barbanell and widely published; a spirit persona rather than a historical person.
Related Periodicals: Psychic News
Bird, J. Malcolm
(Source: Gemini) James Malcolm Bird (1886–1964) was an American mathematician and journalist who served as an associate editor for Scientific American during the 1920s. In 1922, the magazine announced a financial reward for conclusive proof of physical mediumship. Bird served as the secretary for the investigating committee, which evaluated the Boston medium Mina Crandon, known as "Margery." During the 1924 investigation, Bird published articles in Scientific American supporting Crandon's phenomena. He frequently stayed at the Crandon residence and claimed to witness unexplained events. Other committee members, including the illusionist Harry Houdini, contested Bird's conclusions. Houdini accused Bird of bias and of actively assisting Crandon in fabricating phenomena. Consequently, Bird resigned from the committee before it issued its final report, which concluded Crandon employed deception. Following his resignation, Bird left Scientific American and became the research officer for the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR). He authored My Psychic Adventures (1924) and Margery the Medium (1925), defending Crandon's abilities. Bird maintained his public support for Crandon until 1930. In that year, he submitted a confidential report to the ASPR board admitting he observed Crandon fabricating phenomena. Bird subsequently resigned from his position at the ASPR.
Related Monographs: My Psychic Adventures (1924), 'Margery' the Medium (1925), The Margery Mediumship (Proceedings of the ASPR, Vols. XX-XXI, for 1926-1927) (1928)
Birrell, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) William Birrell, inventor of a patented automatic lime-light apparatus (1878) used in the machinery of Spiritualist demonstration.
Chasing Emma: 1878: William Birrell's Patent Automatic Lime-Light Apparatus
Bischoff, Erich
(Source: Gemini) Oswald Erich Bischoff (1865–1936) was a German author, translator, and Orientalist born in Gorlitz. He studied at the universities of Leipzig and Halle, earning a doctorate in philosophy from Erlangen in 1890 with a dissertation on Dionysius Cato. He taught at schools in Wernigerode and Merseburg before transitioning to the publishing industry. In 1908, he became a chief editor for a Leipzig firm. Bischoff focused his research on Orientalism and mysticism. In 1921, he published Wunder der Kabbalah: Die okkulte Praxis der Kabbalisten. The monograph examined Kabbalah, analyzing source materials including the Zohar and the Sefer Yetzirah. The text detailed practices such as numerology, thought-reading, and name interpretation, functioning as a primer for the subject. He authored other texts on related topics, including Kritische Geschichte der Thalmud-übersetzungen aller Zeiten und Zungen (1899) and Die Elemente der Kabbalah (1913). Throughout his career, he translated works from other languages, including an 1887 German edition of Henry Steel Olcott's Buddhist Catechism. Following 1933, Bischoff stepped down from his editorial roles. He operated as a private scholar and continued writing until his death in Leipzig.
Related Monographs: Wunder der Kabbalah: Die okkulte Praxis der Kabbalisten (1921)
Bjerregaard, C.H.A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) C. H. A. Bjerregaard (1845–1922) was a Danish-American librarian at the New York Astor Library and a writer on mysticism, Sufism, and Neoplatonism.
Related Periodicals: Azoth | The Ideal Review | Weltmer's Magazine | The Word (Percival)
Blackburn, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Charles Blackburn, the wealthy Manchester Spiritualist who bankrolled the mediumship of Florence Cook and the “absolute test” séances, and built recording machinery for them.
Chasing Emma: 12 Pence to the Shilling; 20 Shillings to the Pound
Chasing Emma: The Blackburn Seances
Chasing Emma: An Absolute Test: Charles Blackburn; Miss Cook; and the Fletchers
Chasing Emma: Then Everybody Would Believe: W. H. Harrison on Full-Form Manifestations; 1874
Chasing Emma: Blackburn's Machinery: February 1884
Blackford, Katherine M.H.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Business Philosopher
Related Monographs: Character Analysis by the Observational Method, Lessons XVIII-XX: Marital and Family Relations; Salesmanship; Vocational Guidance (1920), The Job, The Man, The Boss (1921), Character Analysis by the Observational Method (Lesson V: Texture, Consistency and Flexibility; Lessons VI-VII: Proportion) (1922)
Blackledge, Katharine Treat
(Source: Gemini) Katharine Treat Blackledge (1866–1924) was an author from the United States who produced fiction concerning concepts of esotericism. She published a volume titled The Amulet: A Tale of the Orient in 1916. The Commercial Printing House, located in Los Angeles, California, printed this release. Evelyn Hess and W. A. Sharp provided illustrations for the release. Six years later, the Cornhill Publishing Company, operating in Boston, Massachusetts, reissued a revision of this text. They published this 1922 iteration under the title The Jeweled Serpent. The Jeweled Serpent functions as an exploration of reincarnation. The plot details two protagonists who experience death in Babylon. The narrative subsequently depicts their rebirth and their travel to Tibet to pursue enlightenment. The text incorporates themes of past-life regression and soul progression, which align with frameworks of twentieth-century esotericism. She died in 1924, two years following the publication of The Jeweled Serpent.
Related Monographs: The Jeweled Serpent (1922)
Blackwell, Anna
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Anna Blackwell (1816–1900) was an English journalist and Spiritualist, an early English translator and promoter of Allan Kardec's Spiritist works.
Chasing Emma: 1853: Anna Blackwell; Hearing Voices
Chasing Emma: Entertaining the Hypothesis: Anna Blackwell; November 1852
Related Periodicals: Human Nature | The Spiritualist
Blackwood, Algernon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) was an English writer of supernatural fiction and a member of the
Related Periodicals: The Aryan Path | Mind Inc. | The Occult Review
Blake, C. Carter
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Charles Carter Blake
Chasing Emma: Romanes-Blake-Darwin
Related Periodicals: Anthropological Review [LAS] | The Spiritualist
Blake, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet, painter, and visionary whose prophetic works are foundational to the Western imaginative and esoteric tradition.
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record | Urania (Aldersgate)
Blanchard, E.L.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: E. L. Blanchard -- Connective Tissue?
Related Periodicals: The Astrologer and Oracle of Destiny
Blanchard, Victor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Victor Blanchard (1878–1953) was a French occultist and Martinist, a leading organizer of the F.U.D.O.S.I. federation of initiatic orders.
Related Periodicals: Annales Initiatiques | Force de la Verite
Bland, Oliver
(Source: Gemini) Oliver Bland was a pseudonym utilized by Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard (1888–1966) for publications concerning esoteric subjects. Pollard was a British journalist, firearms expert, and intelligence officer who served during World War I and the Irish War of Independence. Alongside his military career, Pollard maintained an interest in psychical research. In 1920, Dodd, Mead and Company published The Adventures of a Modern Occultist under the Oliver Bland pseudonym. The text functions as a collection of accounts detailing investigations into spiritualist phenomena, séances, and occult practices. Within the book, Pollard documented encounters with mediums, analyzed the mechanics of automatic writing, and examined theories regarding hauntings and elementals. Pollard inserted self-referential elements into the text. In a section discussing theories of protective vibrations during materialization séances, the author "Oliver Bland" cited an unpublished monograph by "Captain Hugh Pollard," referencing his legal identity to provide authority to the pseudonym's narrative. Outside of his occult writing, Pollard authored books on firearms and hunting, including The Book of the Pistol and Revolver (1917) and A History of Firearms (1926). He operated primarily out of London, publishing his firearms texts under his given name.
Related Monographs: The Adventures of a Modern Occultist (1920)
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), known as Madame Blavatsky or HPB, was a Russian mystic and writer who co-founded the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky
Chasing Emma: Sticking Note
Chasing Emma: The Third Serapis Letter; 1875
Chasing Emma: 1890: From The Other Side; The Remarkable and Instantaneous Transference Of A Sceptical Gentleman
Chasing Emma: The Death of Madame Blavatsky
Chasing Emma: HPB and EHB; Sparring in the Pages of Light
Chasing Emma: Let Every Cult Stand On Its Own Basis: EHB on the Theosophical Society
Chasing Emma: December 1875: Spiritualism; Looking Silly
Chasing Emma: Sweeping Clean The Lumber-Room of Literature: The RPJ Reviews Isis Unveiled
Chasing Emma: Marvelous Occultic Phenomena: William Emmette Coleman; June 1885
Chasing Emma: HPB's Witness: Some Notes on Lydia Marquette; M.D.
Chasing Emma: Bound Up In Her Adroit Coils: HPB; October 1874
Chasing Emma: The Strange Theory of Madame Blavatsky: Roden Noel; 1882
Chasing Emma: All Questions Concerning The Government Are Strictly Forbidden: The Cairo Society of Spiritualists
Chasing Emma: 1875: Mr. Blavatsky
Chasing Emma: The Cheltenham Insolvency: A Note on Helena Blavatsky
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Alborea | The Aryan Path | The Better Way | Borderland | The Buddhist Ray | The Carrier Dove | Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona) | The Forecast | Fountain of Light | Freethought | The Golden Way | The Herald of Progress (UK) | Heraldo Rosacruz | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | Illustracion Espirita (Mexico) | Isis (Lisbon) | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | The Kalpaka | L'Anti-Materialiste | L'Astrosophie | L'Etoile | L'Initiation | La France Antimaconnique | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Lotus Rouge | LotusBluten | Lumen de Lumine | The Mystic Messenger | Neue Lotusbluten | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | The New Universe | New York Echo | O.E. Library Critic | Occult Press Review | The Occult Word | Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden | The Pacific Theosophist | Philergos | The Philosopher's Stone | The Phoenix (Hall) | Proceedings of the Blavatsky Association | Psychische Studien | The Quest | Reflejo Astral | Revue Spirite | Revue Theosophique | Russkii Frank-Mason | Ruusu-Risti | The Seer | Shiloh's Messenger of Wisdom | Sophia (Spain) | Sphinx [Leipzig] | Spiritual Review | The Spiritual Scientist | The Spiritualist at Work | Sunna Dagor Message | Teosofia en el Plata | Theosophia | Theosophic Gleaner | Theosophic Messenger | Theosophical Forum (Purucker) | Theosophical Movement | Theosophical Quarterly | The Theosophical Review | Theosophical Siftings | Theosophical Society American Section -- Oriental Department | Theosophische Pfad | Theosophischer Wegweiser | Theosophisches Leben | The Theosophist | Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge | The Unknown World | Vahan (Blavatsky) | Vahan (Theosophical Society) | Wilford's Microcosm | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Related Monographs: Kosmic Mind (1920), Spiritual Vibrations (1926), The Complete Works of H. P. Blavatsky, Vol. III (1881-1882) (1935)
Blech, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Charles Blech was a French Theosophist who served as general secretary of the
Related Periodicals: Sophia (Spain)
Related Monographs: Contribution a l'Histoire de la Societe Theosophique en France (1933)
Blessing, William Lester
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) William Lester Blessing, a thinly-documented twentieth-century religious figure surfacing in the blog's collecting notes.
Chasing Emma: Hello!; or the Pleasures of Collecting: Ida Mingle and William Lester Blessing; 1964
Blessington, Countess of
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Marguerite, Countess of Blessington (1789–1849), the Irish writer and society hostess, appearing via the alchemical interests of her circle (the Count D'Orsay).
Chasing Emma: The Count D'Orsay's Alchemist
Bleu, Lotus
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Annales Theosophiques | L'Anti-Materialiste | L'Etoile | L'Initiation | Lotus Rouge | Revue Theosophique | Theosophic Gleaner | Voile d'Isis
Bleuler, Eugen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist who coined the terms "schizophrenia" and "autism" and took a cautious interest in parapsychology.
Related Periodicals: Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie
Bliss, James A.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The N. D. C. Axe
Chasing Emma: The National Developing Circle; Revisited
Related Periodicals: Camp-Meeting Guide | Eudia | Facts | The Harmonia | New York Beacon Light | Psychometric Circular | The Rising Sun | The Sower | Spirit Voices | Texas Spiritualist
Blitz, Edouard
To be added.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | The Theosophical Ray | Weltmer's Magazine
Bloch, Iwan
(Source: Gemini) Iwan Bloch (1872–1922) was a dermatologist and researcher from Germany who established frameworks for sexology. Residing in Berlin, Bloch collaborated with contemporaries including Magnus Hirschfeld to propose Sexualwissenschaft, or the science of sexuality, as a discipline. He gained recognition for discovering the manuscript of the Marquis de Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom, which he published in 1904 under the pseudonym Eugène Duhren. Bloch is associated with the 1933 English translation of the monograph Strange Sexual Practices. The Anthropological Press in New York published this edition after his death. Keene Wallis translated the text from Bloch's German writings. The monograph compiled Bloch's research on human behavior, documenting customs across cultures and eras. It utilized ethnography, medicine, and history to analyze laws and variations globally. Through his publications, Bloch integrated medicine and anthropology to study human behavior. His prior publications, including the 1907 text The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization, established the methodologies he employed to categorize and examine the practices detailed in his translated editions.
Related Monographs: Strange Sexual Practices (Anthropological Studies) (1933)
Bloede, G.B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Gustav Bloede (initials G. B.), German-American Spiritualist writer; probably the same person as the "Bloede, Gustave" entry.
Related Periodicals: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis)
Bloede, Gustave
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Gustav Bloede was a German-American physician and Spiritualist writer who contributed to German and American psychical periodicals. See also the "Bloede, G.B." entry.
Related Periodicals: Psychische Studien
Blomgren, Carl A.
(Source: Gemini) Carl August Blomgren (1865–1926) was a Swedish-American theologian, author, and professor. Born in Solstad, Sweden, he immigrated to the United States during childhood. His family settled in Calumet, Michigan, in 1875. Blomgren pursued education across institutions, earning a Bachelor of Arts from Augustana College in 1885 and completing a doctorate at Yale University in 1893. Following his studies, Blomgren entered the ministry within the Swedish Lutheran Church, serving congregations in locations including Lowell, Massachusetts. He subsequently transitioned into academia, accepting a position as a professor of Hebrew and theology at Augustana Theological Seminary in Rock Island, Illinois. In 1922, Blomgren published the monograph Three Lectures on Modern Spiritism. The text compiles addresses he delivered at Augustana Theological Seminary. Within this publication, Blomgren examined the practices and frameworks of the twentieth-century Spiritualist movement from a theological perspective. He analyzed the phenomenon of spirit communication, evaluating the movement's claims and methodologies against Christian doctrines. His lectures served to instruct seminary students on the tenets of Spiritualism and provided an institutional response to its prominence. He remained at the seminary until his death in 1926.
Related Monographs: Three Lectures on Modern Spiritism (1922)
Blood, Benjamin Paul
(Source: Gemini) Benjamin Paul Blood (1832–1919) was a philosopher and author from Amsterdam, New York. He is recognized for his formulation of the "anaesthetic revelation." Blood stated that the inhalation of anesthetics, specifically nitrous oxide, generated states of consciousness that offered insight into the mechanics of existence. Blood maintained a correspondence with the psychologist William James. James documented Blood's work in his own texts, including the essay "A Pluralistic Mystic." Blood's writings regarding multiple realities and states of consciousness influenced the trajectory of pluralism in the United States. His final monograph, Pluriverse: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism, was released posthumously in 1920 by the Marshall Jones Company. The philosopher Horace Kallen authored the introduction for this edition. Within the volume, Blood expanded upon his earlier pamphlets to argue against monism. He used his records of anesthetic experiences to structure a framework asserting that reality consists of multiple elements rather than a single entity. The publication synthesized his decades of writing on mysticism and consciousness, compiling the theories he had previously circulated through privately printed tracts.
Related Monographs: Pluriverse: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism (1920)
Bloy, Leon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Léon Bloy (1846–1917) was a French Catholic novelist, essayist, and polemicist known for his fervent mysticism.
Related Periodicals: Entretiens Idealistes
Bly, M. V.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) M. V. Bly, a mid-nineteenth-century American medium noted alongside Mrs. Coan.
Chasing Emma: Mrs. Coan and M. V. Bly
Boddington, Harry
(Source: Gemini) Harry Boddington (1873–1949) was a British author and educator within the United Kingdom's Spiritualist movement. He operated within this field for over forty years and established the London Psychic Educational Centre. In 1935, the Psychic Press published Boddington's monograph Trance States in Relation to Spirit Control as the third entry in their "Psychic News" booklet series. The text functions as an instructional manual examining the mechanics of mediumship. Within the publication, Boddington defines a trance as a conditioned limitation of consciousness. He outlines frameworks to differentiate between phenomena generated by a medium's subconscious mind and communications initiated by external entities. The chapters analyze subjects including hypnotism, mental obstructions, and the function of spirit operators. Boddington's objective with the monograph was to classify varying states of consciousness for practicing mediums and researchers. He distributed the text through his educational center in London alongside other instructional materials regarding clairvoyance, psychometry, and healing. Boddington synthesized his decades of instruction into a longer volume, The University of Spiritualism, published in 1947. This later text expanded upon the concepts established in his earlier monographs, covering topics of materialization, auras, and the history of psychical research.
Related Monographs: Trance States in Relation to Spirit Control (1935), The University of Spiritualism (1946)
Bodhidharma
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Bodhidharma (fl. 5th–6th century) was the semi-legendary Buddhist monk traditionally regarded as the founder of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China.
Related Periodicals: The Phoenix (Hall)
Bodin, Lucien
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Echo du Monde Occulte | La Voie (Paris) | Rose Alchemica
Boehme
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Almost certainly Jakob Böhme (1575–1624), the German Christian mystic and theosopher; see the Boehme, Jacob entry.
Related Periodicals: Light and Life
Boehme, Jacob
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) Jakob Böhme (1575–1624) was a German Christian mystic and theosopher whose visionary works on the nature of God, evil, and the soul are foundational to Western theosophy. (Several variant spellings appear across this index — Behmen, Boehme, Böhme.)
Related Periodicals: Arohn | Licht en Waarheid
Boehme, Kate Atkinson
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Kate Atkinson Boehme was an American New Thought author and teacher of the early twentieth century who wrote on mental healing and "realization."
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Christian (Shelton) | Neue Gedanken | The Radiant Centre | The Radiant Truth | Wings of Truth
Bogart, Guy
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Guy Bogart, an American poet, Rosicrucian and sometime mayor of Beaumont, California — a figure of the twentieth-century Californian occult fringe.
Chasing Emma: Holy Day Materialization for Technicians of the Dawn
Bogushevsky, V.L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) V. L. Bogushevsky was an early-twentieth-century Russian Theosophist connected with the journal Teosoficheskoye Obozreniye (Theosophical Review).
Related Periodicals: Teosoficheskoye Obozreniye
Bohme, Jakob
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) A variant spelling of Jakob Böhme (1575–1624), the German Christian mystic and theosopher; see the Boehme, Jacob entry.
Related Periodicals: Theosophischer Wegweiser
Bois, Jules
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Jules Bois (1868–1943) was a French writer and journalist of the occult revival, author of Le Satanisme et la magie (1895).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1943) French writer, journalist, and occultist, active in the late-19th-century French symbolist and esoteric revivals. Born in Marseille; associated in Paris with occultists including Papus and Stanislas de Guaita and with the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross. Wrote L'Ésotérisme Chrétien (1893) and Le Satanisme et la Magie. Fought a widely reported 1893 pistol duel with the novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans. Emigrated to the United States, where he died in 1943.
Related Periodicals: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Haute Science | La Lumiere (Grange) | Reality | Revue du Psychisme Experimental
Boll, Franz
(Source: Gemini) Franz Boll (1867–1924) was a German philologist and historian of science who researched the history of astronomy and astrology in antiquity. Born in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, he held academic positions as a professor of classical philology at the University of Würzburg and the University of Heidelberg. Boll authored texts analyzing historical conceptions of the cosmos, including the 1903 publication Sphaera: Neue griechische Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Sternbilder. In 1913, he founded the monograph series Stoicheia: Studien zur Geschichte des antiken Weltbildes und der griechischen Wissenschaft to publish research regarding ancient worldviews. Regarding the 1922 publication Das Alphabet in Mystik und Magie, Boll did not author the text. His student Franz Dornseiff wrote the monograph, which constituted the seventh volume (Heft VII) of the Stoicheia series. Dornseiff dedicated the work to Boll. The text expanded upon Dornseiff’s 1916 dissertation concerning letter mysticism, a research topic Boll assigned and supervised at Heidelberg. Boll's association with the 1922 monograph stems from his function as Dornseiff’s doctoral advisor and his role as the editor of the publication series. Boll continued his research and instruction in Heidelberg until his death in 1924.
Related Monographs: Das Alphabet in Mystik und Magie (Stoicheia, Heft VII) (1922)
Bolton, Frances P.
To be added.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Bond, Elijah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Elijah Bond, remembered in the early patent history of the Ouija / planchette talking board.
Chasing Emma: French Letters: Some Notes on the Planchette
Bond, Frederick Bligh
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Frederick Bligh Bond (1864–1945) was an English architect and psychical researcher who directed excavations at Glastonbury Abbey guided, he claimed, by automatic writing from long-dead monks.
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Bligh Bond, Frederick. Frederick Bligh Bond (1864-1945) was a Bristol architect best remembered for his claim that mediumistic communications from deceased monks guided his excavations at Glastonbury Abbey, where he uncovered major monastic structures including the Edgar and Loretto Chapels. His disclosure of these methods led to his dismissal as site director in 1921. He later edited Psychic Science and served the
Related Periodicals: (Quarterly Transactions of the British College of) Psychic Science | Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke) | The Direct Voice | Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research | Survival
Related Monographs: The Gate of Remembrance (1920)
Bonggren, Jacob E.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Beacon (Bailey) | The Occult Digest | Theosophic Messenger
Bonnel, John T.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John T. Bonnel, a figure in the earliest California Spiritualist circles of 1852.
Chasing Emma: Notes for History...California Circles; 1852
Boole, Mary Everest
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), widow of the mathematician George Boole, was a writer on the psychology of education and the mystical and symbolic dimensions of mathematics.
Chasing Emma: Twelve Hours In Mrs. Fletcher's Hands
Chasing Emma: The Girl in The Salvationist Bonnet: A Note on Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916)
Related Periodicals: The World's Advance Thought
Related Monographs: Mary Everest Boole: Collected Works, Vol. I (1931)
Booras, Alice Beulah Schutz
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Bridge to Freedom | Spiritual Caravan
Boos, Mildred Myneta Taylor
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Bridge to Freedom | The Father's House | Golden Dawn (Wayne Taylor) | Mentor (Myneta and Taylor) | Ruby Focus | Solograph
Booth, John Wilkes
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865), the American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln; invoked here within a Spiritualist periodical.
Related Periodicals: The Williamsburgh Spiritualist
Booth, Junius Brutus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Junius Brutus Booth (1796–1852), the celebrated Anglo-American tragedian (father of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth), on whose London stage the young Emma Hardinge appeared.
Chasing Emma: Miss Harding In Booth's Ugolino
Booth, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) William Booth (1829–1912) was the British Methodist preacher who founded the
Related Periodicals: Know Thyself
Borrell, Jose Roviralta
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Antahkarana | Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona)
Bosc, Ernest
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Ernest Bosc (1837–1913) was a French architect and prolific writer and encyclopedist of occultism and esotericism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) French architect, journalist, and esotericist of the modern French occult revival; also wrote as J. Marcus de Vèze. Born in Nîmes. Collaborated with Gérard Encausse (Papus) and contributed to esoteric journals including L'Initiation and Le Voile d'Isis. Wrote La Transmutation des Métaux (1902, as J. Marcus de Vèze) and occult works with his wife, Marie Antoinette Bosc.
Related Periodicals: Annales Initiatiques | Curiosite | Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique | La Vie Mysterieuse | Paix Universelle
Bosman, Leonard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Leonard Bosman (1879–1943) was a Theosophical writer known for works on the symbolism and mysticism of numbers and the Hebrew alphabet.
Related Periodicals: The Channel
Related Monographs: A Plea for Judaism (1926), The World Mother (1928), Amen, the Key of the Universe (1930), The Book of Genesis Unveiled (First Series) (1930), The Meaning and Philosophy of Numbers (1932)
Boullan, Abbe Joseph-Antoine
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Abbé Joseph-Antoine Boullan (1824–1893) was a French Catholic priest and heterodox mystic whose sexual-magical theories made him a notorious figure of the fin-de-siècle occult scene, fictionalized in Huysmans's Là-Bas.
Related Periodicals: Catalogue du Salon de la Rose+Croix | Diable Au XIXe Siecle | La Lumiere Maconnique
Bournouf, Emile
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Émile Burnouf (1821–1907) was a French orientalist and Sanskrit scholar (name rendered here as "Bournouf"); his writings on Aryan religion were taken up in Theosophical circles.
Related Periodicals: Isis Moderne
Bowen, P.G.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Patrick G. Bowen (1882–1940) was an Irish Theosophist and author of The Occult Way, who claimed instruction in an African esoteric tradition.
Related Periodicals: Eclectic Theosophist | Ruusu-Risti
Related Monographs: The Occult Way (1938)
Bowers, Edwin F.
(Source: Gemini) Edwin Frederick Bowers (born 1871) was an American writer and alternative medicine proponent who operated during the early twentieth century. He frequently identified himself as a physician, though the American Medical Association recorded that he possessed no medical degree and held no medical license. In 1917, Bowers collaborated with William H. Fitzgerald to publish the text Zone Therapy. This publication introduced concepts that functioned as precursors to reflexology, proposing that pressure applied to specific body areas could alleviate ailments. Medical organizations classified these practices as unsubstantiated. He authored additional health titles, including Alcohol: Its Influence on Mind and Body (1916). The publisher Bernarr Macfadden promoted Bowers's writing, though the physician Morris Fishbein publicly criticized Bowers's credentials and publications. Bowers participated in the twentieth-century Spiritualist movement. He hosted séances at his New York City residence, endorsed spirit photography, and defended mediums, including Frank Decker. In 1936, he published the monograph Spiritualism's Challenge: Submitting to Modern Thinkers Conclusive Evidence of Survival. The text argued for the validity of mediumship. Following publication, the Society of American Magicians threatened litigation regarding statements Bowers included concerning a magician. Bowers removed the contested material from subsequent printings.
Related Monographs: Spiritualism's Challenge (1936)
Boyd, Thomas Parker
(Source: Gemini) Thomas Parker Boyd (1870–1945) was an American minister, lecturer, and author operating within the New Thought and Emmanuel movements during the early twentieth century. He studied mental and spiritual medicine, focusing on the intersection of religion, mental science, and psycho-therapeutics. Boyd contributed to the Emmanuel Movement, a practice originating in Boston that integrated Protestant Christian ministry with the developing field of psychology to treat functional ailments through prayer and suggestion. In 1920, Boyd published the monograph The Finger of God, or Lessons in Spiritual Healing. The text functions as an instructional guide outlining methods to unite Christian doctrine with psychological frameworks. Within the publication, Boyd detailed concepts of inner consciousness and meditation, arguing that mental states directly influence physical conditions. He utilized the phrase "the finger of God" to denote the application of divine spirit in the restoration of health. Boyd established his methodologies through publications and lectures. He authored additional texts on related subjects, including The How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement and The Law and the Testimony (1923). He instructed classes in San Francisco, emphasizing daily affirmations and practical applications of spirituality to overcome illness.
Related Monographs: The Finger of God, or Lessons in Spiritual Healing (1920)
Boyile, Zeolia J.
(Source: Gemini) Zeolia J. Boyile (recorded as Veolita Parke Boyle in later publications) was an author and practitioner operating within the field of esotericism during the early twentieth century. She contributed to the magazine Azoth, offering readings based on her study of Egyptian, Chinese, and Hebrew systems. In 1920, the Azoth Publishing Company in New York released her monograph, The Fundamental Principles of the Yi-King, Tao, and the Cabbalas of Egypt and the Hebrews. Avela J. Boyile provided the publication's cover design. The text functioned as a treatise on vibratory action and acoustics, introducing a framework Boyile termed the "Switchboard of the Universe." Within the volume, she synthesized elements of the I Ching, Taoism, and Kabbalah to construct a system for calculating events using the letters in individuals' names. Boyile rejected the classification of her work as numerology, instead asserting her methods constituted a science of vibration. She issued revised editions of the monograph in 1929 and 1934 under the name Veolita Parke Boyle. In these later editions, she noted that she and her sister collaborated to adapt the methods for languages utilizing alphabets.
Related Monographs: The Fundamental Principles of the Yi-King, Tao (The Cabbalas of Egypt and the Hebrews) (1920)
Boylan, Patrick
(Source: Gemini) Patrick Joseph Boylan (1879–1974) was an Irish priest, linguist, and Egyptologist. Born in County Kildare, Ireland, he studied mental and moral sciences before entering St Patrick's College, Maynooth, for theological training. Following his ordination in 1903, he relocated to the University of Berlin to study Semitic languages and Egyptian linguistics under the philologist Adolf Erman. During this period, Boylan contributed to Erman's project compiling an Egyptian dictionary. Boylan held university positions throughout his career, serving as a professor of eastern languages at University College Dublin and a professor of scripture at Maynooth. He also operated as a vicar-general for the Dublin diocese. In 1922, Boylan published the monograph Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt: A Study of Some Aspects of Theological Thought in Ancient Egypt. The text examines the Egyptian deity Thoth utilizing hieroglyphic sources, pyramid texts, and temple inscriptions. Boylan analyzed Thoth's functions as a moon deity, an inventor of language, and a scribe of the gods. The publication traces the syncretism between Thoth and the Greek figure Hermes. The National University of Ireland awarded Boylan a doctorate in literature for this research.
Related Monographs: Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt: A Study of Some Aspects of Theological Thought in Ancient Egypt (1922)
Bozzano, Ernesto
Ernesto Bozzano (1862–1943) was a self-taught Italian psychical researcher and Spiritualist, the dean of Italian psychic research. A prolific author of more than sixty books and two hundred papers, he attributed most paranormal phenomena to the survival of the soul and documented cases of xenoglossy in his Polyglot Mediumship (1932).
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Bozzano
Related Periodicals: The Annals of Psychical Science | L'Astrosophie | Luce e Ombra | Revista di Studi Psichici | Revue du Monde Invisible | The Seer
Brace, Josephine M.
(Source: Gemini) Josephine M. Brice (frequently recorded with the surname spelled as Brace) was a Christian medium and spiritualist who operated during the early twentieth century. She resided in Buffalo, New York. In that city, she established the Circle of Light organization and functioned as the minister for the Delaware Avenue Chapel of the Circle of Light. In 1920, Brice self-published four twelve-page pamphlets to disseminate her spiritualist concepts: Sacrament and Seance, The Tie that Binds, The Captive Soul, and Through the Mists. These four pamphlets served as precursors to her longest publication, The Descending Light, which she released in 1922. Brice presented The Descending Light as a dictated document. She stated the text contained lessons regarding human existence transmitted by higher intelligences. Her assertions regarding spirit communication prompted media scrutiny, leading the New York Herald to dispatch a delegation to Buffalo to investigate and document her practices. Brice received regional recognition during this period, but her chapel and associated publications ceased operations and disappeared from spiritualist records in the following decades.
Related Monographs: Sacrament and Seance (1920), The Tie That Binds (1921), Through the Mists (1921), Descending Light: A Series of Lessons From Higher Intelligences (1922), The Captive Soul (1922)
Bradbury, Ray
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was an American author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
Related Periodicals: Search Magazine (Ray Palmer)
Bradley, H. Dennis
(Source: Gemini) Herbert Dennis Bradley (1878–1934) was a British tailor, playwright, author, and researcher. Professionally, he headed the tailoring firm Pope and Bradley in London. He authored stage plays, including The Eternal Masquerade (1922) and Sybarites (1929). Bradley entered the United Kingdom's Spiritualist movement during the 1920s. In 1924, he published the monograph Towards the Stars, which detailed his investigations into mediumship, with subsequent editions including 1929 releases. The text focused on his participation in direct-voice séances conducted by George Valiantine. Bradley documented sessions where participants claimed to hear voices of deceased individuals speaking independently of the medium. Following this publication, Bradley continued his psychical research. He published a second volume, The Wisdom of the Gods, in 1925. He joined the Society for Psychical Research but conflicted with its members. In 1931, Bradley organized tests with Valiantine and reported discovering evidence of fraud, noting that Valiantine produced fabricated fingerprints. Despite exposing this deception, Bradley retained his belief in the phenomena he recorded during his earlier sessions. His publications concerning psychical research include Towards the Stars (1924) and The Wisdom of the Gods (1925).
Related Monographs: Towards the Stars (1924), The Wisdom of the Gods (1925), Towards the Stars (1929), ...And After (1931)
Brady, Genevieve
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Human Form Divine and the Use of Spiritual and Mental Forces (1920)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866–1946) was an American architect, stage designer, and Theosophist who popularized the idea of the fourth dimension in books such as A Primer of Higher Space.
Chasing Emma: Emma Hardinge Britten and Georgia O'Keefe
Related Periodicals: Fortean Society Magazine | La Estrella (Madrid) | Theosophic Messenger
Related Monographs: Oracle (1921), Tertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought, A Key to the Enigmas of the World (1922), Four-Dimensional Vistas (1923)
Brahmananda, Swami
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Swami Brahmananda (1863–1922), born Rakhal Chandra Ghosh, was a direct disciple of Ramakrishna and the first president of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission.
Related Periodicals: Vedanta and the West
Brahy, Gustave-Lambert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Gustave-Lambert Brahy (1894–1988) was a Belgian astrologer and financial-astrology theorist, editor of the review Demain.
Related Periodicals: Demain
Braid, James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) James Braid (1795–1860), the Scottish surgeon who coined “hypnotism” and, in Neurypnology (1843), reframed mesmerism as a physiological phenomenon.
Chasing Emma: Clash of the Parasciences
Brandler-Pracht, Karl
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Karl Brandler-Pracht (1864–1939) was an Austrian actor turned astrologer and occultist, a central organizer of the early-twentieth-century German-language astrological revival.
(Source: Gemini) (1864–1939) Austrian-German actor, astrologer, and writer, central to the modern revival of astrology in Germany and Austria. Born in Vienna; began as a theatrical actor before turning to astrology after encountering it in the United States. Published textbooks (Astrologische Lehrbücher) and co-founded several astrological societies, including the Astrological Society of Germany. His networks were disrupted by World War I and later by Nazi suppression of astrology. Died in Vienna in 1939.
Related Periodicals: Ostara | Prana (Leipzig) | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
Brandt, Johanna
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Grape Cure (1928)
Brann, W.C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) William Cowper Brann (1855–1898) was an American journalist who published the caustic Texas periodical The Iconoclast.
Related Periodicals: The New World
Brasol, Boris
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Boris Brasol (1885–1963) was a Russian émigré lawyer and literary scholar in the United States, also known for promoting antisemitic propaganda including the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
(Source: Gemini) Russian-American lawyer and literary critic (1885–1963). A prosecutor in the antisemitic 1913 Beilis blood-libel trial in Russia, he emigrated to the United States in 1918, translated Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer, and became a prolific disseminator of antisemitic propaganda, including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Related Periodicals: Intelligence (Blue Lamoo)
Bratley, George H.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: New Thought Journal and Occult Review | The Practical Psychologist (London) | The Talisman
Braun, Parsival
To be added.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: >Wahrheit-Sucher | Christliche Theosophie | Der Gral | The Gnostic | Isis Moderne | The Life [Kansas City] | Mitteilungen des Gral-Ordens | Mitteilungen des Neuen Gral-Ordens | The Morning Star | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | The New Man | Ostara | Out of the Silence (Voisin) | The Radix | Self-Culture (Braun) | Wilford's Microcosm | Zeitschrift fur Heil-Magnetismus | Zeitschrift fur Spiritismus | Zum Licht
Braun, Peter
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Free Man (Bangor)
Related Monographs: Erinnerungen aus dem Leben eines Okkultisten (1920)
Bravo, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Charles Bravo, victim of the notorious 1876 “Balham Mystery” poisoning — a case brushing the Spiritualist world through J. M. Gully and Cromwell Varley.
(Source: Gemini) British barrister (1845–1876) whose death by antimony poisoning became a celebrated Victorian murder mystery; he was believed to have been poisoned by his wife, Florence, a former lover of the hydropath and Spiritualist Dr. James Manby Gully.
Chasing Emma: Slade; Massey; Alfred Russel Wallace; W. H. Harrison... and Charles Bravo
Chasing Emma: Rubbish; Both from This And The Other World: J. M. Gully; April 1876
Bray, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Charles Bray (1811–1884), the Coventry manufacturer, phrenologist and freethinker, a fixture of mid-Victorian psychical and rationalist circles.
(Source: Gemini) (1811–1884) English phrenologist, freethinker, and social reformer; a Coventry ribbon manufacturer who spent his wealth on radical causes. Wrote The Philosophy of Necessity (1841) and made his home, Rosehill, a salon for freethinkers, hosting Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herbert Spencer. A close friend of the novelist George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), whose turn from orthodox Christianity his circle shaped. Died in Coventry in 1884.
Chasing Emma: The Psychological Society of Great Britain: 1875-1879
Brazier, Eve
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Now I See (1922)
Breitfeld, Rose
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Your Psychic Self: A Treatise on the Various Forms of Psychic Powers (1932)
Bricaud, Johanny
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Johanny Bricaud — a variant form of Jean Bricaud (1881–1934), the French Gnostic bishop and Martinist; see the "Bricaud, Jean" entry.
Related Periodicals: La Gnose | Annales de l'OUNE | Annales Initiatiques | Arohn | Mondo Occulto | Mysteria | Paix Universelle | Le Reveil des Albigeois | La Voie (Paris)
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(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Joanny Bricaud — a variant given-name form of Jean Bricaud (1881–1934), the French Gnostic and Martinist; see the "Bricaud, Jean" entry.
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(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Jean Bricaud (1881–1934) was a French occultist, Martinist, and patriarch of the Église Gnostique Universelle. The "Joanny" and "Johanny" Bricaud entries are the same person.
(Source: Gemini) (1881–1934) French occultist, Gnostic bishop, and esoteric writer, born Joanny Bricaud; a leading figure of the early-20th-century French occult revival. Left a Catholic seminary for esoteric mysticism; in 1908, with Papus and others, helped establish the
Bright, Annie
(Source: Gemini) (1840–1913) English-born Australian journalist, novelist, and Spiritualist editor. Emigrated to Australia and married the secularist lecturer Charles Bright; after his death she embraced Spiritualism and edited the Melbourne journal The Harbinger of Light from 1905 until her death. Advocated women's suffrage and the scientific investigation of psychic phenomena. Died in 1913.
Related Periodicals: The Harbinger of Light | International Psychic Gazette
Bright, Florence K.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Rational Education of the Will: Its Therapeutic Value (1920)
Brinkley, John R.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) John R. Brinkley (1885–1942) was an American "goat-gland" medical charlatan and radio-broadcasting pioneer.
(Source: Gemini) American medical charlatan, mail-order entrepreneur, and radio pioneer (1885–1942) who grew rich on "goat-gland" rejuvenation surgery in Milford, Kansas, and on border-blaster radio.
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Interlude Four: Set to Star
Related Periodicals: Modern Astrology (Rose Dawn)
Brisbane, Albert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Albert Brisbane (1809–1890) was the chief American advocate of Fourierism and the associationist communal movement of the 1840s.
(Source: Gemini) (1809–1890) American social reformer, the chief American popularizer of Charles Fourier's utopian socialism. Studied under Fourier in Europe; wrote Social Destiny of Man (1840) and promoted 'Association' through a column in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, inspiring Fourierist 'phalanxes' including Brook Farm. The phalanxes failed financially. Died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1890.
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Republic
Brittain, Annie
(Source: Gemini) Annie Brittain (1880–unknown), born Annie Arnold in West Yorkshire, was a British trance medium who operated in Staffordshire and London during the early twentieth century. Brittain claimed to enter dissociated states to channel a spirit control named "Belle." Alongside her husband, Frederick, she established centers offering clairvoyant readings and psychometry. Her practice faced legal intervention under the Vagrancy Act, which authorities used to prosecute fortune-telling. Police arrested and fined Brittain following sting operations in 1907 and 1910. During World War I, Brittain's client base expanded after she conducted readings for figures seeking contact with casualties. The author Arthur Conan Doyle and the physicist Oliver Lodge consulted Brittain and endorsed her abilities. Conan Doyle stated she facilitated communication with his son in 1918. He subsequently referred clients to her practice and documented her work in his publications. Conversely, the illusionist Harry Houdini attended a session with Brittain at Conan Doyle's suggestion and stated she employed deception. In the post-war period, Brittain collaborated with her husband at his Psychosensic Institute in London, which offered correspondence courses on psychic development, and she remained a practitioner within the United Kingdom's Spiritualist movement.
Related Monographs: 'Twixt Earth and Heaven: A Psychic's Experiences (1935)
Brittain, Frederick
(Source: Gemini) Frederick Brittain was a British esotericist, "magnetic healer," and the founder of the Psychosensic Institute in London. He is frequently noted for his personal and professional partnership with his wife, Annie Brittain, one of the most prominent trance mediums of the early 20th century who was highly favored by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally trained as an engineering pattern maker, Brittain transitioned into the esoteric field alongside his wife. In the early 1900s, the couple established "Brittain's Psychic Institutes" in Nottingham and Staffordshire. While Annie conducted psychometry and clairvoyant readings, Frederick operated as a medical electrician and magnetic healer, utilizing what he claimed were charged magnetic fields. Following local sting operations and legal troubles regarding Annie's mediumship under the Vagrancy Act, the couple relocated to Bayswater, London, in 1916. There, Frederick offered free "nerve shock" treatments to soldiers returning from World War I before enlisting to serve as a fitter in the Royal Air Force. Following the war, Frederick established The Psychosensic Institute in London. The center functioned as a spiritualist hub offering classes and a mail-order "Brittain Correspondence Course for Psychic Unfoldment" aimed at developing latent clairvoyant abilities. In 1930, as the first publication in the institute's Psychic Science Primers series, Brittain published Symbols and Their Interpretation (frequently referred to simply as Symbolism). The monograph served as an instructional guide for mediums, explaining the role that symbols play in clairvoyant and visionary experiences. To illustrate his framework for how to properly interpret these psychic messages, Brittain detailed specific visions experienced by both himself and his wife. His primary publication is Psychic Science Primers: Symbols and Their Interpretation (1930)
Related Monographs: Symbolism (Psychic Science Primers No. 2: Symbols and Their Interpretation) (1930)
Brittan, Samuel Byron
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Pacific; Yet Yet Again: Mrs. Porter's Prophecy
Chasing Emma: Picking on Molly McGarry
Chasing Emma: Mounted On A Remarkably High Steed: S. B. Brittan Spanks Colonel Olcott
Chasing Emma: Lunatics; Heretics; Mystagogues and Magicians: S. B. Brittan on the Theosophical Society
Chasing Emma: All Religious Organizations Must Eventually Become Partial: August 1854
Related Periodicals: The Banner of Light | Brittan's Journal | The Herald of Progress (US) | New-England Spiritualist | The Present Age | The Present Era | The Shekinah | The Spiritual Age (Boston) | The Spiritual Age (new York) | The Spiritual Clarion | The Spiritual Telegraph
Britten, Daniel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Daniel Britten, father of William Britten (Emma Hardinge Britten's husband).
Chasing Emma: William; From The Shadows
Britten, Emma Hardinge
Emma Hardinge Britten (1823-1899) was an English medium, orator, journalist, and historian of Spiritualism, described as the "Silver-Tongued Lecturer" of the movement. Born Emma Floyd in London, she came to America in 1856 as an actress and shortly afterwards converted to Spiritualism, quickly becoming one of its most prominent advocates. She was one of the founding members of the
(Source: Gemini) (1823–1899) English writer, orator, and trance medium, born Emma Hardinge; a founding figure of modern Spiritualism. An opera singer and actress before emigrating to the United States in 1855, where she became a celebrated Spiritualist platform speaker. In 1875 a co-founder of the Theosophical Society in New York with Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott. Wrote the standard histories Modern American Spiritualism (1870) and Nineteenth Century Miracles (1884). Died in Manchester in 1899.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Hardinge_Britten
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/britten-emma-hardinge-1823-1899
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Britten, Emma Hardinge. Emma Hardinge Britten (1823-1899) was a British-born musician, medium, lecturer, and editor who stood near the centre of nineteenth-century Spiritualism's expansion. Moving freely between performance, journalism, public lecturing, and movement-building on both sides of the Atlantic, she co-founded the Theosophical Society with Blavatsky in 1875, edited Two Worlds, and produced major works of Spiritualist history and autobiography.
Chasing Emma: Louis de B----- as Defensive Routine
Chasing Emma: The Electric Physician
Chasing Emma: Emma; Fibbing and Revealing (?)
Chasing Emma: Dr. Britten's Home Battery
Chasing Emma: Emma; the Master of Lindsay and Elongation
Chasing Emma: The Electric Physician
Chasing Emma: The Family Floyd
Chasing Emma: 37 Somerset Street; Portman Square
Chasing Emma: Manifestation Of A Cross Girl
Chasing Emma: Manifestations Of A Cross Girl; Redux
Chasing Emma: The Delanco; New Jersey Nexus
Chasing Emma: The Family Floyd: Latest Working Model
Chasing Emma: The Delanco; New Jersey Nexus: Emma Stalked
Chasing Emma: Impenetrable
Chasing Emma: Notice Of Removal
Chasing Emma: Advertising Art Magic
Chasing Emma: Ernest Reinhold = Emma Hardinge?
Chasing Emma: The Left-Hand Path
Chasing Emma: Rank Speculation: The Unknown Fiance
Chasing Emma: EHB <--> HBofL
Chasing Emma: Ghost Land: Bibliographical Note
Chasing Emma: The Magical Marriage
Chasing Emma: Poor Joey
Chasing Emma: The Coming Man
Chasing Emma: The Baffled Sensualist
Chasing Emma: EHB and Victoria Woodhull
Chasing Emma: Sticking Note
Chasing Emma: Picking Through Godwin
Chasing Emma: Pierre Erard <--> Thomas Welsh
Chasing Emma: Vito-Magnetic Appliances
Chasing Emma: Festus and Ghost Land
Chasing Emma: Ghost Land: A Further Bibliographical Note
Chasing Emma: The Spiritualist Encyclopedia
Chasing Emma: Spirits On The Glass
Chasing Emma: Stratigraphy
Chasing Emma: Another Trench: Emma The Widow Marries William The Gentleman
Chasing Emma: Emma's Brief Career As A Trance Medium
Chasing Emma: Market Engineering
Chasing Emma: E. L. Blanchard -- Connective Tissue?
Chasing Emma: Emma and the Sinking Of The Pacific
Chasing Emma: A Trout In The Milk: Plotting The Orphic Circle
Chasing Emma: The Unseen Universe
Chasing Emma: EHB and Her Children
Chasing Emma: The New York Musical Academy
Chasing Emma: The Orphic Circle Meets At Craven Cottage...
Chasing Emma: From The Deveney File: Emma; Amanuensis
Chasing Emma: Emma; On Her Marriage
Chasing Emma: Emma And Her Stalkers: Some Delanco Data
Chasing Emma: An Offering Of Sweet Savour
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Six: The Skrying Call
Chasing Emma: Emma; In Transition
Chasing Emma: Resurrectionists: Digging Up The Western Star
Chasing Emma: Making Ends Meet
Chasing Emma: The Suspension Of The Western Star
Chasing Emma: Hypotheses On The Orphic Circle
Chasing Emma: Emma; Reviewed
Chasing Emma: Ernest Reinhold = Emma Hardinge; Redux
Chasing Emma: Sir Charles Lennox Wyke
Chasing Emma: Emma; Performing
Chasing Emma: Emma; Performing (Again)
Chasing Emma: Emma; Losing Control
Chasing Emma: Flaxen Ringlets
Chasing Emma: Infidel Spiritualism: Emma's Fatal Mistake
Chasing Emma: A. R. Wallace; Emma and the Christian Right
Chasing Emma: Stridency
Chasing Emma: Emma and the HBofL
Chasing Emma: Uncollected Essays from 1866...and 1868...and 1871
Chasing Emma: Recovering The Two Worlds
Chasing Emma: The Three "Two Worlds"
Chasing Emma: Emma's Stereopticon
Chasing Emma: Gleaning...err...Gleanings
Chasing Emma: Recovering From Miss Wood
Chasing Emma: William; Substitute Lecturer
Chasing Emma: Audience Response; 1864
Chasing Emma: E. W. Wallis; Quoting Emma
Chasing Emma: Emma Hardinge Britten; Royal Arch Mason
Chasing Emma: Pipgen; Part Two
Chasing Emma: 1866: A Second Attempt At Transition?
Chasing Emma: Emma; Hay Nisbet; David Duguid and The Glasgow Association of Spiritualists
Chasing Emma: Reception Aesthetics: 1868
Chasing Emma: The Third Serapis Letter; 1875
Chasing Emma: The Creed Of The Spirits
Chasing Emma: The Elfin Vesper Bell
Chasing Emma: Through Emma Hardinge; By The Spirits
Chasing Emma: Spiritualism is Religion: 1889
Chasing Emma: Release of EHB Primary Texts
Chasing Emma: Emma At Ground Level; Late 1887
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds for 1887
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds For 1888
Chasing Emma: The Light In The Tower: 1889
Chasing Emma: Spreading The Light
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds for 1889
Chasing Emma: Sirius; de Bunsen and Louis de B_____
Chasing Emma: Emma and Charles
Chasing Emma: Lao-Kiun
Chasing Emma: Signal Phrases: Art Magic; its Progenitors and its....Children
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds for 1890
Chasing Emma: E. Reinhold; 1850
Chasing Emma: EHB and Adah Isaacs Menken
Chasing Emma: The Marble Heart
Chasing Emma: Miss Emma Harding In The Puppet-Show
Chasing Emma: Miss Harding In Booth's Ugolino
Chasing Emma: January 5; 1866
Chasing Emma: Ernest Reinhold in the Court Gazette
Chasing Emma: W. E. Coleman; J. J. Morse; and EHB
Chasing Emma: Hargrave Jennings
Chasing Emma: Emma's Science
Chasing Emma: The Karens Believe The Spirits Of The Dead (Sad Day; Part 1)
Chasing Emma: The Boston Fire of 1872
Chasing Emma: Lightning; Making Rain
Chasing Emma: A Fragment Of Modern Scripture
Chasing Emma: The Soul's Question
Chasing Emma: Abisha S. Hudson
Chasing Emma: May 1859: Newport; Rhode Island
Chasing Emma: Manchester; December 5th; 1897
Chasing Emma: 7 January 1875: A Fossil; Played Out; Angry
Chasing Emma: Emma and the Tommy Knockers
Chasing Emma: Emma on Reincarnation; 1875
Chasing Emma: Ann Sophia's Children
Chasing Emma: August 1891: The Beginning of the End
Chasing Emma: December 1891: James Robertson Begins Digging In
Chasing Emma: October 1891: The Sirius Circle
Chasing Emma: No Creed; But A Ceaseless Incentive To Practise Good
Chasing Emma: 1898: The Jubilee of Modern Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: 24 April 1891: "We Have Not Half Conquered"
Chasing Emma: A School for Prophets
Chasing Emma: Tindall Practicing Rapproachment
Chasing Emma: Julia Schlesinger on EHB; circa 1864
Chasing Emma: 1880: Emma; Exposed
Chasing Emma: The Institute For Homeless and Outcast Women; circa 1861
Chasing Emma: September 1864: Emma; Called To Politics
Chasing Emma: Light Shines on Delanco
Chasing Emma: 1892: Transition At The Two Worlds
Chasing Emma: January 1866: Not Safe For Long
Chasing Emma: October 1862: Emma Goes On The Stump
Chasing Emma: Reception Aesthetics: <I>Modern American Spiritualism</i>
Chasing Emma: April 1; 1865: Emma; Defensive
Chasing Emma: April 1871: Emma as Metonym
Chasing Emma: 1838: The Start Of A Career
Chasing Emma: 1854: Emma Goes Transpontine
Chasing Emma: The Attraction of Cheetham Hill
Chasing Emma: Emma and The Bristol Charity Trustees
Chasing Emma: Emma's Theatre Career: A New Chronology
Chasing Emma: January 1844: Emma at the Princess's Theatre
Chasing Emma: May 12; 1871: Brand Issues
Chasing Emma: The <I>Album</i> and the <I>Encyclopedia</I>
Chasing Emma: Art Magic: A Bibliographical Note
Chasing Emma: Ernest Reinhold (Again)
Chasing Emma: Getting At The Meat of Emma's Lectures
Chasing Emma: Emma as Reformer
Chasing Emma: Emma and Her Shadows: Lotti Wilmot; 1878
Chasing Emma: Emma the Infidel: 1878
Chasing Emma: Middle-Aged Rosicrucians?
Chasing Emma: A New Monetization Strategy
Chasing Emma: Updated Edition of Robertson's <I>Noble Pioneer</I>
Chasing Emma: The Home For Outcast Women; Boston Version
Chasing Emma: February 1861 - Outcast Women in Chicago
Chasing Emma: Shame-faced Update
Chasing Emma: What The Greeks Knew Of Electricity
Chasing Emma: What Matters History?
Chasing Emma: 1876: Ghost Land; And Transition
Chasing Emma: Ann Sophia Bromfield Floyd
Chasing Emma: EHB on Reincarnation
Chasing Emma: Elizabeth French
Chasing Emma: May 21; 1857
Chasing Emma: Elizabeth French; Redux
Chasing Emma: Wednesday; January 23; 1856
Chasing Emma: Olcott Vindicated; Art Magic Published in a +500 Unit Run; Story Page 3
Chasing Emma: <I>Art Magic</I> Illustrations Traced
Chasing Emma: Miss Harding and Mrs. French; Running A Church for Spiritualists
Chasing Emma: The Pacific; Again
Chasing Emma: The Electro-Vapor Bath
Chasing Emma: The Boston Fire of 1879 (Not)
Chasing Emma: Emma Hardinge Britten and Georgia O'Keefe
Chasing Emma: The Reading Of Souls; And Spirit Chemists: Miss Emma Hardinge; Trance Lecture; May 15; 1858
Chasing Emma: Emma; Benjamin Coleman; and E. A. Sothern
Chasing Emma: July 1858: History of Mediums // No. 5 -- Miss Emma Hardinge
Chasing Emma: The Science of Correspondences: Emma Hardinge; Trance Lecture; May 22; 1858
Chasing Emma: Laying Aside Cherished Notions
Chasing Emma: HPB and EHB; Sparring in the Pages of Light
Chasing Emma: 1859: The Place and Mission of Woman
Chasing Emma: Miss Hardinge in Wisconsin; October 1860: The Spiritual Influx Theory
Chasing Emma: Emma's Mysterious Guide
Chasing Emma: November; 1874: EHB; Full-Form Materialization; and Polite Society
Chasing Emma: Tantalus: The Fehm Gerichte
Chasing Emma: In the Name of the Sacred Dead -- April 13; 1873: EHB; Saying Goodbye to Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: Robert Chambers; Edward Alfred Hardinge and the Mythical First Marriage of EHB
Chasing Emma: Annotated Edition of Art Magic Available for Pre-Publication Review
Chasing Emma: 1864: Thomas Starr King
Chasing Emma: Emma and the Flying Soul: 1861
Chasing Emma: August 15; 1880: The End of America
Chasing Emma: Smaller Than A Breadbox: William Britten's Home Battery
Chasing Emma: 1912: The Death of Margaret Floyd Wilkinson
Chasing Emma: December 1871: Emma; Being Rep'd
Chasing Emma: Note To Self: Malign Influences from Space
Chasing Emma: The Pacific; Yet Yet Again: Mrs. Porter's Prophecy
Chasing Emma: The Spirits as Source of Intellectual Property
Chasing Emma: Proof
Chasing Emma: Let Every Cult Stand On Its Own Basis: EHB on the Theosophical Society
Chasing Emma: Dickens on Spiritualism: 1855
Chasing Emma: When (Different) Worlds Collide: The Argument from Correspondence
Chasing Emma: Emma and the Hoaxer
Chasing Emma: Emma as Test Medium
Chasing Emma: February; 1862: Saturating The Market
Chasing Emma: Kobolds; Art Magic and Olcott Conjuring Elementaries: November 1875
Chasing Emma: November 25; 1871: A Whopping Great Fib
Chasing Emma: Objective Journalism: December 24; 1866
Chasing Emma: September 9; 1855: At The Broadway
Chasing Emma: A Stunner: A Review of Ghost Land; January 9; 1876
Chasing Emma: What Beta Wants: June 2; 1857
Chasing Emma: EHB and Susan B (Anthony): December 1866
Chasing Emma: September 1873: Practicing Galvanic Medicine
Chasing Emma: Jampot Covers: September 16; 1892
Chasing Emma: Annotated Edition of Art Magic Available
Chasing Emma: Gilbert Vale and Emma Hardinge Britten
Chasing Emma: Adoring the Artifact: Faiths; Facts and Frauds; the 1906 Edition
Chasing Emma: Source-Hunting: How EHB Met Godfrey Higgins
Chasing Emma: Onisarph: True Occult Knowledge
Chasing Emma: December 1875: Spiritualism; Looking Silly
Chasing Emma: The Home for Outcast Women: The New York State Version; April 1862
Chasing Emma: "Nineteenth Century Martyrs": Another Recovered EHB Address
Chasing Emma: Prisca Theologia Be Damned
Chasing Emma: Early 1876: Emma on Astral Travel
Chasing Emma: Emma; in Decline: March 1899
Chasing Emma: Horace H. Day (1813-1878): The Sinews of War -- Spiritualism as Political Manipulation
Chasing Emma: UK Version of Art Magic Now Available for Kindle
Chasing Emma: Emma and Edward Fitch Bullard
Chasing Emma: Pizarro; or the Death of Rolla
Chasing Emma: April 1859 -- Emma and Elizabeth; Cohabiting
Chasing Emma: All Hail David Drummond
Chasing Emma: New Light on No. 9 Stanhope Street
Chasing Emma: April 29; 1871: Emma; William and the Marriage
Chasing Emma: Rep'ing Emma: Charles Edwards Lester (1815-1890)
Chasing Emma: Yet Another Biographical Summary: BofL; December 18; 1869
Chasing Emma: A Place of Pilgrimage: Emma's Newton; Massachusetts Residence
Chasing Emma: January 1871 -- Art Magic; in Embyro
Chasing Emma: May 1871 -- Carrying Emma's Shoes
Chasing Emma: 1867/1869: An Exposure in Glasgow?
Chasing Emma: April 1871: The Occult Powers of the Human Soul
Chasing Emma: July 3; 1871
Chasing Emma: 12 Pence to the Shilling; 20 Shillings to the Pound
Chasing Emma: A Religion of the Infinite Mind: August 1871
Chasing Emma: The Religion of Ghosts: For Another Day
Chasing Emma: Coincidence
Chasing Emma: December 23; 1865: Who Came First; Mr. Dove or Mr. Coleman?
Chasing Emma: November 1860: The Controversy in Waukesha
Chasing Emma: E. A. Hardinge; Practicing
Chasing Emma: Channeling Emma
Chasing Emma: December 5; 1897: EHB to Thomas Olman Todd
Chasing Emma: On The Road With Abraham: October 8-24; 1864
Chasing Emma: The Glitter of Patriotism: EHB; California; 1863
Chasing Emma: September 1856: E. A. Hardinge; Practicing
Chasing Emma: The Organizing Instinct: EHB; 1862
Chasing Emma: The Adelphi Theatre: 1851
Chasing Emma: Water Closet Profits and Lions' Entrails
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds' Portrait Album; Dated
Chasing Emma: Cut By Her Own Sword: EHB in New Zealand; 1879
Chasing Emma: Lady Sneerwell: Miss Emma Harding's First London Notice
Chasing Emma: 1884: Emma Gets The (NDC) Axe
Chasing Emma: March 30; 1867: "A New Work on Spiritualism"
Chasing Emma: To Sit Cracking Jokes With Materialized Spirits: EHB; August 1878
Chasing Emma: Blue Ink: Emma and Her Stalkers
Chasing Emma: Emma and the Astro-Masons: G. C. Stewart
Chasing Emma: Phebe Abracadabra: The RPJ on Art Magic; January 1876
Chasing Emma: A Most Unmitigated Humbug: The RPJ Reviews Ghost Land
Chasing Emma: Sweeping Clean The Lumber-Room of Literature: The RPJ Reviews Isis Unveiled
Chasing Emma: Emma to the RPJ: December 1878
Chasing Emma: EHB's Probate Record
Chasing Emma: Emma; Watching the Carnival: March 1881
Chasing Emma: The Amiable Christian Element: EHB; December 1881
Chasing Emma: Discarding the Alphabet: The War on Mediums; 1882
Chasing Emma: Broken; Effete and Scattered: EHB on Spiritualism; June 1884
Chasing Emma: April 25; 1885: EHB's Final Days in the US
Chasing Emma: The Residuary Legatee: EHB's Probate Records; Part Deux
Chasing Emma: Emma; Defending Art Magic: August 18; 1876
Chasing Emma: August 1878: Reading Louis de B____
Chasing Emma: Stand; and Prophesy: Miss Emma Hardinge; October 5; 1862
Chasing Emma: EHB in 1880: Dwellers on the Threshold
Chasing Emma: EHB in 1880: Where Are The Dead?
Chasing Emma: Emma in 1880: Man is the Darkest Demon
Chasing Emma: EHB in 1869: Eight Philadelphia Lectures
Chasing Emma: Emma In 1880: The End of the World
Chasing Emma: Emma in 1880: A Soul in Search of God
Chasing Emma: Emma in 1880: Another View; Entirely
Chasing Emma: Emma in 1880: The God of the Spirits
Chasing Emma: The Discordant Elements: Emma and Elsie Crindle; November; 1880
Chasing Emma: The Spirit of the Box: June; 1857
Chasing Emma: Artful Crafting: The 1895 State of EHB's Autobiography
Chasing Emma: Master The Threads Of Your Own Being: Emma in Trance; 1860
Chasing Emma: In These Days of Recantation: EHB; January 1859
Chasing Emma: The Price Of These Three in One Is Twenty-Five Cents: The Origin of Astro-Masonry; and Gilbert Vale; 1855
Chasing Emma: The Scrutinizing World: E. J. French on Her Mediumship; March 1853
Chasing Emma: EHB's Encyclopedia of Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: A Distinguished Member of the British Parliament: Miss Emma Hardinge; January 1857
Chasing Emma: Sampling the Queue: Tyerman-Slaters-EHB
Chasing Emma: EHB's Passing: Light; for October 1899
Chasing Emma: Martyrs to the World's Ignorance: EHB on Margaretta Fox; 1893
Chasing Emma: The Latent Fires of Magnetic Power: A Short Note On Jennie E. Kellogg (1818-1892)
Chasing Emma: The Perils (and Pleasures) of Open Source Scholarship
Chasing Emma: Ghost Land: The Complete Edition -- Now Available
Chasing Emma: Personal and Private Feuds: Some Notes on Emma Hardinge's Marriage to William Britten
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Related Periodicals: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis) | New York Beacon Light | Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden | Pacific Liberal | The Progressive Thinker | Psychic Observer | Rozekruis (Plantenga) | The Spiritual Times | The Two Worlds | The Two Worlds (Dixon) | The Unseen Universe | The Western Star | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly | The Spiritual Age (Boston) | The Astrologer and Oracle of Destiny | Aurora | Australian Spiritualist | The Christian Spiritualist | The Herald of Progress (US) | Mind Cure and Science of Life | New Age (Boston) | The Principle | The Spiritual Republic | The Williamsburgh Spiritualist
Britten, Mary Ann
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Mary Ann Britten, a member of the Britten family circle around William and Emma Hardinge Britten.
Chasing Emma: Straws; Making a Straw Man
Britten, Sarah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Sarah Britten, a member of the Britten family circle around William and Emma Hardinge Britten.
Chasing Emma: Straws; Making a Straw Man
Britten, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) William Britten, Emma Hardinge Britten's husband — “Dr. Britten” of the electro-medical “Home Battery,” co-founder with Emma of The Two Worlds, and (on some readings) “the Cipher” behind aspects of her authorship.
Chasing Emma: The Electric Physician
Chasing Emma: Dr. Britten's Home Battery
Chasing Emma: The Electric Physician
Chasing Emma: Vitapathy
Chasing Emma: Notice Of Removal
Chasing Emma: Another Trench: Emma The Widow Marries William The Gentleman
Chasing Emma: William; From The Shadows
Chasing Emma: Emma; On Her Marriage
Chasing Emma: Emma; Losing Control
Chasing Emma: Emma's Four Men
Chasing Emma: William; Substitute Lecturer
Chasing Emma: The Boston Fire of 1872
Chasing Emma: William the Cipher - Common Carrier?
Chasing Emma: 1892: Transition At The Two Worlds
Chasing Emma: May 12; 1871: Brand Issues
Chasing Emma: 1876: Ghost Land; And Transition
Chasing Emma: August 15; 1880: The End of America
Chasing Emma: Smaller Than A Breadbox: William Britten's Home Battery
Chasing Emma: September 1873: Practicing Galvanic Medicine
Chasing Emma: April 29; 1871: Emma; William and the Marriage
Chasing Emma: Straws; Making a Straw Man
Chasing Emma: Personal and Private Feuds: Some Notes on Emma Hardinge's Marriage to William Britten
Bromfield, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Thomas Bromfield, a Liverpool merchant, father of Ann Sophia Bromfield Floyd — Emma Hardinge Britten's maternal grandfather.
Chasing Emma: Ann Sophia Bromfield Floyd
Chasing Emma: Ann Sophia's Father; Thomas
Brookhart, Burton V.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1942) American vaudeville mentalist, numerologist, and occult publisher, performing as 'Dr. Pierre Valjien'; born in Ohio. Toured the Orpheum circuit with his wife, billed as Princess Cena San Lu Valjien. Edited and published the occult periodical Occult Research Gladiator (later Research Gladiator) and wrote Dr. Valjien's Perfect Numerology (1930) and Numerical Astrology. Died in 1942.
Related Periodicals: Occult Research Gladiator | Research Gladiator
Brooks, Bishop Phillips
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Occult Press Review | Official Theomonistic Record
Brooks, C. Harry
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Practice of Autosuggestion by the Method of Emile Coue (1923)
Brooks, E. S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Death and Its Mystery, I: Before Death -- Proofs of the Existence of the Soul (1922)
Brooks, Nona
(Source: Gemini) (1861–1945) American New Thought leader, a principal co-founder of the
Related Organizations:
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Brothers, Davenport
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) The Davenport Brothers, Ira Erastus (1839–1911) and William Henry (1841–1877), were American showmen whose "spirit cabinet" rope-tie séances were among the most famous demonstrations of the early Spiritualist era.
(Source: Gemini) Ira Erastus Davenport (1839–1911) and William Henry Davenport (1841–1877), American stage mediums from Buffalo, New York, famous from 1854 for the 'Davenport Cabinet' — bound with ropes inside a cabinet from which instruments sounded and objects flew, the brothers found still tied when it opened. Toured America and Europe to great fame; magicians including Maskelyne and Houdini exposed the act as escapology. The partnership ended when William died in Australia in 1877; Ira retired until his death in 1911.
Related Periodicals: The Age of Progress
Broughton, Luke Dennis
Luke Dennis Broughton (1828-1899) was a British-born astrologer who emigrated to the United States and became one of the most influential figures in popularising astrology in America during the nineteenth century. Born in Leeds, England, into a family with a tradition of astrological practice, he settled in Philadelphia and later New York, where he published Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader and Astrological Journal -- one of the earliest astrological periodicals in the United States. He is credited with having significantly revived public interest in astrology in America at a time when it had largely fallen out of favour.
Chasing Emma: Astrology No Imposition: Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part 13: A Planet-Ruler Lives Here
Related Periodicals: Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader | Monthly Star and American Horoscope
Broughton, Mark A.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part 13: A Planet-Ruler Lives Here
Related Periodicals: Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader | Hague's Horoscope
Broun, Heywood
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Heywood Broun (1888–1939) was an American newspaper columnist and a founder of the American Newspaper Guild.
Related Periodicals: Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship)
Brown, Arthur I.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mystery and Prophecy of the Great Pyramid (1933)
Brown, Edward Holmes
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | Mercury
Brown, Frances
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Frances Brown, whose 1860 Christmas Annual figures in the bibliographical puzzles of the period.
Chasing Emma: A Fragment Of Modern Scripture
Brown, Frederick L.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: A Break In The Action: Why Google Books Really Sucks
Related Periodicals: Facts (Friendship Centre UK)
Brown, Grace Mann
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Constructive Thoughts About Grace Mann Brown (1859-1925)
Related Periodicals: The Balance | The Essene | Nautilus | Self-Culture
Related Monographs: The Inner Breath -- Vivendi Causa (1922)
Brown, Hannah F.M.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Agitator | Little Bouquet | The Lyceum Banner (Chicago) | The Present Age | The Rising Tide | The Spiritual Republic
Brown, Haydn
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Advanced Suggestion (Neuroinduction) (1922)
Brown, Henry Harrison
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Henry Harrison Brown (1840–1918) was an American New Thought lecturer and editor of the San Francisco magazine Now.
Related Periodicals: The Center | Foundation Principles | Neue Gedanken | Now | The Psychological Herald (Atlanta) | The Spirit World (Hayden) | Washington News Letter | Wings of Truth
Brown, J.G.H.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: J. G. H. Brown: Some Bibliographical Notes
Chasing Emma: Pinnacles on the Cliffs of Despair: Further Notes on J. G. H. Brown
Chasing Emma: This Insanity Has Nothing To Do With Spiritualism: The Nottingham Spiritual Circle; Part One
Chasing Emma: The Taunts; Jeers and Rotten Eggs of the Mob: The Nottingham Spiritual Circle; July 1870
Related Periodicals: The Community's Journal | Spiritualistic Free Press and General Record | The Sword of Truth
Brown, John E.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: American Wayshowers | New Thought (Moses Hull) | Watchman
Brown, Robert Hewitt
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Robert Hewitt Brown (1830–1883), American Masonic author of Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy (1882), a source EHB drew upon.
Chasing Emma: Signal Phrases: Art Magic; its Progenitors and its....Children
Chasing Emma: The Mysterious Robert Hewitt Brown (1830-1883)
Chasing Emma: The Price Of These Three in One Is Twenty-Five Cents: The Origin of Astro-Masonry; and Gilbert Vale; 1855
Brown, Thomas Townsend
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (1905–1985) American inventor and researcher of electrogravitics and alternative propulsion; born in Zanesville, Ohio. Described the 'Biefeld–Brown effect' — thrust from a high-voltage charged capacitor — which he believed linked electricity and gravitation. Co-founded the
Chasing Emma: "I Lived In The House With Two Mediums"
Related Periodicals: The Little Listening Post | NICAP Reporter
Brown, W.F.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Spiritual Analyst | The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record
Related Monographs: Suggestion and Mental Analysis: An Outline of the Theory and Practice of Mind Cure (1922)
Brownell, Louise B.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Joy | Reality | The San Juan Record
Related Monographs: Life Abundant for You (1928)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era with a documented interest in Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) (1806–1861) English Victorian poet, author of Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) and Aurora Leigh (1856). A semi-invalid in her youth; eloped with the poet Robert Browning in 1846 and settled in Florence, where she championed Italian unification. Died in Florence in 1861.
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Two: Virginia Woolf; Being Catty
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Brownlee, L. A. Griffin
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Ghost of Sir Francis Whynn, Baronet (1922)
Brownlow, C. A. L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Spirit Ladder of a Hundred Years (1948)
Bruers, Antonio
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Antonio Bruers (1887–1954) was an Italian scholar and psychical-research writer associated with the review Luce e Ombra.
Related Periodicals: Luce e Ombra
Brunton, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Paul Brunton (1898–1981) was a British author and spiritual seeker whose A Search in Secret India (1934) introduced many Western readers to Ramana Maharshi and Eastern mysticism.
(Source: Gemini) (1898–1981) British journalist and mystic, born Raphael Hurst, who helped introduce Indian philosophy and meditation to the West. A journalist and bookseller before traveling in India in the early 1930s; his A Search in Secret India (1934) brought the sage Ramana Maharshi to Western readers. Also wrote The Secret Path (1935). Spent his later years in seclusion in Switzerland; died in Vevey in 1981.
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Bryan, Delmar DeForest
See, Bryant, Delmar DeForest, immediately below.
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Bryan, Gerald B.
(Source: Gemini) Gerald B. Bryan (1893–?) was an American chiropractor, author, and an early, prominent critic of 20th-century American esoteric cults. Bryan is primarily known for his initial involvement in, and subsequent defection from, the "I AM" Religious Activity. Founded in the early 1930s by Guy and Edna Ballard, the movement drew heavily from Theosophy and claimed that the Ballards were the sole "Accredited Messengers" for a group of spiritual beings known as the Ascended Masters, most notably Saint Germain. The movement gained hundreds of thousands of followers before Guy Ballard's sudden death in 1939. Following Ballard's death, Bryan emerged as the movement's most vocal detractor. In 1940, he published the monograph Psychic Dictatorship in America (correcting the slight typo in your prompt). The text functioned as a detailed exposé and psychological study of the "I AM" movement. Writing from the perspective of a disillusioned insider, Bryan accused the Ballards of plagiarizing earlier esoteric texts, perpetuating financial frauds, and utilizing psychological manipulation and nationalistic fervor to dominate the minds of their followers—effectively establishing what he termed a "psychic dictatorship". Bryan's writings, which began as a series of critical booklets before culminating in the 1940 monograph, were highly influential in bringing public and legal scrutiny to the organization. His work directly contributed to the eventual mail fraud trials against Edna Ballard and the movement's leadership in the early 1940s. His primary publications include his series of critical booklets targeting the "I AM" Activity and the compiled monograph Psychic Dictatorship in America (1940)
Related Monographs: The 'I AM' Experiences of Mr. G. W. Ballard (1936), The 'I AM' Teachings of Mr. G. W. Ballard (Godfre Ray King): An Analysis (1936), The 'I AM' Doctrines of Mr. G. W. Ballard (Godfre Ray King): An Analysis (1937), The Source of the Ballard Writings (1937), The Ballard Saint Germain (1938), Psychic Dictatorship in America (1940), The Mysterious 'You' (1942)
Bryant, Delmar DeForest
To be added.
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Buber, Martin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Martin Buber (1878–1965) was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher of dialogue, best known for I and Thou, and a scholar of Hasidic mysticism.
Related Periodicals: Mensch en Cosmos
Buchanan, James Rodes
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Almost certainly Joseph Rodes Buchanan (1814–1899), the American physician who coined the term "psychometry" and taught an eclectic "anthropology" of the soul. (Given name appears here as "James.")
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Buchanan, Joseph Rodes
Joseph Rodes Buchanan (1814-1899) was an American professor of medical science born in Frankfort, Kentucky, who became dean of the faculty at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Covington, Kentucky. He coined the word 'psychometry' in 1842 — the measuring of the soul — to describe a faculty by which sensitives could perceive emanations from physical substances, including the human body, thereby reading the emotional and mental history impressed upon objects. He published his findings in Buchanan's Journal of Man and in his major work Manual of Psychometry: The Dawn of a New Civilization (1885).
(Source: Gemini) (1814–1899) American physician and pioneer of 'psychometry.' A professor and dean at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati; in 1842 he proposed psychometry — the claim that objects retain a psychic trace readable by sensitives — and 'sarcognomy,' mapping mental faculties onto the body. Wrote System of Anthropology (1854) and Manual of Psychometry (1885), influential among Spiritualists. Died in California in 1899.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/buchanan-joseph-rhodes-1814-1899
Chasing Emma: Eclecticism: Are We Miss/(x)/ing Something?
Chasing Emma: 1852: The Marriage of Sarah Abbott and Samuel Sellers
Chasing Emma: My Memoranda Are Deficient: J. R. Buchanan on Phrenology; 1839
Chasing Emma: Any Intellectual And Loving Woman: Joseph Rodes Buchanan; 1893
Chasing Emma: A New Attribute of Mind: Amherst; on Buchanan and Psychometry
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Doctor Factories
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Buchanan, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Robert Buchanan (1841–1901), the Scottish poet, novelist and critic whose work brushed the astrological and Spiritualist demimonde (“Zarah the Astrologer”).
Chasing Emma: The Mark of Zarah
Chasing Emma: Fortuitous Connections
Buchanan, Uriel
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought and Divine Science | The Inner Circle (Wells) | The Kalpaka | Nautilus
Related Monographs: The Dominion of Mind (1929)
Buck, J.D.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Jirah Dewey (J. D.) Buck (1838–1916) was a Cincinnati physician and prominent early American Theosophist and Masonic writer. See also "Buck, Jirah Dewey."
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Buck, Jirah Dewey
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Jirah Dewey Buck (1838–1916), Cincinnati physician, Theosophist, and Masonic author; same person as the "Buck, J.D." entry.
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Buck, Pearl
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) was an American novelist and Nobel laureate, best known for The Good Earth.
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Bucke, Richard Maurice
Richard Maurice Bucke (1837–1902) was a Canadian psychiatrist, superintendent of the asylum at London, Ontario, and a friend and biographer of Walt Whitman. His book Cosmic Consciousness (1901), based partly on his own 1872 illumination, proposed an evolving higher mode of consciousness and became a touchstone of mystical and New Thought literature.
(Source: Gemini) (1837–1902) Canadian psychiatrist and author, superintendent of the Asylum for the Insane at London, Ontario; best known for Cosmic Consciousness (1901). After a mystical experience in 1872 he theorized that humanity was evolving toward a higher spiritual awareness. A close friend, physician, and literary executor of Walt Whitman. Died in 1902 after a fall on ice.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Maurice_Bucke
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Budd, F. E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Survey of the Occult (1935)
Buguet, Edouard Isidore
(Source: Gemini) (1840–1901) French spirit photographer. From a fashionable Paris studio in the early 1870s he produced photographs purporting to show the dead beside living sitters, endorsed by Spiritualists including Pierre-Gaëtan Leymarie. A police raid in 1875 found his apparatus — dolls, drapery, and pre-exposed plates with cut-out faces; he confessed, was convicted of fraud, and imprisoned, gravely damaging the movement's credibility. Died in 1901.
Related Periodicals: Revue Spirite
Bullard, Edward Fitch
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Edward Fitch Bullard, an American associate of Emma Hardinge — the “Beta” of a pseudonymous 1857 exchange — a lawyer and general in her early US circle.
Chasing Emma: What Beta Wants: June 2; 1857
Chasing Emma: Emma and Edward Fitch Bullard
Bullard, Margaret
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Margaret Bullard, of the Bullard family in Emma Hardinge's early American circle.
Chasing Emma: Emma and Edward Fitch Bullard
Bullene, Emma Jay
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Emma Jay Bullene (“Miss Jay”), an early American trance-speaking medium of the 1850s.
Chasing Emma: Interlude: <I>Punch</I>; April 23; 1853
Chasing Emma: Notes for A History...Revisions and Elaborations
Chasing Emma: J. R. M. Squire (1838 - 1899)
Chasing Emma: They Are What Is Termed "Spiritualists": March; 1855
Bundy, John C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) John Curtis Bundy (1841–1892) was the editor and publisher of the Religio-Philosophical Journal, a leading and reform-minded American Spiritualist paper.
Chasing Emma: Joint Venture: January 1882
Chasing Emma: Discarding the Alphabet: The War on Mediums; 1882
Chasing Emma: The Richmond; and the Bundy: February 1883
Chasing Emma: Pure-White; Always Uniform-Reliable: More RPJ on IAPSOP
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Camp-Meeting Guide | Freethinkers Magazine | Mind and Matter | The Progressive Thinker | The Psychological Review | The Truthseeker
Bundy, Walter E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Psychic Health of Jesus (1922)
Bunker, M.N.
(Source: Gemini) (1892–1961) American graphologist, founder of 'Graphoanalysis,' a stroke-by-stroke system of handwriting analysis. A shorthand teacher who founded the American Grapho-Analysis Society (IGAS) in 1929 and marketed the method through correspondence courses; document examiners and psychologists dismissed it as pseudoscience. Died in 1961.
Related Periodicals: Mystic World
Buonaiuti, Ernesto
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: L'interpretazione stoica del mito: Saggio critico ed esegetico sui frammenti dei Maestri della Stoa (1924)
Burch, Alma
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Hello!; or the Pleasures of Collecting: Ida Mingle and William Lester Blessing; 1964
Chasing Emma: Out of Her Mouth Came Stars So Bright: A Lesson from Lessons
Related Periodicals: American Wayshowers
Burdett-Coutts, Angela
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Angela Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), the great Victorian philanthropist, appearing through her Institute for Homeless and Outcast Women.
(Source: Gemini) English philanthropist and baroness (1814–1906), heir to the Coutts banking fortune, who with Charles Dickens founded Urania Cottage, a home for "fallen women," and funded a wide range of Victorian social-reform and charitable projects.
Chasing Emma: The Institute For Homeless and Outcast Women; circa 1861
Burgess, C. A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Burgoyne, Thomas Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Thomas H. Burgoyne (1855–1894) was a Scottish-American occultist, secretary of the
(Source: Gemini) (1855–1894) English occultist, astrologer, and writer, born Thomas Henry Dalton; co-founder and scribe of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (H.B. of L.). Convicted of mail fraud in Leeds in 1883 under the name Dalton; afterward emigrated to the United States and took the name Burgoyne. With Max Theon and Peter Davidson he built the H.B. of L.'s correspondence teaching and wrote its core text, The Light of Egypt (1889), countering the Eastern emphasis of Blavatsky's Theosophy. Died in California in 1894.
Chasing Emma: Thomas Henry Dalton / T. H. Burgoyne -- His Descendents
Chasing Emma: Church of Light Conference Material
Related Periodicals: The Morning Star | The Platonist | Ye Quaint Magazine | Le Magicien | The Occultist (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor) | The Oracle (Boston)
Burke, Jane Revere
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The One Way (1921)
Burkhardt, Titus
(Source: Gemini) (1908–1984) Swiss writer and art historian, a central figure of the Traditionalist (Perennialist) school. Born in Florence; converted to Islam and studied Sufism in Morocco. Director of the Urs Graf Verlag; wrote An Introduction to Sufi Doctrine and Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, on traditional cosmology, alchemy, and sacred art. Later led the UNESCO campaign to preserve Fez. Died in Lausanne in 1984.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett) | Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles
Burnatprovins, M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion (1922)
Burns, James
To be added.
Chasing Emma: July 3; 1871
Chasing Emma: 12 Pence to the Shilling; 20 Shillings to the Pound
Chasing Emma: A Shop for Talk on Spiritualism: James Burns on Organizing; August 1876
Chasing Emma: 1878: William Birrell's Patent Automatic Lime-Light Apparatus
Chasing Emma: The Elementaries At Fishbough's Door: Human Nature; February 1876
Chasing Emma: A General Idea Is Voluminous Enough: George Risdale Hinde; to James Burns; August 1879
Chasing Emma: In As Forcible A Manner As Possible: James Burns; February 1872
Chasing Emma: A Prominent and Peculiar Personality: A. E. Waite on James Burns
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis) | Christian Spiritualist (UK) | Daybreak | Human Nature
Burpee, Nahum
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Nahum Burpee, a sitter and witness in Emma Hardinge's early American test-mediumship.
Chasing Emma: Emma as Test Medium
Burr, Chauncy
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Part Ten: Electrobiology and 1845
Chasing Emma: Skepticism as a Trope
Related Periodicals: Tiffany's Monthly
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) was the American author of the Tarzan and Barsoom (John Carter of Mars) adventure series.
Related Periodicals: Eleanor Kirk's Idea | Shaver Mystery Magazine
Burry, Frederic W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Frederic W. Burry was an early-twentieth-century Canadian New Thought and occult writer and editor.
Related Periodicals: The Balance | Fred Burry's Journal | The Hypnotic Magazine | The Kalpaka | New York Magazine of Mysteries | Weltmer's Magazine
Burton, Caryl
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Astrological Bulletina | Journal of the National Astrological Association
Burton, Richard Francis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) was a British explorer, orientalist, and translator (of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra).
(Source: Gemini) English explorer, geographer, translator, and ethnologist (1821–1890), famed for his disguised journey to Mecca (1853), his search for the source of the Nile, and his translations of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra. A practicing scryer.
Chasing Emma: And From Masonry; A Return To The Orphic Circle
Chasing Emma: The Zoist; Volume 10
Chasing Emma: Days Later; Back in Jedda
Related Periodicals: Anthropological Review [LAS]
Busenbark, Ernest
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Ernest Busenbark, author of Symbols, Sex and the Stars (1949), a twentieth-century compiler of comparative-religion and astral-myth lore in the freethought vein.
Chasing Emma: Uncle Sam Does Not Censor Your Ernest Busenbark
Related Monographs: Symbols, Sex, and the Stars in Popular Beliefs (1949)
Bush, David V.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Applied Psychology and Scientific Living (1922), Practical Psychology and Sex Life (1922)
Bush, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) George Bush (1796–1859) was an American biblical scholar and professor of Hebrew who became a leading advocate of Swedenborgianism.
Related Periodicals: The Hierophant | The Spirit Messenger | The Swedenborgian
Butler, George F.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: How the Mind Cures (1921)
Butler, Hiram Erastus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Hiram Erastus Butler (1841–1916) was an American occultist who founded the Esoteric Fellowship and expounded "Solar Biology."
(Source: Gemini) (1841–1916) American esotericist and astrologer, founder of the Esoteric Fraternity commune. A harness-maker who, after mystical experiences, lectured on esoteric Christianity and astrology and wrote Solar Biology (1887), a heliocentric astrological system. In 1889 he founded the Esoteric Fraternity at Applegate, California — a celibate, vegetarian community dedicated to spiritual regeneration — which drew accusations of being a cult and lawsuits from former members. Died in Applegate in 1916.
Chasing Emma: Revived Priapic Orgies
Chasing Emma: The Mark of Zarah
Chasing Emma: Fruit and Seed in Applegate: Some Notes on Hiram Erastus Butler
Chasing Emma: Monkey Glands Or Conservation?
Chasing Emma: Sex and Seership; Sex or Seership: The Christian Esoteric; 1938
Chasing Emma: Psychical Depravity: Elliot Coues on Hiram Erastus Butler
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Beacon Light | Bible Review | The Christian Esoteric | Esoteric | The Gnostic | Modern Thought | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | Occult and Biological Journal | The Occult Word | The Oracle (Boston) | The Prophet | Suggestion | Unity | Wings of Truth
Related Monographs: Practical Methods to Insure Success (1920)
Butler, T. W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Golden Age (1920)
Butlerov, A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Alexander Butlerov (1828–1886) was an eminent Russian chemist who became a public supporter and investigator of Spiritualist mediumship.
(Source: Gemini) (1828–1886) Russian chemist, a principal founder of the structural theory of organic chemistry (professor at Kazan and St. Petersburg), and a committed investigator of Spiritualism. He published defenses of telepathy, clairvoyance, and physical mediumship, bringing him into conflict with the Russian scientific establishment and Dmitry Mendeleev's commission to expose mediums. Died in St. Petersburg in 1886.
Related Periodicals: Psychische Studien
Button, William H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The 'Margery' Mediumship (the Sir Oliver Lodge thumbprint experiments) (1932)
Bykov, V.P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Vladimir P. Bykov was a Russian former Spiritualist who converted to Evangelical Christianity and wrote against Spiritualism; earlier editor of a Moscow Spiritualist paper.
Related Periodicals: The Spiritualist (Moscow)
Byrd, Admiral
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957), American polar aviator and explorer, later invoked in hollow-earth and UFO lore.
Related Periodicals: Flying Saucers from Other Worlds
Cable, Josephine
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Josephine Cable, a figure in the New Thought / Christian Science orbit around the turn of the twentieth century.
Chasing Emma: The Self; in the Social
Cables, Josephine W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Josephine W. Cables was an American Theosophist of Rochester, New York, editor of The Occult Word and an early organizer of the
Related Periodicals: The Gnostic | The Occult Word | Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
Cables, Mrs. J.W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Josephine W. Cables, the Rochester Theosophist and editor of The Occult Word; same person as the "Cables, Josephine W." entry.
Related Periodicals: The Path
Cabrera, Javier G.
(Source: Gemini) (1924–2001) Peruvian physician who assembled and promoted the 'Ica Stones' — thousands of carved andesite stones from Ica, Peru, depicting anomalous scenes (surgery, telescopes, humans with dinosaurs). In The Message of the Engraved Stones of Ica (1976) he argued they were the work of an ancient extraterrestrial race. Geologists debunked them as modern hoaxes and local farmers admitted carving them. Died in 2001.
Related Periodicals: El Heraldo del Espiritismo
Cadwallader, M.E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Mary E. Cadwallader was an American Spiritualist organizer and a longtime associate editor of The Progressive Thinker.
Related Periodicals: The Progressive Thinker
Cady, H. Emilie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) H. Emilie Cady (1848–1941) was an American homeopathic physician and New Thought writer whose Lessons in Truth became a foundational text of the Unity movement.
(Source: Gemini) (1848–1941) American homeopathic physician and New Thought writer whose booklets became foundational texts of the Unity movement. Her articles in Charles and Myrtle Fillmore's magazine Unity were collected in 1903 as Lessons in Truth, the standard Unity textbook, blending Christian language with New Thought ideas. She kept a quiet private practice and declined public leadership. Died in New York in 1941.
Related Periodicals: American Occultist | Unity
Related Monographs: Lessons in Truth: A Course of Twelve Lessons in Practical Christianity (1932)
Cahagnet, Louis Alphonse
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Louis-Alphonse Cahagnet (1809–1885), French magnetizer and Spiritualist author; same person as the "Cahagnet, Louis Alphonse" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (1809–1885) French Swedenborgian spiritualist and mesmerist, a cabinet-maker who conducted experiments in animal magnetism using the somnambulist Adèle Maginot, who reportedly contacted the dead. His The Celestial Telegraph (1848) was a foundational text for early Spiritualism, predating the American movement. Attacked by Catholic clergy and skeptics. Died in 1885.
Related Periodicals: Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | The Spiritual Magazine (UK) | Magnetiseur Spiritualiste
Cahanet, Louis-Alphonse
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) A variant spelling of Louis-Alphonse Cahagnet (1809–1885), the French magnetizer and Spiritualist; see the "Cahagnet, Louis Alphonse" entry.
Related Periodicals: Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden
Caillard, Vincent
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A New Conception of Love (1934)
Caillet, Albert L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Hymnaire de ma Paredre (1922)
Caillie, Eugene Edmond Rene
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Bulletin de la Societe Scientifique d'Etudes Psychologiques | Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona) | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Revue des Hautes Etudes | L'Etoile
Cailliet, Emile
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: La Prohibition de l'Occulte (1930)
Caldwell, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) William (Charles) Caldwell / Cadwell, a materialization medium active c.1895–1904, tied to the “Abdullah” spirit-identity cases.
Chasing Emma: Shades of Adbullah: Some Notes on Spirit Identity
Calmet, Dom
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Dom Augustin Calmet (1672–1757) was a French Benedictine scholar whose treatise on apparitions, vampires, and revenants was much cited in later occult literature.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1757) French Benedictine monk and biblical scholar, Abbot of Senones. Beyond his multi-volume biblical commentary he wrote the Dissertations sur les apparitions… et sur les revenants et vampires (1746), one of the first systematic scholarly investigations of ghosts and vampires — widely read, and ridiculed by Voltaire. Calmet held that he was examining the reports critically, not endorsing them. Died at Senones in 1757.
Related Periodicals: The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century | The Straggling Astrologer
Calvert, Bruce T.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Bruce T. Calvert was an American freethought and "back-to-nature" editor who published the periodical The Open Road in Indiana.
Related Periodicals: The Center | The Open Road | Shrine of Wisdom
Cameron, Julia Margaret
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879), the celebrated Victorian portrait photographer, whose work was misattributed as an image of Emma in the blog's cautionary tale on open-source scholarship.
Chasing Emma: The Perils (and Pleasures) of Open Source Scholarship
Cammell, Charles Richard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Charles Richard Cammell (1889–1969) was a British writer and art connoisseur, author of an early biography of Aleister Crowley, whom he knew personally.
Related Periodicals: Atlantis Quarterly
Camp, L. Sprague de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) L. Sprague de Camp (1907–2000) was an American science-fiction and fantasy author and a skeptical writer on Atlantis and pseudo-archaeology.
Related Periodicals: Eclectic Theosophist
Campbell, John Bunyan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) John Bunyan Campbell, founder of “Vitapathy,” a magneto-medical healing system of the later nineteenth century.
Chasing Emma: Vitapathy
Chasing Emma: Round The Barn: Occult IP; Specificity and T. S. Eliot
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865–1940), the celebrated stage actress, noted for a 1917 turn portraying the fictional medium “Rosalie Lagrange.”
Chasing Emma: My Foot; He Sleep: Mrs. Patrick Campell in The Thirteenth Chair
Campbell, William T.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Laws of Life: A Series of Inspired Lessons From the Spirit World (1922)
Canney, Maurice A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Cannon, Alexander
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Powers That Be (The Mayfair Lectures) (1934), The Invisible Influence: A Story of the Mystic Orient (1934), The Science of Hypnotism (1936), The Power of Karma In Relation to Destiny (1937)
Canseliet, Eugene
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Eugène Canseliet (1899–1982) was a French alchemist and the disciple and literary executor of the mysterious "Fulcanelli," whose alchemical works he edited and prefaced.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1982) French alchemist and esoteric writer, the sole acknowledged disciple of the legendary alchemist Fulcanelli. An industrial chemist who edited and prefaced Fulcanelli's Le Mystère des Cathédrales (1926) and Les Demeures Philosophales (1930). He claimed to have witnessed Fulcanelli transmute lead to gold in 1922 and to have met him again in 1952 — claims that made him a lifelong subject of controversy, some suspecting him the true author. Wrote on alchemy for over fifty years. Died in 1982.
Related Periodicals: Atlantis (Le Cour)
Capen, Nahum
(Source: Gemini) (?–1886) American publisher and advocate of phrenology; co-founder of the publishing house Marsh, Capen & Lyon and a founder of the
Related Periodicals: Annals of Phrenology
Capleton, Arnold
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Man's Highest Purpose (The Lost Word Regained) (1930)
Capron, Eliab W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Eliab Wilkinson Capron (1804–1868), the Auburn journalist and early chronicler of the Fox sisters and the Rochester rappings, author of Modern Spiritualism: Its Facts and Fanaticisms (1855).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1883) American journalist and pioneering Spiritualist; among the first to investigate the Fox Sisters' Hydesville rappings in 1848, and organizer of the first public demonstration of the phenomena in Rochester in 1849. His Modern Spiritualism: Its Facts and Fanaticisms (1855) is regarded as the first substantial history of the movement's origins. Died in 1883.
Chasing Emma: February 10; 1850: New Light On The Foxes
Chasing Emma: Launch Party: February 7; 1885
Cardan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Almost certainly Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576), the Italian polymath, physician, and astrologer, cited in the astrological press (here in Zadkiel).
(Source: Gemini) Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576), Italian polymath — mathematician, physician, and astrologer. His Ars Magna (1545) gave the first systematic solutions of cubic and quartic equations; he also wrote on probability and on astrology. In 1570 the Inquisition arrested him, in part for having cast and published a horoscope of Jesus Christ; he was imprisoned, made to recant, and barred from publishing. Died in Rome in 1576.
Related Periodicals: Zadkiel's Magazine
Carey, George W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) George Washington Carey (1845–1924) was an American writer on the "biochemic" system of cell (tissue) salts and their astrological correspondences, author of The Zodiac and the Salts of Salvation.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1924) American physician and esoteric writer who devised a 'biochemic system of medicine' linking the twelve mineral 'cell salts' to the twelve signs of the zodiac. Wrote The Biochemic System of Medicine and The Zodiac and the Salts of Salvation (with Inez Eudora Perry). Prosecuted repeatedly for unlicensed practice; kept a following among alternative-health and astrological readers. Died in Los Angeles in 1924.
Related Periodicals: Adiramled | Fohat | Mercury | Modern Miracles | The Phalanx
Related Monographs: God-Man: The Word Made Flesh (1920), Road to the Moon: A Great Occult Story (1924), The Zodiac and the Salts of Salvation (1932)
Carlyle, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was the Scottish essayist, historian, and social critic whose transcendental "natural supernaturalism" influenced Victorian religious thought.
Related Periodicals: The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story)
Carpenter, Edward
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) was an English socialist, poet, and early gay-rights pioneer whose mystical work Towards Democracy drew on Whitman and Eastern thought.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1929) English socialist writer, mystic, and early advocate of sexual reform. A Cambridge man and former Anglican curate who left the church to live as a market gardener in Derbyshire. Wrote the Whitmanesque Towards Democracy (1883) and The Intermediate Sex (1908), an early plea for acceptance of same-sex love; also wrote on Eastern mysticism and cosmic consciousness. Lived openly with his partner George Merrill. Died in 1929.
Related Periodicals: The Beacon (Bailey) | The Fra | Soundview | Wings of Truth
Carpenter, William
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1896) English-American flat-earth ('Zetetic Astronomy') propagandist and printer, the leading American popularizer of Samuel Rowbotham's system. Wrote One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe (1885). Emigrated to Baltimore in 1879 and organized flat-earth lecturing and debate there. Died in Baltimore in 1896.
Chasing Emma: From the Senior Partner's Desk
Related Periodicals: The Biological Review | The Rosicrucian | Spiritual Messenger (Carpenter)
Carpenter, William Benjamin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), the English physiologist whose theories of “unconscious cerebration” and ideomotor action underpinned his skeptical explanations of Spiritualist phenomena.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1885) English physician and physiologist, a founder of modern mental physiology; professor at University College London. He formulated the 'ideomotor' principle — that muscles can move by unconscious suggestion — and used it to explain table-turning, dowsing, and planchette/Ouija movement as involuntary muscular action rather than spirits, opposing the Spiritualist claims of Alfred Russel Wallace and William Crookes. Died in London in 1885.
Chasing Emma: A Great Bladder for Dried Peas: William Stainton Moses on William Benjamin Carpenter; January 1877
Carr, H. Wildon
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mind-Energy: Lectures and Essays (1920)
Carranza, Venustiano
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Venustiano Carranza (1859–1920) was a leader of the Mexican Revolution and President of Mexico; his name appears in a Mexican astrological periodical.
Related Periodicals: La Cruz Astral
Carre, Georges
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Annales des Sciences Psychiques | L'Initiation | Lotus Rouge
Carriere, Eva
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) "Eva C." (Eva Carrière, born Marthe Béraud) was an early-twentieth-century French materialization medium whose "ectoplasm" was studied and disputed by psychical researchers such as Schrenck-Notzing and Richet.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1943) French physical medium, born Marthe Béraud and known as 'Eva C.,' famous for materializations of ectoplasm and phantom forms. Investigated at length by Albert von Schrenck-Notzing and Charles Richet, who published supportive monographs; skeptics showed her 'spirits' to be paper cut-outs of celebrities and her ectoplasm swallowed gauze. Died in 1943.
Related Periodicals: Revue Metapsychique
Carrington, Hereward
Hereward Carrington (1880-1958) was a British-born American psychical researcher and prolific author who wrote over 100 books on paranormal subjects, conjuring, and alternative medicine. Born in St Helier, Jersey, he emigrated to the United States in 1888. Initially a sceptic, he joined the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1958) British-born American psychical researcher and prolific author; a member of the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereward_Carrington
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Carrington, Hereward. Hereward Carrington (1880-1958) was a British-born psychical researcher and popular author, based in the USA, whose knowledge of stage conjuring made him an unusually alert investigator of séance phenomena. He is especially remembered for his role in the 1908 Naples investigation of Eusapia Palladino, in which the investigating team concluded that some of her effects could not be explained by trickery, and for his theory that physical paranormal phenomena were manifestations of a natural vital energy.
Related Periodicals: Alliance Spiritualiste | Azoth | The Center | Day (New York) | Fate Magazine (Palmer) | The Golden Dawn | Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research | L'Astrosophie | Mind Digest | Nautilus | New York Spiritualist Leader | The Occult Review | Psychical Research Review | Round Robin | The Seer | The Spiritualist (US) | The Stellar Ray | Tomorrow (Garrett) | True Mystic Science
Related Monographs: Higher Psychical Development (Yoga Philosophy): An Outline of the Secret Hindu Teachings (1920), Magic Is Fun: Magic for Everyone (1920), The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism (1920), What Is a Ghost? and Phantasms of the Dead (1920), Your Psychic Powers and How to Develop Them (1920), The Problems of Psychical Research: Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal (1921), The Projection of the Astral Body (1929), The Psychic World (1937)
Carrithers, Walter A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Truth About Madame Blavatsky (1947)
Carroll, Robert S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Our Nervous Friends: Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness (1920)
Carson, Kit
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Christopher "Kit" Carson (1809–1868), the American frontiersman and guide; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Watchman
Carter, Charles E.O.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Charles E. O. Carter (1887–1968) was a leading British astrologer of the interwar period, president of the Astrological Lodge of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1968) English astrologer and author; President of the Astrological Lodge of London for nearly three decades and co-founder of the Faculty of Astrological Studies (1948). Wrote The Encyclopaedia of Psychological Astrology (1924) and Astrological Aspects (1930), advancing a psychological, empirical astrology over fatalistic prediction. Died in London in 1968.
Related Periodicals: Astrology -- The Astrologers Quarterly
Carter, Howard
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Gnosis (Vienna)
Related Monographs: Spiritualism: Its Present-Day Meaning (A Symposium) (1920)
Cartland, Barbara
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Dame Barbara Cartland (1901–2000) was a prolific English romance novelist with a well-known interest in Spiritualism and psychic matters.
Related Periodicals: Prediction
Carty, Charles
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Rosicrucians (1949)
Carus, Mary
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Mary Hegeler Carus (1861–1936) was an American engineer and executive of the
Related Periodicals: The Open Court
Carus, Paul
Paul Carus (1852–1919) was a German-American philosopher and editor of The Open Court and The Monist for the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1919) German-American editor and philosopher of 'Monism'; editor of the Open Court Publishing Company and its journals The Open Court and The Monist. After the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions he worked with D. T. Suzuki and Sōyen Shaku to bring Buddhism and Zen to Western readers, and wrote the popular The Gospel of Buddha (1894). Died in Illinois in 1919.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Carus
Chasing Emma: Some Notes on Revelations of a Spirit Medium
Related Periodicals: The Buddhist Ray | Independent Thinker | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | The Open Court | Theosophischer Wegweiser | Vrede
Case, Paul Foster
Paul Foster Case (1884–1954) was an American occultist and writer on tarot and Qabalah who founded the Builders of the Adytum (B.O.T.A.), a correspondence school of Western esotericism. His articles on "The Secret Doctrine of the Tarot" appeared in The Word in 1916.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1954) American occultist, author, and musician, an authority on tarot and Qabalah. A professional double bassist who joined the Golden Dawn (Alpha et Omega) in 1918; expelled in 1922 after clashing with Moina Mathers. That year he founded the Builders of the Adytum (B.O.T.A.), a correspondence school teaching tarot, Qabalah, and practical occultism. Died in California in 1954.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Foster_Case
Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought (Chicago) | Azoth | The Word (Percival)
Related Monographs: The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages (1947)
Cashmere, J.H.
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Chasing Emma: Absolutely Reliable: J. Howard Cashmere and John Bertrum Clarke
Related Periodicals: The Balance
Caspari, Heinz
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Cassiere, William J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Miracles of Today (1948)
Casson, Herbert N.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Herbert N. Casson (1869–1951) was a Canadian-born writer and efficiency expert whose early career touched New Thought and reform journalism.
Related Periodicals: Realization
Castelot, Francois Jollivet
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Jollivet-Castellot — François Jollivet-Castellot (1874–1937), the French alchemist; see that entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1937) French alchemist and hermetic writer, born François Jollivet-Castelot; president of the
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Cavalli, Vincenzo
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Filosofia della Scienza | Luce e Ombra | Mondo Occulto
Cave, Francis A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Electronic Reactions of Abrams: An Endorsement (1922)
Cayce, Edgar
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) was an American clairvoyant, the "Sleeping Prophet," who delivered thousands of trance "readings" on health, reincarnation, Atlantis, and prophecy. In 1931 he founded the Association for Research and Enlightenment, and he is widely regarded as a foundational figure of the modern New Age movement.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1945) American clairvoyant, 'the Sleeping Prophet.' From a self-induced trance he gave over 14,000 recorded 'readings' — medical diagnoses, past lives, and accounts of the 'Akashic Records' — and founded the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) in 1931 at Virginia Beach. Arrested at times for fortune-telling; his Atlantis and earth-change readings drew wide skepticism. Died in 1945.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce
Related Periodicals: Orion Magazine
Caylor, Edward Hamilton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Edward Hamilton Caylor, an organizer of the National Anti-Spiritualistic Association (1897), a figure in the organized opposition to the movement.
Chasing Emma: September 1897: The NASAA
Cellini, Benvenuto
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571), the Florentine Renaissance goldsmith and sculptor, whose autobiography famously describes a necromantic conjuration in the Roman Colosseum.
Related Periodicals: The Supernatural Magazine
Cerve, Wishar S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Chabosseau, Augustin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Augustin Chaboseau (1868–1946) was a French historian and occultist, a co-founder with Papus of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1946) French occultist and socialist journalist, a central figure in the modern revival of Martinism. In 1891, having (like Papus) received an independent Saint-Martin initiation, he co-founded the Martinist Order and sat on its Supreme Council. After Papus's death the order splintered; opposing Jean Bricaud, Chaboseau co-founded the Traditional Martinist Order (1931) to preserve the non-Masonic rituals. Died in Paris in 1946.
Related Periodicals: L'Initiation | Psyche (Paris) | L'Etoile
Chacornac, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Paul Chacornac (1884–1964) was a Parisian occult bookseller and publisher whose house issued Le Voile d'Isis / Études Traditionnelles and works of René Guénon.
Related Periodicals: Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles | Voile d'Isis
Related Monographs: Les Noces Chymiques de Christian Rosencreutz (1928)
Chaigneau, J.-Camille
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jean-Camille Chaigneau was a French Spiritualist poet and writer of the later nineteenth century, associated with the review La Pensée Nouvelle.
Related Periodicals: Humanite Integrale | La Pensee Nouvelles
Chainey, George
To be added.
Chasing Emma: George Chainey; Nuclear Fusion; and Homeopathy: Where A Book Can Take Us
Chasing Emma: Six Degrees of George Chainey
Chasing Emma: Six Degrees of George Chainey: Kingsford; Maitland and Tindall
Chasing Emma: The Gnostic: A Chainey-Kimball-Colville Production
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Related Monographs: Paradise, or The Garden of the Lord God (1925), Deus Homo, or The Perfect Life of Man in God and of God in Man (1927)
Challoner, H. K.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Watchers of the Seven Spheres (1933)
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927) was a British-born, Germanized writer whose Foundations of the Nineteenth Century propounded influential Aryan racial theories.
Related Periodicals: Zum Licht
Chambers, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Robert Chambers (1802–1871), the Edinburgh publisher and anonymous author of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, whose Chambers's Journal engaged early Spiritualism.
Chasing Emma: Robert Chambers; Edward Alfred Hardinge and the Mythical First Marriage of EHB
Related Monographs: The Opal Matrix (1937)
Chambers, Robert W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Slayer of Souls (1920)
Champagne, Jean-Julien
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Jean-Julien Champagne (1877–1932) was a French illustrator and alchemist widely suspected of being the true author behind the pseudonym "Fulcanelli."
Related Periodicals: Bibliotheque des Sciences Esoteriques
Champrenaud, Leon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Léon Champrenaud (1870–1925), who wrote as "Abdul-Haqq," was a French traditionalist and student of Sufism associated with the early circle around René Guénon.
Related Periodicals: La Voie (Paris)
Champville, Fabius de
To be added.
Related Periodicals: La Vie Mysterieuse | The Horoscope [London] | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | Revista Universal Magnetismo Experimental y Terapeutico
Chamuel, Lucien
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Lucien Chamuel (Lucien Mauchel) was a Parisian occult publisher and bookseller of the 1890s, whose
Related Periodicals: Bibliotheque des Sciences Esoteriques
Chandler, Lucinda B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Lucinda B. Chandler (1828–1911) was an American reformer and writer on "social purity," women's rights, and New Thought.
Related Periodicals: Foundation Principles | Mind | The Psychical Review
Chaney, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Robert Chaney (1913–2006) was an American Spiritualist medium who co-founded the
Related Periodicals: Golden Rays (Michigan) | Ruby Focus | Voice of Astara
Related Monographs: Mediums and the Development of Mediumship (1946)
Chaney, W.H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) William Henry Chaney (1821–1903) was an itinerant American astrologer, a promoter of astrology in the United States, and the reputed biological father of the writer Jack London.
Chasing Emma: The Flinty-Hearted Calculator: Some Notes on W. H. Chaney (1821-1903)
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Channing, William Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) William Henry Channing (1810–1884) was an American Unitarian minister, Transcendentalist, and reformer, associated with the harmonial periodical The Univercoelum.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1884) American Unitarian clergyman, Transcendentalist, and reformer; nephew of William Ellery Channing. A contributor to The Dial and associate of Margaret Fuller and Emerson, and a supporter of the Brook Farm community and Christian socialism. Died in London in 1884.
Related Periodicals: Spirit of the Age | Univercoelum
Charbonneau-Lassy, Louis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Louis Charbonneau-Lassay (1871–1946) was a French Catholic scholar of Christian symbolism, author of Le Bestiaire du Christ, associated with the review Regnabit.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1946) French historian, engraver, and esoteric writer on Christian sacred symbolism; his Le Bestiaire du Christ (1940) mapped the mystical meanings of animal symbols in Christian art and influenced René Guénon. He claimed connection to a secret order, the '
Related Periodicals: Le Rayonnement Intellectuel | Regnabit
Charcot
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893) was the French neurologist of the Salpêtrière whose studies of hysteria and hypnosis shaped the era's debates over mediumship and suggestion.
(Source: Gemini) Jean-Martin Charcot (?–1893), French neurologist at the Salpêtrière, a founder of modern neurology. His public studies of hypnosis and hysteria — treating hysteria as a neurological disorder and inducing hysterical states under hypnosis — made him central to the era's debates over suggestion and the mind, opposed by Bernheim's Nancy school; among his students was Sigmund Freud. Died in 1893.
Related Periodicals: La Vie Mysterieuse
Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955) was a French Jesuit paleontologist and mystic whose evolutionary theology of the "Omega Point" influenced later spiritual thought.
(Source: Gemini) French Jesuit priest and paleontologist (1881–1955), co-discoverer of "Peking Man," whose evolutionary mysticism — the noosphere and the Omega Point — was absorbed into New Age and esoteric evolutionary thought.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Charles, George B.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Her Pathological System: Christian Science in Chicago 1882-1887
Related Periodicals: Mind Cure and Science of Life
Chase, Frank
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Frank Chase, a patentee and sitter in Emma Hardinge's early American test-mediumship.
Chasing Emma: Emma; Performing (Again)
Chasing Emma: Emma as Test Medium
Chase, J. Munsell
To be added.
Related Periodicals: California Spiritual Messenger | The Religio-Philosophical Journal
Chase, Warren
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Warren Chase (1813–1891) was an American Spiritualist, Fourierist, and reformer, known as "the Lone One," a lecturer and associationist community founder.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1891) American Spiritualist leader, reformer, and politician. A founder of the Ceresco community (the Wisconsin Phalanx, 1844), a Fourierist commune; later a Wisconsin state senator who worked to abolish the death penalty and for women's suffrage. Wrote The Gist of Spiritualism (1853) and lectured widely as an itinerant Spiritualist. Died in 1891.
Chasing Emma: Elizabeth French
Chasing Emma: The Men of the SDSK
Chasing Emma: April 1859 -- Emma and Elizabeth; Cohabiting
Chasing Emma: The Free-Loving Women of Ceresco
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Chatterji, J.C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Jagadish Chandra Chatterji (1873–1960) was an Indian scholar of Kashmir Shaivism and Vedanta who lectured in the West and was associated with Theosophical circles.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1957) Indian Sanskrit scholar who introduced Kashmir Shaivism to the West. Director of the Research Department of Jammu and Kashmir State, he edited sacred Sanskrit texts and wrote Kashmir Shaivaism (1914); later he lectured on Indian philosophy in Europe and the United States. Died in 1957.
Related Periodicals: Luz Astral (Chile)
Chavannes, Albert
(Source: Gemini) Swiss-born American sociologist, printer, and individualist-anarchist writer who settled in Knoxville, Tennessee, and published the journal The Sociologist; his books advanced theories of stirpiculture (eugenic breeding), birth control, and social evolution.
Related Periodicals: Modern Philosopher | Nautilus | New Thought Library (Chavannes) | Thought (Alameda)
Cheiro
"Cheiro" was the professional name of William John Warner, also styled Count Louis Hamon (1866–1936), an Irish palmist, astrologer, and numerologist who read the hands of many celebrities of his day and wrote widely reprinted works on palmistry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1936) Irish palmist, astrologer, and numerologist, born William John Warner and styled 'Count Louis Hamon'; a celebrity seer of the late-Victorian and Edwardian era. From a fashionable London salon he read palms and numbers for figures including Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Edward VII. Prosecuted under fortune-telling laws and later ruined by a bank-fraud scandal; died in Hollywood in 1936.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheiro
Related Periodicals: The Direct Voice | The Sphinx (Boston)
Chenevix, Richard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Richard Chenevix (1774–1830), the Irish chemist and mineralogist whose demonstrations helped introduce mesmerism to England.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History... Richard Chenevix/Chevenix
Chenneviere, Daniel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Daniel Chennevière was the birth name of Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985), the French-American composer, Theosophist, and pioneer of modern "transpersonal" astrology.
Related Periodicals: The Glass Hive
Cherenzilind, Omar
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Radiomind: The Scientific Conquest of Life (1946)
Cherep-Spiridovich, H. Victor von Broens-Trupp
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Intelligence (Blue Lamoo)
Chesebrough, Silas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Silas Chesebrough, a thinly-documented figure in the circle around the Spiritualist educator Henry Kiddle.
Chasing Emma: The Truth Will Come Uppermost: Henry Kiddle to Dr. Silas Chesebrough; July 11; 1883
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English essayist, critic, and novelist, and a noted Catholic apologist.
(Source: Gemini) English writer, critic, and lay theologian (1874–1936), creator of the Father Brown detective stories and author of Orthodoxy (1908) and The Everlasting Man; a prominent Catholic apologist.
Related Periodicals: The Open Road
Related Monographs: Child Mediums: Being an exposure of an evil which is working the ruin of the bodies and souls of our children (1923)
Chevillon, Constant Martin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) A variant spelling of Constant Chevillon (1880–1944), the French Martinist and Gnostic leader; see the "Chevillon, Constant Martin" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1944) French occultist and banker, Grand Master of the
Related Periodicals: F. U. D. O. S. I. | Annales Initiatiques
Chevreuil, Leon
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Bulletin de l'Union Spirite Francaise
Related Monographs: Proofs of the Spirit World (1920)
Child, A.B.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: July 1858: History of Mediums // No. 5 -- Miss Emma Hardinge
Related Periodicals: The Principle | The Spiritual Clarion
Child, Henry T.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: William Baker Fahnestock (1804-1886)
Chasing Emma: EHB in 1869: Eight Philadelphia Lectures
Related Periodicals: The Herald of Progress (US) | Little Bouquet | The Lyceum Banner (Chicago) | Spiritual Reporter
Child, L. Maria
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) was an American abolitionist, novelist, and reformer, sympathetic to Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) American abolitionist, novelist, and journalist (1802–1880); author of the antislavery An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833) and editor of the children's magazine Juvenile Miscellany.
Related Periodicals: The Herald of Progress (US)
Childs, H.C.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Religio-Philosophical Journal | The Spiritual Republic
Chohan, Maha
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Ariel (Colombia) | The Bridge to Freedom | Mentor (Myneta and Taylor) | Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Choisnard, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Paul Choisnard (1867–1930) was a French army officer and pioneer of "scientific" statistical astrology, writing under the name "Paul Flambart."
Related Periodicals: Revue Francaise d'Astrologie
Chretienne, France
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | La France Antimaconnique | Memoires d'une Ex-Palladiste | Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes | Revue Mensuelle Diable aux XIX Siecle | Vaincre (Plantard)
Christensen, C.P.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought and Divine Science | Occult Truth Seeker | Psychical Research Review | The Spiritualist (US)
Churchill, Lida A.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Center | Day (New York) | Progress Magazine
Churchward, James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) James Churchward (1851–1936) was an Anglo-American writer who popularized the lost continent of "Mu" (Lemuria) in a series of books beginning with The Lost Continent of Mu (1926).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1936) English occult writer and engineer, famous for the theory of the lost Pacific continent of 'Mu.' In The Lost Continent of Mu (1926) and its sequels he claimed to reconstruct an advanced antediluvian civilization from secret stone tablets deciphered in India — accounts dismissed by scholars as fabrication. Died in New York in 1936.
Related Periodicals: Lemurian Ambassador
Chynoweth, Mary Hayes
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Mary Hayes Chynoweth (1825–1905) was an American trance healer and medium who founded a religious society and, through mining fortunes, endowed institutions in Wisconsin and California.
Related Periodicals: True Life
Claire, Elohim
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Clapp, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Henry Clapp Jr. (1814–1875), the “King of Bohemia” and editor of the New York Saturday Press, who reviewed Emma Hardinge.
Chasing Emma: Emma; Reviewed
Clapp, Otis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Otis Clapp (1806–1886) was a Boston Swedenborgian, homeopathic-remedy merchant, and publisher of New Church and reform literature.
Related Periodicals: Heat and Light for the Nineteenth Century
Clapp, Theodore
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Theodore Clapp, whose letters are a source on the Mountain Cove Spiritualist community.
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [5]: The Clapp Letters
Clarin, Abel
(Source: Gemini) (?–1914) French anti-Masonic writer and journalist, born Abel Clarin de la Rive; director of the journal La France Chrétienne, succeeding Léo Taxil. Wrote La Femme et l'Enfant dans la Franc-Maçonnerie (1894), a Catholic exposé of Freemasonry and esoteric societies, and was entangled in the Taxil/Diana Vaughan hoax. Died in 1914.
Related Periodicals: La France Antimaconnique
Clark, Charles S.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 9: Lawyering Up
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 10: Birthed in Tippah County
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 13: This Method Is Original With Me
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Clark, Stanley K.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: What to Eat--And When (1946)
Clark, Uriah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Uriah Clark was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist lecturer and editor, author of the widely used Plain Guide to Spiritualism.
Related Periodicals: New-England Spiritualist | The Principle | The Sacred Circle | The Spiritual Clarion | Spiritual Register | The Spiritual Telegraph | The Spiritual Universe | Tiffany's Monthly
Clarke, John Bertrum
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Absolutely Reliable: J. Howard Cashmere and John Bertrum Clarke
Related Periodicals: The Balance
Related Monographs: The Chart of Mind and Winning Health and Great Aims with Waves of Mind Power (1923)
Clavelle, Marcelle
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles | Voile d'Isis
Clay, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Henry Clay (1777–1852), the American statesman and orator; invoked here within a Spiritualist/reform periodical.
Related Periodicals: Spiritual Reformer and Humanitarian
Clay, James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) James Clay, a mid-Victorian free-love advocate, author of the 1856 tract A Voice from Prison.
Chasing Emma: A Voice from Prison
Clayton, Charles Lincoln
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: God, Evolution and Mind Healing (1923)
Cleather, Alice Leighton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Alice Leighton Cleather (1846–1938) was an English Theosophist and personal pupil of H. P. Blavatsky who later promoted Tibetan Buddhism.
Related Periodicals: The International Theosophist | Proceedings of the Blavatsky Association | Theosophical News
Related Monographs: H. P. Blavatsky: A Great Betrayal (1922), H. P. Blavatsky: Her Life and Work for Humanity (1922), H. P. Blavatsky As I Knew Her (1923)
Clegg, Robert I.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Kindred Sciences (1929)
Clemenceau, Georges
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929), French statesman and premier during the First World War; cited here in a metaphysical periodical.
Related Periodicals: Mind Inc.
Clement, Mark
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Principles and Practice of Radiesthesia (1935)
Clements, George Roger
To be added.
Related Periodicals: How to Live for Health and Strength (Sebring)
Clive-Ross, Francis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Francis Clive-Ross (1921–1981) was a British editor associated with the Traditionalist review Tomorrow / Studies in Comparative Religion.
Related Periodicals: Aquarian Path | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Clodd, Edward
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Magic in Names and in Other Things (1921), Occultism: Two Lectures Delivered in the Royal Institution on May 17 and 24, 1921 (1922)
Close, Charles W.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Breath of Life (Christopathian) | Das Wort (St. Louis) | Free Man (Bangor) | Independent Thinker | Light of Ages | Mind Cure and Science of Life | Nautilus | The New Man | Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews | Wings of Truth
Clymer, Reuben Swinburne
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) R. Swinburne Clymer (1878–1966), American Rosicrucian leader of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis; same person as the "Clymer, Reuben Swinburne" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1966) American Rosicrucian and alternative physician, Supreme Grand Master of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, based at 'Beverly Hall' in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. Wrote many books on Rosicrucianism, alchemy, and 'physical regeneration.' Waged a long public feud with Harvey Spencer Lewis of AMORC over Rosicrucian legitimacy. Died in 1966.
Chasing Emma: The (Soulual) Denver Mystic Healing Circle
Chasing Emma: Round The Barn: Occult IP; Specificity and T. S. Eliot
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Aegyptus (The Coptic Fellowship of America) | MacDonald's Farmer's Almanac and Dream Book | The Oracle (Boston) | American Rosae Crucis | The Herald of the Golden Age | Initiates | Initiates and the People | The Occult Digest | The Philomathian | The Rosicrucian Brotherhood | Star of the Magi | Twentieth Century Astrology
Related Monographs: The Beautiful Philosophy of Life (1920), The Philosophy of Fire (1920), The Rosicrucians: Publication Authorized by The Rosicrucian Fraternity in America (1920), Making Health Certain (1921), The Divine Law: Mastership (1922), The Science of the Soul: The Art and Science of Building a Soul (1922), Practical Occultism, or Aeth Hierarchic Forces: Primary Text Book for the Members of the Magi (Order of the Magi, Priests and Princes of Melchizadek) (1923), The Rosicrucians: Their Teachings (1923), The Sons of God: The Mystical Interpretation of the Teachings of the Masters (1925), The Gods: The Immaculate Conception (1928), The Case of A.M.O.R.C. against Smith and Thomas (1933), An Expose of the Imperator of A.M.O.R.C.: His Pilfering Charlatanism and His Connections with Aleister Crowley and O.T.O. (1935), Dr. R. Swinburne Clymer Replies to 'Dr.' H. Spencer Lewis, The Mystic Swindler, and the A.M.A. Article (1935), The August Fraternity: Munchausen of the Occult (1935), The Case of A.M.O.R.C. against George L. Smith and E. E. Thomas (Superior Court, Kern County, CA) (1935), The Hermetic Concept of Success (1938), Rosicruciae: The Rosy Cross (1940), The Aeth Priesthood: Initiation and Mastership Through Occult Training (1941), Los Rosacruces y sus Ensenanzas (1947), The Book of Rosicruciae, Vol. 1 (1948), Mastership: The Divine Law (1949), How to Create the Perfect Baby by Means of ... Stirpiculture (1950), The Mystery of Sex and Race Regeneration (1950)
Coakley, Thomas F.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritism, the Modern Satanism (1920)
Coan, William B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) William B. Coan, first husband of the medium Ada Hoyt (later Ada Hoyt Coan Foye).
Chasing Emma: William B. Coan: Ada Hoyt's First Husband
Coates, James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) James Coates (1843–1928) was a Scottish phrenologist, hypnotist, and psychical writer, author of Photographing the Invisible.
Chasing Emma: The Spiritualist Encyclopedia
Related Periodicals: Hindu Spiritual Magazine | Self-Culture | The Stellar Ray
Related Monographs: How to Thought Read and How to Read Minds (1922)
Coates, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Probably John Coats (1906–1979), international president of the
Related Periodicals: Theosophy in Action
Coats, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John Coats (1906–1979) was an English Theosophist who served as international president of the
Related Periodicals: Eclectic Theosophist
Cobb, John Storer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John Storer Cobb was a nineteenth-century American lawyer, Nationalist, and Theosophist, an editor associated with Boston reform periodicals.
Chasing Emma: TS Founders: John Storer Cobb
Related Periodicals: The Nationalist [Boston]
Cobb, Stanwood
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Stanwood Cobb (1881–1982) was an American educator, a founder of the progressive-education movement, and an early Baha'i.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1982) American educator and early Baha'i leader in the United States. Encountered the Baha'i Faith while teaching at Robert College in Constantinople; founded the Chevy Chase Country Day School (1919) and co-founded the Progressive Education Association. Edited the Baha'i journal Star of the West. Died in 1982, aged 101.
Related Periodicals: Star of the West (Bahai)
Cobham, E. M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mary Everest Boole: Collected Works, Vol. I (1931)
Cockburn, John A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods (1921)
Codd, Clara M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Clara M. Codd (1876–1971) was an English Theosophist, suffragette, and popular international lecturer for the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1971) English Theosophist lecturer, writer, and former suffragette. A violinist who joined Emmeline Pankhurst's suffrage movement and was jailed in Holloway (1908); later a popular international lecturer for the Theosophical Society across India, Australia, South Africa, and America, living in voluntary poverty. Died in 1971.
Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought (Chicago) | The Theosophical Review
Cohen, Chapman
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Other Side of Death: A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Future Life, with a Study of Spiritualism (1922)
Colavida, Jose Maria de Fernandez
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Revista de Estudios Psicologicos | Revista Espiritista (Barcelona)
Colby, Luther
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Luther Colby (1811–1894) was the founder and long-time editor of the Banner of Light, the leading American Spiritualist newspaper.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1894) American Spiritualist editor and publisher. In 1857, with William Berry, he co-founded The Banner of Light in Boston — the most widely read Spiritualist newspaper in the world — and edited it for nearly four decades, printing spirit messages and accounts of psychical investigation. Died in Boston in 1894.
Chasing Emma: The Citadel of All Truth: The First Prospectus for the Banner of Light
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Colchester, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Charles J. Colchester (styling himself “Lord Colchester”), an American “test” medium and astrologer of the 1860s, repeatedly exposed, and linked in legend to the Lincoln White House séance world.
Chasing Emma: Colchester in Context: October 29; 1860
Chasing Emma: May 1866: Colchester; Thoroughly Exposed
Chasing Emma: Strangers N. Y. City Directory: Charles Colchester and Jackson Sealby
Cole, H. Travers
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Way We Think: A Primer of Education and Psychotherapy by Reeducation (1928)
Coleman, Benjamin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Benjamin Coleman was a prominent mid-nineteenth-century English Spiritualist, a public promoter and correspondent of the early movement.
Chasing Emma: Uncollected Essays from 1866...and 1868...and 1871
Chasing Emma: January 1866: Not Safe For Long
Chasing Emma: Benjamin Coleman; Redux
Chasing Emma: Emma; Benjamin Coleman; and E. A. Sothern
Chasing Emma: The (Non-Existent) Biography of Benjamin Coleman
Chasing Emma: Traveling Souls
Chasing Emma: December 23; 1865: Who Came First; Mr. Dove or Mr. Coleman?
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Part Six: Benjamin Appleseed
Chasing Emma: Controversy Conducted; Part Two: The Immediate Surroundings
Chasing Emma: As If By Magic: Benjamin Coleman; Mesmerist
Chasing Emma: No. 22 Red Lion Street: An Evening With The Two Mrs. Marshalls (And Benjamin Coleman); January 1860
Related Periodicals: Christian Spiritualist (UK) | Daybreak | The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
Coleman, W.E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) William Emmette Coleman (1843–1909) was an American critic of Spiritualism and Theosophy, notorious for his source-critical attack on Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine.
Chasing Emma: W. E. Coleman; J. J. Morse; and EHB
Chasing Emma: The Death of Madame Blavatsky
Chasing Emma: Scarcity and the Canon: The Case of The Carrier Dove
Chasing Emma: Treasures Gold and Red: William Emmette Coleman's Legacy
Chasing Emma: Spirit Miscegenation: Coleman on Kimball; January 1881
Chasing Emma: Marvelous Occultic Phenomena: William Emmette Coleman; June 1885
Chasing Emma: No Palliation of Systematic Knavery: William Emmette Coleman on Obsession Theory; May 1885
Chasing Emma: The Portly Anatomy of the Fraud Siren: William Emmette Coleman on Mediumistic Fraud in San Francisco
Chasing Emma: It Encourages Rational Amusements: William Emmette Coleman on the Spiritual Philosophy; 1888
Related Periodicals: The Buddhist Ray | The Carrier Dove | Liberator (SFO) | The Spiritual Offering
Colie, Elizabeth Davenport
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Elizabeth Davenport Colie, sister of the Davenport Brothers of the famous cabinet-medium family.
Chasing Emma: The Davenport Sisters: May 31; 1864
Chasing Emma: The Davenport Sister: Elizabeth Davenport Colie
Colley, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Thomas Colley (“Archdeacon Colley”), an Anglican cleric and ardent defender of the materializing medium Francis Ward Monck.
Chasing Emma: Stainton Moses' Pocket-Book: October 1877
Collier, Robert J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Probably Robert Collier (1885–1950), the American New Thought author of The Secret of the Ages.
Related Periodicals: Mind Inc. | The New Liberator
Collins, Mabel
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Locked Room: A True Story of Experiences in Spiritualism (1920)
Collyer, R.H.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: No Valuable Consideration: Mind Cure
Chasing Emma: Robert H. Collyer: His Flame-Keeper
Related Periodicals: The Mesmeric Magazine
Colville, W.J.
Wilbur Juvenal Colville (ca. 1859-1917) was a British inspirational speaker and prolific author with little formal education but remarkable natural abilities as an inspirational speaker and trance medium. Orphaned young, he first passed into trance as a fourteen-year-old after attending a lecture by Cora L. V. Richmond in Brighton. He subsequently toured the United States, England, and Australia, delivering inspirational addresses and trance discourses on a wide range of subjects. He authored numerous books including Studies in Theosophy (1889) and Ancient Mysteries and Modern Revelations (1910), becoming a prominent figure bridging Spiritualism and Theosophy.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1917) English-American Spiritualist and New Thought trance lecturer and author. From childhood he claimed clairvoyant experiences and delivered structured lectures in trance; over three decades he lectured across America, Europe, and Australia and wrote many books, including Universal Spiritualism (1906). Died in San Francisco in 1917.
p> | Stories Within Stories: The Childhoods of W. J. Colville | A Voice to the Wise, But Which the Vulgar Heareth Not | Early Colville: Mage-in-the-MakingEncyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/colville-wilbur-juvenal-ca-1859-1917
Chasing Emma: Emma's Stereopticon
Chasing Emma: Stories Within Stories: The Childhoods of W. J. Colville
Chasing Emma: Early Colville: Mage-in-the-Making
Chasing Emma: The Gnostic: A Chainey-Kimball-Colville Production
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Combe, Andrew
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Andrew Combe (1797–1847) was a Scottish physician and phrenologist, brother of George Combe, and author of popular works on physiology and health.
Related Periodicals: The Phrenological Journal
Combe, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) George Combe (1788–1858) was a Scottish lawyer and the leading popularizer of phrenology, author of the best-selling The Constitution of Man (1828).
Chasing Emma: One Ring To Rule Them: The Utility of Phrenology; Circa 1847
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal | Zeitschrift fur Phrenologie
Combes, Leon
To be added.
Related Periodicals: La Voie (Paris) | Psyche [Beaudelot] | Mysteria | Petit Echo de l'Inconnue
Comfort, Will Levington
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Beacon (Bailey) | The Glass Hive | Hamsa | The Inner Life (Akron) | Occult Life (LAX) | The Occultist (Los Angeles)
Related Monographs: The Will Levington Comfort Letters, Book One: The Mystic Road (Letters 1-19) (1920)
Comstock, Anthony
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Anthony Comstock (1844–1915) was the American anti-vice crusader whose "Comstock laws" were used to prosecute freethinkers, sex reformers, and occult publishers.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1915) American anti-vice crusader and postal inspector; founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (1873) and force behind the federal 'Comstock Laws' against 'obscene' mailings. As special postal inspector he prosecuted publishers and reformers — including the occultist Ida Craddock and the spiritualist Victoria Woodhull — and destroyed quantities of literature, making him a central antagonist of the era's spiritualist, free-love, and occult publishing. Died in New York in 1915.
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Comte, Auguste
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Auguste Comte (1798–1857) was the French philosopher who founded positivism and the "Religion of Humanity."
(Source: Gemini) French philosopher (1798–1857), founder of positivism and of modern sociology; formulator of the "Law of Three Stages" and, late in life, of a secular "Religion of Humanity."
Related Periodicals: Paix Universelle | Revista da Sociedade Academica
Conable, Edgar Wallace
To be added.
Related Organizations:
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Confucius
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Confucius (Kong Qiu, 551–479 BCE), the Chinese sage whose ethical teachings were frequently cited in Western religious and reform periodicals.
Related Periodicals: The Olive Branch
Conger, Arthur L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Arthur L. Conger (1872–1951) was a U.S. Army officer and Theosophist who became leader of the
(Source: Gemini) (1872–1951) American army officer, musicologist, and Theosophist; leader of the Theosophical Society (Point Loma/Covina) from 1945. A disciple of William Q. Judge and Katherine Tingley; his accession was contested by a faction, producing schisms and lawsuits. Parkinsonism confined him to a wheelchair in his last years. Died in Pasadena in 1951.
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Conklin, John B.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Thomas R. Hazard on J. B. Conklin: May; 1868
Chasing Emma: Conceived by Accident and Brought Forth Before the Time: March 25; 1854
Chasing Emma: If It Was The Devil: J. B. Conklin at Koons' Spirit Rooms; November 1854
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Conlin, Claude Alexander
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Alexander's Book of Mystery: Astrological Forecasts, Crystal Gazing, Practical and Advanced Psychology, etc. (1923), The Life and Mysteries of the Celebrated Dr. Q (1946)
Connor, A. T.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritualism for the Student and Investigator: A Symposium (1923), Advent: The Beginnings of Modern Spiritualism (1925), Essays on Reasoning: The Application of Logic to the Investigation of Spiritualism (1925), The Oral Grade Reader: A Handbook for Oral Group Leaders (1926)
Constant, Alphonse Louis
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The History of Magic, Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of Its Procedure, Its Rites and Its Mysteries (1922), The Paradoxes of the Highest Science (1922)
Conway, Moncure D.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Moncure D. Conway (1832–1907) was an American-born freethought minister, biographer of Thomas Paine, and man of letters active in London and the United States.
(Source: Gemini) (1832–1907) American freethinker, Unitarian minister, and abolitionist. Born to a Virginia slave-holding family, he broke with them over slavery; a friend of Emerson and Whitman, he preached secular humanism at the South Place Chapel in London for decades. His attempts to negotiate an end to the Civil War from London drew charges of disloyalty. Died in Paris in 1907.
Chasing Emma: Reception Aesthetics: <I>Modern American Spiritualism</i>
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Cook, Cecil M.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Communication
Related Monographs: The Voice Triumphant: The Revelations of a Medium (1931)
Cook, Charles
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Gazette
Related Monographs: Individual Completeness (1946)
Cook, Ezra A.
To be added.
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Cook, Florence
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Florence Cook (1856–1904) was a celebrated English materialization medium, famous for the full-form manifestation "Katie King" and for her sittings with Sir William Crookes.
(Source: Gemini) (1856–1904) English materialization medium, famous for producing the full-form 'spirit' Katie King while bound in a cabinet. In 1874 Sir William Crookes investigated her at length and declared her genuine — endorsing her and drawing ridicule on them both; skeptics later seized the 'spirit' mid-séance and exposed her impersonation. Died in London in 1904.
Chasing Emma: The Spiritualist and the Physicist
Chasing Emma: November; 1874: EHB; Full-Form Materialization; and Polite Society
Chasing Emma: Adelma's Adjutant: Caroline Corner (1855-1913)
Chasing Emma: An Absolute Test: Charles Blackburn; Miss Cook; and the Fletchers
Chasing Emma: Then Everybody Would Believe: W. H. Harrison on Full-Form Manifestations; 1874
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Cook, Jay Williams
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Scientific Prayer (1921)
Cook, Mabel Collins
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Mabel Collins (1851–1927) was an English Theosophist and novelist, author of the devotional classic Light on the Path (1885).
(Source: Gemini) (1851–1927) English novelist, journalist, and Theosophist, author of the classic Light on the Path (1885). A close associate of H. P. Blavatsky and co-editor of Lucifer, she fell out with Blavatsky over the authorship of Light on the Path and was expelled from the Society in 1889. Died in 1927.
Related Periodicals: Broad Views | The Gnostic | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires) | Loto Blanco | Lucifer | The Occult Review | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires)
Claflin, Tennessee Celeste
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923), later Lady Cook, was an American Spiritualist, magnetic healer, stockbroker, and suffragist, sister and partner of Victoria Woodhull.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1923) American spiritualist, magnetic healer, and reformer; with her sister Victoria Woodhull, backed by Cornelius Vanderbilt, she became one of Wall Street's first female stockbrokers and co-published Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, advocating suffrage, labor reform, and free love. Jailed in 1872 over the Beecher-adultery exposé. Later Lady Cook. Died in London in 1923.
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Cook, Thomas
To be added.
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Cooke, Grace
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Grace Cooke (1892–1979) was an English medium who, guided by the spirit "White Eagle," founded the
Related Organizations:
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Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877–1947) was a Ceylonese-British art historian and metaphysician, a leading exponent of the Perennialist / Traditionalist school of thought.
(Source: Gemini) (1877–1947) Ceylon-born metaphysician and art historian, a founder of the Traditionalist (Perennialist) school with René Guénon. Curator of Indian art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; wrote on sacred art, symbolism, and traditional metaphysics, and criticized modern industrial culture for degrading the sacred nature of craft. Died in Massachusetts in 1947.
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Cooper, Irving S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Irving S. Cooper (1882–1935) was an American Theosophist and the first Regionary Bishop of the
Related Periodicals: Rincarnazione
Related Monographs: To the General Episcopal Synod (a letter) (1934)
Cooper, Margaretta S.
To be added.
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Cooper, Robert
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Crude in Conception; and Defective in Execution: Some Notes on J. H. Powell (1830-1872)
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Copin-Albancelli
(Source: Gemini) (1851–1939) French journalist and anti-Masonic activist. A former Freemason who turned to exposing an alleged Masonic conspiracy against Christian France; founded the National Anti-Masonic Federation, edited La Bastille, and wrote Le Drame maçonnique. Died in 1939.
Related Periodicals: Mysteria
Related Monographs: La Guerre Occulte des Societes Secretes contre les Nations (1925)
Corbin, Raymond
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Symboles Initiatiques et Mysteres Chretiens (1929)
Corelli, Marie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Marie Corelli (1855–1924) was a best-selling English novelist whose romances (A Romance of Two Worlds, The Sorrows of Satan) were steeped in occult and mystical themes. See also "Correlli, Maria."
(Source: Gemini) (1855–1924) British best-selling novelist, born Mary Mackay, who wove spiritualist and mystical themes into popular fiction. Her debut A Romance of Two Worlds (1886) set out 'electric' spiritual energies, reincarnation, and divine healing; The Sorrows of Satan (1895) was a huge seller. Dismissed by literary critics, she feuded with the establishment. Died in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1924.
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Cornell, H.L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Howard Leslie Cornell (1872–1938) was an American astrologer and physician, author of the massive Encyclopaedia of Medical Astrology.
Related Periodicals: Aquarian Age
Corner, Caroline
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Caroline Corner (1855–1913), an English Spiritualist writer, an adjutant and source for the Austrian Spiritualist Baroness Adelma von Vay.
Chasing Emma: Adelma's Adjutant: Caroline Corner (1855-1913)
Cortezo, Taller Tipografico de Daniel
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Revista de Estudios Psicologicos
Coryn, H.A.W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Herbert A. W. Coryn was an English physician and Theosophist who joined the Point Loma community and wrote for its publications.
Related Periodicals: The International Theosophist | The Theosophical Path | Universal Brotherhood
Cotton, Edward H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Has Science Discovered God? A Symposium of Modern Scientific Opinion (1931)
Cottrel, Peleg S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Peleg S. Cottrel, a merchant connected to the Apostolic Circle and the Mountain Cove community.
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [11]: Peleg S. Cottrel & Co.
Coue, Emile
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Émile Coué (1857–1926) was a French pharmacist and psychologist who popularized healing through conscious autosuggestion ("Every day, in every way...").
(Source: Gemini) (1857–1926) French pharmacist and psychotherapist, popularizer of healing by 'autosuggestion.' After studying hypnotism under Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault he taught the mantra 'Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better'; the 'Coué method' spread through clinics across Europe and America in the 1920s. Died in 1926.
Related Periodicals: Bulletin de la Societe Lorraine de Psychologie Appliquee | Tempel | Twentieth Century Astrology
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Coues, Elliott
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Elliott Coues (1842–1899) was an eminent American ornithologist who became a prominent — and later expelled — American Theosophist and Spiritualist controversialist.
(Source: Gemini) (1842–1899) American ornithologist and army surgeon (co-founder of the American Ornithologists' Union) who became a prominent Theosophist, president of the Society's Gnostic branch in Washington. After publicly challenging Blavatsky and calling the Mahatma letters fabrications, he was expelled from the
Chasing Emma: Psychical Depravity: Elliot Coues on Hiram Erastus Butler
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Courtney, W.S.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Journal of Progress | The Spirit World | The Spiritual Age (new York) | The Spiritual Telegraph
Cousins, James H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Scourge of Christ (1921)
Cousteau, Jacques
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997), the French oceanographer and filmmaker; his appearance here reflects a periodical's popular-science interests.
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Covell, Alton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Alton Covell, nephew and accomplice of the astrologer Arthur Covell in the 1920s Oregon “astrology murder” case.
Chasing Emma: The Covell Astrology Murder; Episode One: Crime's Nemesis
Covell, Arthur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Arthur Covell, the disabled astrologer at the center of the 1920s Oregon “astrology murder” — a plot to kill family members carried out through hypnotized younger relatives.
Chasing Emma: The Covell Astrology Murder; Episode One: Crime's Nemesis
Coventry, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Charles Coventry, a figure in the disclosures around the Mountain Cove Spiritualist community.
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove: The Stakes in the Ground
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [6]: Disclosures From The Interior
Coward, Noel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Sir Noël Coward (1899–1973), the English playwright, actor, and songwriter; his comedy Blithe Spirit satirized Spiritualism.
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Cox, Edward W.
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (1809–1879) English lawyer ('Serjeant Cox'), publisher, and psychical researcher. He sought an empirical account of mediumship, proposing a 'psychic force' to explain physical phenomena without spirits, and in 1875 founded the
Chasing Emma: Was Serjeant Cox A Spiritualist?
Chasing Emma: Outwitted By His Second Self: W. H. Harrison; January 1875
Chasing Emma: The Psychological Society of Great Britain: 1875-1879
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Craddock, Ida C.
Ida C. Craddock (1857–1902) was an American free-speech advocate and student of religious eroticism who styled herself a priestess of the "Church of Yoga" and wrote frank sexual-mystical works such as Heavenly Bridegrooms. Prosecuted repeatedly for obscenity, she took her own life in 1902.
(Source: Gemini) (1857–1902) American sexual-reform writer and mystic who treated the marital sexual union as a spiritual sacrament in booklets such as The Wedding Night and Right Marital Living. Denied university admission for being a woman; a student of esoteric and Eastern religion. Anthony Comstock prosecuted her repeatedly under the obscenity laws; facing another prison term, she died by suicide in New York in 1902, leaving a public indictment of Comstock.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Craddock
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Cramer, Malinda E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Malinda E. Cramer (1844–1906) was an American healer who co-founded the Divine Science branch of the New Thought movement in San Francisco.
(Source: Gemini) (1844–1906) American New Thought leader, a co-founder of the Divine Science movement. After a claimed spiritual healing in 1885 she began public ministry, founding the Divine Science Home and College in San Francisco in 1888 (with Nona L. Brooks and her sisters) and editing the journal Harmony. Her college was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, in which she was injured; she died soon after.
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Cramp, Arthur J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Nostrums and Quackery, Volume II (1921)
Crandon, L. R. G.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Margery-Harvard-Veritas: A Study in Psychics (1925), The Progress of the 'Margery' Mediumship (Felicia Scatcherd Memorial Lecture 1929) (1929)
Crandon, Mina S.
Mina "Margery" Crandon (1888–1941) was an American medium, wife of a Boston surgeon, who from 1924 became the focus of the Scientific American prize investigation and a celebrated contest between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini; investigators ultimately detected fraud.
(Source: Gemini) (1888–1941) Canadian-American physical medium known as 'Margery,' promoted by her surgeon husband Le Roi Crandon. She claimed to channel her dead brother Walter, producing ectoplasm, table levitation, and 'spirit thumbprints.' The 1924 Scientific American investigation — in which Harry Houdini declared her a fraud — split the psychical-research world. Died in Boston in 1941.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_Crandon
Chasing Emma: Social Cost
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Cranston, Sylvia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Sylvia Cranston (Anita Atkins, 1915–2000) was an American Theosophical author best known for her major biography of H. P. Blavatsky, HPB.
Related Periodicals: Eclectic Theosophist
Crawford, F. Marion
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) F. Marion Crawford (1854–1909) was an American novelist, some of whose fiction drew on the supernatural and the occult.
Related Periodicals: Mind Inc.
Crawford, Florence Gloria
(Source: Gemini) American Pentecostal leader (1872–1955) who, after the 1906 Azusa Street Revival, founded and led the Apostolic Faith Mission in Portland, Oregon.
Related Periodicals: Comforter
Related Monographs: The Faith That Demonstrates (1920), The Christ Ideal for World Peace (1925)
Crawford, Mattie
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Related Periodicals: Astro-Digest
Related Monographs: On Mule Back Thru Central America with the Gospel (1922), The Story of My Life (1923)
Crawford, W. J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Psychic Structures at the Goligher Circle (1921), The Goligher Circle, May to August 1921 (1922)
Cridge, Alfred
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(Source: Gemini) English-born American reform journalist (b. 1824), editor of The Vanguard and an advocate of proportional representation and cooperative labor; he and his wife, the writer Annie Denton Cridge, were Spiritualists.
Related Periodicals: The Present Era | The Vanguard
Chasing Emma: The Love Songs of Alfred Cridge (1824?-1902?)
Cridge, Annie Denton
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(Source: Gemini) (1825–1875) English-American spiritualist, feminist, and author; wife of the reformer Alfred Cridge. Her Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? (1870) — a satirical role-reversal utopia — is counted among the first feminist science-fiction works. An advocate of suffrage and Spiritualism. Died in 1875.
Chasing Emma: The Love Songs of Alfred Cridge (1824?-1902?)
Related Periodicals: The Vanguard | Pacific Liberal | The Present Age
Crile, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) George W. Crile (1864–1943) was a prominent American surgeon whose speculative writings on a "bipolar" electrical theory of life drew notice in metaphysical periodicals.
(Source: Gemini) American surgeon (1864–1943), co-founder of the Cleveland Clinic, who performed the first successful human blood transfusion (1905) and developed "anoci-association" to prevent surgical shock. He also propounded a "bipolar theory of living processes," holding that the body functions as an electrochemical battery.
Related Periodicals: The Telepathic Magazine (Chicago)
Crockett, Albert S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Revelations of Louise (1920)
Croiset, Gerard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Gerard Croiset (1909–1980) was a Dutch psychic celebrated for "paranormal" assistance in police searches, studied by the parapsychologist W. H. C. Tenhaeff.
(Source: Gemini) (1909–1980) Dutch clairvoyant and psychometrist, famous as a 'psychic detective.' He worked with Willem Tenhaeff, professor of parapsychology at Utrecht, who documented his claimed location of missing persons from objects; skeptics attributed his hits to information from police files and cold reading. Died in Utrecht in 1980.
Related Periodicals: Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie
Crookes, William
Sir William Crookes (1832–1919) was a distinguished English chemist and physicist — discoverer of thallium and inventor of the Crookes tube — who from 1870 conducted controversial investigations of Spiritualist mediums including D. D. Home and Florence Cook, concluding that a "psychic force" was at work.
(Source: Gemini) (1832–1919) Eminent English chemist and physicist — discoverer of thallium, inventor of the Crookes tube, President of the Royal Society — and a leading Spiritualist investigator. In the 1870s he studied Florence Cook and D. D. Home and declared their materializations and levitations genuine, drawing fierce ridicule from colleagues such as W. B. Carpenter. Died in London in 1919.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crookes
Chasing Emma: The Spiritualist and the Physicist
Related Periodicals: Annales des Sciences Psychiques | Irradiacion (Madrid) | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | Psychische Studien | Regenerador [Rio de Janeiro] | The Spiritualist
Related Monographs: Researches into the Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism (1922)
Crosbie, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Robert Crosbie (1849–1919) was an American Theosophist who founded the
(Source: Gemini) (1849–1919) Canadian-American Theosophist and administrator, a close aide of William Q. Judge. Disillusioned with Katherine Tingley's leadership at Point Loma, he founded the United Lodge of Theosophists (ULT) in Los Angeles in 1909 to teach original, non-sectarian Theosophy, and edited its journal Theosophy. Died in Monterey, California, in 1919.
Related Periodicals: Pelecan | Theosophical Movement | Theosophical News | U.L.T.
Crosland, Newton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Newton Crosland, a Victorian Spiritualist author and philanthropist, husband of the novelist Camilla Toulmin Crosland.
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Two: Virginia Woolf; Being Catty
Chasing Emma: Controversy; Conducted: Spiritualism in England; 1862
Cross, Andrew
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Noetic Magazine
Related Monographs: Secrets of the Rosicrucians (1930)
Cross, Harold H. U.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Cavalcade of the Supernatural (1939)
Cross, Rose
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Atlantis (Le Cour) | Echoes from Mount Ecclesia | Rays from the Rose Cross | Rosicrucian Fellowship
Crossley, Felicie Oneta
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research | Spiritualist Monthly
Related Monographs: The Master Key to Psychic Unfoldment (1931)
Crow, W.B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) William Bernard Crow (1895–1976) was a British biologist and occultist who wrote on magic, alchemy, and comparative religion and led small Gnostic and neo-pagan bodies.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Observer
Crowe, Catherine
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Catherine Crowe (1803–1876) was an English author whose The Night Side of Nature (1848) was an influential early collection of ghost and psychical phenomena.
(Source: Gemini) (1790–1876) English novelist and Spiritualist, born Catherine Stevens; her The Night-Side of Nature (1848), a collection of ghost stories and psychic phenomena, was among the most popular books of its day and helped bring the study of the supernatural before Victorian readers. An advocate of animal magnetism. Died in Folkestone in 1876.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Gateway Drugs: Crowe and Mackay
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Universe
Crowell, Eugene
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(Source: Gemini) (1817–1894) American physician and Spiritualist author, in practice in Brooklyn. After investigating mediumship in the 1870s he wrote The Identity of Primitive Christianity and Modern Spiritualism (1874) and Spiritualism and Insanity, arguing spirit communication was compatible with early Christianity. Died in 1894.
Chasing Emma: The Three "Two Worlds"
Chasing Emma: No Palliation of Systematic Knavery: William Emmette Coleman on Obsession Theory; May 1885
Related Periodicals: Revue Spirite
Crowley, Aleister
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, and mountaineer, founder of the religious philosophy of Thelema. After an early association with the
(Source: Gemini) (1875–1947) English occultist, ceremonial magician, and novelist, born Edward Alexander Crowley, who founded the religion of Thelema. Educated at Cambridge, he authored *The Book of the Law* (1904) and *Magick in Theory and Practice*, claiming to receive the former's revelation from an entity named Aiwass. He founded the A∴A∴ and reorganized the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). The British press branded him 'the wickedest man in the world' for his advocacy of drug experimentation, sexual libertinism, and anti-Christian philosophy; he was expelled from several countries, including Italy after the death of a disciple at his Abbey of Thelema in Sicily. He suffered from chronic asthma and died at Hastings in 1947.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Aberree | American Rosae Crucis | Annales Initiatiques | Arohn | Atlantis Quarterly | Boazeo | Equinox | F. U. D. O. S. I. | Fortean Society Magazine | The Golden Dawn | The Kalpaka | Mystic World | O. T. O. Newsletter | The Occult Digest | The Occult Gazette | Occult Press Review | The Occult Review | Pansophja | Psychical Research Review | Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes | Saturn Gnosis | Ur-Krur
Related Monographs: The Diary of a Drug Fiend (1922), Magick in Theory and Practice (1929), The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (The Spirit of Solitude) (1929)
Crump, Basil
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Theosophy
Related Monographs: H. P. Blavatsky As I Knew Her (1923), Evolution as Outlined in the Archaic Eastern Records (1930)
Cuffe, Otway
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Sir Otway Cuffe (1853–1912) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, Theosophist, and figure of the Irish cultural revival.
Related Periodicals: Vahan (Theosophical Society)
Culianu, Ioan Petru
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Ioan Petru Culianu (1950–1991) was a Romanian historian of religion and Renaissance magic, a student of Mircea Eliade, assassinated at the University of Chicago.
(Source: Gemini) (1950–1991) Romanian historian of religion, philosopher, and essayist, a scholar of Gnosticism, Renaissance magic, and mysticism. Born in Iași, he left Romania in 1972 and later became professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he worked under Mircea Eliade. He authored *Eros and Magic in the Renaissance* (1984) and *Out of This World*. His journalism criticizing the post-communist Romanian government drew death threats, and he was assassinated on the University of Chicago campus on 21 May 1991; the murder remains unsolved.
Related Periodicals: Memra
Culpeper, Nicholas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654) was an English herbalist, physician, and astrologer, author of the enduring Complete Herbal.
(Source: Gemini) (1616–1654) English herbalist, physician, and astrologer. Born in Sussex, he established an independent apothecary and medical practice in London's East End and integrated herbal medicine with astrology. He published *The English Physician* (1652, later *Culpeper's Complete Herbal*), which brought him into conflict with the Royal College of Physicians over his translation of medical texts from Latin into English. He served in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War, suffering a chest wound, and died of tuberculosis in London in 1654.
Related Periodicals: All-Seeing Eye
Culpin, Millais
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritualism and the New Psychology (1920)
Cummins, Geraldine
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Geraldine Cummins (1890–1969) was an Irish author and medium known for automatic-writing scripts such as The Scripts of Cleophas.
(Source: Gemini) (1890–1969) Irish Spiritualist medium, novelist, playwright, and automatic writer. Born in Cork, she co-wrote plays for the Abbey Theatre and was active in the suffrage movement. Through automatic writing she claimed to transcribe the *Scripts of Cleophas* and *The Road to Immortality*, the latter purporting to channel the deceased psychical researcher F.W.H. Myers. Her transcripts, outlining early Christian history and the afterlife, were investigated by psychical researchers and condemned by orthodox clergy. She died in Cork in 1969.
Related Periodicals: Exploring the Unknown | Spiritual Truth
Related Monographs: The Road to Immortality (1933), The Scripts of Cleophas: A Reconstruction of Primitive Christian Documents, Part I (1938), When Nero Was Dictator (1942), They Survive: Evidence of Life Beyond the Grave (1946)
Curran, Pearl Lenore Pollard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Pearl Lenore Curran (1883–1937) was the St. Louis housewife through whose Ouija-board mediumship the prolific literary persona "Patience Worth" produced novels and poems.
(Source: Gemini) (1883–1937) American medium and automatic writer. Born in Mound City, Illinois, she lived in St. Louis until 1913, when, using a Ouija board, she began to channel a spirit she called Patience Worth, a purported 17th-century Englishwoman. Through Curran, 'Patience Worth' produced novels including *The Sorry Tale* and thousands of poems in archaic English. She was studied by linguists and psychologists, including the psychical researcher Walter Franklin Prince, who debated whether the writings were spirit communication or a secondary personality. She died of pneumonia in California in 1937.
Related Periodicals: Patience Worth's Magazine
Related Monographs: The Pot Upon the Wheel (1921)
Curtiss, F. Homer
(Source: Gemini) (1875–1946) American physician, author, and esoteric scholar working in esoteric Christianity, Qabalah, and New Thought. With his wife Harriette Augusta Curtiss he co-founded the
Related Periodicals: Aegyptus (The Coptic Fellowship of America) | Aquarian New Age | Azoth | L'Astrosophie | The Seer | The Sunflower
Related Monographs: Gems of Mysticism (1920), The Temple of Silence (1920), The Divine Mother (1921), The Message of Aquaria: The Significance and Mission of the Aquarian Age (1923), Letters from the Teacher, Volume II (1924), Coming World Changes (1926), Realms of the Living Dead: A Brief Description of Life After Death (1926), Health Hints for Four-Fold Health (1928), The Key of Destiny (Sequel to 'The Key to the Universe') (1928), Potent Prayers (1934), The Love of Rabiacca: A Tragedy in Five Acts (A Tale of a Prehistoric Race Recovered Psychically) (1934), The Inner Radiance (1935), The Mystic Life: An Introduction to Practical Christian Mysticism (1936), Vitamins: Their Origin, Sources and Specific Uses (1937), Health Hints for Four-Fold Health (1938), The Key to the Universe, or a Spiritual Interpretation of Numbers and Symbols (1938), The Philosophy of War (1939), For Young Souls (1941), Why Are We Here? And Other Essays on Cosmic Soul Science (1941), The Pattern Life (1943), Personal Survival, With Physical Proofs (1946), The Message of Aquaria (1947), Reincarnation (1949)
Curwen, David
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) David Curwen (1893–1984) was a British tailor and student of Tantra and alchemy, remembered as a knowledgeable correspondent of Aleister Crowley.
Related Periodicals: The Kalpaka
Cuviller, Etienne-Felix, Baron d'Henin de
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Related Periodicals: Archives du Magnetisme Animal
d'Abano, Peter
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Pietro d'Abano (c. 1257–1316) was an Italian physician, philosopher, and astrologer; the grimoire Heptameron was falsely attributed to him.
(Source: Gemini) (c. 1250–1316) Italian philosopher, astrologer, and professor of medicine. Born in Abano, he studied in Constantinople and Paris before teaching medicine and philosophy at the University of Padua. He translated Arabic scientific and astrological works and wrote *Conciliator Differentiarum*, reconciling Greek and Arabic medical traditions. Tried by the Inquisition on charges of heresy and practicing magic — accused of using demonic spirits to acquire knowledge — he died in prison in Padua in 1316 before the trial concluded; the Inquisition afterward condemned his memory and ordered his remains burned.
Related Periodicals: Calendrier Magique
d'Alveydre, Alexandre Saint-Yves
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (1842–1909) was a French occultist who developed the political-esoteric doctrine of "Synarchy" and popularized the legend of the subterranean kingdom of Agartha.
(Source: Gemini) (1842–1909) French occultist, social philosopher, and writer of the late-19th-century French occult revival. He formulated the political theory of 'Synarchy,' advocating a hierarchical society governed by spiritual and intellectual elites, and in *Mission de l'Inde* claimed telepathic transmissions from a subterranean Asian kingdom called Agartha. He disputed spiritual authority with rival occultists including Papus. He died at Pau in 1909.
Related Periodicals: Bulletin Des Polaires | L'Etoile
D'Alviella, Count Goblet
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Count Eugène Goblet d'Alviella (1846–1925) was a Belgian historian of religions, senator, and high-ranking Freemason, author of The Migration of Symbols.
(Source: Gemini) (1846–1925) Belgian lawyer, liberal politician, and historian of comparative religion. Born in Brussels, he served in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and Senate and as rector of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He wrote *The Migration of Symbols* (1891), analyzing the cross-cultural diffusion of religious symbols, and was a high-ranking Freemason, serving as Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for Belgium. His defense of Freemasonry and secular education brought lifelong conflict with the Catholic Party. He died in Brussels in 1925.
Related Periodicals: Progress (Chicago)
d'Hont, Alfred Edouard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Alfred-Édouard d'Hont (1845–1900), the Belgian stage hypnotist known as "Donato"; same person as the "Donato, essor" entry.
Related Periodicals: Almanach de la Chance | La Vie Mysterieuse | Phare
d'Olivet, Fabre
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (1767–1825) was a French author, philologist, and esotericist whose theories on the Hebrew language and universal history influenced later occultism.
(Source: Gemini) (1757–1825) French writer, composer, and occultist, active in the development of modern esoteric philosophy and the revival of Occitan literature. Born in Ganges, he published *The Hebrew Language Restored* (1815) and a commentary on the *Golden Verses of Pythagoras*, synthesizing ancient mythology, linguistics, and metaphysics. A former supporter of the Revolution, he faced censorship under the Jacobins and Napoleon, and spent his later years developing a Gnostic-style spiritual society. He died in Paris in 1825.
Related Periodicals: Almanach du Magiste
Related Monographs: The Hebraic Tongue Restored, And the True Meaning of the Hebrew Words Re-established (1921)
D'Orsay, Count
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Alfred, Count D'Orsay (1801–1852), the celebrated dandy and artist of Lady Blessington's circle, encountered via its alchemical dabblings.
Chasing Emma: The Count D'Orsay's Alchemist
D, C. E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spirit World and Spirit Life (1922)
Dague, Robert Addison
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Is the Bible the Infallible Word of God? (1921)
Dahl, Anton Louis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Anton Louis Dahl (1860–1939), often conflated with the physician Nikolai Dahl in the mythologized biography of the New Thought healer Elizabeth Severn.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: The Bohemian Scribblers; the Mental Poise Society and the Doll Hospital
Dailey, Abraham H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Abram H. Dailey (1831–1913) was an American judge and Spiritualist, author of a study of the celebrated "fasting girl" and trance subject Mollie Fancher.
(Source: Gemini) (1835–1907) American lawyer, judge, and Spiritualist. Born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, he practiced law in Brooklyn, New York, served as a surrogate judge, and was President of the Brooklyn Philosophical Association. He wrote *Mollie Fancher, the Brooklyn Enigma* (1894), documenting the clairvoyant claims of an invalid. He defended the legal rights of Spiritualists and mediums until his death in Brooklyn in 1907.
Related Periodicals: Eltka | Isis Moderne
Daim, Wilfried
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Wilfried Daim (1923–2016) was an Austrian psychologist and writer who published on depth psychology, religion, and the occult roots of Nazism.
Related Periodicals: Neue Wissenschaft
Dakin, Edwin Franden
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mrs. Eddy: The Biography of a Virginal Mind (1929)
Dalbe, E. E. Fournier
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Phenomena of Materialisation: A Contribution to the Investigation of Mediumistic Teleplastics (1920), The Goligher Circle, May to August 1921 (1922), The Life of Sir William Crookes, O.M., F.R.S. (1923)
Dall, Caroline Wells Healy
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Caroline Healey Dall (1822–1912), American Transcendentalist and reformer; same person as the "Dall, Caroline Wells Healy" entry.
(Source: Gemini) American feminist, Transcendentalist, and reformer (1822–1912), a co-founder of the American Social Science Association and author of The College, the Market, and the Court (1867).
Related Periodicals: Una | New Age (Boston)
Dallas, H. A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Nurseries of Heaven (1920), The Verdict: A Study of the Probable Origin of Certain Psychic Phenomena (1920), Leaves from a Psychic Note-Book (1927)
Dammon, Israel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Israel Dammon, a preacher of the early visionary-religious ferment of upstate New York and New England.
Chasing Emma: The Ghost of Ganargwa: May 1848
Dana, Charles A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Charles A. Dana (1819–1897) was an American journalist and editor, a veteran of the Brook Farm community and later editor of the New York Sun.
Related Periodicals: Spirit of the Age
Danelson, Effa E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Journeys Through Space (1922)
Daniels, Cora L.V.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Cora Linn V. Daniels, American Spiritualist and New Thought writer; probably the same person as the "Daniels, Cora Linn" entry.
Related Periodicals: The White Banner
Daniels, Cora Linn
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Cora Linn Daniels (Morrison) was an American Spiritualist and New Thought author of the late nineteenth century, compiler of works on folklore and superstition. (See the "Cora L.V." and "Cora M." Daniels entries.)
Related Periodicals: Nautilus | Universal Truth
Daniels, Cora M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Cora Daniels, American Spiritualist/New Thought author; probably the same person as the "Daniels, Cora Linn" entry.
Related Periodicals: Nautilus
Danielson, Effa E.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Digest | The Occult Quarterly | Psychic Power
Daniken, Erich von
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Erich von Däniken (b. 1935) is a Swiss author whose Chariots of the Gods? (1968) popularized the "ancient astronauts" hypothesis.
(Source: Gemini) (b. 1935) Swiss author and researcher who popularized the 'ancient astronauts' hypothesis. Born in Zofingen, he achieved international success with *Chariots of the Gods?* (1968), arguing that extraterrestrial visitors in prehistory influenced early human development and were worshipped as gods, citing ancient monuments and texts. Mainstream archaeologists rejected his theories. In 1970 he was convicted of embezzlement and fraud, continuing to write during his imprisonment.
Related Periodicals: Ancient Skies
Danmar, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) William Danmar was an early-twentieth-century German-American writer who expounded an idiosyncratic reincarnation doctrine he called "psychozoism."
Related Periodicals: Immortality (New York)
Related Monographs: Modern Nirvanaism, or The Philosophy of Life and Death (1920), World Cognition: The Scientific Philosophy of Galomalism (1923), The Naturalistic Philosophy of the Ghosts (Ghostology) (1924)
Danskin, Washington A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Colonel Washington A. Danskin, a prominent Baltimore Spiritualist of the mid-nineteenth century.
Chasing Emma: Undocumented Aliens: 'Lost' Early Modern Spiritualists
Chasing Emma: Move Over; Colonel Danskin: The True Story of Theodore H. White
Dantinne, Emil
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Émile Dantinne (1884–1969), who took the name "Sâr Hieronymus," was a Belgian occultist and a co-founder of the F.U.D.O.S.I. federation of initiatic orders.
(Source: Gemini) (1884–1969) Belgian occultist, Rosicrucian, and linguist, known by the esoteric title Sâr Hieronymus. Born in Huy, a self-taught scholar of ancient languages, Qabalah, and Hermeticism, he co-founded FUDOSI (Federatio Universalis Dirigentium Ordinum Societatumque Initiationis) in 1934 and served as Grand Master of the Rose-Croix Universitaire and the Ordre de la Rose+Croix Kabbalistique. He disputed spiritual lineages with AMORC's Harvey Spencer Lewis. Under the German occupation of Belgium, when esoteric societies were banned, he was interrogated by the Gestapo and his library was seized. He died in 1969.
Related Periodicals: F. U. D. O. S. I.
Danzel, Theodorwilhelm
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Dare, M. Paul
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Indian Underworld: A First-Hand Account of Hindu Sorcerers, Saints, and Superstitions (1940)
Dariex, Xavier
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Dr. Xavier Dariex (1859–1927) was a French physician who founded the Annales des Sciences Psychiques, an early journal of psychical research.
Related Periodicals: Annales des Sciences Psychiques
Darrow, Clarence
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) was a celebrated American defense attorney and agnostic, famous for the Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
Related Periodicals: Celestial Life | Higher Thought (See)
Darwin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Charles Darwin (1809–1882), the English naturalist who formulated the theory of evolution by natural selection; invoked here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Wilford's Microcosm
Dass, Ram
(Source: Gemini) (1931–2019) American spiritual teacher, clinical psychologist, and author, born Richard Alpert, a central figure in the Western adaptation of Eastern spirituality. He completed a doctorate at Stanford and taught psychology at Harvard, from which he and Timothy Leary were dismissed in 1963 over experiments administering LSD to students. In 1967 he traveled to India, where the guru Neem Karoli Baba renamed him Ram Dass, and in 1971 he published *Be Here Now*, popularizing yoga, meditation, and Eastern philosophy. He survived a stroke in 1997 and died in Maui in 2019.
Related Periodicals: The Yogi (Sydney Flower)
Davenport, Ira
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Ira Erastus Davenport (1839–1911) was the elder of the Davenport Brothers, the celebrated American "spirit cabinet" performers. See also the "Brothers, Davenport" entry.
Chasing Emma: Without Money; in the Broad Light of Day
Chasing Emma: The Davenport Sisters: May 31; 1864
Chasing Emma: The Little Things
Chasing Emma: Two-Tiered Pricing: The Davenport Brothers and Fay; Circa 1870
Chasing Emma: Spirits of the Trade; Part Deux: Materialization
Chasing Emma: The Davenport Sister: Elizabeth Davenport Colie
Related Periodicals: The Ohio Spiritualist
Davenport, William Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) William Henry Davenport (1841–1877) was the younger of the Davenport Brothers, the American spirit-cabinet showmen. See also the "Brothers, Davenport" entry.
Chasing Emma: Manifestation and Its Discontents: December 1865
Related Periodicals: Watchman
David-Neel, Alexandra
Alexandra David-Néel (1868–1969) was a French explorer, opera singer, and Buddhist who in 1924 became the first Western woman to reach the forbidden city of Lhasa. She wrote more than thirty books on Tibetan religion and travel, notably Magic and Mystery in Tibet, and influenced later Western interest in Buddhism.
(Source: Gemini) (1868–1969) French explorer, writer, and student of Tibetan Buddhism. Born in Saint-Mandé, she traveled in disguise to the forbidden city of Lhasa in 1924, and authored more than thirty books on Tibetan mysticism, including *Magic and Mystery in Tibet* (1929). Scholars challenged her accounts of psychic and physical phenomena. She died in Digne, France, in 1969 at the age of 100.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_David-N%C3%A9el
Related Periodicals: L'Astrosophie | The Seer | Zeitschrift fur Metapsychische Forschung
Davidson, Peter
Peter Davidson (1842-1916) was a Scottish occultist and violinist who became a prominent member of the
Chasing Emma: Emma and the HBofL
Chasing Emma: Thomas Henry Dalton / T. H. Burgoyne -- His Descendents
Chasing Emma: P. O. O. Payable At Forres: Peter Davidson; November 1879
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Davis, Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910) was an American clairvoyant and seer known as the "Poughkeepsie Seer" and the "John the Baptist of Modern Spiritualism," whose visions and writings helped lay the ideological foundation for the Spiritualist movement. In 1844, while in a mesmeric trance, he claimed to converse with the spirits of Emanuel Swedenborg and the Greek physician Galen. His major work, The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind (1847), was dictated while in trance and sold thousands of copies. He later studied medicine and practiced as a physician specialising in treating mental illness.
(Source: Gemini) (1826–1910) American Spiritualist medium, author, and philosopher, known as 'The Poughkeepsie Seer' and regarded as a principal intellectual founder of modern Spiritualism. Born in Blooming Grove, New York, he received little formal education. From 1844 he claimed to enter magnetic trances and commune with the spirits of Galen and Emanuel Swedenborg, dictating *The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations* (1847), which predated the Fox Sisters' rappings. Orthodox clergy condemned his revelations and skeptics dismissed them. He died in Boston in 1910.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Davis
Chasing Emma: How Marsupial Animals Propagate Their Kind
Chasing Emma: Magnetism and Psychology: 1842
Chasing Emma: The "Birth" of Modern Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Combining Practices
Chasing Emma: A Brief History of Summer Land
Chasing Emma: Demoniacal Spiritualism; the Confusion of Doctrines and Mental Epidemics: August 1880
Chasing Emma: A Suit from Clairvoyance: January 1846
Chasing Emma: The Orange Mountains: Andrew Jackson Davis; 1878
Chasing Emma: The Organ of Credenciveness: A Note on J. Stanley Grimes
Chasing Emma: Living Men of Sense; Dignity and Education: William North on the Fox Sisters; Andrew Jackson Davis; and Spiritualism
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Related Monographs: The Harmonial Philosophy: A Compendium and Digest of the Works of Andrew Jackson Davis, the Seer of Poughkeepsie (1923)
Davis, F. K.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Gems of Mysticism (1920)
Davis, Mary F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Mary Fenn Davis (1824–1886) was an American Spiritualist lecturer and reformer, the wife of the "Poughkeepsie Seer" Andrew Jackson Davis.
Chasing Emma: The Orange Mountains: Andrew Jackson Davis; 1878
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Davis, Michael
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [4]: The Lasting Fame of the Rev. J. L. Scott
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Davis, Paulina Wright
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Paulina Wright Davis (1813–1876) was an American abolitionist, women's-rights organizer, and reform editor.
(Source: Gemini) American suffragist, abolitionist, and educator (1813–1876); organizer of the first National Woman's Rights Convention (Worcester, 1850) and founder of the women's-rights paper The Una.
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Dawbarn, Charles
To be added.
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Dawes, Albert
(Source: Kim Farnell) Albert Edward George Dawes (2 Jun 1865, Liverpool-Jan 1951). Freemason (Bournemouth). Produced a plan of Stonehenge. Professor of music and composer. Ran a business selling pianos in c.1880-1910.
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Dawn, Rose
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Fate of the Mayan Order
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Related Monographs: Rose Dawn's Giant Daily Astrological Guide (1937)
Dawson, Albert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mind & Life from Atom to Man (1927)
Dawson, Four Spirits Stead Lowry Scott
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Day, Catherine Alice
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Catherine Alice Day, connected to the family of the India-rubber magnate and Spiritualist patron Horace H. Day.
Chasing Emma: Horace Day: The Marriages
Day, Horace H.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Emma; Performing
Chasing Emma: Horace H. Day (1813-1878): The Sinews of War -- Spiritualism as Political Manipulation
Chasing Emma: The Men of the SDSK
Chasing Emma: Horace Day: The Marriages
Chasing Emma: Horace H. Day: The Schemes
Chasing Emma: Horace H. Day: Sorting The Debris
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Day, Samuel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Samuel Day, uncle of the India-rubber entrepreneur and Spiritualist Horace H. Day.
Chasing Emma: Horace H. Day: The Schemes
Dayananda, Thakur
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Master's World-Union Scheme (1921)
de Acosta, Mercedes
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968) was an American poet, playwright, and socialite with strong interests in Eastern mysticism and the occult.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
de Baddeley, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Charles de Baddeley, one of a con-artist couple “taken up” in 1871 for occult-flavored fraud.
Chasing Emma: Taken Up: Charles and Sarah de Baddeley; 1871
de Baddeley, Sarah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Sarah de Baddeley (“Madame de Baddeley”), one of a con-artist couple prosecuted in 1871.
Chasing Emma: Taken Up: Charles and Sarah de Baddeley; 1871
de Brath, Stanley
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Stanley De Brath (1854–1937) was an English engineer and psychical researcher who translated the works of Gustave Geley and wrote in defense of survival.
Related Periodicals: (Quarterly Transactions of the British College of) Psychic Science
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de Bunsen, Ernest
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Ernest de Bunsen (1819–1903), the German-English biblical scholar, the leading candidate for the original of “Louis de B——,” the protagonist of Emma Hardinge Britten's Ghost Land.
Chasing Emma: Sirius; de Bunsen and Louis de B_____
de Bunsen, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) George de Bunsen, of the de Bunsen family, whose interests touched mid-century mesmerism.
Chasing Emma: The de Bunsens And Mesmerism
de Caspianya, Sarmatian
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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de Claremont, Lewis
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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de Clermont, Louis
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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de Crespigny, Philip Champion
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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de Doittau, Dona Augustina Guffain
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Puerto Rican Spiritist leader, author, and philanthropist. Born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, she co-founded a Kardecist Spiritist center in Mayagüez with her husband, the philanthropist Carlos Doittau. In 1900 she founded and edited *El Iris de Paz*, a Spiritist magazine of Puerto Rico. She published, directed charitable work, and lectured, advocating secular education and equal rights.
Related Periodicals: Iris de Paz (Mayaguez)
de Domenech, Hijos
To be added.
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de Dubor, Georges
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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de Gourmont, Remy
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic.
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de Heredia, C. M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritism and Common Sense (1922)
de Koven, Anna
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Cloud of Witnesses (1920)
de Laurence, L. W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) L. W. de Laurence, the Chicago occult publisher and mail-order “magus” whose plagiarized grimoires reached an enormous readership, including in the Caribbean.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1936) American occult author, publisher, and mail-order entrepreneur. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, De Laurence founded the De Laurence, Scott & Co. publishing house in Chicago, selling books on magic, hypnotism, and spiritualism along with ritual candles, oils, and incense. He printed pirated editions of Arthur Edward Waite's *Book of Black Magic* and S. L. MacGregor Mathers's *Key of Solomon* under his own name. His magical texts were widely adopted by practitioners of Obeah, Hoodoo, and Santería, and several British colonial governments banned his publications. Died in Chicago in 1936.
Chasing Emma: Workers in the Vineyard: David Metcalfe on De Laurence and Atkinson
de Monco, Almo
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Experimental Psychology: A Treatise on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Soul (1922)
de Naglowska, Maria
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Magia Sexualis (1931), Le Mystere de la Pendaison (1934)
(merged from de_naglowska_marie)
(Source: Gemini) (?–1936) Russian-born occultist, journalist, translator, and author active in the Parisian esoteric avant-garde of the early 1930s. Born in Saint Petersburg, she worked as a journalist in Switzerland and Italy before settling in Paris, where she founded the Brotherhood of the Golden Arrow and edited the journal *La Flèche*. She translated Pascal Beverly Randolph into French and wrote *The Sacred Ritual of Sexual Magic* (1932), setting out a system of sexual magic using polarity and meditation. Died in Paris in 1936.
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de Poncins, Leon
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
de Vauxroyer, Rose M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Rose of the Flame Immortal (1920)
de Vezino, Vezino
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
de Villars, Montfaucon
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Le Comte de Gabalis, ou Entretiens sur les Sciences secretes (1921)
de Villars, N. De Montfaucon
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Comte de Gabalis (1922)
Deamude, J. Ross
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Self Mastery (1922)
Deboer, Annie M. L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Philosophy of a Novitiate (1920)
del Valleinclan, Ramon
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Delatte, A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: La Catoptromancie Grecque et ses Derives (1932)
Delta aSamadhi
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Master Key to Psychic Unfoldment (1931)
Descreux, E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Deuress, Elizabeth
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Devos, Trix
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Deyrolle, Les Fils Demile
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Catalogue Radiesthesie (1935)
Dihel
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Dinglemei
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Discarnate, Christopher
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Letters from Christopher (1944)
Donnelly, John J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Subjective Concepts of Humans: Source of Spiritistic Manifestations (1922)
Dornseiff, Franz
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Das Alphabet in Mystik und Magie (Stoicheia, Heft VII) (1922)
Dowling, Eva S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (1947)
Downey, Richard
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritualism As Spiritualists Have Written of It (1944)
Doyon, Renelouis
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Le Comte de Gabalis, ou Entretiens sur les Sciences secretes (1921)
Drake, Eugene H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Visitors from Space (1950)
Drouet, Bessie Clarke
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Station Astral (1932)
du Bois, Berry Franklin L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: New Sex Life, or The Principles of Regeneration (1920)
Duchet, James
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Ether Wave (1926)
Dudley, Lotus
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Comte de Gabalis (1922)
Dunninger, Joseph
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Inside the Medium's Cabinet (1935)
Dunoff, Peter
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Guaita, Stanislaus de
Stanislas de Guaita (1861–1897) was a French Symbolist poet and occultist who, influenced by Éliphas Lévi, founded the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross in 1888 with Péladan and Papus. He was cast as a sorcerer in the Boullan "magical war" fictionalized in Huysmans's Là-Bas.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1897) French poet and occultist central to the late-nineteenth-century French occult revival. Born in Tarquimpol into an aristocratic family, de Guaita studied law before turning to poetry and the Western esoteric tradition, working on Rosicrucianism, alchemy, and Qabalah. In 1888, with Papus and Joséphin Péladan, he co-founded the Cabalistic Order of the Rosy Cross. He feuded with Péladan, who broke away to form a rival order, and with the former priest Joseph-Antoine Boullan, who accused him of black magic and of attempting to kill him by psychic means. Addicted to morphine and cocaine taken for neuralgia, he died in 1897 at thirty-six.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislas_de_Guaita
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de Luna, Mario Roso
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Mario Roso de Luna (1872–1931) was a Spanish astronomer, lawyer, and Theosophist, a prolific writer and translator of Blavatsky.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1931) Spanish theosophist, astronomer, lawyer, and writer, called the 'Magician of Logrosán.' Born in Logrosán, he took a doctorate in law and co-founded the Madrid Theosophical Lodge, translating several of Helena Blavatsky's works into Spanish and publishing esoteric treatises including *The Tibetan Book of the Golden Precepts* and *The Astral Light*. His writings on comparative mythology and ancient civilizations were denounced by scientific academies as pseudoscience. Died in Madrid in 1931.
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Related Monographs: En el Umbral del Misterio: Estudios teosoficos (1921), Simbologia Arcaica: Comentarios a 'La Doctrina Secreta' de H. P. Blavatsky (1921), El Velo de Isis, o Las Grutas y Dias y Noches Ocultistas (1923), Una Martir del Siglo XIX: H. P. Blavatsky, Fundadora de la Sociedad Teosofica (1924)
de Morgan, Augustus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871), the eminent mathematician and logician whose wife Sophia was a Spiritualist and who wrote an open-minded preface to her From Matter to Spirit.
(Source: Gemini) British mathematician and logician (1806–1871), first professor of mathematics at University College London and formulator of "De Morgan's laws." A Spiritualist sympathizer, he wrote the preface to From Matter to Spirit (1863) by his wife, Sophia De Morgan.
Chasing Emma: The Highest Degree of Unexpectedness: Augustus de Morgan on James E. Smith; James E. Smith on the Occult
de Negre, Jacques-Etienne Marconis
See de Negre, Marconis (below).
Related Periodicals: Le Soleil Mystique | Le Temple Mystique
de Palatine, Duc
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Gnostic Forum | The Lucis Magazine | The Metaphysician (Palatine)
de Palm, Joseph Henri Louis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Joseph Henri Louis, Baron de Palm (1809–1876), whose 1876 funeral and cremation, staged by the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1876) European aristocrat and early member of the Theosophical Society. Born in Germany, he emigrated to New York in 1875 and joined the newly formed Theosophical Society, befriending Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott and willing his estate — later found worthless — to the society. He died of kidney disease in New York in May 1876. In December 1876 Olcott used his body to stage the first public cremation in modern American history, at Washington, Pennsylvania, which the press and clergy denounced as un-Christian.
Chasing Emma: Gossip; About the World in General: Some Notes on Joseph Henri Louis; Baron de Palm (1809-1876)
de Pourville, Albert
(Source: Gemini) (1861–1939) French military officer, Sinologist, occultist, translator, and author, known under the Taoist name Matgioi. Born in Nancy, he served as an officer in French Indochina, where he was initiated into a Chinese Taoist lineage. He translated classical Chinese scriptures into French and wrote *The Metaphysic of Heaven and Earth* (1897) and *The Way of Tao*, which influenced René Guénon. Died in Paris in 1939.
Related Periodicals: La Voie (Paris)
de Purucker, Hobard Lorenz Gottfried
Gottfried de Purucker (1874–1942) was an American Theosophist and, from 1929, leader of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American theosophist and Sanskrit scholar who led the Point Loma Theosophical Society from 1929 until his death. Born in Suffern, New York, to a Protestant minister, de Purucker studied Sanskrit and Eastern philosophy in Europe before joining the Theosophical Society. A close advisor to Katherine Tingley, he wrote *The Esoteric Tradition* and *Man in Evolution*. Taking the presidency in 1929, he inherited a society near bankruptcy, launched a 'Fraternization' campaign to merge Point Loma with Adyar and rival factions (rejected by the others), and in 1942 oversaw the society's move from Point Loma to Covina, California, shortly before his death.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_de_Purucker
Related Periodicals: Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
de Sarak, Alberto
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Count Alberto de Sarak was a flamboyant turn-of-the-century occult adventurer and self-styled adept, widely regarded as a charlatan, active in Europe and Latin America.
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Related Periodicals: Bulletin de l'Ordre de l'Etoile d'Orient | Echo du Merveilleux | El Criterio Espiritista | Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona) | The New Man | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | The Radiant Centre | The Radiant Truth | Reformador (Rio de Janeiro) | Revista de Estudios Psiquicos (Chile) | Revue Cosmique | Revue du Psychisme Experimental | Sophia (Spain) | Sunna Dagor Message | Tribuna Espirita | Verdade e Luz | Zanoni | Constancia | La Cruz Astral | Faro Oriental | Luz Astral (Chile) | El Sol [Lima] | Teosofia en el Plata | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires)
de St-Marcq, Chevalier Georges Le Clement
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Bulletin Officiel du Bureau International du Spiritisme
de Villar, Matilde R.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spanish-born Mexican medium, editor, and Spiritist leader. With her husband Victor Villar she co-founded the Círculo Espiritista 'Amor y Progreso' in Cuautla, Morelos, in 1899. A speaking and writing medium of 'Light and Truth Spiritism,' she edited and published the feminist monthly *El Despertador Mental* and co-edited *Helios*, directing Spiritist schools and study circles and promoting women's rights.
Related Periodicals: Despertador Mental | Helios | Obrero Espirita
de Zirkoff, Boris
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Boris de Zirkoff (1902–1981) was a Russian-American Theosophist, a grand-nephew of H. P. Blavatsky, who compiled and edited her Collected Writings.
Related Periodicals: Theosophia
Debar, Editha Diss
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Ann O'Delia Diss Debar (born Editha Salomon, c. 1849–after 1909) was a notorious American confidence trickster and fraudulent "spirit" medium and materialization artist.
Chasing Emma: Empress of Swindle: John Buescher's New Book
Chasing Emma: Case Study #26: The Reptiles of Identification
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Debs, Eugene V.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) was an American labor leader and five-time Socialist candidate for President.
(Source: Gemini) American labor leader and socialist (1855–1926), founder of the American Railway Union, leader of the 1894 Pullman Strike, and five-time Socialist candidate for President.
Related Periodicals: The Ghourki | The New World | Theosophic Messenger
Dee, John
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and occult philosopher, and an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. Born in London and educated at Cambridge, Dee worked on navigation, cartography, and mathematics and introduced the English translation of Euclid's *Elements*. He later collaborated with the medium Edward Kelley on 'scrying' sessions and the 'Enochian' system of magic. Accused of conjuring and heresy, he saw his library at Mortlake raided and burned in 1583, travelled Europe for years, and after Elizabeth's death was rejected by James I, dying in poverty and obscurity.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Review
Del Mar, Eugene
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Aquarian New Age | Azoth | The Balance | The Beacon (Bailey) | The Business Philosopher | Eltka | The Exodus | Freedom | Mind | The Radiant Centre | Reality | Weltmer's Magazine
Related Monographs: The Conquest of Disease: The Psychology of Mental and Spiritual Healing (1922)
Delanne, Gabriel
Gabriel Delanne (1857-1926) was a French Spiritist researcher and author, one of the foremost scientific defenders of Spiritism in France at the turn of the twentieth century. An electrical engineer by training, he devoted his career to investigating mediumistic phenomena and building a scientific case for the survival of the soul. His major works include Le Phénomène Spirite (1893), L'Âme est Immortelle (1904), and Les Apparitions Matérialisées des Vivants et des Morts (1909). He edited the important French Spiritist journal La Revue Scientifique et Morale du Spiritisme.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1926) French Spiritist author, researcher, and engineer, a leader of the Spiritist movement after Allan Kardec. Born in Paris to disciples of Kardec, he founded the
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/delanne-gabriel-1857-1926
Related Periodicals: Bulletin de l'Union Spirite Francaise | Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | Eudia | Fraterniste | La Vie Mysterieuse | Le Magicien | Progres Spirite | Revista Universal Magnetismo Experimental y Terapeutico | Revue Scientifique et Morale de Spiritisme
Delanne, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Almost certainly Gabriel Delanne (1857–1926), the French engineer and one of the leading scientific exponents of Spiritism after Kardec. (Given name appears here as "George.")
Related Periodicals: L'Initiation
Deleuze, Joseph Philippe François
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Joseph Philippe François Deleuze (1753–1835) was a French naturalist and one of the leading systematizers of animal magnetism (mesmerism).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1835) French naturalist, librarian, and magnetizer, one of the systematic pioneers of animal magnetism. Born in Sisteron, he served for decades as assistant naturalist and librarian at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. He wrote *Histoire critique du magnétisme animal* (1813) and *Practical Instruction in Animal Magnetism*, advocating a gentle, therapeutic use of mesmeric trance to treat physical and psychological ailments in the face of hostility from the medical establishment. Died in Paris in 1835.
Related Periodicals: Archives du Magnetisme Animal | Bibliotheque du Magnetisme Animal
Delville, Jean
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Jean Delville (1867–1953) was a Belgian Symbolist painter and Theosophist whose idealist art expressed his esoteric convictions.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1953) Belgian Symbolist painter, writer, poet, and theosophist. Born in Louvain, Delville studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and painted *The Treasures of Satan* (1895) and *The School of Plato* (1898), joining classical draftsmanship with esoteric and occult themes. He co-founded the Rose+Croix Salon in Paris and the 'Pour l'Art' and 'L'Art Idéaliste' associations in Brussels to promote Symbolist art. Died in 1953.
Related Periodicals: Catalogue du Salon de la Rose+Croix | Demain | Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | La Lumiere (Grange) | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires)
Demarest, Georges
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | Revista Universal Magnetismo Experimental y Terapeutico
Dendy, Walter Cooper
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Walter Cooper Dendy (1794–1871), the English surgeon and author of works on dreams, apparitions and the “philosophy of mystery.”
Chasing Emma: Controversy; Conducted: Spiritualism in England; 1862
Denis, Leon
Léon Denis (1846–1927) was a French Spiritist philosopher who, with Gabriel Delanne and Camille Flammarion, was a principal exponent of Spiritism after Allan Kardec. Known as "the apostle of Spiritism," he lectured widely and wrote influential works such as Après la mort.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1927) French Spiritist author, philosopher, and orator, regarded as Allan Kardec's intellectual successor and the 'Apostle of Spiritism.' Born in Foug to a poor working-class family and largely self-educated, he lectured across Europe and wrote *Après la mort* (1890) and *Jeanne d'Arc médium* (1910), joining Spiritist communication with Christian mysticism and socialist politics. Opposed by the Catholic Church and mainstream science, and blind in his later years, he kept dictating manuscripts until his death in Tours in 1927.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Denis
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Densmore, Emmett
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Emmet Densmore, an American physician and health/dress reformer entangled with the medium Elsie Crindle.
Chasing Emma: The Discordant Elements: Emma and Elsie Crindle; November; 1880
Denton, Elizabeth M. Foote
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Elizabeth M. F. Denton was an American psychometrist and the wife and collaborator of the geologist William Denton in his Soul of Things experiments.
Chasing Emma: The Soul(s) of Things: A Note on William Denton's Bibliography
Related Periodicals: New Age (Boston) | The Vanguard
Denton, Louise A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Louise A. Denton, a nineteenth-century composer connected to the Denton family circle.
Chasing Emma: The Elfin Vesper Bell
Denton, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) William Denton (1823–1883) was an English-American geologist, radical lecturer, and Spiritualist who promoted "psychometry" in his book The Soul of Things.
Chasing Emma: The Code of Things: Benjamin Laird Keeps William Denton's Flame
Chasing Emma: The Soul(s) of Things: A Note on William Denton's Bibliography
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Dentu, J.G.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Annales du Magnetisme Animal | Bibliotheque du Magnetisme Animal
Dequer, John H.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Seer or Charlatan: Some Notes on John H. Dequer (1883-1945)
Related Periodicals: The Beacon Light | Occult Life (LAX)
Related Monographs: Health Through Natural Forces (1924), Arrows of Light from the Egyptian Tarot (1930)
des Essarts, Leonce-Eugene Fabre
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Léonce-Eugène Fabre des Essarts (1848–1917), known as "Synésius," was a French poet who became patriarch of the
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: L'Initiation | Le Reveil des Albigeois
Desbarrolles, Adolph
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Adolphe Desbarrolles (1801–1886), the French palmist and author; same person as the "Desbarrolles, Adolph" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1886) French artist, author, and esotericist regarded as the father of modern chiromancy (palmistry). Born in Paris, he studied painting under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres before turning to esoteric study, working alongside Éliphas Lévi and Alexandre Dumas. In 1859 he published *Les Mystères de la main*, combining palmistry with astrology and phrenology into a character-analysis system. He later broke publicly with Éliphas Lévi over doctrine. Died in Paris in 1886.
Related Periodicals: The Sphinx (Boston) | Graphologie
Desmond, Shaw
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Shaw Desmond (1877–1960) was an Irish novelist, poet, and Spiritualist, founder of the
Related Periodicals: Facts (Friendship Centre UK)
Related Monographs: We Do Not Die (1934)
Dessoir, Max
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Max Dessoir (1867–1947) was a German philosopher and psychologist who coined the term "parapsychology" in 1889.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1947) German philosopher, psychologist, and parapsychologist who coined the term 'parapsychology' in 1889. Born in Berlin and educated there, he was a professor of philosophy for decades, founded the Society for Aesthetics, and wrote *The Double Ego* (1890) on subconscious processing and split consciousness. His skeptical, psychological approach to mediumship drew attacks from Spiritualists, while his study of telepathy and clairvoyance drew criticism from orthodox scientists. Of Jewish ancestry, he was stripped of his positions and banned from publishing under the Nazi regime, dying at Königstein in 1947.
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Dessoir, Max. Max Dessoir (1867-1947) was the German philosopher and psychologist credited with coining the term 'parapsychology' in 1889, yet who later became one of the field's prominent critics. His early career included successful telepathy experiments and co-founding German psychical research bodies, but his convictions were gradually reversed by professional pressures, controversy, and a metaphysical opposition to personal survival — revealing that debates in the field were never driven by evidence alone.
Related Periodicals: Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | The Open Court | Sphinx [Leipzig] | Zeitschrift fur Kritischen Okkultismus
Detre, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Charles Détré (1855–1918), who wrote as "Teder," was a French occultist and Martinist who succeeded Papus as head of the
Related Periodicals: Annales de l'OUNE | Eon (Athens) | Voile d'Isis
Deuel, Stephen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Stephen Deuel, a figure in the Mountain Cove Spiritualist community.
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [4]: The Lasting Fame of the Rev. J. L. Scott
Deunov, Peter
Peter Deunov (1864–1944), known by his spiritual name Beinsa Douno, was a Bulgarian spiritual teacher who founded a form of Esoteric Christianity, the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1944) Bulgarian spiritual teacher, known as Beinsa Douno, founder of the Universal White Brotherhood. Born in Hatardzha to an Orthodox priest, he studied theology and medicine in the United States before returning to Bulgaria, where from 1900 he lectured on esoteric Christianity, astrology, and healthy living and introduced 'Paneurhythmy,' a system of meditative movement set to music performed outdoors. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church condemned his teaching as heresy and excommunicated him in 1922. Suppressed under the wartime pro-Nazi government, he helped prevent the deportation of Bulgarian Jews. Died in Sofia in 1944.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Deunov
Related Periodicals: Zhitno Zarno
Related Monographs: The Great Law (Life, Light, Freedom: Discourses Held in Bulgaria) (1938)
Devamata, Sister
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Sister Devamata (1867–1942) was an American Vedantist, a leading disciple and associate of Swami Paramananda.
Related Periodicals: Message of the East
DeVoe, Walter
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Hamsa | Inspiration | The Living Word | Religion | The Stellar Ray
Related Monographs: The Science of Character Healing (1920)
Dewey, John Hamlin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John Hamlin Dewey, American mental-healer and "Christian Theosophy" writer; same person as the "Dewey, John Hamlin" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1910) American physician, author, and Christian mystic who formulated a system of spiritual healing and character development he called 'Christian Theosophy.' He practiced medicine before turning to spiritual questions and wrote *The Way, the Truth, and the Life* and *The New-Theosophy*, arguing that true Christianity was an esoteric science of spiritual evolution enabling divine healing and conscious union with God. Opposed by orthodox clergy and by medical boards, he remained an advocate of Christian mysticism until his death in 1910.
Related Periodicals: >Wahrheit-Sucher | Angel Drummer | The Christian (Shelton) | Christliche Theosophie | Healing Voice | Purdy's Monthly
Dexter, George T.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) George T. Dexter was an American physician and Spiritualist medium, co-author with Judge John Worth Edmonds of the influential two-volume Spiritualism (1853–55).
Related Periodicals: The Sacred Circle | The Spiritual Telegraph
Dharmapala
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Anagarika Dharmapala (1864–1933) was a Sinhalese Buddhist revivalist and missionary, a founder of the Maha Bodhi Society and a key figure in the modern global spread of Buddhism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1933) Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist, writer, and nationalist, born Don David Hewavitarane, central to the global spread of Buddhism and the recovery of Buddhist holy sites. Born in Colombo, Ceylon, into a wealthy merchant family, he joined the
Related Periodicals: The Buddhist Ray | The World Liberator
di Rienzi, Emile
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Emile di Rienzi was a contributor to French "integral humanity" and free-thought Spiritualist periodicals of the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Humanite Integrale | La Pensee Libre
Diaz, Abby Martin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Almost certainly Abby Morton Diaz (1821–1904), the American author, reformer, and Brook Farm veteran; a leader of the Boston social-reform and New Thought milieu.
Related Periodicals: Mind | The Problem of Life
Diaz, Porfirio
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Porfirio Díaz (1830–1915), soldier and long-ruling President of Mexico; invoked here in a Mexican astrological periodical.
(Source: Gemini) Mexican general and statesman (1830–1915) who ruled as president for most of the years 1876–1911, the era known as the "Porfiriato." He was himself a practitioner of mesmerism and Spiritualism.
Related Periodicals: Boazeo | La Cruz Astral
Dick, Frederick John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Frederick J. Dick was an Irish-American engineer and Theosophist active at Point Loma, a contributor to The Theosophical Path.
Related Periodicals: The International Theosophist | The Theosophical Path
Dickhoff, Robert Ernest
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Robert Ernest Dickhoff was a mid-twentieth-century American occultist and self-styled "Sungma Red Lama" who wrote on Agharta, hollow-earth, and flying-saucer themes.
Related Periodicals: Ariel (Colombia) | Caveat Emptor | Flying Saucer News (US)
Didier, Alfred
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Alfred Didier was a French somnambulist and clairvoyant of the mid-nineteenth century who, with his brother Adolphe, was widely tested by mesmerists in France and England.
Related Periodicals: L'Avenir
Dietz, P.A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) P. A. Dietz was a Dutch physician and parapsychologist active in the early-twentieth-century Dutch psychical-research movement.
Related Periodicals: Mensch en Cosmos | Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie
Digby, Kenelm
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665) was an English courtier, natural philosopher, and alchemist, famous for the sympathetic "powder of sympathy."
Related Periodicals: The Conjuror's Magazine
Diggs, Annie L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Annie LePorte Diggs (1848–1916) was an American Populist orator, journalist, and Spiritualist/reform activist in Kansas.
Related Periodicals: Lucifer the Lightbearer
Dillinger, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) John Dillinger (1903–1934), the American Depression-era bank robber; invoked here in an astrological periodical.
Related Periodicals: National Astrological Journal
Dingle, Edwin John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Edwin John Dingle (1881–1972), known as "Ding Le Mei," was an English-American writer and founder of the
Related Periodicals: The Mansion Builder
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Dingwall, E.J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Eric John Dingwall (1890–1986), British psychical researcher and anthropologist; same person as the "Dingwall, Eric J." entry.
Related Periodicals: Zeitschrift fur Kritischen Okkultismus
Related Monographs: Telepathy and Clairvoyance (1925), How to Go to a Medium: A Manual of Instruction (1927)
Dingwall, Eric J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Eric John Dingwall (1890–1986) was a British anthropologist and skeptical psychical researcher, longtime officer of the
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Dingwall, Eric J.. Eric John Dingwall (1890-1986) was a psychical investigator, anthropologist, and librarian whose conjuring skill and appetite for documentation made him exceptionally effective at detecting fraud and methodological looseness. His robustly critical approach frequently brought him into conflict with colleagues, particularly over ESP research and the Borley Rectory case, though he never became a simple debunker — he continued to regard the deeper relation between matter and spirit as profoundly mysterious.
Related Periodicals: Psychic Research Quarterly | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Related Monographs: Revelations of a Spirit Medium (1922)
Ditson, G.L.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Illustracion Espirita (Mexico) | Licht des Jenseits | Revue Belge du Spiritisme
Divoire, Ferdinand
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Fernand (Ferdinand) Divoire (1883–1951), Franco-Belgian poet and journalist of the Polaires circle; same person as the "Divoire, Fernand" entry.
Related Periodicals: Bulletin Des Polaires | Entretiens Idealistes | L'Affranchi
(merged from divoire_fernand)
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Fernand Divoire (1883–1951) was a Belgian-French poet and journalist associated with the Groupe des Polaires and esoteric literary circles. See also "Divoire, Ferdinand."
Dixon, Jacob
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jacob Dixon was a nineteenth-century English homeopathic physician and Spiritualist, an early promoter of the movement in Britain.
Chasing Emma: The Three "Two Worlds"
Related Periodicals: The Biological Review | Spirit of Partridge | The Spiritual Magazine (UK) | The Two Worlds (Dixon)
Dixon, Joseph
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Ten: The True Prophetic Messenger
Related Periodicals: Spirit of Partridge
Dockerill, Marian Hirsig
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Marian Dockerill was the author of a sensational 1928 confessional memoir about life in the "love cult" of Pierre Bernard ("Oom the Omnipotent"), to whom she was related by marriage.
Related Periodicals: Psychical Research Review
Related Monographs: My Life in a Love Cult (1928)
Dodge, Mary Mapes
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905), the American author of Hans Brinker and editor of St. Nicholas Magazine, who wrote of living “in the house with two mediums.”
Chasing Emma: "I Lived In The House With Two Mediums"
Dodgin, Claude
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) A variant of Claude Doggins (1898–1963), the occultist "Maurice Doreal"; see the "Doreal, Maurice" entry.
Related Periodicals: Light on the Path and Weekly Truth Sheet (Brotherhood of the White Temple)
Dods, J.B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Bovee Dods (1795–1872) was an American clergyman and lecturer who developed a system of "electrical psychology" bridging mesmerism and early mind-cure.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History... Dods v. Edmonds
Chasing Emma: And Another One...
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Clarion
Doggins, Claude
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Claude Doggins (1898–1963) was the birth name of the occultist "Maurice Doreal," founder of the Brotherhood of the White Temple; see the "Doreal, Maurice" entry.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Fortean Society Magazine
Related Monographs: Divine Healing (1937), Material Inharmony and How to Overcome It (1937), Personal Magnetism: The Occult Law of Magnetic Attraction (1937), The Pineal Eye (1937), A Guide for the Metaphysical Healer (1938), Instructions of a Master to His Chela (Discourses of Theron the Adept) (1940), Man's Higher Self: How His Subtle Bodies Influence His Life (1940), Masters, Visible and Invisible (Nine Zones of Color and Light, Four Aspects of Soul) (1940), Spiritual Power, Magnetic Healing and Some Specific Diseases with Healing Methods (1940), Symbolism of the Great Seal of the United States: A Prophetic Message of the Future of America (1940), The Vitamins and the Elements (1940), Tibet and Its Religions (1940), Astro-Chemical Analysis of the Twelve Chemical Types (1941), The Authentic St. Germain (1941), The Neophyte and the Path (1943), Astral Projection and How to Accomplish It (1946), The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel (1947)
Doinel, Jules
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Jules Doinel (1842–1902) was a French archivist who in 1890 founded the modern
Related Periodicals: L'Etoile | L'Initiation | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Revue des Hautes Etudes | Revue Spirite
Russell, Pauline
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Power of Deep Breathing (1920)
Rutherford, Adam
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Great Pyramid: Its Christian Message to All Nations (1942)
Rutherford, J. F.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1920), Talking with the Dead (1920)
Ryan, W. P.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: From Atlantis to Thames: An Epic Drama (1926)
S, C. E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mrs Besant and the Present Crisis in the Theosophical Society (1934)
S. T. S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: My Proof of Immortality, With My Demised Act (1924)
Saintyves, P.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: L'Eternuement et le Baillement dans la Magie, l'Ethnographie et le Folklore Medical (1921)
Saltmarsh, H. F.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Evidence of Personal Survival from Cross Correspondences (1938)
Sanderson, Florence Helen
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Your Invisible Self (1935)
Sanderson, Sandra
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Your Invisible Self (1935)
Sankeyjones, Nancy E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Unique Heathen, to which is now added Theodore Schroeder on the Erotogenesis of Religion: A Bibliography (1922), Bibliography of Theodore Schroeder on the Psychology of Religion and the Erotogenetic Interpretation of Mysticism (1934)
Sasia, Joseph C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Safe View of Spiritism for Catholics (1920)
Sassen, F.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Charakterdeutung aus Gesicht, Hand und Handschrift (1922)
Sauvetre, Chanoine
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mgr Jouin: Un Bon Serviteur de l'Eglise (1936)
Savage, Helen
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Psychic Powers (Theosophical Manual No. XI) (1940)
Saxon, Harry O.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Master Key of Love and The Psychology of Human Behaviour (1932)
Scarborough, Dorothy
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Best Psychic Stories (1920)
Scheuing, H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Psychology of Mediumship (Two Worlds in One) (1923)
Schlaikjer, Erich
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Die Welt der Gestorbenen: Ein Beitrag zu okkulten Problemen (1920)
Schmidt, Mabel Pearson
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: God's Country (1944)
Schmitz, Oscar A. H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Der Geist der Astrologie (1922)
Schofield, A. T.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Modern Spiritism: Its Science and Religion (1920)
Schreck, H. C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Mystery Book: Magic, Escapes and Illusions (1920)
Schubel, George
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: How To Make Our Mental Pictures Come True: A Series of Easy Lessons in the Art of Visualizing (1922), Seeing Our Mental Pictures Through (1922)
Scott, Frank Lincoln
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Autosuggestion and Salesmanship, or Imagination in Business (1923)
Scott, George Ryley
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites (1941)
Seldes, Gilbert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Stammering Century (1928)
Selige, Adolph
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Semenoff, Eugene
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: La Science Secrete des Inities et la Pratique de la Vie (1928)
Semon, Richard
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Mneme (1921)
Serailian, Mihran K.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: An Essay on the Fundamental Principles of Operative Occultism (1939)
Seton, Julia
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Short Cut: Regeneration Through Fasting (1929), Western Symbology (How To Get What You Want... Through Numerology) (1929)
(merged from seaton_julia)
(Source: Gemini) (?–1950) American physician, New Thought author, teacher, and lecturer, born in Illinois. Trained at
Related Periodicals: Azoth | The Balance | The Column
Sewall, May Wright
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Neither Dead Nor Sleeping (1920)
Seward, A. F.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Fourteen Lessons in Memory Training (1930)
Seymour, John D.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: True Irish Ghost Stories (1926)
Shaiah, Enediel
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: En el Umbral del Misterio: Estudios teosoficos (1921)
Shepard, W. E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Fads, Fakes, Freaks, Frauds and Fools (1923)
Sheppard, H. C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Psychology: Personal and Essential (1920)
Shutt, Gladys
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Sickle, Sal S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Greater-Truth from The Great Spirit, The Supreme Lord God Jehovah-Ahura-Mazda (1922)
Simmons, Daniel A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Practical Psychology (1921)
Simon, Anne
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Message of Anne Simon (1920)
Simon, Louis
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Mneme (1921)
Simon, Otto T.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Message of Anne Simon (1920)
Sinclair, May
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: From Four Who Are Dead: Messages from H. D. Lowry, W. T. Stead, H. F. N. Scott, George Dawson (1926)
Siouville, A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Le Prince de ce Monde et le Peche Originel (1925)
Skottowe, John C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Four Religious Essays (1920)
Sloan, Mersene Elon
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Demonosophy Unmasked in Modern Theosophy: Whence? What? Whither? (1922)
Smith, Agnes E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Sacrament and Seance (1920)
Smith, Albert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Applied Graphology: A Textbook on Character Analysis from Handwriting (1920)
Smith, Arthur C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritual Healing (Address, N.S.A. Convention, Boston, Oct 1928) (1928)
Smith, Edward H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Smith, Hester Travers
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde (1923)
Smith, Irene M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Twelve Lessons in Psychic Unfoldment (1925)
Smith, Joseph
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Book of Mormon (1920)
Smith, W. S. Montgomery
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Two Worlds Are Ours (1922)
Smith, Worth
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The House of Glory (1941)
Snipes, Joseph F.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Fifty Years in Psychic Research: A Remarkable Record of Phenomenal Facts (1927)
Snowden, James H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Truth About Christian Science: The Founder and the Faith (1920)
Soal, S. G.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Survey of the Occult (1935), Preliminary Studies of a Vaudeville Telepathist (1937)
Soler, Amalia Domingo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Amalia Domingo Soler (1835–1909) was a Spanish Spiritist writer and one of the most influential figures of Spanish Spiritism, associated with La Luz del Porvenir.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1909) Nineteenth-century Spanish writer, poet, and feminist Spiritist. Born in Seville, she built a literary career in Barcelona despite severe visual impairment and dedicated herself to Allan Kardec's Spiritist philosophy. She co-founded several Spiritist and feminist societies and served as chief editor of *La Luz del Porvenir* (The Light of the Future), a monthly periodical written primarily by and for women. She authored *Spiritist Memories* and *The Light of the Soul*. Died in Barcelona in 1909.
Related Periodicals: Constancia | Luz del Porvenir | El Buen Sentido | Iris de Paz (Huesca) | Luz y Union (Barcelona) | La Revelacion (Alicante)
Donato, essor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) "Professor Donato" was the stage name of Alfred-Édouard d'Hont (1845–1900), a celebrated Belgian stage hypnotist. (See also the "d'Hont, Alfred Edouard" entry.)
Related Periodicals: Almanach de la Chance | La Vie Mysterieuse
Donato, Juan Trincado
(Source: Gemini) (?–1935) Spanish-born Argentine esoteric philosopher, writer, and spiritual leader. Born in Cintruénigo, Spain, he studied electrical engineering before emigrating to Argentina, and in 1911 founded the Escuela Magnético-Espiritual de la Comuna Universal (EMECU) in Buenos Aires. He developed a system of Spiritist philosophy he called 'Trincadism' and authored over forty philosophical and cosmological books, most notably *The Philosophy of the Creator Spirit* (1913) and *The First Ray of Light*, advocating the spiritual unity of humanity, communal living, and the abolition of national borders. He established a network of communal agricultural colonies and schools across South America. Died in Buenos Aires in 1935.
Related Periodicals: La Balanza
Donlop, D.N.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Almost certainly Daniel Nicol Dunlop (1868–1935), the Theosophist and editor; a misspelling of the "Dunlop, D.N." entry.
(Source: Gemini) (1868–1935) Scottish-born entrepreneur, editor, Theosophist, and Anthroposophist. Born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, Dunlop worked as an administrator for Westinghouse and founded the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association (BEAMA) and the World Power Conference (1924). He joined the
Related Periodicals: The Lamp | The International Theosophist | The Irish Theosophist | Theosophical News
Donnelly, Ignatius
Ignatius Donnelly (1831–1901) was a U.S. congressman, Populist politician, and amateur scholar whose best-seller Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882) revived and popularized the myth of Atlantis, shaping much later occult and pseudo-archaeological speculation.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1901) American politician, populist reformer, and author. Born in Philadelphia, Donnelly moved to Minnesota, where he served as Lieutenant Governor and in the U.S. Congress. He wrote *Atlantis: The Antediluvian World* (1882), which popularized the theory that the lost continent of Atlantis was the historical origin of human civilizations, and *The Great Cryptogram* (1888), arguing that Francis Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. His town of Nininger failed as a land speculation. Died in Minnesota in 1901.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_Donnelly
Related Periodicals: The New World
Doreal, Maurice
"Maurice Doreal" (born Claude Doggins, 1898–1963) was an American occultist who founded the Brotherhood of the White Temple in Denver around 1930 and published The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean. (The "Doggins, Claude" and "Dodgin, Claude" entries are the same person.)
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Doreal
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Fortean Society Magazine | Lemurian Ambassador | Light on the Path and Weekly Truth Sheet (Brotherhood of the White Temple)
Related Monographs: Spiritual Power and Magnetic Healing (1927), Divine Healing (1937), Material Inharmony and How to Overcome It (1937), Personal Magnetism: The Occult Law of Magnetic Attraction (1937), The Pineal Eye (1937), A Guide for the Metaphysical Healer (1938), Instructions of a Master to His Chela (Discourses of Theron the Adept) (1940), Man's Higher Self: How His Subtle Bodies Influence His Life (1940), Masters, Visible and Invisible (Nine Zones of Color and Light, Four Aspects of Soul) (1940), Spiritual Power, Magnetic Healing and Some Specific Diseases with Healing Methods (1940), Symbolism of the Great Seal of the United States: A Prophetic Message of the Future of America (1940), The Vitamins and the Elements (1940), Tibet and Its Religions (1940), Astro-Chemical Analysis of the Twelve Chemical Types (1941), The Authentic St. Germain (1941), The Neophyte and the Path (1943), Astral Projection and How to Accomplish It (1946), The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel (1947), Polar Paradise (1949), The Pineal Eye (1950), The Secret Teachings of Jesus (1950)
Doten, Lizzie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Lizzie Doten (1827–1913) was an American Spiritualist trance poet, celebrated for verses she claimed were dictated by the spirits of dead poets.
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds For 1888
Related Periodicals: The Dream Interpreter and Oneirocritica (Investigator) | Psychic Century | The Spirit Guardian | The Spiritual Republic | The Williamsburgh Spiritualist
Doubleday, Abner
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Abner Doubleday (1819–1893), a Union general in the American Civil War, was an early American Theosophist who served as the Society's first president in the United States.
Related Periodicals: The Century Path | Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
Douglas, Lord Alfred
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), "Bosie," the English poet remembered chiefly for his association with Oscar Wilde.
Related Periodicals: Modern Mystic
Dow, Lorenzo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834) was an eccentric and hugely popular itinerant American Methodist revivalist.
Related Periodicals: The Seraph's Advocate
Dowd, Freeman B.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Sexual Science and the Riddle of Hermes: Freeman B. Dowd; 1871
Related Periodicals: Clothed With The Sun | Dawning Light | Initiates | The Temple | The World's Advance Thought
Dower, William
To be added.
Chasing Emma: All Life Is One: A Candle for the Rev. Irene Earll (1865-1938)
Related Periodicals: Herald of Light (Arroyo Grande) | The Temple Artisan
Dowie, John Alexander
John Alexander Dowie (1847–1907) was a Scottish-Australian faith healer and evangelist who built a large divine-healing ministry in Chicago, founded the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, and in 1901 established the theocratic community of Zion City, Illinois. He was an important forerunner of Pentecostalism.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alexander_Dowie
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Business Philosopher | Leaves of Healing | Mind Cure and Science of Life | The Primitive Occult Journal | A Voice from Zion (Dowie) | The Zion Banner
Dowling, Levi
Levi H. Dowling (1844-1911) was an American minister and author best known for The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (1908), which he claimed to have transcribed from the Akashic Records during early-morning meditations over a period of years. Born in Ohio, he served as a chaplain during the Civil War and was later ordained as a minister in the Christian Church. The Aquarian Gospel, which portrays Jesus as having spent his "lost years" in India, Egypt, and other lands studying with spiritual masters, became an influential text in New Age and alternative religious circles throughout the twentieth century.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_H._Dowling
Related Periodicals: Aquarian New Age | The Breath of Life (Christopathian) | Brotherhood (Los Angeles) | The Column | The Interpreter (Chicago) | Joy | Modern Miracles | Suggestive Therapeutics
Related Monographs: Complete Course in Biopneuma: The True Science of the Great Opening of the Golden Gate Unto Breath (1921), The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (1947)
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), creator of Sherlock Holmes, was in later life a leading and ardent public champion of Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1930) Scottish physician and author, creator of Sherlock Holmes, who became a public defender of Spiritualism. Born in Edinburgh and educated in medicine, he wrote *A Study in Scarlet* (1887) and *The Lost World* (1912). After the loss of his son and brother around World War I he devoted himself to lecturing on spirit communication, writing histories of Spiritualism, and defending physical mediums. He championed the authenticity of the 'Cottingley Fairies' photographs in 1920 and engaged in disputes with the magician Harry Houdini, who sought to expose mediumistic fraud. Died in Sussex in 1930.
Chasing Emma: The Present Loose and Easy Regime: A Letter; from Southsea; to Light
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Azoth | Bulletin Des Polaires | International Psychic Gazette | Light | Mind Inc. | Paragon Monthly | Immortality and Survival
Related Monographs: The Life Beyond the Veil, Book I: The Lowlands of Heaven (1920), The Truth of Spiritualism: A Public Debate (1920), D. D. Home: His Life and Mission (1921), The Life Beyond the Veil, Book I: The Lowlands of Heaven (1921), The Wanderings of a Spiritualist (1921), A Debate on Spiritualism (1922), The Coming of the Fairies (1922), Our American Adventure (1923), The Case for Spirit Photography (1923), Phantoms of the Dawn (1924), The Spiritualists' Reader: A Collection of Spirit Messages from many sources, specially prepared for Short Readings (1924), The History of Spiritualism (1926), The Land of Mist (1926), Pheneas Speaks: Direct Spirit Communications in the Family Circle (1929), The Edge of the Unknown (1930), The Great Mystery of Life Beyond Death (1938), What Does Spiritualism Actually Teach and Stand For? (1946)
Monck, Francis Ward
(Source: Gemini) (?–1907) British clergyman and physical medium. Originally ordained a Baptist minister in England, Monck converted to Spiritualism and demonstrated physical mediumship and slate-writing, traveling across Great Britain holding seances in which he claimed to materialize spirit forms, notably a guide named 'Samuel.' His demonstrations were investigated by Alfred Russel Wallace and William Barrett. He published essays and edited spiritualist journals. Died in 1907.
Related Periodicals: Spiritual Notes
Dr. Slade
To be added.
Related Periodicals: La Pensee Libre | The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record
Dramard, Louis
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Lotus Rouge | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | Revue des Hautes Etudes | Sophia (Spain)
Drawbridge, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Charles Drawbridge, a named witness in the Oxley–Monck test séances.
Chasing Emma: The Invisible Operating Agency: Oxley and Monck; June 1876
Drayton, H.S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Henry S. Drayton was an American phrenologist, physician, and editor associated with the American Phrenological Journal and the Fowler & Wells circle.
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal
Dreiser, Theodore
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American naturalist novelist (Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy) who late in life took an interest in the mystical.
(Source: Gemini) American novelist and journalist (1871–1945) of the naturalist school, author of Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925); a founder of the
Related Periodicals: Fortean Society Magazine
Dresser, Annetta Gertrude
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Annetta Gertrude Dresser (1843–1935) was an American New Thought pioneer, wife of Julius Dresser and a student of Phineas P. Quimby.
Related Periodicals: The Journal of Practical Metaphysics
Dresser, Charlotte Elizabeth
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Charlotte Elizabeth Dresser (1845–1930?), an American author of early-twentieth-century automatic-writing books on survival after death.
Chasing Emma: Dee; F.R. and Sis: Looking for Charlotte Elizabeth Dresser (1845 - 1930?)
Dresser, Horatio Willis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Horatio W. Dresser (1866–1954) was an American New Thought philosopher and the movement's leading historian, editor of the Quimby manuscripts.
(Source: Gemini) (1866–1954) American author, editor, and New Thought philosopher, and a historian of the movement. Born in Portland, Maine, he was the son of Julius A. Dresser, an early disciple of the mental healer Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. He took a doctorate in philosophy at Harvard, where he studied under William James, and edited and published *The Quimby Manuscripts* (1921), which presented Quimby as the intellectual source of Christian Science and New Thought — provoking disputes with the
Chasing Emma: Ayn Rand; New Thought Novelist?
Chasing Emma: New (Magnetic) Thought: 1842; 1854; 1855
Related Periodicals: The Christian (Shelton) | Eltka | The Higher Law | Higher Thought (See) | The Journal of Practical Metaphysics | Practical Ideals | Rincarnazione
Related Monographs: The Open Vision: A Study of Psychic Phenomena (1920), The Quimby Manuscripts (1921)
Dresser, Julius A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Julius A. Dresser (1838–1893) was, with his wife Annetta, a founder of the New Thought movement and a former patient and student of Phineas P. Quimby.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American New Thought figure, one of the earliest disciples of the mental healer Phineas Parkhurst Quimby and father of Horatio Willis Dresser.
Related Periodicals: The Journal of Practical Metaphysics | The Life [Kansas City] | Mind Cure and Science of Life
Drew, Marion Meyer
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Horoscope (Dell) | Wynn's Astrology
Related Monographs: 101 Health Horoscopes (1945)
Driesch, Hans
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Hans Driesch (1867–1941) was a German biologist and vitalist philosopher who became president of the
Related Periodicals: Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie
Drown, Ruth Beymer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Ruth B. Drown (1891–1965) was an American chiropractor and pioneer of "radionics," whose diagnostic devices led to fraud prosecution.
(Source: Gemini) (1891–1965) American alternative practitioner, chiropractor, and inventor, a central figure in radionics. Born in Colorado, she developed the 'Drown Radio Therapy' system, using dial-based instruments she claimed could diagnose and treat disease — and photograph internal organs ('Drown Homo-Vibra-Ray') — from a drop of a patient's blood at any distance. The Food and Drug Administration and the
Related Periodicals: The Philosopher's Stone | Physico-Clinical Medicine
Related Monographs: The Science and Philosophy of the Drown Radio Therapy (1937)
Drummond, David
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) David Drummond, a Cecil Court (London) dealer in occult and ephemeral printed matter.
Chasing Emma: All Hail David Drummond
Drummond, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Sir William Drummond (1770–1828), the Scottish diplomat and scholar whose Oedipus Judaicus advanced an astronomical-mythology reading of scripture.
Chasing Emma: The Bridge of Time - On Becoming Skeptical
Druten, John Van
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Van Druten (1901–1957) was an English-American playwright who became a follower of Vedanta in California.
Related Periodicals: Vedanta and the West
Related Monographs: Vedanta for the Western World (1948)
Prel, Charles du
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Carl du Prel (1839–1899) was a German philosopher and psychical researcher, author of The Philosophy of Mysticism.
(Source: Gemini) (1839–1899) German philosopher, occultist, and parapsychologist whose writings helped introduce psychical research to European academic circles. Born in Landshut, du Prel took a doctorate in philosophy and served as a military officer before turning to esotericism. He wrote *The Philosophy of Mysticism* (1885), which drew on evolutionary biology and psychology to argue for a transcendental subconscious mind and the reality of somnambulism and telepathy. He was active in German spiritualist and occult societies. Died in 1899.
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Du Prel, Carl. Carl du Prel (1839-1899) was a German philosopher and a major pre-Freudian theorist of the unconscious whose 'transcendental psychology' shaped debates over spiritism, subliminal mind, and postmortem individuality. His route into psychical research ran through philosophy, dream theory, and astronomy before he openly embraced supernormal phenomena; his core idea of a transcendental or higher self grounding psychic functioning and personal survival was once widely influential, though it later receded from view.
Related Periodicals: Annali dello Spiritismo in Italia | Die Ubersinnliche Welt | L'Initiation | Neos Pithagoras | Russkii Frank-Mason | Sphinx [Leipzig] | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus | La Pensee Libre
Dudley, Stephen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Stephen Dudley, a sitter in the early spirit-room circles around Jonathan Koons and J. B. Conklin.
Chasing Emma: If It Was The Devil: J. B. Conklin at Koons' Spirit Rooms; November 1854
Related Monographs: Comte de Gabalis (1922)
Duguid, David
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) David Duguid (1832–1907) was a Scottish cabinetmaker and celebrated "painting medium" who produced pictures and "direct writing" said to be executed by spirits.
(Source: Gemini) (1832–1907) Scottish spiritualist medium, cabinet-maker, and painter. Born in Glasgow, Duguid worked as a cabinet-maker before discovering mediumistic abilities in the 1860s. He became known for automatic 'spirit paintings' and spirit photography, claiming to channel the Dutch painter Jan Steen to produce miniature oil paintings in darkness while bound, and dictated the esoteric work *Hafed, Prince of Persia* (1876). Investigators exposed his spirit photographs as made with pre-exposed plates and his paintings as trickery. Died in Glasgow in 1907.
Chasing Emma: Sir John Franklin; Wella Anderson; Social Network Speed; and the Economics of Modern Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: Emma; Hay Nisbet; David Duguid and The Glasgow Association of Spiritualists
Chasing Emma: Hafed; Prince of Persia: Feculent Fluids; and States of the Text
Chasing Emma: As If By Magic: Benjamin Coleman; Mesmerist
Related Periodicals: Gallery of Spirit Art | Noetic Magazine | Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden | Spiritual Record
Dujols, Pierre
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Pierre Dujols (1862–1926) was a French bookseller, scholar of Hermeticism, and alchemist, sometimes proposed as a candidate for the identity of "Fulcanelli."
(Source: Gemini) (1862–1926) French occultist, hermetic philosopher, bookdealer, and writer, known by the alchemical pseudonym Magophon, active in the 20th-century French revival of alchemy. Running an esoteric bookshop in Paris, he amassed a library of rare hermetic manuscripts and became a mentor to occultists including Jean-Julien Champagne and René Schwaller de Lubicz, and a behind-the-scenes contributor to the works published under the pseudonym Fulcanelli. He wrote the alchemical commentary *Hypotypose du Mutus Liber* (1914). Died in Paris in 1926.
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Related Periodicals: Bibliotheque des Sciences Esoteriques
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was a pioneering African-American poet and novelist.
Related Periodicals: The Aletheian
Dunn, Elisha Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Elisha Charles Dunn (1841–1914), an American trance medium, for a time the private medium of J. M. Peebles.
Chasing Emma: July 5; 1876 -- Organizing Christian Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: Elisha Charles Dunn (1841-1914)
Dunne, Finley Peter
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936) was an American humorist, creator of the satirical Irish barkeep "Mr. Dooley."
Related Periodicals: The New Life [Idaho]
Duplantier, Jean-Marc Allard
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Le Spiritualiste de la Nouvelle Orleans
Potet, Jules Du
See Dupotet, Baron Jules Denis, above
(Source: Gemini) (1796–1881) French magnetizer, author, and esotericist, a leading figure in animal magnetism. Born in Sennevoy-le-Haut into an aristocratic family, Du Potet studied medicine, dedicated himself to Franz Mesmer's theories, established a clinic in Paris, and published the *Journal du magnétisme*. In London his demonstrations introduced clinical mesmerism to physicians including John Elliotson. He held that animal magnetism was a key to the spirit world, using magic mirrors and mesmeric trances to induce psychic phenomena, drawing conflict with the French medical establishment and the Catholic Church. Died in Paris in 1881.
Related Periodicals: Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | Le Magicien | Chaine Magnetique | Luz [Parana] | Phare | Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden | Union Magnetique
(merged from potet_baron_du)
To be added.
(merged from potet_jules_du)
To be added.
Durville, Andre
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) André Durville was a French practitioner and writer on magnetism and naturism, of the Durville family of Parisian magnetizers.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) French figure in magnetic and naturist healing, son of the magnetizer Hector Durville. Trained with a medical degree, André Durville and his brother Gaston became pioneers of the French 'naturist' (natural health) movement, advocating a non-medicinal approach based on magnetism, diet, exercise, and sunlight, and drew professional skepticism for abandoning orthodox medicine.
Related Periodicals: Naturisme | Revue du Psychisme Experimental
Durville, Gaston
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Gaston Durville (1887–1971) was a French physician and naturist, son of the magnetizer Hector Durville.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) French physician and figure in magnetic and naturist healing, son of the magnetizer Hector Durville. Holding a medical degree, Gaston Durville and his brother André became pioneers of the French 'naturist' (natural health) movement, advocating a non-medicinal approach based on magnetism, diet, exercise, and sunlight, and faced skepticism from medical peers for establishing alternative health camps.
Related Periodicals: Eudia | Forces Spirituelles | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | Naturisme | Revue du Psychisme Experimental | Revue Magnetique
Durville, Hector
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Hector Durville (1849–1923) was a French magnetic healer, prolific author, and publisher who founded a school and society of magnetism in Paris.
(Source: Gemini) (1849–1923) French magnetizer, author, and alternative healer, a leading figure in magnetic healing. He established the Société Magnétique de France and a school of magnetic therapy in Paris, and edited the *Journal du magnétisme*. With his sons Gaston and André Durville, both trained physicians who became pioneers of the French 'naturist' movement, he advocated a non-medicinal approach based on magnetism, diet, exercise, and sunlight. Medical boards and state authorities attacked his institute for practicing medicine without a license. Died in 1923.
Related Periodicals: Alliance Spiritualiste | Chaine Magnetique | Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | Eudia | Forces Spirituelles | Journal du Magnetisme | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique | L'Etoile D'Orient | La Vie Mysterieuse | Naturisme | Neos Pithagoras | Nouveaux Horizons | Revista Universal Magnetismo Experimental y Terapeutico | Revue du Psychisme Experimental | Revue Magnetique | Rincarnazione
Dutton, Mary Stowell
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Herald of Light (Arroyo Grande)
Related Monographs: The Light of The World (1928)
Dutton, R.E.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews | Weltmer's Magazine
Dvivedi, M.N.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi (1858–1898) was an Indian scholar, poet, and Theosophist who wrote on Advaita Vedanta and represented Hinduism in Western Theosophical publications.
(Source: Gemini) (1858–1898) Indian writer, philosopher, Sanskrit scholar, and Theosophist, a figure in the Gujarati literary and spiritual renaissance. Born in Nadiad, he served as a professor of Sanskrit, translated Upanishadic and Vedantic texts into English and Gujarati, and delivered a paper on Hinduism at the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions. A member of the
Related Periodicals: Theosophical Society American Section -- Oriental Department
Dyar, Harrison Gray
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. (1866–1929) was an American entomologist whose eccentric private life and interests brought him into metaphysical periodical circles.
Related Periodicals: Reality
Eagle, Georgiana
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Georgiana Eagle (“Madame Card”), a Victorian mesmeric performer at the center of the persistent (and false) legend of “Queen Victoria's medium.”
Chasing Emma: Georgiana Eagle: Queen Victoria's Medium (Not)
Earhart, Amelia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Amelia Earhart (1897–disappeared 1937), the pioneering American aviator; invoked here in a metaphysical periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Celestial Life
Earll, Irene
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) The Rev. Irene Earll (1865–1938), an American Theosophical figure of the
Chasing Emma: All Life Is One: A Candle for the Rev. Irene Earll (1865-1938)
Eastcott, Michael J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Michael J. Eastcott was a twentieth-century British esoteric author who wrote, often with Nancy Magor, on meditation and the "Ageless Wisdom" in the Alice Bailey tradition.
Related Periodicals: The Beacon (Bailey)
Eaton, William Dunseath
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Eaves, Albert Osborne
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) A. Osborne Eaves was a British writer and publisher on occultism, New Thought, breathing, and healing in the early twentieth century. See also the "Eaves, A. Osbourne" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (1857–1935) English astrologer, New Thought writer, and esotericist. He published books on the spiritual laws of health and mind, notably *The Mastery of Death* (1906) and *The Colour Cure*, setting out systems of color therapy and mental concentration for physical immortality and divine healing. His work drew condemnation from conservative clergy and mainstream medical boards, and his astrological consultations were monitored under Britain's fortune-telling and anti-vice regulations. Died in 1935.
Related Periodicals: New Thought Journal and Occult Review | The Practical Psychologist (London) | The Talisman | Advanced Thought (Chicago) | Wings of Truth
Ebertin, Elsbeth
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Elsbeth Ebertin (1880–1944) was a German astrologer and writer, mother of the astrologer Reinhold Ebertin, remembered for a widely noted 1923 forecast concerning Adolf Hitler.
(Source: Gemini) (1880–1944) German astrologer and graphologist, born in Görlitz. She ran a consulting practice and published the astrological yearbook *Ein Blick in die Zukunft*. In her 1923 yearbook she predicted the rise of a nationalistic leader—later identified as Adolf Hitler—and warned of a violent coup attempt (the Beer Hall Putsch). Under the Nazi regime, which banned astrological publications, she faced Gestapo surveillance. She died during an Allied bombing raid on Freiburg in 1944.
Related Periodicals: Ein Blick in die Zukunft | Prana (Leipzig) | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
Ebon, Martin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Martin Ebon (1917–2006) was a German-American author and editor who produced many popular books on parapsychology and the occult and served as an administrator of the
(Source: Gemini) (1917–2006) German-born American author and parapsychologist, born Hans Martin Schwarz in Hamburg. He fled the Nazi regime in 1938 and emigrated to the United States, serving in intelligence and government information posts during World War II. He was Administrative Secretary of the Parapsychology Foundation, working with the medium Eileen J. Garrett, and authored or edited over eighty books on telepathy, clairvoyance, Soviet psychical research, and exorcism, including *The Psychic Reader* and *Psi High Quality*. He argued for a skeptical, empirical approach to psychical research. He died in New York in 2006.
Related Periodicals: Probe the Unknown | Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Eckhart, Meister
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Meister Eckhart (c. 1260–c. 1328) was a German Dominican theologian and mystic whose teaching on the soul and the "ground" of the Godhead deeply influenced later Western mysticism and esotericism.
(Source: Gemini) (c. 1260–c. 1328) German theologian, philosopher, and Christian mystic, born Eckhart von Hochheim in Thuringia. He joined the Dominican Order and taught theology in Paris, Strasbourg, and Cologne, preaching on the union of the human soul with God. The Archbishop of Cologne accused him of heresy, and he was tried by the Inquisition in Avignon in 1327; he defended his writings and died in Avignon before a verdict was reached. In 1329 Pope John XXII issued a bull condemning twenty-eight of his articles as heretical.
Related Periodicals: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau
Eddison, E. R.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Eddy, Mary Baker
Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) was the American founder of the Christian Science church and movement, and author of its spiritual textbook Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1875). Born in New Hampshire, she experienced a dramatic healing in 1866 after a serious fall, which she attributed to her reading of the New Testament, and subsequently developed the system of spiritual healing she called Christian Science. She founded the
(Source: Gemini) (1821–1910) American religious leader and author who founded the Church of Christ, Scientist and established Christian Science. Born in Bow, New Hampshire, she reported a healing in 1866 after a fall on ice while reading a biblical account of Jesus healing the sick, and dedicated herself to mental healing. She published *Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures* (1875), which held that disease is a mental illusion curable through spiritual alignment. Christian Science practitioners were prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license, and she faced lawsuits from her family over her sanity and finances. She died in Boston in 1910.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/eddy-mary-baker-1821-1910
Chasing Emma: No Valuable Consideration: Mind Cure
Chasing Emma: It Bears On Its Face The Family Likeness: William Stainton Moses on Christian Science; June 1885
Chasing Emma: Any Person Desiring To Learn: July 4; 1868
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal | Christian Science Sentinel | The Column | East and West | The Exodus | The Guiding Star | The Ideal Review | The Master Mind | The Metaphysician (Brown) | Mind Cure and Science of Life | Mind In Nature | Modern Thought | The Radiant Centre | Unity | Christian Science Journal
Related Monographs: The Other Side God's Door: Messages from Lord Kitchener, Mary Baker Eddy, and Others (1920), Prose Works Other Than Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1925)
Eddy, Sherwood
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Sherwood Eddy (1871–1963) was an American Protestant missionary, YMCA leader, and author who took a serious late-life interest in psychical research and survival.
(Source: Gemini) (1871–1963) American missionary, author, and educator active in the YMCA and Social Gospel movements. Born in Leavenworth, Kansas, he graduated from Yale and Union Theological Seminary and organized missionary work across India and Asia. After the death of his first wife and personal experiences in 1935 he investigated mediumship and published *You Survive Death* (1942), defending telepathy and spirit communication, which brought him into conflict with conservative Christian peers. He died in Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1963.
Related Periodicals: Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship)
Eddy, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) William Eddy, of the Eddy family materialization mediums of Chittenden, Vermont, whose séances Henry Steel Olcott publicized in People from the Other World.
(Source: Gemini) (1832–1932) American spiritualist medium, born in Chittenden, Vermont. With his brother Horatio Eddy he presented physical seances at their Vermont farm in which materialized spirit forms emerged from a cabinet to speak and play instruments. In 1874 their seances were investigated over three months by Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder of the
Chasing Emma: Lobster and Lice: William Stainton Moses on Henry Steel Olcott; June 1875
Chasing Emma: Honto's Cave: Some Notes on the Mediumships of the Eddy Family
Edge, Henry T.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Henry T. Edge (1867–1946) was an English Theosophist, a personal pupil of H. P. Blavatsky who became a longtime teacher and writer at Point Loma.
Related Periodicals: The Theosophical Path | Universal Brotherhood
Edger, Lilian
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Lilian Edger (1862–1933) was a New Zealand Theosophist, scholar, and lecturer who worked in India under Annie Besant.
Related Periodicals: The Pilgrim | Ultra (Rome)
Edgerly, Webster
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Life Building Method of the Ralston Health Club ('All Nature' Course) (1920), The Cultivation of Personal Magnetism, Book One (Step 1: Sources of Magnetism; Step 2: Enemies of Magnetism) (1924), Instantaneous Personal Magnetism (1935), Private Lessons in the Cultivation of Magnetism of the Sexes (1936)
Edgerton, James Arthur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) James Arthur Edgerton (1869–1938) was an American journalist, poet, and Populist reformer who became a leader of the
Related Periodicals: The Column | The Essene
Edmonds, John W.
John Worth Edmonds (1799–1874) was a New York judge and state senator who, after converting to Spiritualism in 1851, co-authored the two-volume Spiritualism (1853–55) with George T. Dexter. His public advocacy — which cost him his seat on the state Supreme Court — made him one of the most influential early American Spiritualists.
(Source: Gemini) (1799–1874) American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as a Justice of the New York Supreme Court. Born in Hudson, New York, he graduated from Union College, served as a state senator, and worked on prison reform. After the death of his wife in 1850 he investigated the Fox Sisters' spirit rappings, became a convinced Spiritualist, and co-authored the treatise *Spiritualism* (1853). Facing public ridicule and accusations of delusion, he resigned from the Supreme Court in 1853 and spent his later decades as a leader of the Spiritualist movement. He died in New York in 1874.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Edmonds
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History... Dods v. Edmonds
Chasing Emma: A Night or Two with Ferdinand
Chasing Emma: Calculated to Reform The World: Judge Edmonds; October 1853
Related Periodicals: The Principle | The Spiritual Telegraph | The Sacred Circle
Edwards, Frederick
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research
Edwards, Harry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Harry Edwards (1893–1976) was a prominent British spiritual ("spiritualist") healer who founded a well-known healing sanctuary at Shere, Surrey.
(Source: Gemini) (1893–1976) English spiritual healer, author, and teacher. Born in London, he owned a printing business and served in the British Army in World War I before discovering healing abilities in the 1930s, claiming to channel deceased physicians such as Lister and Pasteur to treat illness through laying-on of hands and distant healing. He operated a sanctuary at Shere, Surrey, gave public healing demonstrations, and founded the National Federation of Spiritual Healers. The British Medical Association condemned his cures, and the Archbishop of Canterbury's commission on divine healing rejected his claims in 1954. He died in 1976.
Related Periodicals: Exploring the Unknown
Related Monographs: The Mediumship of Jack Webber (1941)
Eglinton, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) "John Eglinton" was the pen name of William Kirkpatrick Magee (1868–1961), an Irish essayist and man of letters associated with the Dublin literary and Theosophical circle of AE and Yeats.
Related Periodicals: The International Theosophist
Eglinton, William
William Eglinton (1857–1933) was a celebrated British materialization and slate-writing medium of the 1870s–80s, repeatedly accused of fraud (notably by Colley, and by Hodgson and Sidgwick over his slate-writing). His biography 'Twixt Two Worlds was written by John S. Farmer.
(Source: Gemini) (1857–1933) English spiritualist medium known for materialization seances and slate-writing (psychography). Born in London, he gave seances for figures including Prime Minister William Gladstone and several European royals. The
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Eglinton
Chasing Emma: Standards of Proof
Chasing Emma: A Low Bow To The Keepers of the Flames
Chasing Emma: My Search for William Eglinton: A Bibliographical Curiosity
Chasing Emma: My Search for William Eglinton: Joey and the Marriage
Chasing Emma: My Search For William Eglinton: The Value of the Narrative; and the Conjuration Test
Chasing Emma: Transcendental Photography: Aksakov; Eglinton and Abdullah
Chasing Emma: April 1887: William Eglinton's Marriage
Chasing Emma: October 1874: Eglin(g)ton and Haxby
Chasing Emma: A Face Behind The Light: Eglin(g)ton and Colman; Collaborating
Chasing Emma: My Search for William Eglinton: The Hutchinson Dial Plate
Chasing Emma: My Search for William Eglinton: Eglinton's Admirers; 1884
Chasing Emma: My Search for William Eglinton: Materialization; Out-of-Doors; June 22; 1878
Chasing Emma: Blackburn's Machinery: February 1884
Chasing Emma: Letters By Occult Agency: William Eglinton; Susan W. Fletcher and E. Dawson Rogers
Chasing Emma: Like A Couple of Enamoured Lovers: Sitting with William Eglinton; July 1884
Chasing Emma: Psychography Under Lock and Key: October 1884
Chasing Emma: A Sharp Stroke Of Psychical Diplomacy: April 1894
Chasing Emma: From the Field of Post (Holes): Notes on William Eglinton (1858-1933)
Related Periodicals: Constancia | Spiritual Notes
Eisele, W. E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: I-Nip-E-Gant, or The Crazy Ute Indian (1920)
Eisler, Robert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Orpheus -- The Fisher: Comparative Studies in Orphic and Early Christian Cult Symbolism (1921)
Eliade, Mircea
Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) was a Romanian historian of religions, novelist, and University of Chicago professor, one of the most influential twentieth-century interpreters of myth, symbolism, and the "sacred," author of The Sacred and the Profane, Shamanism, and Yoga.
(Source: Gemini) Romanian historian of religion (1907–1986), long a professor at the University of Chicago and a theorist of the sacred, the "eternal return," and shamanism; author of A History of Religious Ideas.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade
Emery, Lydia
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Engholm, H. W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Life Beyond the Veil, Book I: The Lowlands of Heaven (1920), The Life Beyond the Veil, Book I: The Lowlands of Heaven (1921)
Esdras, Etienne
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Le Livret Magique: Breviaire de l'Etudiant en Occultisme (1937)
Estabrooks, G. H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Hypnotism (1946)
Estep, William
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Super Mind Science and Health (1925), Symbols of Inner Mysteries (1925), The Great Revelation, or The White Prophecy, Vol. I (1927), Super Mind Science with Keys to Christianity (1929), Cosmological Forecast (1930), Forbidden Wisdom: An Account of Primitive Symbolism, Hebrew Phallicism, Bacchic Festivals, Sexual Rites (1930), The Key to Biblical Mysteries (1930), Revised Super Mind Science: Oriental Mysteries of Magi (1931), Eternal Wisdom and Health, With Light on the Scriptures (1932), Jesus the Healer: The Master Key to Health and Prosperity (1949)
Ewen, C. Lestrange
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Seances and Statutes (1948)
Silva, Agusto Elias da
(Source: Gemini) (?–1903) Brazilian spiritist editor and publisher, born in Portugal. He established himself as a photographer, printer, and publisher in Rio de Janeiro and dedicated his resources to Allan Kardec's Spiritist philosophy. In 1883 he co-founded the monthly periodical *Reformador*, the oldest continuous spiritist journal, and in 1884 co-founded the Brazilian Spiritist Federation (FEB). He died in 1903.
Related Periodicals: Reformador (Rio de Janeiro) | Espiritualismo Experimental
Elliotson, John
John Elliotson (1791–1868) was an eminent English physician, professor at University College London, and early champion of the stethoscope who became notorious for his advocacy of medical mesmerism. He founded the mesmeric journal The Zoist and a mesmeric hospital.
(Source: Gemini) (1791–1868) English physician and professor of medicine at University College London, president of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, and co-founder of the London Mesmeric Infirmary. He promoted the stethoscope in Britain and used animal magnetism (mesmerism) to relieve pain and induce surgical anaesthesia, including in public demonstrations on the Okey sisters. *The Lancet* denounced his practices, and he resigned from UCL in 1838. He died in London in 1868.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elliotson
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Henry Morley
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History... Richard Chenevix/Chevenix
Chasing Emma: John Elliotson and Mrs. Hayden
Chasing Emma: The First Test Apparatus: Faraday on Table-Turning: June 30; 1853
Chasing Emma: The Dancing of the Tables: Sandby to Elliotson; May 28; 1853
Related Periodicals: The Biological Review | The Spirit World (Hayden) | The Zoist
Elliott, W. Scott
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) W. Scott-Elliot was a British Theosophist, author of The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria, which systematized the Theosophical account of the lost continents.
(Source: Gemini) (1849–1919) British merchant, amateur anthropologist, and Theosophist, known as W. Scott-Eliot. He published *The Story of Atlantis* (1896) and *The Lost Lemuria* (1904), presenting geographic and racial histories of prehistoric earth that he attributed to clairvoyant revelations from the 'Astral Light' facilitated by theosophical masters. Geologists and archaeologists dismissed the works, and some Theosophists contested his sources. He died in 1919.
Related Periodicals: Lemurian Ambassador | Theosophical Siftings
Ellis, Albert Ernest
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Know Thyself
Related Monographs: Principles of Character Reading (1920)
Ellis, Charles E.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Hypnotic Magazine | New York Magazine of Mysteries | Paragon Monthly
Ellis, Havelock
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) was an English physician and pioneering writer on the psychology of sex, also an essayist on mysticism and the "art of life."
(Source: Gemini) English physician and pioneering sexologist (1859–1939), author of Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897–1928) and a member of the Fabian Society.
Related Periodicals: Illumination
Ellis, Ida
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ida Ellis was a British psychic practitioner and writer of the early twentieth century, author of works on palmistry, psychometry, and healing.
Chasing Emma: A Lesson in Soul-Culture: 1903
Related Periodicals: Know Thyself
Ellsworth, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Paul Ellsworth was an early-twentieth-century American New Thought author who wrote on mental power, health, and "direct healing."
Related Periodicals: The Kalpaka | Nautilus
Related Monographs: Direct Healing (1926)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Almost certainly Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), the American Transcendentalist; see the "Emerson, Ralph Waldo" entry.
Related Periodicals: Practical Ideals | The Index | The New World
Encausse, Philippe
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Philippe Encausse (1906–1984) was a French physician and Martinist, son of "Papus" (Gérard Encausse), who revived and led the
Related Periodicals: Mysteria
Enel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Enel" was the pen name of Mikhail Vladimirovich Skariatine (1883–1963), a Russian émigré Egyptologist and occultist who wrote on the esoteric meaning of Egyptian symbolism.
Related Periodicals: The Seer
Engel, Leopold
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Leopold Engel (1858–1931) was a German writer and spiritualist who co-founded a revived "Illuminati" order and produced a purported continuation of Jakob Lorber's Great Gospel of John.
(Source: Gemini) (1858–1931) German writer and occultist active in the late nineteenth-century occult revival. Collaborating with Theodor Reuss, he re-established the
Related Periodicals: >Wahrheit-Sucher | Das Wort (Dresden) | Die Ubersinnliche Welt | Initiates | New York Magazine of Mysteries | Oriflamme | Theosophisches Leben | Universal Free Mason
Engels
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Almost certainly Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), the German socialist theorist and collaborator of Karl Marx; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Engledue, William Collins
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) William Collins Engledue (1813–1858) was an English physician and materialist phrenologist, an associate of the mesmerist movement around The Zoist.
Related Periodicals: The Zoist
English, John Benjamin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Benjamin English, associated with the publication The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century in the early-Victorian astrological trade.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Nine: Many Most Illiberal Epithets
Ennemoser, Joseph
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Joseph Ennemoser (1787–1854) was an Austrian physician and mesmerist whose The History of Magic traced animal magnetism and occult phenomena through history.
(Source: Gemini) (1787–1854) Austrian physician, historian of science, and writer associated with Romantic science and animal magnetism. As a professor of medicine at the University of Bonn he authored *The History of Magic* (translated by William Howitt), which sought to explain miracles, witchcraft, and spiritual phenomena through animal magnetism. He later resigned his Bonn professorship and established a private mesmeric practice in Munich. He died in 1854.
Related Periodicals: Ray Palmer's Forum | Zeitschrift fur Psychische Aerzte
Erard, Pierre
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Pierre Erard (1794–1855), head of the Erard piano and harp firm, to whom the young Emma Hardinge claimed a connection in her music-trade years.
Chasing Emma: Pierre Erard <--> Thomas Welsh
Ermacora, Giambattista B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Giovanni Battista Ermacora (1858–1898) was an Italian physicist and psychical researcher, a co-founder of the Rivista di Studi Psichici.
(Source: Gemini) (1869–1898) Italian psychical researcher and physicist. He co-founded the journal *Rivista di Studi Psichici* and collaborated with the criminologist Cesare Lombroso on laboratory investigations of telepathy and mediumship. In March 1898, at the age of twenty-eight, he was shot and killed by a relative in Padua.
Related Periodicals: Revista di Studi Psichici
Ervasti, Pekka
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Pekka Ervast (1875–1934) was a Finnish Theosophist and esoteric-Christian teacher, a leading figure of Finnish Theosophy and founder of the Ruusu-Risti (Rosy Cross) society. See also "Ervasti, Pekka."
(Source: Gemini) (1875–1934) Finnish occultist, author, and translator, the principal founder of the Theosophical movement in Finland. He founded the Finnish section of the
Related Periodicals: Omatunto | Ruusu-Risti | Tietaja
Erwood, Will J.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Mystic Key | The Occult (Detroit) | Radiant Life | Super-Psychology
Related Monographs: A Plea for Justice (1925)
Eschenmayer, Adolph Carl August
Adolph Carl August Eschenmayer (1768-1852) was a German physician, philosopher, and naturalist associated with the Naturphilosophie movement. A professor at the University of Tübingen, he wrote on animal magnetism, somnambulism, and the boundaries between psychology, philosophy, and the supernatural. His Mysterien des innern Lebens (1830) and other works influenced the development of German idealist psychology and contributed to early discussions of altered states of consciousness. He was a correspondent of Justinus Kerner and a significant figure in the German reception of mesmerism.
(Source: Gemini) (1768–1852) German physician, philosopher, and physicist associated with Romantic Naturphilosophie and early parapsychology. As a professor at the University of Tübingen he wrote treatises attempting to synthesize physical forces, animal magnetism, and Christian mysticism to explain somnambulism and spirit communication, and investigated the 'Seeress of Prevorst.' G.W.F. Hegel and F.W.J. Schelling ridiculed his work. He resigned his Tübingen professorship and died in 1852.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Carl_August_von_Eschenmayer
Related Periodicals: Archiv Fur Thiereschen Magnetismus (Den Halle) | Zeitschrift fur Psychische Aerzte
Esdaile, James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) James Esdaile (1808–1859), the Scottish surgeon who performed hundreds of operations under mesmeric anaesthesia in India.
(Source: Gemini) (1808–1859) Scottish surgeon known for mesmeric anaesthesia. As a medical officer for the British East India Company in Bengal, he performed hundreds of painless surgical operations, including amputations, using mesmeric trances (animal magnetism) to induce anaesthesia. *The Lancet* attacked him, accusing him of fabricating case reports and using actors who simulated anaesthesia. After chemical anaesthetics were introduced his clinics became obsolete and he returned to Scotland. He died in 1859.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History: Letheon
Esparza, Roque Jacinto Rojas
(Source: Gemini) (1812–1879) Mexican religious leader and mystic who founded the Mexican Spiritualist Church (Asociación Espiritualista Trinitaria Mariana). In 1866 he claimed revelations naming him the 'Elijah of the Third Age,' established the 'Templo de Elías,' and formulated a syncretic system of spiritual healing, mediumship, and Marian Christianity. Catholic bishops condemned his temples, and he faced political persecution, assaults, and temporary exile. He died in 1879.
Related Periodicals: Yoga Union
Essarts, L.-E. Fabre des
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Léonce-Eugène Fabre des Essarts (1848–1917), "Synésius," patriarch of the French
Related Periodicals: Annales Initiatiques | Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | La Pensee Nouvelles | Paix Universelle
Eusebius
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260–c. 340), the early Christian bishop and "father of church history," author of the Ecclesiastical History; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Mind and Matter
Evans, Fred
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Fred Evans, an American slate-writing medium of San Francisco, exposed by William Emmette Coleman.
Chasing Emma: The Portly Anatomy of the Fraud Siren: William Emmette Coleman on Mediumistic Fraud in San Francisco
Evans, Frederick W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Frederick W. Evans (1808–1893) was a leading Shaker elder at Mount Lebanon, a reformer and writer who presented Shakerism to the outside world and linked it to Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) English-born American Shaker elder (1808–1893), the leading nineteenth-century spokesman for the Shakers at Mount Lebanon and a writer on vegetarianism, pacifism, and gender equality.
Related Periodicals: The Shaker
Evans, Henry Ridgely
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Henry Ridgely Evans (1861–1949) was an American writer on the history of magic, conjuring, and the occult, and a debunker of stage "spirit" effects.
(Source: Gemini) (1861–1949) American journalist, government official, and amateur magician who became a historian of magic, stage illusion, and psychical research. He worked as an editor for the U.S. Bureau of Education and published *Hours with the Ghosts* (1897) and *The Old and the New Magic* (1906). His writings gave detailed accounts of how physical mediumship — materializations, slate-writing, and spirit photography — was produced by stage-magic methods, which drew attacks from Spiritualists and physical mediums. Died in 1949.
Related Periodicals: Ghosts | L'Etoile D'Orient | Magic | The Open Court
Evans, Mary Ann
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), the novelist “George Eliot,” whose freethinking circle (the Brays, John Chapman) brushed the Spiritualist and mesmeric world.
Chasing Emma: The Resurrection; or the Rapping: Thornton Leigh Hunt and G. H. Lewes
Evans, Warren Felt
Warren Felt Evans (1817–1889) was a Methodist-turned-Swedenborgian minister who, after being healed by Phineas P. Quimby, became the first author to put the mental-cure philosophy into books. His The Mental Cure (1869) and later works make him a founding theorist of the New Thought movement.
(Source: Gemini) (1817–1889) American Methodist minister, Swedenborgian scholar, and mental healer, and a founder of the New Thought movement. A patient of the healer Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, he turned to spiritual healing and published early systematic texts of the movement, including *The Mental Cure* (1869) and *The Divine Law of Cure* (1881), drawing on Swedenborgian ideas. He ran an alternative sanitarium in Massachusetts under opposition from Christian clergy and medical boards. Died in 1889.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Felt_Evans
Related Periodicals: Mind Cure and Science of Life | Practical Ideals
Evans, W.H.
To be added.
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Evola, Giulio
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola — the Italian esotericist and traditionalist better known as Julius Evola (1898–1974); see the "Evola, Julius" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (1898–1974) Italian philosopher, painter, and political theorist associated with the Traditionalist School. Born Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, he set out a hierarchical philosophy of Traditionalism in *Revolt Against the Modern World* (1934) and *Ride the Tiger* (1961), and was earlier active as a Dadaist painter. He sympathized with Italian Fascism and German National Socialism and became an intellectual reference for later far-right groups, drawing charges of promoting fascism and antisemitism and leading to trials and bans on his books. In 1945 he was caught in a Soviet bombing raid on Vienna and left paralyzed from the waist down. Died in Rome in 1974.
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Evola, Julius
Julius Evola (Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, 1898–1974) was an Italian esotericist, painter, and radical-traditionalist philosopher. A former Dadaist who led the magical "Gruppo di Ur," he wrote on Hermeticism, Tantra, and the "Revolt Against the Modern World," and became a chief ideologue of the postwar Italian far right.
(Source: Gemini) (1898–1974) Italian philosopher, painter, and political theorist associated with the Traditionalist School. Born Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, he set out a hierarchical philosophy of Traditionalism in *Revolt Against the Modern World* (1934) and *Ride the Tiger* (1961), and was earlier active as a Dadaist painter. He sympathized with Italian Fascism and German National Socialism and became an intellectual reference for later far-right groups, drawing charges of promoting fascism and antisemitism and leading to trials and bans on his books. In 1945 he was caught in a Soviet bombing raid on Vienna and left paralyzed from the waist down. Died in Rome in 1974.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Evola
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Ewer, Ferdinand Cartwright
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Ferdinand Cartwright Ewer (1826–1883), a California journalist turned Episcopal ritualist clergyman, remembered for his early San Francisco literary and Spiritualist-adjacent career.
Chasing Emma: A Night or Two with Ferdinand
Faget, A. Laurent de
To be added.
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Fahnestock, William Baker
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) William Baker Fahnestock (1804–1886), the Pennsylvania physician who developed “statuvolism,” or artificial somnambulism, an American self-induced-trance system parallel to mesmerism.
(Source: Gemini) (1804–1886) American physician and writer on animal magnetism. He formulated a system of mesmerism he called 'Statuvolism' (artificial somnambulism), set out in *Statuvolism; or, Artificial Somnambulism* (1869), holding that a subject could enter a self-directed conscious trance for self-healing and anaesthesia. His practice was denounced as quackery by medical boards and as sorcery by clergy. Died in 1886.
Chasing Emma: The Body of Henry Cobler Moselmann: A Murder of Parasciences; 1839
Chasing Emma: William Baker Fahnestock (1804-1886)
Fallodon, Viscountess Grey Of
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Life Beyond Death With Evidence (1947)
Fallows, Samuel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Samuel Fallows (1835–1922) was an American Reformed Episcopal bishop and reformer who took an active interest in psychical research and hypnotism.
Related Periodicals: The Center
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Fancher, Mollie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Mollie Fancher (1848–1916), the "Brooklyn Enigma," was an American woman famous for her long fasts, alleged clairvoyance, and multiple personalities, a celebrated case in Spiritualist and psychical debate.
(Source: Gemini) (1848–1916) American invalid known as 'The Brooklyn Enigma,' the best-known 'fasting girl' of the Victorian era. After accidents in her youth left her bedridden, blind, and paralyzed, she claimed to live for years without food and to display clairvoyant abilities such as reading sealed letters. The neurologist George M. Beard challenged her claims and pressed for 24-hour surveillance, which her supporters refused. She remained bedridden until her death in Brooklyn in 1916.
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Faraday, Michael
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Michael Faraday (1791–1867), the great physicist whose 1853 experiments and famous Times letter debunked table-turning as unconscious muscular action.
(Source: Gemini) (1791–1867) English physicist and chemist, known for work on electromagnetism and electrochemistry. In 1853 he investigated 'table-turning' séances and concluded the movements were caused by the sitters' unconscious muscular action (the ideomotor effect), publishing his findings — a central intervention in the era's debate over Spiritualism that drew attacks from Spiritualists and mediums. In later life he suffered progressive memory loss and cognitive decline and resigned his posts at the Royal Institution. Died in 1867.
Chasing Emma: The First Test Apparatus: Faraday on Table-Turning: June 30; 1853
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Faraday's June 1853 Letter to the Times
Faria, Abbe
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Abbé Faria (José Custódio de Faria, 1746–1819) was a Goan-Portuguese monk who pioneered the study of "lucid sleep," helping shift mesmerism toward a psychological theory of suggestion.
(Source: Gemini) (1756–1819) Indo-Portuguese (Luso-Goan) Catholic priest and pioneer of hypnotism. Born José Custódio de Faria, he worked in France and was the first magnetizer to reject Franz Mesmer's theory of a 'magnetic fluid,' holding instead that the trance state — which he called 'lucid sleep' — was induced by suggestion and the subject's own belief. His public demonstrations drew ridicule from magnetizers and scrutiny from the Church, and his involvement in the French Revolution led to imprisonment in the Château d'If. Died in Paris in 1819.
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Farmer, J.S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John Stephen Farmer (1854–1916), English Spiritualist editor and lexicographer; same person as the "Farmer, John Stephen" entry.
Chasing Emma: Deterioration Ever Follows Neglect: June 1882
Chasing Emma: Joint Venture: January 1882
Chasing Emma: Fraudulent and Vicious Practices: The Other; Other Version of Farmer's Law of Deterioration
Chasing Emma: Impregnated by Doubt: John S. Farmer; November 1885
Chasing Emma: John S. Farmer: A Biographical Summary
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Farmer, John Stephen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Stephen Farmer (1854–1916) was an English Spiritualist editor and lexicographer, biographer of the medium William Eglinton ('Twixt Two Worlds) and compiler of a dictionary of slang. See also "Farmer, J.S."
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Farmer, Sarah J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Sarah Jane Farmer (1847–1916) was an American reformer who founded the Green Acre conferences in Eliot, Maine, a pioneering center of comparative religion and "unity of faiths" that later became a Baha'i school.
(Source: Gemini) (1847–1916) American educational reformer and philanthropist who founded the Greenacre Conferences at Eliot, Maine. From 1894 Greenacre served as a center for interfaith dialogue and progressive education, hosting figures including Swami Vivekananda and Abdu'l-Bahá, and Farmer became an early American adherent of the Bahá'í Faith. After a physical collapse in 1909, a legal dispute between her family and her Bahá'í supporters over her estate led to her being committed to an asylum; she was released shortly before her death in Maine in 1916.
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Farmery, Jane Anne
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jane Anne Farmery, bride in what was reported as an early Spiritualist marriage ceremony (1886).
Chasing Emma: July 1886: The First Spiritualist Marriage In England?
Farnham, H. M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Farnsworth, Edward Clarence
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Deeper Mysteries (1921)
Farr, Florence
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Florence Farr (1860–1917) was an English actress, writer, and prominent member of the
(Source: Gemini) (1860–1917) British actress, director, and occultist active in London's late-Victorian literary and esoteric circles. Born in Bickley, Kent, she performed in and directed premieres of George Bernard Shaw's early plays and had a relationship with him. In the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn she became Chief Adept of the London temple, promoting Egyptian magic and experimental astral work, which brought her into conflict with the order's leader Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and contributed to schisms in the society. She left occult circles and moved to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1912 to teach, where she died of cancer in 1917.
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Farrington, Elijah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Elijah Farrington, an American Spiritualist connected to the “Revelations of a Spirit Medium” exposé literature.
Chasing Emma: Some Notes on Revelations of a Spirit Medium
Fast, Francis R.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Houdini Messages (1937)
Faucheux, Albert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Albert Faucheux (1838–1921) was the French occultist who wrote as "F.-Ch. Barlet" in the Papus/Martinist circle (see the "Barlet, F. Ch." entry).
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Fauvety, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Charles Fauvety (1813–1894) was a French freethinker and Spiritualist, a promoter of a rationalized "religion of humanity" and of Spiritist ideas in Paris.
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Fawcett, Colonel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett (1867–disappeared 1925) was a British explorer who vanished searching for a "Lost City of Z" in the Amazon; a Theosophist interested in Atlantis and hidden cities.
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Fawkes, F. Attfield
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Fay, Anna Eva
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Anna Eva Fay (1851–1927) was a celebrated American "mentalist" and test medium whose act mixed showmanship with Spiritualist effects; she was studied (and endorsed) by William Crookes.
(Source: Gemini) (1851–1927) American medium and stage mentalist. Born Annie Eva Heathman in Southington, Ohio, she gave public demonstrations of physical mediumship in which instruments played, objects moved, and spirit hands appeared while she was bound in a cabinet. In 1875 the physicist Sir William Crookes investigated her phenomena and pronounced them genuine, while stage magicians including Harry Houdini and J. N. Maskelyne demonstrated that her effects were produced by physical means. Despite exposures and arrests under anti-vice laws she continued a lucrative practice, retiring before her death in Boston in 1927.
Chasing Emma: The Social Cost of Belief: S. C. Hall; December 1881
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Fay, H. Melville
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Manifestation and Its Discontents: December 1865
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Fay, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) William M. Fay was the longtime assistant and stage partner of the Davenport Brothers in their "spirit cabinet" performances.
Chasing Emma: Manifestation and Its Discontents: December 1865
Chasing Emma: Kellar's Beautiful Production
Chasing Emma: Two-Tiered Pricing: The Davenport Brothers and Fay; Circa 1870
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Fealy, L. A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Felt, George Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) George Henry Felt was an American engineer and student of Egyptian geometry and Kabbalah whose 1875 lecture in New York was the occasion for founding the
(Source: Gemini) (1831–1906) American Egyptologist, engineer, and draftsman, one of the founding members of the Theosophical Society in 1875. Born in Boston, he claimed to have recovered a geometric secret of the Egyptian canon of proportion and argued that ancient priests had used it to command elemental spirits. He promised Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott public demonstrations materializing elemental spirits but never produced them and withheld his manuscripts, prompting resignations and disputes in the early society. Died in 1906.
Chasing Emma: Felt's Canon of Proportion
Chasing Emma: Promoting The Kaballah of the Egyptians
Chasing Emma: Felt to Bouton; Bouton to Wilder; Wilder on Olcott
Chasing Emma: Emma Hardinge Britten and Georgia O'Keefe
Chasing Emma: George Henry Felt and his Kaballah of the Egyptians
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Fenelon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) François Fénelon (1651–1715) was a French Catholic archbishop and writer, associated with the Quietist mysticism of Madame Guyon; frequently cited in devotional and metaphysical literature.
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Fentz, Rudolf
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Central figure of a 20th-century time-travel urban legend. In the story, a man in late-19th-century dress is killed by a taxi in New York's Times Square in June 1950 and is found carrying 19th-century currency and a letter dated 1876, identifying him as a Rudolf Fentz who had vanished in 1876; the account was repeated as a documented teleportation case in paranormal and spiritualist publications. In 2000 researchers showed it derived from a 1951 science-fiction story by Jack Finney that had been reprinted as fact.
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Ferguson, Charles W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Ferguson, J.B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Jesse Babcock Ferguson (1819–1870) was an American minister who embraced Spiritualism and was associated with the Davenport Brothers as their manager and advocate.
(Source: Gemini) (1819–1870) American pastor, Spiritualist lecturer, and editor. Born in Philadelphia, Jesse Babcock Ferguson ministered to a large Nashville congregation and edited *The Christian Magazine*. After adopting Spiritualism in 1853 he preached spirit communication and universal salvation, which drew condemnation as heresy and forced his resignation. He later served as master of ceremonies for the physical mediums the Davenport Brothers on their international tours. Died in 1870.
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Fernald, M.W.
To be added.
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Fernald, Woodbury Melcher
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Woodbury Melcher Fernald (1813–1873) was an American Swedenborgian minister and writer sympathetic to Spiritualism and harmonial philosophy.
(Source: Gemini) (1813–1873) American Universalist minister and Swedenborgian author whose writings fed into early New Thought. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he left the Universalist pulpit for the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) Church and wrote *God in His Providence* and *The True Christian Life*, joining Swedenborgian ideas to universal salvation. His works were attacked by Swedenborgian bodies as departures from doctrine, and he withdrew from the organized church, later lecturing on mental science. Died in 1873.
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Fernandez, Federico W.
To be added.
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Ferrer, Jose Cembrano
To be added.
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Ferrier, John Todd
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John Todd Ferrier (1855–1943) was a Scottish former Congregationalist minister who founded the Order of the Cross, a mystical, vegetarian, esoteric-Christian fellowship.
(Source: Gemini) (1855–1918) Scottish-born theologian and vegetarian advocate who founded the Order of the Cross, devoted to esoteric Christianity and animal welfare. Born in Greenock, he was ordained a Congregational minister before leaving that ministry and setting out a system that read the Christian scriptures as an esoteric allegory of pacifism, vegetarianism, and the spiritual equality of living beings, published in *The Ring of the Covenant* (1903). Died in 1918.
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Ferriere, Serge Raynaud de la
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière (1916–1962) was a French esotericist who founded the Universal
(Source: Gemini) (1916–1962) French philosopher, astrologer, and spiritual teacher who founded the Universal Great Brotherhood (Grande Fraternité Universelle). Born in Paris, he studied aesthetics and medicine before turning to esotericism, yoga, and comparative religion, and in 1948 established the Universal Great Brotherhood in Venezuela, traveling widely to teach spiritual synthesis and vegetarianism. He faced condemnation from Catholic organizations and internal disputes with disciples over authority and lineage, and spent his final years in Europe. Died in 1962.
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Ferris, Woodbridge N.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Phrenology: The Science of Character (1921)
Ferriter, Mary C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Fersen, Eugene
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Science of Being (1923)
Feyrer, Ernest Charles
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Fielding, Elizabeth Klarer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Elizabeth Klarer (1910–1994) was a South African woman who claimed a romance and a child with an extraterrestrial from the planet "Meton," recounted in Beyond the Light Barrier.
(Source: Gemini) (1910–1994) South African pilot, meteorologist, and UFO contactee. Born Elizabeth Klarer in Mooi River, she studied meteorology and music and served in South African military intelligence during the Second World War. In the 1950s she claimed ongoing telepathic and physical contact with an extraterrestrial named Akon from a planet Meton in the Alpha Centauri system, recounted in *Beyond the Light Barrier* (1980), including a relationship with Akon. Scientists dismissed the account; she maintained her claims until her death in 1994.
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Fifield, A. C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Figg, Francis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Francis Figg, a figure in the circle around the Spiritualist editor William Henry Harrison.
Chasing Emma: William Henry Harrison (1841-1897)
Filiatre, Jean
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Fillmore, Cora Dedrick
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Christ Enthroned in Man, or The Glorification of the Twelve (1937)
Fillmore, Lowell
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: New Ways to Solve Old Problems (1947)
Fillmore, Myrtle Page
See Fillmore, Myrtle Page, below.
(Source: Gemini) (1845–1931) American New Thought teacher who co-founded the
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Wee Wisdom | Modern Thought | Unity
Fillmore, Charles
Charles Sherlock Fillmore (1854–1948) was, with his wife Myrtle, the co-founder of Unity (the
(Source: Gemini) (1854–1948) American New Thought leader and author who co-founded the Unity School of Christianity. Born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, he had a childhood hip injury that left one leg shortened, and with his wife Myrtle Fillmore took up mental healing in the 1880s, attributing improvement to silent prayer. The couple founded Unity in 1889, published the journal *Unity*, and he wrote *Christian Healing*; his teaching rejected traditional doctrines of sin and hell and included reincarnation, drawing attacks from orthodox Christian bodies. Died in 1948.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fillmore_(Unity_Church)
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Life [Kansas City] | Mind Inc. | Modern Thought | Psychic Observer | Unity
Related Monographs: Christian Healing: The Science of Being (1922), Mysteries of John (1946)
Finck, Susan J.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Life As A Feast
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Findlay, Arthur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Arthur Findlay (1883–1964) was a Scottish accountant, Spiritualist author (On the Edge of the Etheric), and benefactor who bequeathed his home as the Arthur Findlay College for psychic studies.
(Source: Gemini) (1883–1964) British magistrate, stockbroker, and Spiritualist author. Born James Arthur Findlay in Glasgow, he co-founded *The Psychic News* and wrote *On the Edge of the Etheric* (1931), which sought to explain spirit communication through natural laws and 'etheric' vibrations. His advocacy drew criticism from scientific bodies and clergy. He left his estate, Stansted Hall, to the Spiritualists' National Union on his death in 1964.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Psychic News
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Finney, Jack
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Jack Finney (1911–1995) was an American author of science fiction and thrillers, best known for The Body Snatchers and Time and Again.
Related Periodicals: Voice from the Gallery
Finney, Selden J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Selden J. Finney was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist lecturer and writer.
(Source: Gemini) (1830–1899) American lecturer, social reformer, and Spiritualist. Earlier active in the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements, he converted to Spiritualism and became an itinerant lecturer, speaking on spirit communication, scientific progress, and social reform across the United States. Died in 1899.
Related Periodicals: The Agitator | The Herald of Progress (US) | The Spiritual Republic | The Spiritual Universe
Firman, Mena
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Mena Firman, a Paris materialization medium, wife of the medium Alfred Firman.
Chasing Emma: Deceived by Appearances: Paris; April 1875
Firth, Violet M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Machinery of the Mind (1922)
Fischer, William Arms
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) William Arms Fischer (1861–1948) was an American composer and music editor; his appearance here is via a metaphysical periodical.
Related Periodicals: Loto Blanco
Fish, Leah Fox
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Leah Fox Fish (later Underhill, c. 1814–1890) was the eldest of the three Fox sisters and the principal organizer and promoter of their mediumship at the birth of modern Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) (1814–1890) American Spiritualist medium, born Ann Leah Fox and later known as Leah Fox Fish and Leah Fox Underhill. The eldest of the three Fox Sisters, she managed and promoted her younger sisters Kate and Margaretta after the 1848 Hydesville rappings and built a mediumistic practice in New York City. Published *The Missing Link in Spiritualism* (1885). In 1888 Margaretta and Kate publicly denounced her and repudiated the rappings. Died in 1890.
Chasing Emma: William Lloyd Garrison's Conversion Process: A Test Seance; 1854
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Fishbein, Morris
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Fishbough, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) William Fishbough (1814–1901) was an American Universalist minister who served as amanuensis and editor for the trance revelations of Andrew Jackson Davis.
(Source: Gemini) (1811–1881) American Universalist minister, author, and Spiritualist editor, best known as amanuensis to Andrew Jackson Davis, the 'Poughkeepsie Seer.' He transcribed Davis's trance-dictated *The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations* (1847) and edited the early Spiritualist journal *The Univercoelum*. He was condemned as a heretic and expelled from Universalist organizations. Died in Brooklyn in 1881.
Chasing Emma: The Elementaries At Fishbough's Door: Human Nature; February 1876
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Fitzgerrell, James J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Lincoln Was a Spiritualist / The Religion of Abraham Lincoln (1924)
Fitzkee, Dariel
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Contact Mind Reading--Expanded (1945)
Flambart, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) "Paul Flambart" was the pen name of Paul Choisnard (1867–1930), the French pioneer of statistical "scientific" astrology (see the Choisnard entry).
Related Periodicals: Influence Astrale
Flamel, Nicholas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Nicolas Flamel (c. 1330–1418) was a Parisian scrivener and manuscript-seller who, in later legend, became the archetypal alchemist said to have achieved the Philosophers' Stone.
(Source: Gemini) (c. 1330–1418) French scribe, manuscript seller, and philanthropist who acquired legendary posthumous fame as an alchemist. Working near Paris, he built a fortune as a scribe and, with his wife Perenelle, endowed churches, hospitals, and almshouses. From the 17th century occultists published texts under his name — most notably *The Book of Hieroglyphical Figures* — claiming he had deciphered an ancient manuscript to discover the Philosopher's Stone and achieve immortality. Died in 1418.
Related Periodicals: Tour Saint Jacques
Flammarion, Camille
Nicolas Camille Flammarion (1842–1925) was a French astronomer, prolific popular-science and science-fiction author, and founder of the French Astronomical Society. He devoted much of his career to psychical research and Spiritism, treating survival and mediumship as questions for the scientific method.
(Source: Gemini) (1842–1925) French astronomer, author, and psychical researcher. He published widely on astronomy, founded the French Astronomical Society, and established a private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge. He also investigated mediums including Eusapia Palladino and served as president of the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion
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Fleet, Thurman
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Rays of the Dawn: Body, Mind, Soul (1950)
Fletcher, J. William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John William Fletcher was a nineteenth-century American trance and clairvoyant medium who, with his wife Susan, practiced in Boston and London. See also "Fletcher, Susan Willis."
Related Periodicals: Facts | New York Beacon Light
Fletcher, Martha
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Martha Fletcher, a diarist whose journal (now at Winterthur) documents the Delanco, New Jersey Spiritualist world.
Chasing Emma: Light Shines on Delanco
Fletcher, Susan Willis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Susan Willis Fletcher was an American medium active in Boston and London with her husband J. William Fletcher; she was tried and imprisoned in England in 1881.
(Source: Gemini) (1848–1905) American physical medium, born Susan Willis and known as Mrs. Fletcher. With her husband, the medium William Fletcher, she established a Spiritualist practice in London. In 1881 she was prosecuted there for conspiracy to defraud a wealthy widow of her fortune, jewels, and clothing under alleged spirit direction; convicted, she was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour. She afterward returned to the United States. Died in 1905.
Chasing Emma: An Absolute Test: Charles Blackburn; Miss Cook; and the Fletchers
Chasing Emma: Twelve Hours In Mrs. Fletcher's Hands
Chasing Emma: Letters By Occult Agency: William Eglinton; Susan W. Fletcher and E. Dawson Rogers
Related Periodicals: Gallery of Spirit Art | Spiritual Notes | The White Cross Library
Fletcher, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Thomas Fletcher, a New Jersey justice of the peace, father of the diarist Martha Fletcher.
Chasing Emma: Light Shines on Delanco
Fliess, Wilhelm
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Wilhelm Fliess (1858–1928) was a German physician, close friend and correspondent of Freud, known for his theories of biorhythmic cycles and nasal "reflex" medicine.
(Source: Gemini) German otolaryngologist (1858–1928), a close friend and collaborator of Sigmund Freud in the early years of psychoanalysis, known for the doctrine of "nasal reflex neurosis" and for a theory of vital periodicity based on 23- and 28-day cycles.
Related Periodicals: Zum Licht
Flournoy, Theodore
Théodore Flournoy (1854–1920) was a professor of psychology at Geneva whose From India to the Planet Mars (1900) analyzed the medium Hélène Smith's "Martian" language and past-life romances as subliminal invention, coining the term "cryptomnesia" and influencing Freud and Jung.
(Source: Gemini) (1854–1920) Swiss professor of psychology at the University of Geneva and parapsychologist. His *From India to the Planet Mars* (1900) analyzed the trance communications of the medium Hélène Smith, who claimed past lives as a Hindu princess and visions of Mars, arguing that her Martian language and imagery were products of subconscious processing, cryptomnesia, and regression. Died in Geneva in 1920.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Flournoy
Related Periodicals: Die Ubersinnliche Welt
Flower, Benjamin Orange
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Benjamin Orange Flower (1858–1918) was an American reform journalist and editor of the influential magazine The Arena, sympathetic to psychical research and heterodox medicine.
(Source: Gemini) (1858–1918) American journalist, editor, and social reformer. He founded and edited *The Arena* (1889), a progressive journal advocating labour reform, women's rights, and public health, and defended alternative medicine and Spiritualism. *The Arena* faced repeated libel suits and financial strain before its bankruptcy. Died in Boston in 1918.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Arena | Coming Age | International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | Our Home Rights | The Psychical Review | The Temple
Flower, Sydney Blanshard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Sydney Blanshard Flower was a Chicago publisher and promoter of hypnotism, New Thought, and "suggestive therapeutics" around 1900, editor of The New Thought and Hypnotic Magazine.
Chasing Emma: The Secrets of India: How Garble Becomes Fact
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Interlude Four: Set to Star
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 16: Filling All The Hollow Places
Chasing Emma: Barrels of Money for Me: A Three-Panel Cartoon About The New Thought
Chasing Emma: Assigned to the Simple Track: March 2; 2016
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 14: The Marvels and Mysteries of Mind
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 15: The Moral Sleeplessness of the Promoter
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Communication | Fred Burry's Journal | Goldfield Gossip | The Hypnotic Magazine | Neue Gedanken | New Thought (Chicago) | Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews | Star of the East (Seattle, Sydney) | Suggestive Therapeutics | The Yogi (Sydney Flower)
Related Monographs: The Biochemistry of Schuessler (1921), The Goat-Gland Transplantation, As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M.D. (1921), The Brinkley Operation (1922)
Floyd, Ann Sophia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Ann Sophia Bromfield Floyd, mother of Emma Hardinge Britten, widowed after the early death of Emma's father Ebenezer Floyd.
Chasing Emma: The Family Floyd
Chasing Emma: The Family Floyd: Latest Working Model
Chasing Emma: And Margaret; With Apologies
Chasing Emma: Margaret; Again
Chasing Emma: Ann Sophia's Children
Chasing Emma: January 1866: Not Safe For Long
Chasing Emma: 1854: Emma Goes Transpontine
Chasing Emma: Curatorial Heart Attack #2 (Almost)
Chasing Emma: Emma and The Bristol Charity Trustees
Chasing Emma: Ann Sophia Bromfield Floyd
Chasing Emma: Ann Sophia's Father; Thomas
Chasing Emma: A Place of Pilgrimage: Emma's Newton; Massachusetts Residence
Chasing Emma: The Learned Apostle of the Occult Sciences: A Seance with Frederick Hockley
Floyd, Ebenezer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Ebenezer Floyd (baptised 1790, d. 1834), father of Emma Hardinge Britten, whose early death shaped her Bristol childhood.
Chasing Emma: The Family Floyd
Chasing Emma: The Family Floyd: Latest Working Model
Chasing Emma: Ebenezer - Curiouser and Curiouser
Chasing Emma: Ebenezer's Death
Chasing Emma: Ebenezer; John; Ebenezer: Light On Emma's Patrimony
Floyd, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John Floyd, a member of Emma Hardinge Britten's Floyd family.
Chasing Emma: Ebenezer - Curiouser and Curiouser
Chasing Emma: Ebenezer; John; Ebenezer: Light On Emma's Patrimony
Floyd, Mary
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Mary Floyd, a member of Emma Hardinge Britten's Floyd family.
Chasing Emma: Ebenezer - Curiouser and Curiouser
Floyd, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Thomas “Tom” Floyd, brother of Emma Hardinge Britten, a Royal Navy sailor.
Chasing Emma: Manifestation Of A Cross Girl
Chasing Emma: Manifestations Of A Cross Girl; Redux
Chasing Emma: Articled Singers; and The Great Sea Snake
Fludd, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Robert Fludd (1574–1637) was an English physician and Paracelsian philosopher, a leading defender of the Rosicrucians and author of vast Hermetic-cosmological works illustrating the correspondences of macrocosm and microcosm.
(Source: Gemini) (1574–1637) English physician, astrologer, and hermetic philosopher, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus. Oxford-trained and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, he practiced medicine in London. He wrote richly illustrated treatises, most notably *Utriusque Cosmi Historia* (1617), setting out a metaphysical system of micro-macrocosmic correspondence, and publicly defended the Rosicrucian fraternity. His work drew attacks from Johannes Kepler and Pierre Gassendi. Died in London in 1637.
Related Periodicals: Faro Oriental
Fodor, Nandor
Nandor Fodor (1895–1964) was a Hungarian-British-American psychical researcher and psychoanalyst, an authority on poltergeists and hauntings, compiler of the standard Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science (1934), who later brought a psychoanalytic approach to the paranormal.
(Source: Gemini) (1895–1964) Hungarian-born American psychoanalyst, parapsychologist, and author. Trained in law before turning to journalism and psychical research, he served as director of the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandor_Fodor
Related Periodicals: Exploring the Unknown | Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Foote, Edward Bliss
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) E. B. Foote — either Edward Bliss Foote (1829–1906) or his son Edward Bond Foote, American physicians and free-thought health reformers; see those entries.
(Source: Gemini) (1829–1906) American physician, publisher, and social reformer, an advocate of sex education, birth control, and alternative medicine. He wrote *Medical Common Sense* (1859) and *Plain Home Talk* and co-founded the Free Speech League. In 1876 he was prosecuted and convicted under the federal Comstock laws for mailing birth-control pamphlets, and fined. Died in 1906.
Related Periodicals: American Journal of Eugenics | Dr. Foote's Health Monthly
Foote, Edward Bond
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Edward Bond Foote (1854–1912) was an American physician and free-thought/reform advocate, son of Edward Bliss Foote.
(Source: Gemini) (1854–1912) American physician, publisher, and free-speech activist known as Dr. Ned Foote; son of Edward Bliss Foote. He took his medical degree at Columbia and joined his father's practice, editing *Dr. Foote's Health Monthly* and leading the Manhattan Liberal Club. Like his father he was prosecuted by Anthony Comstock and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice for distributing contraceptive information. Died in New York in 1912.
Related Periodicals: Dr. Foote's Health Monthly
Related Monographs: The Source of Power (1922)
Ford, Arthur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Arthur Ford (1896–1971) was a prominent American trance medium, founder of the
(Source: Gemini) (1896–1971) American Spiritualist medium and lecturer. Ordained a Disciples of Christ minister, he claimed a spirit guide named 'Fletcher' and co-founded the Spiritual Frontier Fellowship. In 1929 he reported deciphering a coded message from the deceased magician Harry Houdini to his widow Bess. After his death, personal files containing dossiers on his sitters were cited as evidence of fraud. Died in Florida in 1971.
Related Periodicals: The Direct Voice | Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship | The Spiritualist (Golden Vista Press)
Related Monographs: Spiritual Vibrations (1926), The Houdini Messages (1937)
Ford, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Henry Ford (1863–1947), the American automobile manufacturer, who professed a belief in reincarnation; cited here in a metaphysical periodical.
Related Periodicals: Occidental Mystic and Occult
Ford, Mary Hanford
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Mary Hanford Ford (1856–1937) was an American writer, lecturer, and early Baha'i who also moved in New Thought and reform circles.
Related Periodicals: Reality
Formisano, Ciro
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Ciro Formisano (1861–1930) was the Italian occultist better known by his initiatic name "Giuliano Kremmerz," founder of the
Forster, Arthur Haire
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Four Modern Religious Movements (1919)
Forster, Major
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Major Forster, a speaker in the Spiritualist milieu noted in the blog.
Chasing Emma: The Sphere of the Self; and the Religion of Daily Life: William Stainton Moses; October 1878
Forster, Thomas Gales
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Thomas Gales Forster, an American Spiritualist trance lecturer of the mid-nineteenth century.
Chasing Emma: From Batavia to Buffalo: Thomas Gales Forster's Spirit Journey; June 1853
Fort, Charles Hoy
Charles Hoy Fort (1874–1932) was an American writer and researcher of anomalous phenomena whose The Book of the Damned (1919) catalogued "damned" data excluded by science — strange falls, UFOs, disappearances. His name gave rise to the adjective "Fortean."
(Source: Gemini) (1874–1932) American writer and researcher who compiled documented accounts of anomalous phenomena — falls of frogs, spontaneous combustion, unidentified objects — from scientific journals and newspapers, founding what became 'Forteanism.' He published *The Book of the Damned* (1919) and *Lo!* (1931), critiquing scientific dogmatism. Died in New York in 1932.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Fate Magazine (Palmer) | Fortean Society Magazine
Forthuny, Paschal
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Pascal Forthuny" (Georges Cochet, 1872–1962) was a French journalist and psychic known for experiments in "psychometry" at the Institut Métapsychique. See also "Forthuny, Paschal."
(Source: Gemini) (1872–1962) French painter, novelist, poet, and medium, born Georges Cochet. After the death of his son in the First World War he began demonstrating clairvoyance, notably through psychometry. He collaborated with the Institut Métapsychique International in Paris, where Eugène Osty conducted laboratory investigations of his phenomena. Died in 1962.
Related Periodicals: Revue Spirite | International Psychic Gazette
Fortune, Dion
Dion Fortune (1890-1946), the pen name of Violet Mary Firth, was a British occultist, ceremonial magician, and author considered one of the most significant figures in the Western Mystery Tradition. After early involvement with the Alpha et Omega (a Golden Dawn offshoot), she founded the Fraternity of the Inner Light in 1924. Her most important theoretical works include The Mystical Qabalah (1935) and Psychic Self-Defense (1930), while her occult novels, particularly The Sea Priestess (1938), have been enduringly influential. She drew on psychology -- particularly the work of Freud and Jung -- to reinterpret ceremonial magic for a modern audience.
(Source: Gemini) (1890–1946) British occultist and author, born Violet Mary Firth. A member of the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Fortune
Chasing Emma: EHB and Her Children
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Inner Light (Fortune) | L'Astrosophie | The Occult Digest | Ostara | Ruusu-Risti | The Seer
Related Monographs: The Machinery of the Mind (1922)
Foster, Charles H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Charles H. Foster (1838–1888), the "Salem Seer," was a celebrated American medium noted for "pellet reading" and "skin writing" (names appearing on his flesh).
(Source: Gemini) (1838–1885) American physical medium, born in Salem, Massachusetts, known for demonstrations of 'skin-writing' (dermography), in which names of the dead appeared in red on his skin during séances. He toured the United States and Europe, drawing accusations of fraud from scientists and stage magicians. He suffered a mental and physical collapse and spent his final years in an asylum in Massachusetts, where he died in 1885.
Chasing Emma: Looking for A (J. B.) Angel(l)
Chasing Emma: Death of a Noted Medium: December 1885
Chasing Emma: Slightly Raised and Beatifully Formed: Blood Writing; November 1856
Chasing Emma: Inventory of Manifestations
Chasing Emma: Utter Simplicity: Ashburner on Charles H. Foster
Chasing Emma: Promotion: A Note on Charles H. Foster
Related Periodicals: Psychic Studies | The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record
Foulds, Sam Exton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Sam Exton Foulds was a twentieth-century American Spiritualist active in the
Related Periodicals: Now
Foulks, Frances W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Foulsham, W.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Astrologer (Powley) | British Journal of Astrology | The Horoscope [London] | Moore's Almanac | Old Moore's Almanack | Old Moore's Monthly Messenger
Fourier, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Charles Fourier (1772–1837) was the French utopian socialist whose theory of "passionate attraction" and the phalanx inspired many nineteenth-century communal experiments.
(Source: Gemini) French social philosopher (1772–1837), founder of the utopian-socialist system of "Fourierism," who designed cooperative communities ("phalansteries") organized around the free play of the passions and elaborated a cosmology of "harmony."
Related Periodicals: El Criterio Espiritista | Verdade
Fournie, Abbe Pierre
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Abbé Pierre Fournié (1738–1825) was a French priest and disciple of Martinez de Pasqually who wrote on the doctrines of the Élus-Coëns.
(Source: Gemini) (1738–1825) French Roman Catholic priest, mystic, and occultist, a figure in early Martinism. After meeting Martinez de Pasqually in 1768 he became his disciple and amanuensis and a leader of the Ordre des Élus Coëns, writing *What We Have Been, What We Are, and What We Will Become* (1801). He fled France during the Revolution and lived in exile in London. Died in 1825.
Related Periodicals: La Verite (Lyon)
Fowle, William B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) William Bentley Fowle (1795–1865) was an American educational reformer and publisher in Boston.
Related Periodicals: Annals of Phrenology
Fowler, E.P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Edward P. Fowler was an American physician associated with Spiritualist and phrenological reform circles of the later nineteenth century.
Related Periodicals: The Shekinah
Fowler, Frank
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Frank Fowler, author of the 1896 sex-reform tract “Sexual Purity is Essential to Social Purity.”
Chasing Emma: Sexual Purity Is Essential To Social Purity: Dr. Frank Fowler; 1896
Fowler, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) A member of the Fowler family / circle of American phrenologists associated with the Fowler & Wells publishing house.
Related Periodicals: Christian Banker
Fowler, Horace N.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Industrial Public: A Plan of Social Reconstruction in Line With Evolution (1921)
Fowler, Jessie Allen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Jessie Allen Fowler (1856–1932), American phrenologist; same person as the "Fowler, Jessie Allen" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (1856–1932) American-British phrenologist, author, and publisher, daughter of the phrenologist Lorenzo Niles Fowler. She managed the family firm Fowler & Wells, edited *The Phrenological Journal*, and wrote textbooks including *Brain and Mind*. Died in 1932.
Related Periodicals: The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story) | American Phrenological Journal
Fowler, L.N.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Lorenzo Niles Fowler (1811–1896) was, with his brother Orson, a leading American practical phrenologist and publisher (Fowler & Wells).
(Source: Gemini) (1811–1896) American phrenologist, author, and publisher who, with his brother Orson Squire Fowler, popularized phrenology in the United States and Britain. He co-founded the publishing house Fowler & Wells, ran a phrenological consulting practice in London, and designed the ceramic 'phrenological bust' that became the field's emblem. Died in New Jersey in 1896.
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal | Know Thyself | The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story) | The Popular Phrenologist
Fowler, Lottie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Lottie Fowler (1841–1899), a celebrated Anglo-American clairvoyant and “business medium” of the 1870s, credited with helping win Stainton Moses to Spiritualism.
Chasing Emma: Parties Would Do Well to Call: Some Notes on Lottie Fowler (1841?-1899)
Fowler, Orson Squire
Orson Squire Fowler (1809-1887) was an American phrenologist, publisher, and reformer who, together with his brother Lorenzo and later his brother-in-law Samuel Roberts Wells, built the firm of Fowler & Wells into the leading American publisher of phrenological literature in the mid-nineteenth century. He edited the American Phrenological Journal from 1841 to 1855 and was a prolific lecturer and author on phrenology, sexuality, diet, and domestic architecture. His advocacy of octagonal house design in A Home For All (1848) briefly inspired an architectural movement.
(Source: Gemini) (1809–1887) American phrenologist, publisher, and social reformer. Born in Cohocton, New York, he co-founded Fowler & Wells, edited *The American Phrenological Journal*, and wrote books on marriage and health. He popularized the 'octagon house' style of architecture in his book *The Octagon House: A Home For All*. He championed temperance, vegetarianism, and sex education. His investments in octagon buildings failed during economic panics, and he died in Connecticut in 1887.
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal | The Magnet | The Water-Cure Journal
Fowler, Samuel T.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Industrial Public: A Plan of Social Reconstruction in Line With Evolution (1921)
Fox, Caroline
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Caroline Fox (1819–1871), the Cornish Quaker diarist, whose 1851 journal records the early mesmeric and Spiritualist interests of her circle.
Chasing Emma: The de Bunsens And Mesmerism
Fox, Emmett
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Emmet Fox (1886–1951) was an Irish-American New Thought minister and best-selling author (The Sermon on the Mount) who drew huge audiences in Depression-era New York.
(Source: Gemini) (1886–1951) Irish-American New Thought leader, author, and divine healer whose writings influenced the early development of Alcoholics Anonymous. Born in Cork, Ireland, Fox studied electrical engineering before turning to metaphysics, serving as minister of the
Chasing Emma: Signposts on the Road to God: A Short Note on Emmet Fox (1886-1951)
Related Periodicals: Divine Science Monthly | The Gleaner | Mentation
Related Monographs: The Sermon on the Mount (1938), Power Through Constructive Thinking (1940)
Fox, Katie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Kate Fox (1837–1892) was the youngest of the Fox sisters, whose 1848 "spirit rappings" at Hydesville, New York, are conventionally taken as the origin of modern Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) (1837–1892) American Spiritualist medium, born Catherine Fox and later known as Kate Fox Jencken, who with her sisters Leah and Margaretta helped found the modern Spiritualist movement. In 1848, as a child, she and Margaretta reported communicating with a deceased peddler through rapping noises at their Hydesville, New York home. Skeptics accused her of producing the raps by cracking her toe joints. In 1888 her sister Margaretta publicly denounced Spiritualism as fraud and demonstrated the joint-cracking technique on stage. Kate struggled with alcoholism and died in New York in 1892.
Chasing Emma: Belief Begins At Home: Henry D. Jencken
Chasing Emma: The White Leaves of History [1]: The Rise of Spirit Form Manifestation in England; 1872
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Clarion | The Christian Spiritualist | Daybreak
Fox, Margaretta
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Margaretta “Maggie” Fox Kane (1833–1893), one of the Fox sisters of Hydesville whose 1848 “rappings” launched Modern Spiritualism, later famous for her public confession and recantation.
(Source: Gemini) (1833–1893) American medium, known as Maggie Fox and later Margaretta Fox Kane, who with her sisters Kate and Leah founded modern Spiritualism. Born in Canada and raised in New York, her career began with the 1848 Hydesville spirit rappings. She had a publicized romance with the Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane. In 1888, at the Academy of Music in New York, she publicly confessed that Spiritualism was a fraud and demonstrated how she and Kate produced the rappings by cracking their toe joints; she later recanted. She struggled with alcoholism and died in Brooklyn in 1893.
Chasing Emma: February 10; 1850: New Light On The Foxes
Chasing Emma: Martyrs to the World's Ignorance: EHB on Margaretta Fox; 1893
Foye, Ada Hoyt Coan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ada Hoyt Foye was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist test medium known for "ballot readings" and rapping phenomena.
Chasing Emma: A New Monetization Strategy
Chasing Emma: Ada Hoyt Coan Foye (1835?-1904?)
Chasing Emma: William B. Coan: Ada Hoyt's First Husband
Chasing Emma: Ada Coan Foye
Chasing Emma: Mrs. Coan and M. V. Bly
Chasing Emma: Inventory of Manifestations
Related Periodicals: The Balance
France, Mary E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Life of a Soul: Palaces and Slums of Spirit Life (1929)
Francis, Genevieve Mae
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Inspiration, Its Precepts: The Key to Success and Happiness (1928), Keeper of the Temple: Essence of Truth in Laws of Life (1928), On the Path: Lessons in the Laws of Life (1928)
Francis, J.R.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) J. R. Francis — John Reynolds Francis, the American Spiritualist editor; same person as the "Francis, John Reynolds" entry.
Chasing Emma: Phebe Abracadabra: The RPJ on Art Magic; January 1876
Related Periodicals: Ray Palmer's Forum | The Religio-Philosophical Journal
Francis, John Reynolds
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John Reynolds Francis was an American Spiritualist editor associated with The Progressive Thinker and compiler of Spiritualist reference works. See also "Francis, J.R."
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Progressive Thinker
Francis, T. M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Blavatsky, Besant and Co. (The Story of a Great Anti-Christian Fraud) (1939)
Frank, Henry
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Eltka | The Ideal Review | Independent Thinker | Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews | Psychic Power | The Psychological Herald (Atlanta) | Wings of Truth
Frankau, Gilbert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mesmerism (1948)
Franklin, Benjamin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), the American statesman and scientist, who served on the 1784 French royal commission that investigated Mesmer's animal magnetism; often invoked in Spiritualist periodicals.
Related Periodicals: The Fra | La Lumiere Pour Tous
Franklin, Sir John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Sir John Franklin (1786–1847), the lost Arctic explorer whose disappearance became a recurring subject of Spiritualist “clairvoyant” searches.
(Source: Gemini) British naval officer and Arctic explorer (1786–1847) whose final expedition, aboard HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in search of the Northwest Passage, vanished with all hands and became a lasting mystery of polar exploration.
Chasing Emma: Sir John Franklin; Wella Anderson; Social Network Speed; and the Economics of Modern Spiritualism
Franklyn, Julian
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Survey of the Occult (1935)
Frazer, James George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist whose comparative study of myth and religion, The Golden Bough, profoundly influenced modern views of magic and religion.
(Source: Gemini) Scottish social anthropologist and classical scholar (1854–1941), author of The Golden Bough (1890), the comparative study of myth and religion that traced a progression from magic to religion to science.
Related Periodicals: Croire
Related Monographs: The Magical Origin of Kings (1920), The Worship of Nature, Volume I (1926), Totemica: A Supplement to Totemism and Exogamy (1937)
Freeman, Peter
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Druids and Theosophy (1924)
Freer, Ada Goodrich
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Ada Goodrich Freer (“Miss X”), a late-Victorian psychical researcher and scryer associated with the
(Source: Gemini) (1857–1931) British psychical researcher, medium, and author, known by the pseudonym 'Miss X.' Born in Rutland, England, she worked with the Society for Psychical Research on telepathy, crystal-gazing, and haunted houses, and published studies on Second Sight in the Hebrides. During the 1897 investigation of alleged hauntings at Ballechin House, SPR colleague J. Callender Ross accused her of fraud, and she left psychical research. She relocated to the Middle East and America and died in 1931.
Chasing Emma: The Strange Story of Ada Goodrich Freer; Revisited
Freimark, Hans
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Hans Freimark (1881–1945) was a German writer who published widely on occultism, mysticism, and mediumship in the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Weisse Fahne
Related Monographs: Wie deute ich mein Schicksal aus Form und Linien meiner Hand? (1921)
Fremery, H.N. de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) H. N. de Fremery was a Dutch Spiritualist and Theosophical writer and editor of the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Toekomistig Leven
French, A.B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) A. B. French was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist orator and lecturer widely heard on the camp-meeting circuit.
Related Periodicals: The Present Age
French, E.J.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Electric Physician
Chasing Emma: Emma; Fibbing and Revealing (?)
Chasing Emma: Making Ends Meet
Chasing Emma: Elizabeth French
Chasing Emma: Elizabeth French; Redux
Chasing Emma: Miss Harding and Mrs. French; Running A Church for Spiritualists
Chasing Emma: The Electro-Vapor Bath
Chasing Emma: September 1873: Practicing Galvanic Medicine
Chasing Emma: April 1859 -- Emma and Elizabeth; Cohabiting
Chasing Emma: The Scrutinizing World: E. J. French on Her Mediumship; March 1853
Chasing Emma: E&O Insurance: Elizabeth J. French; May French Sheldon and Monisa A. French
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Clarion
French, Joseph Lewis
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Best Psychic Stories (1920)
French, Mary S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Mary S. French, connected to the family of the electro-therapeutist Elizabeth J. French.
Chasing Emma: E&O Insurance: Elizabeth J. French; May French Sheldon and Monisa A. French
Friese, Robert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Stimmen aus dem Reich der Geister (1921)
Fritsche, Herbert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Herbert Fritsche (1911–1960) was a German writer on anthroposophy, homeopathy, and Christian esotericism, associated with the Christian Community.
Related Periodicals: Neue Wissenschaft
Froebe-Kapteyn, Olga
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (1881–1962) was a Dutch-born scholar and organizer who founded the Eranos conferences at Ascona, a major meeting-ground of scholars of religion, myth, and depth psychology.
(Source: Gemini) (1881–1962) British-born Dutch scholar and archivist, founder of the Eranos Conferences at Ascona, Switzerland. Born in London to Dutch parents, she studied art history in Munich before establishing Casa Eranos on Lake Maggiore. In 1933 she founded Eranos as a center for comparative religion and analytical psychology, hosting Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, Gershom Scholem, and Joseph Campbell. She funded the conferences from her personal wealth and died in Ascona in 1962.
Related Periodicals: Illumination
Frothingham, O.B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1822–1895) was an American clergyman, a leader of the Free Religious Association and historian of Transcendentalism.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Brittan's Journal | The Index
Frutiger, Perceval
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Fryar, R.F.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Picking Through Godwin
Chasing Emma: The Boston Fire of 1872
Chasing Emma: 2 Prospect Terrace; Bath
Related Periodicals: Light and Life
Fryar, Robert H.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Robert Henry Fryar (1844-1909)
Related Periodicals: Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | The Rosicrucian Brotherhood
Fugairon, L.S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Louis-Sophrone Fugairon, the French Gnostic organizer; same person as the "Fugairon, Louis-Sophrone" entry.
Related Periodicals: Le Reveil des Albigeois | Revue du Psychisme Experimental
Related Monographs: La Santa Gnosi (1922)
Fugairon, Louis-Sophrone
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Louis-Sophrone Fugairon (1846–after 1922) was a French physician and Gnostic who, with Jean Bricaud, helped organize the early-twentieth-century French Gnostic churches. See also "Fugairon, L.S."
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Annales Initiatiques
Fulcanelli
"Fulcanelli" was the pseudonym of an early-twentieth-century French alchemist and author of Le Mystère des cathédrales (1926) and Les Demeures philosophales, works that read Gothic architecture as encoded alchemy. His true identity — linked to the circle of Canseliet and Champagne — has never been established.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Pseudonym of an anonymous French alchemist and esoteric writer active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He published two treatises, most notably *Le Mystère des Cathédrales* (1926), which argued that the Gothic cathedrals of France were coded alchemical textbooks describing the Philosopher's Stone. He disappeared around 1930, and his identity has been attributed variously to Jean-Julien Champagne, René Schwaller de Lubicz, and Pierre Dujols.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulcanelli
Related Periodicals: Atlantis (Le Cour)
Fuller, Curtis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Curtis Fuller (1912–1991) was an American publisher who, with his wife Mary, founded Fate magazine in 1948, a leading popular periodical of the paranormal.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Fate Magazine (Palmer)
Fuller, George A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) George A. Fuller was an American Spiritualist lecturer and writer active in New England in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Chasing Emma: The National Developing Circle; Revisited
Related Periodicals: Spirit Voices | Weltmer's Magazine
Fuller, Jean Overton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Jean Overton Fuller (1915–2009) was a British author and biographer of occult and literary figures, including Aleister Crowley, H. P. Blavatsky, and the Symbolist poets.
Related Periodicals: Eclectic Theosophist
Fuller, John Frederick Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Major-General J. F. C. Fuller (1878–1966) was a British military theorist of armored warfare who, as a young officer, was an early and close disciple of Aleister Crowley.
Related Periodicals: Equinox
Fullerton, Alexander
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Alexander Fullerton (1841–1913) was an American former Episcopal clergyman who served as general secretary of the
Related Periodicals: Antahkarana | The Beacon (Bailey) | Mercury (SFO) | Theosophic Messenger
Fullmer, John L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Principles and Secrets of Advanced Modern Salesmanship (1926)
Fulton, Harold Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Harold H. Fulton was a New Zealand UFO researcher of the 1950s–60s, an organizer of early flying-saucer investigation groups in the country.
Related Periodicals: Flying Saucers (New Zealand)
Funk, Isaac K.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Isaac Kaufmann Funk (1839–1912) was an American publisher (Funk & Wagnalls) and lexicographer who investigated Spiritualism, writing The Widow's Mite and The Psychic Riddle.
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Funk, Isaac K. Isaac K. Funk (1839-1912) was an American clergyman, editor, publisher, and lexicographer — co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls — who in later life investigated mediumship and published two books on psychic phenomena: The Widow's Mite and Other Psychic Phenomena (1904) and The Psychic Riddle (1907). Though open to evidence suggestive of discarnate intelligence, he repeatedly stressed that fraud and unknown psychic factors had to be taken seriously.
Related Periodicals: Yours Fraternally
Funk, Wilfred J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Wilfred J. Funk (1883–1965) was an American publisher and lexicographer, head of Funk & Wagnalls and son of Isaac K. Funk.
Related Periodicals: Yours Fraternally
Furness, Horace Howard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Horace Howard Furness (1833–1912), the eminent Shakespeare scholar and a member of the University of Pennsylvania's skeptical
Chasing Emma: But Will They Come When You Do Call Them?
Fussell, J.H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Joseph H. Fussell (1863–1942) was an English-American Theosophist who was long the private secretary and administrator at the Point Loma headquarters of the
Related Periodicals: Theosophical Forum (Purucker) | The Theosophical Path | Theosophy | Universal Brotherhood
Related Monographs: Incidents in the History of the Theosophical Movement (1920)
Gabalis, Count
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Comte de Gabalis" is the fictional adept-narrator of the abbé de Villars's 1670 satire on the elemental spirits of the Rosicrucians, often cited in later occult literature as if a real authority.
Related Periodicals: The Supernatural Magazine
Gaboriau, Felix-Krishna
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Félix Gaboriau was a French Theosophist of the 1880s, editor of Le Lotus, one of the earliest French Theosophical reviews.
Related Periodicals: Lotus Rouge
Gaddis, Vincent H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Vincent H. Gaddis (1913–1997) was an American writer on the anomalous who coined the term "Bermuda Triangle" and wrote Mysterious Fires and Lights.
Related Periodicals: Journal of Borderland Research
Gage, Matilda Joslyn
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) was an American suffragist and freethinker, author of Woman, Church and State, and a Theosophist critical of organized religion.
(Source: Gemini) (1826–1898) American feminist, abolitionist, suffragist, and freethinker. Born in Cicero, New York, she co-authored *History of Woman Suffrage* and founded the Woman's National Liberal Union in 1890, advocating secularism, women's franchise, and civil rights for Native Americans. Her *Woman, Church and State* (1893) condemned Christian dogma and the church for the historical suppression of women. She split with the mainstream suffrage movement over her criticism of organized religion and died in Illinois in 1898.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Word
Gaines, Carene Vandersall
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Every Woman a Food Scientist (1941)
Gaines, Thomas Robert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Vitalic Breathing (1921), Vitalic Breathing (1923), The Achieving Life: The Path to Health, Joy and Abundance (1926), Health Is In You (1935), The Magic of Breath Power (1935), New Light from the Old Book (1936), Every Woman a Food Scientist (1941), Thirty Great Secrets for Maintaining Health and Youth (1944)
Galilei
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), the Italian astronomer and physicist; invoked here in a periodical context as an emblem of science versus dogma.
Related Periodicals: Vimana (Finland)
Galimard, Pierre
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Hippocrate et la Tradition Pythagoricienne (1939)
Galindo, Catherine
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Catherine Galindo, an American woman married to an English apothecary, proposed (but, per Demarest, incorrectly) as the pseudonymous Theosophical author “Nizida.”
Chasing Emma: Nizida on Elementals and Elementaries: Some Background
Gallagher, James E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) James E. Gallagher, a figure in Emma Hardinge's 1861 American circle.
Chasing Emma: Emma and the Flying Soul: 1861
Gallagher, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Gallagher, the man (or his “etheric double”) at the center of Emma Hardinge Britten's account of being stalked at Delanco.
Chasing Emma: Emma And Her Stalkers: Some Delanco Data
Chasing Emma: Emma and the Flying Soul: 1861
Chasing Emma: Blue Ink: Emma and Her Stalkers
Gallert, Gordon F.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Verses from the Beyond (1933)
Gamache, Henri
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Master Book of Candle Burning, or How to Burn Candles for Every Purpose (1942)
Gandhi, Mahatma
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Mohandas K. "Mahatma" Gandhi (1869–1948), the leader of Indian independence and apostle of nonviolent resistance, whose ethical and spiritual teaching was widely discussed in metaphysical periodicals.
Related Periodicals: New Outlook | Verdade (Buenos Aires)
Gandhi, Virchand R.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Virchand R. Gandhi (1864–1901) was an Indian Jain scholar who represented Jainism at the 1893 World's
Related Periodicals: Mind
Gann, William Delbert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) W. D. Gann (1878–1955) was an American financial trader and author who developed astrological and geometric methods of market forecasting.
(Source: Gemini) (1878–1955) American market analyst and esoteric author, known as W.D. Gann, who applied geometry, astrology, and mathematics to financial forecasting. Born in Lufkin, Texas, he ran a brokerage firm in New York City, devised forecasting tools known as 'Gann Angles,' and published the esoteric novel *Tunnel Thru the Air* (1927). He kept his trading methods secret and died in 1955.
Related Periodicals: Day (New York)
Related Monographs: The Tunnel Thru the Air, or Looking Back from 1940 (1927)
Garcia, Eduardo Escribano
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Fraternidad Universal | Irradiacion (Madrid)
Garcon, Maurice
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Gardener, Harry J.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Fluidity of Identity: Frater VIII; Harry J. Gardener and Harry Lawrence Juhnke
Related Periodicals: The Beacon Light
Gardener, Helen H.
(Source: Gemini) (1853–1925) American author, freethought reformer, and government official, born Alice Chenoweth. Born in Virginia, she published essays and novels including *Men, Women, and Gods* (1885), challenging religious justifications for women's subjugation, and lectured on female brain capacity. She wrote under a pseudonym to protect her family. In 1920 President Woodrow Wilson appointed her to the US Civil Service Commission. She died in 1925 and donated her brain to science to argue for female intellectual equality.
Related Periodicals: Freethinkers Magazine
Gardner, E. L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Web of the Universe: An Occult Theory of Substance (1936)
Gardner, F. Leigh
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Frederick Leigh Gardner (1857–1930) was an English stockbroker, member of the Golden Dawn, and compiler of a bibliography of Rosicrucian and occult literature.
Related Periodicals: The Forecast | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | Proceedings of the Blavatsky Association | The Rosicrucian
Gardner, Gerald
Gerald Brosseau Gardner (1884–1964) was an English civil servant, folklorist, and occultist who, after the 1951 repeal of the Witchcraft Act, publicized the modern pagan witchcraft religion now called Wicca, blending folklore, ceremonial magic, Freemasonry, and Crowley into a new ritual system.
(Source: Gemini) (1884–1964) British civil servant, amateur anthropologist, and occultist, the principal founder of modern Wicca. Born in Lancashire, England, he worked for decades in East Asia, developing an interest in folk magic. On returning to Britain he claimed initiation into a surviving coven in the New Forest and published *Witchcraft Today* (1954), setting out Wiccan rituals and doctrines. He died in 1964.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gardner
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Uplifting Veil
Gardner, Martin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was an American writer on mathematics and science and a founding figure of modern skepticism, whose Fads and Fallacies debunked pseudoscience and the occult.
(Source: Gemini) (1914–2010) American science writer, mathematician, and skeptic. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he wrote the 'Mathematical Games' column in *Scientific American* for twenty-five years and published *Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science* (1952). A co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSICOP), he worked to expose pseudoscience, paranormal claims, and spiritualist mediumship, clashing with believers in telepathy, ufology, and alternative medicine. He died in 2010.
Related Periodicals: Kosmon Unity
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Garland, Hamlin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Hamlin Garland (1860–1940) was an American novelist and a serious investigator of psychic phenomena, author of Forty Years of Psychic Research.
(Source: Gemini) (1860–1940) American novelist and essayist who also pursued psychical research. Born in West Salem, Wisconsin, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for his fiction of Midwestern farm life, served as a director of the
Related Periodicals: The Psychical Review
Related Monographs: The Mystery of the Buried Crosses: A Narrative of Psychic Exploration (1939)
Garrett, Thomas L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Hypnotism: Its Mysteries, History and Mastery (1934)
Garstin, E. J. Langford
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Book of the Master of the Hidden Places (1933)
Georgievitz-Weitzer, Demeter
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Moderne Rosenkreuzer oder Die Renaissance der Geheimwissenschaften: Ein okkult-wissenschaftlicher Roman (1924)
Germain, Amsumata Saint
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Lord Maitreya, or the New Golden Age (1942)
Gewurz, Elias
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Mysteries of the Qabalah, Vol. II (1922)
Geyraud, Pierre
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Les Societes Secretes de Paris (1938)
Gherwal, Rishi Singh
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Great Masters of the Himalayas: Their Lives and Temple Teaching (Volume One) (1927)
Gibbes, B. B.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: They Survive: Evidence of Life Beyond the Grave (1946)
Gibbes, E. B.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Road to Immortality (1933)
Gleichenrusswurm, A. V.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Fluegel der Seele: Ein Weg zur inneren Schoenheit (1921)
Glenconner, Pamela
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Earthen Vessel: A Volume Dealing with Spirit Communication Received in the Form of Book-Tests (1921)
Gobron, Gabriel
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: La Reincarnation (1929)
Goddard, Henry Herbert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Two Souls in One Body? A Case of Dual Personality (1927)
Goerner, George F.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Record of Psychic Experiences (1922)
Gordon, William
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Course in Psychic Unfoldment (1932)
Gorham, Charles T.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Failure of Christianity, Proved by Facts and Figures (1922)
Gray, Agnes Kendrick
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Proofs of the Spirit World (1920)
Gray, James M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritism and the Fallen Angels in the Light of the Old and New Testaments (1920)
Green, Harriet L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Think on These Things (1921)
Greenbaum, Leon
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mind and Money (1923)
Grewal, Rishi Singh
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Practical Yoga (1943)
Grierson, Francis
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Psycho-Phone Messages (1921)
Griffith, F. Ll
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden (1921)
Gulatwellenburg, W. V.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Der physikalische Mediumismus (1925)
Gundel, Wilhelm
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Sterne und Sternbilder im Glauben des Altertums und der Neuzeit (1922)
Gwynne, H. A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Cause of World Unrest (1920)
Lyttle-Garrett, Eileen Jeanette Vancho
Eileen J. Garrett (1892–1970) was an Irish trance medium widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important, famous for the 1930 R101 airship séance. Skeptical of the spiritualist hypothesis herself, she submitted to scientific testing and in 1951 founded the
(Source: Gemini) (1893–1970) Irish-born American trance medium, author, and parapsychologist. Born in County Meath, Ireland, she co-founded the Parapsychology Foundation in 1951, edited the journal *Tomorrow*, and submitted her mediumship — including her spirit guide 'Uvani' — to laboratory testing by psychologists such as J.B. Rhine. She often gave psychological rather than spiritist explanations of her own mediumship. She died in 1970.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_J._Garrett
Related Periodicals: Aquarian Path | Mensch en Cosmos | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Related Monographs: My Life as a Search for the Meaning of Mediumship (1939)
Garrison, Bishop Simpson
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Only Way To Know Was To Join The Ring: Notes on Julia A. Stevens Fish Schlesinger Garrison
Chasing Emma: The Truth Shall Make You Free: The Liberator; September 1898
Related Periodicals: Liberator (SFO)
Garrison, William Lloyd
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), the American abolitionist and editor of The Liberator, whose radical-reform circles overlapped with early Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) American abolitionist and journalist (1805–1879), editor of the antislavery newspaper The Liberator (1831) and a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Chasing Emma: William Lloyd Garrison's Conversion Process: A Test Seance; 1854
Related Periodicals: Liberator (SFO) | The New Liberator
Garver, William L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) William L. Garver was an American author of the occult-Theosophical novel Brother of the Third Degree (1894).
Related Periodicals: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | Purdy's Monthly | Soundview
Gauguin, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), the French Post-Impressionist painter; cited here in a periodical context. See also the "Gaugin, Paul" entry.
Related Periodicals: Revue Theurgique | Almanach de l'Ymagier
Gautier, Theophile
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) was a French Romantic poet, novelist, and critic, author of supernatural and "hashish" tales.
Chasing Emma: The Ties Which Bind the Body to the Soul: A Note on Hashish
Related Periodicals: Guia [Recife] | Lumiere D'Orient | Progres Spiritualiste
Gaze, Harry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Harry Gaze was an English-American New Thought lecturer of the early twentieth century who promoted the doctrine of physical immortality.
Chasing Emma: Signposts on the Road to God: A Short Note on Emmet Fox (1886-1951)
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Geley, Gustave
Gustav Geley (1868–1924) was a French physician and psychical researcher, director of the Institut Métapsychique International in Paris (1919–24). He investigated the ectoplasm mediums Marthe Béraud ("Eva C.") and Franek Kluski, from whom he obtained paraffin "spirit" moulds, and theorized ectoplasm as an externalization of the medium's organism.
(Source: Gemini) (1868–1924) French physician and parapsychologist. Born in Montceau-les-Mines, he became the first director of the Institut Métapsychique International in Paris, wrote *From the Unconscious to the Conscious* (1919), and conducted laboratory investigations of physical mediums including Eva Carrière and Franck Kluski to study ectoplasm. He was killed in an airplane crash near Warsaw on 15 July 1924.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Geley
Related Periodicals: Espiritismo (Buenos Aires) | Revista Internacional do Espiritismo
Related Monographs: From the Unconscious to the Conscious (1920), La Reincarnation (1929)
Geller, Uri
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Uri Geller (b. 1946) is an Israeli entertainer and self-described psychic famous from the 1970s for spoon-bending and telepathy demonstrations, tested and disputed by scientists and magicians.
(Source: Gemini) (1946–) Israeli-British illusionist and self-proclaimed psychic known for spoon-bending and claimed telekinetic and telepathic feats. Born in Tel Aviv, he gained international fame in the 1970s and was tested at the Stanford Research Institute, which reported his abilities warranted study. The magician and skeptic James Randi and others exposed his performances as conjuring tricks, leading to public disputes and failed libel suits. He continues to perform.
Related Periodicals: Beyond Reality | Probe the Unknown
Genone, Hudor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Hudor Genone" was the pen name of William James Roe (1843–1915), an American writer of satirical and utopian religious fiction.
Related Periodicals: The Temple
Genty, Patrice
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Patrice Genty (1883–1964) was a French occultist and Gnostic, a historian of Martinism and leader of small esoteric-Christian bodies.
Related Periodicals: Voile d'Isis
George, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Henry George (1839–1897), the American political economist and author of Progress and Poverty, whose "single tax" reform influenced many in the era's reform press.
Related Periodicals: Nueva Atlantida (Montevideo) | Purdy's Monthly
George, Llewellyn
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Llewellyn George (1876–1954) was a Welsh-American astrologer and founder of the Llewellyn publishing house, author of the widely used A to Z Horoscope Maker and Delineator.
(Source: Gemini) (1876–1954) Welsh-born American astrologer, publisher, and author, active in the modern revival of astrology in the United States. Born in Swansea, Wales, he settled in Portland, Oregon, where he founded the
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Astro-Digest | Astrological Bulletina | The Column | Horoscope (Dell) | Journal of the National Astrological Association | National Astrological Journal | Occult Life (LAX) | Occult Press Review | The Occultist (Los Angeles)
Related Monographs: The Astrologer's Searchlight (1922), Astrology: What It Is and What It Is Not (1923), How Planets Affect You: Philosophy of Planetary Vibrations (1930), Astrology: What It Is and What It Is Not (1931), Powerful Planets Astronomically Considered (1931)
Gerebko, Madame
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Madame Gerebko, a figure in the tangled early biography of Helena Blavatsky.
Chasing Emma: Bound Up In Her Adroit Coils: HPB; October 1874
Gerling, Helene
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Helene Gerling was a twentieth-century American Spiritualist author and teacher who wrote popular guides to mediumship and psychic development.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Spiritual Science Digest
Saint-Germain, Comte C. de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) The Comte de Saint-Germain — a mysterious eighteenth-century adventurer later exalted in Theosophy and "I AM" teaching as an immortal Ascended Master. See also "Germaine, Master St."
(Source: Gemini) (c. 1691–c. 1784) European courtier, adventurer, alchemist, and composer active in royal courts across Europe, including that of Louis XV of France. He claimed to have discovered the secret of physical immortality and the transmutation of base metals into gold, and was denounced by rival diplomats as an impostor and spy. Died in Germany around 1784. His memory was later adopted by Theosophists and esoteric orders, who elevated him to the status of an Ascended Master of the Ancient Wisdom.
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Germer, Karl
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Karl Germer (1885–1962) was a German-American occultist who became Aleister Crowley's close associate and, after Crowley's death, head of the
(Source: Gemini) (1885–1962), known in esoteric circles as Frater Saturnus, German occultist and writer who served as Outer Head of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) after the death of Aleister Crowley. Born in Elberfeld, Germany, he was a military officer in the First World War before devoting himself to Crowley's religion of Thelema and establishing the Equinox publishing house to print Crowley's works. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1935 and imprisoned in a concentration camp for his occult associations, he later fled to the United States, where he was involved in legal disputes with rival occultists over O.T.O. authority and lineage. Died in California in 1962.
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Gestefeld, Theodore
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Theodore Gestefeld, husband of the New Thought writer Ursula Newell Gestefeld, later a US resident in Mexico City.
Chasing Emma: Some Notes On Ursula Newell Gestefeld (1847-1921): Part Two
Chasing Emma: Information on Men and Schemes: Some Notes on Ursula Gestefeld; Part Three
Gestefeld, Ursula Newell
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Ursula Newell Gestefeld (1845–1921) was an American New Thought teacher and writer, a former student of Mary Baker Eddy who founded her own "Science of Being."
(Source: Gemini) (1845–1921) American New Thought author and teacher, a founder of the movement she called the Science of Being. Born in Augusta, Maine, she was originally a disciple of Mary Baker Eddy but broke away after criticizing Eddy's leadership and formulating her own metaphysical teaching, publishing *The Science of the Christ* (1889) and *How We Master Our Fate*. Her writings drew condemnation from the
Chasing Emma: Her Pathological System: Christian Science in Chicago 1882-1887
Chasing Emma: Some Notes On Ursula Newell Gestefeld (1847-1921): Part One
Chasing Emma: Some Notes On Ursula Newell Gestefeld (1847-1921): Part Two
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Ghadiali, Dinshah P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Dinshah P. Ghadiali (1873–1966) was an Indian-American proponent of "Spectro-Chrome," a color-therapy system, prosecuted in the United States for medical fraud.
(Source: Gemini) (1873–1966) Indian-born American inventor and alternative practitioner who formulated the system of color therapy known as 'Spectro-Chrome.' Born in Bombay, he emigrated to the United States and designed optical instruments he claimed could cure disease by projecting colored light onto the body, publishing the *Spectro-Chrome Metry Encyclopaedia*. The Food and Drug Administration and the
Related Organizations:
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Ghose, Motilal
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Motilal Ghosh (1847–1922) was an Indian journalist, brother of Shishir Kumar Ghosh and co-builder of the Amrita Bazar Patrika.
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Ghose, Piyush Kanti
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Hindu Spiritual Magazine
Related Monographs: The Scourge of Christ (1921), To the Nations (1921)
Ghosh, Babu Shishir Kumar
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Shishir Kumar Ghosh (1840–1911) was an Indian journalist, founder of the Amrita Bazar Patrika and a devotional Vaishnava writer.
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Gibier, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Paul Gibier (1851–1900) was a French physician and bacteriologist who investigated Spiritualist mediumship and wrote on "transcendental" phenomena before settling in New York.
(Source: Gemini) (1851–1900) French physician, bacteriologist, and psychical researcher. He studied under Louis Pasteur and served as a professor before relocating to New York to establish the New York Pasteur Institute. Alongside his bacteriological work he investigated mediums and published *Psychism: Analysis of Things and Relation* (1899). Died in New York in June 1900 from injuries suffered in a runaway carriage accident.
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Gibran, Kahlil
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) was a Lebanese-American poet and artist, author of the mystical prose-poem The Prophet (1923).
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Gifford, Marie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) Marie Gifford, a figure noted in The Two Worlds for 1889.
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds for 1889
Gilbert, Robert A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) R. A. Gilbert (b. 1942) is a British antiquarian bookseller and historian of the
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Gillespie, Frank
To be added.
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Gilmore, Mary
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Dame Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) was an Australian poet, journalist, and socialist; associated here with a periodical context.
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Ginnasi, Count
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Count Ginnasi, an Italian nobleman noted in mid-Victorian accounts of thought-reading and psychical curiosity.
Chasing Emma: A Curious and Thoughtful Letter: Brain-Waves; and the Metaphysical Society; 1869
Giraud, Jules
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jules Giraud (1846–1927), who wrote as "Numa Pandorac," was a French anarchist and occultist who blended magic with libertarian social theory.
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Givry, Grillot de
Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry (1870–1929) was a French scholar of Christian Hermeticism and the occult, associated with the Paris circle of Guaita, Papus, and Péladan. His lavishly illustrated Le Musée des sorciers, mages et alchimistes (1929; English Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy) is a classic anthology of esoteric imagery.
(Source: Gemini) (1874–1929) French occultist, translator, and author. Born in Paris, he translated works of Paracelsus, John Dee, and Savonarola into French, and compiled *Le Musée des Sorciers, Mages et Alchimistes* (1929; translated as *Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy*), a collection of rare occult engravings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. Died in 1929.
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/witchcraftmagica00gril
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Gladstone, W.E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898), the British Liberal prime minister; cited here in a periodical context.
(Source: Gemini) British statesman (1809–1898), four times Liberal prime minister of the United Kingdom and the dominant Liberal figure of the Victorian era.
Chasing Emma: The Dark Continent of Motive and Desire: Robert Ingersoll; 1888
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Glass, Kate Elizabeth Perkins
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Kate Elizabeth Perkins Glass (b. 1874), an American author of Spiritualist scientific romances such as “Ruth's Marriage in Mars.”
Chasing Emma: Note: Spirit Mates
Gobineau
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Arthur de Gobineau (1816–1882), the French diplomat and author of the Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, an influential source of nineteenth-century racial and "Aryan" theory.
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Godwin, Joscelyn
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Joscelyn Godwin (b. 1945) is a British-American musicologist and a leading contemporary scholar of Western esotericism, the author of many studies of occult history.
(Source: Gemini) (1945– ) English-American musicologist, composer, translator, and historian of the Western esoteric tradition. Born in Kelmscott, England, and educated at Cambridge and Cornell, he was for decades a professor of music at Colgate University. Within esoteric studies he is known for translating the *Hypnerotomachia Poliphili* (1999) and for historical works including *The Theosophical Enlightenment* (1994) and *Arktos: The Polar Myth*, as well as research on the
Related Periodicals: La Voie (Paris)
Goff, Kenneth
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Kenneth Goff, an American anti-communist agitator linked to the fabricated “Soviet brainwashing” text.
Chasing Emma: A Psychopolitician Must Work Hard To Produce The Maximum Chaos: Kenneth Goff; L. Run Hubbard and Soviet Brainwashing
Goldman, Emma
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Emma Goldman (1869–1940), the Russian-American anarchist writer and lecturer; cited here in a radical/free-thought periodical context.
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Gomes, Michael
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Michael Gomes is a contemporary historian of the Theosophical movement and editor of primary Blavatsky and Theosophical source materials.
Related Periodicals: Eclectic Theosophist
Gonzalez, Moises R.
To be added.
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Goodyear, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), the American inventor of vulcanized rubber; invoked here in a periodical context.
Chasing Emma: Horace H. Day: Sorting The Debris
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Gordon, Chinese
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Major-General Charles George "Chinese" Gordon (1833–1885), the British soldier killed at Khartoum, whose mystical religiosity drew interest in esoteric circles.
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Gordon, Nancy McKay
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Nancy McKay Gordon was an American occult and New Thought teacher of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, associated with "solar biology" and mystic healing circles.
Chasing Emma: Herr Bungalow: The Mystery of Nancy McKay Gordon
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Goudeau, Emile
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Émile Goudeau (1849–1906) was a French writer and poet, founder of the bohemian "Hydropathes" club of Paris.
Related Periodicals: L'Initiation
Gould, Arthur
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought (Chicago)
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Gould, George M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) George M. Gould (1848–1922), an American ophthalmologist and medical editor who attacked New Thought and The Nautilus as “intellectual weeds.”
Chasing Emma: Some Intellectual Weeds of American Growth: George M. Gould; August 1904
Gould, Sylvester Clark
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Sylvester Clark Gould (1840–1909) was an American bibliographer and editor of Masonic, Rosicrucian, and occult subjects.
(Source: Gemini) (1840–1909) American printer, publisher, occult scholar, and Rosicrucian. Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, he edited and printed the monthly *Notes and Queries, Historic, Poetic, and Useful* (1882–1909) and served as an officer in the Societas Rosicruciana in America (SRIA), publishing on astrology, alchemy, and Rosicrucianism. Died in New Hampshire in 1909.
Chasing Emma: December 1889: S. C. Gould's Bibliography of Thomas Lake Harris
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Gow, David
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) David Gow was a British Spiritualist and long-time editor of the London weekly Light in the early twentieth century.
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Gowland, Annie Menie
To be added.
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Goyder, David
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) David Goyder, a Swedenborgian minister connected to an 1857 Spiritualist manifesto.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: A Pregnant Epigram
Graham, Sylvester
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Sylvester Graham (1794–1851) was an American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer whose vegetarian, whole-grain regimen (the "Graham diet") influenced later health movements.
(Source: Gemini) American Presbyterian minister and health reformer (1794–1851), advocate of temperance, vegetarianism, and a whole-grain diet, and the namesake of "Graham" flour and crackers.
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Grange, Lucie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Lucie Grange was a French Spiritualist and editor of the Paris review La Lumière in the late nineteenth century, a prophetess of the "New Revelation."
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Graning, Alma Crawford
To be added.
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Grasshof, Carl Louis von
Carl Louis von Grasshoff (1865–1919), who took the name Max Heindel, was a Danish-American engineer and Theosophist who, after a claimed initiation by an "Elder Brother of the Rose Cross," founded the
(Source: Gemini) (1865–1919), born Carl Louis von Grasshof, Danish-American occultist and astrologer who founded the Rosicrucian Fellowship in 1909. Born in Aarhus, Denmark, he emigrated to the United States and worked as an engineer before joining the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Heindel
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Grau, Albin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Albin Grau (1884–1971) was a German artist, occultist, and member of the Fraternitas Saturni, best known as the production designer of the film Nosferatu (1922).
(Source: Gemini) (1884–1971) German artist, architect, occultist, and film producer, best known as designer and producer of the silent film *Nosferatu* (1922). A member of the occult order Fraternitas Saturni under the name Frater Pacitius, he co-founded Prana Film and designed the appearance of Count Orlok, intending the film as an alchemical allegory. The estate of Bram Stoker sued Prana Film for copyright infringement, and a court ordered prints of *Nosferatu* destroyed, bankrupting the company. He later fled Germany under the Nazi regime, which banned occult organizations. Died in 1971.
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Graves, Abner
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Abner Graves (1834–1926) was the American mining engineer whose disputed 1905 testimony credited Abner Doubleday with inventing baseball.
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Graves, Kersey
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Kersey Graves (1813–1883) was an American freethinker and Spiritualist, author of the polemical The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors.
(Source: Gemini) (1813–1883) American freethought author, Spiritualist, and reformer. Born in Pennsylvania to a Quaker family, he was an abolitionist and educational reformer. He published *The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors* (1875), arguing that Christian doctrines about Jesus were mythological adaptations of earlier pagan solar deities, which drew condemnation from clergy. Died in Indiana in 1883.
Chasing Emma: November 1869: A Letter from Kersey
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Graves, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Robert Graves (1895–1985) was an English poet, novelist, and mythographer whose The White Goddess deeply influenced modern paganism.
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Gray, John
To be added.
Related Organizations:
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Gray, Mrs. Stoddard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Mrs. Stoddard Gray (Jane A. Gray, née Snyder), a New York materialization medium who worked with her son DeWitt C. Hough.
Chasing Emma: A Patent For Burning Up Smoke: Notes on Mrs. Stoddard Gray and Dewitt C. Hough (Part One)
Greathead, Samuel Christian
To be added.
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Green, Frances H.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Undocumented Aliens: 'Lost' Early Modern Spiritualists
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Green, Gabriel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Gabriel Green (1924–2001) was an American UFO contactee who founded the Amalgamated
(Source: Gemini) (1924–2001) American UFO contactee, publisher, and political candidate, founder of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. Born in Los Angeles, he claimed physical and telepathic contact with extraterrestrials from Alpha Centauri, edited the UFO journal *Thy Kingdom Come*, and ran as a write-in candidate for President in 1960 and 1972 on a platform of planetary peace. Died in 2001.
Related Periodicals: Thy Kingdom Come
Green, M. W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) M. W. Green, an anti-Spiritualist minister noted in the blog.
Chasing Emma: Emma and Her Shadows: Lotti Wilmot; 1878
Greene, Harrison
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Harrison Greene, a figure in Emma Hardinge Britten's 1876 circle.
Chasing Emma: Early 1876: Emma on Astral Travel
Greenfield, Allen
(Source: Gemini) (1946–?) American occultist, bishop, and UFO researcher. He served as a bishop in the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica and was a member of the
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Gregory, Mrs. Makdougall
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Mrs. Makdougall Gregory was a London Spiritualist hostess of the later nineteenth century whose séance circle drew many notable investigators and mediums.
Chasing Emma: Blood! Blood! Blood!: A Glimpse of the London Milieu; February 21; 1874
Chasing Emma: A Face Behind The Light: Eglin(g)ton and Colman; Collaborating
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Gregory, William
William Gregory (1803–1858) was a Scottish chemist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and translator of Liebig, who became a leading advocate of mesmerism and phrenology. His Letters to a Candid Inquirer, on Animal Magnetism (1851) was a standard work of the movement.
(Source: Gemini) (1803–1858) Scottish physician and chemist, professor of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, who devised a process for preparing morphia and published textbooks on organic chemistry. Born in Edinburgh. In the 1850s he translated Baron Karl von Reichenbach's works on the Odic force into English and published Letters to a Candid Inquirer on Animal Magnetism (1851), defending mesmerism and clairvoyance as genuine physical phenomena, which brought him into conflict with the medical and scientific establishment. Died in 1858.
Royal Society (Notes and Records): https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2019.0025
Chasing Emma: The Key To The Occult Sciences
Chasing Emma: The Zoist; Volume 10
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Grey, Zane
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Zane Grey (1872–1939), the American author of Western novels; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The San Juan Record
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Gribble, Robert J.
To be added.
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Grier, A.C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Albert C. Grier (1864–1941), founder of the
Related Periodicals: The Truth
Grier, Albert Cotton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Albert C. Grier (1864–1941) was an American former Universalist minister who founded the Church of the Truth, a New Thought denomination.
(Source: Gemini) (1864–1941) American Universalist minister and New Thought author. After investigating mental healing he founded the Church of the Truth in Spokane, Washington, in 1905, edited the journal The Truth, and taught that God is universal goodness and that healing could be achieved through mental realignment. He was expelled from Universalist organizations for his metaphysical beliefs. Died in 1941.
Related Organizations:
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Grimes, J. Stanley
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) J. Stanley Grimes (1807–1903), the American phreno-mesmerist and lecturer whose “electrobiology” shaped Andrew Jackson Davis, and who early debunked the Fox rappings.
Chasing Emma: Spirit Conductors; Part Deux: Her Brain Was The Fountain Whence All The Spirits Issued
Chasing Emma: The Organ of Credenciveness: A Note on J. Stanley Grimes
Grimke, Sarah Stanley
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Sarah Stanley Grimké, an American writer (mother of Angelina Weld Grimké) connected to the
Chasing Emma: Church of Light Conference Material
Chasing Emma: Call Me What You Please: The Split Within Spiritualism; c. 1890
Grosche, Eugen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Eugen Grosche (1888–1964), who wrote as "Gregor A. Gregorius," was a German occultist and co-founder of the Fraternitas Saturni, a ritual-magic lodge.
(Source: Gemini) (1888–1959) German occultist, bookseller, and writer known by the esoteric name Gregorius. Born in Leipzig, he ran an esoteric bookstore, collaborated with Aleister Crowley, and in 1926 founded the Fraternitas Saturni (Brotherhood of Saturn), an initiatory order practicing ceremonial magic, astrological mysticism, and sex magic. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1935 and imprisoned, he rebuilt the order after the war amid financial difficulty and disputes with rival occultists. Died in Germany in 1959.
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Grumbine, Jesse Charles Fremont
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) J. C. F. Grumbine (1861–1938) was an American Spiritualist and New Thought teacher, founder of the "
Chasing Emma: 1899: The Market; In Minature (Plus Onotology)
Chasing Emma: The Complete Egg Separator: 1900
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Grunhut, Adolf
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Adolf Grünhut (1826–1906) was a Hungarian physician and a leading organizer of Spiritism in Budapest.
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Guenon, Rene
René Guénon (1886-1951) was a French metaphysician and esotericist who became one of the most influential critics of modernity and advocates of the Traditionalist or Perennialist school of thought. He argued that the modern West had lost contact with authentic spiritual tradition and that a universal 'primordial tradition' underlies all major religions. His major works include The Crisis of the Modern World (1927) and The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times (1945). He converted to Islam in 1912 and settled permanently in Cairo in 1930, where he died as Sheikh Abd al-Wahid Yahya.
(Source: Gemini) (1886–1951) French philosopher and metaphysician, principal intellectual founder of the Traditionalist (or Perennialist) School, also known by his Muslim name Abdel Wahid Yahya. Born in Blois, he argued for a return to primordial tradition against modern Western civilization in Crisis of the Modern World (1927) and The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times. He converted to Sufi Islam and settled permanently in Cairo in 1930, where he died in 1951.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/guenon-rene
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Guieu, Jimmy
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jimmy Guieu (1926–2000) was a French science-fiction writer and prominent popularizer of UFO and conspiracy theories.
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Guyon, Madame
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Madame Guyon (1648–1717), the French Quietist mystic; a spelling variant of the "Guyon, Madame" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (1648–1717) French Roman Catholic mystic and writer, a leading figure of the Quietist movement. Born in Montargis, she was widowed early and devoted herself to teaching silent prayer and inner union with God, publishing A Short and Easy Method of Prayer. Condemned by Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet and Louis XIV for her mystical teachings, she was imprisoned repeatedly over nearly a decade, including years in the Bastille, and spent her later years in exile. Died in Blois in 1717.
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Guldenstubbe, Baron L. de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Baron Ludwig von Güldenstubbé (1820–1873) was a Baltic-German Spiritualist who promoted "direct writing" (spirit-produced script) in Paris and wrote La Réalité des esprits.
Related Periodicals: Monde Invisible | Revue Spiritualiste
Gully, James Manby
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) James Manby Gully (1808–1883), the celebrated Malvern hydropathic physician and committed Spiritualist, later shadowed by the Bravo poisoning scandal.
(Source: Gemini) (1808–1883) British physician and author who co-founded the Malvern hydropathy (water cure) clinic, which attracted figures including Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, and Tennyson. Born in Jamaica, he was a public defender of Spiritualism. In 1876 he was a central suspect in the Charles Bravo poisoning trial; his affair with Bravo's wife led to his being stripped of his medical licenses. Died in London in 1883.
Chasing Emma: Slade; Massey; Alfred Russel Wallace; W. H. Harrison... and Charles Bravo
Chasing Emma: Groping With Eager Hands: Dunraven on Spiritualism; 1922
Chasing Emma: Rubbish; Both from This And The Other World: J. M. Gully; April 1876
Guppy-Volckman, Agnes
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Agnes Guppy-Volckman (née Nichol), the celebrated English medium famous for her alleged “transportation” through the air across London.
(Source: Gemini) (1838–1917) English Spiritualist medium, born Agnes Elisabeth Nichol. In London she became known for physical mediumship in which flowers, fruit, and reportedly her own body were 'apported' into séance rooms, including a claimed teleportation across London in 1871. Her séances drew sitters including the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. Investigators and stage magicians alleged her materializations were produced by trickery and confederates. Died in 1917.
Chasing Emma: Instantaneous Transferrence Of A Sceptical Gentleman: December 1873
Chasing Emma: Katie; You Can't Do It: A Note On Mrs. Guppy's Transportation
Gupta, Kedar Nath Das
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Kedar Nath Das Gupta (1878–1942) was an Indian dramatist and interfaith organizer who founded "union of faiths" and world-fellowship societies in London and New York.
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Guthrie, Kenneth S.L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Kenneth Sylvan (Launfal) Guthrie (1871–1940), the American Neoplatonist scholar and translator; same person as the "Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan" entry.
Related Periodicals: Coming Age | Mercury | Mind | The New Man | The Platonist
Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie (1871–1940) was an American scholar and Neoplatonist who translated Plotinus and compiled The Pythagorean Sourcebook. See also "Guthrie, Kenneth S.L."
Related Periodicals: The Occult Review | The Prophet
Guzman, Madame
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Madame Guzman, benefactor of the Guzman Prize offered for scientific communication with another planet (excluding Mars).
Chasing Emma: Life on Mars...and Venus
Haanel, Charles F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Charles F. Haanel (1866–1949), New Thought author of The Master Key System, and a St. Louis businessman whose ventures brushed securities regulation.
(Source: Gemini) (1866–1949) American author, publisher, and businessman, a figure of the New Thought movement, best known for The Master Key System (1912). Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he ran commercial and mining enterprises in St. Louis and taught that individuals could attain wealth, health, and success through disciplined thought and creative visualization. The Master Key System was reportedly banned by ecclesiastical authorities in some regions in 1933. Died in 1949.
Chasing Emma: May 9: Dianetics Day
Chasing Emma: Notes on Charles F. Haanel: Part One -- The Canonical Version
Chasing Emma: Notes on Charles F. Haanel: Part Two -- Mister Blue Sky
Chasing Emma: Man-Building: The Occult Roots of Scientific Salesmanship
Related Monographs: Mental Chemistry (1922), The Master Key System, In Twenty-Four Parts (1922), You (1927), The New Psychology, Volume II (The Universal Mind / The Conscious Mind / The Creative Process) (1928)
Hachette, L.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Revue Contemporain des Sciences Occultes et Naturelles
Hack, Gwendolyn Kelley
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Modern Psychic Mysteries: Millesimo Castle, Italy (1929), Venetian Voices: Psychic Phenomena and Trans-Atlantic Communications (1937)
Hacker, Jeremiah
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Chariot of Wisdom and Love | Hacker's Pleasure Boat
Haddock, Frank C.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Eltka
Related Monographs: Power for Success (1920), Haddock's System for Success (1924)
Hague, Thomas
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Hague's Horoscope | Monthly Star and American Horoscope
Hahnemann, Samuel
Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843) was the German physician who founded homeopathy, formulating the "like cures like" principle and the doctrine of potentization in his Organon der rationellen Heilkunst (1810).
(Source: Gemini) (1755–1843) German physician, founder of homeopathy. Born in Meissen, he trained in orthodox medicine but rejected treatments such as bloodletting, and formulated the doctrine 'similia similibus curentur' ('like cures like'), holding that highly diluted substances producing symptoms in the healthy could cure the same symptoms in the sick. Sued by apothecaries for preparing his own medicines, he moved frequently and eventually relocated to Paris, where he died in 1843.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hahnemann
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Reflexionen aus der Geisterwelt
Haines, C. D.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) C. D. Haines, designer of the Spiritualist sunflower badge (the Carrier Dove insignia).
Chasing Emma: No Thugs In Our House
Hakl, Hans Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Hans Thomas Hakl (b. 1947) is an Austrian scholar, collector, and publisher in the field of Western esotericism, author of a history of the Eranos meetings.
Related Periodicals: Ur-Krur
Halcyone, Ruth
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Music of the Spheres (1927)
Hale, Annie Riley
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: These Cults: An Analysis of the Foibles of Dr. Morris Fishbein's 'The Medical Follies' (1926)
Hale, Edward Everett
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) was an American Unitarian clergyman and author (The Man Without a Country), a leader of liberal religious and reform causes.
Related Periodicals: Eltka
Hall, A. Oakley
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Abraham Oakey Hall (1826–1898) was a mayor of New York City (of the Tweed era) and author who took an interest in Spiritualism.
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal
Hall, Albert J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: How to Write Scenarios and How to Sell Them (1922)
Hall, Alexander Wilford
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Alexander Wilford Hall (1819–1902) was an American author and editor who propounded an anti-materialist "Problem of Human Life" and a substantialist philosophy in The Microcosm.
Related Periodicals: Wilford's Microcosm
Hall, H. Elmer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Dr. H. Elmer Hall, an occult mail-order entrepreneur (“the hypermarché”) advertising in the 1890s press.
Chasing Emma: 1892: Mammoth Pictorial Circulars
Hall, Manly Palmer
Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) was a Canadian-born American author, lecturer, and mystic who founded the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles in 1934. His encyclopaedic work The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928), first published when he was twenty-seven years old, surveyed the entire field of occultism, Freemasonry, Hermeticism, and mystery traditions and became one of the most widely read texts in the genre. Hall lectured and wrote prolifically on esoteric philosophy throughout a career spanning more than sixty years, producing over 150 books and 8,000 lectures.
(Source: Gemini) (1901–1990) Canadian-born American esoteric author and lecturer, founder of the Philosophical Research Society. Born in Peterborough, Ontario, he settled in Los Angeles and published The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928), synthesizing Hermeticism, Qabalah, alchemy, and Rosicrucianism. His later years were marked by reclusiveness and disputes over his library; he died in Los Angeles in 1990.
Related Periodicals: All-Seeing Eye | Aries Quarterly | Broadcast | Fred Burry's Journal | Horizon (Hall) | A Monthly Letter (Manly Hall) | The Phoenix (Hall) | Wynn's Astrology
Related Monographs: The Initiates of the Flame (1922), Blavatsky and the Secret Doctrine (1933), Definitions in Philosophy, With Brief Commentaries (1934), The Lotus of the Law: An Allegory (1934), Astrology and the Ductless Glands (1936), Occult Anatomy and the Bible (also: Healing and Disease in the Light of Rebirth and the Stars) (1937), An Essay on the Fundamental Principles of Operative Occultism (1939), Super Faculties and Their Culture (1939), Astrology and Reincarnation (1945)
Hall, Samuel Carter
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Samuel Carter Hall (1800–1889), the Irish-born editor of the Art Journal and a prominent Victorian Spiritualist.
(Source: Gemini) (1800–1889) British journalist and editor, founder and editor of The Art Journal. Born in Waterford, Ireland, he edited numerous periodicals and worked alongside his wife, the author Anna Maria Hall. A public defender of Spiritualism, he conducted long-term investigations of physical mediums including Daniel Dunglas Home, and was satirized by Charles Dickens as Pecksniff in Martin Chuzzlewit. Died in London in 1889.
Chasing Emma: The Social Cost of Belief: S. C. Hall; December 1881
Hall, Trevor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Trevor H. Hall (1910–1991) was a British surveyor and skeptical historian of psychical research, known for revisionist studies of the
(Source: Gemini) (1910–1991) British surveyor, author, and skeptical psychical investigator associated with the Society for Psychical Research. Born in England, he published The Spiritualists (1962), arguing that the medium Florence Cook was a fraud who had an affair with her investigator Sir William Crookes. Spiritualists and parapsychologists denounced his conclusions as biased. Died in 1991.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Hallam, Anna Maud
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Practical Psychologist (London)
Related Monographs: Outline of Course of Instructions in Practical Psychology (1922)
Halsted, Carolyn Spencer
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Book of Revelations (1922)
Hamblin, Henry Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Henry Thomas Hamblin (1873–1958) was an English New Thought writer and founder of the magazine The Science of Thought Review.
(Source: Gemini) (1873–1958) English optician, writer, and New Thought mystic, founder and editor of The Science of Thought Review. Born in London, he worked as an optician before a spiritual transformation following deaths in his family, and developed a system of Christian mysticism and New Thought, authoring Within You is the Power (1921). He spent his later years in Chichester. Died in 1958.
Related Periodicals: Aquarian Age
Hambling, Horace S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Aimless Dead (Leave It to God!) (1936)
Hammond, C.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Notes for History...California Circles; 1852
Chasing Emma: June 1853: Table-Knocking in Preston (and Five Superior Processes)
Related Periodicals: The Age of Progress
Hammond, H.O.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: A Bosjeman's Ideal of Spiritualism: Hogg's Instructor; 1853
Related Periodicals: The American Spiritualist | The Ohio Spiritualist
Hammond, William Elliott
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Premier of Modern Spiritualism (1929), Premier of Modern Spiritualism (1935), Houdini Unmasked (1947)
Hamon, Count Louis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Count Louis Hamon was the aristocratic name adopted by the palmist and astrologer "Cheiro" (1866–1936); see the "Cheiro" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (1866–1936) Irish-born astrologer, palmist, and numerologist known professionally as Cheiro and by the title Count Louis Hamon, born William John Warner. Born in Dublin, he built a consulting practice in London and New York with clients including Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde, and authored guides on palmistry and numerology. He was prosecuted under fortune-telling and vagrancy statutes, lost his fortune in failed ventures, and died in Hollywood, California, in 1936.
Related Periodicals: National Astrological Journal
Hampden, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Hampden (1819–1891) was an English flat-earth zealot, notorious for his losing wager with Alfred Russel Wallace over the curvature of the earth.
Related Periodicals: The Zetetic
Hampton, Charles
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Hancock, Winfield Scott
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Winfield Scott Hancock (1824–1886), the Union general and 1880 Democratic presidential nominee; invoked here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Instructive Light
Hanegraaff, Wouter
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Wouter J. Hanegraaff (b. 1961) is a Dutch scholar and professor at the University of Amsterdam, a founder of the modern academic study of Western esotericism.
Related Periodicals: Ur-Krur
Hanish, Otoman Zar-Adusht
(Source: Gemini) (1856–1936) Prussian-born spiritual leader and author, born Otto Hanisch, founder of the Mazdaznan movement in the United States. Born in Posen, he established Mazdaznan centers in Chicago and California, teaching a syncretic religion combining Zoroastrianism, esoteric Christianity, vegetarianism, and breathing exercises for physical regeneration. In 1912 he was convicted under the federal Comstock Act for mailing material deemed obscene, and was imprisoned. Died in Los Angeles in 1936.
Related Periodicals: Soundview | British Mazdaznan Magazine | The Sun-Worshiper
Related Monographs: Omar Khayyam in his Rubaiyat, with a true History, Life and Biography of the Persian Poet (1924)
Hanna, Mark
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Marcus Alonzo "Mark" Hanna (1837–1904), the American industrialist and Republican political boss; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Harbinger of Dawn
Hanna, Septimus J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Septimus J. Hanna (1844–1921) was an American judge who became a leading official and lecturer of the Christian Science church under Mary Baker Eddy.
Related Periodicals: Christian Science Sentinel
Hanson, Virginia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Virginia Hanson (1897–1988) was an American Theosophist, author, and editor of the
Related Periodicals: Theosophic Messenger
Hanussen, Erik Jan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Erik Jan Hanussen (1889–1933) was an Austrian-Jewish clairvoyant and stage mentalist of Weimar Berlin, entangled with the Nazi elite and murdered in 1933.
(Source: Gemini) (1889–1933) Austrian-Jewish clairvoyant, mentalist, and astrologer, born Hermann Steinschneider. Born in Vienna, he worked in circuses and variety shows developing hypnotism and mind-reading acts, published astrological periodicals, and reportedly predicted the Reichstag fire of February 1933. He cultivated close ties with senior Nazi officers. After Nazi leaders learned of his Jewish ancestry, he was arrested and killed by the Gestapo in March 1933.
Related Periodicals: Zeitschrift fur Metapsychische Forschung
Hapgood, Charles H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Charles H. Hapgood (1904–1982) was an American academic best known for his speculative theory of "earth-crust displacement" and studies of the Piri Reis map.
(Source: Gemini) (1904–1982) American historian and author who formulated the theory of crustal displacement (for which Albert Einstein provided a foreword) and wrote Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings (1966). Born in New York, he studied at Harvard and taught history, arguing that the Earth's crust had shifted dramatically and that advanced civilizations had mapped the globe before the last Ice Age. Mainstream geologists and geographers rejected his claims. He died in Massachusetts in 1982 after being struck by a car.
Related Periodicals: Beyond Reality | Pursuit (SITU)
Hara, O. Hashnu
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "O. Hashnu Hara" was the pen name of an early-twentieth-century British writer of popular occult and New Thought manuals on practical magic, breathing, and success.
Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought (Chicago) | Free Man (Bangor) | Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews | Wings of Truth
Harding, Burcham
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Burcham Harding was an English-American Theosophist and lecturer active in the
Related Periodicals: The Century Path
Harding, Frederic
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Why Red Indians Are Spirit Guides (1935)
Hardinge, Edward Alfred
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Edward Alfred Hardinge, the mesmerist generally identified as Emma Hardinge Britten's first husband — though the record around him, and the names “Samuel Elijah” / “S. E. Hardinge,” is tangled and debated.
Chasing Emma: Interlude: <I>Punch</I>; April 23; 1853
Chasing Emma: 37 Somerset Street; Portman Square
Chasing Emma: Robert Chambers; Edward Alfred Hardinge and the Mythical First Marriage of EHB
Chasing Emma: E. A. Hardinge; Practicing
Chasing Emma: E. A. Hardinge; Consolidated
Chasing Emma: September 1856: E. A. Hardinge; Practicing
Chasing Emma: The E. A. Hardinge Fan Club
Chasing Emma: Mrs. Roberts; E. A. Hardinge; Julius Hartegilligan and the Grosvenor Street Disturbances
Hardinge, Emily Jane
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Emily Jane Hardinge, wife of Henry Hardinge (one of the “four men” in Emma Hardinge Britten's biography).
Chasing Emma: Henry Hardinge's Letters To His Wife
Hardinge, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Henry Hardinge, one of the men entangled in the puzzles of Emma Hardinge Britten's early biography, known through a set of surviving letters.
Chasing Emma: Emma's Four Men
Chasing Emma: Henry Hardinge's Letters To His Wife
Hardinge, Samuel Elijah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Samuel Elijah Hardinge (“S. E. Hardinge”), a name entangled with — and possibly identical to — Edward Alfred Hardinge, Emma Hardinge Britten's first husband; the identity is debated.
Chasing Emma: E. A. Hardinge; Consolidated
Chasing Emma: The E. A. Hardinge Fan Club
Hardman, Harvey
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Divine Science Monthly | Divine Science Weekly | Mental Science Magazine (Denver)
Hardwicke, Henry
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Voices from Beyond (1930)
Hare, Harold Edward
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters? (1936)
Hare, Robert
Robert Hare (1781–1858) was a distinguished American chemist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania (inventor of the oxyhydrogen blowpipe) who, after setting out to debunk Spiritualism in 1853, converted and devised apparatus (the "spiritoscope") that he believed proved spirit agency, publishing Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations (1855).
(Source: Gemini) (1781–1858) American chemist and inventor, professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and inventor of the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe. Born in Philadelphia, he set out in 1853 to expose Spiritualism as fraud but became a convert, devising instruments he called 'Spiritoscopes' to record spirit communications and publishing Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations (1855). The American Association for the Advancement of Science denounced him and his endorsement led to his retirement. Died in 1858.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hare_(chemist)
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Combining Practices
Chasing Emma: Extracting Oxygen from Lead: Mrs. Ruggles and Her Husband
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Telegraph
Hare, William Loftus
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters? (1936)
Hargrave, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John Hargrave (1894–1982) was an English author and illustrator who founded the Kibbo Kift, a woodcraft and social-reform movement with esoteric and "social credit" dimensions.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Observer
Hargrove, Ernest Temple
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ernest Temple Hargrove (1870–1939) was an English-American Theosophist, a leader in the American Section during the schisms following Judge's death.
(Source: Gemini) (1870–1939) British-born American theosophist, editor, and administrator. Following the death of William Quan Judge in 1896 he was elected president of the
Related Periodicals: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | Theosophical News | Theosophical Quarterly | Theosophy
Harley, Fanny M.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Das Wort (St. Louis) | Mental Science Magazine | Neue Gedanken | Universal Truth
Harlow, S. Ralph
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Margery-Harvard-Veritas: A Study in Psychics (1925)
Harlowe, Marie Gossett
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Exploring the Unknown | The Occult Digest | Sesamums | The Telepathic Magazine (Chicago)
Harman, Lillian
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Lillian Harman (1869–1929) was an American free-love and individualist-anarchist activist, daughter of Moses Harman, jailed for a non-state "autonomistic" marriage.
Related Periodicals: Lucifer the Lightbearer | New Thought (Moses Hull)
Harman, Moses
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Moses Harman (1830–1910) was an American individualist-anarchist and free-love reformer, editor of the radical journal Lucifer, the Light-Bearer.
(Source: Gemini) (1830–1910) American teacher, publisher, and social reformer in the free-love and sexual-reform movement. Born in Pendleton County, Virginia. Edited the radical journal *Lucifer the Light-Bearer* (1883–1907), campaigning against marital rape and for women's autonomy. In 1887 arrested, prosecuted, and convicted under the federal Comstock Act for printing explicit letters detailing sexual abuse within marriage, serving multiple terms of hard labor. Died in California in 1910.
Related Periodicals: American Journal of Eugenics | Foundation Principles | Lucifer the Lightbearer | The Phalanx | The Temple Artisan
Harraden, L. A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) L. A. Harraden, operator of a mail-order hypnotism-instruction business at the turn of the twentieth century.
Chasing Emma: As a Means of Amusement: A Short Note on Prof. L. A. Harraden
Harris, Frank
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Frank Harris (1856–1931) was an Irish-American author, editor, and memoirist, an acquaintance of many literary and occult figures of his day.
Related Periodicals: Equinox
Harris, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) George Harris, a member of the
Chasing Emma: The Psychological Society of Great Britain: 1875-1879
Harris, Iverson L.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Century Path | Eclectic Theosophist | Theosophia | Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
Related Monographs: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Foundress of the Original Theosophical Society (1921), Katherine Tingley on Marriage and the Home: An Interview (1921)
Harris, Thomas Lake
Thomas Lake Harris (1823–1906) was an Anglo-American Universalist-turned-Swedenborgian mystic, prophet, and poet who led the communal Brotherhood of the New Life, culminating in the Fountaingrove colony in Santa Rosa, California, and taught a doctrine of "divine respiration."
(Source: Gemini) (1823–1906) Anglo-American spiritualist, poet, and Christian mystic. Founded the Brotherhood of the New Life, a utopian community based on esoteric mysticism, spiritualism, and cooperative labor. Born in Stony Stratford, England; emigrated to the United States, practicing mediumship and establishing colonies at Wreay, New York, and Salem, Oregon. Formulated a theological system based on 'internal respiration' and spiritual union with divine masters, authoring numerous volumes of esoteric poetry. Former members and investigators accused him of autocracy and illicit sexual practices under spirit command, leading to public scandals and libel suits. Died in 1906.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lake_Harris
Chasing Emma: Salem Grape: Thomas Lake Harris; May 1869
Chasing Emma: Behold This Volume: Thomas Lake Harris; 1884
Chasing Emma: A Body of Evil Desire: Thomas Lake Harris; Scientologist
Chasing Emma: December 1889: S. C. Gould's Bibliography of Thomas Lake Harris
Chasing Emma: A Voice from the Secret Chambers: Thomas Lake Harris' Critique of Modern Spiritualism; 1859
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove: The Stakes in the Ground
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [6]: Disclosures From The Interior
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [7]: The Early Life of Thomas Lake Harris
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [9]: The Annihilation of the Animal Instinct
Related Periodicals: Light From The Spirit World | The Spiritual Magazine (UK) | The Williamsburgh Spiritualist | The Gnostic | Herald of Light | The Millenial Messenger | The Mountain Cove Journal | Hacker's Pleasure Boat | The Problem of Life | The Shekinah | The Spirit Messenger | The Spiritual Herald | The Spiritual Telegraph | The Swedenborgian | Univercoelum | The World's Advance Thought
Harris, William Richard
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Essays in Occultism, Spiritism, and Demonology (1919)
Harrison, Ellen Ford
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Ellen Ford Harrison, wife of the Spiritualist editor William Henry Harrison.
Chasing Emma: William Henry Harrison (1841-1897)
Harrison, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) John Harrison, father of a figure in the Spiritualists' Progressive College circle.
Chasing Emma: Terms Moderate and Inclusive: The Progressive College; 1877
Harrison, Percy Ross
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Percy Ross Harrison, a pupil at the Spiritualists' Progressive College.
Chasing Emma: Terms Moderate and Inclusive: The Progressive College; 1877
Harrison, William Henry
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Traveling Souls
Chasing Emma: William Henry Harrison (1841-1897) : A Bibliography
Chasing Emma: Looking For Clues; Red-Faced
Chasing Emma: William Henry Harrison (1841-1897)
Chasing Emma: No More Power of Direction Than A Jelly-Fish: W. H. Harrison on English Spiritualism; 1881
Chasing Emma: Then Everybody Would Believe: W. H. Harrison on Full-Form Manifestations; 1874
Chasing Emma: Outwitted By His Second Self: W. H. Harrison; January 1875
Chasing Emma: So Much Sameness: W. H. Harrison on Physical Mediumship; April 1876
Chasing Emma: The Beings At The Root of the Matter: W. H. Harrison on Seance Conditions
Chasing Emma: The Set-Up; Part One: July 14; 1876
Chasing Emma: The Set-Up; Part Three: Beguiling the Names and Brains of Science; August 1876
Chasing Emma: The Set-Up; Part Two: Fleet Street and Burlington House; August 4; 1876
Chasing Emma: Milk-And-Water Lives: August 1877
Chasing Emma: Snarks and Boojums (and Milk-and-Water): August 1877
Chasing Emma: Spirit People: W. H. Harrison's Conversion Process
Related Periodicals: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis) | Psyche (W. H. Harrison) | Spiritual News | Spiritual Notes | The Spiritual Times | The Spiritualist
Hart, William E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Hartegilligan, Julius
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Julius Hartegilligan (“the Cheltenham Shiloh”), an eccentric Victorian medium and self-styled prophet.
Chasing Emma: Mrs. Roberts; E. A. Hardinge; Julius Hartegilligan and the Grosvenor Street Disturbances
Chasing Emma: Our Medium: Phreno Lamurch; Shorter's Confessions and the Charing Cross Spirit Circle
Hartmann, Edouard von
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Eduard von Hartmann (1842–1906) was a German philosopher whose Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869) influenced psychology, Theosophy, and the era's speculation about mind.
Related Periodicals: Gnosis (Vienna) | Sphinx [Leipzig]
Hartmann, Franz
Franz Hartmann (1838-1912) was a German-American physician, Theosophist, and occult author who became one of the most prolific contributors to Theosophical literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He spent several years at the
(Source: Gemini) (1838–1912) German-American physician, author, astrologer, and theosophist. Collaborated with Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott at Adyar, India. Born in Donauwörth, Bavaria; studied medicine and practiced in the United States. Authored *Magic, White and Black* (1886) and biographies of Paracelsus, synthesizing hermetic philosophy with Eastern mysticism. A central participant in the 1884 Coulomb affair at Adyar, accused of complicity in fabricating theosophical mahatma letters, prompting investigation by psychical research societies. Died in 1912.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hartmann
Related Periodicals: The Beacon (Bailey) | Borderland | Broad Views | Broadcast | Das Wort (Dresden) | Eon (Athens) | Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona) | The Fra | Gnosis (Vienna) | Heraldo Rosacruz | Immortality | L'Astrosophie | La Cruz Astral | Lotus Rouge | LotusBluten | Neue Lotusbluten | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | The Occult Digest | The Occult Review | The Occult Review (Boston) | Occultism (The Key of Nature) | Oriflamme | Ostara | Pansophic Intellectualizer | Pansophja | The Path | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | Prana (Leipzig) | Psychische Studien | Reflejo Astral | Revista Teosofica (Havana) | Revue Theosophique | Rosa-Cruz | Saturn Gnosis | The Seer | Theosophical Siftings | Theosophische Rundschau | Theosophischer Wegweiser | Theosophisches Leben | Theosophy | Ultra (Rome) | Wings of Truth | Zum Licht
Related Monographs: Mysterien, Symbole und magische Kraefte (1920)
Hartmann, William C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) William C. Hartmann, an American occult bibliographer and publisher (compiler of “Who's Who in Occultism”).
Chasing Emma: Holy Day Materialization for Technicians of the Dawn
Related Monographs: Hartmann's Who's Who in Occult, Psychic and Spiritual Realms (1925), Who's Who in Occultism, New Thought, Psychism and Spiritualism (2nd ed. of Hartmann's Who's Who) (1927), Hartmann's International Directory of Psychic Science and Spiritualism (1930), Hartmann's International Directory of Psychic Science and Spiritualism 1931 (1931)
Haskins, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Thomas Haskins, connected to the 1848 Texas True Evangelist and early Southern spiritual ferment.
Chasing Emma: Apostolic Power and True Evangelism: Spiritualism 1840-1850
Hastings, Beatrice
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Beatrice Hastings (1879–1943) was a British writer and critic, associate of A. R. Orage at The New Age, who late in life became a vigorous defender of H. P. Blavatsky.
(Source: Gemini) English writer, poet, and critic (1879–1943), a leading contributor to A. R. Orage's journal The New Age and author of a two-volume Defence of Madame Blavatsky (1937).
Related Periodicals: The New Universe
Related Monographs: Defence of Madame Blavatsky, Volume II (The 'Coulomb Pamphlet') (1937)
Hastings, Stella Flowers
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Kingdom Within (1937)
Hatch, Benjamin Franklin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Benjamin Franklin Hatch, an American physician and, briefly, husband of the trance lecturer Cora L. V. Scott, later an anti-Spiritualist exposer.
Chasing Emma: Emma's Brief Career As A Trance Medium
Chasing Emma: The Devil On All Sides of the Matter: Some Notes on Cora Hatch's Divorce
Hatch, Cora L.V. Scott
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Cora L. V. Scott (later Richmond, 1840–1923), here under a married name, was one of the most famous American Spiritualist trance lecturers of the nineteenth century.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1923) American spiritualist trance medium, author, poet, and lecturer; née Scott, also published under married names Hatch, Tappan, and Richmond. Born in Cuba, New York; demonstrated clairvoyant and trance-speaking abilities as a child, delivering improvised platform lectures on cosmic philosophy and social reform. Authored *The Soul in Human Embarkation* and *The Soul's Progressive Life*, and served as pastor of the
Chasing Emma: William; From The Shadows
Chasing Emma: William the Cipher - Common Carrier?
Chasing Emma: July 1858: History of Mediums // No. 5 -- Miss Emma Hardinge
Chasing Emma: February; 1862: Saturating The Market
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Hatch, David Patterson
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (1852–1912) American lawyer and judge who publicly defended Spiritualism and esoteric philosophy. Served on the bench in California; published books under the pseudonym Paul Karishka. After his death in 1912, the medium Elsa Barker claimed to have channeled his spirit to write *Letters from a Living Dead Man* (1914), which drew wide controversy and skeptical denunciation as fraudulent.
Chasing Emma: David Patterson Hatch (1846-1912) [File Under: Paul Karishka]
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Hauffe, Frederika Wanner
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Friederike Hauffe (1801–1829), the "Seeress of Prevorst," was the German somnambulist whose visions Justinus Kerner recorded in a founding text of German Spiritualism and psychical research.
(Source: Gemini) (1801–1829) German somnambulist, medium, and mystic known as the Seeress of Prevorst; née Wanner. Born in Prevorst, Germany; became a foundational case study in early animal magnetism and parapsychology. Under the care of physician and poet Justinus Kerner she entered mesmeric trances and claimed clairvoyance, a 'primeval language,' and visions of spirit entities, which Kerner documented in *The Seeress of Prevorst* (1829). Her claims prompted decades of scientific and theological controversy. Died at age twenty-eight in 1829.
Chasing Emma: Fruits from a Walled Garden: More Incunabula and Ephemera
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Haven, Marc
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) "Marc Haven" was the pen name of Dr. Emmanuel Lalande (1868–1926), a French physician and occult scholar, son-in-law of "Papus" and a student of Martinism and Saint-Martin.
Related Periodicals: Cahiers Astrologiques | Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | Faro Oriental | Paix Universelle | Psyche [Beaudelot]
Hawthorne, Julian
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Julian Hawthorne (1846–1934), son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was an American writer and journalist with an interest in Theosophy and the occult.
Related Periodicals: East and West | Light of India | Mind
Haxby, John W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John W. Haxby, a relative of the materializing medium William George Haxby.
Chasing Emma: Joey Wants You to Report This: Some Notes on WIlliam George Haxby (1856-1882)
Haxby, William George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) William George Haxby (1856–1882), an English materialization medium of the “Great Materializers,” associated with the spirit “Joey” and with William Eglinton.
Chasing Emma: October 1874: Eglin(g)ton and Haxby
Chasing Emma: Joey Wants You to Report This: Some Notes on WIlliam George Haxby (1856-1882)
Hayden, Maria
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Maria B. Hayden (1826–1883) was the American medium who in 1852 introduced table-rapping Spiritualism to England, sparking the movement there.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Part Five: Turning; Tipping; Talking
Chasing Emma: Notes for A History...Revisions and Elaborations
Chasing Emma: John Elliotson and Mrs. Hayden
Chasing Emma: 1853: Anna Blackwell; Hearing Voices
Chasing Emma: June of 1853: Spiritualism at the Haymarket
Chasing Emma: They Are What Is Termed "Spiritualists": March; 1855
Chasing Emma: The Family Herald: Spiritualism in England Before Mrs. Hayden
Chasing Emma: A Bosjeman's Ideal of Spiritualism: Hogg's Instructor; 1853
Chasing Emma: The Elixir Vitae: November 1852
Chasing Emma: Entertaining the Hypothesis: Anna Blackwell; November 1852
Chasing Emma: Slightly Raised and Beatifully Formed: Blood Writing; November 1856
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Hayden, W.R.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Was Mrs. Roberts Really Mrs. Roberts?
Related Periodicals: The Spirit World (Hayden) | The Spiritual Age (Boston) | The Spiritual Telegraph
Hays, H. Whitney
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Let's Live to Be 100! (1946)
Hayter, F. J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Deadly Magic, Including the Australian Pointing Stick (1938)
Hayward, Aaron S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Aaron S. Hayward, an American magnetic physician who marketed a system called “Indianopathy.”
Chasing Emma: Indianopathy
Hazard, Thomas R.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Thomas R. Hazard on J. B. Conklin: May; 1868
Related Periodicals: Gallery of Spirit Art | Progressive Age | The Spiritual Offering
Hazelrigg, John
To be added.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Azoth | The Beacon Light | The Channel | Hazelrigg's Astrological Almanac | The Light of Truth | The Metaphysical Magazine | Mind | The Sphinx (Boston)
Hazzard, Jean
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Mental Science Magazine | Mind Cure and Science of Life
Hazzard, Linda Burfield
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Linda Burfield Hazzard (1867–1938) was an American "fasting cure" practitioner, the "Starvation Doctor," convicted of manslaughter after a patient's death.
(Source: Gemini) American fasting practitioner (1867–1938), author of Fasting for the Cure of Disease (1908), whose sanitarium regimen of extreme therapeutic fasting — the "starvation cure" — caused patient deaths and led to her conviction for manslaughter.
Related Periodicals: Soundview
Heagle, David
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Do the Dead Still Live? (1920)
Heald, William
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Wings of Truth
Related Monographs: A First Study in Practical Colour Psychology (1928)
Heard, Gerald
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Gerald Heard (1889–1971) was a British-American writer and religious philosopher, a bridge between Vedanta, psychical research, and the early psychedelic movement.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1971) British philosopher, writer, and mystic; born Henry Fitzgerald Heard; a pioneering figure in mid-20th-century Western consciousness studies and the New Age movement. Educated at Cambridge; worked as a science commentator for the BBC before emigrating to the United States with Aldous Huxley. Founded Trabuco College in California to study comparative religion. Authored *The Ascent of Humanity* (1929) and *The Five Ages of Man*, exploring spiritual evolution and consciousness, and experimented early with mescaline. Died in California in 1971.
Related Periodicals: Clarion Call | The Metaphysician (Palatine) | Sri Aurobindo Circle | Tomorrow (Garrett) | Vedanta and the West
Related Monographs: Vedanta for the Western World (1948)
Hearst, Lulu
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Lulu Hurst (Hearst), the “Georgia Magnetic Girl,” an 1880s stage performer whose feats of apparent force were framed as magnetic or psychic.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1950) American stage performer known as the 'Georgia Magnet'; born Lulu Hurst in Georgia. In the late 1880s she claimed a mysterious physical force that let her deflect heavy objects and resist men's strength without direct effort. Physicists and magicians demonstrated her feats relied on leverage and mechanics rather than supernatural energy. She retired from the stage as a teenager and published *Lulu Hurst (the Georgia Magnet) Writes Her Own Book* (1897), explaining her methods. Died in 1950.
Chasing Emma: Hypnotism and Magnetic Girls
Heath, Dunbar Isadore
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Dunbar Isadore Heath, a Victorian clergyman-scholar credited with an early use of the word “psychoplasm.”
Chasing Emma: Psychoplasm: 1874
Hecht, Ben
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Ben Hecht (1894–1964), the American screenwriter, journalist, and novelist; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Fortean Society Magazine
Hedin, Sven
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Sven Hedin (1865–1952) was a Swedish geographer and explorer of Central Asia and Tibet whose travels fed Western fascination with hidden Asian wisdom.
Related Periodicals: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau
Hegeler, Edward C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Edward C. Hegeler (1835–1910) was a German-American zinc industrialist who founded and funded the
Related Periodicals: The Open Court
Heindel, Augusta
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Augusta Foss Heindel (1865–1949) was an American astrologer who, with her husband Max Heindel, built the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1949) American astrologer, occultist, and author; co-founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship with her husband Max Heindel. Born in Mansfield, Ohio. Helped organize the fellowship, co-authored astrological textbooks, and managed its headquarters at Mount Ecclesia in Oceanside, California. After Max Heindel's death in 1919 she took administrative charge, writing on esoteric astrology, healing, and vegetarianism. Her leadership drew lawsuits and internal power struggles over control of the Mount Ecclesia estate and publications. Died in 1949.
Related Periodicals: Aquarian Age | Rays from the Rose Cross
Related Monographs: Astrology and the Ductless Glands (1936), Nature Spirits and Nature Forces (1937)
Heindel, Max
Max Heindel (1865-1919), born Carl Louis von Grasshoff, was a Danish-American occultist and astrologer who founded the
(Source: Gemini) (1865–1919) Danish-American occultist, astrologer, and mystic; born Carl Louis von Grasshof in Aarhus, Denmark. Founded the Rosicrucian Fellowship in 1909. Emigrated to the United States, worked as an engineer, and joined the Theosophical Society under Katherine Tingley. Claimed contact in Germany with a Rosicrucian Elder who commanded him to write *The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception* (1909), a systematic evolutionary cosmology. Rival organizations, notably Reuben Swinburne Clymer's Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, accused him of plagiarism and fabricating his initiatory authority, prompting lawsuits. Built the Mount Ecclesia headquarters in Oceanside, California. Died in 1919.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Heindel
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Related Monographs: The Mystical Interpretation of Christmas (1920), The Web of Destiny: How Made and Unmade (1920), Fundamental Rules of Natural Dietetics (1921), How the Rosicrucians Heal the Sick (1921), Mysteries of the Great Operas (Faust, Parsifal, The Ring of the Niebelung, Tannhauser, Lohengrin) (1921), Gleanings of a Mystic: A Series of Essays on Practical Mysticism (1922), Rosicrucian Philosophy in Questions and Answers (1922), Blavatsky and the Secret Doctrine (1933), Nature Spirits and Nature Forces (1937), Rosicrucian Christianity Lecture No. Twenty: Fellowship and the Coming Race (1937)
Heine, Heinrich
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), the German Romantic poet and essayist; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Day (New York)
Heise, Karl
(Source: Gemini) (?–1929) German-born Swiss occultist, writer, and anthroposophist. Born in Germany; a student of theosophy and alternative medicine and an associate of Rudolf Steiner in the
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Der Gral | Mitteilungen des Gral-Ordens | Zum Licht
Related Monographs: Okkultes Logentum (1921)
Heline, Corinne
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Occult Anatomy and the Bible (also: Healing and Disease in the Light of Rebirth and the Stars) (1937), Healing and Regeneration Through Music (1942), Occult Anatomy and the Bible, No. 10: The Desire Body (1944), The New Age Bible Interpretation, Old Testament, Vol. I (1946)
Heline, John Theodore
(Source: Gemini) (?–1971) American Christian mystic, astrologer, and esoteric author; born John Theodore Heline. Founded the New Age Bible and Philosophy Center in Los Angeles, edited the journal *New Age Interpreter*, and published *New Age Bible Interpretations*, synthesizing biblical prophecy with astrology, reincarnation, and esoteric Christianity. Died in 1971.
Related Periodicals: Guiding Light (New York) | Immortality (New York) | New Age Interpreter
Heline, Theodore
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Theodore Heline (1885–1971) was an American Rosicrucian writer and, with his wife Corinne, a leader of the New Age Bible and Philosophy Center in the Max Heindel tradition.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1971) American Christian mystic, astrologer, and esoteric author; born John Theodore Heline. Founded the New Age Bible and Philosophy Center in Los Angeles, edited the journal *New Age Interpreter*, and published *New Age Bible Interpretations*, synthesizing biblical prophecy with astrology, reincarnation, and esoteric Christianity. Died in 1971.
Related Periodicals: Rays from the Rose Cross
Related Monographs: The Occult in Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (1936), Spain: World Ideas in Turmoil (1938)
Hellberg, E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Telepathie und okkulte Kraefte: Ein Buch fuer Uneingeweihte (1922)
Hellenbach, Lazar von
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Baron Lazar von Hellenbach (1827–1887) was an Austro-Hungarian philosopher and Spiritualist who wrote on mediumship and the metaphysics of individuality.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1887) Austrian philosopher, sociologist, politician, and psychical-research writer; a pioneer of spiritualism and psychical research in Central Europe. Born at Castle Bistricza, Croatia, into an aristocratic family; served in the Austrian parliament. Authored *The Prejudices of Mankind* and *Birth and Death as a Change of Form of Perception* (1885), explaining spirit communication, somnambulism, and mediumship through transcendental philosophy. Died in Croatia in 1887.
Related Periodicals: Sphinx [Leipzig]
Heller, Arnold Krumm
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Arnold Krumm-Heller (1876–1949), "Huiracocha," was a German-Mexican occultist and physician who founded the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1949) German-born Mexican physician, military officer, diplomat, and occultist known as Frater Huiracocha; founder of the Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua (FRA). Born in Salzuflen, Germany; emigrated to Mexico, served as a colonel and diplomat during the Mexican Revolution, and studied medicine. Joined the O.T.O. under Theodor Reuss and established the FRA to promote Rosicrucianism, Gnosticism, and sexual magic across South America, publishing *Rosa Cruz*. Prosecuted by medical boards for unregulated practice and persecuted during World War II under Gestapo and Allied surveillance. Died in Germany in 1949.
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Heller, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Robert Heller (1826–1878), the stage magician and mentalist who imitated and debunked the Davenport Brothers.
(Source: Gemini) English-born stage magician, mentalist, and pianist (William Henry Palmer, 1826–1878), a celebrated Victorian illusionist known for his "second-sight" mind-reading act.
Chasing Emma: Ernestein-Belpheghor-Barnums: May 7; 1864
Hempel, Gustav
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Beglaubigte Mittheilungen aus der Geisterwelt und dem Nachtgebiete der Natur
Henderson, Keith
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Henrion, Oscar
To be added.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Phare | Revue Belge des Sciences Psychologiques | Revue Belge du Spiritisme
Henry, Freedom Hill
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Jacob Beilhart: Life and Teachings (1925)
Henry, O.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) "O. Henry" (William Sydney Porter, 1862–1910), the American short-story writer; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The New World
Henry, T. S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) T. S. Henry, author of the exposé “Spookland!” against fraudulent mediums.
Chasing Emma: Psychoplasm: 1874
Henslow, George
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Proofs of Spirit Forces (1920), The Religion of the Spirit-World, Written by the Spirits Themselves (1920)
Hensoldt, Heinrich
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Heinrich Hensoldt was a German-American lecturer and writer of the 1890s who recounted supposed occult marvels witnessed among the adepts of India and Tibet.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1918) German-born American mineralogist, microscopist, traveller, and occult writer. He travelled across India, Ceylon, and Tibet and published mineralogical papers, then gained notoriety in Spiritualist and Theosophical circles with articles claiming years of study under hidden Adepts and Mahatma masters in the Himalayas. Henry Steel Olcott exposed these claims as fabrication and plagiarism, and Hensoldt was dismissed from scientific societies. Died in 1918.
Related Periodicals: East and West
Heraud, John Abraham
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Abraham Heraud (1799–1887), the English poet and critic, a source drawn upon in Emma Hardinge Britten's Art Magic.
Chasing Emma: John Abraham Heraud
Here, Over
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Bright Horizons | The New Liberator | Weekly Studies in Soulcraft
Hering, Daniel W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Foibles and Fallacies of Science: An Account of Celebrated Scientific Vagaries (1932)
Hernaman, Irene
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Child Mediums: Being an exposure of an evil which is working the ruin of the bodies and souls of our children (1923)
Herne, Frank
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Frank (Francis Gideon) Herne (1850–1887), an English materialization medium, partner of Charles Williams at Lamb's Conduit Street and one of the “Great Materializers.”
(Source: Gemini) (?–1891) English physical medium of the late Victorian era, known for full-form materialization and apport demonstrations. He operated a mediumistic practice in London in partnership with Charles Williams and attracted sitters including Alfred Russel Wallace. In 1871 investigators and stage magicians caught him producing materialized 'spirit hands' and floating objects by physical trickery and hidden props. Died in 1891.
Chasing Emma: The Amsterdam Matter; And After: A Member of Council; B.N.A.S; October; 1878
Chasing Emma: This Age of Marvels -- The Beginning of Form Materialization; December 1872
Chasing Emma: The White Leaves of History [1]: The Rise of Spirit Form Manifestation in England; 1872
Chasing Emma: Anything But Truthful (Part One): Some Notes on Frank Herne (1850-1887)
Chasing Emma: Anything But Truthful (Part Two): Some Notes on Frank Herne (1850-1887)
Hertz, Carl
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Modern Mystery Merchant (1924)
Hervey, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) Charles Hervey, a minor figure noted in the blog.
Chasing Emma: Flaxen Ringlets
Hesse, Hermann
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), the German-Swiss Nobel-laureate novelist whose Siddhartha, Demian, and Steppenwolf explore Eastern mysticism and the inner path.
Related Periodicals: Blatter aus Prevorst
Hewitt, Simon Crosby
(Source: Gemini) (?–1898) American Spiritualist editor, writer, and ordained Universalist minister who turned to spiritualist philosophy after investigating early spirit communications. He co-founded and edited *The Messenger of Light* (1852–1855), an early New England spiritualist journal, and wrote treatises on Christian spiritualism. His former Universalist peers condemned him as a heretic and expelled him. Died in 1898.
Related Periodicals: New Age (Boston) | The New Era | Una
Heyerdahl, Thor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002), the Norwegian adventurer of the Kon-Tiki and Ra expeditions, whose diffusionist theories touched on lost-civilization speculation.
Related Periodicals: Fate Magazine (Palmer)
Heywood, Angela Tilton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Angela Tilton Heywood (1840–1935) was an American free-love and women's-rights radical, writer and partner of Ezra Heywood in publishing The Word.
Related Periodicals: The Word (Princeton)
Heywood, D. Herbert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Personal Efficiency and Mind Power Building: Course of 12 Lessons (1921)
Heywood, Ezra Hervey
(Source: Gemini) (?–1893) American individualist anarchist, writer, and social reformer, and a campaigner for free love, women's reproductive rights, and labor reform. Born in Princeton, Massachusetts, he co-founded the New England Labor Reform League and edited the radical journal *The Word* (1872–1893). In 1877 he was convicted under the federal Comstock Laws for mailing contraceptive pamphlets and sentenced to hard labor. He died of tuberculosis in Boston in 1893.
Related Periodicals: The Crucible | Foundation Principles | Liberty | Spiritual Reporter | The Truthseeker | The Word (Princeton)
Heywood, John
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Jampot Covers: September 16; 1892
Chasing Emma: Adoring the Artifact: Faiths; Facts and Frauds; the 1906 Edition
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Higgins, Godfrey
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Godfrey Higgins (1772–1833) was an English magistrate and antiquarian whose massive Anacalypsis sought a single hidden origin of all religions, a key source for later occult syncretism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1833) British antiquarian, writer, and magistrate. Educated at Cambridge, he served as a magistrate and advocated prison and asylum reform before turning to comparative mythology and archaeology. His posthumous work *Anacalypsis* (1836) argued for a common, primordial origin of all world religions and mythologies. Conservative theologians attacked him as a heretic and infidel. Died in 1833.
Chasing Emma: Emma's Mysterious Guide
Chasing Emma: Source-Hunting: How EHB Met Godfrey Higgins
Chasing Emma: January 1871 -- Art Magic; in Embyro
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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911), the American abolitionist, Unitarian minister and writer, whose reform circles brushed Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) American Unitarian minister, abolitionist, and author (1823–1911), a member of the "Secret Six" who backed John Brown, a colonel of the first federally authorized Black regiment in the Civil War, and a figure of the Transcendentalist circle.
Chasing Emma: You Can't Do Without It: The Banner of Light; 1857
Hilarion, Master
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) "Master Hilarion" is one of the "Masters of the Ancient Wisdom" of Theosophical and later Ascended-Master teaching, said to oversee the fifth ray; not a documented historical person in the usual sense.
Related Periodicals: The Temple Artisan
Hill, Edwin C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Invisible Influence: A Story of the Mystic Orient (1934)
Hill, Elizabeth
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The New Age Bible Interpretation, Old Testament, Vol. III: The Promise / The Preparation (1946)
Hill, Ethel P.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: What Next (1927)
Hill, J. Arthur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) J. Arthur Hill (1872–1951) was an English psychical researcher and author who collaborated with Oliver Lodge and wrote on Spiritualism and survival.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1944) British psychical researcher, author, and lecturer. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, he investigated mediumship, co-authored several books with the physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, and wrote *Spiritualism: Its History, Phenomena, and Doctrine* (1918). He was largely housebound by chronic illness for much of his adult life. Died in 1944.
Related Periodicals: Psychic Research Quarterly
Related Monographs: After-Death Communications (1920), Psychical Investigations: Some Personally-Observed Proofs of Survival (1920), Psychical Miscellanea: Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. (1920)
Hill, Leonard
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritualism and the New Psychology (1920)
Hill, Napoleon
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons (1928)
Hilliard, John A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Ether Ship Mystery and Its Solution (1950)
Hilliard, Katherine
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Katharine Hillard (1839–1915) was an American writer and Theosophist who produced a widely used abridgement of Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine.
Related Periodicals: Universal Brotherhood
Hilton, Warren
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Hinde, George Risdale
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) George Risdale Hinde, founder of the Societas Fraterna, a California vegetarian-Spiritualist (“Grasseater”) colony.
Chasing Emma: A Frugivorous Colony: The Societas Fraterna
Chasing Emma: The Societas Fraterna: Notes on Dr. Louis Schlesinger
Chasing Emma: A General Idea Is Voluminous Enough: George Risdale Hinde; to James Burns; August 1879
Hinds, William A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) William Alfred Hinds (1833–1910) was a member of the
Related Periodicals: The American Socialist
Hine, Lucius Alonzo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Lucius Alonzo Hine (1817–1906) was an American reformer, editor, and lecturer active in the free-thought and social-reform press.
Related Periodicals: Herald of Truth [Cincinnati]
Hine, Phil
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Phil Hine (b. 1960) is a British occultist and author, a leading exponent of chaos magic (Condensed Chaos).
Related Periodicals: The Kalpaka
Hines, Frank D
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The (Soulual) Denver Mystic Healing Circle
Related Periodicals: The Balance | Denver Metaphysician | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires) | Occidental Mystic and Occult | Self-Culture
Hirsch, Samuel Abraham
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Hirsig, Leah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Leah Hirsig (1883–1975) was a Swiss-American schoolteacher who became Aleister Crowley's "Scarlet Woman" ("Alostrael") and a central figure at his Abbey of Thelema.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1951) Swiss-born American occultist and teacher, known as the 'Scarlet Woman' and principal magical collaborator of Aleister Crowley. Raised in New York, she co-founded the Abbey of Thelema with Crowley at Cefalù, Sicily, in 1920 and served as High Priestess of Thelema. After the death of Raoul Loveday at the Abbey, the Italian government prosecuted the group and expelled them. Died in Switzerland in 1951.
Related Periodicals: Psychical Research Review
Hitchcock, E.A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Major-General Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1798–1870) was an American army officer and scholar who wrote studies interpreting alchemy as spiritual allegory.
Related Periodicals: Initiates and the People
Hockley, Fred
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Frederick Hockley (1809–1885) was an English occultist, crystal-gazer, and collector and copyist of magical manuscripts, an influence on the later Golden Dawn milieu.
Chasing Emma: And From Masonry; A Return To The Orphic Circle
Chasing Emma: Frederick Hockley's Obituary in Light: November 28;1885
Chasing Emma: The Learned Apostle of the Occult Sciences: A Seance with Frederick Hockley
Chasing Emma: Psychography Under Lock and Key: October 1884
Chasing Emma: Crystalline Accountancy: Some Notes on Frederick Hockley (1808-1885)
Related Periodicals: The Age of Progress | The Biological Review
Hockley, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John Hockley, a relation of the crystal-seer Frederick Hockley.
Chasing Emma: Crystalline Accountancy: Some Notes on Frederick Hockley (1808-1885)
Hodges, Edward Lewis
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Teachings of the Secret Order of the Christian Brotherhood and School of Christian Initiation (1938)
Hodgson, Richard
Richard Hodgson (1855–1905) was an Australian-born psychical researcher for the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1905) Australian-born psychical researcher and administrator, and a principal investigator for the Society for Psychical Research. Born in Melbourne, he studied law at Melbourne University and did postgraduate work at Cambridge. In 1885 he published the 'Hodgson Report,' which held the Theosophist Helena Blavatsky to have fabricated her mahatma letters. He later became secretary of the American SPR in Boston and investigated the medium Leonora Piper over many years, concluding she was genuine. Died suddenly in Boston in 1905.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hodgson_(parapsychologist)
Chasing Emma: My Agreement with Imperator: Mrs. Piper's 1901 "Confession"
Related Periodicals: Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research
Hodgson, Geoffrey
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Geoffrey Hodson (1886–1983) was an English Theosophist and clairvoyant, a prolific author on angels, nature-spirits, and the occult investigation of matter. See also the "Hodgson, Geoffrey" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1983) English-born Theosophist, clairvoyant, and author. Born in Lincolnshire, he served as an army officer in the First World War before devoting himself to the
Related Periodicals: Mothers' Occult Digest | Theosophy in Action | Ancient Wisdom | Fiat Lux | Heraldo Rosacruz | Theosophic Messenger
Hoeller, Stephan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Stephan A. Hoeller (b. 1931) is a Hungarian-American Gnostic scholar and bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostica, a leading modern exponent of Gnosticism and Jungian spirituality.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Hungarian-born American author, scholar of religion, and Gnostic bishop active in the modern revival of Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity. Born in Budapest, he left Hungary after the 1956 revolution and became an associate of Manly Palmer Hall at the Philosophical Research Society. Consecrated a bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostica in 1974, he directed the
Related Periodicals: The Lucis Magazine
Hoffer, Cora Mickel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Cora Mickel Hoffer, the medium behind the forged “Lincoln the Lover” material that embarrassed the Atlantic Monthly.
Chasing Emma: Lincoln the Lover: Cora Mickel Hoffer and the Atlantic Monthly Lincoln Forgery Case
Hoffman, Maud
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Maud Hoffman, an American Shakespearean actress who became custodian of the Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett.
Chasing Emma: The Mahatma Letters: Some Notes On Maud Hoffman
Hoit, Lowell
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) Lowell Hoit, a figure noted in the blog's material on “subjective” disease and healing.
Chasing Emma: The Disease Designated Subjective Insanity: J. E. Richardson and the Edgemoor Sanitarium
Holbrook, M.L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Martin Luther Holbrook (1831–1902) was an American health reformer and editor of the Herald of Health, a promoter of hygiene, diet, and "mental" healing.
Related Periodicals: Herald of Health (M. L. Holbrook)
Holdsworth, Israel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Israel Holdsworth, a Yorkshire astrologer and poet, author of The Literary Pic-Nic (1872).
Chasing Emma: I Have Kept Very Little Company: Israel Holdsworth; December 1866
Holland, Ralph Merridette
(Source: Gemini) (?–1962) American medium, author, and contactee, an early figure in ufology and telepathic channeling. Writing under the pseudonym Rolf Telano, he claimed to receive scientific and metaphysical teachings from a Venusian priestess called Borealis, and authored *The Flying Saucers* (1952) and *A Spacewoman Speaks*. He designed a telepathic transmission device called Project Hermes. Died in 1962.
Related Periodicals: Voice from the Gallery
Hollander, Bernard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Bernard Hollander (1864–1934) was an Austrian-British physician who sought to revive phrenology on a scientific basis and wrote on the localization of mental function.
(Source: Gemini) (1864–1934) Austrian-born British psychiatrist, phrenologist, and author who argued for a scientific rehabilitation of phrenology and the clinical use of hypnotism. Born in Vienna, he trained in medicine there before settling in London, where he ran a practice in mental diseases and served as president of the Ethological Society. He wrote *The Mental Functions of the Brain* (1901) and *Scientific Phrenology*, attempting to map phrenological functions to clinical neurology. Died in London in 1934.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Phrenological Review (Bernard Hollander)
Related Monographs: In Search of the Soul and the Mechanism of Thought, Emotion, and Conduct (1920)
Holler, Helmuth Peter
To be added.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Aquarian Age | Hesperian Bard | The Kalpaka | The Lindlahr Magazine | Modern Miracles | Official Theomonistic Record | Oriental University Bulletin | Prince Immanuel's Journal | Progress (Chicago) | Psychical Research Review
Related Monographs: Mind and Its Higher Functions, Defined According to the New Theomonistic Scientific Method (1920), Higher Principles of International Law on the Basis of Universal Theomonism (1921), Holy Theomonistic Bible, or The Evolutionary Gospel of Fulfilment of Prophecy (1921), Lotze's Microcosmic Real-Idealism Completed by the Macrocosmic Idea-Realism of Theomonism (1921), Solution of the Sexual Question by Theomonism (1921), The Theomonistic Art of the Future as Foreshadowed by Richard Wagner and Jean Delville (1921)
Holley, Horace
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Bahai: The Spirit of the Age (1921)
Hollis-Billing, Mary
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Mary J. Hollis-Billing was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist medium noted for "independent voice" and materialization séances.
Related Periodicals: Buchanan's Journal of Man (First and Second Series) | Spiritual Notes
Hollister, Alonzo Giles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Alonzo Giles Hollister (1830–1911) was a Shaker elder and writer at Mount Lebanon who documented Shaker theology and spirit communications.
(Source: Gemini) (1830–1911) American Shaker writer, theologian, and historian. Born in New York, he lived at the Mount Lebanon Shaker Community in Columbia County, New York, where he edited and preserved Shaker manuscripts. He published *Pearls of Great Price* (1889), *Synopsis of Doctrine*, and *The Shaker's Covenant*, setting out a Shaker spiritualism that advocated direct spirit communication and a dual-gender deity. Died in 1911.
Related Periodicals: The Sower | The World's Advance Thought
Holmes, Ernest
Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) was an American New Thought teacher who founded Religious Science; his textbook The Science of Mind (1926) and Science of Mind magazine anchor the Centers for Spiritual Living.
(Source: Gemini) (1887–1960) American spiritual teacher and author who founded the Religious Science movement and its 'Science of Mind' philosophy. Born in Lincoln, Maine, he studied in Boston before settling in Los Angeles, where he established the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Holmes
Related Periodicals: Eternal Progress | Religious Science
Related Monographs: Secrets of Metaphysics (1935), New Thought Terms and Their Meanings (1942)
Holmes, Fenwicke L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Fenwicke L. Holmes (1883–1973) was an American New Thought minister and author, brother and early collaborator of Ernest Holmes in founding Religious Science.
Related Periodicals: The Truth
Related Monographs: Being and Becoming (1920), Songs of the Silence and Other Poems (1925)
Holmes, Henry Herbert Olive
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Henry Herbert Olive Holmes, a member of the Holmes family in the biography of the medium Eliza Olive.
Chasing Emma: Completely Free: Some Notes on Eliza Olive (1843-1911)
Holmes, Josephine
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The White Leaves of History [2]: The New American Medium
Chasing Emma: This Age of Marvels -- The Beginning of Form Materialization; December 1872
Related Periodicals: Religious Science
Holmes, Nelson
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Nelson Holmes, of the Holmes mediums (with Jennie Holmes), central to the 1870s Philadelphia “Katie King” materialization scandal.
Chasing Emma: The White Leaves of History [2]: The New American Medium
Holmes, Oliver Wendel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), the American physician, poet, and essayist, who coined "anesthesia" and wrote skeptically and wittily on medicine and mind.
Related Periodicals: Nautilus
Holms, A. Campbell
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) A. Campbell Holms, compiler of “The Facts of Psychic Science and Philosophy” (1925).
Chasing Emma: Spirits of the Trade: Teleplasm; Ectoplasm; Psychoplasm; Ideoplasm
Related Monographs: The Fundamental Facts of Spiritualism (1927)
Holt, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Henry Holt (1840–1926), the American publisher and author of “On the Cosmic Relations” (1914), a serious lay treatment of psychical research.
Chasing Emma: Happy Thanksgiving from Mrs. Piper
Holyoake, George J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) George Jacob Holyoake (1817–1906) was an English reformer who coined the terms "secularism" and "jingoism" and led the nineteenth-century freethought movement.
(Source: Gemini) (1817–1906) English secularist reformer, author, and cooperative pioneer who coined the term 'secularism' in 1851. Born in Birmingham, he edited the radical journal *The Reasoner*, promoting rationalism and freedom of thought. In 1842 he was convicted of blasphemy for a public lecture and served six months in Gloucester Gaol, the last person in Britain indicted for blasphemy in a public lecture. Died in Brighton in 1906.
Related Periodicals: Freethinkers Magazine
Holzer, Hans
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Hans Holzer (1920–2009) was an Austrian-American author and "ghost hunter" who popularized paranormal investigation in scores of books.
(Source: Gemini) (1920–2009) Austrian-born American parapsychologist, author, and television personality, popularly called the original 'ghost hunter.' Born in Vienna, he studied at the University of Vienna and Columbia University before working in New York. He wrote more than 140 books, notably *Ghost Hunter* (1963), and conducted an early investigation of the 'Amityville Horror' house on Long Island. Died in 2009.
Related Periodicals: Beyond Reality | Probe the Unknown
Home, Daniel Dunglas
Daniel Dunglas Home (1833–1886) was a Scottish physical medium, the most celebrated of the Spiritualist era, reported to levitate, handle hot coals, and move objects at a distance before royalty and scientists across Europe. Investigated (and endorsed) by William Crookes, he was famously never caught in fraud.
(Source: Gemini) (1833–1886) Scottish spiritualist medium, among the most prominent physical mediums of the Victorian era. Born near Edinburgh, he gave demonstrations across Europe and America — table-turning, instruments played without contact, and levitations, including a reported float out of a third-story window and back in another in London in 1868. He never charged for séances and worked in full light, drew an aristocratic clientele, and was investigated by the physicist Sir William Crookes, who judged his phenomena genuine. In an 1868 court case a wealthy widow sued to recover a fortune she had given him under 'spirit command.' Plagued by tuberculosis, he died in France in 1886.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dunglas_Home
Chasing Emma: The Count D'Orsay's Alchemist
Chasing Emma: Entered In Evidence: Anti-Medium Propaganda
Chasing Emma: Notes for A History...Revisions and Elaborations
Chasing Emma: The Devils of London: August 1860
Chasing Emma: Groping With Eager Hands: Dunraven on Spiritualism; 1922
Chasing Emma: They Are What Is Termed "Spiritualists": March; 1855
Chasing Emma: Home & Son: What's In A Name?
Chasing Emma: Home & Son: Gregory Writes To the RPJ; April 1887
Chasing Emma: Punch and Judy Boxes: D. D. Home on the Partisans of Darkness; 1875
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Home, Gregory Dunglas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Gregory Dunglas Home, son of the famous medium D. D. Home — a figure whose given name is rendered inconsistently in the record (Gregory / Alexander).
Chasing Emma: Home & Son: What's In A Name?
Chasing Emma: Home & Son: Gregory Writes To the RPJ; April 1887
Home, Julie Dunglas
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: D. D. Home: His Life and Mission (1921)
Hood, Frances A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Hoomi, Mahatma Koot
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (1948)
Hope, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) William Hope (1863–1933) was an English spirit photographer, leader of the Crewe Circle, whose photographs were denounced as fraudulent by Harry Price.
(Source: Gemini) (1863–1933) British medium and spirit photographer, leader of the 'Crewe Circle.' Born in Crewe, Cheshire, he worked as a builder before producing photographs said to show the faces of the dead beside living sitters, attracting many clients after the First World War. In 1922 the
Related Periodicals: Society for the Study of Supernormal Pictures Budget
Hopewellash, Edwin
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Therapy of Personal Influence: An A B C of Treatment by Personal Influence, Suggestion, Medical Hypnosis, and Psychomagnetic Methods (1929)
Hopfner, Theodor
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Griechische Mystik (1922), Ueber die Geheimlehren von Jamblichus (1922)
Hopkins, Emma Curtis
Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849-1925) was the founder of the New Thought movement in the United States. Born in Connecticut, she studied under Mary Baker Eddy and served as editor of the Christian Science Journal from 1884 before breaking with Eddy. Moving to Chicago in 1886, she founded the Hopkins College of Christian Science, whose graduates — including Malinda Cramer, Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, and Annie Rix Militz — went on to found the major organisations of New Thought. Hopkins herself increasingly retreated from public life into intensive mystical study, producing her culminating work High Mysticism (1920).
(Source: Gemini) (1849–1925) American spiritual leader, teacher, and author, a founding figure of the New Thought movement and called 'the teacher of teachers.' Born in Killingly, Connecticut, she worked as a disciple of Mary Baker Eddy in Boston before moving to Chicago, where she co-founded the Christian Science Theological Seminary and published *Scientific Christian Mental Practice* (1888). She trained founders of Unity and Divine Science. Eddy denounced her as a plagiarist, and she was expelled from mainstream Christian Science. Died in 1925.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hopkins-emma-curtis-1849-1925
Chasing Emma: The Queen of Managers: Some Notes on the Life of Mary H. Plunkett
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Related Monographs: Resume: Practice Book for the Twelve Chapters in High Mysticism (1921)
Hopps, John Page
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (1834–1911) British Unitarian minister, publisher, and Spiritualist leader. Born in London, Hopps studied theology at the General Baptist College in Leicester and served as pastor to congregations in Glasgow, Leicester, and London. He founded and edited the radical monthly The Coming Day (1891–1911) and authored several books advocating spirit communication. His defense of Spiritualism and socialist positions brought him into conflict with conservative Unitarian boards. Died in 1911.
Chasing Emma: Traveling Towards Babylon; Towards Zion: Clough and Hopps
Chasing Emma: 1867: John Page Hopps; Trying The Spirits
Related Periodicals: Christian Spiritualist (UK) | Coming Day (John Page Hopps) | The Medium and Daybreak
Horn, Joshua
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Joshua Horn, the Philadelphia author of the occult “Hornograph” (1879).
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: A Philadelphia Occult Mystery
Horsell, William
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Biological Review | The Two Worlds (Dixon) | Spiritual Messenger (Carpenter)
Hort, G. M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Dr. John Dee: Elizabethan Mystic and Astrologer (1922), The Mysteries of Hypnosis (Les Mysteres de l'Hypnose) (1922)
Horton, John S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John S. Horton, brother and business partner of Tudor Horton, among the founding members of the
Chasing Emma: TS Founders: John Storer Cobb
Horton, Tudor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Tudor Horton, an engraver and publisher, one of the founding members of the
Chasing Emma: TS Founders: John Storer Cobb
Hotchener, Henry
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Channel | Theosophic Messenger | World Theosophy
Hotchener, Marie R.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Marie Russak Hotchener (1865–1945) was an American Theosophist, opera singer, and editor associated with Annie Besant and the Adyar Society. See also "Hotchner, Marie Russak."
Related Periodicals: The Channel | Server (Krishnamurti) | Theosophic Messenger | The Theosophist | World Theosophy
Hotema, Hilton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Hilton Hotema" (Kenneth S. Dickerson, 1878–1970) was an American writer on breatharianism, longevity, and occult physiology.
(Source: Gemini) (1878–1970) American alternative-health practitioner, chiropractor, and esoteric author, born George Richard Clements, associated with the early breatharianism movement. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, he trained in chiropractic and ran a clinic before turning to writing, publishing esoteric health guides including Man's Higher Consciousness (1952) and The Glorious Resurrection. He advanced the theory that humans could sustain health and longevity by living on air and cosmic energy rather than food or water. Died in 1970.
Related Periodicals: The Aberree | Clarion Call
Hotten, John Camden
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Camden Hotten (1832–1873), the London publisher of curious, occult and risqué literature.
(Source: Gemini) English publisher and lexicographer (1832–1873) whose Piccadilly house introduced Whitman, Poe, and Twain to British readers and issued a wide range of literature, including early Spiritualist works and clandestine erotica.
Chasing Emma: Promoting The Kaballah of the Egyptians
Houdini, Beatrice
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Houdini, Harry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Harry Houdini (Erik Weisz, 1874–1926), the American escape artist and magician, who late in life waged a famous public campaign exposing fraudulent Spiritualist mediums.
(Source: Gemini) (1874–1926) Hungarian-American escape artist, stage magician, and skeptic, born Erik Weisz. Born in Budapest, he emigrated to Wisconsin, developed his lockpicking and escape techniques, and later based his touring practice in New York City, serving as President of the Society of American Magicians. In his later years he campaigned to expose physical mediums, publishing A Magician Among the Spirits (1924) and testifying before Congress on fraudulent fortune-telling. The campaign led to a public falling-out with his former friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He died of peritonitis in Detroit in 1926.
Related Periodicals: Magic
Related Monographs: A Magician Among the Spirits (1924), Houdini Exposes the Tricks used by the Boston Medium 'Margery' ... Also a complete exposure of Argamasilla (1924)
Hough, Dewitt C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) DeWitt C. Hough, a materialization medium, son and partner of Mrs. Stoddard Gray.
Chasing Emma: A Patent For Burning Up Smoke: Notes on Mrs. Stoddard Gray and Dewitt C. Hough (Part One)
Houghton, Georgiana
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Georgiana Houghton (1814–1884) was an English Spiritualist and medium whose abstract "spirit drawings" are now recognized as remarkably early non-representational art.
(Source: Gemini) (1814–1884) British Spiritualist medium and artist. Born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, she settled in London, studied Spiritualism, and produced abstract watercolour drawings she attributed to spirit guidance. In 1871 she organized an exhibition of these watercolours at the New British Gallery in London and published Evenings at Home in Spiritual Séance (1881). The exhibition was a financial failure that exhausted her savings. Died in 1884.
Chasing Emma: To Compete With All The World: The Mysteries (Not) of Georgiana Houghton's Life
Chasing Emma: At-Homes: What Gives?
Chasing Emma: Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings
Chasing Emma: Georgiana Gets Hers: Houghton's Spirit Art at the Courtauld
Related Periodicals: Christian Spiritualist (UK)
Householder, Frank
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Four Basic Principles of Numerology (1921)
Howard, Clifford
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Graphology: How to Read Character from Handwriting (1922)
Howe, Ellic
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Ellic Howe (1910–1991) was a British printing historian whose The Magicians of the Golden Dawn and studies of Nazi occultism set new documentary standards for occult history.
(Source: Gemini) (1910–1991) British historian and printing specialist who wrote on the history of alchemy, astrology, and modern Western esotericism. Born in London, he studied at Oxford and served in British psychological warfare during the Second World War, using his printing expertise to produce forged German documents. After the war he wrote on the history of occultism, most notably The Magicians of the Golden Dawn (1972), documenting the order's rituals and internal disputes. His critical approach drew objections from esotericists who accused him of bias. Died in 1991.
Related Periodicals: Das Wort (Dresden) | Oriflamme
Howe, Lyman C.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Cassadagan | Foundation Principles | The Light of Truth | Spiritual Reporter | The Sunbeam
Howitt, Mary
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Mary Howitt (1799–1888), the English author and translator, a convert to Spiritualism with her husband William Howitt.
(Source: Gemini) (1799–1888) English poet, novelist, and translator, born Mary Botham. Born in Coleford, Gloucestershire, she travelled in Germany and Sweden, built a writing career in London, and translated the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen into English. In her later years she advocated Spiritualism and subsequently converted to Roman Catholicism. She spent her final decades in Italy and died in Rome in 1888.
Chasing Emma: Benjamin Coleman; Redux
Howitt, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) William Howitt (1792–1879) was an English author who, with his wife Mary, became a prominent literary champion of Spiritualism, writing a History of the Supernatural.
(Source: Gemini) (1792–1879) English novelist, historian, poet, and social reformer. Born in Heanor, Derbyshire, he travelled in Australia and Europe and built a writing career in London, co-authoring books on rural England and Australia with his wife, Mary Howitt. He published The History of the Supernatural (1863), which defended the historical reality of spirit communication across cultures. His son Herbert drowned. Died in 1879.
Chasing Emma: Uncollected Essays from 1866...and 1868...and 1871
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Part Five: Turning; Tipping; Talking
Chasing Emma: Controversy Conducted; Part Two: The Immediate Surroundings
Chasing Emma: Free-lovers; Southcotians; and Zezidees: William Howitt; May 1878
Related Periodicals: The British Spiritual Telegraph | Christian Spiritualist (UK) | The Spiritual Magazine (UK) | The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record | Spiritual Notes | The Spiritual Times
Hoyt, David
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) David Hoyt, father of the medium Ada Hoyt (Coan Foye).
Chasing Emma: Ada Hoyt Coan Foye (1835?-1904?)
Hubbard, Elbert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) was an American writer, publisher, and founder of the Roycroft arts-and-crafts community, author of the inspirational essay A Message to Garcia.
Related Periodicals: The Fra | Mystic Light Library Bulletin | Nautilus | The New World | New York Spiritualist Leader | The Open Road | The Stellar Ray
Hubbard, L. Ron
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) was an American pulp science-fiction writer who in 1950 published Dianetics and went on to found Scientology (1952) and its Church (1954), which he led until his death.
(Source: Gemini) (1911–1986) American science-fiction author and founder of the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard
Chasing Emma: A Psychopolitician Must Work Hard To Produce The Maximum Chaos: Kenneth Goff; L. Run Hubbard and Soviet Brainwashing
Chasing Emma: May 9: Dianetics Day
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Aberree | Aquarian Path | Auditor (Scientology) | Clarion Call
Related Monographs: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (A Handbook of Dianetic Therapy) (1950)
Hubbe-Schleiden, Wilhelm
(Source: Gemini) (1846–1916) German lawyer, colonial official, and Theosophist. Born in Hamburg, he travelled to West Africa and completed doctoral studies in law and economics before co-founding the German
Related Periodicals: Gnosi | The Morning Star | Sphinx [Leipzig]
Huc, Abbe
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Évariste Régis Huc (1813–1860) was a French Lazarist missionary whose account of his journey through Tartary, Tibet, and China fed Western fascination with Tibetan religion.
(Source: Gemini) French Vincentian missionary and traveler (1813–1860), among the first Europeans to reach Lhasa, whose Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China (1850) was widely read.
Related Periodicals: Revue Spiritualiste
Hudson, Abisha
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Abisha S. Hudson
Chasing Emma: Slag and Ashes in the Crucible of Inquiry: Abisha S. Hudson (Again)
Related Periodicals: The Progressive Thinker
Hudson, Frederick
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Frederick Hudson, the first notable English spirit photographer (from 1872), later exposed and impoverished.
Chasing Emma: Too Slovenly And Careless To Succeed: The Decline of Frederick Hudson; May 1874
Chasing Emma: The White Leaves of History [0]: Spirit Photography in England; Spring 1872
Hudson, Thomson Jay
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Thomson Jay Hudson (1834–1903) was an American psychical theorist whose The Law of Psychic Phenomena (1893) explained mediumship through a "subjective mind," widely read in New Thought circles.
(Source: Gemini) (1834–1903) American lawyer, journalist, and patent examiner who theorized about the subconscious mind and early parapsychology. Born in Windham, Ohio, he studied law and worked as a newspaper editor in Detroit before serving as a principal examiner at the US Patent Office. He published The Law of Psychic Phenomena (1893), which proposed a distinction between the 'objective' (conscious) and 'subjective' (unconscious) minds to explain spiritualist phenomena and hypnotic suggestibility. His psychological account of mediumship was attacked by Spiritualists for denying spirits. Died in Detroit in 1903.
Related Periodicals: The Hypnotic Magazine | Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews
Related Monographs: Spiritism, Hypnotism and Telepathy as Involved in the Case of Mrs. Leonora E. Piper (1920), The Evolution of the Soul and Other Essays (1920), The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study of Hypnotism, Spiritism, Mental Therapeutics, etc. (1922)
Hugo, Victor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Victor Hugo (1802–1885), the French author of Les Misérables, who during his Jersey exile in the 1850s conducted table-turning séances that shaped his spiritual cosmology.
(Source: Gemini) (1802–1885) French novelist, poet, and dramatist of the Romantic movement, author of Les Misérables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831). Born in Besançon, he opposed Napoleon III and spent roughly nineteen years in exile on the Channel Islands, where he became a believer in Spiritualism and held regular séances to contact spirits. His daughter Léopoldine drowned. Died in Paris in 1885.
Related Periodicals: Cruz [Piaui] | Luz e Fe | The New World | Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden | Seculo XX
Hull, Burling
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Sealed Mysteries: Explaining the Latest Card Mysteries and Spirit Tricks (1924)
Hull, Mattie E.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Carrier Dove | Mind Cure and Science of Life | New Thought (Moses Hull)
Hull, Moses
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Moses Hull (1836–1907) was an American Adventist-turned-Spiritualist debater, lecturer, and publisher who founded a Spiritualist training school.
(Source: Gemini) (1836–1907) American minister, author, and Spiritualist leader. Born in Ohio, Hull served as a Seventh-day Adventist preacher until his conversion to Spiritualism in 1863, following a public debate with a spiritualist medium in Michigan. His former Adventist colleagues denounced him and he was expelled. He spent his remaining decades lecturing across the United States and editing the spiritualist journal The Spiritualist of the Northwest. Died in 1907.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Glyptinism; the Fiat of Intelligence; and New Thought in the Midwest; Circa 1892
Chasing Emma: Stridency
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Hummel, Richard
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Das Geheimnis der Amulette und Talismane (1921), Eliphas Levi, der grosse Kabbalist und seine magischen Werke (1922)
Humphreys, Christmas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Christmas Humphreys (1901–1983) was an English barrister who founded the Buddhist Society, London, and did much to popularize Buddhism (and Zen) in the West.
Chasing Emma: The Mahatma Letters: Some Notes On Maud Hoffman
Related Periodicals: Aquarian Path | International Psychic Gazette | L'Astrosophie | The Theosophical Review
Humphreys, Eliza Margaret J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Truth of Spiritualism (1920)
Hungerford, Jean M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Hunt, E. Howard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) E. Howard Hunt (1918–2007), the American CIA officer, spy novelist, and Watergate figure; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Anomaly
Related Monographs: The Hidden Self and Its Mental Processes (1922)
Hunt, Thornton Leigh
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Thornton Leigh Hunt (1810–1873), journalist and son of Leigh Hunt, co-founder of The Leader newspaper.
Chasing Emma: The Resurrection; or the Rapping: Thornton Leigh Hunt and G. H. Lewes
Huntley, Florence Chance
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Florence Huntley (1861–1912) was an American author associated with the "
Chasing Emma: The Shepherdess of Paradise: Chicago; 1922
Related Periodicals: Christliche Theosophie | Harmony (Ponca City) | Life and Action | The Metaphysical Magazine
Related Monographs: Harmonics of Evolution (Harmonic Series Vol. I) (1928)
Huntoon, Mary Eddy
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Mary Eddy Huntoon, of the Eddy family materialization mediums of Chittenden, Vermont.
Chasing Emma: Honto's Cave: Some Notes on the Mediumships of the Eddy Family
Husk, Cecil
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Cecil (James Charles) Husk (1847–1920), an English materialization medium of the “Great Materializers” — a blind professional singer turned séance-room medium associated with the spirit “John King.”
Chasing Emma: Katie; You Can't Do It: A Note On Mrs. Guppy's Transportation
Chasing Emma: Not By Halves; But By Doubles: Some Notes On Cecil Husk (1847-1920)
Hutchings, Emily Grant
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Emily Grant Hutchings was an American writer who claimed the Ouija-board novel Jap Herron (1917) was dictated by the spirit of Mark Twain, prompting a lawsuit from his estate.
Related Periodicals: Patience Worth's Magazine
Hutchinson, Berks T.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Berks T. Hutchinson, a Philadelphia Spiritualist associated with an Eglinton-related dial-plate device.
Chasing Emma: My Search for William Eglinton: The Hutchinson Dial Plate
Hutchinson, Luna C.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Related Monographs: Telepathy and Clairvoyance (1925)
Hutchison, A. M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Hypnotism Made Plain (1922)
Hutin, Serge
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Serge Hutin (1929–1997) was a French historian of esotericism and prolific popular author on alchemy, secret societies, and the occult.
Related Periodicals: Revue Metapsychique
Huxley, Aldous
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), the English novelist and essayist (Brave New World, The Perennial Philosophy, The Doors of Perception) who turned toward mysticism, Vedanta, and psychedelics.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1963) English writer, philosopher, and humanist. Born in Godalming into the Huxley scientific family, he achieved wide success with the dystopian novel Brave New World (1932) and wrote essays and novels exploring mysticism. He became an advocate for the spiritual use of psychedelics, documenting his mescaline experiments in The Doors of Perception (1954). He had suffered near-total blindness in childhood and died of laryngeal cancer in Los Angeles in 1963.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett) | Vedanta and the West
Related Monographs: Vedanta for the Western World (1948)
Huysmans, J.-K.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907), the French novelist whose Là-Bas depicted fin-de-siècle Satanism and the occult underworld before his return to Catholicism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1907) French novelist and art critic associated with the Decadent and Symbolist movements, born Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans. Born in Paris, he worked as a civil servant while writing and published À rebours (1884, Against Nature). He investigated Parisian occultism for Là-bas (1891), which depicted contemporary Satanism and the black mass. He later converted to Roman Catholicism and died in Paris in 1907.
Related Periodicals: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Influence Astrale | La Lumiere Maconnique | Psyche [Beaudelot]
Hyatt, I. S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) I. S. Hyatt, an Auburn printer and a leader in the Mountain Cove Spiritualist community.
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [9]: Pulling Up Stakes
Hyde, Emily M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Physical and Mental Rejuvenation (1926)
Hynek, J. Allen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) J. Allen Hynek (1910–1986) was an American astronomer, scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book, who coined the "close encounters" classification and founded the Center for UFO Studies.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1986) American astronomer and ufologist who devised the 'Close Encounter' classification system. Born in Chicago, he completed doctoral studies in astrophysics and taught astronomy at Ohio State and Northwestern universities. He served as scientific advisor to the US Air Force's UFO investigations, including Project Blue Book, and moved over time from skepticism to acceptance of UFOs as a physical phenomenon. He founded the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). Died in 1986.
Hyneman, Leon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Leon Hyneman (1805–1879) was an American Masonic editor and historian of Freemasonry.
Related Periodicals: New York Echo
Hyslop, James Hervey
James Hervey Hyslop (1854–1920) was an American professor of logic and ethics at Columbia who became a leading psychical researcher; after Hodgson's death he revived and led the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1920) American psychologist, philosopher, and psychical researcher. Born in Xenia, Ohio, he completed doctoral studies in Germany and taught logic and ethics at Columbia University before resigning to devote himself to psychical research, founding the reorganized American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR). He investigated mediums including Leonora Piper and published Science and a Future Life (1905). His work on spirit communication brought conflict with academic psychology. Died in 1920.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Hyslop
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Hyslop, James Hervey. James Hervey Hyslop (1854-1920) was an American professor of philosophy who became, in the last fifteen years of his life, a dedicated psychical researcher. Convinced of survival by his sittings with Leonora Piper, he argued that the most trivial mediumistic details were often the most evidential, since they lay beyond plausible normal discovery. After Richard Hodgson's death in 1905, he reorganised the American Society for Psychical Research as an independent institution and served as its secretary until his own death.
Related Periodicals: Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research
Related Monographs: A Cloud of Witnesses (1920)
I, Emperor Norton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Joshua Abraham Norton (c. 1818–1880), the self-proclaimed "Emperor Norton I" of San Francisco, a beloved civic eccentric; invoked here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Common Sense
I, Mar Georgius
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) "Mar Georgius" (Hugh George de Willmott Newman, 1905–1979) was a British "episcopus vagans" who assembled and led several small autocephalous and Gnostic-leaning churches.
Related Periodicals: The Metaphysician (Palatine)
Iamblichus
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Ueber die Geheimlehren von Jamblichus (1922)
Ide, Martha D.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Tie That Binds (1921)
III, Napoleon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Napoleon III (Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, 1808–1873), Emperor of the French, at whose court the medium D. D. Home was received; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Der Prophet (Munich)
Imber, Naphtali Herz
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Naphtali Herz Imber (1856–1909) was a Hebrew poet, author of the words of "Hatikvah" (the Israeli anthem), who also wrote on Kabbalah and mysticism in America.
Related Periodicals: Uriel
Immanuel, Prince
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Prince Immanuel's Journal
Related Monographs: The Gospel According to Im-anu-el (1936), Chaos (1947)
Ince, R. B.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Franz Anton Mesmer: His Life and Teaching (1920)
Ingalese, Isabella
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Isabella Ingalese was an American occultist and author who taught, with her husband Richard, a system of practical mental and occult development.
Related Periodicals: Aquarian Age | Occult Life (LAX)
Related Monographs: Occult Philosophy (1920), Fragments of Truth (1921)
Ingalese, Richard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Richard Ingalese (1863–1934) was, with his wife Isabella, an American occult lecturer and author of The History and Power of Mind and works on practical occultism and alchemy.
Related Periodicals: Mind
Related Monographs: Fragments of Truth (1921), Reincarnation (1928)
Ingalls, J.K.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Joshua King Ingalls (1816–1898) was an American land-reform and individualist-anarchist writer active in the reform and Spiritualist press.
Related Periodicals: The Friend of Progress | The Present Era | Spirit of the Age | The Word (Princeton) | The Spiritual Age (new York)
Inge, Dean W.R.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) William Ralph Inge (1860–1954), the "Gloomy Dean" of St Paul's, was an English churchman and writer on Christian (especially Plotinian) mysticism.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Ingersoll, Robert G.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899), "the Great Agnostic," was a celebrated American orator and freethinker.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1899) American lawyer, orator, and writer known as 'The Great Agnostic,' a leading figure of the American freethought movement. Born in Dresden, New York, he served as a colonel in the Union Army and as Attorney General of Illinois, and toured the country lecturing on rationalism, secularism, and humanism. His lectures drew sustained condemnation from conservative clergy. Died in 1899.
Chasing Emma: The Dark Continent of Motive and Desire: Robert Ingersoll; 1888
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Fra | The Progressive Thinker
Inman, Joseph T.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Joseph T. Inman (1820–1879), an American mail-order astrologer and fortune-teller behind the “psychomotrope” and a stable of fabricated “Madame” personas.
Chasing Emma: An Instrument of Intense Power: The Witches of the Psychomotrope; 1866-1868
Innes, J.W. Brodie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) J. W. Brodie-Innes (1848–1923) was a Scottish lawyer, novelist, and prominent member (and later leader) of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1923) Scottish lawyer, novelist, and occultist, a leader of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Born in Downe, Kent, he trained in law and practised at the Scottish bar, co-founded the Amen-Ra temple in Edinburgh, and wrote occult-themed novels. He was involved in prolonged disputes with Aleister Crowley, Arthur Edward Waite, and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers over authority and lineage within the Golden Dawn. Died in 1923.
Related Periodicals: Theosophical Siftings
Innocente, Geraldine
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Geraldine Innocente (1903–1961) was an American "Ascended Master" messenger who founded The Bridge to Freedom, a successor movement to the "I AM" Activity.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Bridge to Freedom | Golden Dawn (Wayne Taylor) | Hope (Bridge to Freedom) | Mentor (Myneta and Taylor) | Ruby Focus | Spiritual Caravan | Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Inquire Within
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Light-bearers of Darkness (1930)
Introduction, J. A. Winter
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (A Handbook of Dianetic Therapy) (1950)
Introduction, Jack Benjamin
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Symbols, Sex, and the Stars in Popular Beliefs (1949)
Introvigne, Massimo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Massimo Introvigne (b. 1955) is an Italian sociologist of religion and founder of CESNUR, a leading scholarly center for the study of new religious movements.
Related Periodicals: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Fenice | Ur-Krur
Irvine, Alexander
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Chapala Round Table | The Psychological Review of Reviews
Irwin, Francis George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Francis George Irwin (1828–1892) was an English soldier and Freemason, a collector of occult manuscripts and founder of the magical "
Chasing Emma: Psychography Under Lock and Key: October 1884
Related Periodicals: The Seer and Celestial Reformer
Isherwood, Christopher
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), the English-American novelist, who became a devoted student of Vedanta under Swami Prabhavananda and translated Hindu scriptures.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1986) English-American novelist and playwright, author of Goodbye to Berlin (1939). Born in Cheshire, he built a literary career before emigrating to the United States, where he became a disciple of Swami Prabhavananda at the
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett) | Vedanta and the West
Related Monographs: Vedanta for the Western World (1948)
Jackman, Mabel Aber
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Shepherdess of Paradise: Chicago; 1922
Related Periodicals: Leaves of Healing
Jackson, Frances Broomfield
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) Frances Broomfield Jackson, an aunt in the family history around the Fox family.
Chasing Emma: Margaret; Again
Jackson, J. W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) J. W. Jackson, a Victorian mesmerist and phrenologist, a contributor to James Burns's Human Nature.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Faith of the Future; Faith in the Future
Jacob, Auguste Henri
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Auguste Henri Jacob (1828–1913), "Jacob the Zouave," the celebrated French magnetic healer; same person as the "Jacob, Zouave" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1913) French physical medium and spiritual healer, active during the Second Empire under Napoleon III, known as Zouave Jacob. Born in Saint-Antoine, he served as a military musician in the French Army's Zouave regiment before taking up healing, claiming to cure paralysis and blindness through silent prayer, magnetic passes, and visual concentration. His clinics drew large crowds and prompted prosecution by medical boards and denunciation by church officials. Died in Paris in 1913.
Related Periodicals: Revue Theurgique
Jacob, Zouave
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) "Jacob the Zouave" (Auguste Henri Jacob, 1828–1913) was a French former soldier who became a famous magnetic healer in nineteenth-century Paris. See also "Jacob, Auguste Henri."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1913) French physical medium and spiritual healer, active during the Second Empire under Napoleon III, known as Zouave Jacob. Born in Saint-Antoine, he served as a military musician in the French Army's Zouave regiment before taking up healing, claiming to cure paralysis and blindness through silent prayer, magnetic passes, and visual concentration. His clinics drew large crowds and prompted prosecution by medical boards and denunciation by church officials. Died in Paris in 1913.
Related Periodicals: Almanach Theurgique | La Lumiere (Grange) | Monde Invisible | Revue Theurgique | Union Magnetique
Jacolliot, Louis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Louis Jacolliot (1837–1890) was a French magistrate and prolific author whose sensational books on India (Occult Science in India) influenced Blavatsky and Western occultism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1890) French lawyer, colonial judge, traveler, and author who popularized Eastern mysticism and occult theories in Europe and is associated with coining the term 'Agartha.' Born in Charolles, he served as a colonial judge in French India and studied Sanskrit scriptures. He published *The Occult Science in India* (1875), arguing that ancient Indian priests possessed supernatural powers and alchemical secrets. Sanskrit scholars denounced his translations as fabrications. Died in France in 1890.
Chasing Emma: For the Defense; Monsieur Jacolliot: August 1875
Related Periodicals: Bulletin Des Polaires | Illustracion Espirita (Mexico) | Sophia (Spain)
Jacquelin, Bernice H.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research | Spiritualist Monthly
Jagot, Paul C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Paul-Clément Jagot (1889–1962) was a French author of many popular manuals on magnetism, hypnotism, autosuggestion, and personal magnetism.
Related Periodicals: Eudia
Related Monographs: Traite de Sciences Occultes et de Magie Pratique (1921)
James, Abraham
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Abraham James was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist medium noted for locating oil and mineral wells by spirit guidance.
Related Periodicals: Iris de Paz (Huesca)
James, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Henry James Sr. (1811–1882), the American Swedenborgian theologian (father of the novelist and the philosopher), who reviewed Robert Dale Owen's Debatable Land — not the novelist.
Chasing Emma: Those of His Own Household: Henry James on Spiritualism; 1872
James, T.P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Thomas P. James was an American printer and medium who in 1873 published a Spiritualist "completion" of Dickens's unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood, dictated, he claimed, by Dickens's spirit.
Related Periodicals: The Summerland Messenger
James, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) William James (1842–1910), the American philosopher and psychologist (The Varieties of Religious Experience), a founder of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1910) American psychologist and philosopher, professor at Harvard and author of *The Principles of Psychology* (1890). He devoted substantial effort to psychical research, co-founding the American Society for Psychical Research and conducting long-term investigations of the medium Leonora Piper; his religious writings include *The Varieties of Religious Experience* (1902). Died in 1910.
Chasing Emma: Explaining Belief: The Significance of Joseph Jastrow
Chasing Emma: My Agreement with Imperator: Mrs. Piper's 1901 "Confession"
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Mind Inc. | Swastika (Amsterdam)
Related Monographs: How I Eliminated Fear (1921)
Jamieson, W.F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) W. F. Jamieson was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist and freethought lecturer and debater.
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Jamison, Alcinous B.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Immortality (New York)
Related Monographs: Man: Whence and Whither? (1922)
Jarry, Alfred
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), the French writer of Ubu Roi and inventor of "pataphysics"; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Almanach de l'Ymagier
Jastrow, Joseph
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Joseph Jastrow (1863–1944), the American psychologist who applied experimental psychology to the explanation of Spiritualist belief and deception.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1944) Polish-born American psychologist and author, a debunker of parapsychology and Spiritualism. Born in Warsaw, he took his doctorate at Johns Hopkins, headed the psychology department at the University of Wisconsin, and served as President of the American Psychological Association. He published *Fact and Fable in Psychology* (1900), which analyzed and dismissed occult claims. Died in 1944.
Chasing Emma: Explaining Belief: The Significance of Joseph Jastrow
Jefferson, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the American statesman and deist; invoked here in a freethought/periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Fra
Jefts, Lena Barnes
Rev. Lena Barnes Jefts, Spiritualist teacher of philosophy associated with the School of Spiritual Truth in Miami, Florida. (Source: Claude, from a monograph title page, confidence 0.6)
Jelihovsky, Vera P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Vera Petrovna Zhelikhovsky (1835–1896) was a Russian author of children's books and the younger sister of H. P. Blavatsky, whose reminiscences are a source for Blavatsky's biography.
Related Periodicals: Revista Teosofica (Havana)
Jellinek, Karl
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Das Weltengeheimnis: Vorlesungen zur harmonischen Vereinigung von Natur- und Geisteswissenschaft, Philosophie, Kunst und Religion (1922)
Jencken, Henry D.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Henry D. Jencken, an English barrister who married the medium Kate Fox.
Chasing Emma: Belief Begins At Home: Henry D. Jencken
Jennings, Hargrave
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Hargrave Jennings (1817–1890) was an English occult author whose The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries (1870) advanced a phallic interpretation of religious symbolism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1890) British author, publisher, and occultist active in the late nineteenth-century esoteric revival, known for his works on Rosicrucianism and phallic worship. Born in London, he worked as a secretary and journalist before turning to esoteric scholarship. He published *The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries* (1870), arguing that world religions originated in ancient phallic worship. Died in London in 1890.
Chasing Emma: Picking Through Godwin
Chasing Emma: Hargrave Jennings
Chasing Emma: John Abraham Heraud
Chasing Emma: Abisha S. Hudson
Chasing Emma: Middle-Aged Rosicrucians?
Chasing Emma: <I>Art Magic</I> Illustrations Traced
Chasing Emma: Aberrations of Polarity: Hargrave Jennings; 1861-1863
Chasing Emma: Rosicrucians; Resurgent: Alexander Wilder on Hargrave Jennings
Chasing Emma: A Shallow; Log-Headed and Grossly Selfish Age: Hargrave Jennings Reviews A. P. Sinnett; 1881
Related Periodicals: The Herald of the Golden Age | The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
Jensen, Magnus
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Everybody's Astrology (1922)
Jerusalem, Prince Immanuel Of
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Criminals of Chicago (1921)
Jezreel, James J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) James Jershom Jezreel (1840–1885) was an English soldier who founded the "New and Latter House of Israel" (the Jezreelites), building the unfinished "Jezreel's Tower" in Kent.
Related Periodicals: Shiloh's Messenger of Wisdom
Jinarajadasa, C.J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa (1875–1953) was a Sinhalese Theosophist, scholar, and international president of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1953) Sri Lankan theosophist, linguist, and author who served as the fourth international President of the
Related Periodicals: Australian Theosophist | Boletin de la Sociedad Teosofica Espanola | Fiat Lux | Fraternidad (Chile) | Heraldo Rosacruz | Isis (Lisbon) | Iz Teozofskoga Svijeta | Loto Blanco | Revista de la Federacion Teosofica del Uruguay | Teosofia en el Plata | Teosofo (Adyar) | Teozofija (Zagreb) | Theosophic Messenger | The Theosophical Review | Theosophical Worker | Virya | World Theosophy | Yoga Union
Related Monographs: First Principles of Theosophy (1922), The Early Teachings of the Masters, 1881-1883 (1923), The Golden Book of the Theosophical Society: A Brief History of the Society's Growth 1875-1925 (1925), Theosophy as the Basic Unity of National Life (Four Convention Lectures, Bombay, Dec 1924) (1925), Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series (1926), Theosophy and Theosophists (Address, Amsterdam, Dec 1929) (1929), Theosophy, Past and Future (Four Convention Lectures, 54th Anniversary, Dec 1929) (1930), What Is the Work of Theosophists? (1937), The Ritual of the Mystic Star: A Form of Service for Worship and Consecration (1938), What Theosophists Believe (1938), The War--And After: A Theosophist's Viewpoint (1939), The War--And After: A Theosophist's Viewpoint (1940), The Theosophist as the Ideal Citizen In War and In Peace (1942), The Work Ahead for Theosophists (1946)
Joad, C.E.M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) C. E. M. Joad (1891–1953) was a popular English philosopher and broadcaster who wrote on psychical research and survival.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1953) British philosopher, author, and broadcaster, head of the philosophy department at Birkbeck College and a regular on the BBC radio programme *The Brains Trust*. He took part in psychical research, collaborating with Harry Price to investigate haunted houses and physical mediums. In 1948 he was convicted of fare evasion on a railway ticket, leading to his dismissal from the BBC. Died in London in 1953.
Related Periodicals: The Aryan Path
Jogand-Pages, Gabriel-Antoine
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Gabriel-Antoine Jogand-Pagès (1854–1907) was the French writer better known as "Léo Taxil," perpetrator of the great anti-Masonic/"Diana Vaughan" hoax that he publicly confessed in 1897.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1907) French writer and journalist, known by the pseudonym Léo Taxil, mastermind of the 'Taxil Hoax,' an anti-Masonic deception. Born in Marseille, he first edited anticlerical secular periodicals before announcing a conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1885. He published a series of books portraying Freemasonry as a network of devil-worshippers, drawing praise from Pope Leo XIII, before publicly confessing in April 1897 that the conversion and books were a hoax intended to embarrass the clergy. Died in 1907.
Related Periodicals: La France Antimaconnique
Jogand-Pages, Marie-Joseph Gabriel Antoine
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Marie-Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès (1854–1907) — "Léo Taxil"; same person as the "Jogand-Pages, Gabriel-Antoine" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1907) French writer and journalist, known by the pseudonym Léo Taxil, mastermind of the 'Taxil Hoax,' an anti-Masonic deception. Born in Marseille, he first edited anticlerical secular periodicals before announcing a conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1885. He published a series of books portraying Freemasonry as a network of devil-worshippers, drawing praise from Pope Leo XIII, before publicly confessing in April 1897 that the conversion and books were a hoax intended to embarrass the clergy. Died in 1907.
Related Periodicals: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Memoires d'une Ex-Palladiste
Johannes Taufer
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Vril: Die kosmische Urkraft (1930)
Johndro, L. Edward
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) L. Edward Johndro (1882–1951) was an American astrologer and electrical engineer who developed theories linking astrology to "locality" and electromagnetism.
Related Periodicals: National Astrological Journal | The Stellar Ray
Johnson, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) K. Paul Johnson (b. 1953) is an American historian of Theosophy whose books (The Masters Revealed) offered historical identifications for Blavatsky's "Masters."
Related Periodicals: Eclectic Theosophist
Johnson, Percy
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Psychic Experiences and Memoirs of My Life (1940)
Johnson, Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore Johnson (1851-1919) was an American lawyer, Platonist, and editor who became one of the most important American proponents of Neoplatonism in the late nineteenth century. Based in Osceola, Missouri, he founded and edited The Platonist (1881-1888), a journal that published translations of and commentaries on Platonic and Neoplatonic texts by Thomas Taylor and others, and which attracted subscribers from the Theosophical circle, including Helena Blavatsky. He translated several Platonic works and corresponded with leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1919) American lawyer, publisher, and philosopher active in the revival of Neoplatonism in the United States, known as 'The Platonist of Osceola.' Born in Osceola, Missouri, he studied law and served as mayor of his hometown. He founded and edited the journal *The Platonist* (1881–1889) and translated Neoplatonic classics into English, working closely with theosophists. Died in 1919.
Chasing Emma: The Self; in the Social
Chasing Emma: New Typhon Press Release: The Selected Correspondence of Thomas Moore Johnson; Volume One
Related Periodicals: Bibliotheca Platonica | Light and Life | The Platonist | Shrine of Wisdom
Johnston, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Charles Johnston (1867–1931) was an Irish-American Theosophist, Sanskrit scholar, and translator, a founder of the Dublin Lodge and husband of Blavatsky's niece Vera.
Related Periodicals: The Ideal Review | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes | Theosophical Society American Section -- Oriental Department
Johnston, Vera
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Vera Vladimirovna Johnston (née Zhelikhovsky) was a niece of H. P. Blavatsky and a translator of Theosophical and Sanskrit works, wife of Charles Johnston.
Related Periodicals: Theosophical Quarterly
Jones, Charles Stansfield
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Charles Stansfield Jones (1886–1950), "Frater Achad," was a British-Canadian occultist, a disciple of Aleister Crowley who claimed to be the "magical child" foretold in Thelema.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1950) English-born Canadian occultist and writer, known in ceremonial magic as Frater Achad and regarded as the 'magical son' of Aleister Crowley. Born in London, he emigrated to Canada and worked as an accountant before joining Crowley's A∴A∴ and
Related Periodicals: The Occult Digest | Shrine of Wisdom
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Jones, E. H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Road to En-dor (1922)
Jones, Hiram K.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Hiram K. Jones (1818–1903) was an American physician and Platonist, a leader of the "Plato Club" and the Concord and Jacksonville schools of philosophy.
Related Periodicals: The Ideal Review
Jones, J. Enmore
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Our Medium: Phreno Lamurch; Shorter's Confessions and the Charing Cross Spirit Circle
Chasing Emma: The White Leaves of History [0]: Spirit Photography in England; Spring 1872
Chasing Emma: The Seances at Limehouse: William Lawrence; the East End Spiritualist
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [2]: The Death of a Spirit Agent
Related Periodicals: Christian Spiritualist (UK) | The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
Jones, Lloyd Kenyon
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Communication | Suggestive Therapeutics | True Mystic Science
Related Monographs: The Ciphers of the Apocalypse (1920)
Jones, Marc Edmund
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Marc Edmund Jones (1888–1980) was an American astrologer, a founder of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1980) American astrologer, Presbyterian minister, and writer, creator of the 'Sabian Symbols' and a founder of modern humanistic astrology. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister before turning to astrology, founding the Sabian Assembly in 1923 and writing textbooks including *The Astrology of Personality*. His system synthesized astrology with psychology, philosophy, and Kabbalah. Died in 1980.
Related Periodicals: American Astrology | The Column | Hamsa | Occult Life (LAX)
Related Monographs: The Mystery Mind (1920), The Road to En-dor (1922)
Jones, S.S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Stephen S. Jones (1818–1877) was an American Spiritualist and founder of the Religio-Philosophical Journal in Chicago, murdered in 1877.
Related Periodicals: Little Bouquet | The Religio-Philosophical Journal | The Spiritual Republic | The Spiritualist at Work | Texas Spiritualist
Jouin, Cercle Ernest
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Jouin, L'Abbe Ernest
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Monsignor Ernest Jouin (1844–1932), the French anti-Masonic conspiracy publicist; same person as the "Jouin, L'Abbe Ernest" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1932) French Roman Catholic priest, publisher, and anti-Masonic writer. Born in Angers, he was ordained and served in Paris, where he founded and edited the journal *Revue Internationale des Sociétés Secrètes* (RISS). He published the first French translation of the antisemitic forgery *The Protocols of the Elders of Zion* in 1920. He was condemned by opponents and praised by Pope Benedict XV. Died in Paris in 1932.
Related Periodicals: Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes
Jouin, V.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Bibliographie Occultiste et Maconnique, Tome I (jusqu'a 1717) (1930), Bibliographie Occultiste et Maconnique, Tome I (1940)
Jounet, Albert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Albert Jounet (1863–1923) was a French Christian-esoteric and Kabbalistic writer associated with the Symbolist and occult-revival circles of Paris.
Related Periodicals: Alliance Spiritualiste | Echo du Merveilleux | Force de la Verite | L'Etoile | La Voie (Paris) | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Revue Scientifique et Morale de Spiritisme | Spiritualisme Moderne
Judge, William Q.
William Quan Judge (1851-1896) was a prominent American Theosophist and one of the co-founders of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1896) Irish-born American occultist, publisher, and lawyer, one of the co-founders of the Theosophical Society in 1875. Born in Dublin, he studied law in New York and built a law practice. He served as General Secretary of the American Section, edited the journal *The Path*, and wrote *The Ocean of Theosophy* (1893). In the 1894 'Judge Case,' Henry Steel Olcott and Annie Besant accused him of forging letters from the Mahatmas, precipitating an international schism. He contracted Chagas disease during a journey to South America and died in New York in 1896.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/judge-william-quan-1851-1896
Chasing Emma: Nothing Can Be Read Simply Because It Has Been Written: William Quan Judge and C. C. Massey; May 1884
Chasing Emma: June 1896: Dueling Lecturers
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Aryan Path | The Beacon (Bailey) | The Century Path | The International Theosophist | The Irish Theosophist | The Lamp | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | The Pacific Theosophist | The Path | The Platonist | Psychische Studien | Sophia (Spain) | Spirit Mothers and Astraea | The Temple Artisan | Theosophia | The Theosophical Forum | Theosophical Forum (Purucker) | Theosophical Movement | Theosophical Quarterly | Theosophical Siftings | Theosophical Society American Section -- Oriental Department | Theosophische Pfad | Theosophischer Wegweiser | Theosophisches Leben | Theosophy | U.L.T. | Vahan (Blavatsky)
Related Monographs: Letters That Have Helped Me (1920), Echoes from the Orient: A Broad Outline of Theosophical Doctrines (1921), Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Foundress of the Original Theosophical Society (1921), An Epitome of Theosophy (1922)
Jules-Bois, Henri Antoine
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Henri-Antoine Jules-Bois — Jules Bois (1868–1943), the French writer on the occult (see the "Bois, Jules" entry).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1943) French writer, journalist, and occultist, a figure in the late nineteenth-century French symbolist and esoteric revival. Born in Marseille, he moved to Paris and became an associate of Papus and Stanislas de Guaita, a member of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross and the
Related Periodicals: L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique
Jung, C.G.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961), the Swiss founder of analytical psychology, whose concepts of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and studies of alchemy and Gnosticism deeply shaped modern esoteric thought.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist, founder of analytical psychology. Born in Kesswil, he studied medicine at the University of Basel and worked closely with Sigmund Freud, serving as President of the International Psychoanalytic Association, before breaking away to develop his own system, introducing the collective unconscious, archetypes, introversion and extraversion, and individuation. He had a lifelong interest in alchemy, parapsychology, and Gnosticism, reflected in *The Red Book* (written c. 1913–1930) and *Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle*. Died in Zurich in 1961.
Related Periodicals: Mensch en Cosmos
Jurgens, Heinrich
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiegel-Praxis und Spiegel-Magie (1939)
Juste, Michael
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Michael Juste" was the pen name of Michael Houghton (d. 1956), proprietor of the Atlantis Bookshop in London and a figure of the mid-century British occult scene.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Observer
K.H., Master
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Legendary Mahatma or Ascended Master, Master Koot Hoomi (Master K.H.), a central figure in the founding narrative of the Theosophical movement. In theosophical doctrine popularized by Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, and Alfred Percy Sinnett, he was described as an adept of Kashmiri origin residing in trans-Himalayan Tibet. He was said to have produced the Mahatma Letters (1880–1884) to Sinnett, setting out theosophical cosmology. The
Related Periodicals: Heraldo Rosacruz
Related Monographs: The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (1948)
Kaji, Hiralal L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Great Mystery of Life Beyond Death (1938)
Kallen, Horace Meyer
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Pluriverse: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism (1920)
Kant, Immanuel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), the German philosopher; cited in periodical contexts including his early essay on the visionary Swedenborg, Dreams of a Spirit-Seer.
Chasing Emma: April 8; 1766: Kant; to Mendelssohn; on Swedenborg
Related Periodicals: Tempel
Kapp, M. W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Glands: Our Invisible Guardians (1939)
Karadja, Princess
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Princess Mary Karadja (1868–1943) was a Swedish-born Spiritualist author and medium, active in European psychical and Theosophical circles.
Related Periodicals: L'Astrosophie | Revue du Monde Invisible | The Seer | Symbolisme | Weisse Fahne
Kardec, Allan
Allan Kardec (1804-1869), born Hypolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, was the founder of Spiritism — the French variation of Spiritualism distinguished primarily by its acceptance of reincarnation. The pseudonym 'Allan Kardec' originated in mediumistic communications purporting to identify a previous incarnation of Rivail. His principal works, compiled from séance communications, include The Spirits' Book (1857), The Mediums' Book (1861), and The Gospel as Explained by Spirits (1864). His system of Spiritism, which combined spiritualism with reincarnation and a progressive evolutionary view of the spirit, became enormously influential in France, Brazil, and Latin America.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1869) French educator, translator, and author, the pseudonym of Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, systematizer of Spiritism. Born in Lyon, he worked as a schoolteacher and textbook author before turning to spirit communication and table-turning. Under the name Allan Kardec he published *The Spirits' Book* (1857) and *The Mediums' Book*, setting out a doctrine based on reincarnation, spiritual evolution, and moral progress. Catholic clergy and academics denounced Spiritism, and his books were publicly burned in Barcelona in 1861. Died in Paris in 1869.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/kardec-allan-1804-1869
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Kardec, Allan. Allan Kardec was the pen name of Léon Rivail (1804-1869), a French educator who became interested in mediumship in the 1850s and developed from it the doctrine of Spiritism — a system embracing after-death communication and reincarnation within a broadly Christian moral framework. His Spirits' Book (1857) became the foundational text of a movement that today has millions of adherents worldwide, most notably in Brazil.
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Kase, S.P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Simon P. Kase was an American Spiritualist businessman remembered for his account of séances said to have been attended by Abraham Lincoln.
Related Periodicals: New York Beacon Light
Kates, George Whitfield
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) George Whitfield Kates (1858–1949) was an American Spiritualist lecturer and organizer for the
Related Periodicals: The Better Way | Light for Thinkers | The Sunflower (NY)
Kavanagh, D. J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Question of Questions: Where Is Man's Permanent Home? (1922)
Kay, Susanna Harris
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Susanna Harris Kay (1854–1932), an American materialization and “direct voice” medium tested (and doubted) by Harry Price and W. Usborne Moore.
Chasing Emma: Susanna Harris Kay (1854-1932): Mediumship in the Interregnum
Kayssler, Adalbert Bartholomaeus
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Magazin fur die Psychische Heilkunde
Keel, John A.
John A. Keel (1930-2009), born Alva John Kiehle, was an American journalist and ufologist best known as the author of The Mothman Prophecies (1975), his account of a series of anomalous sightings around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966-67. Influenced by Charles Fort and the broader Fortean tradition, Keel rejected the extraterrestrial hypothesis for UFOs in favour of a theory of "ultraterrestrials" -- non-human entities native to Earth operating in a dimension adjacent to ordinary reality. He contributed articles to Flying Saucer Review, Fate Magazine, and Saucer News, and was one of the principal popularisers of the Men in Black concept alongside Gray Barker. The Mothman Prophecies was adapted as a major film in 2002.
(Source: Gemini) (?–2009) American journalist and ufologist, author of *The Mothman Prophecies* (1975). Born in Hornell, New York, he built a writing career in New York City contributing to magazines and television. He formulated the 'ultraterrestrial' theory, proposing that UFOs and cryptids were not extraterrestrial but electromagnetic or spiritual entities from co-existing dimensions acting on human consciousness. Died in New York City in 2009.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keel
Related Periodicals: Anomaly | Clypeus | Flying Saucer Review | Lumieres Dans La Nuit | Pursuit (SITU)
Keeler, Morris
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Morris Keeler, of the Moravia, New York circle around the medium Mary Andrews.
Chasing Emma: The White Leaves of History [3]: The Dog In The Room
Keely, John Ernst Worrel
John Ernst Worrell Keely (1837–1898) was a Philadelphia inventor who claimed a new "vibratory"/etheric motive power and drew large investment into the Keely Motor Company. After his death his apparatus was found to be driven by hidden compressed air, and his "free energy" is regarded as fraud.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1898) American inventor and mechanic known for the Keely Motor, widely regarded as a hoax. Born in Philadelphia, he claimed to have discovered a force based on 'sympathetic vibratory physics' that could extract unlimited free energy from the ether. In 1872 he co-founded the Keely Motor Company, attracting large investments and staging demonstrations of his generator. Engineers charged that the device was operated by hidden compressed-air and hydraulic lines; after his death in 1898 the dismantling of his Philadelphia laboratory revealed the mechanism. Died in 1898.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ernst_Worrell_Keely
Related Periodicals: Lotus Rouge | Occult Science Library
Keely, Margaret B.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Astrological Review (Astrology Guild of America)
Keightley, Archibald
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Archibald Keightley (1859–1930) was an English physician and Theosophist who, with his uncle Bertram Keightley, helped H. P. Blavatsky prepare The Secret Doctrine for the press.
Related Periodicals: Theosophical Quarterly
Keightley, Bertram
Bertram Keightley (1860-1944) was a British Theosophist who played a significant editorial role in the preparation of Helena Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine (1888), working closely with his nephew Archibald Keightley to organise and edit the manuscript. He joined the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1944) English theosophist, lawyer, and administrator, an associate of Helena Blavatsky. Born in Birkenhead; took a law degree at Cambridge and was admitted to the bar before turning to esotericism. He co-founded the Blavatsky Lodge in London and edited and organized Blavatsky's *The Secret Doctrine* (1888) for publication, later serving as General Secretary of the Indian Section. He was a participant in the 1884 Coulomb affair at Adyar, concerning the theosophical mahatma letters. Died in 1944.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram_Keightley
Related Periodicals: The Pilgrim | The Prasnottara | The Theosophical Review | Ultra (Rome) | Vahan (Theosophical Society)
Keightley, Julia
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Letters That Have Helped Me (1920)
Keightley, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Thomas Keightley (1789–1872), the Irish antiquarian, author of “Secret Societies of the Middle Ages” and works on fairy mythology.
Chasing Emma: Tantalus: The Fehm Gerichte
Kelder, Peter
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Eye of Revelation (1939), The Eye of Revelation (1946)
Kellar, Harry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Harry Kellar (1849–1922), the celebrated American stage magician, who both imitated and exposed Spiritualist effects.
(Source: Gemini) American stage illusionist (1849–1922), known as the "Dean of American Magicians," who began his career as an assistant and advance man for the Davenport Brothers before building a worldwide touring show.
Chasing Emma: Kellar's Beautiful Production
Kellner, Carl
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Carl Kellner (1851–1905) was an Austrian industrialist and occultist, a co-founder of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1905) Austrian chemist, paper-manufacturing industrialist, and occultist. Born in Vienna, he patented chemical processes for pulp manufacturing and studied yoga, alchemy, and Western ceremonial magic. In 1895 he co-founded the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) with Theodor Reuss, based on tantric yoga and sex magic. Died in 1905.
Related Periodicals: Oriflamme | Theosophischer Wegweiser | Virya
Kellogg, John Harvey
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943), the Battle Creek health reformer; same person as the "Kellogg, John Harvey" entry.
(Source: Gemini) American physician and health reformer (1852–1943), director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, advocate of "biologic living," and co-inventor of the corn flake.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Character Builder | The Battle Creek Idea | Good Health | Mind Cure and Science of Life
Kellogg, Jennie E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Jennie E. Kellogg (1818–1892), an American medium, one of the first mediums with whom Emma Hardinge sat during her conversion.
Chasing Emma: A New Attribute of Mind: Amherst; on Buchanan and Psychometry
Chasing Emma: The Latent Fires of Magnetic Power: A Short Note On Jennie E. Kellogg (1818-1892)
Kelly, L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Well-Being: A Practical Guide (1920)
Kenealy, Edward Vaughan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Edward Vaughan Kenealy (1819–1880) was an Irish barrister and eccentric religious writer who proclaimed himself a prophetic "messenger" in his work The Book of God.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1880) Irish-born British barrister, author, poet, and esoteric writer. Born in Cork; took a doctorate in law at Trinity College, Dublin, and practised in London. In 1873 he was chief defence counsel for Arthur Orton in the Tichborne Claimant trial, and was afterward disbarred for professional misconduct. He turned to esoteric writing, publishing works on comparative mythology, and served briefly in Parliament. Died in London in 1880.
Related Periodicals: The Rosicrucian Brotherhood
Related Monographs: Feminism and Sex-Extinction (1920)
Kenilworth, Walter Winston
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Psychic (Atlantic City)
Related Monographs: Practical Occultism (1921)
Kenn, Charles W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Fire-Walking from the Inside (1949)
Kenning, George
(Source: Gemini) (?–1901) English publisher, writer, and merchant, active in Victorian Freemasonry as founder and editor of *The Freemason's Chronicle*. Born in London, he built a manufacturing house specializing in Masonic regalia, uniforms, and jewelry, and published several Masonic periodicals and textbooks. Died in 1901.
Related Periodicals: The Rosicrucian
Kent, Austin
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Crucible | The New Republic | The Spiritual Republic | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly | The Spiritual Age (Boston)
Kent, Parmeter
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) “Parmeter Kent,” a pen-name of the New Thought and mail-order impresario Sydney Blanshard Flower.
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 16: Filling All The Hollow Places
Kern, John Hewins
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Hypnotism: Its Mysteries, History and Mastery (1934)
Kernahan, Coulson
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritualism: A Personal Experience and a Warning (1920)
Kerner, Justinus Andreas Christian
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Justinus Kerner (1786–1862) was a German physician and poet who recorded the visions of Friederike Hauffe, the "Seeress of Prevorst," a founding case of German psychical research.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1862) German physician, poet, and medical writer of the Swabian romantic school. Born in Ludwigsburg; studied medicine at the University of Tübingen and practised in Weinsberg. He conducted a long clinical study of the somnambulist medium Friederike Hauffe, published as *The Seeress of Prevorst* (1829), an early work of psychical research, and defended mesmeric trance and spirit communication. In his later years he suffered progressive blindness. Died in 1862.
Related Periodicals: Archiv Fur Thiereschen Magnetismus (Den Halle) | Beglaubigte Mittheilungen aus der Geisterwelt und dem Nachtgebiete der Natur | Blatter aus Prevorst | Die Ubersinnliche Welt | Magikon (Stuttgart) | Neue Wissenschaft | Okkultistische Rundschau | Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden | The Spiritual Universe
Keyhoe, Donald
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Major Donald Keyhoe (1897–1988) was an American writer and director of NICAP who argued that UFOs were extraterrestrial and that the government concealed evidence.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1988) American Marine Corps officer, aviator, and author, a leader of early ufology and long-time director of the
Related Periodicals: Clypeus | NICAP Reporter
Khan, El Morya
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) "El Morya Khan" is the Theosophical and Ascended-Master name of the "Master Morya," reputed to be one of the adepts who inspired H. P. Blavatsky.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) One of the Mahatmas or Ascended Masters of Theosophy, known as Master M., El Morya, or Morya Khan. In theosophical doctrine popularized by Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, and Alfred Percy Sinnett, he was an adept of Rajput origin residing in trans-Himalayan Tibet who guided Blavatsky in writing *Isis Unveiled* and *The Secret Doctrine*. The Mahatma Letters attributed to him were investigated and dismissed as fraudulent by the
Related Periodicals: Harmony Life Wave | Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Khan, Inayat
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) was an Indian musician and Sufi teacher who brought Sufism to the West, founding the Sufi Order in London in 1914 and teaching the "unity of religious ideals" from his center at Suresnes, France.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1927) Indian classical musician, philosopher, and founder of Universal Sufism in the West. Born in Baroda; he toured India as a singer and veena player before moving to the United States and Europe in 1910. He founded the Sufi Order in London and wrote *The Bowl of Saki* and *The Mysticism of Sound*, teaching Sufi mysticism and interfaith unity. Died in India in 1927.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inayat_Khan
Related Periodicals: The Beacon (Bailey) | Mensch en Cosmos | Rincarnazione | Ultra (Rome)
Kiddle, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Henry Kiddle (1824–1891) was superintendent of New York City schools whose conversion to Spiritualism and book Spiritual Communications caused a public sensation.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1902) American educator, author, and Spiritualist. He served for decades as superintendent of the New York City public schools and compiled school textbooks. In 1879 he announced his conversion to Spiritualism and published *Spiritual Communications*, which forced his resignation as superintendent. Died in New York in 1902.
Chasing Emma: The Truth Will Come Uppermost: Henry Kiddle to Dr. Silas Chesebrough; July 11; 1883
Chasing Emma: Explained Away: Henry Kiddle on Myers' "Unconscious Secondary Self"; 1885
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Kieninger, Richard G.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Richard Kieninger (1927–2002), writing as "Eklal Kueshana," wrote The Ultimate Frontier and founded the Stelle community around a Lemurian-"Brotherhood" mythos.
(Source: Gemini) (?–2002) American writer, occultist, and communal leader who wrote under the pseudonym Eklal Kueshana and founded the Stelle Community in Illinois in 1963. Born in Chicago; his book *The Ultimate Frontier* (1963) set out a cosmology of ancient brotherhoods on Lemuria and Atlantis holding secrets of spiritual evolution. Former members accused him of autocracy and financial exploitation. Died in 2002.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Lemurian Ambassador
Kieser, Dieter Georg
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Archiv Fur Thiereschen Magnetismus (Den Halle)
Kiesewetter, Carl
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Carl Kiesewetter (1854–1895) was a German historian of the occult who wrote scholarly studies of magic, alchemy, and "secret sciences."
Related Periodicals: Sphinx [Leipzig] | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
Related Monographs: Faust in der Geschichte und Tradition, mit besonderer Beruecksichtigung des okkulten Phaenomenalismus (1921)
Kimball, Anna
To be added.
Chasing Emma: George Chainey; Nuclear Fusion; and Homeopathy: Where A Book Can Take Us
Chasing Emma: Six Degrees of George Chainey
Chasing Emma: Six Degrees of George Chainey: Kingsford; Maitland and Tindall
Chasing Emma: Spirit Miscegenation: Coleman on Kimball; January 1881
Chasing Emma: The Gnostic: A Chainey-Kimball-Colville Production
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Kimball, Heber C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Heber C. Kimball (1801–1868) was an early leader and apostle of the Latter-day Saint movement and a counselor to Brigham Young.
(Source: Gemini) Early Latter-day Saint apostle (1801–1868), a member of the original Quorum of the Twelve and a counselor to Brigham Young.
Chasing Emma: Six Degrees of George Chainey
Related Periodicals: The Gnostic
King, Basil
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Conquest of Fear (1921)
King, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) George King (1919–1997) was an English occultist who founded the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1997) British UFO contactee and founder of the Aetherius Society, established in London in 1955. Born in Shropshire; he worked as a taxi driver before claiming telepathic contact with extraterrestrial intelligences, notably an adept from Venus named Aetherius, and formulated a religion combining yoga, esoteric Christianity, and ufology. Died in California in 1997.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Cosmic Voice
King, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) "John King" was one of the most famous "spirit controls" of nineteenth-century Spiritualism, claimed by many mediums (including the Davenports and Eusapia Palladino) as their guide.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) A spirit guide of Victorian Spiritualism, said to be the spirit of the pirate Henry Morgan and the father of the materialization spirit Katie King. The supplied source text describes Katie King rather than John King himself.
Related Periodicals: Freethought | The Spiritual Universe
King, John S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Dawn of the Awakened Mind (1920)
King, Katie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) "Katie King" was the celebrated materialized spirit produced by the medium Florence Cook in the 1870s, investigated by William Crookes.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) A materialization spirit of Victorian Spiritualism, given as the daughter of the pirate spirit John King (Henry Morgan). In séances of the 1870s the medium Florence Cook presented Katie King as a fully materialized form; Sir William Crookes investigated and declared the phenomenon genuine. Critics exposed the materializations as fraud using costumes and confederates.
Related Periodicals: Guia [Recife]
King, Maria M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Maria M. King, an American Spiritualist seer and author of “Principles of Nature” and other trance-derived cosmological works.
Chasing Emma: Demoniacal Spiritualism; the Confusion of Doctrines and Mental Epidemics: August 1880
King, Ross E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mental Mining: Simple Lessons in Psycho-Analysis and Psycho-Synthesis (1926)
King, T. Starr
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Thomas Starr King (1824–1864) was an American Unitarian (and Universalist) minister and orator, influential in California during the Civil War.
Chasing Emma: Audience Response; 1864
Chasing Emma: 1864: Thomas Starr King
Related Periodicals: The Olive Branch
Kingsford, Anna Bonus
Anna Bonus Kingsford (1846–1888) was an English physician, anti-vivisectionist, and vegetarian who became a leading mystic: president of the London Lodge of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1888) English writer, physician, anti-vivisectionist, vegetarian, and Hermeticist. Born in Essex; took a medical degree at the University of Paris in 1880 and served as President of the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kingsford
Chasing Emma: Six Degrees of George Chainey: Kingsford; Maitland and Tindall
Chasing Emma: Nothing In the World So Inexact: Anna Kingsford; June 1885
Related Periodicals: Angel Drummer | The Buddhist Ray | Herald of the Cross | Luz Astral (Chile) | Our Home Rights | The Gnostic
Kingsford, S. M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Psychical Research for the Plain Man (1920)
Kingsland, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) William Kingsland (1855–1936) was an English engineer and Theosophist, an early associate of Blavatsky and author of works reconciling Theosophy with science.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1936) English electrical engineer, author, and theosophist, an associate of Helena Blavatsky in London. Born in Devizes, Wiltshire; he co-founded the Blavatsky Lodge and served as its first president, and wrote *The Physics of the Secret Doctrine* and *The Great Pyramid in Fact and Theory*, attempting to reconcile modern physics with theosophical cosmology. Died in London in 1936.
Related Periodicals: Proceedings of the Blavatsky Association
Related Monographs: Was She a Charlatan? A Critical Analysis of the 1885 SPR Report on the Phenomena connected with Mme. H. P. Blavatsky (1927), The Real H. P. Blavatsky: A Study in Theosophy, and a Memoir of a Great Soul (1928)
Kingsley, Bruce G.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Kingsley, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), the English clergyman and novelist (“The Water-Babies”), whose views surface in the blog's survey of “other spiritualisms.”
Chasing Emma: 1841: Other Spiritualisms
Kingsley, Florence Morse
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Florence Morse Kingsley (1859–1937) was an American author of popular religious and inspirational fiction.
Related Periodicals: Nautilus
Kipling, Rudyard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), the English author of Kim and the Jungle Book, whose fiction engaged Freemasonry, India, and the uncanny.
Related Periodicals: Kosmicke Rozhledy
Kirchberger, Niklaus Anton
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Theosophic Correspondence between Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and Kirchberger, Baron de Liebistorf (1949)
Kirk, Eleanor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Eleanor Kirk" was the pen name of Eleanor Maria Ames (1831–1908), an American journalist and New Thought author (The Bottom Plank of Mental Healing).
Related Periodicals: The Balance | The Christian (Shelton) | Eleanor Kirk's Idea | Free Man (Bangor) | Nautilus | Neue Gedanken | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | New Thought Journal and Occult Review | Soundview | The Stellar Ray | Thought (Alameda) | Wings of Truth
Kislingbury, Emily
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Emily Kislingbury (1833–1912) was an English Spiritualist, long-serving secretary of the
Chasing Emma: Charles Carter Blake
Chasing Emma: October 1877: The Terms Commonly Accepted By Spiritualists
Chasing Emma: Public Mediums and Public Circles: A Note on Catherine Berry
Related Periodicals: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis) | The Spiritualist | The Unknown World
Kitchener
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Other Side God's Door: Messages from Lord Kitchener, Mary Baker Eddy, and Others (1920)
Kitson, Alfred
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Alfred Kitson (1855–1934) was an English Spiritualist and a principal organizer of the Spiritualist "Lyceum" (Sunday-school) movement in Britain.
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds for 1890
Related Periodicals: Lyceum Banner [Liverpool]
Related Monographs: Spiritualism for the Student and Investigator: A Symposium (1923)
Klima, Ladislav
(Source: Gemini) Czech philosopher, novelist, and poet (1878–1928) of a radical egoist-idealist cast — the ego as absolute creator of its own reality, fusing Schopenhauer with Nietzsche's will to power; author of The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch (1928).
Related Periodicals: Horev [Prague]
Klinckowstroem, Carl V.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Der physikalische Mediumismus (1925)
Kline, Otis Adelbert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Otis Adelbert Kline (1891–1946) was an American pulp science-fiction and fantasy writer and literary agent.
Related Periodicals: Mind Digest | True Mystic Science
Knapp, Gardner
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) Gardner Knapp, a figure noted in the blog's early-mediumship notes.
Chasing Emma: Home; Slade and Knapp LLP: The First Independent Slate-Writing; Redux
Knapp, J. Augustus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) J. Augustus Knapp (1853–1938) was an American illustrator best known for the color plates of Manly P. Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1938) American painter and illustrator of esoteric art, best known as illustrator of Manly Palmer Hall's *The Secret Teachings of All Ages* (1928). Born in Newport, Kentucky; he worked for publishing houses before relocating to Los Angeles, where he produced watercolors depicting kabbalistic, alchemical, and Masonic symbols in collaboration with Hall. Died in California in 1938.
Related Periodicals: All-Seeing Eye
Kneipp, Sebastian
(Source: Gemini) Bavarian priest and hydrotherapist (Sebastian Kneipp, 1821–1897), formulator of the cold-water and herbal regimen known as the "Kneipp Cure."
Related Periodicals: Macrocosmo (Barcelona) | The Indian Naturopath | Nature's Path (Lust)
Knight, Charles S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mystery and Prophecy of the Great Pyramid (1933)
Knoche, Grace
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Grace F. Knoche (1909–2006) was an American Theosophist who served as leader of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–2006) American Theosophist, editor, and administrator who served as Leader of the Theosophical Society (Pasadena). Born in Pasadena, California, she studied at the Theosophical University at Point Loma under Arthur L. Conger and succeeded James A. Long as Leader in 1971. She edited the journal *Theosophical Digest* and wrote *Theosophy in the Qabbalah*, synthesizing Western occult tradition with Eastern cosmology. Died in 2006.
Related Periodicals: The Theosophical Path
Related Monographs: Theosophy: The Path of the Mystic ('Links for Your Own Forging') (1922)
Knowles, Abigail Beatrice
The stage name of Abby Beatrice Prather, when she and her husband Elmer Sidney Prather were stage hypnotists, at the end of the nineteenth century in the US.
Related Periodicals: Twentieth Century Astrology
Knowles, Elmer E.
The stage name of Elmer Sidney Prather, when he and his wife Abby Beatrice Prather were stage hypnotists, at the end of the nineteenth century in the US.
The two later used "Elmer E. Knowles" as a cutout in their mail-order schemes, and Knowles was often mistaken for an actual person, both by his customers, and by law enforcement and regulators.
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode Four: Seven Cities of Gold
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Twentieth Century Astrology
Knowles, James Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) James Thomas Knowles (1831–1908), architect and editor, founder of the Metaphysical Society and the Nineteenth Century review.
(Source: Gemini) British architect, editor, and essayist (1831–1908), founder and editor of the review The Nineteenth Century and founder of the Metaphysical Society (1869).
Chasing Emma: A Curious and Thoughtful Letter: Brain-Waves; and the Metaphysical Society; 1869
Knowlson, T. Sharper
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) T. Sharper Knowlson was a British author of the early twentieth century who wrote popular works on New Thought, will-power, and the origins of superstitions.
(Source: Gemini) British author and educator, a writer of practical self-improvement works including The Art of Thinking (1899), The Education of the Will, and Originality: A Popular Study of the Creative Mind, as well as studies of popular superstition.
Related Periodicals: The Business Philosopher | Occult Press Review
Koenig, Peter-R.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Peter-Robert Koenig (b. 1959) is a Swiss researcher and prolific documentarian of the history of the
Related Periodicals: Oriflamme
Kohaus, Hannah More
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Hannah More Kohaus (1855–1934) was an American New Thought poet and writer, author of widely reprinted affirmative verses and prayers.
Related Periodicals: Das Wort (St. Louis) | Universal Truth
Kolisko, L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Lili Kolisko (1889–1976) was an Austrian-British anthroposophical researcher who conducted "capillary dynamolysis" experiments to demonstrate planetary influences.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1976) Austrian-born anthroposophist, agriculturalist, and experimenter who worked with Rudolf Steiner on the development of biodynamic agriculture. Born in Vienna, she established a biological research laboratory in Stuttgart, formulated the 'capillary dynamolysis' (chromatography) method to demonstrate planetary influences on plant growth, and published *Agriculture of Tomorrow* (1939). She later ran her laboratory in England, where she died in 1976.
Related Periodicals: Modern Mystic
Koons, Jonathan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Jonathan Koons (1811–1893) was an Ohio farmer whose "spirit room" séances, featuring musical instruments played by unseen hands, were famous in early American Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American Spiritualist medium and farmer, a leader of the early physical-mediumship movement in the United States. In Athens County, Ohio, he built a log cabin known as the 'Spirit Room' fitted with a 'spirit machine' of copper tables, wire, and musical instruments, claiming that spirits materialized to play instruments, write messages, and speak aloud to sitters. Investigators and local newspapers charged that the effects were produced by hidden confederates and acoustics. He continued as a medium despite ridicule and the destruction of his cabin.
Chasing Emma: 7 January 1875: A Fossil; Played Out; Angry
Chasing Emma: Notes for A History...Koons-Hunting
Chasing Emma: The Little Things
Chasing Emma: Spirits of the Trade; Part Deux: Materialization
Chasing Emma: Sanguifying Usquibaugh: Koons-Hunting
Chasing Emma: The Old World; On Fire: December; 1852
Chasing Emma: The Lesson We Desire To Teach: E. V. Wilson at Koons' Spirit Room; January 1855
Chasing Emma: If It Was The Devil: J. B. Conklin at Koons' Spirit Rooms; November 1854
Chasing Emma: June 19; 1856: John King; and Thomas King
Chasing Emma: Stephen Dudley; Eligibly Seated: Some (Further) Notes on John King
Related Periodicals: The Age of Progress | Mondo Occulto | The Spiritual Universe
Korzybski, Alfred
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering (1921)
Kozminsky, Isidore
(Source: Kim Farnell) Also known as Francis Colton and Israel Kozminsky. 25 Oct 1870, Melbourne, Australia–1943, Hendon, UK. Son of a Prussian Jew who had emigrated to Australia via London and an English non-Jew. His mother claimed a family issue with her parents and to have been adopted. In 1851 the Kozminskys founded a jewellery shop under their name in Melbourne. Israel changed his name to Isidore at about the age of ten as a less Jewish name and claiming it held better numerical values. He struggled with his Jewish identity throughout his life. Kozminsky married Irish-born Eileen Watkins in 1907. His marriage to a non-Jew caused a family rift and he severed contact with his parents. After his father’s death, in 1921 he took over the family’s jewellery business and opened a gallery in 1923. Kozminsky was also an early coin dealer and a member of the Royal Numismatic Society. At some point early in the twentieth century, he gained a Doctor of Science in archaeology. He claimed to be able to read both Hebrew and Aramaic, amongst other languages. Kozminsky claimed to have had an interest in astrology from about the age of nine. He lectured on astrology in the early twentieth century. He also taught astrology. Kozminsky moved to London with his wife and two children, arriving in Hull 2 July 1935. He changed his name by deed poll to Francis Coton (his maternal grandmother’s name with ‘Frances’ masculinised) 31 December 1935 and his son Kenneth adopted the name Coton. In 1936 he was advertising custom made talismans. Kozminsky was reputedly a member of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1940) Australian astrologer, occultist, gemologist, and author active in the early-20th-century revival of astrology and talismanic magic. Born in Melbourne, he studied archaeology and mineralogy before turning to esotericism, and authored *Numbers, Their Meaning and Magic* (1912) and *The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones*, linking gemology with talismanic influence. He faced prosecution under municipal anti-fortune-telling laws. Died in 1940.
Related Periodicals: Wynn's Astrology
Related Monographs: The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones (1922)
Kraft, F. A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: 'Dorio': A Practical and Timely Expose of Spiritualism (1926)
Krause, Karl Christian Friedrich
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832) was a German idealist philosopher whose "panentheism" (Krausism) had wide influence, especially in Spain and Latin America.
Related Periodicals: Pansophic Intellectualizer
Krebs, Columba
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Skuddabub (Starry Story Series, Book One) (1938)
Krishnamurti, J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) was raised by the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher, writer, and speaker. Born in Madanapalle, he was taken up in youth by the Theosophists Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater, who promoted him as the vehicle for the 'World Teacher' and formed the Order of the Star in the East around him. In 1929 he dissolved the Order and broke with the Theosophical Society, declaring that 'truth is a pathless land' and rejecting spiritual authority and gurus. He lectured worldwide on psychological freedom and meditation for decades. Died in California in 1986.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Bulletin Internationale de L'Etoile | Herald of the Star | Heraldo Rosacruz | International Star Bulletin | La Estrella (Madrid) | Loto Blanco | Mothers' Occult Digest | Server (Krishnamurti) | The Star | Ster in het Oosten
Related Monographs: At the Feet of the Master (1922), Theosophy as the Basic Unity of National Life (Four Convention Lectures, Bombay, Dec 1924) (1925), By What Authority? (Ommen Camp Fire Talks 1927) (1927), Temple Talks (Adyar, winter 1925-26) (1927)
Kritzer, J. Haskel
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Text-Book of Iridiagnosis and Treatment (1921)
Kuhn, Alvin Boyd
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880–1963) was an American Theosophical writer who argued that scripture was misread astronomical and psychological allegory.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1963) American author, scholar of comparative religion, and Theosophist, a proponent of the 'Mythicist' theory of Christian origins. Born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, he completed a doctorate at Columbia University and wrote *Theosophy: A Modern Revival of Ancient Wisdom* (1930) and *Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity*. He argued that the New Testament was not biography but a collection of symbolic Egyptian solar myths. Died in New Jersey in 1963.
Related Periodicals: Ancient Wisdom
Kullgren, William Ernest
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) William Ernest Kullgren (1882–1961) was an American astrologer and survivalist publisher of The Beacon Light, mixing prophecy with far-right politics.
Related Periodicals: The Beacon Light | The San Juan Record
Related Monographs: The Dead Speak (1948), Messages of Light (1949)
Kumara, Sanat
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Sanat Kumara" is, in Theosophical and Ascended-Master teaching, a great spiritual being (the "Lord of the World") said to guide the evolution of the earth; not a historical person.
Related Periodicals: Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Kunz, Dora
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Dora van Gelder Kunz (1904–1999) was a Dutch-American Theosophist and clairvoyant who served as president of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1999) Dutch-American occultist, clairvoyant, and writer, President of the Theosophical Society in America and co-developer of 'Therapeutic Touch.' Born in Java, Dutch East Indies, she claimed clairvoyant abilities from childhood and studied under Charles Leadbeater in Australia before moving to New York. With the nurse Dolores Krieger she developed Therapeutic Touch, a system of energy healing widely disputed by medical and scientific bodies. Died in Washington in 1999.
Related Periodicals: Theosophic Messenger
Kunz, Fritz
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Fritz Kunz (1888–1972) was an American Theosophical lecturer and educator, husband of Dora Kunz and founder of the journal Main Currents in Modern Thought.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1972) American Theosophist, educator, and author, co-founder of the Foundation for Integrative Education. Born in Freeport, Illinois, he served the
Related Periodicals: Server (Krishnamurti) | The Theosophical Review
Kuppinger, Mary Frances
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Mary Frances Kuppinger, a wife of the mail-order astrologer Albert H. Postel.
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode Three: The Six (or so) Wives of Albert H. Postel
Kurtzahn, E. Tristan
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Der Tarot: Die kabbalistische Methode der Zukunftserforschung als Schluessel zum Okkultismus (1920)
la Viesta, Vesta
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: People of Other Worlds (1923)
Laarss, R. H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Das Geheimnis der Amulette und Talismane (1921), Eliphas Levi, der grosse Kabbalist und seine magischen Werke (1922), Das Geheimnis der Amulette und Talismane (1926)
Lacey, Frederick W.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Astrologer (Powley) | The Astrologers' Magazine [Alan Leo]
Lachatre, Maurice
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Maurice Lachâtre (1814–1900) was a French socialist lexicographer and publisher, associated with radical and Spiritist literature.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1900) French publisher, socialist, and Spiritist. Born in Issoudun, he ran a Paris publishing house that issued the first French translation of Karl Marx's *Das Kapital* and compiled the *Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel*, and he published several of Allan Kardec's Spiritist works. He was repeatedly prosecuted, imprisoned, and forced into exile for blasphemy and sedition. Died in 1900.
Related Periodicals: Monde Invisible
La Due, Francia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Francia A. LaDue (1849–1922) was an American Theosophist who, with William H. Dower, co-founded the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1922) American Theosophical leader, medium, and author, known by the title 'Blue Star,' founder of the Temple of the People. Born in Chicago, she claimed telepathic contact with spiritual masters, notably the Master Hilarion, and served as the first Guardian of the Temple, founded in Syracuse, New York and later relocated to Halcyon, California. Died in Halcyon in 1922.
Related Periodicals: Herald of Light (Arroyo Grande) | The Temple Artisan
Lady Blomfield
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Lady Sara Louisa Blomfield (1859–1939) was an Irish-born early British Baha'i who recorded 'Abdu'l-Bahá's talks during his visits to the West.
Related Periodicals: Illumination
Lady Nada
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Ruby Focus | Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Lafontaine, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Charles Lafontaine (1803–1892) was a Swiss magnetizer whose public demonstrations of mesmerism in 1841 famously prompted James Braid's investigations into hypnotism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1892) Swiss-French animal magnetizer, author, and stage performer whose demonstrations influenced the physician James Braid. Born in Vendôme, he toured Europe giving public displays of mesmeric trance and claimed cures of paralysis and deafness. His 1841 demonstrations in Manchester were observed by Braid, who went on to formulate a neuro-hypnotic theory of sleep. He faced prosecution from medical and clerical authorities. Died in Geneva in 1892.
Related Periodicals: Magnetiseur (Geneva)
Lahiri, B.K.
(Source: Gemini) (?–before 1912) Indian scholar, translator, and Theosophist who collaborated with Helena Blavatsky in India. Born in Bengal, he studied Sanskrit and served as an advisor and administrator in the
Related Periodicals: The Pilgrim
Lakhovsky, Georges
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: L'Universion (1927)
Lakshman, Sarma K.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1965) Indian lawyer, author, and advocate of 'Nature Cure' (natural hygiene), and a disciple of the sage Ramana Maharshi. He worked with Ramana Maharshi for decades and published *Maha Yoga*, an English presentation of the Maharshi's teachings, and founded a Nature Cure sanitarium promoting drugless healing. He was prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license. Died in 1965.
Related Periodicals: The Indian Naturopath
Lambert, Helen C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A General Survey of Psychical Phenomena (1928)
Lamond, John
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Scripts of Cleophas: A Reconstruction of Primitive Christian Documents, Part I (1938)
Lamoureux, Lillian M. V.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The I Can Way of Happiness (1922)
Lamoureux, Lillian M. Vernet
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The I Can Way of Happiness (1922)
Lancelin, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Charles Lancelin (1852–1941) was a French occult writer who systematized "astral projection" (dédoublement) and psychical research in several treatises.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1941) French occultist, parapsychologist, and author, a researcher of astral projection and out-of-body phenomena. Born in France, he studied under Papus and Colonel Albert de Rochas and published *Method of Astral Projection* (1913) and *Spiritism and the Sciences*, describing techniques he claimed enabled subjects to project the astral 'double.' Died in 1941.
Related Periodicals: L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique | Le Monde Psychique
Landis, Benson Y.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Yearbook of American Churches, 1941 Edition (Fifteenth Issue) (1941)
Landone, Brown
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Brown Landone (1847–1943) was an American New Thought lecturer and author on success, will, and "prophecies."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1945) American physician, New Thought leader, and author active in the early-20th-century mental-power and self-help movements. He built a lecturing and clinical practice and published metaphysical guides including *The Means Which Guarantee Leadership* (1944) and *Deep Down in Your Heart*, teaching a system of mental and physical renewal based on visualization and 'biological living.' Died in 1945.
Related Periodicals: Mind Digest | Nautilus
Related Monographs: Prophecies of Melchi-Zedek in the Great Pyramid and the Seven Temples (1940)
Lane, Anne W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Life in the Circles: Further Lessons Received Through Automatic Writing (1920), To Walk with God: An Experience in Automatic Writing (1920)
Lane, Edward William
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1923)
Lanepoole, Stanley
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1923)
Lang, Andrew
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was a Scottish scholar, folklorist, and man of letters who took a serious anthropological interest in psychical research and "cock lane" ghost lore, and served as president of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1912) Scottish novelist, poet, critic, and anthropologist, and a president of the Society for Psychical Research. Born in Selkirk, he studied at Oxford and built a literary career in London, compiling the *Fairy Books* series. He investigated ghost stories, crystal-gazing, and the comparative mythology of the supernatural, and argued in *The Making of Religion* (1898) for taking such phenomena seriously. Died in Scotland in 1912.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Review
Langford, Laura C. Halloway
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Laura Carter Holloway Langford (1843–1930) was an American author, editor, and Theosophist, one of the recipients of the "Mahatma letters."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1930) American journalist, author, editor, and Theosophist. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, she built a literary career in New York as a newspaper editor and biographer, became a close associate of Helena Blavatsky, and co-authored *Man: Fragments of Forgotten History*. Died in New York in 1930.
Related Periodicals: The Word (Percival)
Langsdorff, G. von
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Georg von Langsdorff (1822–1921) was a German-American physician and Spiritualist, a promoter of the movement and its press in Germany.
Related Periodicals: Zeitschrift fur Spiritismus
Langston, E. L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Lankester, Edwin Ray
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Sir E. Ray Lankester (1847–1929), the eminent zoologist who prosecuted the slate-writing medium Henry Slade for fraud in 1876.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1929) British zoologist and evolutionary biologist, director of the Natural History Museum in London and an associate of Thomas Henry Huxley. Born in London, he was a prominent opponent of Spiritualism and in 1876 organized the successful prosecution for fraud of the physical medium Henry Slade. Died in London in 1929.
Chasing Emma: Taken In The Act: The Slade Prosecution
Lansbury, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) George Lansbury (1859–1940) was a British Labour Party leader and Christian-socialist pacifist; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship)
Lant, John A.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Buchanan's Journal of Man (First and Second Series) | National Transition Moonly Voice
Lantoine, Albert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Albert Lantoine (1869–1949) was a French Freemason and historian of Freemasonry and esoteric fraternities.
Related Periodicals: Symbolisme
Lanyon, Walter C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Walter C. Lanyon (1887–1967) was an American New Thought author of mystical devotional works in the "I AM"/impersonal-life vein.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1967) American writer, New Thought teacher, and lecturer. He traveled and lectured widely on a poetic system of spiritual realization centered on divine union, and wrote more than forty metaphysical books, including *The Laughter of God* and *I Came*. Died in California in 1967.
Related Periodicals: Mind Digest
Lanz, Adolf-Josef
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Adolf Josef Lanz — "Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels" (1874–1954), the Austrian Ariosophist; same person as the "Lanz-Liebenfels, Jorg" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1954) Austrian occultist, journalist, and former Cistercian monk, a founder of Ariosophy. Born in Vienna, he founded the Order of the New Templars in 1907 and published the periodical *Ostara*, which set out a racial-occult cosmology combining Gnosticism, runic occultism, and anti-Semitism. Under the Nazi regime his occult organizations were banned and he was subject to Gestapo censorship. Died in Vienna in 1954.
Related Periodicals: Ostara
Lanz-Liebenfels, Jorg
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874–1954) was an Austrian former monk and völkisch occultist who founded the racist-esoteric Ordo Novi Templi and the magazine Ostara. See also "Lanz, Adolf-Josef."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1954) Austrian occultist, journalist, and former Cistercian monk, born Adolf Josef Lanz in Vienna; regarded as the founder of Ariosophy. In 1907 he established the Order of the New Templars, acquiring a castle for its rituals, and published the monthly periodical *Ostara*, which set out a pseudoscientific racial cosmology blending Gnosticism, runic occultism, and anti-Semitism. Under the Nazi regime, which banned independent occult organizations, he was subjected to Gestapo censorship. Died in Vienna in 1954.
Related Periodicals: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau
Laotse
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Laozi (Lao Tzu), the semi-legendary Chinese sage traditionally regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and founder of Taoism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Ancient Chinese philosopher, traditionally titled Lao-Tse, regarded as the founder of Taoism. Traditionally said to have served as keeper of the imperial archives of the Zhou dynasty before authoring the *Tao Te Ching*, which set out the principles of the Tao (the Way), wu wei (effortless action), and natural harmony.
Related Periodicals: Shrine of Wisdom
Larkin, Clarence
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Spirit World (1921)
Larkin, Edgar Lucien
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Edgar Lucien Larkin (1847–1924), the American astronomer and occult popularizer; a spelling variant of the "Larkin, Edgar Lucien" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1924) American astronomer and author, director of the Lowe Observatory on Mount Lowe, California; born in Illinois. He authored *Radiant Energy* and *Within the Mind Maze*, attempting to bridge astrophysics with New Thought philosophy and telepathic phenomena. Died in California in 1924.
Related Periodicals: The Balance | Nautilus | Brotherhood (Los Angeles) | Fohat | The Stellar Ray | The Truth
Larmandie, Comte de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Léonce de Larmandie (1851–1921) was a French aristocrat and writer, a member of Péladan's Ordre de la Rose-Croix Catholique and chronicler of its "aesthetic" Rosicrucianism.
Related Periodicals: La Vie Mysterieuse
Larson, Christian Daa
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Christian D. Larson (1874–1954) was an American New Thought teacher and prolific author (The Optimist Creed), a major popularizer of the movement's self-development doctrines.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1954) American author, publisher, and New Thought writer, born in Iowa; creator of the *Optimist Creed*. He edited the periodical *Eternal Progress* and wrote metaphysical works including *The Great Within* and *Your Forces and How to Use Them*, setting out a systematic philosophy of mental power holding that individuals could manifest success and healing through creative visualization. Died in California in 1954.
Related Periodicals: The Cosmic World | Eternal Progress | Progress Magazine | Religious Science
Related Monographs: Concentration (1920)
Larson, J. Austin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) J. Austin Larson, an American magnetic healer of the early 1900s (encountered via the young Carl Sandburg).
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Larson Healing; 1905
Lauer, Solon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Solon Lauer was an American New Thought writer and lecturer of the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings
Lavater, Johann Caspar
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Johann Caspar Lavater (1741–1801) was a Swiss pastor, poet, and founder of physiognomy, also interested in animal magnetism and the miraculous.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1801) Swiss poet, theologian, and Reformed pastor, born in Zurich; pioneer of physiognomy in Europe and author of *Essays on Physiognomy* (1775–1778). He collaborated with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and formulated the systematic theory that moral character and intellectual ability could be read from facial structure; his work was attacked by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Died in Zurich in 1801 of gunshot wounds received during the French revolutionary occupation of Switzerland.
Related Periodicals: The Conjuror's Magazine
Lawrence, Edward
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritualism Among Civilised and Savage Races: A Study in Anthropology (1921)
Lawrence, John Tharp
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) John Tharp Lawrence, author of an early astronomy and astrology text.
Chasing Emma: The Elements of Astronomy and Gilbert Vale
Lawrence, Margery
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Margery Lawrence (1889–1969) was an English novelist and short-story writer of supernatural fiction and a committed Spiritualist.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1969) British novelist, short-story writer, and Spiritualist, born in Wolverhampton; studied art in Paris before a literary career in London. She published collections of ghost stories including *Number Seven, Queer Street* and *The Ferry of Souls*, claimed clairvoyant abilities, and wrote parapsychological books in support of spirit communication. Died in London in 1969.
Related Periodicals: The Metaphysician (Palatine)
Lawrence, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) William Lawrence, an East-End (Limehouse) London Spiritualist medium prosecuted under the Vagrancy Act.
Chasing Emma: The Seances at Limehouse: William Lawrence; the East End Spiritualist
Lawton, George
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Drama of Life After Death: A Study of the Spiritualist Religion (1932)
Lay, Wilfrid
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Man's Unconscious Spirit: The Psychoanalysis of Spiritism (1921)
Layne, Meade
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Meade Layne (1882–1961) was an American founder of
(Source: Gemini) (?–1961) American ufologist and publisher who in 1945 founded the Borderland Sciences Research Associates (BSRA) and edited its journal *Round Robin*. He formulated an 'etheric' theory of UFOs, arguing that flying saucers were not vehicles from other planets but multidimensional craft materialized from co-existing etheric realms. Died in California in 1961.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: The Mark Probert Mediumship
Related Periodicals: Fortean Society Magazine | Journal of Borderland Research | Mind Digest | Round Robin | Voice from the Gallery
Related Monographs: The Ether Ship Mystery and Its Solution (1950)
Lazenby, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Charles Lazenby (1878–1936) was a Canadian-British Theosophist, lecturer, and founder of the magazine The Path (London).
Related Periodicals: Ihminen
Le Cour, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Paul Le Cour (1871–1954) was a French writer on Atlantis and esoteric Christianity, founder of the society and journal Atlantis.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1954) French writer, esotericist, and astrologer, born in Blois; founder in 1927 of the association and journal *Atlantis*. He authored *The Age of Aquarius* (1937), setting out an astrological theory of a dawning spiritual epoch, and researched the physical reality of lost civilizations. Died in France in 1954.
Related Periodicals: Atlantis (Le Cour) | Atlantis Quarterly
Le Rouge, G.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Gustave Le Rouge (1867–1938) was a French writer of popular science-fiction and occult-themed novels and studies.
Related Periodicals: Croire
Leach, Orville Livingston
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The White Spark (1920)
Leadbeater, Charles Webster
Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934) was a British clergyman, occultist, and author who played a prominent part in the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1934) English-born clergyman, theosophist, and clairvoyant, born in Stockport; ordained an Anglican curate before joining the Theosophical Society under Helena Blavatsky and traveling to India. He identified Jiddu Krishnamurti as the vehicle for the World Teacher and authored over thirty works, including *Occult Chemistry* and *The Astral Plane*. He was repeatedly prosecuted and expelled from the Society following allegations of sexual impropriety with boys under his care. Died in Australia in 1934.
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Related Periodicals: American Occultist | Arohn | Australian Theosophist | Bulletin de l'Ordre de l'Etoile d'Orient | The Channel | The Divine Life | Fiat Lux | Fohat | Gnosi | Harmony (Ponca City) | Isis (Lisbon) | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires) | Mensageiro | The Metaphysician (Palatine) | Mothers' Occult Digest | Neue Gedanken | The Pilgrim | Pitagoras (Mexico) | Reincarnation | Revista Teosofica (Havana) | Rincarnazione | Ruusu-Risti | Star Bulletin | Ster in het Oosten | Teosofia en Lob-Nor | Teozofija (Zagreb) | Theosophic Messenger | The Theosophic Voice | The Theosophical Review | Theosophy in Australasia | Theosophy in India | Ultra (Rome) | Virya | Vrede | World Theosophy | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus | O.E. Library Critic
Related Monographs: The Monad, and Other Essays upon the Higher Consciousness (1920), The Science of the Sacraments (1920), Man: Whence, How and Whither -- A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation (1922), Talks on 'At the Feet of the Master' (1922), The Masters and the Path (1925), The Power and Use of Thought (1925), Telepathy and Mind-Cure (1926), A Tribute to Dr. Besant (lecture, Adyar Hall, Sydney, 2 Oct 1927) (1927), Talks on the Path of Occultism, Vol. I: At the Feet of the Master (1930), Theosophy, Past and Future (Four Convention Lectures, 54th Anniversary, Dec 1929) (1930), The Work of Theosophists (1931)
Leaf, Horace
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Horace Leaf (1886–1971) was a British medium, psychical lecturer, and author who wrote practical guides to psychic development.
Related Periodicals: Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research | International Psychic Gazette
Lease, Mary E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Mary Elizabeth Lease (1850–1933) was an American Populist orator and reformer, later drawn to Theosophy and metaphysical causes.
Related Periodicals: Foundation Principles
Leavitt, C. Franklin
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Are You YOU? (1921), Self Mastery Through Understanding (A Treatise on Leavitt-Science) (1922)
Leavitt, Hazel
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Personality Plus (1938)
Leavitt, Sheldon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Sheldon Leavitt (1848–1933) was an American physician and New Thought author who wrote on "paths to the heights" of mental and spiritual power.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: The Devils in Mrs. Romadka
Related Periodicals: Thought (Leavitt)
Leclerc, Alfred
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Echo du Merveilleux | Veritable Almanach du Merveilleux
Lee, A. H. E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Magnetism and Magic (1927), When Nero Was Dictator (1942)
Lee, Gloria
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Gloria Lee (1926–1962) was an American UFO contactee who claimed telepathic messages from a being of Jupiter and died during a "fast" awaiting spacecraft plans.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1962) American UFO contactee and publisher, born Gloria Lee Holland in Los Angeles (later Gloria Lee Byrd); founder of the
Related Periodicals: Cosmon (Crf)
Leek, Sybil
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Sybil Leek (1917–1982) was an English astrologer and self-described witch who became a popular media "occult" personality in Britain and America.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1982) English witch, astrologer, and occult author, born in Staffordshire; a promoter of the Wicca revival. She claimed descent from a lineage of witches and published occult manuals including *Diary of a Witch* (1968). She later relocated to the United States, where she died in 1982.
Related Periodicals: Probe the Unknown
Lees, Robert James
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Life Elysian: Being More Leaves from the Autobiography of a Soul in Paradise (1942)
Leeuw, J.J. Van Der
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) J. J. van der Leeuw (1893–1934) was a Dutch Theosophist and philosopher, author of The Conquest of Illusion, who broke with the Society over the Krishnamurti question.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1934) Dutch theosophist, philosopher, and lecturer, born in Rotterdam; a leading figure in the international Theosophical movement. Holding doctoral degrees in law and philosophy, he wrote *The Conquest of Illusion* (1928), setting out a metaphysical system synthesizing Western philosophy with Eastern mysticism, and lectured widely. He died in an airplane crash in East Africa in 1934.
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Leevier, Annette
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Psychic Experiences of an Indian Princess (1920)
Legge, F.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Philosophumena, or The Refutation of All Heresies (1921)
Leigh, James
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Facts (Friendship Centre UK) | Prediction
Related Monographs: The Manual and Who's Who of Spiritualism & Psychic Research 1936 (1936)
Leland, Theron C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Theron C. Leland, an American Spiritualist and shorthand reformer of the mid-nineteenth century.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1885) American Spiritualist, free-love and labor reformer, stenographer, and writer. A professional stenographic reporter, he introduced phonographic shorthand to record national political and Spiritualist conventions, co-edited free-love journals, and wrote Spiritualist treatises campaigning against traditional marriage laws. Died in 1885.
Chasing Emma: How Marsupial Animals Propagate Their Kind
Lemaitre, Jules
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jules Lemaître (1853–1914) was a French critic, dramatist, and man of letters; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Echo du Merveilleux
Lenox, Ruth Scoles
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Golden Dawn (Wayne Taylor) | Mentor (Myneta and Taylor) | Solograph
Leo, Alan
Alan Leo (1860-1917) was the pseudonym of British astrologer William Frederick Allen, born in London on 7 August 1860. After an impoverished and itinerant youth he became a successful mail-order astrologer and joined the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1917) British astrologer, author, and theosophist, born William Frederick Allan in London. He co-founded *The Astrologer's Magazine* (later *Modern Astrology*) and the Astrological Lodge of London, promoting an esoteric astrology grounded in theosophical principles and integrating astrology with psychological analysis and the concept of karma. He was repeatedly prosecuted under the 1824 Vagrancy Act for fortune-telling, culminating in a 1917 trial and fines. Died in 1917.
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Leo, Bessie
(Source: Gemini) (?–1917) British astrologer, author, and theosophist, born William Frederick Allan in London. He co-founded *The Astrologer's Magazine* (later *Modern Astrology*) and the Astrological Lodge of London, promoting an esoteric astrology grounded in theosophical principles. He was repeatedly prosecuted under the 1824 Vagrancy Act for fortune-telling, culminating in a 1917 trial and fines. Died in 1917.
Related Periodicals: L'Astrosophie | The Seer | Theosophic Messenger
Leopold, Richard William
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Robert Dale Owen: A Biography (1940)
Lermina, Jules
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Jules Lermina (1839–1915) was a French journalist, novelist, and occultist who wrote popular works on practical magic and the "science of the invisible."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1915) French novelist, journalist, socialist, and occultist, born in Paris; a contributor to early French detective, fantasy, and science fiction. He published adventure and supernatural novels including *L'Élixir de Vie* and *Le Secret des Templiers*, and wrote treatises on mesmerism and Kabbalah. He was arrested and imprisoned on several occasions for anti-clerical, revolutionary articles. Died in Paris in 1915.
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Lester, Charles Edwards
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Charles Edwards Lester (1815–1890), an American author and diplomat who served as Emma Hardinge's US promoter and biographer.
(Source: Gemini) American diplomat, historian, and Presbyterian minister; United States consul at Genoa and author of numerous historical works, including The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius.
Chasing Emma: Rep'ing Emma: Charles Edwards Lester (1815-1890)
Chasing Emma: Yet Another Biographical Summary: BofL; December 18; 1869
Lester, Reginald M.
(Source: Gemini) (1896–1973) British journalist, author, and Spiritualist. A London journalist who reported on international affairs, he turned to the investigation of mediumship after personal bereavement, claimed contact with his deceased wife, and wrote *In Search of the Hereafter* (1952) and other books advocating the reality of the afterlife.
Related Periodicals: Churches Fellowship for Psychical Studies
Leute, Karl M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Afterworld Effects (Afterworld Series, Part I) (1922)
Levi, Eliphas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Éliphas Lévi (Alphonse Louis Constant, 1810–1875), the French ceremonial magician whose writings shaped the modern occult revival and Emma Hardinge Britten's sources.
(Source: Gemini) (1810–1875) French occultist, socialist, and author, born Alphonse Louis Constant in Paris; regarded as a founding figure of the modern occult revival in Europe. Educated at the Saint-Sulpice seminary and ordained a tonsured cleric before leaving the Church for radical politics and esoteric study, he published *Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie* (1854–1856), synthesizing Tarot, Kabbalah, and alchemy into a system of ceremonial magic. He was imprisoned on several occasions for his political writings. Died in Paris in 1875.
Chasing Emma: John Abraham Heraud
Related Monographs: The History of Magic, Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of Its Procedure, Its Rites and Its Mysteries (1922), The Paradoxes of the Highest Science (1922), The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (1947)
Related Periodicals: Paix Universelle | La Verite (Lyon)
Levy, Eugene
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mrs Besant and the Present Crisis in the Theosophical Society (1934)
Levy, Felix A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mental Healing in Judaism: Its Relationship to Christian Science and Psychoanalysis (1936)
Levy, Paul Emile
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Rational Education of the Will: Its Therapeutic Value (1920)
Lewes, George Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) George Henry Lewes (1817–1878), the versatile English critic and man of science (partner of George Eliot), a skeptic of table-turning.
(Source: Gemini) British philosopher, critic, and physiologist (1817–1878), co-founder of The Fortnightly Review, author of Problems of Life and Mind, and the longtime partner of the novelist George Eliot.
Chasing Emma: The Resurrection; or the Rapping: Thornton Leigh Hunt and G. H. Lewes
Lewi, Grant
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Grant Lewi (1902–1951) was an American astrologer whose Heaven Knows What and Astrology for the Millions did much to popularize astrology.
(Source: Gemini) (1902–1951) American astrologer, author, and editor, born William Grant Lewi II in Albany, New York. A Hamilton College graduate and former professor of English, he left academia for astrology, editing the periodicals *Horoscope* and *The Astrologer* and publishing popular guides that aligned astrology with modern psychological analysis, most notably *Astrology for the Millions* (1940) and *Heaven Knows What*. Died in Arizona in 1951.
Related Periodicals: The Astrologer (Lewi) | Horoscope (Dell) | True Mystic Science
Lewis, Harvey Spencer
Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883–1939) was an American advertising man, mystic, and Egyptophile who founded and led (as Imperator) the Rosicrucian order AMORC from 1915, building it into a worldwide mail-order fraternity headquartered at Rosicrucian Park, San Jose.
(Source: Gemini) (1883–1939) American occultist, author, and mystic, known in esoteric circles as Sar Alden, who founded the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) in 1915 and served as its first Imperator. Born in Frenchtown, New Jersey, he worked as a commercial artist and journalist before turning to esotericism. He claimed to have been initiated by Rosicrucian masters in Toulouse, France, who directed him to establish the order, and published *Rosicrucian Questions and Answers*. Rival Rosicrucian leader Reuben Swinburne Clymer accused him of plagiarism and fraudulent initiatory authority, prompting lawsuits. He ran the order's headquarters in San Jose until his death in 1939.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Spencer_Lewis
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode One: 150 Pieces Per Day
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode Two: Welcome to the Hypnotic Ball
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: American Rosae Crucis | Annales Initiatiques | The Channel | The Column | Cosmic Dawn (Los Angeles) | Cromaat | F. U. D. O. S. I. | The Future Home Journal | Initiates and the People | Lemurian Ambassador | Modern Miracles | Modern Mystic | The Mystic Triangle | The New Liberator | Occidental Mystic and Occult | The Occult Digest | Rosicrucian Digest | Rosicrucian Forum | Ruusu-Risti | The Triangle | Twentieth Century Astrology | Yours Fraternally
Related Monographs: A Thousand Years of Yesterdays: A Strange Story of Mystic Revelation (1920), Rosicrucian Illumination (Rosicrucian Initiation): A Sealed Book of Information and Preliminary Instruction (1921), Unto Thee I Grant (Secret Teachings of Tibet) (1925), The Light of Egypt: The Strange Story of the Rosicrucians (1928), Rosicrucian Principles for the Home and Business (1929), The Mystical Life of Jesus (1929), Mansions of the Soul: The Cosmic Conception (1930), The Light of Egypt: The Strange Story of the Rosicrucians (1931), Rosicrucian Manual (1932), Rosicrucian Questions and Answers, With Complete History of the Rosicrucian Order (1932), Mental Poisoning (1937), What Occurs After Death? (1942), Mansions of the Soul: The Cosmic Conception (1945)
Lewis, Henry E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Henry E. Lewis (1825–1857), an itinerant mesmeric lecturer of the 1850s.
Chasing Emma: Every Lawful Night: Henry E. Lewis (1825? - 1857)
Lewis, Ralph M.
(Source: Gemini) (1904–1987) American esoteric author and administrator who served as the second Imperator of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC). Born in New York City, the son of AMORC founder Harvey Spencer Lewis, he succeeded his father as Imperator in 1939, expanded the order internationally, established museums and printing presses at Rosicrucian Park in San Jose, California, and authored *The Sanctuary of Self*. Died in 1987.
Related Periodicals: F. U. D. O. S. I. | Rosicrucian Digest | Rosicrucian Forum
Related Monographs: Along Civilization's Trail (1940)
Lewy, Hans
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Sobria Ebrietas: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der antiken Mystik (1929)
Leymarie, Pierre-Gaetan
(Source: Gemini) (1827–1901) French Spiritualist publisher, writer, and administrator, the principal successor to Allan Kardec. He managed the Spiritist Society and edited *La Revue Spirite*, promoting Spiritism across Europe and South America. He was a central figure in the 1875 Paris 'Spirit Photography Scandal', arrested, tried, and convicted of fraud for publishing fabricated spirit photographs, and imprisoned for one year; he maintained his innocence. Died in 1901.
Related Periodicals: Bulletin de l'Union Spirite Francaise | Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Irradiacion (Madrid) | Neos Pithagoras | Revue Spirite
Liberty
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Lincoln, Abraham
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Letters from Eternity, Volume I (1932)
Lind, Prince Om Cherenzi
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Mid-twentieth-century esoteric leader, alchemist, and author, born Omar Cherenzi-Lind, who styled himself 'Maha Chohan' and spiritual sovereign of several esoteric orders including the Unified
Related Periodicals: Rosa-Cruz | Ariel (Colombia)
Linden, A. V. D.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Faust in der Geschichte und Tradition, mit besonderer Beruecksichtigung des okkulten Phaenomenalismus (1921), Hermetisches ABC derer aechten Weisen alter und neuer Zeiten vom Stein der Weisen, Vierter Teil (Geheime Wissenschaften, Band VIII) (1921)
Lindlahr, Henry
(Source: Gemini) German-born American naturopath (1862–1924), author of the textbook Nature Cure (1913), founder of the Lindlahr Sanitarium in Chicago, and a proponent of iridology.
Related Periodicals: The Indian Naturopath | The Lindlahr Magazine
Related Monographs: Practice of Natural Therapeutics (1920), Natural Therapeutics, Vol. I: Philosophy of Natural Therapeutics (1921)
Lindlahr, Victor Hugo
(Source: Gemini) American nutritionist, author, and radio broadcaster (1895–1969), son of the naturopath Henry Lindlahr, who popularized the phrase "you are what you eat."
Related Periodicals: The Lindlahr Magazine
Lindner, Lilian C.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Astrological Review (Astrology Guild of America)
Lindsay, Arthur Adolphus
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Mind the Builder
Related Monographs: New Psychology Complete: Mind the Builder and Scientific Man Building (Three Books in One) (1922)
Lindsay, Master of
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) James Ludovic Lindsay, Master of Lindsay, later 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913), an aristocratic witness to D. D. Home's séances (distinct from Viscount Adare).
Chasing Emma: Emma; the Master of Lindsay and Elongation
Lings, Martin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Martin Lings (1909–2005) was an English scholar of Sufism and a leading exponent of the Perennialist / Traditionalist school, a disciple of Frithjof Schuon.
(Source: Gemini) (1909–2005) British scholar of religion, author, and Traditionalist philosopher, born Abu Bakr Siraj ad-Din, central to the modern Western study of Sufism. Educated at Oxford, he taught English at Cairo University before joining the Traditionalist School under René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon. He published *Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources* (1983) and served for decades as keeper of Oriental manuscripts at the British Museum. Died in 2005.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett) | Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles
Lippard, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) George Lippard (1822–1854) was an American gothic novelist, labor reformer, and founder of a secret fraternal order, the
(Source: Gemini) American gothic novelist, journalist, and labor reformer (1822–1854), author of The Quaker City (1844) and founder of the fraternal Brotherhood of the Union.
Related Periodicals: The Spirit Messenger | Spiritual Philosopher | Spiritual Philosopher (Etincelle) | Univercoelum | The White Banner (Lippard)
List, Guido von
Guido von List (1848–1919) was an Austrian occultist and völkisch author who, drawing on Theosophy, founded "Ariosophy" and "Armanism," a runic-Germanic pagan revival. His Armanen runes and Aryan mythos later fed into the occult currents around the SS.
(Source: Gemini) (1848–1919) Austrian occultist, journalist, and author regarded as the founder of Ariosophy and the modern runic revival. Born in Vienna, he founded the Guido von List Society to promote Germanic paganism, runic mysticism, and völkisch nationalism, and published *The Secret of the Runes* (1908), claiming to reconstruct the esoteric wisdom of ancient Aryan priest-kings. Died in Berlin in 1919.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_von_List
Related Periodicals: Gnosis (Vienna) | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | Zum Licht
Litch, Josiah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Josiah Litch (1809–1886) was an American Millerite (Adventist) preacher and writer, later associated with the prophetic-conditionalist tradition.
Chasing Emma: 1850: The Millerites Look At Spiritualism
Related Periodicals: The Pneumatologist
Litchfield, Beals
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Beals Litchfield, a figure in the c.1890
Chasing Emma: Call Me What You Please: The Split Within Spiritualism; c. 1890
Little, Robert Wentworth
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Robert Wentworth Little (1840–1878) was an English Freemason who founded the
(Source: Gemini) (1840–1878) English Freemason and scholar who founded the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA) in 1867. A senior clerk at Freemasons' Hall in London, he claimed to have discovered Rosicrucian manuscripts there, devised the SRIA's rituals and grade structure, served as its first Supreme Magus, and edited *The Rosicrucian*. Critics challenged his initiatory authority and accused him of fabricating the manuscripts. Died in London in 1878.
Related Periodicals: The Rosicrucian
Littlefield, George Elmer
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Illumination and Love (1922)
Livermore, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Charles F. Livermore, the New York banker whose extended séances with Kate Fox — and the materialized “Estelle” — became famous test cases.
Chasing Emma: The White Leaves of History [1]: The Rise of Spirit Form Manifestation in England; 1872
Livy
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Livy (Titus Livius, c. 59 BCE–17 CE), the Roman historian; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Psychometric Circular
Lloyd, J. William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) J. William Lloyd (1857–1940) was an American individualist-anarchist and New Thought writer on sex, health, and the "natural" life.
Related Periodicals: Clothed With The Sun | The Ghourki | Occult Truths | Purdy's Monthly | Soundview | Ye Quaint Magazine
Related Monographs: The Karezza Method, or Magnetation: The Art of Connubial Love (1931)
Lloyd, John Uri
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John Uri Lloyd (1849–1936) was an American pharmacist of the Eclectic school and author of the mystical utopian novel Etidorhpa (1895).
(Source: Gemini) (1849–1936) American pharmacist and author, co-founder of Lloyd Brothers Pharmacists and the Lloyd Library in Cincinnati, who pursued alchemical and esoteric philosophy. He is best known for the metaphysical novel *Etidorhpa* (1895), depicting a hollow-earth journey. Died in Cincinnati in 1936.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Eclectic Medical Journal
Llull, Ramon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Ramon Llull (c. 1232–1316) was a Majorcan philosopher, mystic, and missionary whose combinatorial "Art" influenced later Hermetic and Kabbalistic thought.
(Source: Gemini) (c. 1232–1316) Majorcan philosopher, theologian, logician, and mystic, celebrated as the inventor of the 'Ars Magna' (Great Art). After a spiritual conversion he wrote over 250 works and traveled in North Africa to convert Muslims to Christianity, designing rotating paper disks to combine logical and theological terms mechanically. He faced condemnation, imprisonment, and hostility. Died c. 1316.
Related Periodicals: New Ideas (Comprehensionism)
Loab, Prince
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Doomed: A Startling Message to the People of Our Day (1920)
Lobb, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John Lobb, an English editor and Spiritualist, noted for spirit-photography interests.
Chasing Emma: Spirits On The Glass
Locke
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Almost certainly John Locke (1632–1704), the English empiricist philosopher; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Zetetic
Locke, Richard Adams
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Richard Adams Locke (1800–1871), the journalist behind the 1835 “Great Moon Hoax,” a touchstone in the blog's reflections on hoaxing.
Chasing Emma: Emma and the Hoaxer
Lockwood, Guy
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mastership or Mediumship, Which? A Timely Warning (1920)
Lodge, Oliver
Sir Oliver Lodge (1851–1940) was a British physicist (a pioneer of radio) and psychical researcher, president of the
(Source: Gemini) (1851–1940) British physicist and psychical researcher. A pioneer of wireless telegraphy and professor of physics at the University of Liverpool, he became a leading investigator of spiritualism. After his son Raymond was killed in the First World War, he published *Raymond; or, Life and Death* (1916), describing communications with his son through mediums. Died in 1940.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Lodge
Chasing Emma: The Spiritualist and the Physicist
Related Periodicals: Annales des Sciences Psychiques | Azoth | La Idea (Buenos Aires) | Mind In Nature | The Occult Review
Related Monographs: Man and the Universe (1920), The Survival of Man: A Study in Unrecognized Human Faculty (1920), The Earthen Vessel: A Volume Dealing with Spirit Communication Received in the Form of Book-Tests (1921), Ancient Lights, or The Bible, the Church, and Psychic Science (1923), The Life of Sir William Crookes, O.M., F.R.S. (1923), Leaves from a Psychic Note-Book (1927), Phantom Walls (1930), The Road to Immortality (1933), This World--and Beyond (1934), 'Twixt Earth and Heaven: A Psychic's Experiences (1935)
Lomaxe, Paul R.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mary Baker Eddy, Spiritualist Medium (1946)
Lombroso, Charles
Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909) was the Italian physician and "father of criminology" whose theory of the "born criminal" made him famous. Initially a skeptic, he converted to Spiritualism after investigating the medium Eusapia Palladino, arguing for survival in After Death — What? (1909).
(Source: Gemini) (1835–1909) Italian physician and criminologist, founder of the positivist Italian school of criminology and its theory of atavism, recorded in French publications as Charles Lombroso. In later life he declared his conversion to Spiritualism and conducted laboratory investigations of the medium Eusapia Palladino, drawing ridicule from scientific societies. Died in Turin in 1909.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso
Related Periodicals: Annales des Sciences Psychiques | Luce e Ombra | Lux (Rome) | Mondo Occulto | Nueva Atlantida (Montevideo) | Revue Scientifique et Morale de Spiritisme | Voprosy Psikhizma
Related Monographs: Hypnotisme et Spiritisme (1920)
Lomer, Georg
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Georg Lomer (1877–1957) was a German psychiatrist and occult author who wrote on astrology, magnetism, and "cosmic" psychology.
Related Periodicals: Christliche Theosophie | Weisse Fahne | Zum Licht
Related Monographs: Seele und Kosmos: Betrachtungen und Vergleiche (1920), Ein chirosophisches Lehrbuch: Die Sprache der Hand (1925), Wir und die Juden im Lichte der Astrologie (1928)
London, Jack
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) American novelist and journalist (1876–1916), author of The Call of the Wild (1903) and The Sea-Wolf (1904); biological son of the itinerant astrologer W. H. Chaney.
Chasing Emma: The Flinty-Hearted Calculator: Some Notes on W. H. Chaney (1821-1903)
Related Periodicals: Kosmicke Rozhledy | The Open Road | The Philomathean [Chaney]
Long, Max Freedom
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Max Freedom Long (1890–1971) was an American writer who claimed to reconstruct the secret Hawaiian magico-psychological system he called "Huna," founding the Huna Research Associates.
(Source: Gemini) (1890–1971) American teacher, author, and mystic, principal founder of Huna philosophy and the Huna Fellowship. Born in Denver, Colorado, he worked as a schoolteacher in Hawaii, where he studied Hawaiian language and healing practices, and developed a system synthesizing psychoanalysis with esoteric Hawaiian tradition. He published *Recovering the Ancient Magic* (1936) and *The Secret Science Behind Miracles*. Died in California in 1971.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Digest | Round Robin
Longfellow
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), the American poet; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The New World
Lonk, Adolph F.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Complete Seventy-Two Part Manual of Hypnotism and Psycho-Therapeutics, and Also Mysteries of Time and Space (1947)
Loog, C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus (1921)
Loomis, Ernest
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ernest Loomis was an American New Thought writer and publisher of "occult" self-culture booklets around 1900.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American author, publisher, and New Thought pioneer, active into the early twentieth century. From a Chicago publishing house he edited the periodical *The Force* and issued metaphysical booklets including *Your Practical Forces* and *Practical Occultism*, teaching a system of 'mental magnetism' by which thought vibration and visualization could produce health, wealth, and spiritual growth. Died in the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Occult Science Library | Suggestion | Thought (Alameda)
Lopez, Quintin
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Iris de Paz (Huesca) | Lumen | Mensajero Christiano
Lorber, Jakob
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Jakob Lorber (1800–1864) was an Austrian mystic, the "God's scribe" or "German Swedenborg," who produced thousands of pages of dictated "inner-word" revelation.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1864) Austrian Christian mystic, musician, and writer, called the 'Scribe of God' and founding prophet of the Lorberian movement. A teacher and violinist in Styria, he underwent a spiritual transformation in 1840 and claimed to hear an inner voice, which he identified as Christ, dictating writings he transcribed over twenty-four years, most notably *The Great Gospel of John* and *The Youth of Jesus*, setting out an esoteric cosmology of spiritual restitution. Catholic and Protestant clergy condemned the works as heretical. Died in Graz in 1864.
Related Periodicals: Das Wort (Dresden) | Revue Theurgique
Byron, Madame
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824), the English Romantic poet; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Spirit of Partridge
Lord Dowding
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding (1882–1970), the RAF Battle of Britain commander who became a public Spiritualist and Theosophist.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1969) British air chief marshal and spiritualist. Commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (1940), he integrated radar with fighter tactics against the Luftwaffe. Born in Moffat, Scotland. After retirement he turned to Spiritualism, Theosophy, and animal welfare, publicly defending spirit communication and reincarnation, and published *Many Mansions* and *The Lychgate*, in which he claimed to communicate with deceased Battle of Britain pilots. Died in Kent in 1969.
Related Periodicals: Psychic World (Barbanell)
Related Monographs: Letters from Christopher (1944)
Lord Dunsany
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (1878–1957), the Irish author of fantasy and supernatural tales.
Related Periodicals: Equinox | Modern Mystic | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Lord Himalaya
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Lord Ling
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Lord, Abba
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Abba Lord (1815–1866), an American medium and healer of many married names, subject of the blog's “subluxations of the soul.”
Chasing Emma: Subluxations of the Soul: A Note on Abba Lord
Lore, Gordon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Gordon I. R. Lore Jr. was an American UFO writer and NICAP staff member, co-author of Mysteries of the Skies.
Related Periodicals: UFO Research Newsletter
Lorenzen, Coral E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Coral E. Lorenzen (1925–1988) co-founded, with her husband Jim, the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1988) American ufologist, author, and publisher. Born in Oregon, she founded the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) in 1952, edited the *APRO Bulletin*, and campaigned for release of classified government UFO reports. Author of *Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space*. Died in Arizona in 1988.
Related Periodicals: APRO Bulletin
Lorenzen, Leslie James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) L. James (Jim) Lorenzen (1922–1986) co-founded and directed the
Related Periodicals: APRO Bulletin
Loseby, C. E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Witches, Mediums, Vagrants and the Law (1946)
Loti, Pierre
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) "Pierre Loti" (Julien Viaud, 1850–1923) was a French naval officer and novelist of exotic and mystical themes; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires)
Loughran, John X.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Bionomy of Power: The Biology of Youthfulness (1945), Let's Live to Be 100! (1946)
Loup, Yvon Le
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Yvon Le Loup (1871–1926) was the French Christian mystic who wrote as "Sédir," a former Martinist who taught an inward "spiritual friendship" of Christ.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1926) French occultist, Martinist, and Christian mystic, active in the late nineteenth-century French occult revival. Born in Dinan, he worked as an administrative clerk in Paris and collaborated with Papus and Saint-Yves d'Alveydre. A member of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross and the
Related Periodicals: Almanach du Magiste
Related Monographs: Histoire et Doctrines des Rose-Croix (1932), Histoire et Doctrines des Rose-Croix (1939)
Lovejoy, Lucelia A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Advanced Soul Science (1926)
Loveland, J.S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) J. S. Loveland was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist lecturer, editor, and writer on the philosophy of Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1903) American Spiritualist minister, abolitionist, and author. Born in New England, he served as an ordained Methodist preacher before converting to Spiritualism in the 1850s. He lectured on trance mediumship and social reform and published *Mediumship: Its Laws and Phenomena* and *The Esoteric*. He ran independent Spiritualist publications in his later decades. Died in 1903.
Related Periodicals: The Harbinger of Dawn | The Present Age
Lovell, John W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John W. Lovell (1851–1932) was an American publisher ("Book-a-Day Lovell") and Theosophist active in the founding of the Theosophical publishing effort.
Related Periodicals: The Hypnotic Magazine
Lowell, James Russel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), the American Romantic poet, critic, and diplomat; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Harbinger
Lowes, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) John Lowes (b. 1832), a possible member of the
Chasing Emma: Some Strange Device: The Nottingham Spiritual Circle; Part Two
Lubicz, Isha Schwaller de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Isha Schwaller de Lubicz (1885–1963) was a French writer and the wife and collaborator of R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, author of the initiatic Egyptian novels Her-Bak.
Related Periodicals: L'Affranchi
Lubicz, Rene Schwaller de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887–1961) was a French esotericist and "Egyptosopher" who argued that the temple of Luxor encoded a sacred science of proportion and consciousness.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1961) French Egyptologist, occultist, and alchemist, born René Adolphe Schwaller in Alsace. He studied chemistry in Paris and founded the esoteric community Les Veilleurs. After fifteen years studying the Temple of Luxor, he published *The Temple of Man* (1949), arguing that ancient Egyptian civilization possessed an advanced spiritual science. Died in Grasse, France, in 1961.
Related Periodicals: L'Affranchi
Lucas, Louis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Louis Lucas (1816–1863) was a French writer on "transcendental chemistry" and hermetic natural philosophy, later admired by occultists.
Related Periodicals: Almanach du Magiste
Luce, Gaston
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Atlantis (Le Cour)
Related Monographs: Leon Denis: Sa Vie, Son Oeuvre (1928)
Lucretius
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Lucretius (c. 99–c. 55 BCE), the Roman poet-philosopher whose De Rerum Natura expounded Epicurean atomism; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Seculo XX
Ludendorff, Mathilde
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Ludlow, Fitzhugh
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870) was an American author whose The Hasheesh Eater (1857) recounted visionary drug experiences.
Related Periodicals: Theriaki
Ludwig, August Friedrich
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Geschichte der okkultistischen (metapsychischen) Forschung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, I. Teil (1922)
Lugones, Leopoldo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Leopoldo Lugones (1874–1938) was an Argentine poet and writer, an early Theosophist and occult-minded man of letters.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1938) Argentine writer, poet, journalist, and occultist, a figure of Latin American modernism. Born in Córdoba, he co-founded the Argentine
Related Periodicals: Philadelphia (Buenos Aires)
Luiz, Andre
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Nosso Lar (1944)
Lund, Haviland Haines
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Haviland Haines Lund was an American New Thought and social-reform lecturer of the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: The Yogi (Sydney Flower)
Luntz, Charles E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Charles E. Luntz was an English-American astrologer and author of popular works on astrology and reincarnation active in the mid-twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Ancient Wisdom
Lust, Benedict
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Benedict Lust (1872–1945) was a German-American practitioner regarded as the "father of naturopathy" in the United States, a promoter of Kneipp water-cure and natural healing.
(Source: Gemini) German-born American physician (1872–1945), regarded as the founder of naturopathy in the United States, founder of the Yungborn sanitariums and the first American school of naturopathy.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Das Wort (St. Louis) | Herald of Health (Benedict Lust) | How to Live for Health and Strength (Sebring) | The Indian Naturopath | Nature's Path (Lust)
Lustig, David J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: La Vellma's Vaudeville Budget: For Magicians, Mind Readers and Ventriloquists (1921)
Luther, Martin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Martin Luther (1483–1546), the German initiator of the Protestant Reformation; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph
Lutoslawski, Wincenty
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Wincenty Lutosławski (1863–1954) was a Polish philosopher and Plato scholar who developed a mystical, messianic "national" spirituality.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1954) Polish philosopher and writer who introduced yoga and Eastern spirituality to Central Europe. Born in Warsaw, he wrote scholarly work on the chronology of Plato's dialogues, translated Yogi Ramacharaka into Polish, and developed a system of Polish messianism. He published *The Development of Will-Power through Yoga* (1909). Died in Kraków in 1954.
Related Periodicals: Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes
Lutyens, Emily
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Lady Emily Lutyens (1874–1964) was an English Theosophist, a devoted supporter of Krishnamurti and the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1964) English theosophist, social reformer, and author, born Emily Lytton. She married the architect Edwin Lutyens and joined the
Related Periodicals: Bulletin Internationale de L'Etoile | Herald of the Star | International Star Bulletin | La Estrella (Madrid) | Ster in het Oosten
Related Monographs: Theosophy as the Basic Unity of National Life (Four Convention Lectures, Bombay, Dec 1924) (1925)
Luys, Jules
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Jules Luys (1828–1897), the French neurologist and controversial demonstrator of hypnotism at the Charité.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1897) French neurologist, psychiatrist, and neuroanatomist. Born in Paris, he was chief physician at the Charité and Salpêtrière hospitals, described the subthalamic nucleus (the 'nucleus of Luys'), and produced early photographic brain atlases. In his later years he conducted clinical experiments on hypnotism, hysteria, and the supposed transmission of magnetic energy through objects, which drew heavy criticism from the medical establishment. Died in France in 1897.
Chasing Emma: Dr. Luys and the Lark Mirror: Hypnotism c. 1890
Lvovic, Jiri Karasek ze
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic (1871–1951) was a Czech Symbolist/Decadent poet and Rosicrucian, a central figure of Czech esoteric letters.
Related Periodicals: Sbornik Pro Filosofii Mystiku a Okkultismus
Lynch, Beulah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Beulah Lynch, an American medium associated with “spirit postmaster” phenomena.
Chasing Emma: The Spirit Postmaster: Some Notes on J. V. Mansfield; Part One
Lynch, Richard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Richard Lynch was an American New Thought minister who founded the Unity
Related Periodicals: Mind Inc.
Related Monographs: Work and Supply (1924), Mind Makes Men Giants (1926), Man and His Powers (1928), Freedom From Fear (1934), The Path to Wisdom: The Way of Truth Instruction Through Metaphysical Terms and Definitions (1934)
Lyndon, Ross
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: I-Nip-E-Gant, or The Crazy Ute Indian (1920)
Lynn, Cephas B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Cephas B. Lynn was an American Spiritualist lecturer and editor of the later nineteenth century.
Related Periodicals: Foundation Principles | Spiritual Reporter
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
(Source: Gemini) (?–1873) English novelist, playwright, poet, and politician who served as Secretary of State for the Colonies. Born in London, he wrote *The Last Days of Pompeii* (1834), *Zanoni*, and *The Coming Race*, the last introducing the concept of 'Vril' energy and drawing on Rosicrucian and occult themes; he had a private interest in ceremonial magic. Died in 1873.
Related Periodicals: Transactions of the Vril-Ya Club | The Astrologer and Oracle of Destiny | Licht en Waarheid | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | Sophia (Spain)
Maack, Ferdinand
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ferdinand Maack (1861–1930) was a German physician and occultist who wrote on "dynamosophy," alchemy, and esoteric chess.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1930) German physician, occultist, and author of the German esoteric revival. He coined the term 'dynamosophy' and sought to explain occult and telepathic phenomena through physical energy fields. He wrote extensively on Rosicrucian history, including *Elias Artista* and *The Golden and Rosy Cross*. Died in 1930.
Related Periodicals: Das Wunder | Gnosis (Vienna) | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau
Related Monographs: Talisman Turc: Ein Beitrag zur magisch-quadratischen Dechiffrierung von Liebes- und Krankheits-Amuletten (1926)
MacDonald, Arthur Cleveland
To be added.
Related Periodicals: MacDonald's Farmer's Almanac and Dream Book
Macdonald, Eugene Montague
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Eugene Montague Macdonald (1855–1909) was an American freethought editor of The Truth Seeker.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Truthseeker
Macdonald, George E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) George E. Macdonald (1857–1944) was an American freethought journalist and historian of the movement, long associated with The Truth Seeker.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Freethought
MacDonald, Jeremiah
To be added.
Related Periodicals: MacDonald's Farmer's Almanac and Dream Book
Related Monographs: Dr. Mac Donald's Astrological Dream Book (1921)
Macdonald, Ramsay
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937), the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: East and West
MacFadden, Bernarr
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Bernarr Macfadden (1868–1955) was an American "physical culture" entrepreneur and publisher who promoted bodybuilding, natural health, and vigorous living.
(Source: Gemini) American physical-culture advocate and publisher (1868–1955), founder of Physical Culture magazine (1899) and a large periodical-publishing empire.
Related Periodicals: The Business Philosopher | Nature's Path (Lust)
Macgowan, Kenneth
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Masks & Demons (1924)
Mackenzie, J. N. Landseer
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Universal Medium: A New Interpretation of the Soul (1922)
Macnaghten, Hugh
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Emile Coue: The Man and His Work (1922)
Madsack, Paul
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Der schwarze Magier: Ein Roman (1924)
Mahabharati, Alokananda
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Master's World-Union Scheme (1921)
Mainage, Th
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: La Religion Spirite (1921)
Maitre L'Inconnu
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Major, Clare Tree
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: How to Develop Your Will Power (1920)
Malcolmsmith, E. F.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel (1931)
Manchester, Frederick
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Vedanta for the Western World (1948)
Mansfield, Walter E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Man a Center of Action (1920), Spirit Assuming the Form of Matter and Its Application to Man (1920)
Marcotoune, Serge
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: La Science Secrete des Inities et la Pratique de la Vie (1928)
Marteau, Paul
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Le Comte de Gabalis, ou Entretiens sur les Sciences secretes (1921)
Martens, C. H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Messiaden, Gralsagen und Gral-Orden (1922), Geheime Gesellschaften alter und neuer Zeit, mit besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Freimaurer-Ordens (1923)
Martin, Eva
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Prentice Mulford: 'New Thought' Pioneer (1921), The Ring of Return: An Anthology of References to Reincarnation and Spiritual Evolution (1927)
Martin, Stephen
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Hypnotism Simplified: A Practical and Easy Guide to Mesmerism (1920)
Marvin, Zarlivana
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Systematic Thot (1923)
Maskelyne, Jasper
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: White Magic: The Story of the Maskelynes (1936)
Maskelyne, Nevil
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritualism Exposed (1920)
Mathers, Samuel Liddell
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918), co-founder of the Golden Dawn; same person as the "Mathers, Samuel Liddell" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1918) English occultist, translator, and author, principal co-founder of the
Related Periodicals: Isis Moderne | Azoth | Fountain of Light | The Horoscope [London]
Machell, Reginald
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Reginald Machell (1854–1927) was an English Symbolist painter and Theosophist who lived and worked at the Point Loma community.
Related Periodicals: The Century Path
Machen, Arthur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Arthur Machen (1863–1947) was a Welsh author of supernatural and mystical fiction (The Great God Pan) and briefly a member of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1947) Welsh author and journalist, born Arthur Llewellyn Jones in Caerleon, known for supernatural fiction. He wrote *The Great God Pan* (1894), *The Three Impostors*, and *The Hill of Dreams*, and was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Died in 1947.
Related Periodicals: Horlick's Magazine | The Unknown World
Mackay, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Charles Mackay (1814–1889), the Scottish journalist and poet, author of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1889) Scottish poet, journalist, and editor, born in Perth. He wrote for *The Morning Chronicle* and *The Illustrated London News* and is best known for *Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds* (1841), a skeptical survey of manias including alchemy, witch trials, and mesmerism. Died in London in 1889.
Chasing Emma: <I>Art Magic</I> Illustrations Traced
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Gateway Drugs: Crowe and Mackay
Mackay, Charles H.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Words To Scan By
Related Periodicals: The Chariot of Wisdom and Love | Esoteric | Light From The Spirit World | The Morning Star | The Oracle (Boston) | The Rosicrucian Brotherhood | The Temple
Mackenzie, Kenneth Robert Henderson
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie (1833–1886) was an English Masonic and occult scholar, author of the Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia and a link between older Rosicrucian currents and the Golden Dawn. See also "Mackenzie, Kenneth Robert Henderson."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1886) English occultist, scholar, and translator. Born in London, he traveled in Germany, co-founded the
Chasing Emma: Collisions: Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie; Jesse Shepard; and Transfacial Mediumship
Related Periodicals: The Rosicrucian | The Spiritual Magazine (UK) | The Biological Review
Mackey, Albert G.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Albert G. Mackey (1807–1881) was an American physician and the leading nineteenth-century encyclopedist and historian of Freemasonry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1881) American physician, author, and Masonic lexicographer. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he graduated from the Medical College of South Carolina and served for decades as Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina. He compiled *The Principles of Masonic Law* and *An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry* (1873). A Unionist in the secessionist South during the Civil War, he faced social ostracism. Died in Virginia in 1881.
Related Periodicals: The Rosicrucian Brotherhood
Related Monographs: Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Kindred Sciences (1929)
Mackie, John W.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1892) American Spiritualist leader, publisher, and reformer, active in Philadelphia and New York. He organized national Spiritualist conventions, defended trance mediumship, and co-edited the monthly journal *The Spiritual Telegraph*. Died in 1892.
Related Periodicals: The Golden Way
Related Monographs: The Gift of Tongues: A Study in Pathological Aspects of Christianity (1921)
Madariaga, Salvador de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Salvador de Madariaga (1886–1978) was a Spanish diplomat, historian, and writer; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Madera, Francisco I.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Francisco I. Madero (1873–1913), the Mexican revolutionary, president, and Spiritist; a spelling variant of the "Madero, Francisco I." entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1913) Mexican revolutionary, statesman, and writer who served as President of Mexico from 1911 until his assassination in 1913. Born in Coahuila; educated in Paris and California. A practicing Spiritist medium, he published the treatise *The Spiritist Manual* (1911) under the pseudonym Bhima, seeking to unite democratic reform with spiritual evolution. He was arrested, imprisoned, and assassinated during Victoriano Huerta's coup in 1913.
Related Periodicals: Alma | La Balanza | La Cruz Astral | Helios | Obrero Espirita
Maeterlinck, Maurice
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949), the Belgian Symbolist writer and Nobel laureate; see the "Maeterlinck, Maurice" entry.
(Source: Gemini) Belgian Symbolist playwright, poet, and essayist (1862–1949), winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Pelléas and Mélisande (1892); his later essays, including The Great Secret and The Unknown Guest, treat occult traditions and psychical phenomena.
Related Periodicals: Sbornik Pro Filosofii Mystiku a Okkultismus | The Balance | Cruz del Sur | The Yogi (Sydney Flower)
Related Monographs: The Great Secret (1922)
Maginot, Adele
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Adèle Maginot was a French somnambulist of the 1840s–50s whose clairvoyant "journeys" were recorded by the magnetizer L.-A. Cahagnet.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) French physical medium and somnambulist active in the mid-nineteenth century. She entered mesmeric trances in which she claimed to communicate with the dead, locate missing persons, and diagnose illness. Her demonstrations in Paris were investigated and documented by Alphonse Cahagnet in *The Celestial Telegraph* (1848). Medical and scientific critics denounced her mesmeric therapies as fraudulent.
Related Periodicals: Magnetiseur Spiritualiste
Magre, Maurice
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Maurice Magre (1877–1941) was a French poet and novelist who wrote on the Cathars, Atlantis, and Eastern initiates, popularizing occult-historical themes.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1941) French poet, novelist, playwright, and esotericist. Working in Paris, he wrote Symbolist plays and novels and, as a member of the
Related Periodicals: Bulletin Des Polaires
Related Monographs: Magicians, Seers, and Mystics (1932)
Maharshi, Sri Ramana
Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) was an Indian sage of Arunachala (Tiruvannamalai) who taught the path of Self-enquiry ("Who am I?"). Widely regarded as a jivanmukta, he became one of the most influential figures of modern Advaita Vedanta.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1950) Indian spiritual teacher, born Venkataraman Iyer. After a spiritual awakening at sixteen he settled at the mountain Arunachala, where he taught the path of Self-Inquiry (Atma-Vichara) and wrote *Who Am I?* (1923). His non-dual teaching rejected caste divisions and ritualism. He died of cancer at Tiruvannamalai in 1950.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi
Related Periodicals: Iniciacion [Montevideo] | International Psychic Gazette
Maier, Michael
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Michael Maier (1568–1622) was a German physician and alchemist, an apologist for the Rosicrucians, whose emblem book Atalanta Fugiens (1617) set alchemy to image and music.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1622) German physician, alchemist, and scholar, and a counselor to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. Educated in medicine at the University of Basel, he published alchemical and Rosicrucian works, most notably *Atalanta Fugiens* (1617) and *Silentium Post Clamores*, defending the reality and lineage of the Rosicrucian brotherhood. He died at Magdeburg in 1622 during the Thirty Years' War.
Related Periodicals: The Uplifting Veil
Maistre, Joseph de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) was a Savoyard counter-revolutionary philosopher and Freemason whose Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg and illuminist sympathies interested later esotericists.
Related Periodicals: Aurora
Maitland, Edward
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Edward Maitland (1824–1897) was an English author and mystic, the lifelong collaborator of Anna Kingsford, co-founder of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1897) British novelist, humanitarian, and occultist. With Anna Bonus Kingsford he co-founded the Hermetic Society in 1884 and co-authored *The Perfect Way; or, the Finding of Christ* (1882), which sought to synthesize Christian mysticism with Hermeticism. He also campaigned against vivisection. He died at Wembley, England, in 1897.
Chasing Emma: Nothing In the World So Inexact: Anna Kingsford; June 1885
Related Periodicals: The Gnostic | Herald of the Cross | The Unknown World | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Maitreya
(Source: Gemini) Esoteric and Buddhist figure of the future Buddha and coming World Teacher. In Buddhist doctrine Maitreya is the Buddha to come; Helena Blavatsky and Annie Besant recast him as an Ascended Master of the
Related Periodicals: Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Maixner, Milos
(Source: Gemini) (?–1945) Czech writer, translator, and occultist, a leader of the early twentieth-century Czech hermetic revival. He edited the Czech hermetic journal *Emanuel* and translated occult works by Éliphas Lévi and Papus into Czech. Under the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia he was subjected to Gestapo censorship and interrogation. He died in 1945.
Related Periodicals: Kosmicke Rozhledy
Mallinger, Jean
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jean Mallinger (1904–1982) was a Belgian lawyer and occultist, a co-founder of neo-Pythagorean and Martinist bodies in the F.U.D.O.S.I. milieu.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1996) Belgian lawyer, classicist, and occultist active in the twentieth-century revival of neo-Pythagorean mysticism, leading the Ordre Hermétique de l'Étoile Flamboyante. He published *The Secret Doctrines of the Pythagoreans* and *Pythagoras, Father of Science*, reconstructing ancient initiatory ritual. Under the Nazi occupation his orders were banned and his library seized. He died in Brussels in 1996.
Related Periodicals: F. U. D. O. S. I.
Related Monographs: Les Secrets du Grade de Maître (1950)
Mallory, Lucy A. Rose
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Lucy A. Rose Mallory (1846–1920) was an American editor of the Portland free-thought and New Thought magazine The World's Advance Thought, admired by Tolstoy.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1920) American publisher, writer, and spiritualist active in the Pacific Northwest. From Portland, Oregon, she founded and edited the monthly *The World's Advance Thought* (1886–1918), which circulated internationally and carried articles by Leo Tolstoy. She taught a system of mental healing through thought control and advocated women's suffrage and vegetarianism. She died in California in 1920.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Lucy Rose Mallory
Related Periodicals: Abiding Truth | The Harbinger of Dawn | The Light of Reason (Allen) | Nautilus | The New World | Spirit Mothers and Astraea | The World's Advance Thought
Mann, Mary Ridpath
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The National Spiritualist | NSAC National Spiritualist
Manning, Eliza
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Eliza Manning, bride in a notable 1887 Spiritualist marriage connected to William Eglinton.
Chasing Emma: April 1887: William Eglinton's Marriage
Mansfield, J.V.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) J. V. Mansfield (1816–1899) was an American Spiritualist medium famous as the "spirit postmaster" who answered sealed letters addressed to the dead.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1899) American trance medium known as the 'Spiritual Postmaster.' Practicing in New York City, he claimed to read and answer sealed letters addressed to the dead, reportedly handling over a hundred thousand. Critics and magicians exposed his method as reliant on confederates, chemical steaming, and sleight of hand, leading to court trials. He died in 1899.
Chasing Emma: The Spirit Postmaster: Some Notes on J. V. Mansfield; Part One
Related Periodicals: Constancia | Facts | Voice of Angels | The Spiritual Age (new York)
Mapes, James J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) James Jay Mapes (1806–1866), the American chemist, agricultural scientist and Spiritualist investigator.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1866) American chemist, inventor, and agricultural reformer who became a spiritualist. He patented chemical processes for sugar refining and fertilizer manufacture, taught chemistry, and edited *The Working Farmer*. After investigating the Fox sisters he converted to Spiritualism in the 1850s and wrote in support of spirit communication. Scientific bodies denounced his psychical claims. He died in New Jersey in 1866.
Chasing Emma: "I Lived In The House With Two Mediums"
Chasing Emma: A Hearty Soulful Enthusiasm: The Westchester Farm School; May; 1856
Marata, Jacinto Esteva
(Source: Gemini) (?–1910) Spanish-Catalan Spiritist leader, author, and publisher, principal director of the Federación Espiritista Española. Based in Catalonia, he edited the monthly *La Revelación* and published Spiritist textbooks. Catholic authorities repeatedly prosecuted him, seizing his presses and fining him for blasphemy. He died in 1910.
Related Periodicals: Luz Union y Verdad (Barcelona) | Luz y Union (Barcelona)
Marden, Orison Swett
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Orison Swett Marden (1848–1924) was an American New Thought author and founder of Success magazine, a leading popularizer of self-help and "success" philosophy.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1924) American inspirational author and editor, a founder of the modern New Thought and self-help movements. He founded *Success* magazine in 1897 and wrote best-selling works, most notably *Pushing to the Front* (1894), teaching that health and prosperity could be attained through disciplined thought. He died in 1924.
Related Periodicals: The Business Philosopher | Mystic Light Library Bulletin | Nautilus | Success Magazine
Related Monographs: Autosuggestion and Salesmanship, or Imagination in Business (1923)
Marino, Cosme
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Cosme Mariño (1847–1923) was an Argentine Spiritist, a founder of the Constancia society and a leading organizer of Spiritism in Argentina.
Related Periodicals: Constancia
Markham, Edwin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Edwin Markham (1852–1940), the American poet of "The Man with the Hoe," with New Thought and reform sympathies.
Related Periodicals: Nautilus
Marques-Riviere, Jean
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jean Marquès-Rivière (1903–2000) was a French Orientalist and writer on Tibetan Buddhism and the occult, later a wartime anti-Masonic propagandist.
(Source: Gemini) (?–2000) French writer, journalist, and occultist. A member of the
Related Periodicals: Bulletin Des Polaires
Marquette, Lydia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Lydia Marquette (b. 1834), the “French Canadian lady” who figures as a witness in Helena Blavatsky's early American years.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) French-born medical practitioner and early member of the
Chasing Emma: HPB's Witness: Some Notes on Lydia Marquette; M.D.
Marryat, Florence
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Florence Marryat (1833–1899), the English novelist and actress, an ardent Spiritualist and author of There Is No Death (1891).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1899) English novelist, editor, actress, and spiritualist, daughter of the naval novelist Captain Frederick Marryat. She wrote over seventy novels and edited *London Society*. Involved in Spiritualism, she attended seances with mediums including Florence Cook and William Eglinton and recorded her investigations in *There Is No Death* (1891) and *The Spirit World* (1894). She died in London in 1899.
Chasing Emma: November; 1874: EHB; Full-Form Materialization; and Polite Society
Marsh, Bela
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Bela Marsh: A Downpayment on 14 Bromfield Street
Chasing Emma: A Break In The Action: Why Google Books Really Sucks
Chasing Emma: A Voice from Prison
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Marsh, Luther
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Luther R. Marsh (1813–1902) was a prominent New York lawyer whose devotion to Spiritualism and the fraudulent medium "Ann O'Delia Diss Debar" became a public scandal.
Related Periodicals: Spiritual Review
Marshall, Emanuel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Emanuel Marshall, of the Marshall family of early London mediums.
Chasing Emma: February 1869: The Voices at Mrs.... I Mean Mr. Marshall's
Marshall, Josie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Josie Marshall, a “magnetic girl” performer noted in the blog.
Chasing Emma: Hypnotism and Magnetic Girls
Marshall, Mary Brodie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Mary Brodie Marshall (“the Younger”), a London medium of the Marshall family, distinct from Mary Marshall the Elder.
Chasing Emma: February 1869: The Voices at Mrs.... I Mean Mr. Marshall's
Marshall, Mary
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Mary Marshall (“the Elder”), one of the earliest professional London mediums of the 1850s–60s (of “the two Mrs. Marshalls”).
Chasing Emma: So Much Sameness: W. H. Harrison on Physical Mediumship; April 1876
Chasing Emma: No. 22 Red Lion Street: An Evening With The Two Mrs. Marshalls (And Benjamin Coleman); January 1860
Marsland, Agnes E.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1928) British-born esoteric teacher and author who founded the
Related Periodicals: L'Etoile D'Orient | O.E. Library Critic | Occult Press Review | Oriental Esoteric Society Bulletin | The Radiant Centre | The Radiant Truth
Related Monographs: First Principles of Esoterism: A Text-Book for Students of the First Degree of The Esoteric Brotherhood (1921)
Martello, Leo Louis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Leo Louis Martello (1930–2000) was an American Wiccan, gay-rights and witchcraft-rights activist, and author on the occult.
(Source: Gemini) (?–2000) American Wiccan priest, graphologist, and author, and a figure in the modern Pagan revival and gay-rights movement. A professional handwriting analyst and hypnotist in New York City, he was initiated into Wicca in the 1960s and founded the Witches International Craft Association and the Temple of the Pagan Way. In 1970 he co-founded the Gay Activists Alliance. He wrote *Weird Ways of Witchcraft* (1969) and *Witchcraft: The Old Religion* (1973). He died in 2000.
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Martens, Peter Christoph
To be added.
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Martin, John Biddulph
(Source: Gemini) British banker of the firm Martin & Co., best known as the husband of the American reformer and Spiritualist Victoria Woodhull, whom he married in 1883.
Related Periodicals: The Humanitarian | The Humanitarian (Review)
Martyn, Thomas Hammond
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Thomas Hammond Martyn was an Australian Theosophist and Co-Mason, a leader of the Sydney Lodge in the Leadbeater era.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1924) Australian businessman and theosophist. Born in England, he emigrated to Australia and made his fortune in mining and real estate in Sydney. He joined the
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Australian Theosophist
Marx, Karl
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Karl Marx (1818–1883), the German philosopher and founder of scientific socialism; cited here in a radical/periodical context.
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Mary, Mother
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Marye, Beatrissia
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Occult Life (LAX)
Related Monographs: Sachet: A Strange Story of Spirit Mates (1926), The Circle (1927)
Marzorati, Angelo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Angelo Marzorati was an Italian Theosophist, a leader of the Society in Italy and editor of the review Ultra in Rome.
Related Periodicals: Luce e Ombra
Mas, Vivian Postel du
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Vivian Postel du Mas was a French esotericist associated with the Groupe des Polaires and its "synarchist" and initiatic milieu of the 1920s–30s.
Related Periodicals: L'Affranchi
Mascheville, Leo Alvarez Costet de
(Source: Gemini) (?–1970) French-born Martinist leader and occultist, known in esoteric circles as Sri Sevananda or Jehel. Son of the occultist Albert Costet de Mascheville (Cedai), he was initiated into Martinism and other lineages. In the 1930s he emigrated to Brazil, where he founded the Martinist Sovereign Sanctuary of South America and established cooperative spiritual communities. His teaching blended Martinism, Kabbalah, and Christian mysticism with yoga and Hindu philosophy. He published books in Portuguese and Spanish on Martinist history, yoga, and meditation, and lectured across Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Died in 1970.
Related Periodicals: Iniciacion [Montevideo]
Maskelyne, John Nevil
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) John Nevil Maskelyne (1839–1917), the English stage magician who built a career exposing Spiritualist effects.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1917) English stage magician and skeptic. Born in Cheltenham, he trained as a watchmaker before becoming an illusionist. He co-held the lease of the Egyptian Hall in London ('England's Home of Mystery') for decades, invented numerous stage illusions including a mechanical human levitation, and patented mechanical devices including a coin-operated lock. He worked to expose fraudulent spiritualists, cooperating with the
Chasing Emma: A Mahatma; At Home
Massey, C.C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Charles Carleton Massey (1838–1905) was an English barrister, a founding member of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1905) English barrister and esotericist. He practised law in London before turning to psychical research and philosophy. In 1875 he travelled to New York, where he met Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott and became an early member of the Theosophical Society. Back in London he co-founded the
Chasing Emma: Water Closet Profits and Lions' Entrails
Chasing Emma: W. F. Barrett and Emily Kislingbury on Charles Carleton Massey
Chasing Emma: The Internal Witness: CCM; December 1885
Chasing Emma: December 1877: Disposing of Our Departed Friends -- An Alarming Conjunction of Perhapses; In Concert With Other Potencies
Chasing Emma: Nothing Can Be Read Simply Because It Has Been Written: William Quan Judge and C. C. Massey; May 1884
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Massey, Gerald
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Gerald Massey (1828–1907) was an English poet, Egyptologist, and Spiritualist who argued for the Egyptian and astral origins of Christianity.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1907) English poet, self-taught Egyptologist, and spiritualist. Born into poverty in Tring, he was largely self-educated and worked as a factory boy before becoming a radical poet, journalist, and lecturer, and a supporter of Christian Socialism. In later life he turned to comparative mythology and Egyptology, arguing for Egyptian origins of Western religion and language in self-published works including *A Book of the Beginnings* (1881) and *Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World*. He was also a vocal defender of Spiritualism, lecturing and writing in its support. Died in 1907.
Chasing Emma: This Prodigious Farrago: April 1881
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Massignon, Louis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Louis Massignon (1883–1962) was a French Catholic scholar of Islam, the pioneering student of the Sufi martyr al-Hallaj.
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Mather, Cotton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Cotton Mather (1663–1728), the New England Puritan minister and author, associated with the Salem witch trials; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Ray Palmer's Forum
Mathers, Moina
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Moina Mathers (née Mina Bergson, 1865–1928), sister of the philosopher Henri Bergson and wife of S. L. MacGregor Mathers, was an artist and a leading ritualist and seer of the Golden Dawn.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1928) Artist and occultist, born Mina Bergson, a central figure in the
Related Periodicals: Inner Light (Fortune)
Mathison, Volney
(Source: Gemini) (?–1971) American chiropractor, writer, and inventor, remembered as the inventor of the Mathison Electropsychometer (E-meter). A former merchant-marine radio operator, he ran a chiropractic practice in Los Angeles and grew interested in psychoanalysis, Dianetics, and the measurement of subconscious mental states. He designed and patented an early E-meter measuring changes in the skin's electrical resistance. In the early 1950s he collaborated with L. Ron Hubbard, introducing the E-meter to Hubbard's Dianetics courses; it later became a core auditing tool in the
Related Periodicals: The Aberree
Matteson, J.H.R.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Mystic Light Library Bulletin
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Matthews, Chas
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A First Venture Into Spiritualism (1928)
Matthews, J.M.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Dawn (1872)
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Matthews, Otis
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Sachet: A Strange Story of Spirit Mates (1926)
Matthews, Walter
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Human Life from Many Angles (1922)
Mattiesen, Emil
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Emil Mattiesen (1875–1939) was a Baltic-German composer and psychical researcher, author of a major three-volume study of survival after death.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1939) Baltic German philosopher, composer, and parapsychologist. Born in Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia), he took a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Leipzig and also studied musicology, working as a composer of lieder and as a researcher. He travelled in Asia and the Americas investigating mediumship, telepathy, and spiritualism, and published the three-volume *Der jenseitige Mensch* (1925), an empirical defence of survival of the personality and reincarnation based on case studies. He taught philosophy and music at several German institutions. Died in Rostock in 1939.
Related Periodicals: Zeitschrift fur Metapsychische Forschung
Mattison, Hiram
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Hiram Mattison (1811–1868), a Methodist clergyman and vigorous early opponent of Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1868) American Methodist Episcopal minister, educator, and reformer, and a prominent critic of early Spiritualism. Born in Norway, New York, he trained in theology and worked as a pastor, seminary professor, and author of astronomy and chemistry textbooks, and was an anti-slavery reformer. He published critiques of Spiritualism, notably *Spirit Rapping Unveiled* (1853) and *The Bible against Spiritualism*, dismissing the claims of physical mediums as trickery, delusion, and fraud. Died in Jersey City in 1868.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Hiram Mattison (1811-1868)
Maturin, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Charles Robert Maturin (1780–1824) was an Irish clergyman and author of the Gothic classic Melmoth the Wanderer.
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Maturin, Fred
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Rachel Comforted: Conversations of a Mother in the Dark with Her Child in the Light (1920)
Maurice, F. D.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) F. D. Maurice (1805–1872), the English theologian and founder of Christian Socialism, at the religious edge of the movement's context.
Chasing Emma: Revisions of Hell
Maurois, Andre
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) André Maurois (1885–1967), the French biographer and novelist; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Maury, Reuben
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Wars of the Godly (1928)
Mavalankar, Damodar K.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Damodar K. Mavalankar (1857–1885?) was an early Indian Theosophist, a devoted assistant to Blavatsky and Olcott at Adyar who reportedly departed for Tibet in 1885.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Indian theosophist, writer, and administrator, an early collaborator of Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott. Born in Ahmedabad to a Brahmin family, he abandoned his caste and wealth to join the
Related Periodicals: Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
Maxwell, Samuel Robert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Science of Mastership (1931)
Maybrick, Florence
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Florence Maybrick, the American at the center of the sensational 1889 Maybrick poisoning trial, noted in The Two Worlds.
Chasing Emma: On The Side Of The Angels
Maybrick, James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) James Maybrick, the Liverpool merchant whose 1889 death produced the Maybrick poisoning case (and, later, “Jack the Ripper diary” claims).
Chasing Emma: On The Side Of The Angels
Mayer, Clarence
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Secrets of Metaphysics (1935)
Mayer, Francis
Francis Mayer, writer on Hermetic and alchemical philosophy. (Source: Claude, from a monograph title page, confidence 0.4)
Mayer, May Benzenberg
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Living (May Benzenberg Mayer)
Related Monographs: A Primary Glossary of Psychological & Philosophical Terms Related to the Conscious Evolution of the Soul (1932)
Mayhew, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Henry Mayhew (1812–1887), the social investigator and author of London Labour and the London Poor, which documented the fortune-telling trades.
Chasing Emma: By Palmistry or Otherwise: London Labour; the London Poor and the Mancies
Maynade, Ramon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ramón Maynadé was a Spanish Theosophist and publisher of Barcelona who, with his wife, issued much early Spanish-language Theosophical literature.
Related Periodicals: Loto Blanco
Maynard, Nettie Coleman
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Nettie Colburn Maynard (1841–1892) was an American trance medium who claimed to have given séances for Abraham Lincoln, recounted in Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?
(Source: Gemini) (?–1892) American spiritualist medium, born Henrietta S. Colburn, known for her séances with President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. She claimed to deliver spirit counsel in trance, reportedly touching on his military policy and the Emancipation Proclamation, and came into contact with Mary Todd Lincoln, who held séances in the White House. She recounted these experiences in her memoir *Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?* (1891). Died in New York in 1892.
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Mayoe, Franklin
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Doomed: A Startling Message to the People of Our Day (1920)
Mayoe, Marian
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Doomed: A Startling Message to the People of Our Day (1920)
Mayoe, Marian Mayoefranklin
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Doomed: A Startling Message to the People of Our Day (1920)
Mazzini, Giuseppe
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872), the Italian nationalist and revolutionary; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: New York Echo
Mccabe, Joseph
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud? The Evidence Given by Sir A. C. Doyle and Others Drastically Examined (1920), Spiritualism: A Popular History from 1847 (1920), The Truth of Spiritualism: A Public Debate (1920), A Debate on Spiritualism (1922)
Mccaffery, Ellen
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Astrology: Its History and Influence in the Western World (1942)
Mccomas, Henry C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Ghosts I Have Talked With (1937)
McCormack, T.J.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1932) American educator, editor, and translator. He was assistant editor of *The Open Court* and *The Monist* in Chicago, working with Paul Carus, and translated European scientific and philosophical works into English, including Ernst Mach's *The Science of Mechanics* and Franz Cumont's *The Mysteries of Mithra*. Educated at Princeton and at the universities of Leipzig and Tübingen, from 1903 he served as principal of LaSalle-Peru Township High School in Illinois. Died in LaSalle, Illinois, in 1932.
Related Periodicals: The Open Court
Mccowan, Don Cabot
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Love and Life: Sex Urge and Its Consequences (1928)
Mcdermott, Charles Henry
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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McDougall, Frances H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Frances Harriet Green McDougall (1805–1878) was an American Spiritualist author, editor, and reformer. (Also appears as "McDougall, Harriet Whipple Green.")
Related Periodicals: The Present Era
McDougall, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) William McDougall (1871–1938) was a British-American psychologist who championed psychical research, served as president of the SPR, and founded the parapsychology laboratory at Duke.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1938) Anglo-American psychologist and psychical researcher. Educated at Manchester and Cambridge, he was professor of psychology at Harvard and later Duke University, and formulated the theory of purposive, or 'hormic,' psychology. He served as president of both the
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: McDougall, William. William McDougall (1871-1938) was an eminent British psychologist whose opposition to behaviorist materialism and belief in an animistic view of nature predisposed him to parapsychology. His sponsorship of J.B. Rhine at Duke University was instrumental in shifting psychical research into an academic laboratory setting with standardised procedures and statistical methods, making him a pivotal figure in the transformation of the field from field investigation to experimental science.
Related Periodicals: Journal of Parapsychology | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Mcevilly, Mary A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Meslom's Messages from the Life Beyond (1920), To Woman from Meslom: A Message from Meslom in the Life Beyond (1920)
Mcgehean, George
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: True Spirit Return (1922)
Mcgehean, Lois
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: True Spirit Return (1922)
McIntosh, Christopher
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) British historian, translator, and writer on Western esotericism and Rosicrucianism. Educated at Oxford and the University of London, with a doctorate on German Romanticism and esotericism, he wrote *The Rosicrucians: The History, Mythology, and Rituals of an Esoteric Order* and *Éliphas Lévi and the French Occult Revival*, and served on the academic board of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE).
Related Periodicals: Hermes (Karlsruhe)
McIntyre, F.T.
To be added.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: American Rosae Crucis | The Future Home Journal | Modern Miracles
McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Alexander J. McIvor-Tyndall was an American mentalist, "mind reader," and New Thought lecturer of the early twentieth century.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Canadian-born American New Thought lecturer, writer, and editor, who published under the pseudonym Ali Nomad. Based in Denver and Los Angeles, he edited the monthly magazine *The Swastika*, which promoted New Thought and mental healing, and wrote *Cosmic Consciousness: The Man-God Whom We Await* (1913). He lectured across North America on mentalism, suggestion, and telepathy.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Adiramled | Advanced Thought (Chicago) | Old Moore's Monthly Messenger | Psychic Truth | Soundview | The Swastika
McKenzie, James Hewat
(Source: Gemini) (?–1929) British psychical researcher, author, and lecturer. In 1920 he founded the
Related Periodicals: Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research | (Quarterly Transactions of the British College of) Psychic Science
Related Monographs: Ancient Lights, or The Bible, the Church, and Psychic Science (1923), Spirit Intercourse: Its Theory and Practice (1927)
McLean, John Emery
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John Emery McLean was an American New Thought editor, associated with Mind magazine and the metaphysical publishing of the 1890s–1900s. (Also "McLean, John Emory.")
(Source: Gemini) (?–1935) American publisher and editor in the New Thought movement. Based in New York, he edited and published *Mind*, a leading New Thought periodical, and co-edited the reform journal *The Arena*. He wrote inspirational books and metaphysical anthologies and helped organize international New Thought conventions. Died in 1935.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Arena | Fred Burry's Journal | The Metaphysical Magazine
Related Monographs: Man: Whence and Whither? (1922)
McMurtry, Grady Louis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Grady Louis McMurtry (1918–1985) was an American occultist who, as "Hymenaeus Alpha," revived the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1985) American military officer and occultist, known as Hymenaeus Alpha. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and a major in the US Army during World War II, he was initiated into the Ordo Templi Orientis in California and became a disciple of Aleister Crowley, who granted him a 'charter of emergency.' After the death of Crowley's successor Karl Germer in 1969, McMurtry invoked this authority to reactivate the O.T.O. in the United States, serving as its Grand Master, incorporating the order, and publishing Crowley's texts. Died in California in 1985.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Magickal Link
Mcneil, Morris
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Ouija: A Farce Comedy in One Act (1920)
Mead, G.R.S.
George Robert Stow Mead (1863-1933) was a British author, editor, and Theosophist who served as private secretary to Helena Blavatsky during the last years of her life. A classical scholar by training, he became one of the leading translators and interpreters of Gnostic and Hermetic literature, producing translations of the Corpus Hermeticum, the Pistis Sophia, and other early texts. After leaving the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1933) English scholar, translator, and theosophist. Educated at Cambridge, he joined the Theosophical Society, served as private secretary to Helena Blavatsky, and edited *The Theosophical Review*. He translated esoteric texts including *Pistis Sophia* (1896) and *Thrice-Greatest Hermes* (1906), arguing for the place of Gnosticism in early Christian history. In 1909 he left the society to found the Quest Society and edit its journal *The Quest*. Died in London in 1933.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._R._S._Mead
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Related Monographs: Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Miscellany (1921), The Sacred Dance in Christendom (The Quest Reprint Series No. II) (1926)
Mead, Margaret
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Margaret Mead (1901–1978), the American anthropologist, who took a public interest in parapsychology; cited here in a periodical context.
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Meech, Erastus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Erastus Meech, an early American Spiritualist correspondent of Amy Post's circle.
Chasing Emma: Spirit Conductors: A Letter from George Willets to Erastus Meech; January 1850
Meeker, Lloyd A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Seven Secrets (1933)
Mehta, Rohit
(Source: Gemini) (?–1995) Indian theosophist and writer. Involved in Gandhi's Satyagraha movement and imprisoned by British authorities, he served as General Secretary of the Indian Section of the
Related Periodicals: New India (Besant)
Melchers, A.F.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American spiritualist writer and researcher, active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, he investigated the laws of mediumship and sought to explain trance communication and clairvoyance as governed by natural forces rather than supernatural intervention. He wrote *Spiritual Science* (1885) and *The Future Life* and contributed to spiritualist periodicals. Died in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: The Better Way | The Light of Truth
Melchi-zedek
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Biblical figure, the King of Salem and 'Priest of God Most High' who blesses Abraham in the Book of Genesis and is linked to Jesus in the Epistle to the Hebrews. In theosophical, Rosicrucian, and esoteric traditions he is interpreted as an Ascended Master or manifestation of the Logos presiding over the initiatory hierarchies of the earth, his name rendered 'King of Righteousness' and attached to several esoteric priesthood lineages.
Related Periodicals: Licht en Waarheid
Melcior, Victor
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Catalan physician and Spiritist writer. Educated in medicine at the University of Barcelona, he studied parapsychology, hypnotism, and Spiritism and wrote *Los estados de disgregación mental* and *La medicina natural*, integrating clinical psychology and naturopathy with Spiritist philosophy. A member of the Federación Espiritista Española, he contributed to Spanish Spiritist journals. Died in the 1930s.
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Melissaropoulos, Kostas
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Greek writer, translator, and theosophist. As General Secretary of the Greek Section of the
Related Periodicals: Ilisos
Mellon, Annie Fairlamb
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Annie Fairlamb Mellon, a Newcastle materialization medium of the 1870s–90s, later active in Australia.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1921) British spiritualist medium. She began her mediumship in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, entering trance states in which she claimed to materialize spirit entities, most notably one called 'Cissie.' In the 1890s she moved to Australia, married J.B. Mellon, and continued materialization séances there and in Britain. Died in Australia in 1921.
Chasing Emma: Data-Driven History: The Latest Issue of Psypioneer
Melville, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Henry Melville (Wintle) (1802–1873), author of Veritas, an esoteric-Masonic astronomical-mythology work.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1873) English-born Australian occultist, astrologer, and journalist, born Henry Pine-Coffin. He emigrated to Tasmania, edited early newspapers, and published historical works on the colony before turning to astrological and occult research. He returned to London to publish *Veritas: Revelation of Mysteries, Biblical, Historical, and Social* (1874), which argued that the ancient religions rested on astronomical laws and linked astrology, geography, and sacred architecture.
Chasing Emma: Henry Melville (Wintle): 1802-1873
Menard, Louis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Louis Ménard (1822–1901) was a French poet and scholar, a proponent of a "mystic paganism" and rediscoverer of Hermetic texts.
Related Periodicals: Haute Science | Isis Moderne
Mencken, H.L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) H. L. Mencken (1880–1956), the American journalist and critic; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Philosopher's Stone
Mendelsohn, S. Felix
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mental Healing in Judaism: Its Relationship to Christian Science and Psychoanalysis (1936)
Mendes, Catulle
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Catulle Mendès (1841–1909) was a French Parnassian poet and man of letters; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: L'Initiation | Revista Internacional do Espiritismo | Union Occulte Francaise
Mendez, Ernesto Perez
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Puerto Rican Spiritist leader, educator, and publisher. Based in San Juan, he edited early Spiritist journals, translated Allan Kardec's works into Spanish, and co-founded the Federación Espiritista de Puerto Rico, establishing schools and charitable associations. He wrote treatises reconciling Spiritism with rationalism and educational reform. Died in Puerto Rico in the mid-twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: El Kardeciano
Menken, Adah Isaacs
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868), the American actress and poet, whose bohemian circle brushed Emma Hardinge Britten and D. D. Home.
(Source: Gemini) American actress and poet (Adelaide McCord, 1835–1868), celebrated for the title role of the equestrian melodrama Mazeppa (1861).
Chasing Emma: EHB and Adah Isaacs Menken
Mercer, J. E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Merlin
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Legendary wizard, prophet, and adviser to King Arthur in the Arthurian cycle, given literary form in medieval Welsh material and Geoffrey of Monmouth's *Historia Regum Britanniae* (c. 1136), where he is credited with raising Stonehenge and arranging Arthur's birth. In Western esoteric, Rosicrucian, and theosophical traditions he is treated as a spiritual master and keeper of Celtic mystery lineages bridging pagan and Christian traditions.
Related Periodicals: The Sphinx (Boston)
Related Monographs: Das grosse Buch der Wahrsagekunst (1925)
Mermet, Abbe
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Principles and Practice of Radiesthesia (1935)
Merrell-Wolff, ah A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1985) American philosopher, mathematician, and mystic. Educated in mathematics at Stanford and Harvard, he reported a spiritual realization in 1936 and documented it in *Pathways Through to Space* and *The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object*. He built a metaphysical system joining mathematical logic with Advaita Vedanta, presenting 'Introception' as a method of direct spiritual cognition. Died in California in 1985.
Related Periodicals: Herald of Light (Arroyo Grande)
Merry, Eleanor C.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1956) English artist, poet, and anthroposophist. She met Rudolf Steiner in 1922 and dedicated herself to anthroposophy, writing *The Flaming Door* (1936), on Celtic mythology and initiatory mysteries, and *Goethe's Approach to Color*. She co-founded the journal *Golden Blade* and lectured on art and spiritual evolution. Died in 1956.
Related Periodicals: Modern Mystic
Merryman, A. N.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Your Invisible Self (1935)
Merton, Claire
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Katherine Tingley on Marriage and the Home: An Interview (1921)
Merton, Holmes W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Merton Course in Vocational Counseling and Employee Selection: The Art of Judging People (1920)
Merton, Reginald
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Magicians, Seers, and Mystics (1932)
Merton, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Thomas Merton (1915–1968), the American Trappist monk and writer on contemplation and interfaith mysticism; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Meslom
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Meslom's Messages from the Life Beyond (1920), To Woman from Meslom: A Message from Meslom in the Life Beyond (1920)
Mesmer, Franz Anton
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815) was a German physician who propounded "animal magnetism" (mesmerism), a theory of an invisible fluid transferable between bodies. His healing practice in Vienna and Paris, though discredited by a royal commission, was a fountainhead of later hypnotism, magnetic healing, and Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1815) German physician and natural philosopher, the founding developer of Animal Magnetism (Mesmerism). Born in Iznang, Swabia, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, where his doctoral thesis *De planetarum influxu* proposed that celestial bodies influenced human health through an invisible magnetic fluid. He established clinical practices in Vienna and Paris, presenting group therapies using magnetized baths (baquets) to treat illness. His practices brought conflict with medical boards; a 1784 Royal Commission appointed by Louis XVI, which included Benjamin Franklin, investigated and declared animal magnetism a product of imagination. Died in Meersburg in 1815.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mesmer
Related Periodicals: Die Ubersinnliche Welt
Related Monographs: Mesmerism (1948)
Metel, Queen
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Doomed: A Startling Message to the People of Our Day (1920)
Meyer, Jean
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jean Meyer (1855–1931) was a wealthy French Spiritist who funded the Institut Métapsychique International and the Maison des Spirites in Paris.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1931) French businessman, manufacturer, and figure in the early twentieth-century Spiritist movement founded by Allan Kardec. He funded the publishing house and headquarters of the
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Bulletin de l'Union Spirite Francaise | Cahiers du Spiritisme | Revue Metapsychique | Revue Spirite | Your Personality
Meyrinck, Gustav
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932) was an Austrian author of occult fiction, most famously The Golem, and a practitioner of yoga and Western esotericism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1932) Austrian novelist, short-story writer, translator, and esotericist, born Gustav Meyer in Vienna. He worked as a banker in Prague before turning to writing and to translating Charles Dickens into German. He joined the
Related Periodicals: Sphinx [Leipzig]
Meyrink, Gustav
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Dhoula Bel: Ein Rosenkreuzer-Roman (1922)
Miall, Bernard
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Great Secret (1922)
Michel, Aime
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Aimé Michel (1919–1992) was a French writer on UFOs, best known for his theory of "orthoteny" (the alignment of sighting reports).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1992) French ufologist, writer, and editor who worked in French radio and television. He published ufological works including *The Truth About Flying Saucers* (1954) and *About Flying Saucers: Mysterious Heavenly Objects*, and formulated the theory of 'orthoteny,' which held that UFO sightings during specific periods fell along straight alignments or great circles. He collaborated with Jacques Vallée and advocated scientific method in the study of anomalous aerial phenomena. Died in 1992.
Related Periodicals: Clypeus | Lumieres Dans La Nuit
Michelet, Victor-Emile
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Victor-Émile Michelet (1861–1938) was a French Symbolist poet and occultist of the Papus circle, author of studies on the Hermetic tradition.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1938) French poet, dramatist, essayist, and occultist active in the Symbolist and esoteric revivals of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. Born in Nantes, he was a close associate of Papus and Stanislas de Guaita, co-founded the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross, was a high-ranking member of the
Related Periodicals: Isis Moderne | L'Etoile | Psyche [Beaudelot] | Revue des Hautes Etudes | Voile d'Isis
Michon, Jean-Hippolyte
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Abbé Jean-Hippolyte Michon (1806–1881) was a French priest who founded and named the study of graphology.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1881) French Roman Catholic priest, archaeologist, and historian, described as the father of modern graphology. Born in Corrèze, he was ordained a priest, conducted archaeological excavations in France and the Middle East, and published on early Christian monuments. He developed a system of handwriting analysis, coined the term 'graphology,' and published *The Mysteries of Handwriting* (1872) and *System of Graphology*. He founded the Société de Graphologie in Paris and edited its journal. Died in 1881.
Related Periodicals: Graphologie
Milburn, Lucy Mcdowell
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Classic of Spiritism (1922)
Miles, Pliny
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Pliny Miles, an American popularizer of “phreno-mnemotechny” (memory science) in the 1840s.
Chasing Emma: Teach The Heathen: Phreno-Mnemotechny; 1845
Milieu, Juste
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Evolution of Crude Spirit (1920)
Miller, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Henry Miller (1891–1980), the American author (Tropic of Cancer) with strong mystical and astrological interests; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Modern Mystic
Miller, Henry Knight
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Human Magnet (1924)
Miller, Joaquin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Joaquin Miller (1837–1913), the American "Poet of the Sierras"; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: New Californian | The Temple
Miller, John T.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Character Builder
Related Monographs: Applied Character Analysis in Human Conservation (1922)
Miller, Orlando Edgar
(Source: Gemini) (?–1943) American educator, writer, publisher, and New Thought leader. Born in Illinois, he founded the Psychocentric Science movement and the Co-operative Society of America, lectured across North America and Great Britain, and edited the journal *The Psychocentric*. He wrote metaphysical works and designed courses on memory training, concentration, and creative visualization, holding that health and financial success could be improved through disciplined thought control. Died in 1943.
Related Periodicals: The Chapala Round Table | Mastery | The Psychological Review of Reviews
Related Monographs: The Man of Galilee: The Man, The Mission, The Message (1923)
Mills, Benjamin Fay
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Benjamin Fay Mills (1857–1916) was an American evangelist who moved from revivalism to a liberal, New Thought-inflected "Fellowship."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1916) American clergyman, author, and lecturer. Born in New Jersey, he was ordained a Congregationalist minister and worked as a national revival evangelist before adopting social gospel and Unitarian views, founding the independent Liberal Church in Los Angeles and the Fellowship of the Golden Rule. He wrote *The Divine Adventure* and *Social Evangelism* and integrated New Thought principles into lectures on applied psychology and metaphysics. Died in Michigan in 1916.
Related Periodicals: Nautilus
Mills, James Porter
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mind's Silent Partner: The High Counselor Within (1922)
Mills, Philo Laos
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Psychology of the Superconscious, or The Higher Phenomena of the Saints and Mystics (1922)
Milnes, Richard Monckton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885), the poet, politician and collector of the curious, whose circle touched mesmerism and the occult.
Chasing Emma: An Offering Of Sweet Savour
Milosz, Oscar Vladislav de Lubicz
(Source: Gemini) (?–1939) Lithuanian-born French poet, dramatist, diplomat, and esotericist, a figure in early twentieth-century French Symbolist literature. Born in Czereja, he studied in Paris and entered the diplomatic service, representing Lithuania at the
Related Periodicals: L'Affranchi
Milton, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John Milton (1608–1674), the English poet of Paradise Lost; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Olive Branch
Mingle, Ida
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1941) American esoteric author and teacher who founded the School of Liveable Christianity in Chicago. She contributed to New Thought journals before organizing her own school and publishing house, and authored *Science of Love with Key to Immortality* (1926) and *Spiritual Astrology*. Her teaching combined Christian mysticism, astrology, and spiritual alchemy. Died in 1941.
Chasing Emma: Hello!; or the Pleasures of Collecting: Ida Mingle and William Lester Blessing; 1964
Chasing Emma: Out of Her Mouth Came Stars So Bright: A Lesson from Lessons
Related Periodicals: American Wayshowers | The Light of Truth (Mingle) | The Occult Digest
Related Monographs: Science of Love with Key to Immortality (1926), The Racial Problem (1929), Spiritual Significance of the Body (1936)
Minier, Elizur Price
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Elizur Price Minier, an anti-Spiritualist writer of the 1860s.
Chasing Emma: May 1869: The Small World of Spiritualism
Minor, Frank
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Frank Minor, an associate in the “Lincoln the Lover” literary-forgery affair.
Chasing Emma: Lincoln the Lover: Cora Mickel Hoffer and the Atlantic Monthly Lincoln Forgery Case
Minor, Wilma Frances
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Wilma Frances Minor, who brought the forged “Lincoln the Lover” letters to the Atlantic Monthly in 1928.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1941) American writer, journalist, and self-described psychic medium, known for the 1928 Atlantic Monthly Lincoln-Rutledge love-letters hoax. A newspaper columnist who claimed clairvoyant powers and communication with the spirit of Abraham Lincoln, she produced letters purported to have passed between Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, which *The Atlantic Monthly* serialized in 1928. Lincoln scholars, notably Paul Angle, showed the letters to be fabrications, and Minor confessed she had forged them under 'spirit guidance.' Died in California in 1941.
Chasing Emma: Lincoln the Lover: Cora Mickel Hoffer and the Atlantic Monthly Lincoln Forgery Case
Mirandola, Pico della
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), the Italian Renaissance humanist who introduced Kabbalah into Christian thought and wrote the Oration on the Dignity of Man.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1494) Italian Renaissance philosopher and humanist. Born in Mirandola, he studied canon law, philosophy, and languages and became associated with the Platonic Academy of Florence under Lorenzo de' Medici. He authored *Oration on the Dignity of Man* (1486) and pioneered the study of Christian Kabbalah, attempting to synthesize Hebrew mysticism, Neoplatonism, and classical philosophy. His publications drew theological dispute and papal condemnation. Died in Florence in 1494.
Related Periodicals: Arohn
Mitchell, T. W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Medical Psychology and Psychical Research (1922)
Mitchell, William Francis
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Fred Burry's Journal | Twentieth Century Astrology
Mittra, Peary Chand
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Peary Chand Mitra (1814–1883), the Bengali author and reformer, an early Indian Spiritualist correspondent.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1883) Indian writer, journalist, social reformer, and spiritualist of the Bengali Renaissance. Born in Calcutta, he was librarian of the Calcutta Public Library, co-founded the journal *Masik Patrika*, and wrote the first Bengali novel, *Alaler Gharer Dulal* (1857), under the pseudonym Tekchand Thakur. He was a co-founder and first president of the Bengal
Chasing Emma: The Spiritualist Internationale
Related Periodicals: Hindu Spiritual Magazine
Modigliani
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), the Italian painter and sculptor; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The New Universe
Monck, Maria
(Source: Gemini) Reputed author of Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (1836), a lurid anti-Catholic account of convent life that became a bestseller of the nativist movement and a notorious literary hoax.
Related Periodicals: The Progressive Thinker
Monroe, James
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Dream Interpreter and Oneirocritica (Investigator)
Monteith, Mary E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Fringe of Immortality (1921)
Montoliu, Francisco
(Source: Gemini) (?–1892) Spanish agricultural engineer, author, and theosophist. Born in Tarragona, he co-founded the Madrid Theosophical Lodge in 1889, translated Helena Blavatsky's *The Secret Doctrine* and the *Bhagavad Gita* into Spanish, and founded and edited the journal *Estudios Teosóficos*. Died in Barcelona in 1892.
Related Periodicals: Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona) | Sophia (Spain)
Moody, Elinor S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: All Power Is Given Unto You (1921), You Can Receive Whatsoever You Desire (1923)
Moore, Ben
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Instantaneous Personal Magnetism Debunked (1929)
Moore, Francis
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1715) English physician and astrologer, founder of *Old Moore's Almanack*. Born in Durham, he practised medicine in London under licence from the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1699 he compiled his first almanac of astrological predictions and weather forecasts, published in 1700 as *Vox Stellarum* (The Voice of the Stars), containing medical remedies, farming schedules, and predictions of national events. The almanac has continued under his name for over three centuries. Died in London in 1715.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Eight: Fun with Almanacks
Related Periodicals: Moore's Almanac | Old Moore's Almanack
Moore, Mrs. Bloomfield
(Source: Gemini) (?–1899) American philanthropist, novelist, and poet, born in Philadelphia; married the paper manufacturer Bloomfield Haines Moore. For decades she was the principal financial patron of John Ernst Worrell Keely and his vibratory generator, and published *Keely and His Discoveries: Aerial Navigation* (1893) in support of his sympathetic vibratory physics. She also wrote fiction, notably the novel *On Dangerous Ground* (1876). Died in London in 1899.
Related Periodicals: Theosophical Siftings
Mora, Vincente Penalva
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona) | Loto Blanco
Moran, John B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) John B. Moran, a Massachusetts politician noted tangentially in the blog.
Chasing Emma: Negative Advertising and Will-o-Wisps; 1906
Moreau, Gustave
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Gustave Moreau (1826–1898), the French Symbolist painter of mythological and mystical subjects; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Catalogue du Salon de la Rose+Croix
Moresby, Elizabeth Louisa
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Ninth Vibration and Other Stories (1922)
Morgan, Henry Victor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Henry Victor Morgan (1867–1940) was an American New Thought minister and poet who founded the Society of the Living Christ in Tacoma.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1952) American poet, essayist, and New Thought minister active in the Pacific Northwest. He edited the monthly journal *The Master Christian* and wrote metaphysical essays and poetry, notably *The Christ of the Hills* and *Creative Healing*, teaching that health, harmony, and supply followed from cultivating divine consciousness and union with the Christ within. Died in 1952.
Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought (Chicago)
Moriarty, Theodore William Carte
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Theodore Moriarty (1873–1923) was an English occultist and Co-Mason, a teacher of Dion Fortune and model for her fictional adept "Dr. Taverner."
Related Periodicals: Inner Light (Fortune)
Related Monographs: The Seven Aphorisms of Creation (1920)
Morihei, Tanaka
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Taireido: A New Revelation Showing the True System of Life (1920)
Morley, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Henry Morley (1822–1894), the English writer and editor for Dickens's Household Words, author of “The Ghost of the Cock Lane Ghost.”
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Henry Morley
Morrell, Benjamin
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The British Spiritual Telegraph | The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph
Morris, Charles Evans
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Modern Rejuvenation Methods (1926)
Morris, Kenneth
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Katherine Tingley on Marriage and the Home: An Interview (1921)
Morrison, Andrew Malcolm
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Efficiency of Life at 100 Years and More (1921)
Morrison, Richard James
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1874) English astrologer and author who wrote under the pseudonym Zadkiel; formerly a Royal Navy lieutenant. In 1830 he founded the annual *Zadkiel's Almanac* (originally *The Herald of Astrology*), and wrote *The Grammar of Astrology* and *The Handbook of Astrology*, seeking a mathematical foundation for astrological calculation. Died in London in 1874.
Chasing Emma: A Trout In The Milk: Plotting The Orphic Circle
Chasing Emma: The Orphic Circle; Out In Public
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part One: Lord Stanhope's Crystal Ball
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Six: The Skrying Call
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Three: Richard Morrison Predicts...
Chasing Emma: Six (or Seven) Raphaels; Three Zadkiels: Some Astrological Bait
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Four: Philip Wood Deserves A Flogging
Related Periodicals: The Biological Review | Zadkiel's Magazine
Morse, Florence
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Psypioneer for January 2013
Related Periodicals: Lyceum Banner [Liverpool]
Morse, J.J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) J. J. Morse (1848–1919) was a leading English Spiritualist trance medium and editor, sometimes called "the Bishop of Spiritualism."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1919) British Spiritualist trance medium, lecturer, and editor, born in London; known as 'the Bishop of Spiritualism.' From the late 1860s he delivered platform addresses under trance, claiming a Chinese spirit guide, 'Tien Sien Tie.' He edited the periodicals *The Two Worlds* and *The Spiritualist*, wrote *Practical Occultism* (1888), and lectured in Britain, Australia, and the United States. Died in 1919.
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds for 1890
Chasing Emma: W. E. Coleman; J. J. Morse; and EHB
Related Periodicals: The Banner of Light | Daybreak | International Psychic Gazette | Lyceum Banner [Liverpool] | The Seer and Celestial Reformer | Spiritual Review | The Two Worlds
Morton, William T. G.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) William T. G. Morton (1819–1868), the American dentist who publicly demonstrated ether anaesthesia (“Letheon”) in 1846.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History: Letheon
Morton,, James F. Jr.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1941) American writer, lawyer, and reformer, born in Boston; a leading figure in the American Freethought Association and the Single Tax movement. He wrote *The Curse of Race Prejudice* (1906), an early attack on systemic racism, and served as curator of the Paterson Museum in New Jersey. Died in New Jersey in 1941.
Related Periodicals: Soundview
Morya
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Master Morya" ("M.") is, in Theosophical and Ascended-Master teaching, one of the adepts said to have inspired H. P. Blavatsky; not a documented historical person in the usual sense.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) A putative 'Master' or Mahatma (Mahatma M.) central to Theosophy, said to reside in Tibet. Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott claimed him as their spiritual guide and as a source of the teachings behind *Isis Unveiled* and *The Secret Doctrine*; correspondence attributed to him was compiled as *The Mahatma Letters*.
Related Periodicals: Solograph
Related Monographs: The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (1948)
Moseley, James Willet
See Moseley, James W>, above.
(Source: Gemini) (?–2012) American ufology writer, publisher, and lecturer, born in New York City. In 1954 he founded the Joint Committee on UFOs and the newsletter *Saucer News*, later the long-running satirical *Saucer Smear*, which he edited for over fifty years. He wrote *Shockingly Close to the Truth!* (2002), an insider history of ufology. Died in Florida in 2012.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Nexus (James Moseley) | Saucer News (Moseley) | Saucer News Non-Scheduled Newsletter (Moseley) | Saucer Sentinel | Saucer Smear (Moseley) | Saucerian
Moses, William Stainton
William Stainton Moses (1839–1892) was an English clergyman and Spiritualist medium whose automatic scripts, attributed to a spirit band led by "Imperator," were published as Spirit Teachings (1883). He co-founded what became the College of Psychic Studies and was a vice-president of the SPR.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1892) English Anglican clergyman and Spiritualist author who wrote as 'M.A. Oxon,' born in Lincolnshire; educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and a schoolmaster at University College School, London. From 1872 he claimed automatic writing and mediumship under a spirit group called 'Imperator.' He co-founded the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stainton_Moses
Chasing Emma: Sticking Note
Chasing Emma: Recovering From Miss Wood
Chasing Emma: The Blackburn Seances
Chasing Emma: Podmore's Dilemma
Chasing Emma: Stainton Moses; and the Idea of Practical Affairs
Chasing Emma: January 1894: FWH Myers; Curating Stainton Moses
Chasing Emma: A Form of Temptation and Trial: Spirit Enemies of Spiritualism; c. 1882
Chasing Emma: Old Shapes of Foul Disease: What Stainton Moses Knew in December; 1878
Chasing Emma: To Undo What Has Been So Badly Done: Stainton Moses; May 1886
Chasing Emma: The Internal Witness: CCM; December 1885
Chasing Emma: Blood! Blood! Blood!: A Glimpse of the London Milieu; February 21; 1874
Chasing Emma: The Set-Up; Part Three: Beguiling the Names and Brains of Science; August 1876
Chasing Emma: The Set-Up; Part Two: Fleet Street and Burlington House; August 4; 1876
Chasing Emma: It Bears On Its Face The Family Likeness: William Stainton Moses on Christian Science; June 1885
Chasing Emma: And On Them I Confess My Faith Rests: William Stainton Moses on Form Manifestations; May 1877
Chasing Emma: The Sphere of the Self; and the Religion of Daily Life: William Stainton Moses; October 1878
Chasing Emma: A Great Bladder for Dried Peas: William Stainton Moses on William Benjamin Carpenter; January 1877
Chasing Emma: Lobster and Lice: William Stainton Moses on Henry Steel Olcott; June 1875
Chasing Emma: Stainton Moses' Pocket-Book: October 1877
Chasing Emma: Amateurs in Crooked Lines: Henry Steel Olcott; 1855
Chasing Emma: A Neutral No-Spirit Land: Stainton Moses; April 1884
Chasing Emma: Like A Couple of Enamoured Lovers: Sitting with William Eglinton; July 1884
Chasing Emma: What Is Called Superstition Is Still Rife: William Stainton Moses on the Whitechapel Murders; December 1888
Chasing Emma: Parties Would Do Well to Call: Some Notes on Lottie Fowler (1841?-1899)
Related Periodicals: Human Nature | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | Light | Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden | The Psychological Review | Spiritual Notes
Mott, Lucretia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Lucretia Mott (1793–1880), the American Quaker abolitionist and women's-rights pioneer; cited here in a reform/periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Alpha | Brittan's Journal | The Index
Moulton, Louise Chandler
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) was an American poet, critic, and hostess of literary salons; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Gnostic
Mousseax, Gougenaux de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Roger Gougenot des Mousseaux (1805–1876) was a French Catholic writer who attacked magic, Spiritism, and secret societies as diabolical.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1876) French journalist and counter-revolutionary Catholic writer, born in Coulommiers; formerly a magistrate. He wrote *Le Juif, le judaïsme et la judaïsation des peuples chrétiens* (1869), advancing a conspiracy theory that Jewish societies, Freemasons, and occultists were subverting Christian civilization; the work was praised by Pope Pius IX. Died in France in 1876.
Related Periodicals: Almanach Prophetique
Mowbray, C. H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Transition (1947)
Moyes, Winifred
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Winifred Moyes (1868–1957) was an English medium whose spirit guide "Zodiac" delivered the teachings of the Greater World Christian Spiritualist movement she founded.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1957) British Spiritualist trance medium and author, born in London. In 1931 she founded the Greater World Christian Spiritualist Association, delivering trance addresses she attributed to a spirit called 'Zodiac' and editing its weekly journal *The Greater World*; the movement established spiritualist churches and clinics. Died in London in 1957.
Related Periodicals: The Greater World
Mozley, J. H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Survey of the Occult (1935)
Mozumdar, A.K.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) A. K. Mozumdar (1881–1953) was an Indian-American New Thought teacher, one of the first Asians to write and lead in the American metaphysical movement.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1953) Indian-born New Thought and Vedanta teacher and author, born in Bengal; emigrated to Seattle in 1903 and founded the
Related Periodicals: American Occultist
Mukhyopadhyaya, Pramathanatha
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The World as Power: Power as Matter (1923)
Muller, Ernst
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Der Sohar und seine Lehre: Einleitung in die Gedankenwelt der Kabbalah (1920)
Mundell, Charles S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Our Joe, or Why We Believe Our Brother Lives (1922)
Murchison, Carl
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Case For and Against Psychical Belief (1927)
Murphy, Cosgrove
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Murray, Margaret Alice
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology (1921)
Murrayne, John Cuthbert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Master-Key to Rapid Progress, Success and Power (1925)
Muscat, Jane Oliphant
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Letters From an Occult Student (1922)
Musselman, Morris Mcneil
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Ouija: A Farce Comedy in One Act (1920)
Mrs. Duncan
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Bulletin and Proceedings of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research
Mrs. Welari
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Official Theomonistic Record
Related Monographs: Holy Theomonistic Bible, or The Evolutionary Gospel of Fulfilment of Prophecy (1921)
Muchery, Georges
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Georges Muchery (1892–1976) was a French astrologer and cartomancer, author of works on the "astrological tarot."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1981) French astrologer, occultist, and publisher. In 1935 he founded the Astrological Brotherhood of France and edited the journal *Le Chariot*; he wrote *The Astrological Tarot* and *The Encyclopedia of Esoteric Sciences* and produced home-study courses in astrology and character analysis. Died in 1981.
Related Periodicals: The Chariot (Paris)
Mukerji, A.P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Swami" A. P. Mukerji was the author of early-twentieth-century English-language manuals on yoga, "doctrine of might," and spiritual self-culture.
Related Periodicals: The Kalpaka | Self-Culture
Muldoon, Sylvan J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Sylvan J. Muldoon (1903–1969) was an American writer on astral projection, co-author with Hereward Carrington of The Projection of the Astral Body (1929).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1969) American writer on out-of-body experience and astral projection, born in Darlington, Wisconsin. With the psychical researcher Hereward Carrington he wrote *The Projection of the Astral Body* (1929), analyzing the sensations and 'cord' mechanics of astral travel, followed by *The Case for Astral Projection* and *The Phenomena of Astral Projection*. Died in 1969.
Related Periodicals: Aries Quarterly | Light on the Path and Weekly Truth Sheet (Brotherhood of the White Temple) | The Occult Digest | Psychic Observer | True Mystic Science
Related Monographs: The Projection of the Astral Body (1929)
Mulford, Prentice
Prentice Mulford (1834-1891) was an American journalist, philosopher, and popular independent New Thought writer and mystic. Born at Sag Harbour, Long Island, on 5 April 1834, he followed a rambling life as seaman, ship's cook, whaleman, and gold prospector before turning to writing. He became a widely read pioneer of New Thought, best known for his collected essays Your Forces and How to Use Them (6 vols., 1887-92), published in the White Cross Library. His ideas about mental force, thought, and spiritual power anticipated many themes of the later New Thought movement.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1891) American humorist, journalist, and essayist, born in Sag Harbor, Long Island; an early figure of the New Thought movement. After years in California, where he wrote for the *San Francisco Golden Era*, he turned to mental healing and the 'law of attraction,' issuing the six-volume series *Your Forces and How to Use Them* (1889), which held that thought could shape health and circumstance. Died on Long Island in 1891.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mulford-prentice-1834-1891
Chasing Emma: Some Pages of Brown Paper: The Death of Prentice Mulford; May 1891
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Muller, F. Max
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) was a German-British philologist and Orientalist, editor of the Sacred Books of the East and a founder of comparative religion.
(Source: Gemini) German-born British philologist and Orientalist (1823–1900), a founder of the academic study of comparative religion and editor of the fifty-volume Sacred Books of the East.
Related Periodicals: The Arena | Progress (Chicago) | Spiritual Science Digest
Mumford, Lewis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Lewis Mumford (1895–1990), the American historian and critic of technology and cities; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Mentation
Mumler, Hannah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) William H. Mumler (1832–1884) was the American originator of "spirit photography," tried for fraud in 1869 and famous for a photograph purporting to show Mary Todd Lincoln with her husband's ghost.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1884) American engraver of Boston and the first commercial spirit photographer. From 1861 he produced portraits purporting to show sitters beside spirits of the dead, working in Boston and New York with his wife, the medium Hannah Mumler; his best-known image (1872) shows Mary Todd Lincoln with a figure said to be Abraham Lincoln. Tried for fraud in New York in 1869, he was acquitted for insufficient evidence. Died in Boston in 1884.
Chasing Emma: My Letter From Hiro: Mumler's Role in Spirit Photography
Chasing Emma: The Actual Likeness of Spirits: The Early Career of William H. Mumler
Chasing Emma: The Woman In The Business: Hannah F. Green Stuart Mumler
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Mundy, Talbot
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Talbot Mundy (1879–1940) was an English-American adventure novelist (Om, Jimgrim) and a Theosophist associated with the Point Loma community.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1940) English-born American novelist and Theosophist (born William Lancaster Gribbon), born in London; a frequent contributor to the pulp magazine *Adventure* and author of *King of the Khyber Rifles* (1916). He joined the Point Loma
Related Periodicals: Raja-Yoga Messenger
Murillo, Manuel Navarro
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Luz y Union (Barcelona) | Revista de Estudios Psicologicos
Murphy, Bridey
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) "Bridey Murphy" was the supposed nineteenth-century Irish past-life personality recalled under hypnosis by Virginia Tighe ("Ruth Simmons") in the widely publicized 1950s reincarnation case.
(Source: Gemini) (1798–?, claimed) Purported previous-life personality of Virginia Tighe, a Colorado housewife given the pseudonym Ruth Simmons. Under hypnotic regression by the amateur hypnotist Morey Bernstein beginning in 1952, she described a past life as a nineteenth-century Irishwoman born in Cork in 1798. The case reached a wide audience through Bernstein's *The Search for Bridey Murphy* (1956) and became a much-discussed test case for claims of reincarnation and hypnotic regression.
Related Periodicals: Mystic Magazine (Palmer)
Murray, Gilbert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Gilbert Murray (1866–1957), the British classical scholar who experimented with telepathy and served as president of the SPR; cited here in a periodical context.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1957) Australian-born British classical scholar and Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, known for translations of Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles and for his work on the
Related Periodicals: Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie
Murray, Orson S.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1885) American abolitionist, freethinker, and radical editor. Trained as a Baptist minister before embracing freethought and religious skepticism, he lectured for the anti-slavery cause alongside William Lloyd Garrison and belonged to the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1844 he founded and edited the freethought periodical *The Regenerator*, advocating vegetarianism, land reform, temperance, and women's rights, later moving his press to Ohio to establish a cooperative communal association. Born in Vermont; died in 1885.
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Murray, W. John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) W. John Murray (1866–1940) was an American New Thought minister who founded the Church of the Healing Christ in New York.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1925) American New Thought minister and author, a leader in the Divine Science movement. In New York City he founded the First
Related Periodicals: The Gleaner
Murry, John Middleton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John Middleton Murry (1889–1957), the English critic and editor, husband of Katherine Mansfield; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Aryan Path
Mutze, Oswald
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Oswald Mutze was a Leipzig publisher who issued much of the German Spiritualist and occult literature of the later nineteenth century, including Psychische Studien.
Related Periodicals: Psychische Studien | Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie | Zeitschrift fur Spiritismus
Myer, Isaac
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Isaac Myer (1836–1902) was an American lawyer and scholar, author of Qabbalah (1888), an early English study of the Zohar and Ibn Gabirol.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1902) American lawyer and scholar of esotericism and Kabbalah. After a legal career he turned to classical languages and mystical philosophy, publishing *Qabbalah: The Philosophical Writings of Solomon ben Yehudah ibn Gebirol* (1888), one of the first comprehensive English studies to translate and analyze parts of the Zohar and the teachings of Ibn Gabirol. He also wrote on Egyptian scarabs and the Hermetic writings. Born in Philadelphia; died in New York in 1902.
Related Periodicals: Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
Myers, F.W.H.
Frederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901) was an English classicist, poet, and a founder of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1901) English classical scholar, poet, and essayist, a principal co-founder of the Society for Psychical Research (1882). He co-authored *Phantasms of the Living* (1886) and devoted himself to the investigation of mediumship, telepathy, and subconscious states, formulating the theory of the 'subliminal self'. His posthumous *Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death* (1903) sought a scientific framework for the survival of consciousness after death. Born in Keswick; died in Rome in 1901.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_W._H._Myers
Chasing Emma: January 1894: FWH Myers; Curating Stainton Moses
Chasing Emma: My Search For William Eglinton: The Value of the Narrative; and the Conjuration Test
Chasing Emma: Explained Away: Henry Kiddle on Myers' "Unconscious Secondary Self"; 1885
Related Periodicals: Die Ubersinnliche Welt
Related Monographs: The Road to Immortality (1933), The Experiences of Rev. W. Stainton Moses (1936)
Naillen, A. Van Der
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) A. Van der Naillen (1830–1928) was a Belgian-American engineer and educator, author of occult-adventure novels such as In the Sanctuary set among Eastern adepts.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1928) Belgian-born American engineer, educator, and author of esoteric fiction. He founded the Van der Naillen School of Practical Engineering in San Francisco while writing metaphysical novels, most notably *On the Heights of Himalay* (1889) and *In the Sanctuary*, which blended scientific ideas with theosophical concepts and depicted spiritual initiations in hidden Himalayan temples. Died in California in 1928.
Chasing Emma: A New Monetization Strategy
Chasing Emma: August 15; 1880: The End of America
Related Periodicals: Pacific Liberal | Revue du Psychisme Experimental
Related Monographs: The Great Message (1925)
Namee, J.W. Van
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) J. W. Van Namee (Daniel White) was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist medium, healer, and writer.
Related Periodicals: Psychometric Circular
Nasby, Petroleum V.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Petroleum V. Nasby" was the satirical persona of the American humorist David Ross Locke (1833–1888); cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Nasse, Christian Friedrich
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Christian Friedrich Nasse (1778–1851) was a German physician and psychiatrist, an early scientific investigator of animal magnetism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1851) German physician and psychiatrist, a leader of the somatic school of German psychiatry who held professorships at Halle and Bonn and argued that mental illness was rooted in organic brain disorder. Alongside his medical work he investigated animal magnetism, somnambulism, and the therapeutic uses of mesmerism, publishing clinical treatises and editing the journal *Zeitschrift für psychische Aerzte*. Born in Bielefeld; died in Marburg in 1851.
Related Periodicals: Archiv Fur Thiereschen Magnetismus (Den Halle) | Zeitschrift fur Psychische Aerzte
Naylor, R.H.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1952) English astrologer and writer, credited as the father of the newspaper horoscope. An assistant to the astrologer Cheiro, in August 1930 he published a forecast for the newborn Princess Margaret in the *Sunday Express*; the resulting public interest led to a regular weekly horoscope column and popularized sun-sign astrology. Born in London; died in 1952.
Related Periodicals: Prediction
Neal, Ewing Virgil
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1949) American hypnotist and publisher who wrote under the pseudonym Xenophon LaMotte Sage. He co-founded the
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode Five: No Small Part In The Coming Generation
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode Six: How Mae Edna Wilder Got Rid of a Double Chin
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Interlude Two: The Hypnotic Bank
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 7: Making Love To A Broom
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 12: The Cunning of Himself and His Partners Was The Real Ingredient
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Neely, F. Tennyson
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) F. Tennyson Neely (1863–1941), an American publisher (of Cheiro and Flammarion) and the operator of a pre-Ponzi financial fraud.
Chasing Emma: The Con in Yellow: Some Notes on F. Tennyson Neely (1863-1941)
Neff, Mary K.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Mary K. Neff (1875–1953) was an American Theosophist and archivist who compiled Personal Memoirs of H. P. Blavatsky.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1948) American educator and theosophist. Working at the
Related Periodicals: Theosophia
Neligan, Harry L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: True Irish Ghost Stories (1926)
Nelson, Ellart
To be added.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Brotherhood (Los Angeles)
Neptune
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) “Neptune,” the pen-name of a Victorian astrologer who advertised in The Two Worlds and was prosecuted for fortune-telling.
Chasing Emma: The Tyranny of Community Standards
Neresheimer, E. August
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) E. August Neresheimer was an American Theosophist and businessman, a close associate of William Q. Judge in the New York
Related Periodicals: The Century Path | Theosophical News | Theosophy | Universal Brotherhood
Neruda, Pablo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Neuberg, Victor B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Victor B. Neuburg (1883–1940) was an English poet who was Aleister Crowley's disciple and partner in the 1909 "Paris Working" and the Algerian magical operations.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1940) English poet, occultist, and editor. Initiated into the
Related Periodicals: Atlantis Quarterly | Equinox | The Occult Review | The Theosophical Review
Newbrough, John Ballou
John Ballou Newbrough (1828-1891) was an American dentist, spiritualist, and author who published Oahspe: A New Bible (1882), a voluminous religious text he claimed to have received through automatic typewriting over a period of fifty weeks. The text describes a complex cosmology of angelic hierarchies and the spiritual evolution of humanity and became the founding document of the Faithist movement. Newbrough later established a communal settlement called Shalam in New Mexico dedicated to raising orphaned children according to Oahspe principles.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1891) American dentist and spiritualist medium, known as the channeler of *Oahspe: A New Bible in the Words of Jehovih* (1882), which he claimed to produce by automatic writing on a typewriter under spiritual guidance. The work set out a comprehensive cosmology and moral code and attracted followers who founded cooperative agrarian communities. Born in Mohican, Ohio; died in New Mexico in 1891.
Chasing Emma: Fetch Here A Coal Of Fire: J. B. Newbrough's Early Work
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Eclectic Medical Journal | Kosmon Unity | Official Theomonistic Record
Related Monographs: Spiritalis, or Spirits Interviewed (1945)
Newcomb, Arthur W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Arthur W. Newcomb was an American New Thought writer associated with the Elizabeth Towne circle in the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: The Business Philosopher
Related Monographs: Character Analysis by the Observational Method, Lessons XVIII-XX: Marital and Family Relations; Salesmanship; Vocational Guidance (1920), The Job, The Man, The Boss (1921), Character Analysis by the Observational Method (Lesson V: Texture, Consistency and Flexibility; Lessons VI-VII: Proportion) (1922)
Newenham, Helena
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Helena Newenham, a figure in the circle around William Eglinton and Frederick Hockley.
Chasing Emma: My Search for William Eglinton: Eglinton's Admirers; 1884
Newhouse, Flower A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Flower A. Newhouse (1909–1994) was an American Christian mystic and "angel" seer who founded the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1994) American Christian mystic, clairvoyant, and author who founded the Christward Ministry in Escondido, California. She described visions of angels and auras and developed a detailed system of angelology, writing works including *Natives of Eternity* (1937) and *Kingdom of the Shining Ones*. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania; died in California in 1994.
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Related Monographs: School of Life (1934), Christward, Volume Three (1940)
Newhouse, Lawrence G.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Inspiration (Newhouse) | Training for Self-Conquest
Newman, Angie F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Angie F. Newman (1837–1910) was an American Methodist reformer and temperance and missionary organizer.
Related Periodicals: Weltmer's Magazine
Newman, Cardinal
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John Henry Newman (1801–1890), the English theologian and cardinal, leader of the Oxford Movement; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story)
Newman, Thomas Gabriel
(Source: Gemini) (?–1903) English-born American spiritualist editor and publisher active in the post–Civil War organizational growth of Spiritualism. Based in Chicago, he edited and published a leading weekly spiritualist periodical, reportedly *The Progressive Thinker*, and helped organize the
Related Periodicals: California Spiritual Messenger | The Religio-Philosophical Journal
Newmann, C. A. George
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Experiences of Rev. W. Stainton Moses (1936), Contact Mind Reading--Expanded (1945)
Newnham, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) William Newnham, an early-Victorian medical writer on mesmerism and the mind.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1865) British physician and medical writer who analyzed animal magnetism, somnambulism, and superstition, publishing *Human Magnetism* (1845) and *Essay on Superstition*. He explained mesmerism and trance states as products of natural physiological and psychological laws rather than supernatural intervention. Born in Farnham; died in Gloucestershire in 1865.
Chasing Emma: New (Magnetic) Thought: 1842; 1854; 1855
Newton, Alonzo Eliot
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Alonzo Eliot Newton (1821–1889) was an American Spiritualist editor and writer, associated with the New England Spiritualist and reform journalism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1889) American spiritualist editor, author, and educational reformer. A journalist who converted to Spiritualism in the 1850s, he edited *The New England Spiritualist* in Boston and wrote *The Ministry of Angels Realized* (1853). He also served as superintendent of colored schools in Washington, D.C. Born in Massachusetts; died there in 1889.
Related Periodicals: New Age (Boston) | The New Era | New-England Spiritualist | Soundview | The Spiritual Age (Boston) | The Spiritual Age (new York) | The Spiritual Eclectic | The Spiritual Telegraph | Una
Newton, Henry J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Henry J. Newton was a New York Spiritualist, a president of the
Related Periodicals: The Light of Truth
Newton, R. Heber
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) R. Heber Newton (1840–1914) was an American Episcopal clergyman of liberal and "higher-criticism" views who took a sympathetic interest in psychical research.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1914) American Episcopal clergyman and author, a leader of the Social Gospel movement and rector of All Souls Church in New York. He worked to reconcile Christian theology with science and comparative religion, and took part in the
Related Periodicals: Coming Age
Nichols, Ida A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ida A. Nichols was an American New Thought editor, associated with the Chicago magazine Universal Truth in the 1890s.
Related Periodicals: Mental Science Magazine | Universal Truth
Nichols, Mary Sargeant Gove
Mary Sargeant Neal Gove Nichols (1810-1884) was an American health reformer, hydropathist, author, and Spiritualist who was one of the pioneering voices for women's health and rights in mid-nineteenth-century America. She lectured widely on anatomy and physiology for women at a time when such topics were considered unsuitable subjects for female discussion, and advocated water cure, vegetarianism, and dress reform. With her second husband Thomas Low Nichols she co-authored Marriage: Its History, Character, and Results (1854), a controversial defence of free love. She later converted to Roman Catholicism and emigrated to England.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1884) American hydropathist, women's-rights activist, and health reformer who also supported Spiritualism. With her husband, Thomas Low Nichols, she co-founded the American Hydropathic Institute in New York and ran water-cure resorts, writing *Lectures on Water-Cure* (1850). She held séances and wrote in support of Spiritualism before relocating to Britain. Born in Goffstown, New Hampshire; died in London in 1884.
Chasing Emma: Esoteric Anthropology: Sex; Death and Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: T. L. Nichols and The Adelaide Bartlett Trial
Chasing Emma: Spirito-Carnality: The Affinities of Free Love and Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: Shameless Reading; Shameful Writing
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Nichols, Ross
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Ross Nichols (1902–1975) was an English poet and Druid who founded the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1975) English poet, artist, scholar, and Druid. Educated in history and literature at the University of Cambridge, he worked as an educator, editor, and publisher in London. A member of the
Related Periodicals: The Metaphysician (Palatine) | The Occult Observer
Nichols, Thomas Low
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Thomas Low Nichols (1815–1901) was an American physician, health reformer, and Spiritualist, co-founder with his wife Mary Gove Nichols of a water-cure and free-love reform movement.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1901) Nineteenth-century American physician, editor, and publisher, and an advocate of hydropathy and dietary reform. He studied medicine at New York University and, with his wife Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols, co-founded the American Hydropathic Institute, which offered water-cure medical training. He wrote *Esoteric Anthropology* (1853) and *Forty Years of American Life*, and co-edited the *Water-Cure Journal*. An advocate of temperance and free love, he was also an investigator of Spiritualism. Died in London in 1901.
Chasing Emma: Esoteric Anthropology: Sex; Death and Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: T. L. Nichols and The Adelaide Bartlett Trial
Related Periodicals: Freelight | Herald of Health (T. L. Nichols) | The New Republic | Nichols' Monthly | The Water-Cure Journal
Nickerson, Converse E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Ghosts of the Bible (1922)
Niemand, Jasper
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Letters That Have Helped Me (1920)
Nilakanta, Sri Ram
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) N. Sri Ram (1889–1973) was an Indian Theosophist who served as international president of the
Related Periodicals: New India (Besant)
Nipher, Francis E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Francis E. Nipher, an American physicist noted for an 1891 address on the ether.
Chasing Emma: How Our Ideas Commend Themselves To Those Who Follow: The Ether; 1891
Nisbet, Hay
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Emma; Hay Nisbet; David Duguid and The Glasgow Association of Spiritualists
Chasing Emma: Hafed; Prince of Persia: Feculent Fluids; and States of the Text
Related Periodicals: The Occult Magazine (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor) | The Psychological Review | Spiritual Record
Nitya
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Nitya" was Nityananda (Jiddu Nityananda, 1898–1927), the younger brother of Krishnamurti, groomed alongside him by the
Related Periodicals: Mothers' Occult Digest
Nivedita, Sister
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble, 1867–1911) was an Irish-Scottish disciple of Swami Vivekananda who devoted herself to education and the nationalist cause in India.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1911) Irish-born educator, writer, and social activist, born Margaret Elizabeth Noble in Dungannon, Ireland. After meeting Swami Vivekananda in London in 1895 she moved to Calcutta, was initiated into the
Related Periodicals: Brahmavadin
Nizida
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) “Nizida,” the pseudonymous author of Nature-Spirits or Elementals (Theosophical Publication Society, 1889) — an identity that remains unresolved (and is NOT, per Demarest, Catherine Galindo).
Chasing Emma: Nizida on Elementals and Elementaries: Some Background
Nizier, Philippe
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Nizier Anthelme Philippe (1849–1905), "Maître Philippe de Lyon," was a French healer and mystic revered in occult and Martinist circles, a spiritual influence on Papus.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1905) French healer and mystic, known as Maître Philippe de Lyon (born Anthelme Nizier Philippe in Loisieux). He claimed spiritual healing abilities and ran a practice in Lyon offering free treatments. His reputation drew the patronage of Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia, who presented him to Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra, whom he advised as a spiritual counselor before the rise of Grigori Rasputin. He lectured on Christian mysticism to disciples in Lyon. Died in Loisieux in 1905.
Related Periodicals: Iniciacion [Montevideo] | Le Magicien | Revue Theurgique
Nodier, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Charles Nodier (1780–1844) was a French Romantic author of fantastic and dream tales, an influence on the literature of the marvelous.
Related Periodicals: Echo du Merveilleux
Noeggerath, Mme R.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1908) French-Finnish spiritualist author and translator, born in Finland. A disciple of Allan Kardec, she collaborated with Camille Flammarion and Jean Meyer and hosted a weekly spiritualist salon in Paris. She translated Spiritist works into several languages and wrote *La Survie* (1897), compiling mediumistic communications in support of the soul's immortality. Died in Paris in 1908.
Related Periodicals: Revue du Spiritualisme Moderne
Noel, Roden
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Roden Noel (1834–1894), the English poet, whose critiques of Blavatsky and of slate-writing appear in the psychical debates of the 1880s.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1894) English poet and literary critic, born in London into an aristocratic family (son of the Earl of Gainsborough) and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; he served as a groom of the privy chamber to Queen Victoria. He wrote *A Little Child's Monument* (1881), an elegy for his son. His poetry combined classical themes with philosophical idealism, and he held a lifelong interest in Spiritualism and psychical research. Died in Mainz, Germany, in 1894.
Chasing Emma: Jeers; Imprisonment or a Horse-Whip: Roden Noel on Slate-Writing; January 1885
Chasing Emma: The Strange Theory of Madame Blavatsky: Roden Noel; 1882
Nordhoff, August W.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German-American spiritualist author and lecturer. Emigrating from Germany to the United States in his youth, he investigated mediumship and spirit communication and lectured to spiritualist associations across the Midwest. He wrote *The Journey of the Soul* and *Metaphysical Teachings*, setting out a rationalist cosmology of consciousness after death and seeking to reconcile Christian theology with psychical research. Died in the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Archive Fur Den Thiereschen Magnetismus (Jena)
Norman, A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century British spiritualist writer and editor, working in London. He contributed to *The Two Worlds* and *Light*, reporting on physical materializations and automatic writing, and wrote *Spiritualism for the Inquirer* and *The Reality of Spirit Life*. He visited study circles to lecture on evidence for spirit survival. Died in the mid-twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Self-Culture
Normanton, Helena
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Trial of Mrs. Duncan (1945)
Norns, Shasta
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Pseudonym of a mid-twentieth-century American mystical writer, medium, and lecturer based near Mount Shasta, California. She claimed clairvoyant trance communications from cosmic entities she called guardians of the earth, and self-published *The Voices of Shasta* and *Mystic Revelations*, setting out a cosmology of spiritual evolution, sacred geometry, and planetary healing. She held lectures and retreats. Died in the late twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Research Gladiator
North, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) William North (1825–1854), an English-American novelist and journalist, author of an 1853 skeptical review of the Fox sisters.
(Source: Gemini) English novelist, poet, and journalist (1825–1854) of the London and New York literary bohemia, several of whose novels take spiritualistic or occult subjects.
Chasing Emma: Living Men of Sense; Dignity and Education: William North on the Fox Sisters; Andrew Jackson Davis; and Spiritualism
Northrop, J.C.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century American spiritualist writer, based in New England. He contributed to *The Banner of Light* on evidence for spirit survival and wrote *The Light of Spiritism* and *The Physical Laws of Mediumship*, seeking to reconcile religion with psychical research. He organized spiritualist conventions and gave platform lectures. Died in the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Paragon Monthly
Norvell, Anthony
(Source: Gemini) (1908–1990) American astrologer, lecturer, and self-help author. Working in Los Angeles and New York, he lectured at Carnegie Hall and other venues on thought control for health and financial success. He wrote *Metaphysics: New Dimension of the Mind* (1967) and *The Million Dollar Secret Hidden in Your Mind*, and produced weekly astrological columns. Died in 1990.
Related Periodicals: Mind Digest
Norwood, Joseph White
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Success Inevitable, or the Psychology of Success (1923)
Nostradamus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame, 1503–1566), the French astrologer and physician whose cryptic Prophecies made him the archetypal seer of Western tradition.
(Source: Gemini) (1503–1566) French physician, astrologer, and seer, born Michel de Nostredame in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. He studied medicine at the University of Montpellier and treated plague victims before turning to astrology and prophetic calculation. He published *Les Prophéties* (1555), a collection of poetic quatrains grouped in hundreds, written in a blend of French, Greek, and Latin. He drew the patronage of Queen Catherine de' Medici, who appointed him Royal Physician. Died in Salon-de-Provence in 1566.
Related Periodicals: Valor (Pelley)
Notovitch, Nicholas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Nicolas Notovitch (b. 1858) was a Russian adventurer whose The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ (1894) claimed to reveal a Himalayan manuscript on Jesus's "lost years," widely regarded as a fabrication.
(Source: Gemini) (1858–c.1916) Russian journalist, traveler, and author. A war correspondent who traveled in the Middle East, India, and Ladakh, he published *The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ* (1894), which claimed that during his 'lost years' Jesus traveled to India and Tibet to study Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. He said he had found an ancient manuscript documenting this at the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh; the claim was widely disputed by scholars. Died in the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: The Progressive Thinker
Nourredin-Addis, A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American spiritualist writer, born Adelia Nourredin Addis. She studied comparative religion and esotericism, contributed to American spiritualist journals, and edited metaphysical publications seeking to join Eastern mysticism with psychical research. She wrote *The Divine Metaphysics* and *Cosmic Evolution*, setting out a rationalist system of spiritual realization. Died in the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Mystic World
Nourry, Emile
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: L'Eternuement et le Baillement dans la Magie, l'Ethnographie et le Folklore Medical (1921)
Nouy, Pierre Lecomte de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Pierre Lecomte du Noüy (1883–1947) was a French biophysicist whose book Human Destiny (1947) argued for a teleological, spiritual evolution.
Related Periodicals: Art, Science et Peuple
Noyes, G.W.
(Source: Gemini) (1870–1941) American historian and archivist, born in the
Related Periodicals: The Social Revolutionist
Noyes, Helen Haskell
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Voice from Space (1920)
Noyes, John Humphrey
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Humphrey Noyes (1811–1886) was the American founder of the
(Source: Gemini) (1811–1886) American religious reformer and utopian socialist, founder of the Oneida Community, born in Brattleboro, Vermont. He studied theology at Yale and was ordained before formulating the doctrine of Perfectionism, holding that Christ's second coming had occurred in AD 70. In 1848 he established the Oneida Community in New York, practicing communal property and 'complex marriage.' He wrote *The Berean* (1847) and *History of American Socialisms* (1870). Died in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in 1886.
Related Periodicals: The American Socialist | Free Church Circular | Oneida Circular | The Social Revolutionist
Nozal, Francisco
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Spanish spiritist author, editor, and lecturer. He worked with the Federación Espiritista Española, edited Spanish spiritist periodicals, and wrote on automatic writing, mediumship, and the teachings of Allan Kardec. His books include *Spiritism and Modern Science* and *The Moral Evolution of Humanity*. He organized local study circles across Spain. Died in the mid-twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Fraternidad Universal
Nus, Eugene
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Eugène Nus (1816–1894) was a French journalist, dramatist, and Spiritist writer, author of works on the "great mystery" of survival.
(Source: Gemini) (1816–1894) French playwright, journalist, and poet, born in Chalon-sur-Saône, and a champion of the Spiritist movement in France. A dramatist in Paris, he also defended Allan Kardec's teachings, writing *Choses de l'autre monde* (1880) and *A la recherche des destinées*, in which he argued for spirit communication, hypnotism, and re-embodiment as natural laws. Died in 1894.
Related Periodicals: Almanach du Magiste
Nussbaum, Robert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Nos fils seront-ils enfin des Hommes? Notes d'un educateur spiritualiste (1921)
Nusserewnji, Jamshed
(Source: Gemini) (1886–1952) Indian theosophist, philanthropist, and social reformer, born in Karachi to a Parsi family; born Jamshed Nusservanji Mehta. He served as the first Mayor of Karachi and as General Secretary of the Karachi
Related Periodicals: New India (Besant)
Nydia
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century British Spiritualist writer, medium, and poet, working in London under the pseudonym 'Nydia'. She claimed to receive automatic writing and spiritual poetry in trance from spirit guides, and published essays, poems, and séance reports in British Spiritualist periodicals, notably *The Spiritualist* and *Light*. Her writings set out a system of inner contemplation, meditation, and spiritual healing. Died in the mid-twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Shaver Mystery Magazine
Nyland, Theo
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Nystrom, Oscar
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Swedish-American publisher, hymnwriter, and Spiritualist. Born in Sweden, he emigrated to Chicago, Illinois, where he worked as a printer and publisher. He co-founded the First Scandinavian Spiritualist Society of Chicago and edited the Swedish-language Spiritualist monthly *Sändebudet*, and compiled Spiritualist hymnbooks combining Lutheran music with spiritist theology for Scandinavian immigrants. He organized study branches across the Midwest. Died in the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought (Chicago)
O'Brien, Elsie
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American Theosophist, writer, and social reformer. She contributed to Theosophical journals and served on the boards of Theosophical schools, promoting holistic teaching methods. She published essays and compilations, notably *The Wisdom of the Ages* and *The Educational Path*, on universal brotherhood and ethical development. Died in the mid-twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: American Occultist
O'Connell, Joan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Joan O'Connell was, with Pat O'Connell, co-editor of the New Atlantean Journal, a 1970s–80s American UFO/New Age periodical published in St. Petersburg, Florida.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Mid-twentieth-century writer and researcher in parapsychology and alternative spiritual movements, working in North America. She contributed articles on laboratory trials, automatic writing, and survival research to parapsychological and metaphysical periodicals, and compiled *The Science of Spirit* and *The Healing Consciousness*. Died in the late twentieth century.
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O'Donnell, Elliott
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Elliott O'Donnell (1872–1965) was a British author and "ghost hunter" who wrote scores of popular books on hauntings and the supernatural.
(Source: Gemini) (1872–1965) Irish-English author, lecturer, and ghost hunter. Born in Bristol, he studied at Clifton College, travelled in America, and settled in London as a writer on supernatural investigation, claiming personal encounters with apparitions across the British Isles. He wrote over fifty books on the supernatural, notably *Ghostly Phenomena* (1908), *Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales*, and *The Screaming Skull*, and gave radio broadcasts. Died in Somerset in 1965.
Related Periodicals: The Metaphysician (Palatine)
Related Monographs: More Haunted Houses of London (1920), The Menace of Spiritualism (1920)
O'Sullivan, John L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John L. O'Sullivan (1813–1895), the American editor who coined "Manifest Destiny," later became an ardent Spiritualist.
Chasing Emma: For the Defense; Monsieur Jacolliot: August 1875
Related Periodicals: The Spiritualist
Oakley, Isabel Cooper
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Isabel Cooper-Oakley (1854–1914) was an English Theosophist, a companion of Blavatsky and historian of secret societies and the Comte de Saint-Germain.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1912) British Theosophist, writer, and researcher. Born in India, she joined the
Related Periodicals: Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires)
Oaten, Ernest W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ernest W. Oaten (1875–1952) was a leading English Spiritualist, president of the Spiritualists' National Union and editor of The Two Worlds.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1959) British Spiritualist leader, author, and editor, based in Manchester. He edited the Spiritualist weekly *The Two Worlds* for decades and served as President of the Spiritualists' National Union. He wrote *The Case for Spiritualism* and *The Spiritualist's Guide*, campaigned for the legal recognition of Spiritualism, and gave public lectures and radio broadcasts. Died in 1959.
Related Periodicals: The Two Worlds
Related Monographs: Spiritualism for the Student and Investigator: A Symposium (1923), The Relation of Modern Spiritualism to Christianity (1924)
Obregon, Alvaro
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Álvaro Obregón (1880–1928), the Mexican revolutionary general and president; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Chapala Round Table | The Psychological Review of Reviews
Obrien, Frederick
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mystic Isles of the South Seas (1921)
Obyrne, F. D.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Reichenbach's Letters on Od and Magnetism (1852) (1926)
Ochorowicz, Julian
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Julian Ochorowicz (1850–1917) was a Polish psychologist, philosopher, and inventor who conducted careful investigations of hypnotism and mediumship (notably Eusapia Palladino and Stanisława Tomczyk).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1917) Polish psychologist, philosopher, and inventor, and a pioneer of psychical research. Born in Radom, he took a doctorate in philosophy at Leipzig under Wilhelm Wundt and taught at the University of Lemberg. He studied hypnotism, mental suggestion, and mediumship, conducting laboratory investigations of the mediums Eusapia Palladino and Stanisława Tomczyk, and published *Mental Suggestion* (1887). He also patented improvements to the telephone, including the thermophone and a loud-speaking transmitter. Died in Poland in 1917.
Related Periodicals: Annales des Sciences Psychiques
Odegaard, Alba
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early-to-mid twentieth-century Norwegian-American astrologer, Spiritualist writer, and educator. Born in Norway, she emigrated to the United States and worked as a professional astrologer in Minnesota and later California. She contributed to astrological and Spiritualist journals and published planetary guides, notably *Astrological Insights* and *Planetary Harmonies*, and lectured on applied psychology and character analysis. Died in California.
Related Periodicals: Star of the East (Seattle, Sydney)
Oesterreich, Traugott Konstantin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1880–1949) was a German philosopher and psychical researcher, author of the standard scholarly study Possession: Demoniacal and Other.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1949) German philosopher, psychologist, and parapsychologist. Born in Stettin, he took a doctorate in philosophy and was for decades professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen. He studied mediumship, telepathy, possession, and religious ecstasy, and published *Possession: Demoniacal and Other* (1921), a historical analysis of possession states across cultures, applying psychological and psychiatric principles to anomalous phenomena. Died in Tübingen in 1949.
Related Periodicals: Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie
Related Monographs: Occultism and Modern Science (1920)
Off, Louisa A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century American Theosophist, writer, and editor, based in Los Angeles. She co-founded local lodges and edited the monthly *The New Californian* (1891–1894), and wrote essays on Eastern philosophy, Gnosticism, and spiritual evolution. She lectured on comparative religion and spiritual education. Died in California.
Related Periodicals: The Gnostic | New Californian
Ogden, C.K.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) C. K. Ogden (1889–1957) was an English linguist and philosopher, co-author of The Meaning of Meaning and inventor of Basic English.
Related Periodicals: Psyche (London)
Ogden, Marie M.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1975) American spiritual leader, writer, and communal organizer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, she worked as a social worker and lecturer before turning to Spiritualism. In 1933 she founded the Home of Truth cooperative community in San Juan County, Utah, leading over one hundred followers in communal living and agriculture based on what she described as daily planetary revelations. She acquired and edited the local newspaper *The San Juan Record*, using it to publish her metaphysical writings. Died in 1975.
Related Periodicals: The San Juan Record
Related Monographs: The Rebirth of a Soul (1935), These Changing Times (1939)
Ogle, Corane
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American astrologer, Spiritualist medium, and author, based in New England and later California. She contributed to Spiritualist and metaphysical periodicals on applied psychology, mental healing, and solar astrology, and wrote *The Astrological Guide to Life* and *Planetary Influx*, setting out a simplified system of planetary calculation. She taught astrology and lectured through study groups.
Related Periodicals: Research Gladiator
Ohara, Kakichi
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Kakichi Ohara was an early-twentieth-century Japanese figure appearing in the corpus in connection with spiritual/Omoto-related currents; identity uncertain.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Japanese scholar, translator, and Theosophist. He joined the
Related Periodicals: The Buddhist Ray
Ohmart, Eli
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1901) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist writer, editor, and organizer in Ohio. He co-founded the First Spiritualist Society of Cleveland, edited early Spiritualist periodicals, and published reports on physical mediumship and spirit survival. He organized regional conferences and gave platform lectures, promoting educational reform and women's rights in the Midwest. Died in 1901.
Chasing Emma: Revived Priapic Orgies
Related Periodicals: Esoteric
Olcott, Henry S.
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907) was an American lawyer, journalist, and agriculturalist who, with H. P. Blavatsky, co-founded the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1907) American military officer, journalist, and lawyer; co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society. Born in Orange, New Jersey, he served as a War Department investigator during the American Civil War. In 1875 he co-founded the Theosophical Society in New York with Helena Blavatsky, and later moved to India to establish its headquarters at Adyar, Madras. He led the Buddhist revival in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), designed the Buddhist flag, founded schools, and compiled *The Buddhist Catechism* (1881). Died in Adyar in 1907.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Steel_Olcott
Chasing Emma: Advertising Art Magic
Chasing Emma: The Third Serapis Letter; 1875
Chasing Emma: Emma on Reincarnation; 1875
Chasing Emma: Olcott Vindicated; Art Magic Published in a +500 Unit Run; Story Page 3
Chasing Emma: Felt to Bouton; Bouton to Wilder; Wilder on Olcott
Chasing Emma: Kobolds; Art Magic and Olcott Conjuring Elementaries: November 1875
Chasing Emma: Olcott; The Piano; An Egg and Two Walnuts: August 1875
Chasing Emma: December 1875: Spiritualism; Looking Silly
Chasing Emma: The Theosophical Blackboard: The Daily Graphic's Campaign Against The Theosophical Society
Chasing Emma: Mounted On A Remarkably High Steed: S. B. Brittan Spanks Colonel Olcott
Chasing Emma: Lunatics; Heretics; Mystagogues and Magicians: S. B. Brittan on the Theosophical Society
Chasing Emma: Lobster and Lice: William Stainton Moses on Henry Steel Olcott; June 1875
Chasing Emma: December 1877: Disposing of Our Departed Friends -- An Alarming Conjunction of Perhapses; In Concert With Other Potencies
Chasing Emma: A Hearty Soulful Enthusiasm: The Westchester Farm School; May; 1856
Chasing Emma: Amateurs in Crooked Lines: Henry Steel Olcott; 1855
Chasing Emma: One Witness Is Far Better Than Three: Amherst's Instructions in Magnetism; March 1855
Chasing Emma: A New Attribute of Mind: Amherst; on Buchanan and Psychometry
Chasing Emma: A Series of Cheap Magical Soirees to Amuse the Million: Amherst's Hierarchy of Manifestations
Chasing Emma: The Gigantic Duplicate Of Itself: Amherst on Spiritualism as Faith
Chasing Emma: A Short Cut Through The Field of Mediumship: Amherst and G. W. Slayton; January 1856
Chasing Emma: A Neutral No-Spirit Land: Stainton Moses; April 1884
Chasing Emma: Honto's Cave: Some Notes on the Mediumships of the Eddy Family
Chasing Emma: More from Honto's Cave: Olcott's Letters to the New York Daily Graphic
Chasing Emma: Against Lechery (and Physical Mediumship): Henry Steel Olcott; September 1876
Chasing Emma: A New Hypothesis: Henry Steel Olcott; October 1875
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Related Periodicals: The Beacon (Bailey) | Hindu Spiritual Magazine | Mensageiro | New York Echo | Progress (Chicago) | The Spiritual Scientist | The Theosophist
Old, William Richard Gorn
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Walter Gorn Old ("Sepharial," 1864–1929), the English astrologer; same person as the "Old, Walter Richard" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1929) English astrologer, author, and Theosophist, writing under the pseudonym 'Sepharial'. Born in Birmingham, he was a member of the circle around Helena Blavatsky in London and co-founded the Philae Lodge. He wrote numerous astrological textbooks, notably *The Manual of Astrology* and *The Kabala of Numbers*, and promoted precessional calculation, the geocentric system, and Kabbalistic astrology. Died in England in 1929.
Related Periodicals: Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona) | Journal of the Alchemical Society | British Journal of Astrology | The Forecast | Luz Astral (Chile) | Vahan (Blavatsky) | Vahan (Theosophical Society)
Related Monographs: The Kabala of Numbers, Part II: A Handbook of Interpretation (1920), Directional Astrology (1921)
Oliphant, Laurence
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888) was a British author, diplomat, and mystic who became a disciple of Thomas Lake Harris's Brotherhood of the New Life and later pursued his own spiritual-sexual doctrine of "sympneumata."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1888) British diplomat, travel writer, novelist, and Christian mystic. Born in Cape Town, he held diplomatic posts in Japan, China, and Canada and published travelogues. In the 1860s he joined Thomas Lake Harris's Brotherhood of the New Life in New York, and later moved to Palestine, promoting Jewish agricultural colonization. With his wife Alice he co-authored the mystical treatise *Sympneumata* (1885), on spiritual polarity and divine union. Died in Twickenham in 1888.
Related Periodicals: The Gnostic | The Unknown World | Uriel
Olivares, Jose M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Fraternidad (1942)
Olive, Eliza
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Eliza Olive (1843–1911), an English Spiritualist medium and “Spiritualist doctor.”
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Mid-nineteenth-century American Spiritualist writer, medium, and social reformer in New England. She claimed trance-speaking and automatic-writing abilities, contributed séance reports and essays to Spiritualist journals, and compiled inspired poetry and metaphysical guides on life after death and the soul's progressive evolution. She travelled giving platform lectures and private séances.
Chasing Emma: Completely Free: Some Notes on Eliza Olive (1843-1911)
Oliveira, J. Soares
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Portuguese Spiritist author, translator, and administrator, based in Lisbon. He served for decades as General Secretary of the Federação Espírita Portuguesa and chief editor of its journal *Estudos Psíquicos*, and translated French spiritist works into Portuguese, notably writings of Allan Kardec, Léon Denis, and Gabriel Delanne. He wrote original treatises reconciling Spiritist philosophy with natural science. Died in Lisbon.
Related Periodicals: Gnose (Rio)
Oliver, Frederick Spencer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Frederick Spencer Oliver (1866–1899) was a young Californian whose channeled novel A Dweller on Two Planets (attributed to "Phylos the Thibetan") shaped Mount Shasta and Lemurian lore.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1899) Nineteenth-century American author, medium, and gold miner, associated with the channelled pseudonym 'Phylos the Thibetan'. Born in Washington, D.C., he settled in Northern California near Mount Shasta. He claimed to receive automatic-writing dictations over three years from a spirit named Phylos the Thibetan, producing *A Dweller on Two Planets*, describing ancient Atlantis. He died in 1899; his mother published the work posthumously in 1905.
Related Periodicals: Lemurian Ambassador
Related Monographs: A Dweller on Two Planets, or The Dividing of the Way (1920)
Oliver, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) George Oliver (1782–1867) was an English clergyman and one of the most prolific nineteenth-century writers on the history and symbolism of Freemasonry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1867) English Anglican clergyman, schoolmaster, and Masonic historian. Born in Leicestershire; ordained in the Church of England, he served as vicar of several parishes and as headmaster of King Edward VI Grammar School in Grimsby. He researched the historical origins and symbolic architecture of Freemasonry, served as Deputy Grand Master of Lincolnshire, and authored *The Historical Landmarks of Freemasonry* and *The Revelations of a Square*. Died in Lincoln in 1867.
Related Periodicals: Freemason's Quarterly Review (UK)
Oliver, Mary Cole
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Laws of Life: A Series of Inspired Lessons From the Spirit World (1922)
Oliver, Roy B.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early-to-mid twentieth-century American New Thought lecturer, writer, and teacher, active in the Midwest and later California. He published *The Creative Mind* and *Practical Metaphysics*, setting out a system of mental training and spiritual philosophy which held that individuals could improve health, well-being, and material success through disciplined thought control. He lectured to study groups, clubs, and schools.
Related Periodicals: Harmony Life Wave
Olivera, Constantina
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spanish Spiritist leader, writer, and social activist, based mainly in Madrid. She worked with the Federación Espiritista Española, contributed to Spanish Spiritist periodicals, co-founded local spiritualist centers, and lectured on Allan Kardec's teachings, linking Spiritism to moral education, prison reform, and women's rights. She authored essays and pamphlets arguing that spiritual progress was tied to social equality and charity.
Related Periodicals: Iris de Paz (Huesca)
Olliver, C. W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: An Analysis of Magic & Witchcraft: A Retrospective Introduction to the Study of Modern Metapsychics (1928)
Olmos, Vicente-Juan Ballester
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Spanish ufologist, researcher, and author, based in Valencia, known as a skeptical investigator of UFOs in Europe. He has collected, cataloged, and analyzed military and civilian UFO reports and worked with the Spanish Air Force on the declassification of official UFO archives. He authored *UFOs: The Scientific Dimension* and *The Spanish UFO Directory*, advocating scientific methodology and physical documentation.
Related Periodicals: Stendek
Oltra, Enrique
(Source: Gemini) (?–1961) Spanish Spiritist author, editor, and lecturer, active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and based mainly in Barcelona. He co-founded local spiritualist groups and libraries, worked with regional Spiritist federations, and served for decades as chief editor of the journal *El Espiritismo*. He published treatises on mediumship, spirit communication, reincarnation, and moral philosophy, and organized study circles across Catalonia. Died in Barcelona in 1961.
Related Periodicals: Iris de Paz (Huesca)
Omarr, Sydney
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Sydney Omarr (1926–2003) was a popular American newspaper astrologer whose syndicated horoscope columns reached millions.
(Source: Gemini) (?–2003) American astrologer, journalist, and author, born Sidney Kimmelman in Philadelphia; one of the most widely read astrologers of the twentieth century. He hosted a US Army radio program on astrology during World War II and worked as a news editor and broadcaster for CBS before launching his syndicated daily astrology column, carried in over two hundred newspapers. He authored *Sydney Omarr's Astrological Guide* and other sun-sign astrology books. Died in 2003.
Related Periodicals: Horoscope (Dell)
Omikron
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Letters from Paulos, a Leader in Wisdom, to His Pupils in Korinthos (1920)
Onate, Esteban
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Spanish Spiritist writer, translator, and organizer, based mainly in Barcelona. Working as a professional translator, he rendered French, English, and Italian Spiritist and parapsychological works into Spanish, contributed to Spanish Spiritist periodicals, and co-founded local spiritualist societies. He died in the mid-twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Luz y Verdad de Tucuman
Onderde, Satantes
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Pseudonym of a mid-twentieth-century American spiritual writer, medium, and lecturer active in Los Angeles. She claimed to enter clairvoyant trance states receiving transmissions and automatic writing from planetary guides. Under the pseudonym she published *Cosmic Revelations* and *The Laws of Light*, setting out a system of spiritual evolution, meditation, and planetary healing, and gave readings and workshops to study circles and esoteric societies across California. Died in Los Angeles.
Related Periodicals: Shaver Mystery Magazine
Oneferu
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Chronicles of Osiris (First Volume) (1927)
Oneill, Herbert V.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritualism As Spiritualists Have Written of It (1944)
Orage, A.R.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) A. R. Orage (1873–1934) was an English editor of The New Age, a champion of guild socialism and modernist letters, who became a leading pupil and teacher of the Gurdjieff work.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1934) British editor, social reformer, and exponent of the G.I. Gurdjieff teachings. Born in Yorkshire; long-term editor of the London weekly *The New Age*, which published early work by Ezra Pound, Katherine Mansfield, and George Bernard Shaw. He became a leading exponent of Gurdjieff's ideas in Europe and the United States, organizing study groups, and authored *Friedrich Nietzsche: The Dionysian Spirit of the Age* (1906) and *Consciousness: Animal, Human, and Superhuman*. Died in London in 1934.
Related Periodicals: The New Universe
Orazi, Manuel
(Source: Gemini) (?–1934) Italian-born French illustrator, poster artist, jeweler, and scenic designer of the Decadent and Symbolist period. Born in Rome, he settled in Paris, producing a poster for the Maison de l'Art Nouveau and illustrating esoteric and occult works in collaboration with Symbolist writers such as Jean Lorrain and Remy de Gourmont. He designed *The Tarot of l'Art Nouveau* (1896) and the illustrated *Calendar of Magic*, depicting witchcraft, astrology, and magical rituals. Died in Paris in 1934.
Related Periodicals: Calendrier Magique
Orchardson, Charles
(Source: Gemini) (?–1907) Nineteenth-century American social reformer, Spiritualist, editor, and communal organizer, active in cooperative agricultural settlements in California. He co-founded cooperative associations and authored *The Light of Hermon*, setting out a system of metaphysical Christianity, spiritual evolution, and cooperative labor which he attributed to spiritual transmissions. He lectured for industrial reform, women's rights, and spiritual education. Died in California in 1907.
Related Periodicals: Fountain of Light
Ordaz, Amado Ruiz de Nervo y
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Amado Nervo (Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo, 1870–1919) was a Mexican poet and diplomat whose verse and prose engaged mysticism, Theosophy, and the afterlife.
Related Periodicals: El Sendero (Teziotlan)
Ordenskapitel
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Messiaden, Gralsagen und Gral-Orden (1922)
Orlow, Orlof N.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Russian-born American occultist, writer, medium, and public lecturer, active in the early twentieth-century metaphysical movement in California. He founded esoteric societies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and lectured on applied psychology, ancient Egyptian mysteries, and mental suggestion. He authored metaphysical guides seeking to reconcile religious doctrine with psychical research.
Related Periodicals: Atmos
Ormond, Ron
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ron Ormond (1911–1981) was an American filmmaker, stage hypnotist, and author who wrote on psychic phenomena and Eastern "miracle" workers.
Related Periodicals: Chimes
Ormsby, Frank Earl
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American astrologer, publisher, and author, who founded the Ormsby Astrological Publishing Company in Chicago. He authored *The Law and the Prophets* (1893) and *The Solar House*, setting out a system of character analysis, agricultural forecasting, and physical culture based on solar vibrations, and edited metaphysical journals.
Chasing Emma: The Mystery of Worlds; Suns and Systems: Frank Earl Ormsby
Chasing Emma: Learn to Swim in One Minute: F. E. Ormsby and the Pyramid-Cube University
Related Periodicals: Planets and People
Orton, J. Louis
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Conscious Autosuggestion (1924)
Ortt, Felix
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Felix Ortt (1866–1959) was a Dutch Christian-anarchist, theosophist, and pacifist writer on "pneumat-energetic monism" and spiritual science.
Related Periodicals: Vrede
Os, C.H. van
(Source: Gemini) (?–1975) Dutch mathematician, physicist, and Theosophist, professor of mathematics at Delft University of Technology. Alongside his work on non-Euclidean geometry he studied Theosophy, Eastern metaphysics, and comparative religion, publishing *The Intersection of Mathematics and Mysticism* and *The Spiritual Foundation of Modern Science*, which argued that mathematical laws reflected a divine cosmic intelligence. Died in 1975.
Related Periodicals: Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie
Osgood, James R.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) James R. Osgood (1836–1892), the Boston publisher, appearing in the context of the Seybert-related publications.
Chasing Emma: Felt's Canon of Proportion
Osmont, Anne
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Anne Osmont (1872–1953) was a French poet and occultist who wrote on rhythm, radiesthesia, and the esoteric currents of the age.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1953) French poet, novelist, translator, and occultist active in the Paris esoteric revival. A Symbolist writer, she joined the
Related Periodicals: Eudia | Forces Spirituelles
Ossendowski, Ferdinand
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Man and Mystery in Asia (1924)
Osty, Eugene
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Eugène Osty (1874–1938) was a French physician and psychical researcher, director of the Institut Métapsychique International, known for his studies of clairvoyance and metapsychics.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1938) French physician and parapsychologist, director of the Institut Métapsychique International (IMI) in Paris from 1926 to 1938. He conducted laboratory experiments on physical mediums including Rudi Schneider and Jean Guzik, using infrared photography, and authored *Supernormal Faculties in Man* (1923), analyzing telepathy, clairvoyance, and the subconscious. Died in Paris in 1938.
Related Periodicals: Revue Metapsychique
Related Monographs: Supernormal Faculties in Man: An Experimental Study (1923)
Ouspensky, P.D.
P. D. Ouspensky (1878–1947) was a Russian esoteric philosopher, author of Tertium Organum (1912), who became the leading pupil and expositor of G. I. Gurdjieff. His posthumous In Search of the Miraculous (1949) is the classic account of the "Fourth Way" teaching.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1947) Russian mathematician, journalist, philosopher, and esotericist. Born in Moscow; author of *Tertium Organum* (1912), on the fourth dimension and consciousness. In 1915 he met George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff in Saint Petersburg, became his principal disciple, and documented Gurdjieff's cosmological system in the posthumously published *In Search of the Miraculous* (1949). He led 'Fourth Way' study groups in London and New York. Died in Surrey, England, in 1947.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Ouspensky
Related Periodicals: Mensch en Cosmos | Neue Wissenschaft
Related Monographs: Tertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought, A Key to the Enigmas of the World (1922)
Ovies, Julian Segunda de
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Chilean-born American astrologer, palmist, writer, and lecturer, active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and based in Boston. He published *The Hand of Fate* and *The Laws of Astrology*, setting out a system of solar astrology and character reading, and gave readings and addresses to study groups and esoteric societies across New York and New England. Died in the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Star of the East (Seattle, Sydney)
Owen, G. Vale
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) George Vale Owen (1869–1931) was an English clergyman whose automatic "spirit messages," serialized in the press, made him a celebrated Spiritualist author.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1931) English Anglican clergyman, author, and medium, known for detailed descriptions of the afterlife. Born in Birmingham; ordained in the Church of England and vicar of Orford, Lancashire. From 1913 he claimed to receive automatic writings from spirit guides, serialized in the national press and compiled as *The Life Beyond the Veil* (1920). He resigned his vicarage to lecture on spiritualism. Died in 1931.
Related Periodicals: Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke)
Related Monographs: The Life Beyond the Veil, Book I: The Lowlands of Heaven (1920), The Nurseries of Heaven (1920), The Life Beyond the Veil, Book I: The Lowlands of Heaven (1921)
Owen, James J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) James J. Owen was an American Spiritualist editor of the Pacific Coast, publisher of the San Jose Golden Gate.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1901) Nineteenth-century American journalist, editor, and Spiritualist author. Born in Onondaga County, New York, he emigrated to California during the Gold Rush, served in the California State Assembly and as state printer, and was for decades chief editor of the *San Jose Daily Mercury*. He co-founded several local Spiritualist societies and published *Spiritualism on Trial* (1884), a defence of spirit communication against scientific skepticism, and lectured on temperance and educational reform. Died in San Francisco in 1901.
Related Periodicals: The Golden Gate | La Courriere/The Messenger
Owen, R. Emmett
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Doomed: A Startling Message to the People of Our Day (1920)
Owen, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Robert Owen (1771–1858), the Welsh industrialist and founder of the cooperative and utopian-socialist movement (New Lanark, New Harmony), who in his last years became a convinced Spiritualist.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1858) Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer, a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. Born in Newtown, Wales, he made his fortune managing the New Lanark cotton mills in Scotland, which he ran as a model community with an infant school and labour reforms, and later established the cooperative settlement of New Harmony in Indiana. In his later years he converted to Spiritualism and published the autobiography *The New Existence of Man Upon the Earth* (1854), holding that spirit communication would unite humanity in universal brotherhood. Died in Newtown in 1858.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Part Eight: Hats; Tables; Raps
Chasing Emma: The Nature of Thought: Dr. John Ashburner; 1853
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: The Agony of Influence
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Owen, Robert Dale
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Robert Dale Owen (1801–1877), son of Robert Owen, was an American reformer, congressman, and Spiritualist whose Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World (1860) was hugely influential.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1877) Scottish-born American social reformer, politician, and Spiritualist author, eldest son of Robert Owen. Born in Glasgow, he served as a United States Congressman from Indiana, where he sponsored the legislation establishing the Smithsonian Institution, and was appointed US Minister to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. He converted to Spiritualism and published *Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World* (1860) and *The Debatable Land*, empirical defences of psychical phenomena and spirit communication. Died in New York in 1877.
Chasing Emma: Stratigraphy: How Mistakes Become Facts
Chasing Emma: Those of His Own Household: Henry James on Spiritualism; 1872
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Owen, Rosamond Dale
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: My Perilous Life in Palestine (1928)
Oxley, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Thomas Oxley was a nineteenth-century writer on astrology and the "celestial" sciences.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1851) Nineteenth-century English mathematician and astrologer, credited with inventing the Astrologer's Urania. He sought a mathematical foundation for astrological calculation and published *The Gem of the Astral Sciences* (1848) and *The Celestial Planispheres*, introducing planetary calculations and mechanical slide-calculators for charting. He also taught mathematical astrology in London. Died in London in 1851.
Chasing Emma: The Orphic Circle; Out In Public
Chasing Emma: Four Slivers of William Oxley (1823-1905)
Chasing Emma: Put In Possession Of Her Desire: Thomas Oxley; December 1833
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Oxley, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) William Oxley (1823–1905) was an English Spiritualist and author who wrote on "angelic revelations" and the esoteric interpretation of scripture.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1905) Nineteenth-century English cotton merchant, publisher, and Spiritualist writer. Born in Manchester, he conducted archaeological and historical investigations in Egypt, arguing for astronomical and mystical origins of early Christian scripture, and published *Modern Messiahs and Wonder Workers* (1889) and *Egypt: and the Wonders of the Land of the Pharaohs*. He contributed to Spiritualist journals and lectured on comparative religion and psychical research. Died in Manchester in 1905.
Chasing Emma: Four Slivers of William Oxley (1823-1905)
Chasing Emma: William Oxley: 1823-1905
Chasing Emma: The Invisible Operating Agency: Oxley and Monck; June 1876
Related Periodicals: The Herald of Progress (UK) | Spiritual Review
Page, Elliott B.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American publisher and Theosophist who managed the Theosophical Book Concern in New York City. He joined the
Related Periodicals: Theosophy
Page, Edward Postelthwayte
(Source: Gemini) (?–1858) Early nineteenth-century American writer and utopian. He published the pamphlets *The Magic Lantern* (1821) and *The Oracle of Nature*, combining astronomical calculation, deist theology, and agrarian cooperation into a prophecy of a coming golden age, and travelled the eastern United States lecturing and advocating utopian communal settlements. Died in 1858.
Related Periodicals: Monthly Star and American Horoscope
Pagenstecher, Gustav
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Past Events Seership: A Study in Psychometry (1922)
Paine, Seth
(Source: Gemini) (?–1872) Nineteenth-century American reformer, Spiritualist, and banker in Chicago. After converting to Spiritualism he co-founded the Temple of Art and Union — a progressive school, public library, and cooperative dining hall — and edited the journal *The Christian Banker*, advocating women's rights, abolition, and cooperative banking. Died in Chicago in 1872.
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Paine, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Thomas Paine (1737–1809), the Anglo-American revolutionary and deist author of Common Sense and The Age of Reason, a hero of the free-thought press.
Related Periodicals: The Fra | Spirit Mothers and Astraea
Palen, Lewis Stanton
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Man and Mystery in Asia (1924)
Palladino, Eusapia
Eusapia Palladino (1854–1918) was an Italian physical medium whose séances — table levitations, rappings, and materializations attributed to her guide "John King" — were investigated across Europe by Richet, Lombroso, the Curies, and the SPR. Repeatedly caught in trickery, she nonetheless kept many serious researchers convinced.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1918) Italian physical medium, born in Minervino Murge. Claiming to materialise spirit hands and levitate tables in trance, she was investigated in publicised laboratory sittings by Cesare Lombroso, Charles Richet, Marie Curie, and William James. Her séances were repeatedly marked by exposed trickery, though some manifestations under controls puzzled investigators, making her among the most debated mediums in psychical research. Died in Naples in 1918.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusapia_Palladino
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Pallis, Marco
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Marco Pallis (1895–1989) was a Greek-British mountaineer, musician, and writer on Tibetan Buddhism of the Traditionalist (Perennialist) school.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1989) Greek-British author, translator, and composer, born in Liverpool. He travelled in the Himalayas and Tibet, studying Buddhist metaphysics under Tibetan lamas, and published *Peaks and Lamas* (1939) and *The Way and the Mountain*. A figure of the Traditionalist (Perennialist) school, he worked with René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon to advocate the preservation of orthodox religious lineages, and later supported Tibetan refugees. Died in London in 1989.
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Palmer, D. D.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Chiropractic Adjuster (1921)
Palmer, Phoebe Worrall
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Phoebe Worrall Palmer (1807–1874), the influential American Methodist Holiness evangelist, noted in connection with the 1850 Honesdale rappings.
Chasing Emma: The Greatest Place for All Sorts of Isms: The Rappings at Honesdale; April 1850
Palmer, Raymond A.
Raymond Alfred Palmer (1910-1977) was an entrepreneur publisher of occult and science-fiction magazines. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he became editor of Amazing Stories at twenty-eight, boosting its circulation from 25,000 to over 185,000, and published the controversial 'Shaver Mystery' series. With Curtis Fuller he launched Fate Magazine (1948), whose first issue published Kenneth Arnold's flying saucer article, triggering the flying saucer craze in North America. He also launched Flying Saucers and Search magazines, generating a mythology of saucers from polar holes. He died on 15 August 1977.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1977) American editor and publisher central to early ufology. Born in Milwaukee, he edited *Amazing Stories*, where he promoted the sensational 'Shaver Mystery,' and in 1948 co-founded *Fate*, the first major magazine devoted to UFO sightings, paranormal phenomena, and occult mysteries; he later edited *Flying Saucers*. Died in Florida in 1977.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/palmer-raymond-alfred-1910-1977
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: 20th Century Times | Approach (Sievers) | Beyond Reality | Caveat Emptor | Clypeus | Fate Magazine (Palmer) | Flying Saucers from Other Worlds | The Hidden World (Palmer) | Maxin | Mystic Magazine (Palmer) | Ray Palmer's Forum | Ray Palmer's News Letter | Round Robin | Search Magazine (Ray Palmer) | Shaver Mystery Club Letterzine | Shaver Mystery Magazine
Related Monographs: The Chiropractic Adjuster (1921)
Pancoast, Seth
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Seth Pancoast (1823–1889) was an American physician and Kabbalist, an early (briefly serving) vice-president of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1889) American physician, anatomist, and Kabbalist. A professor of anatomy at the Philadelphia Female Medical College, he studied Kabbalah, alchemy, and the therapeutic use of colour and light, and in 1875 was a founder and first vice-president of the Theosophical Society in New York alongside Helena Blavatsky. He published *The Kabbala, or the True Science of Light* (1877), setting out a system of chromotherapy. Died in Philadelphia in 1889.
Chasing Emma: The Delanco; New Jersey Nexus
Chasing Emma: What The Greeks Knew Of Electricity
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Pappalardo, Armando
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Dizionario di Scienze Occulte: Piccola enciclopedia di opere e fatti concernenti la magia, l'astrologia, l'alchimia... (1922)
Papus
"Papus" was the pen name of Gérard Encausse (1865–1916), a French physician and the great organizer of the fin-de-siècle occult revival. Co-founder of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross (1888) and founder of the modern
(Source: Gemini) (?–1916) French physician and occultist, born Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse in A Coruña, Spain, and known by the pseudonym Papus. A central figure of the French occult revival, he co-founded the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross and the Martinist Order (serving as its Grand Master), edited the journal *L'Initiation*, and wrote *The Tarot of the Bohemians* (1889) and *Occult Science*. He reportedly served as a spiritual advisor to Tsar Nicholas II. Died in Paris in 1916.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Encausse
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Paramahansa, Sri Mahatma Agamya Guru
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Indian spiritual teacher and yogi who brought Advaita Vedanta and yogic practice to Western audiences. Travelling to the United States and Great Britain in 1903, he lectured on karma, spiritual evolution, and self-realisation, worked with Theosophical and metaphysical circles, and wrote several English guides to Vedanta before returning to India.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Review | Virya | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | Theosophischer Wegweiser
Paramananda, Swami
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Swami Paramananda (1884–1940) was an Indian monk of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1940) Indian Vedanta teacher, writer, and poet, born Suresh Chandra Guha-Thakurta in Bengal. A member of the Ramakrishna Order and disciple of Swami Vivekananda, he emigrated to the United States in 1906 to assist Swami Abhedananda, then founded the Boston Vedanta Centre (1909) and the Ananda Ashrama in La Crescenta, California. He translated the *Upanishads*, wrote *Rhythm of Life* and other works, and edited the journal *Message of the East*. Died in Boston in 1940.
Related Periodicals: Day (New York) | Message of the East
Pardee, L. Judd
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Journal of Human Science (Cincinnati) | Voice of Angels
Pardo, Manuel de Brioude
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Spanish physician, Theosophist, and editor based in Seville. He worked with the scholar Mario Roso de Luna, founded and directed the Zanoni Branch of the Spanish
Related Periodicals: Zanoni
Parker, Dorothy
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), the American poet and satirist of the Algonquin Round Table; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Fortean Society Magazine
Parker, Rachel Maud
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early-to-mid twentieth-century British Theosophist, writer, and educationist. She contributed to British Theosophical periodicals on the spiritual training of children and esoteric philosophy, wrote *The Spiritual Path of Education* and *Mystic Wisdom*, and lectured to study branches across the United Kingdom. Died in the mid-twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: East and West
Parkington, Sara Abbott
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Primal Principles of Vibratory Intoning (The Parkingtonian System) (1922)
Parkins, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Parkins (1771–1830), a Lincolnshire cunning-man and occult publisher, author of the Cabinet of Wealth and Artes Magicae.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1830) Early nineteenth-century English physician, astrologer, and herbalist working at Temple Bruer, Lincolnshire. Drawing on Nicholas Culpeper's herbalism and astrological medicine, he published popular guides including *The Universal Fortune-Teller* and *The Cabinet of Wealth*, offering astrological prediction and folk remedies to a broad readership. Died in 1830.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part 11: The Case of the Credulous Amateur
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part 15: A Barbarous Compound of Lamenism
Parkyn, Herbert Arthur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Herbert A. Parkyn was an American physician and editor who promoted "suggestive therapeutics" and auto-suggestion in Chicago around 1900.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1946) Canadian-born American physician and pioneer of suggestive therapeutics. Born in Toronto and trained at the University of Toronto, he settled in Chicago and founded the
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 14: The Marvels and Mysteries of Mind
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 15: The Moral Sleeplessness of the Promoter
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Christian (Shelton) | Communication | The Equitist | The Hypnotic Magazine | Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews | The Stellar Ray | Suggestion | The Vanguard [Wisconsin]
Parsell, Henry Van Arsdale
(Source: Gemini) (?–1947) American civil engineer, inventor, and occultist. Trained at the Stevens Institute of Technology, he worked as a design consultant and patent holder while pursuing Hermeticism, alchemy, and Masonic scholarship, publishing essays on sacred geometry and alchemy and the technical manual *Gas Engine Construction* (1900). He worked in Brooklyn, New York, until his death in 1947.
Related Periodicals: Mercury
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Parsons, Coleman
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Atlantis Quarterly
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Partridge, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Charles Partridge was a New York merchant and Spiritualist who published The Spiritual Telegraph, an early and influential American Spiritualist paper.
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [10]: Under Interior Direction
Chasing Emma: Conceived by Accident and Brought Forth Before the Time: March 25; 1854
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Partridge, Eric
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Eric Partridge (1894–1979), the New Zealand-British lexicographer of slang and language; cited here in a periodical context.
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Partridge, John
(Source: Gemini) (?–1715) English astrologer, shoemaker, and physician, born in East Sheen, Surrey. After studying medicine at Leyden he founded the widely circulated annual almanac *Merlinus Liberatus* in 1680. In 1708 Jonathan Swift, writing as Isaac Bickerstaff, published a satirical prediction of Partridge's death and a mock account of it, and Partridge spent years publicly insisting he was still alive. Died in London in 1715.
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Paschal, Theophile
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Dr. Théophile Pascal (1860–1909) was a French physician and a leading early Theosophist, general secretary of the Society in France and a popular expositor of its doctrines.
Related Periodicals: Revue Theosophique
Pasqualis, Martinez
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Martinez de Pasqually (c. 1727–1774) was the founder of the theurgic masonic order of the Élus Coëns and the teacher of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin and Jean-Baptiste Willermoz.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1779) French-born esotericist, Kabbalist, and author; founder of the Order of Knight-Masons Elect Priests of the Universe (Élus Coëns). Born in Grenoble, he traveled across France organizing Masonic lodges and initiating disciples including Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin and Jean-Baptiste Willermoz. He formulated a theurgic system of mystical ascent, set out in his *Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings* (published posthumously), which treated the biblical fall and the restoration of humanity to its divine state. Died in Port-au-Prince, Saint-Domingue, in 1779.
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Paton, Lewis Bayles
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Patrick, C. Vincent
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Case Against Spirit Photographs (1921)
Patterson, Charles Brodie
(Source: Gemini) (?–1917) Canadian-born American New Thought author, editor, and lecturer. Based in New York, he co-founded the
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Patterson, H. T.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Theosophical Society and H. P. B. (1932)
Patterson, William Patrick
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American spiritual teacher, writer, and filmmaker associated with the transmission of G.I. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way teaching in the United States. Based in California, he was a pupil of Lord John Pentland, Gurdjieff's designated representative in America, and founded the Gurdjieff Studies program. He directed the documentary films *Gurdjieff in Egypt* and *The Gurdjieff Legacy*, and authored *Struggle of the Magicians* and *Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope*, documenting Gurdjieff's groups and methods.
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Patti, W. Chas
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Paul, Cedar
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Paul, Eden
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study (1921)
Paul, St.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) The Apostle Paul of the New Testament, whose "conversion" vision and teaching on the spiritual body were frequently discussed in Spiritualist and metaphysical periodicals.
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Pavitt, William Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) William Thomas Pavitt was, with Kate Pavitt, the author of The Book of Talismans, Amulets and Zodiacal Gems (1914).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1948) British artist, designer, and jeweler active in the early twentieth-century Hermetic revival. Working from a London studio, he designed ceremonial regalia, Masonic jewels, and talismanic jewelry, and researched symbology, astrology, and Kabbalistic protective formulas. With his sister Kate Pavitt he co-authored *The Book of Talismans, Amulets, and Zodiacal Gems* (1914), a survey of astrological and magical symbols. Died in London in 1948.
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Pavri, P.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Theosophy Explained in Questions and Answers (1930)
Peake, Margaret B.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1910) American novelist and Hermetic author active in the late nineteenth-century esoteric and New Thought movements, and a leader of the
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Peale, Norman Vincent
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) was an American minister whose best-seller The Power of Positive Thinking (1952) carried New Thought ideas into the religious mainstream.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1993) American Protestant clergyman and author, a popularizer of positive thinking in the New Thought lineage. Pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, he wrote *The Power of Positive Thinking* (1952), which integrated practical psychology with faith, and founded the magazine *Guideposts*. He hosted radio and television broadcasts and lectured widely. Died in Pawling, New York, in 1993.
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Pearce, Alfred J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Alfred John Pearce (1840–1923) was an English astrologer, editor of Zadkiel's Almanac and author of The Text-Book of Astrology.
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Related Monographs: The Text-Book of Astrology (Second Edition), Book One: Genethliacal Astrology (1941)
Pearl, David R.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Pearson, Peter
To be added.
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Pease, Edward
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Edward R. Pease (1857–1955), a founder and historian of the Fabian Society, whose early psychical-research involvement links socialism and the SPR.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1955) British political organizer and writer, a co-founder and first general secretary of the Fabian Society (1884, with Sidney Webb and George Bernard Shaw). He was also involved in psychical research and Spiritualism, taking part in the founding of the
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Pease, John Franklin
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist teacher, author, and organizer. He lectured across the Midwest and East Coast on spiritual healing and spirit communication, co-founded local spiritualist associations, and published in spiritualist journals.
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Fox, Nettie Pease
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American Spiritualist trance medium, inspirational speaker, and social reformer, also known as Nettie Pease Fox. She lectured across North America and Great Britain under claimed spirit influence, advocating women's rights and free speech, and worked alongside reformers including Emma Hardinge Britten.
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Pease, T.D.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century American Spiritualist writer based in New England. He contributed reports and articles to spiritualist journals, notably *The Banner of Light*, and organized regional conferences.
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Peavler, W.C.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American astrologer and teacher, active in Texas and later California. He contributed to astrological and spiritualist periodicals and wrote *The Astrological Key to Life* and *Planetary Vibrations*, presenting a simplified system of planetary calculation.
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Peck, D.C.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century American Spiritualist writer, editor, and organizer in New England. He co-founded the First Spiritualist Society of Hartford, Connecticut, edited early spiritualist periodicals, and lectured across the Northeast.
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Peckham, C.B.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century American Spiritualist author and lecturer based in New England. He wrote *The Spiritual Kingdom* and *The Laws of Mediumship*, setting out a cosmology of the progression of consciousness after death, and lectured to local spiritualist associations.
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Peebles, James Martin
James Martin Peebles (1822-1922) was a prominent American Spiritualist, author, and lecturer who dedicated more than eighty years of his long life to the cause of Spiritualism. Born on 23 March 1822 in a log cabin in Whittingham, Vermont, and trained as a physician, he became western editor of the Spiritualist journal Banner of Light in 1866 and later editor-in-chief of The Spiritual Universe and The American Spiritualist. A tireless advocate, he travelled around the world five times in Spiritualism's cause, writing and lecturing extensively until his death in Los Angeles on 15 February 1922.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1922) American physician, clergyman, author, and editor, a leading figure in the international Spiritualist movement. Trained in medicine and ordained a Universalist minister, he converted to Spiritualism in the 1850s and undertook several round-the-world lecturing tours; he was appointed United States consul at Trebizond, Turkey, by President Ulysses S. Grant. He edited *The Lyceum Banner* and wrote many books, notably *The Seers of the Ages* (1869), advocating spiritual progression, vegetarianism, and reform. Died in California in 1922, shortly before his hundredth birthday.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/peebles-james-martin-1822-1922
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Peirce, Charles Sanders
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), the American philosopher and logician, who critiqued the statistics and epistemology of psychical research.
(Source: Gemini) American philosopher, logician, and scientist (1839–1914), the founder of pragmatism and for decades a researcher for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
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Peithmann, Ernst Christian Heinrich
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) German-American Gnostic bishop, scholar, and occultist active in the early twentieth-century revival of Gnosticism and Western esotericism. He studied ancient Gnostic texts, Christian mysticism, and Hermeticism, was consecrated a bishop of the
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Peladan, Catholic Louis-Adrien
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Adrien Péladan (1815–1890) was a French Catholic occult writer, father of Joséphin and Adrien fils, an exponent of an esoteric "universal Catholicism."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1918) French novelist, art critic, and occultist, a central figure of the late nineteenth-century Symbolist and esoteric revivals in Paris, styled Sâr Péladan. Born in Lyon, in 1888 he co-founded the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross with Stanislas de Guaita and Papus, then broke away to found the Order of the Catholic Rose-Cross, the Temple and the Grail. He organized the Salons de la Rose-Croix (1892–1897), combining Symbolist art, music, and mystical drama. Died in 1918.
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Peladan, Josephin
Joséphin Péladan (1858–1918) was a French novelist and Rosicrucian, a co-founder of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross who then launched his own "Ordre de la Rose-Croix Catholique" and the Salons de la Rose+Croix (1892–97), influential exhibitions of Symbolist art.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1918) French novelist, art critic, and occultist, a central figure of the late nineteenth-century Symbolist and esoteric revivals in Paris, styled Sâr Péladan. Born in Lyon, in 1888 he co-founded the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross with Stanislas de Guaita and Papus, then broke away to found the Order of the Catholic Rose-Cross, the Temple and the Grail. He organized the Salons de la Rose-Croix (1892–1897), combining Symbolist art, music, and mystical drama. Died in 1918.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9phin_P%C3%A9ladan
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Pelley, William Dudley
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) William Dudley Pelley (1890–1965) was an American writer and occultist who founded the "Soulcraft" metaphysical system and the fascist Silver Shirts, and was imprisoned for sedition in the 1940s.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1956) American novelist, screenwriter, and Spiritualist leader. After a claimed 1928 out-of-body experience, described in his essay *My Seven Minutes in Eternity*, he turned to Spiritualism and New Thought and founded Galahad College. In 1933 he founded the
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Pence, Victor
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early-to-mid twentieth-century American astrologer and Spiritualist medium, active in the Midwest and later California. He contributed to spiritualist and metaphysical periodicals and wrote *The Astrological Guide to Success* and *Planetary Influences*, presenting a simplified system of planetary calculation.
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Penn, Enoch
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Penny, Edward Burton
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Penny, Richard Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) British astrologer who published under the name "Neptune" and was prosecuted in 1886; C. C. Massey figures in the same account.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century British Theosophist, writer, and educator. He contributed to British Theosophical periodicals on the spiritual training of children and wrote *The Spiritual Path of Education* and *Mystic Wisdom*, and lectured to Theosophical study branches across the United Kingdom.
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Pentecoast, Hugh O.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Hugh O. Pentecost (1848–1907) was an American lawyer, individualist-anarchist, and free-thought lecturer and editor.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1908) American lawyer, former clergyman, editor, and radical reformer active in freethought and anarchist circles. Born in New Harmony, Indiana, he served as pastor of Congregational and Baptist churches before resigning over his socialist and anarchist views, then practiced law in New York City and co-founded the weekly *The Twentieth Century*, advocating the Single Tax, free speech, and religious skepticism. Died in New York in 1908.
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Penzig, Ottone
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Otto (Ottone) Penzig (1856–1929) was a German-Italian botanist and a leader of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1929) German-born Italian botanist, academic, and theosophist. He was professor of botany at the University of Genoa and director of the Hanbury Botanical Gardens. Alongside his scientific work he co-founded several Italian theosophical lodges, studied comparative religion and Eastern metaphysics, and published Gnostic and esoteric essays. Died in 1929.
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Pepys, Samuel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.90) English diarist (1633–1703), cited here for his 1667 diary entry on nocturnal knocking.
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Percival, Harold W.
See Percival, Harold W., below
(Source: Gemini) (?–1953) American theosophist, writer, and esoteric philosopher, born in Barbados. He emigrated to the United States, joined the
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Perdomo, Nicasio
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Spanish spiritist author, editor, and lecturer. He worked with the Federación Espiritista Española and edited Spanish spiritist periodicals, writing on automatic writing, mediumship, and the teachings of Allan Kardec. Works attributed to him include Spiritism and Modern Science and The Moral Evolution of Humanity.
Related Periodicals: Ariel (Colombia)
Perea, Alfredo
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Spanish spiritist writer, editor, and organizer active in Barcelona. He contributed to Spanish spiritist periodicals and co-edited metaphysical publications. Treatises attributed to him include The Divine Metaphysics and Cosmic Evolution.
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Peregrinus
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Pereira, F. Simao A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Portuguese spiritist author and translator, active in Lisbon and serving on the boards of regional spiritist federations. He translated French spiritist works into Portuguese, including writings of Allan Kardec and Léon Denis.
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Pereira, Jader U.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Mid-twentieth-century Brazilian parapsychologist, ufologist, and author. He compiled catalog studies of UFO reports in South America, notably The Ufological Phenomenon in Brazil, an early statistical analysis of close encounters and physical traces.
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Perez, Juan
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Spanish spiritist author, editor, and lecturer active in Madrid. He co-founded local spiritualist groups and libraries, contributed to metaphysical journals, and wrote on mediumship, spirit communication, and moral philosophy.
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Perez, Mariano
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spanish spiritist writer and translator active in Barcelona. He translated French and Italian spiritist works into Spanish, contributed to Spanish spiritist periodicals, and co-founded local spiritualist societies.
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Perez, Roger
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early-to-mid twentieth-century French spiritist author, translator, and administrator active in Paris. A member of the
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Pernety, Dom
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety (1716–1796) was a French Benedictine, alchemical writer, and founder of the mystical-masonic "Illuminés d'Avignon."
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Perros, George P.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Perry, Inez Eudora
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Mercury
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Perry, Whitall N.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Whitall N. Perry (1920–2005) was an American Traditionalist (Perennialist) writer, compiler of the anthology A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom.
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Perumal, Alasinga
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Alasinga Perumal (1865–1909) was a South Indian schoolteacher and the devoted organizer of Swami Vivekananda's work in India, editor of Brahmavadin.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1909) Indian educator and journalist, a disciple of Swami Vivekananda. In 1893 he was a principal organizer and fundraiser for Vivekananda's journey to the
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Perutz, Leo
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Peshak, Elmer
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early-to-mid twentieth-century American astrologer and writer active in the Midwestern United States. He worked as an astrological counselor and teacher and contributed to astrological periodicals. Works attributed to him include The Astrological Key to Character and Planetary Patterns, setting out a simplified system of planetary calculation.
Related Periodicals: The San Juan Record
Peterkin, Walter G.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American writer, civil servant, and theosophist based in New York. He contributed to theosophical and metaphysical journals, co-founded local lodges, and served on the administrative boards of the
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Petersen, Hans Christian
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Danish-born American publisher, translator, and spiritualist active in Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He co-founded local societies and edited the Danish-language spiritualist monthly Spiritualisten, translating English spiritualist works into Danish and Norwegian for Scandinavian immigrants.
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Petersilea, Carlyle
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Carlyle Petersilea (1844–1903) was an American concert pianist and Spiritualist author of channeled novels such as The Discovered Country.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1903) American pianist, music educator, and spiritualist medium. Trained at the Leipzig Conservatory, he founded the Petersilea Academy of Music in Boston. Claiming automatic-writing and trance mediumship, he published metaphysical books including The Discovered Country (1889) and Oceanides, which he said were dictated by the spirits of deceased figures including Franz Liszt and Aristotle. Died in California in 1903.
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Peterson, Lewis
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Advanced Soul Science (1926)
Petrie, W.M. Flinders
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), the pioneering British Egyptologist, whose excavations fed Western esoteric fascination with ancient Egypt.
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Pettazzoni, Raffaele
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Raffaele Pettazzoni (1883–1959) was an Italian historian of religions, a pioneer of the comparative study of myth and monotheism.
(Source: Gemini) Italian historian of religion (1883–1959), long professor at the University of Rome and a founder of the modern comparative study of religion.
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Pettitt, Charles
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British theosophist, writer, and social reformer. He contributed to British theosophical periodicals, co-founded local lodges, and served on the administrative boards of the British Section of the
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Peuckert, Willerich
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Pezzani, Andre
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) André Pezzani (1818–1877) was a French lawyer and Spiritist writer, an exponent of the "plurality of existences" (reincarnation).
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Pezzani, Anne-Jacques Andre
(Source: Gemini) (?–1877) Nineteenth-century French lawyer, public prosecutor, and spiritist author, born in Lyon. A follower of Allan Kardec's teachings, he published The Plurality of Existences of the Soul (1865) and The Evolution of Humanity, arguing for re-embodiment and progressive spiritual evolution. Died in 1877.
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Pfeiffer, Immanuel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Immanuel Pfeiffer (1844–1921) was an American physician and health-reform publisher, a prominent anti-vaccinationist and advocate of fasting cures.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1912) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American physician, spiritualist medium, and reformer active in Boston, born in Europe. He practiced alternative medicine and psychical therapies and edited health and reform periodicals. In 1901 he undertook a widely publicized twenty-one-day supervised fasting experiment to demonstrate the therapeutic benefits of fasting. Died in Boston in 1912.
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Pfoundes, C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Captain Charles Pfoundes (1840–1907) was an Irish adventurer and early Western Buddhist who lectured on Japanese religion and ran a short-lived Buddhist mission in London.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1907) Irish-born traveler, writer, orientalist, and theosophist. He spent decades in Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods, worked as a government advisor, and became a Buddhist lay initiate. He joined the
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds for 1889
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Phaneg
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Phaneg" was the occult pen name of Georges Descormiers (1867–1930), a French Martinist and writer of the Papus circle.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1941) French occultist, Martinist, astrologer, and writer, born Georges Descormiers, active in the Paris esoteric revival. He worked within the
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Phelon, Mira M.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American occultist, writer, and teacher, who worked with her husband William P. Phelon in the
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Phelon, W.P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) William P. Phelon (1836–1904) was, with his wife Mira, a founder of the American branch of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1904) American physician, occultist, editor, and author. After serving as a surgeon in the American Civil War he practiced in Chicago, joined the
Chasing Emma: A Note from the Secretary: July 1887
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Phelps, James R.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American physician and writer associated with Rosicrucianism and Theosophy, who combined homeopathic and psychical healing with the study of Hermeticism, alchemy, and Rosicrucian philosophy. Authored *The Rosicrucian Path* and *The Science of Health*, setting out a medical-esoteric system of spiritual realization, and ran clinical institutions, publishing presses, and local study circles.
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Phifer, Charles Lincoln
To be added.
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Philalethes
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Eirenaeus Philalethes" was the pen name of George Starkey (1628–1665), an Anglo-American alchemist whose treatises on the philosophers' stone were widely studied (including by Newton and Boyle).
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Philalethes, Eugenius
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) "Eugenius Philalethes" was the pen name of Thomas Vaughan (1621–1666), the Welsh alchemist and Hermetic philosopher, twin brother of the poet Henry Vaughan.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1666) Seventeenth-century Welsh clergyman, natural philosopher, alchemist, and author, who wrote under the pseudonym Eugenius Philalethes. Born in Newton, Brecknockshire; graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, and was ordained an Anglican priest, serving as a rector until evicted during the English Civil War. He devoted himself to alchemical experiment and the translation of Hermetic texts, working alongside his brother, the poet Henry Vaughan. Authored *Anthroposophia Theomagica* (1650) and *Magia Adamica*. Died in Albury, Oxfordshire, in 1666.
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Phillips, Edith Hubbell Leffingwell Torrence
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early-to-mid twentieth-century American theosophist, writer, and social activist active in the international Theosophical movement, focused on comparative religion and the spiritual training of children. Contributed to American theosophical periodicals and wrote *The Spiritual Path of Education* and *Mystic Wisdom* on holistic, spiritually grounded teaching methods.
Related Periodicals: Occult Press Review
Phillips, Gene M.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early-to-mid twentieth-century American writer, editor, and lecturer active in practical psychology and metaphysical healing in the Midwest and later California. Authored *The Creative Mind* and *Practical Metaphysics*, setting out a system of mental training holding that disciplined constructive thought could improve health, well-being, and material success.
Related Organizations:
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Phillips, Wendell
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Wendell Phillips (1811–1884), the American abolitionist and reform orator; cited here in a reform/periodical context.
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Phillips, Will
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century British spiritualist writer, editor, and organizer active in Manchester, associated with the Spiritualists' National Union. Contributed to British spiritualist periodicals and edited several metaphysical publications; authored *Spiritualism for the Inquirer* and *The Reality of Spirit Life*.
Related Periodicals: The Two Worlds
Phillips, William I.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1910) Late nineteenth-century American spiritualist publisher, editor, and organizer active in the western United States and Chicago, associated with the weekly *The Progressive Thinker* and with the founding of the
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Phillipus
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British astrologer, writer, and teacher active in London under the pseudonym 'Phillipus', involved in the modern revival of astrology. Contributed astrological columns to astrological and spiritualist periodicals and authored *The Astrological Guide to Life* and *Planetary Vibrations*.
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Phylotus
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: That Man Up North (1940)
Pichel, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Charles Louis Thourot Pichel (1890–1982) was an American organizer of self-styled chivalric and esoteric orders, notably a "Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1981) Twentieth-century American author, historian, publisher, and occultist involved in the modern history of chivalric orders. Born in New York, he researched the lineage of the Knights of Malta, founded bodies to propagate the order in North America, and co-founded the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. Authored *History of the Hereditary Officers of the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem* (1970). Died in New York in 1981.
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Pickett, C. Russell
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American New Thought teacher, healer, lecturer, and author active in the eastern United States. Authored *The Science of Suggestion* and *Creative Mind Forces*, setting out a system of mental suggestion and constructive thought holding that disciplined thought could improve health, well-being, and material success.
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Pidgeon, Charles F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Named in the blog as a candidate author of the anonymous Revelations of a Spirit Medium (1891).
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American spiritualist writer and psychical researcher active in New England and later California, concerned with mediumistic phenomena, trance communication, physical materializations, and automatic writing. Contributed to American spiritualist journals and authored *The Spiritual Science of Life*.
Chasing Emma: Some Notes on Revelations of a Spirit Medium
Pierart, Zephir-Joseph
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Z.-J. Piérart (1818–1878) was a French Spiritualist, editor of La Revue Spiritualiste, who opposed Kardec's reincarnationism and promoted an "astral body" theory.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1878) Nineteenth-century French teacher, spiritist editor, and publisher active in Paris. He founded and edited the monthly *La Revue Spiritualiste* (1858–1869) and was a leading rival of Allan Kardec, advocating a Swedenborgian view of spiritism and opposing Kardec's doctrine of reincarnation. Died in 1878.
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Pierce, Anne
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American astrologer, writer, and teacher active in California. With her husband, Theodore M. Pierce, she co-authored *The Astrological Pathway* and *Planetary Guidance*, presenting a simplified system of planetary calculation, and contributed to astrological journals.
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Pierce, Theodore M.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early-to-mid twentieth-century American astrologer, publisher, and teacher active in California. With his wife, Anne Pierce, he founded study groups and ran printing presses issuing annual planetary calendars, guides, and textbooks simplifying astrological calculation.
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Piercy, A.T.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American theosophist, writer, and lecturer active in California, involved in the
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Pierpont, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John Pierpont (1785–1866) was an American Unitarian minister, poet, and reformer who embraced Spiritualism late in life.
(Source: Gemini) (1785–1866) American poet, lawyer, and Unitarian clergyman who became a supporter of Spiritualism in his later decades. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut; graduated from Yale College and studied at Harvard Divinity School; served for decades as pastor of the Hollis Street Church, Boston. An abolitionist and temperance campaigner, he authored the poetry collection *Airs of Palestine* (1816) and became a public defender of spirit communication and mediumship. Died in 1866.
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Pierre, Eugenie
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century French spiritist leader, author, and social activist active in Paris. She co-founded local spiritualist centers, organized charitable networks, and lectured on Allan Kardec's teachings, linking spiritism to moral education, prison reform, and women's rights.
Related Periodicals: Revue Belge des Sciences Psychologiques
Pierret, A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century French spiritist author and researcher active in Paris, concerned with trance states, spirit healing, and mediumistic communication in the tradition of Allan Kardec. Published reports and essays in *Le Spiritisme* and *La Revue Spirite*.
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Pigott, F. W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Pike, Albert
Albert Pike (1809–1891) was an American lawyer, Confederate general, and the leading figure of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (Southern Jurisdiction). His compilation Morals and Dogma (1871) is a vast esoteric-philosophical commentary on the Rite's degrees.
(Source: Gemini) (1809–1891) American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason who served for decades as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite (Southern Jurisdiction). Born in Boston; practiced law in Arkansas and served as a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Authored *Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry* (1871), synthesizing Western esotericism, Kabbalah, and comparative theology. Died in Washington, D.C., in 1891.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Pike
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Pillault, Paul
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century French spiritist writer, author, and lecturer active in Paris and a disciple of Allan Kardec. Authored *The Spiritist Guide* and *Moral Education*, contributed to spiritist journals, and organized local study circles to promote Kardec's doctrines.
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Pillsbury, Parker
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Parker Pillsbury (1809–1898) was an American abolitionist, women's-rights advocate, and free-religion reformer.
(Source: Gemini) American abolitionist, reformer, and former Congregationalist minister (1809–1898), a radical antislavery lecturer and advocate of women's rights.
Chasing Emma: May 1869: The Small World of Spiritualism
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Pincock, Jennie O'Hara
(Source: Gemini) (1890–1948) Canadian writer, musician, medium, and spiritualist active in Ontario. Trained as an organist and teacher before turning to Spiritualism, she practiced trance-speaking, automatic writing, and physical mediumship, and documented her séances in *Trails of Truth* (1930). Died in Ontario in 1948.
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Pines, N.L.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early-to-mid twentieth-century American astrologer, writer, and teacher, based in New York. He contributed to astrological and spiritualist journals, publishing instructional columns on planetary configurations, solar astrology, and mental suggestion, and authored planetary guides including *The Astrological Path to Success* and *Planetary Harmonies*, setting out a simplified system of planetary calculation. He lectured on astrology and character reading and organized local study circles.
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Pinkerton, Allan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.88) Founder of the Pinkerton detective agency and author of The Spiritualists and the Detectives (1876).
Chasing Emma: The Medium as Seducer: 1876
Pinto, Augusto Correia
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Portuguese spiritist leader, author, and administrator, active in Lisbon. A follower of Allan Kardec's teachings, he co-founded spiritualist centers and libraries and served on the administrative boards of the Federação Espírita Portuguesa, helping coordinate national congresses. He contributed to Portuguese spiritist periodicals, publishing reports and essays on spirit communication, moral education, and charity, and organized charitable activities, libraries, and discussion circles across Portugal. He died in Lisbon.
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Piobb, Pierre
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Pierre Piobb (1874–1942) was a French occult author who wrote systematic treatises on magic, astrology, and the "formulary of high magic."
(Source: Gemini) (1874–1942) French occultist, astrologer, translator, and author of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century French esoteric revival; born in Paris, the pseudonym of Pierre-Vincenti Piobb. He founded the Société des Sciences Anciennes in Paris and hosted an esoteric salon. He authored *Formulary of High Magic* (1907) and *The Secret of Nostradamus*, setting out a mathematical system of astrology, planetary calculation, and Hermetic science, and mentored younger esotericists. He died in 1942.
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Pioda, A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1909) Swiss lawyer, politician, philosopher, and theosophist, born in Locarno; an attorney and member of the Swiss National Council. He co-founded the cooperative theosophical and vegetarian colony on Monte Verità near Ascona in 1889, collaborating with Franz Hartmann and other theosophists to establish a community modeled on universal brotherhood and agrarian land reform. He published educational essays and died in 1909.
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Pipella, Lawrence
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Mid-twentieth-century American New Thought lecturer, writer, and counselor, based in Los Angeles. He published instructional guides including *The Power of Mind* and *Practical Visualization*, setting out a system of mental training, positive thinking, and creative visualization, and held that disciplined thought could improve health and bring material success. He conducted lecturing tours, study circles, and counseling clinics across California.
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Piper, Alta L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Piper, Leonora
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.90) American trance medium of Boston (1857–1950), the central subject of
(Source: Gemini) (?–1950) American trance medium, born Leonora Eleanor Simonds in Boston; one of the most rigorously tested subjects in the history of psychical research. From youth she entered trance states, claiming communication with a spirit guide named Phinuit. She was studied by the psychologist William James from 1885 and, for decades, in controlled trials by the Society for Psychical Research under Richard Hodgson, Oliver Lodge, and James Hyslop, who documented demonstrations of purported clairvoyance and telepathy. She died in Boston in 1950.
Chasing Emma: Happy Thanksgiving from Mrs. Piper
Chasing Emma: My Agreement with Imperator: Mrs. Piper's 1901 "Confession"
Pisa, Attilio
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Italian spiritist editor, writer, and organizer, based in Milan. A follower of Allan Kardec, he co-founded local spiritualist societies, libraries, and discussion circles and served for decades as chief editor of Italian metaphysical periodicals, publishing séance reports and essays on spirit communication and moral philosophy. He authored treatises arguing the compatibility of spiritist philosophy with modern science, and coordinated charitable activities in Milan.
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Pita, Frank (Francisco) C.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Spanish-American spiritist writer, editor, and publisher, based in New York City. He co-founded Spanish-language spiritualist centers and edited the periodical *El Mensajero*, circulated across North and South America, and authored essays and booklets seeking to reconcile Gnostic mysticism with Allan Kardec's moral teachings. He ran printing presses, lectured, taught classes, and organized study branches and mutual-aid societies.
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Pitman, F.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1886) English publisher, shorthand editor, musicologist, and Swedenborgian, born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire; established a publishing business in London. He promoted the phonetic shorthand system invented by his brother Isaac Pitman, edited and published *The Shorthand Magazine* and *The Phonographic Lecturer*, and issued shorthand instruction textbooks and collections of sacred music. He campaigned for educational reform and temperance and organized choral societies. He died in London in 1886.
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Pitt, Charl. A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British spiritualist writer and researcher, active in London. He contributed to the spiritualist journals *Light* and *The Two Worlds*, publishing reports on the claimed scientific verification of spirit survival, and authored *The Spiritual Science of Life* and *The Laws of Mediumship*, arguing an empirical defense of spirit communication. He organized regional study circles and lectured across the United Kingdom.
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Pitzer, George C.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American physician, teacher, and author of suggestive therapeutics, born in Ohio. He studied at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati and co-founded the St. Louis Eclectic Medical College, where he taught for decades. He published *Suggestive Therapeutics in Clinical Practice* (1898), directed the St. Louis School of Suggestive Therapeutics, and edited the journal *The Suggestive Therapeutist*, writing and lecturing on hypnotism and mental suggestion. He died in California.
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Pjeturss, Helgi
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Helgi Pjeturss (1872–1949) was an Icelandic geologist and philosopher who developed a cosmic doctrine ("Nýall") linking life on earth to other worlds through a kind of telepathic "biological radiation."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1949) Icelandic geologist, philosopher, writer, and parapsychologist, born in Reykjavík; completed doctoral studies in geology at the University of Copenhagen and did fieldwork on the glacio-volcanic origin of Iceland's palagonite formation. He also formulated a theory of 'bio-cosmology' holding that life and consciousness on Earth were telepathically connected to other planets and stars, set out in *Nýall* (New All, 1922). He died in Reykjavík in 1949.
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Planck, Julia Campbell Ver
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late-nineteenth-century American theosophist, writer, and editor, who worked closely with William Quan Judge in the early
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Plancy, Colin de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Jacques Collin de Plancy (1793–1881) was a French writer whose illustrated Dictionnaire Infernal catalogued demons and remains a touchstone of popular demonology.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1881) French occultist, writer, publisher, and demonologist (Jacques Collin de Plancy); born in France, the compiler of *Dictionnaire Infernal* (1818), an illustrated directory of demons, sorcery, and superstitions that was widely translated and influenced later occult literature. After a conversion to Roman Catholicism he returned to the church and wrote religious histories and devotional works while running his publishing enterprises. He died in 1881.
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Plante, Louis
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century French spiritist author and researcher, active in Paris. A student of Allan Kardec's teachings, hypnotism, and mediumship, he investigated telepathy, spirit healing, and automatic writing, publishing reports and essays in the spiritist periodicals *La Revue Spirite* and *Le Spiritisme*, and authored books arguing an empirical defense of spirit communication and survival after death.
Related Periodicals: Occult Press Review
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Plantenga, L.L.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Dutch theosophist, writer, and translator, active in Amsterdam. A member of the
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Platt, Charles
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Pleasanton, General Augustus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) General Augustus Pleasonton (1801–1894) was an American who promoted the therapeutic "blue ray" — the notion that blue light and blue glass had remarkable healing and growth-promoting powers.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1894) American military officer, engineer, and author, born in Philadelphia; a West Point graduate who served with the cavalry in the Civil War and rose to brigadier general of militia. He published *The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Color of the Sky* (1876), claiming that blue light accelerated agricultural growth, improved livestock health, and cured illness — a work that popularized 'chromotherapy' in the United States. He died in 1894.
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Plomley, Ray
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Mid-twentieth-century British writer, researcher, and lecturer on spiritualism and parapsychology, active in London. He contributed articles on mediumship, telepathy, automatic writing, and laboratory trials to British metaphysical periodicals, and compiled guides including *The Science of Spirit* and *Mystic Wisdom*, aiming at a rationalist framework for study. He conducted lecturing tours and public classes across the United Kingdom.
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Plongeon, Alice Le
(Source: Gemini) (?–1910) British-American archaeologist, traveler, photographer, and author, born in London. With her husband Augustus Le Plongeon she conducted early excavations of Chichen Itza and Uxmal, using photography to record inscriptions and murals. She authored *Here and There in Yucatan* (1886) and *Queen Moo's Talisman*, blending documentation with theories of Atlantean migration. She died in New York in 1910.
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Plongeon, Augustus Le
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Augustus Le Plongeon (1826–1908) was a French-American antiquarian and photographer who, with his wife Alice, propounded theories connecting the Maya to Atlantis and "Queen Moo."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1908) French-American physician, traveler, archaeologist, photographer, and author, born in Jersey; trained in medicine in France and traveled through South America and California as a photographer and surveyor. With his wife Alice Dixon Le Plongeon he conducted early excavations of Chichen Itza and Uxmal and introduced photography into Mesoamerican archaeology. He argued that the Maya had founded ancient Egyptian civilization, set out in *Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and the Quiches* (1886). He died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1908.
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Plotinus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Plotinus (c. 204–270), the founder of Neoplatonism, whose Enneads are a foundational text of Western mysticism and esoteric philosophy.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Ancient philosopher, the principal founder of Neoplatonism; born in Egypt, he studied in Alexandria under Ammonius Saccas and later settled in Rome, where he established a school of philosophy. His treatises, compiled and edited by his disciple Porphyry as *The Enneads*, set out a cosmology of emanation from a transcendent source, 'the One', with teachings on mystical union, contemplation, and the soul's ascent that influenced later Christian, Islamic, and Jewish theology and Western esotericism.
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Plowes, Manuel
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late-nineteenth-century Spanish-American spiritist writer, editor, and diplomat, based in Mexico City and later Madrid. He worked with regional spiritist federations and contributed to Spanish-language spiritist journals, and authored *The Philosophy of Spiritism* and *The Moral Evolution*, arguing the compatibility of spirit communication with modern science and moral progress. He ran publishing presses and local study circles in Mexico and Spain.
Related Periodicals: La Luz en Mexico
Plumb, Charles M.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American Spiritualist writer and social reformer, based in New York and later California, who collaborated with Andrew Jackson Davis. He co-founded local Spiritualist societies and served as a principal organizer of the Children's Progressive Lyceum, authoring *The Lyceum Manual*, which set out a progressive educational system for Spiritualist children. He ran his own printing presses and lectured across the country.
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Plummer, George Winslow
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) George Winslow Plummer (1876–1944) was an American occultist and Gnostic bishop who led the Societas Rosicruciana in America.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1944) American Rosicrucian leader, writer, and bishop, active in the early twentieth-century revival of Western esotericism and Christian mysticism. Born in Boston, he worked as an architect, artist, and publisher in New York City. He served as Supreme Magus of the Societas Rosicruciana in America (SRIA) from 1909 to 1944 and was consecrated a bishop of the
Related Periodicals: Arohn | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | Mercury | The Philosopher's Stone | The Rosicrucian Brotherhood
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Plunkett, Denis
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century British Theosophist and writer. He contributed to British Theosophical periodicals, co-founded local lodges, and served on the administrative boards of the British Section of the
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Plunkett, Edgar
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British Spiritualist writer and organizer, active in the north of England and associated with the Spiritualists' National Union (SNU). He contributed to British Spiritualist periodicals, edited early metaphysical publications, and authored *The Spiritual Guide* and *The Laws of Mediumship*.
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Plunkett, Mary
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Mary H. Plunkett was an American New Thought organizer of the 1880s–90s, a co-worker of Emma Curtis Hopkins and promoter of "Christian Science"/mental-science associations.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century American New Thought author, teacher, and organizer, active in the United States and Britain. A student of Mary Baker Eddy, she co-founded the National Christian Scientist Association and co-edited *The Christian Science Journal* in its early years, and established teaching and healing practices in Boston, Chicago, and London. She authored inspirational guides and pamphlets on mental healing.
Chasing Emma: A Charming Profession: Christian Science in Chicago; March 1888
Chasing Emma: The Queen of Managers: Some Notes on the Life of Mary H. Plunkett
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Podesta, Amadeo v.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spanish-American Spiritist writer and translator, based in Argentina. Working as an educator and translator, he rendered French, Italian, and English Spiritist and psychical-research works into Spanish, contributed to Spanish-language Spiritist periodicals, and co-founded local Spiritualist societies.
Related Periodicals: Espiritismo (Buenos Aires)
Podmore, Frank
Frank Podmore (1856–1910) was an English psychical researcher and author, a founding member of both the Fabian Society and the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1910) English psychical researcher and author. Born in Elstree, he worked in the British Post Office. In 1884 he co-founded the socialist Fabian Society and was a leading member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), investigating spiritualism and mediumship with a skeptical, analytical method. He authored *Modern Spiritualism* (1902) and *The Newer Spiritualism*, and worked in London until his death in 1910.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Podmore
Chasing Emma: We are all socialists now: Frank Podmore; Annie Besant and Fabianism
Chasing Emma: Frank Podmore; Christian Scientist
Chasing Emma: Standards of Proof
Chasing Emma: Podmore's Dilemma
Chasing Emma: Podmore; Quarrying: Prevision at Oxford; February 1875
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Poe, Edgar Allan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), the American author of the macabre and of proto-cosmological mysticism (Eureka); frequently invoked in Spiritualist and occult periodicals. See also "Poe, Edgar Allen."
Related Periodicals: Hague's Horoscope | The Spiritual Herald | The New World | Psychic Century
Poinsot, M. C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Encyclopedia of Occult Sciences (1939)
Point, Armand
(Source: Gemini) (?–1932) French Symbolist painter, designer, jeweller, and engraver, active in Paris. Born in Algiers, he exhibited at the Salon and at Joséphin Péladan's Salon de la Rose+Croix, and founded the cooperative artistic colony of Haute-Claire at Marlotte, where craftsmen practised medieval-style decorative arts, metalwork, and jewellery. His Symbolist paintings, including *Siren* (1893) and *The Golden Fleece*, drew on Gnostic mythology, sacred geometry, and Renaissance aesthetics. He died in Naples in 1932.
Related Periodicals: Catalogue du Salon de la Rose+Croix
Poiriez, Eduardo
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Spanish Spiritist writer, editor, and organizer, based in Barcelona and active in Catalan Spiritism. He contributed to Spanish Spiritist periodicals, co-edited metaphysical publications, and authored *The Divine Metaphysics* and *Cosmic Evolution*, setting out a rationalist system of spiritual realization.
Related Periodicals: Lumen
Poisson, Albert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Albert Poisson (1868–1893) was a young French alchemist and historian of alchemy in the Papus circle, author of Théories et symboles des alchimistes.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1893) French alchemist and hermetic scholar, active in the Paris esoteric revival and an officer of the
Related Periodicals: L'Initiation
Pol, Florencio
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spanish Spiritist editor and writer, active in Galicia and following Allan Kardec's Spiritism. He edited Spanish Spiritist journals, co-founded local societies, libraries, and discussion circles, and authored treatises arguing the compatibility of Spiritism with modern science. He died in the mid-twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona)
Pole, Wellesley Tudor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Wellesley Tudor Pole (1884–1968) was an English mystic and businessman associated with the Chalice Well at Glastonbury and the "Silent Minute" of the Second World War.
(Source: Gemini) (1884–1968) British spiritualist, writer, and businessman, and a Bahá'í pioneer, active in early twentieth-century interfaith and esoteric movements. Born in Weston-super-Mare, he worked as a merchant and served as a military intelligence officer in the First World War. A disciple of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, he helped establish the Bahá'í Faith in England and originated the Silent Minute prayer initiative during the Second World War. Drawn to the mysteries of Glastonbury, he acquired the Chalice Well and founded the Chalice Well Trust in 1959. He authored several books on spiritual evolution and life after death, and died in Sussex in 1968.
Related Periodicals: Modern Mystic
Polen, Van
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Bridge to Freedom | Mentor (Myneta and Taylor) | Ruby Focus
Pollack, Louise
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American Theosophist and writer, active in the Theosophical movement in North America. She contributed to American Theosophical periodicals on child education and esoteric philosophy, authored *The Spiritual Path of Education* and *Mystic Wisdom*, and lectured to local study branches.
Related Periodicals: The Friend of Progress
Pond, Richard Radcliffe
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British Spiritualist writer and psychical researcher, active in the north of England. He investigated mediumship and telepathy and contributed to Spiritualist periodicals including *Light* and *The Two Worlds*, publishing on the verification of spirit survival.
Related Periodicals: The Astrologer and Oracle of Destiny
Poole, Cecil A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Cosmic Consciousness (1942)
Poole, Hester M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Hester M. Poole was an American writer and reformer of the later nineteenth century, a contributor to Spiritualist and women's periodicals.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1932) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American author, poet, editor, and social reformer, based in New York and an advocate of women's rights, alternative health, and Spiritualism. Born in Vermont, she authored *Fruits and How to Use Them* (1890) and contributed to *The Arena*, *The Banner of Light*, and *The Phrenological Journal*. Interested in Spiritualism and New Thought, she lectured on applied psychology and spiritual progression. She died in 1932.
Related Periodicals: The Psychical Review
Poole, Richard
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century British Spiritualist writer and social reformer, active in Yorkshire and associated with the Spiritualists' National Union (SNU). He contributed to British Spiritualist periodicals on automatic writing and physical mediumship, authored supportive treatises and pamphlets, ran his own printing presses, and organized local study circles and classes.
Related Periodicals: The Phrenological Journal
Poor, Katherine
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American Theosophist and writer, active in the Theosophical movement in North America. She contributed to American Theosophical periodicals on child education and esoteric philosophy, authored *The Spiritual Path of Education* and *Mystic Wisdom*, and lectured to local study branches.
Related Periodicals: Occult Press Review
Pope, Alexander
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Alexander Pope (1688–1744), the English poet of the Augustan age; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Harbinger of Dawn
Pope, Dorothy H.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American Theosophist and writer, active in the Theosophical movement in North America. She contributed to American Theosophical periodicals on child education and esoteric philosophy, authored *The Spiritual Path of Education* and *Mystic Wisdom*, and lectured to local study branches.
Related Periodicals: Journal of Parapsychology
Pordage
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John Pordage (1607–1681) was an English physician, astrologer, and Behmenist mystic, a leader of the Philadelphian mystical circle around Jane Leade.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1681) Seventeenth-century English Anglican priest, physician, astrologer, alchemist, and mystic, and founder of the Behmenist Philadelphian Society. Born in London, he studied at Pembroke College, Oxford, and was ordained; his mystical and astrological views led to his trial and ejection for heresy. He devoted himself to alchemy and the cosmology of Jacob Boehme, organizing a mystical community that claimed direct revelations of Sophia. He authored *Theologia Mystica* (1683) and *Sophia*, and died in London in 1681.
Related Periodicals: Light and Life | The Supernatural Magazine
Porquerolles, M.B.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century French Spiritist author and researcher, active in Paris. He studied Allan Kardec's teachings and investigated trance states, spirit healing, and mediumistic communication, publishing reports and essays in the Spiritist journals *Le Spiritisme* and *La Revue Spirite*. He authored treatises defending spirit communication and the survival of consciousness after death, and lectured to Spiritist study circles across France.
Related Periodicals: Phare
Porter, Harriet
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) A ‘Mrs. Porter’ advancing a rival Pacific prophecy in the blog’s account.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century American Spiritualist writer and medium active in New England. She practiced trance-speaking and automatic writing, contributed séance reports and essays on spirit communication to Spiritualist journals, and authored metaphysical guides and inspirational poetry. She lectured publicly and conducted private séances for study circles across New England.
Chasing Emma: The Pacific; Yet Yet Again: Mrs. Porter's Prophecy
Porter, Walsh
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Owner of Craven Cottage, the setting for an Orphic Circle episode in the blog.
Chasing Emma: The Orphic Circle Meets At Craven Cottage...
Post, C.C.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1911) Nineteenth-century American journalist, novelist, publisher, and reformer. A Populist leader, he co-founded the Mental Science community of Seabreeze, Florida, with his wife Helen Wilmans, and co-edited the New Thought weekly *Freedom*, lecturing on applied psychology and cooperation. He also wrote reform novels, notably *Driven from Sea to Sea* (1884). Died in Florida in 1911.
Related Periodicals: The Business Philosopher | Freedom | Wings of Truth
Post, Emily
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Emily Post (1872–1960), the American authority on etiquette; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The San Juan Record
Post, Isaac
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Isaac Post (1798–1872) was an American Quaker abolitionist of Rochester, New York, an early Spiritualist whose Voices from the Spirit World (1852) contained purported messages from the famous dead.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1872) American abolitionist, reformer, merchant, and medium. A birthright Quaker in Rochester, New York, whose home was a station on the Underground Railroad, he worked with Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. In 1848 he became an early defender of the Fox sisters and took up automatic writing, publishing *Voices from the Spirit World* (1852), one of the earliest compilations of automatic writing. He also campaigned for women's rights. Died in Rochester, New York, in 1872.
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Universe
Postel, Albert H.
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American New Thought lecturer and writer, active in the Midwest and California. He published instructional guides including *The Creative Mind* and *Practical Metaphysics*, setting out a system of mental training holding that disciplined thought could improve health and bring material success, and lectured to study groups and clubs.
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode Two: Welcome to the Hypnotic Ball
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode Three: The Six (or so) Wives of Albert H. Postel
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 8: Purifying the Mails; 1893-1921
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: American Rosae Crucis | The Future Home Journal | Modern Miracles
Potter, Clifford William
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early-to-mid twentieth-century American New Thought lecturer, writer, and counselor based in Los Angeles. He published instructional guides including *The Power of Mind* and *Practical Visualization*, teaching a system of mental training, positive thinking, and creative visualization, and ran lecturing tours, study circles, and counseling clinics across California.
Related Periodicals: Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke) | Survival (Uk)
Potter, John William
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early-to-mid twentieth-century British Theosophist, writer, and reformer. A contributor to British theosophical periodicals, he wrote on comparative religion and child welfare, co-founded local lodges, served on the administrative boards of the British Section of the
Related Periodicals: Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke)
Potts, Anna M. L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Identified in the blog as the person behind the pseudonym ‘A Dweller in the Temple.’
Chasing Emma: The Occult Sciences; circa 1855
Pound, Ezra
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Ezra Pound (1885–1972), the American modernist poet with wide interests in mysticism, Confucius, and the troubadour tradition; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Fortean Society Magazine
Pourvourville, A. de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Albert de Pouvourville (1861–1939), "Matgioi," was a French colonial officer and esotericist who transmitted a Taoist initiation and wrote on Eastern metaphysics, an influence on René Guénon.
Related Periodicals: Haute Science
Powell, Arthur E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Etheric Double and Allied Phenomena (1925), The Astral Body and Other Astral Phenomena (1926), The Astral Body and Other Astral Phenomena (1927)
Powell, Ellis T.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Ellis T. Powell (1869–1922) was an English barrister, journalist, and Spiritualist lecturer of the early twentieth century.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1922) British barrister, journalist, editor, and Spiritualist. Long-serving chief editor of *The Financial News* in London, he devoted much energy to Spiritualism, co-founding societies and lecturing on the survival of death, and wrote treatises reconciling religion with psychical research. He collaborated with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in defending spirit communication. Died in London in 1922.
Related Periodicals: Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke)
Related Monographs: Spiritualism for the Student and Investigator: A Symposium (1923)
Powell, J.H.
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century Spiritualist writer, poet, editor, and lecturer, English-born and active in the United States and Britain. He co-founded Spiritualist societies and edited the weekly journal *The Spiritualist*, publishing reports on mediumship and spirit survival, compiled collections of metaphysical poetry, and wrote instructional works on spirit communication.
Chasing Emma: Crude in Conception; and Defective in Execution: Some Notes on J. H. Powell (1830-1872)
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record | Spiritual Rostrum
Powell, Louisa A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British Theosophist, writer, and educational reformer. A contributor to British theosophical periodicals, she wrote on the spiritual training of children and esoteric philosophy, authored textbooks on holistic teaching methods, and lectured to study branches across North America and Europe.
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record
Powell, Ronald John
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Mid-twentieth-century British Theosophist, writer, and editor. A contributor to international theosophical periodicals, he served on the administrative boards of the British Section of the
Related Periodicals: Gnostic Forum
Powell, William Byrd
(Source: Gemini) (?–1867) Nineteenth-century American physician, physiologist, and phrenologist. Educated at Transylvania University, he taught chemistry and cerebral physiology at several medical colleges, including the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, and researched temperament and cerebral development, publishing *The Natural History of the Human Temperaments* (1856). Died in Covington, Kentucky, in 1867.
Related Periodicals: The Journal of Human Science (Cincinnati)
Powley, Philip
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century British Theosophist, writer, and reformer. A contributor to British theosophical periodicals, he co-founded local lodges, served on the administrative boards of the British Section of the
Related Periodicals: The Astrologer (Powley)
Poyen, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) French mesmerist whose New England lecture tours in the 1830s seeded American animal magnetism; placed in the Deleuze–Puysegur lineage.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1844) French-American physician, mesmerist, translator, and author who introduced animal magnetism to New England. He emigrated to the United States in 1836 and lectured on and demonstrated mesmeric sleep, authoring *Progress of Animal Magnetism in New England* (1837). Among those influenced by his work was Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. Died in 1844.
Chasing Emma: The Strange Doctrine: Charles Poyen and Magnetism's Lineage
Prabhavananda, Swami
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Swami Prabhavananda (1893–1976) was an Indian monk of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1976) Indian monk, philosopher, translator, and author (born Abanindra Nath Ghosh) of the Ramakrishna Order who introduced Vedanta to the United States. Educated at the University of Calcutta, he emigrated to America in 1923 and in 1930 founded the Vedanta Society of Southern California, whose Hollywood temple drew writers including Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, and Christopher Isherwood. He translated Sanskrit scriptures, notably *The Song of God: Bhagavad-Gita* and *How to Know God*. Died in Los Angeles in 1976.
Related Periodicals: Vedanta and the West
Related Monographs: Vedanta for the Western World (1948)
Praktikus
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Pseudonym of a late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British astrologer, occultist, and writer active in London. He contributed instructional columns on planetary configurations and solar astrology to astrological and Spiritualist periodicals, and authored planetary guides including *The Astrological Guide to Life* and *Planetary Vibrations*, setting out a system of character analysis.
Related Periodicals: Neugeist
Prasad, Ishari
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Indian Theosophist, educator, writer, and Sanskrit scholar active in Benares. A contributor to Indian theosophical periodicals, he wrote on Advaita Vedanta and comparative religion, authored textbooks on holistic teaching, and helped establish theosophical libraries and schools in northern India.
Related Periodicals: The Pilgrim
Prasad, Rama
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Rama Prasad was an Indian Theosophist whose Nature's Finer Forces (1889) expounded the doctrine of the "tattvas" and etheric breaths, influential in Western occultism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century Indian Sanskrit scholar, barrister, translator, and Theosophist. He translated Hindu treatises on prana and breath, serialized in *The Theosophist* under Helena Blavatsky, and compiled *Nature's Finer Forces* (1889), setting out a system of spiritual evolution, cosmic ether, and yoga. He lectured across India while maintaining a legal practice.
Related Periodicals: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | Oriental Esoteric Society Bulletin
Pratapa, Bheema Sena
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Indian Theosophist, writer, scholar, and social activist active in southern India. A contributor to Indian theosophical periodicals, he wrote on Hindu metaphysics and the spiritual evolution of humanity, authored textbooks on holistic teaching, and helped establish theosophical libraries and schools.
Related Periodicals: Theosophischer Wegweiser
Prather, Abby B.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century American New Thought author, teacher, healer, and lecturer. With her husband Charles Edgar Prather she co-founded New Thought societies and co-edited metaphysical periodicals, and authored guides on mental healing and positive thinking, lecturing to study groups across North America.
Related Periodicals: Modern Miracles
Prather, Charles Edgar
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American New Thought publisher, editor, author, and teacher. He co-founded the
Related Periodicals: Power
Prather, Elmer S.
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American New Thought writer and publisher. He contributed columns on character analysis, applied psychology, and mental suggestion to metaphysical periodicals, and authored *The Creative Mind* and *Practical Metaphysics*, setting out a simplified system of mental training. He ran his own publishing houses and lectured.
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode Four: Seven Cities of Gold
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 8: Purifying the Mails; 1893-1921
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: American Rosae Crucis | Modern Miracles | Twentieth Century Astrology | The Future Home Journal | Suggestion
Related Monographs: The Encyclopedia of Psychology (1928)
Pratt, Orson
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Orson Pratt (1811–1881) was an early Latter-day Saint apostle, mathematician, and the principal systematic theologian of early Mormonism.
(Source: Gemini) Early Latter-day Saint apostle, mathematician, and writer (1811–1881), a member of the Quorum of the Twelve and an official historian of the church.
Related Periodicals: Prophetic Almanac (Pratt) | The Seer (Orson Pratt -- LDS)
Pratt, Parley P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Parley P. Pratt (1807–1857) was an early Latter-day Saint apostle and writer, author of foundational Mormon tracts.
Chasing Emma: Abandoned Wizards and Magic-Mongers: Parley Pratt; April 1853
Related Periodicals: The Seer (Orson Pratt -- LDS)
Preau, Andre
(Source: Gemini) (?–1951) French scholar, translator, and occultist active in the early twentieth-century Hermetic and Traditionalist revival in Paris. He translated works of Emanuel Swedenborg and classical alchemical treatises into French, collaborated with René Guénon, and wrote on alchemical symbolism and Christian mysticism. Died in 1951.
Related Periodicals: Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles
Prendergast, I.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spook Mystery and Its Solution (1926)
Prentiss, Harriet Doan
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: In Harmony with Life (1922)
Prescott, Keziah E.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist medium, writer, and lecturer active in New England. Born in Maine, she was a trance-speaker who practised clairvoyant mediumship and automatic writing, lectured on temperance, women's rights, and spiritual education, and contributed séance reports and essays to Spiritualist journals.
Related Periodicals: The Seraph's Advocate
Presser, Juliette Ewing
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American New Thought author, teacher, and healer active in the Midwest. With her husband, Ralph G. Presser, she co-founded local New Thought societies and co-edited metaphysical periodicals, and wrote guides on mental healing and positive thinking.
Related Periodicals: Psychic Observer
Presser, Ralph G.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American New Thought writer and publisher. He contributed columns on character analysis, applied psychology, and mental suggestion to metaphysical periodicals, and with his wife, Juliette Ewing Presser, co-founded local study groups; he ran printing presses issuing planetary calendars, guides, and textbooks on mental healing and character analysis.
Related Periodicals: Psychic Observer
Pressing, R. C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Pressing, R.G.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American Spiritualist publisher, editor, and lecturer (Robert G. Pressing). In 1937 he co-founded *The Psychic Observer*, which he edited for many years, and wrote articles and booklets on spirit communication and physical mediumship.
Related Periodicals: Dale news
Preston, Emily
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Voice from Space (1920)
Preuss, Arthur
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Dictionary of Secret and Other Societies (1924)
Price, Harry
Harry Price (1881-1948) was a British psychic researcher and author who became one of the most prominent paranormal investigators of the twentieth century. He is best known for his long investigation of Borley Rectory in Essex, which he labelled "the most haunted house in England," and for his exposures of fraudulent mediums, including spirit photographer William Hope. Price founded the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1948) British psychical researcher, author, and amateur conjurer who founded the National Laboratory of Psychical Research in London. Using his knowledge of conjuring to test mediums under controls, he investigated Rudi Schneider and Stella C. and conducted a multi-year investigation of Borley Rectory. Authored *The Most Haunted House in England* (1940). Died in Sussex in 1948.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Price
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Price, Harry. Harry Price (1881-1948) was a British paranormal investigator whose energy and flair for publicity made him a public figure, but whose reputation for unreliability brought him into lasting conflict with more cautious researchers. He founded the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, equipped with instruments designed to detect physical anomalies, and produced a celebrated narrative of the Borley Rectory haunting; critics accused him of misleading the public and of poor investigative judgement.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Astrologer's Magazine | Beyond | British Journal of Psychical Research | Bulletin and Proceedings of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research | L'Astrosophie | Revue Metapsychique | The Seer | Society for the Study of Supernormal Pictures Budget | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Related Monographs: Cold Light on Spiritualistic 'Phenomena': An Experiment with the Crewe Circle (1922), Revelations of a Spirit Medium (1922), Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter (1936), Fifty Years of Psychical Research: A Critical Survey (1939), 'The Most Haunted House in England': Ten Years' Investigation of Borley Rectory (1941), The End of Borley Rectory (1946)
Priessnitz
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Vincenz Priessnitz (1799–1851) was a Silesian farmer who founded the modern "water cure" (hydrotherapy) at Gräfenberg.
Related Periodicals: Macrocosmo (Barcelona)
Prince Immanuel Of Jerusalem
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Lupus and Fidus (1930), Red (1930)
Prince, W.F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Walter Franklin Prince (1863–1934) was an American clergyman and psychical researcher, a leader of the American SPR and the Boston SPR and investigator of celebrated cases.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American parapsychologist, Episcopal clergyman, and author (Walter Franklin Prince). Born in Detroit, Maine, he took doctoral studies at Yale and served as principal research officer for the
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Prince, Walter Franklin. Walter Franklin Prince (1863-1934) was an American Episcopal clergyman and psychical researcher associated with the American Society for Psychical Research and later the Boston Society for Psychic Research. Noted for a strongly critical eye in investigations of mediumship, telepathy, and psychometry, he broke with the ASPR over the Margery affair and subsequently mentored J.B. and Louisa Rhine. His study of the Doris Fischer case remains a landmark in the history of dissociative identity disorder research.
Related Periodicals: Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research
Related Monographs: To Woman from Meslom: A Message from Meslom in the Life Beyond (1920), Past Events Seership: A Study in Psychometry (1922), Noted Witnesses for Psychic Occurrences (1928), The Enchanted Boundary: Being a Survey of Negative Reactions to Claims of Psychic Phenomena 1820-1930 (1930)
Printz, Thomas
A pseudonym for Innocente, Geraldine, above.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1961) Pen name of Geraldine Innocente, American esoteric teacher and publisher and founder of the Bridge to Freedom movement. Claiming revelations from the Ascended Masters from the 1940s, she co-founded the Bridge to Freedom in 1952 under the male pseudonym Thomas Printz, publishing lessons and journals including *The Seventh Temple* and *The Seventh Ray* and setting out a system of spiritual evolution and cosmic rays. Died in New York in 1961.
Related Periodicals: The Bridge to Freedom | Hope (Bridge to Freedom) | Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Probert, Mark
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American trance medium, artist, and channeler who served as the medium for the '
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: The Mark Probert Mediumship
Related Periodicals: Round Robin
Probst-Biraben, J.H.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) French sociologist and esotericist active in the early twentieth-century revival of Western esotericism and Martinism (Jean-Henri Probst-Biraben). A professor of sociology and philosophy, he studied Hermeticism, Sufism, and Freemasonry, was initiated into esoteric orders, and wrote comparative works on initiatory traditions, including *The Mysteries of Templarism* and *Sufi Esotericism*.
Related Periodicals: Annales Initiatiques | L'Astrosophie | The Seer | Voile d'Isis
Proclus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Proclus (412–485), the last major Neoplatonist philosopher of antiquity, whose systematic metaphysics deeply influenced later mysticism.
Related Periodicals: Shrine of Wisdom
Prophet, Elizabeth Clare Wulf
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1939–2009) was an American "Ascended Master" messenger who, with her husband Mark, led the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1999) American spiritual leader and author, co-founder and later head of the Church Universal and Triumphant. Born Elizabeth Clare Wulf in Red Bank, New Jersey, she studied at Boston University and in 1958 co-founded the Summit Lighthouse with her husband, Mark L. Prophet, to publish teachings of the Ascended Masters; after his death she led the movement from a headquarters in Montana. Authored *The Lost Years of Jesus* and other books claiming dictated revelations from spiritual masters. Died in 1999.
Related Periodicals: The Bridge to Freedom
Prophet, Mark L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Mark L. Prophet (1918–1973) founded the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American spiritual teacher and publisher who founded the Summit Lighthouse in Washington, D.C., in 1958. Claiming revelations from the Ascended Masters, he published dictated messages and co-directed the mission with his wife, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, authoring *Climb the Highest Mountain* among other works setting out a theology of spiritual ascension.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Bridge to Freedom | Mentor (Myneta and Taylor)
Proskauer, Julien J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spook Crooks! Exposing the Secrets of the Prophet-eers (1932), The Dead Do Not Talk (1946)
Proudhon, P.J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), the French anarchist and socialist theorist ("property is theft"); cited here in a radical/periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Spiritual Philosopher | Spiritual Philosopher (Etincelle)
Prudhomme, Sully
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907), the French poet and first Nobel laureate in Literature; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Revue du Spiritualisme Moderne
Pryse, James Morgan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) James Morgan Pryse (1859–1942) was an American Theosophist and Gnostic scholar, author of The Apocalypse Unsealed, who interpreted the New Testament as an initiatic text.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American Theosophist, printer, and Greek scholar. Born in Ohio, he co-founded the Aryan
Related Periodicals: L'Astrosophie | The Seer | Theosophy | Universal Brotherhood
Psychic, A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Lifted Veil, or The Hereafter Revealed to Reform the World (1922)
Ptolemy
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100–170), the Greco-Egyptian astronomer whose Tetrabiblos was the foundational text of Western astrology.
Related Periodicals: Spirit of Partridge
Pugh, Liebe
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Liebie Pugh (1889–1966) was an English artist and spiritual teacher, a central figure of the "Universal Link" new-age network of the 1950s–60s.
Related Periodicals: The Father's House
Puharich, Andrija
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Andrija Puharich (1918–1995) was an American physician and parapsychologist who investigated and promoted psychics such as Uri Geller and the medium "Mr. Arigó."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1995) American physician, inventor, and parapsychologist who co-founded the Round Table Foundation in Maine. He conducted laboratory investigations of extrasensory perception, mediumship, and telepathy, most notably with Uri Geller and Peter Hurkos, and authored *The Sacred Mushroom* (1959) and *Beyond Telepathy*. Died in North Carolina in 1995.
Related Periodicals: Psychic Observer
Pullen-Burry, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Henry Pullen-Burry was an English Theosophist and member of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1926) British physician and occultist. He was an officer of the
Related Periodicals: Azoth
Purinton, Edward Earle
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Personal Efficiency in Business (1920), The New Psychology and Brain Building: A Home Study Course in Mental Science, Lesson I (1921)
Purnell, Mary
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Purucker, Gottfried De
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Channel | Fraternization News | Theosophia | The Theosophical Forum | World Theosophy
Related Monographs: Fundamentals of the Esoteric Philosophy (1932)
Putnam, Allen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Allen Putnam (1802–1887) was an American Spiritualist author of Boston who wrote on witchcraft, mesmerism, and spirit phenomena.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1887) Nineteenth-century American Unitarian clergyman, Spiritualist writer, and reformer active in New England. Born in Danvers, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School, served as a pastor, and represented his district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He investigated mediumistic phenomena and authored *Natty, a Spirit* (1856) and *Witchcraft of New England Explained by Spiritualism*. Died in Boston in 1887.
Chasing Emma: The Reading Of Souls; And Spirit Chemists: Miss Emma Hardinge; Trance Lecture; May 15; 1858
Related Periodicals: Annals of Phrenology | The Spiritual Telegraph
Putnam, Samuel P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Samuel Porter Putnam (1838–1896) was an American free-thought leader, lecturer, and historian of the movement (Four Hundred Years of Freethought).
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American freethought writer, novelist, and secular reformer. Born in New Hampshire, he graduated from
Related Periodicals: Freethought
Puysegur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis de Puységur (1751–1825), the French magnetizer who discovered "artificial somnambulism" (the magnetic trance), a key step toward hypnotism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1825) French aristocrat, military officer, and mesmerist credited with describing artificial somnambulism. Born in Paris into a noble family, he served as an artillery officer and became a disciple of Franz Anton Mesmer, conducting experiments in animal magnetism on his estates. In 1784 he reported inducing a trance state characterized by clairvoyance and heightened suggestibility, and authored treatises on animal magnetism. Died in 1825.
Related Periodicals: Annales du Magnetisme Animal | Archiv fur Magnetismus und Somnambulismus | Bibliotheque du Magnetisme Animal | Revue Theurgique
Pythagoras
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Pythagoras (c. 570–495 BCE), the Greek philosopher and mathematician whose teachings on number, harmony, and the transmigration of souls are foundational to the Western esoteric tradition.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of Pythagoreanism. Born on Samos, he travelled through Egypt, Babylon, and southern Italy before establishing a philosophical community at Croton, whose members practised a disciplined way of life based on the transmigration of souls and vegetarianism. He formulated mathematical theorems and a cosmology of number mysticism, including the harmony of the spheres, and his teachings influenced Platonism and the later Western esoteric and Hermetic traditions.
Related Periodicals: Shrine of Wisdom
Quantrill, Captain
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) William Clarke Quantrill (1837–1865), the Confederate guerrilla leader of "Quantrill's Raiders"; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Progressive Thinker
Quid, Tertium
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Verdict: A Study of the Probable Origin of Certain Psychic Phenomena (1920)
Quilliam, William Henry Abdullah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) William Henry Abdullah Quilliam (1856–1932) was an English convert to Islam who founded Britain's first mosque and Islamic institute at Liverpool and was named "Sheikh-ul-Islam of the British Isles."
Related Periodicals: Lumiere D'Orient
Quimby, P.P.
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802–1866) was an American clockmaker turned mental healer of Portland, Maine, generally regarded as the founder of the New Thought movement. Moving from mesmerism to "mind cure," he taught that illness stemmed from mistaken belief; his patients and students included Warren Felt Evans, the Dressers, and Mary Baker Eddy.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American mesmerist and mental healer, regarded as a founder of the New Thought movement. Born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, he worked as a clockmaker before studying animal magnetism under Charles Poyen and establishing a healing practice in Portland, Maine. He held that disease is an erroneous belief of the mind, curable by correcting mental error, and documented his system in private manuscripts. His students included Mary Baker Eddy, Julius Dresser, and Warren Felt Evans.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Parkhurst_Quimby
Chasing Emma: New (Magnetic) Thought: 1842; 1854; 1855
Related Periodicals: Mind Cure and Science of Life
Related Monographs: The Quimby Manuscripts (1921)
Quinscher, Frederich Wilhelm
(Source: Gemini) (?–1945) Twentieth-century German occultist and writer, also published under the name Rah Omir, active in the Adonism movement. Born in Germany, he worked in Hermetic magic, alchemy, and Kabbalah and collaborated with Franz Sättler (Dr. Musallam) to establish the Adonist Alliance. He authored *The Magic of Adonism* and *The Kabbalah*, setting out a system of magical training, and was an associate and mentor of Franz Bardon. He worked under Nazi persecution. Died in 1945.
Related Periodicals: Saturn Gnosis
Ra, Bo Yin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Bô Yin Râ" was the pen name of Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken (1876–1943), a German painter and mystic whose "Book of the Living God" and related works taught a spiritual path of self-realization.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) German spiritual teacher, painter, and author, Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, who published under the pseudonym Bô Yin Râ. Born in Aschaffenburg, he trained as a painter at academies in Frankfurt, Munich, and Paris. He claimed to receive clairvoyant cosmic revelations and, under his pseudonym, authored spiritual books including *The Book on the Living God* (1919), setting out a non-dogmatic system of spiritual self-realization.
Related Periodicals: Hamsa | Ruusu-Risti | Weisse Fahne
Rafferty, Fred
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Named in the blog as a collaborator (‘F.R.’) in a Dee-related inquiry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American publisher and editor of Spiritualist literature. He is remembered for publishing editions of the works of Andrew Jackson Davis, including *The Great Harmonia* and *Nature's Divine Revelations*.
Chasing Emma: Dee; F.R. and Sis: Looking for Charlotte Elizabeth Dresser (1845 - 1930?)
Related Monographs: Spirit World and Spirit Life (1922)
Ragon, J.M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jean-Marie Ragon (1781–1862) was a French Freemason and prolific writer on the symbolism, history, and "occult" philosophy of the masonic degrees.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1862) Nineteenth-century French Masonic historian, publisher, and esoteric writer. Born in Bray-sur-Seine, he was a civil servant in Paris, where he founded the Lodge of the Trinosophes. He researched the history and symbolism of initiatory societies and authored *Orthodoxie Maçonnique* (1853) and *Rituel de l'Initiation Hermétique*. Died in Paris in 1862.
Related Periodicals: Cahiers Astrologiques | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires)
Raine, Kathleen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Kathleen Raine (1908–2003) was an English poet and scholar of Blake and Yeats who founded the Temenos Academy, dedicated to the perennial spiritual traditions in the arts.
(Source: Gemini) (?–2003) British poet, critic, and scholar of Western esotericism. Born in London, she studied at Girton College, Cambridge, and founded the journal *Temenos* and the Temenos Academy, devoted to spiritual and traditional arts. Her study *Blake and Tradition* (1968) documented the influence of Neo-Platonism, Hermeticism, and alchemy on William Blake and W. B. Yeats. Died in London in 2003.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Rains, Clara
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Spirit of Man (1924)
Rains, Leon
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Spirit of Man (1924)
Raizizun, Yacki
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Occult Press Review | Psychic Power
Related Monographs: Your Personal Forces and How to Develop Them (1923), Reincarnation (Lecture) (1927), Occult and Drugless Therapeutics (1928)
Raja, C. Kunhan
(Source: Gemini) (?–1963) Indian Sanskrit scholar, editor, and Theosophist. Born in Malabar, he took his doctorate at Oxford and became professor of Sanskrit at the University of Madras. For decades he was curator and editor-in-chief of the
Related Periodicals: Adyar Library Bulletin
Rajagopal, D.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1993) Indian editor, publisher, and organizer, the longtime associate of Jiddu Krishnamurti. Born in India, he headed Krishnamurti Writings Inc. (KWINC), editing and distributing Krishnamurti's lectures and books, and co-founded the Happy Valley School and the Besant Hill School in Ojai, California. Died in Ojai in 1993.
Related Periodicals: Bulletin Internationale de L'Etoile | Herald of the Star | International Star Bulletin | La Estrella (Madrid)
Raleigh, A.S.
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American occultist and Hermetic philosopher who served as Supreme Grand Master of the
Chasing Emma: The Reincarnation Mitten
Chasing Emma: Dating Phy(h)lotus
Chasing Emma: Chain Gang and Bucket Shop: A Note on Albert Sidney Raleigh and George W. Wiggs
Related Periodicals: Sesamums | The Temple Artisan
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Ralph, Joseph
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Character and Vocational Analysis: A Course of Forty Simple Lessons in Vocational Adjustment (1923)
Ram, N. Sri
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Indian Theosophist and writer who served as the fifth international President of the
Related Periodicals: Teosofo (Adyar) | Theosophical Worker
Raman, B.V.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) B. V. Raman (1912–1998) was an influential Indian astrologer, editor of The Astrological Magazine, who did much to revive Hindu astrology in the twentieth century.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1998) Indian astrologer, author, and publisher central to the twentieth-century revival of Hindu (Vedic) astrology. Born in Gorur, Karnataka, he studied under his grandfather B. Suryanarain Rao and edited the monthly *The Astrological Magazine* for over sixty years. He authored *Astrology for Beginners* and *How to Judge a Horoscope* and co-founded the Indian Council of Astrological Sciences. Died in Bangalore in 1998.
Related Periodicals: Astrological Magazine (India)
Ramasami, K.T.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Kalpaka | Self-Culture
Related Monographs: Hindu Occult Art Magic (1921)
Ramatherio, Sri
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Rosicrucian Illumination (Rosicrucian Initiation): A Sealed Book of Information and Preliminary Instruction (1921), Unto Thee I Grant (Secret Teachings of Tibet) (1925), The Light of Egypt: The Strange Story of the Rosicrucians (1928), The Light of Egypt: The Strange Story of the Rosicrucians (1931)
Ramayandas, S. D.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: First Steps in Yoga (1927), Kriya Yoga in Daily Life (1927)
Rampa, Lobsang
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) "Lobsang Rampa" was the pen name of Cyril Hoskin (1910–1981), an Englishman whose best-selling The Third Eye (1956) purported to be the autobiography of a Tibetan lama.
(Source: Gemini) (1910–1981) British writer and alternative spiritual teacher, the pseudonym of Cyril Henry Hoskin. Born in Devon, he worked as a clerk before claiming that his body had been occupied by the spirit of a Tibetan lama, Lobsang Rampa. He authored *The Third Eye* (1956), an account of an alleged Tibetan initiation that sold widely despite being labelled a hoax by Tibetologists, and over a dozen further metaphysical books. Died in Calgary, Canada, in 1981.
Related Periodicals: Saucerian
Randall, Edward C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Frontiers of the After Life (1922)
Randall, J.H.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American Unitarian minister and New Thought author. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he studied theology at Colgate University and served as pastor of community churches in New York City. He authored *The Life of Reality* (1916) and *A New Philosophy of Life*, integrating practical psychology, Christian mysticism, and progressive social thought.
Related Periodicals: Foundation Principles
Related Monographs: The New Light on Immortality, or The Significance of Psychic Research (1921)
Randles, Jenny
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) British ufologist, parapsychologist, and author. Born in Bacup, Lancashire, she edited parapsychological periodicals and investigated UFO phenomena, crop circles, and altered states, proposing the 'Oz Factor.' She authored numerous books including *UFO Reality* (1983) and *The Pennine UFO Mystery*, applying a psychological approach to paranormal claims.
Related Periodicals: BUFORA Journal | Flying Saucer Review
Randolph, Paschal Beverly
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) P. B. Randolph (1825–1875), the African-American occultist, Spiritualist, and Rosicrucian; same person as the "Randolph, Paschal Beverly" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American physician, occultist, and trance medium of African-American heritage, a pioneer of Western esotericism who co-founded the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis and introduced sex magic to the West. Born in New York City, he travelled in Europe and the Middle East and was initiated into several esoteric lineages. He authored *Ravalette* (1863) and *The Grand Secret*.
Related Periodicals: Adiramled | The Age of Progress | Annals of Phrenology | The Buddhist Ray | The Hermetist | The Oracle (Boston) | Psychic Century | The Rosicrucian Brotherhood | The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph | The Spiritual Age (Boston) | The Alpha | Clothed With The Sun | The Journal of Progress
Related Monographs: Dhoula Bel: Ein Rosenkreuzer-Roman (1922), Magia Sexualis (1931)
Ransom, Josephine
(Source: Gemini) (?–1948) Australian-born British Theosophist, educator, and writer who served as the official historian of the
Related Periodicals: Theosophy in Australasia
Related Monographs: A Short History of the Theosophical Society (1938), The Direction of the Theosophical Society by Masters of Wisdom (1942)
Ransom, Sidney
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Music of Peace: The World's Concert of Nations (1940)
Raper, William Harley
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) English figure (1884–1933) discussed as a forebear in the blog’s ‘His Record Speaks For Him.’
Chasing Emma: His Record Speaks For Him: A Public Service Announcement
Raphael
(Source: Gemini) (?–1832) Nineteenth-century English astrologer and compiler, Robert Cross Smith, who published under the pseudonym Raphael. Born in Bristol, he worked as an astrological counsellor in London and founded the annual almanac *Raphael's Ephemeris* (1825). He authored *The Manual of Astrology* (1828). Died in London in 1832.
Related Periodicals: The Sphinx (Boston) | The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century | The Horoscope (Zadkiel) | Spirit of Partridge | The Straggling Astrologer | Urania (Aldersgate)
Raupert, J. Godfrey
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Facts and Fallacies of Modern Spiritism (1920)
Rawson, Albert Leighton
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American artist, traveler, writer, and orientalist. Born in Chester, Vermont; traveled across Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine and was initiated into several Eastern mystical orders. A co-founder of the
Chasing Emma: How Marsupial Animals Propagate Their Kind
Related Periodicals: Freethinkers Magazine | New York Echo
Rawson, Frederick L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Frederick L. Rawson (1859–1923) was an English engineer who became a leading (heterodox) Christian Science / "Truth" healer and founder of the "Society for Spreading the Knowledge of True Prayer."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1923) British consulting engineer and New Thought author, founder of the "Active Service" healing system (the Society for Spreading the Knowledge of True Prayer). Born in England; held numerous patents and worked in early electrical lighting before turning to mental science, formulating a method of scientific prayer and mental healing. Authored *Life Understood* (1912) and *The Secret of Divine Protection*. Died in New York City in 1923.
Related Periodicals: International Psychic Gazette
Related Monographs: Scientific Prayer (1921)
Raymond, Walter W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: That Unseen Presence (1927)
Reade, Winwood
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.85) British writer (1838–1875), author of The Martyrdom of Man (1872); Conan Doyle and Robert Taylor appear in the same discussion.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) British philosopher, traveler, novelist, and historian; a champion of secularism and freethought. Born in Perthshire, Scotland; studied at the University of Oxford and traveled as an explorer across West Africa. Authored *The Martyrdom of Man* (1872), which set out a secular, evolutionary philosophy of human history and influenced later freethinkers including H.G. Wells.
Chasing Emma: Degenerate Angels and Elevated Apes: 1872
Rebechesu, Francesco
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: L'interpretazione stoica del mito: Saggio critico ed esegetico sui frammenti dei Maestri della Stoa (1924)
Recnartus
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A.P.S. Pansophisches Laboratorium (Ms. A.1) (1926)
Redding, William Alexander
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American metaphysical writer, publisher, and biblical scholar associated with alternative Christian eschatology and the New Thought movement. Based primarily in Kansas. Authored *Our Near Future* (1896) and *The Millennial Kingdom*, setting out a system of biblical interpretation, planetary configurations, and historical cycles and asserting that the world was entering a major spiritual and physical transition.
Related Periodicals: Aquarian Age | Occult Science Library
Reddy, Merle Q.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Dawn of Destruction: A Forecast of Coming Events (1940)
Redfield, Nayan Louise
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Hebraic Tongue Restored, And the True Meaning of the Hebrew Words Re-established (1921)
Redgrove, H. Stanley
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) H. Stanley Redgrove (1887–1943) was an English chemist and historian of alchemy and mysticism, author of Alchemy: Ancient and Modern.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) British chemist, mathematician, occultist, and author. Born in London; worked as a research chemist while studying alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, and Christian mysticism, and co-founded the
Related Periodicals: Journal of the Alchemical Society | The Kalpaka | The Metaphysical Magazine | The Occult Review
Related Monographs: Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought (1920), Joseph Glanvill and Psychical Research in the Seventeenth Century (1921), Alchemy: Ancient and Modern (1922)
Redgrove, I. M. L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Joseph Glanvill and Psychical Research in the Seventeenth Century (1921)
Redman, George Alexander
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) American medium (1835–1861), the subject of a short biographical snippet.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American Spiritualist medium and physician active in the early Spiritualist movement in the United States. Born in New York; trained in medicine before taking up mediumship, conducting physical seances with slate-writing, spirit rapping, and clairvoyant diagnostics. Authored *Mystic Hours: or, Spiritual Experiences* (1859).
Chasing Emma: George Alexander Redman: 1835-1861
Redonnel, Paul
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) French writer, editor, publisher, poet, and occultist active in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French symbolist and esoteric revivals in Paris. Chief editor of literary and esoteric journals; collaborated with Papus, Stanislas de Guaita, and other occultists. Authored *Le Jardin Secret* and *L'Initiation Hermétique*, synthesizing Western esotericism, alchemy, and symbolist poetry.
Related Periodicals: Voile d'Isis
Reed, Chas. B.
(Source: Gemini) American physician and writer (Chicago; Rush Medical College) who published on obstetrics, medical history, and psychical research; husband of the medium Susie Willis Fletcher.
Related Periodicals: Purdy's Monthly
Reed, Elizabeth A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Elizabeth A. Reed (1842–1915) was an American writer on comparative religion and the religions of Asia.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1915) American scholar and orientalist, one of the earlier female Sanskrit scholars of the nineteenth century. Born in Warren County, Ohio. Elected a member of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain and served as president of the Illinois Women's Press Association. Authored *Hindu Literature* (1890) and *Persian Literature*, introducing Eastern religious texts to Western readers. Died in Chicago in 1915.
Related Periodicals: Progress (Chicago)
Reeve, Arthur B.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Mystery Mind (1920)
Regardie, Israel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Israel Regardie (1907–1985) was an English-American occultist, one-time secretary to Aleister Crowley, who published the secret rituals and teachings of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1985) British-American occultist, chiropractor, and author. Born in London; ran a clinical practice in California. Served as personal secretary to Aleister Crowley and published *The Golden Dawn* (1937–1940), which made the initiatory rituals and teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn public. Also authored *The Tree of Life* and *The Middle Pillar*, synthesizing the psychology of C.G. Jung with ceremonial magic. Died in Sedona, Arizona, in 1985.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Aries Quarterly | The Golden Dawn | Modern Mystic | The Occult Digest | Round Robin
Reghini, Arturo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Arturo Reghini (1878–1946) was an Italian mathematician and "Pagan" esotericist, a Pythagorean and Freemason who collaborated with (and then broke from) Julius Evola.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1946) Italian mathematician, occultist, philosopher, and Freemason. Born in Florence; studied mathematics at the University of Pisa while researching Pythagorean mathematics, Hermeticism, and the ancient mysteries. Co-founded the esoteric journals *Atanòr* and *Ignis* and authored *The Pythagorean Reconstruction of Freemasonry*. Collaborated with Julius Evola to establish the Ur Group in Rome. Died in Budrio, Italy, in 1946.
Related Periodicals: Ignis | Ultra (Rome) | Ur-Krur
Reik, Theodor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Theodor Reik (1888–1969), the Austrian-American psychoanalyst and early student of Freud; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Reil, Johann Christian
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Johann Christian Reil (1759–1813) was a German physician who coined the word "psychiatry" and wrote on the nervous system and the imagination in healing.
Related Periodicals: Magazin fur die Psychische Heilkunde
Reimer, Christian
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Named alongside von Vay, Huguet and Stainton Moses in a Paris account of deception.
Chasing Emma: Deceived by Appearances: Paris; April 1875
Reimers, C.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1889) German-born British classical cellist, spiritualist writer, and psychical researcher active in early physical-mediumship investigations. Born in Germany; worked as a cellist in London and Manchester while investigating mediumistic phenomena, trance states, spirit photography, and direct spirit drawing. Collaborated with Alfred Russel Wallace and contributed frequently to British spiritualist periodicals, notably *The Spiritualist*. Died in London in 1889.
Related Periodicals: Spiritual Notes
Reitzenstein, R.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Das iranische Erloesungsmysterium: Religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen (1921)
Reitzenstein, Richard
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Das iranische Erloesungsmysterium: Religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen (1921), Weltuntergangsvorstellungen: Eine Studie zur vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte (1924)
Rellimeo
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Within the Holy of Holies, or Attitudes of Attainment (1920)
Remy, Nicolas
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Demonolatry (1930)
Renaud, Bob
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Bob Renaud was an American who in the 1960s claimed radio and telepathic contact with beings from the planet "Korendor," a figure of the contactee movement.
Related Periodicals: Thy Kingdom Come
Reuss, Theodor
Theodor Reuss (1855-1923) was a German occultist best known as the head of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) German occultist, opera singer, and journalist. Born in Augsburg. With Carl Kellner he formulated an initiatory system synthesizing Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Eastern tantra, co-founding the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) in 1902. Served as Grand Master of the O.T.O. and chartered Aleister Crowley to lead the British section, writing numerous rituals and occult essays.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/reuss-theodor-1855-1023
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: American Rosae Crucis | Annales Initiatiques | Das Wort (Dresden) | Die Ubersinnliche Welt | Eudia | F. U. D. O. S. I. | Ignis | The Kalpaka | The Kneph | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Le Soleil Mystique | Le Temple Mystique | LotusBluten | New Thought Journal and Occult Review | New York Magazine of Mysteries | Oriflamme | Pansophic Intellectualizer | Pansophja | The Prophet | Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes | Rosa-Cruz | Sphinx [Leipzig] | Theosophical Forum (Purucker) | Theosophischer Wegweiser | Theosophisches Leben | Universal Free Mason | Ur-Krur
Related Monographs: Was muss man von der Freimaurerei wissen? Eine allgemeinverstaendliche Darstellung des Ordens der Freimaurer, der Illuminaten und Rosenkreuzer (1923)
Reuter, Florizel von
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Florizel von Reuter (1890–1985) was an American violin virtuoso who wrote on his and his mother's experiments in automatic writing and mediumship.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1985) American-German violin virtuoso, composer, and medium. Born in Davenport, Iowa; trained in Europe and toured as a violinist before serving as a professor of music. Investigated mediumship, automatic writing, and slate-writing alongside his mother, claiming communications from deceased musicians including Paganini, Liszt, and Chopin. Authored *Psychical Experiences of a Musician* (1928) and *The Consoling Angel*. Died in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1985.
Related Periodicals: Zeitschrift fur Metapsychische Forschung
Revealers, Eloahjehovahxeovah Claimed
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Holy Theomonistic Bible, or The Evolutionary Gospel of Fulfilment of Prophecy (1921)
Revel, Camille
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Camille Revel was a French writer of the early twentieth century who expounded the doctrine of "palingenesis" (reincarnation) and karmic law.
Related Periodicals: Annales Initiatiques
Revel, Gaston
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Annales Theosophiques | Bulletin de l'Ordre de l'Etoile d'Orient | L'Affranchi | Le Message Theosophique et Social | Revue Theosophique
Rexford, Orcella
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Orcella Rexford was an American New Thought and "color" lecturer of the 1920s–30s who promoted dietetics and character analysis.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1946) American author, lecturer, character analyst, and Bahá'í pioneer active in early twentieth-century alternative medicine, handwriting analysis, and chromotherapy. Worked as a public speaker and teacher of applied psychology and traveled as a Bahá'í pioneer. Authored *The Science of Character Analysis* and *Mental Healing Through Color*, setting out a system of applied psychology and color science. Died in 1946.
Related Periodicals: Aquarian Age | Reality
Rexroth, Kenneth
(Source: Gemini) American poet, essayist, and translator (1905–1982), a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and a noted translator of classical Chinese and Japanese poetry.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Reynolds, Crindle
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Named in an 1882 discussion of the turn against dark seances.
Chasing Emma: The Gas Turned On: The Turn Against Dark Seances; 1882
Reynolds, Elsie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Elsie Reynolds was an American materialization medium of the later nineteenth century, repeatedly accused of fraud.
Chasing Emma: The Gas Turned On: The Turn Against Dark Seances; 1882
Chasing Emma: The Discordant Elements: Emma and Elsie Crindle; November; 1880
Chasing Emma: The White Leaves of History [4]: Fast Forward
Chasing Emma: Expelled By Socialists: Another Note on Elsie Crindle-Reynolds; 1908
Related Periodicals: Light of Messiah | Spirit Mothers and Astraea
Reynolds, L. E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Cited as author of Mysteries of Masonry (1870).
Chasing Emma: Forces of the Brain: 1870
Reyor, Jean
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Jean Reyor" was the pen name of Marcel Clavelle (1905–1988), a French Traditionalist writer and editor of Études Traditionnelles in the circle of René Guénon.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) French writer, editor, and Traditionalist philosopher; pseudonym of Marcel Clavelle. Principal collaborator to René Guénon and, for decades, chief editor of the Traditionalist journal *Études Traditionnelles*. Wrote on Christian esotericism, initiatory organizations, and Roman Catholic liturgy.
Related Periodicals: Symbolisme
Rhine, Alice H.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1913) American author, editor, poet, dramatist, and social reformer associated with freethought and labor reform. Born in Philadelphia into a Jewish family; contributed to journals including *The Forum* and *The Popular Science Monthly*. Wrote on social history and labor and championed women's rights, industrial education, and secularism. Died in 1913.
Related Periodicals: New York Echo
Rhine, Joseph Banks
Joseph Banks Rhine (1895–1980) was an American botanist-turned-parapsychologist, the "father of modern parapsychology." At Duke University he founded the Parapsychology Laboratory (1935), coined the term "ESP," pioneered Zener-card testing, and launched the Journal of Parapsychology.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1980) American parapsychologist and academic. Born in Waterloo, Pennsylvania; trained in botany at the University of Chicago before establishing the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University in 1935. Pioneered the experimental use of Zener cards and coined the terms "extrasensory perception" (ESP) and "parapsychology." Authored *Extra-Sensory Perception* (1934) and *New Frontiers of the Mind*. Died in North Carolina in 1980.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Banks_Rhine
Related Periodicals: Journal of Parapsychology | Mind Digest | Neue Wissenschaft | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Related Monographs: New Frontiers of the Mind: The Story of the Duke Experiments (1937)
Rhine, Louisa E.
Louisa Ella Rhine (1891-1983) was an American parapsychologist and author who worked alongside her husband J. B. Rhine at the Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory. While J. B. Rhine focused on experimental work, Louisa Rhine concentrated on collecting and analysing spontaneous case reports of psychic experiences submitted by members of the public, eventually amassing tens of thousands of cases. Her books, including Hidden Channels of the Mind (1961) and ESP in Life and Lab (1967), helped bring parapsychology to a general readership.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1983) American parapsychologist and academic. Born in Niagara Falls, New York; trained in botany at the University of Chicago and co-founded the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University with her husband, J.B. Rhine. Studied spontaneous ESP cases, telepathy, and clairvoyance, classifying thousands of reported experiences. Authored *Hidden Channels of the Mind* (1961) and *ESP in Life and Lab*. Died in North Carolina in 1983.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_E._Rhine
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Rhine, Louisa E.. Louisa E. Rhine (1891-1983) was an American parapsychologist who collaborated closely with her husband J.B. Rhine at the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory and made her own substantial contributions to the field. She is especially known for her large-scale collection and analysis of spontaneous psi experiences — apparitions, premonitions, clairvoyance, and hauntings reported by ordinary people — which she distilled into books including Hidden Channels of the Mind (1961) and Mind Over Matter (1972).
Chasing Emma: Against the Ghost-Hunters and Charlatans: Louisa E. Rhine; 1967
Related Periodicals: Journal of Parapsychology
Rhys, Cadvan
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Rosicrucian: A Romance of the Great War (1921)
Ribera, Antonio
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Antonio Ribera (1920–2001) was a Spanish writer, a leading popularizer of UFO research (ufology) in the Spanish-speaking world.
(Source: Gemini) (?–2001) Spanish writer, translator, deep-sea diver, and ufologist. Born in Barcelona. Co-founded the UFO research group CEI and investigated the UMMO affair. Authored over seventy books, including *The Great Galactic Mystery* and *The UFO Files*, and coordinated international research projects. Died in Barcelona in 2001.
Related Periodicals: Stendek
Ricard, Jean-Joseph-Adolphe
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) French magnetizer, physician, and author associated with animal magnetism. Trained in medicine in Paris and lectured on the therapeutic applications of mesmeric sleep as a disciple of the Marquis de Puységur. Authored *Traité théorique et pratique du magnétisme animal* (1841), a systematic treatment of mental suggestion, trance states, and clairvoyance.
Related Periodicals: Le Revelateur
Rich, Isaac
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Isaac B. Rich was one of the founders and proprietors of the Banner of Light, the leading American Spiritualist newspaper of Boston.
Related Periodicals: The Banner of Light
Richard, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Paul Richard (1874–1967) was a French lawyer and spiritual seeker who, with his wife Mirra (the future "Mother"), collaborated with Sri Aurobindo and co-edited the review Arya.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1967) French philosopher, writer, and diplomat, husband and collaborator of Mirra Alfassa (The Mother). He traveled to Pondicherry, India, where he met Sri Aurobindo and co-founded the philosophical journal *Arya* in 1914. His writings attempted to synthesize Eastern mysticism with Western social philosophy. Died in 1967.
Related Periodicals: Arya
Related Monographs: The Scourge of Christ (1921), To the Nations (1921)
Richardson, Mark W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Margery-Harvard-Veritas: A Study in Psychics (1925)
Richardson, Warren
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Described (per R. Swinburne Clymer) as the ‘greatest of modern Occult Masters.’
Chasing Emma: Dr. Zell and the Princess Charlotte: Wyoming Occultists; 1892
Richet, Charles Robert
Charles Richet (1850–1935) was a French physiologist and Nobel laureate (1913, for anaphylaxis) who devoted much of his career to psychical research — coining "ectoplasm," "metapsychics," and "cryptesthesia." He presided over the SPR and the Institut Métapsychique and wrote the Traité de métapsychique (1922).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1935) French physiologist and psychical researcher, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. A professor of physiology at the University of Paris, he coined the term "ectoplasm" and conducted laboratory studies of mediums including Eusapia Palladino. He authored *Thirty Years of Psychical Research* (1922). Died in 1935.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Richet
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Annales des Sciences Psychiques | The Annals of Psychical Science | Neos Pithagoras | Revista de Estudios Psiquicos (Chile) | Voprosy Psikhizma
Related Monographs: La Telepathie: Recherches Experimentales (1921), Traite de Metapsychique (1922), Thirty Years of Psychical Research, Being a Treatise on Metapsychics (1923)
Richmond, B.W.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American physician, Spiritualist writer, and public debater. He conducted debates with Christian theologians and co-authored *The Discussion on Spiritualism* (1853) with Samuel Byron Brittan in defense of spirit communication.
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Telegraph
Richmond, Cora Linn Victoria
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Cora L. V. Richmond (1840–1923), the celebrated American Spiritualist trance lecturer (née Scott), a founder of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1923) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist trance medium, author, poet, and lecturer; née Scott, also published under her married names Hatch and Tappan. Born in Cuba, New York, she gave trance-speaking platform lectures on cosmic philosophy and social reform from childhood, authored *The Soul in Human Embarkation* and *The Soul's Progressive Life*, and served as pastor of the
Chasing Emma: Emma's Brief Career As A Trance Medium
Chasing Emma: The Devil On All Sides of the Matter: Some Notes on Cora Hatch's Divorce
Chasing Emma: Fortuitous Connections
Chasing Emma: The Richmond; and the Bundy: February 1883
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: The Agony of Influence
Chasing Emma: A Rock and a Hard Place: Cora Scott Hatch Daniels Tappan Richmond; May 1887
Chasing Emma: Every Real Religion: Cora L. V. Richmond and the World's Parliament of Religions
Chasing Emma: From Batavia to Buffalo: Thomas Gales Forster's Spirit Journey; June 1853
Related Periodicals: The Golden Way | Immortality | Mind Cure and Science of Life | Planets and People | Psychic Observer | The Spiritual Offering | The Sower | The Weekly Discourse
Richmond, David
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Associated with the 1855 tract ‘Taking the Kingdom by Violence’; an early English Spiritualist of Shaker background.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century British Spiritualist leader, author, and social reformer. A former member of the Shaker community, he co-founded the first Spiritualist church in Keighley, Yorkshire, in 1853, and promoted spirit healing and vegetarian reform, contributing articles on spirit healing and physical mediumship to British Spiritualist periodicals.
Chasing Emma: Taking the Kingdom By Violence: David Richmond; January 1855
Richmond, Olney Hawkins
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Olney H. Richmond (1844–1920) was an American astrologer and founder of the "Order of the Magi" in Chicago, teaching a system of star-lore and playing-card divination.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American occultist, mathematician, and Civil War soldier; co-founder and Grand Master of the Order of the Magi, which he established in Chicago to revive Atlantean mysteries and sacred geometry. He authored *The Mystic Test Book* (1893), setting out a mathematical system of card reading and astronomical calculation.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Olney H. Richmond's Order of the Magi
Related Periodicals: Planets and People | Star of the Magi
Related Monographs: Yenlo and the Mystic Brotherhood (1947)
Ricker, Clyde S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Afterworld Effects (Afterworld Series, Part I) (1922)
Riddell, Newton N.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Newton N. Riddell was an American lecturer and author on phrenology, "child culture," and character-building around 1900.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American New Thought lecturer and author. He lectured on brain building, child culture, and human evolution, and authored *Method: Applied Psychology* (1900) and *Immanuel, or the Life of the Soul*, integrating practical psychology with Christian mysticism.
Related Periodicals: The Business Philosopher | The Character Builder
Related Monographs: Vital Christianity: A Text-Book on God, Man, Cosmology, Faith-Power and Spiritual Science (1920), Methods of Attainment: The Riddell Lectures on Applied Psychology and Vital Christianity (1921)
Rider, William
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century British publisher and printer, founder of the London occult publishing house William Rider & Son. In partnership with Arthur Edward Waite, he published the Rider-Waite Tarot deck in 1909.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Review
Ridpath, John Clark
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John Clark Ridpath (1840–1900), the American historian and popular educator; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Arena
Rigberg, James S.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Mid-twentieth-century American printer and publisher in the early saucerian movement. He founded the
Related Periodicals: Flying Saucer News (US)
Rilke, Rainer Maria
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), the Austrian poet of the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, with deep mystical and angelic themes.
Related Periodicals: Mensch en Cosmos | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Ring, John W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) John W. Ring was an American Spiritualist and a national superintendent of the Spiritualist "Lyceum" (Sunday-school) movement, active in Texas.
Related Periodicals: Dawning Light
Related Monographs: For 'Just You' (1921)
Ringger, Peter
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Peter Ringger (1923–1987) was a Swiss parapsychologist and Catholic writer who founded a Swiss society for scientific study of the paranormal.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century Swiss parapsychologist, editor, and author. Holding a doctorate in philosophy and psychology from the University of Zurich, he founded the Swiss Society for Parapsychology and edited its journal. He authored *The Problem of Parapsychology* (1951) and *The Paranormal*.
Related Periodicals: Neue Wissenschaft
Rio, Armand
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Sorciers, Reveurs et Demoniaques (1920)
Ripley, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) George Ripley (1802–1880) was an American Transcendentalist, Unitarian minister, and founder of the Brook Farm community, later a leading New York literary critic.
Related Periodicals: The Harbinger
Rishi, V. D.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritualism in India: Theory and Practice (1936)
Rita, Alfred
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Materialization medium (1849–1922), full name Alfred Richard Rita, discussed among the ‘Great Materializers.’
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century British Spiritualist medium and trance healer, known for physical mediumship, spirit materialization, and slate-writing seances, and for collaborating with the researcher Charles Blackburn. He contributed seance reports and essays to British Spiritualist periodicals.
Chasing Emma: The Genuineness of Those Who Claim To Be Mediums: Some Notes on Alfred Rita (1849-1922)
Rittelmeyer, Friedrich
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Rudolf Steiner Enters My Life (1929)
Rivail, Hippolyte
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (1804–1869) was the French educator who, as "Allan Kardec," codified Spiritism; same person as the "Kardec, Allen" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1869) French educator, translator, and author who, under the pseudonym Allan Kardec, systematized Spiritism. Born in Lyon, he was a schoolteacher and textbook author before turning to psychical research and table-turning. He published *The Spirits' Book* (1857) and *The Mediums' Book*, setting out a philosophy based on reincarnation, spiritual evolution, and moral progress. His books were publicly burned in Barcelona in 1861. Died in Paris in 1869.
Related Periodicals: Revue Spirite
Rive, A. Clarin de la
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Abel Clarin de la Rive was a French anti-Masonic writer of the 1890s who, with Léo Taxil, propagated the "Palladism"/Diana Vaughan hoax.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century French anti-Masonic writer and journalist, also published as Abel Clarin and Abel Clarin Vivant. He succeeded Léo Taxil as director of the journal *La France Chrétienne* and authored *La Femme et l'Enfant dans la Franc-Maçonnerie* (1894).
Related Periodicals: Revue Mensuelle Diable aux XIX Siecle
Militz, Annie Rix
(Source: Gemini) (?–1924) American New Thought author, teacher, and co-founder of the Home of Truth. Born in San Francisco, she turned to New Thought after attending lectures by Emma Curtis Hopkins and, with her sister Harriet Hale Rix, established the Home of Truth in San Francisco in 1887. She authored *Primary Lessons in Christian Healing* (1904) and *Prosperity*. Died in California in 1924.
Related Periodicals: The Master Mind | Christ Mind (Rix) | Flashes of Truth (Boston) | International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | Mind | Nautilus | Religion | Unity | Universal Truth | Das Wort (St. Louis)
Related Monographs: Bread from Heaven: A Spiritual Diet of the Sayings of Jesus Christ (1920), All the Way: A Handbook for Those who have entered the Path (1922)
Rix, Harriet Hale
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American New Thought author, teacher, and healer, co-founder of the Home of Truth with her sister Annie Rix Militz. She authored *Christian Mind Healing* and *The Spiritual Path*, setting out a system of positive thinking and spiritual realization.
Related Periodicals: Christ Mind (Rix) | The Master Mind
Roback, C.W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) C. W. Roback was a Swedish-American astrologer and "mystic" fortune-teller in mid-nineteenth-century Boston, author of The Mysteries of Astrology.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Swedish-American astrologer, geomancer, and publisher; born Carl Johan Nilsson Falc. He emigrated to the United States in 1847 and practiced astrology in Boston and New York, authoring *The Mysteries of Astrology, and the Wonders of Magic* (1854), a defense of geomancy and Hermetic sciences.
Related Periodicals: Hague's Horoscope | Roback's Astrological Almanac
Robbins, Anne Manning
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Past and Present with Mrs. Piper (1921)
Roberts, C. E. Bechhofer
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Trial of Mrs. Duncan (1945)
Roberts, Evan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Evan Roberts (1878–1951) was the young leader of the great Welsh Revival of 1904–05.
Related Periodicals: Au-Dela [Brussels]
Roberts, J.M.
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1888) Nineteenth-century American attorney, Spiritualist editor, and publisher. He founded and edited the weekly *Mind and Matter* in Philadelphia, which defended physical mediumship and independent psychical research and criticized fraud. Died in 1888.
Chasing Emma: 1893: St. Ignatius of Loyola Threatens The Life of J. M. Roberts
Chasing Emma: A Form of Temptation and Trial: Spirit Enemies of Spiritualism; c. 1882
Chasing Emma: Emma in 1880: Another View; Entirely
Related Periodicals: Camp-Meeting Guide | Gallery of Spirit Art | Psychische Studien
Roberts, Maria
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) A ‘Mrs. Roberts’ presented as the ‘other American medium’ of 1853, appearing with E. A. Hardinge.
Chasing Emma: Interlude: <I>Punch</I>; April 23; 1853
Chasing Emma: Was Mrs. Roberts Really Mrs. Roberts?
Chasing Emma: Mrs. Roberts; E. A. Hardinge; Julius Hartegilligan and the Grosvenor Street Disturbances
Roberts, Ursula
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ursula Roberts (1905–1996) was an English medium, poet, and Spiritualist teacher, developer of the "colour healing" and psychic-unfoldment methods.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1996) British Spiritualist medium, trance speaker, author, and teacher, known as the medium for the spirit guide Ramadahn. She gave trance addresses and healing demonstrations and authored *The Mystery of the Human Aura* and *Spiritual Healing*, setting out a system of color therapy and aura interpretation. Died in 1996.
Related Periodicals: Exploring the Unknown
Robertson, James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Glasgow Spiritualist and author of the ‘Noble Pioneer’ essay on Emma Hardinge Britten.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Scottish Spiritualist publisher and author in Glasgow, who served as President of the Spiritualists' National Union. He authored *Spiritualism: The Open Door to the Unseen Universe* (1908).
Chasing Emma: December 1891: James Robertson Begins Digging In
Chasing Emma: Updated Edition of Robertson's <I>Noble Pioneer</I>
Robertson, Mabel Nixon
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Other Side God's Door: Messages from Lord Kitchener, Mary Baker Eddy, and Others (1920)
Robertson, Ross F.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 11: The Occult History of the New York Giants
Robida, Albert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.82) French illustrator and satirist (1848–1926), author of Le Vingtième Siècle (1888).
Chasing Emma: 1890: The Revolution of 1953
Robinson, A.M.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought and Divine Science
Related Monographs: Divine Science (1920)
Robinson, Frank B.
Frank Bruce Robinson (1886-1948) was a Canadian-born American founder of Psychiana, one of the first large-scale mail-order religious movements in the United States. Operating from Moscow, Idaho, Robinson built a global movement in the 1930s and 1940s by advertising widely in popular magazines and sending lesson booklets to subscribers who enrolled in his "God Power" course by mail. At its peak Psychiana claimed millions of students across 67 countries. Robinson was also the publisher of Psychiana News and author of numerous books promoting his faith in a direct, personal experience of God.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1948) American author, publisher, and founder of Psychiana, a mail-order New Thought religion. Born in Liversedge, England, he emigrated to the United States and established the movement in Moscow, Idaho, in 1929, distributing lesson courses and books by mail. He authored *The God Nobody Knows* (1932) and *The Pathway to Power*. Died in Idaho in 1948.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_B._Robinson
Related Periodicals: Fred Burry's Journal | Mind Inc. | Psychiana | Sanctuary (Syracuse)
Related Monographs: Crucified Gods Galore, or Christianity Before Christ (1933), Ye Men of Athens (1940), A Prophet Speaks: The Cause and Cure of War (1943), Through War to God (1943), The Wanderer (1947)
Robson, Arthur
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Look at Your Karma (1947)
Robson, Vivian
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Vivian E. Robson (1890–1942) was an English astrologer, author of the standard reference The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology.
Related Periodicals: British Journal of Astrology
Related Monographs: Electional Astrology (1937)
Roca, Abbe Paul
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | L'Anti-Materialiste | L'Etoile | L'Initiation | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Lotus Rouge | Revue des Hautes Etudes | Revue Theosophique
Roca, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Abbé Paul Roca (1830–1893) was a French Catholic priest and esoteric writer who prophesied a coming fusion of Catholicism and occult "science," condemned by the Church. (Also "Roca, Abbe Paul.")
Related Periodicals: L'Etoile | Revue des Hautes Etudes
Rochas, Albert de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Colonel Albert de Rochas (1837–1914) was a French psychical researcher who studied the "exteriorization of sensitivity" and hypnotic regression to "previous lives." (Also appears as "Rochas, Colonel de" / "Henri de.")
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) French military engineer, administrator, and psychical researcher. Born in Saint-Firmin, Rochas graduated from the École Polytechnique and served as a colonel in the French Army before being appointed administrator of the École Polytechnique in Paris. After retiring from the military he turned to psychical research, conducting experiments on hypnotism, animal magnetism, and the 'externalization of sensitivity,' and publishing *Les Frontières de la Science* (1902–1904) and *L'extériorisation de la motricité*.
Related Periodicals: Alliance Spiritualiste | Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Filosofia della Scienza | Le Spirite (Lyon) | Luce e Ombra | Paix Universelle | Revue du Monde Invisible | Eudia
Roche, Deodat
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Déodat Roché (1877–1978) was a French magistrate and scholar who led the twentieth-century revival of interest in Catharism and its supposed link to esoteric Christianity.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1978) French magistrate, historian, and anthroposophist, and a scholar of Catharism. Born in Arques, Aude, Roché worked as a magistrate while researching medieval Christian heresies. He co-founded the Société du Souvenir de l'Occitanie and established the journal *Cahiers d'Études Cathares*, publishing books on Cathar doctrine, ritual, and spiritual history. He continued his research, writing, and editorial work in Arques until his death in 1978.
Related Periodicals: Le Reveil des Albigeois
Rocine, V. G.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Brief Biographical Sketch of V. G. Rocine (1931)
Rocine, Victor Gabriel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Victor Gabriel Rocine was a Norwegian-American writer and lecturer on "chemical" dietetics and character analysis in the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: Human Culture | Mystic World
Related Monographs: Foods and Chemicals: The Science of Correct Foods for Each of the 19 Constitutions of Mankind (1921), Secrets of Eternal Youth (1928)
Rockefeller, John D.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), the American oil magnate and philanthropist; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal | National Astrological Journal
Rockwell, Maude
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Riches Manifest (1933)
Roerich, Helena
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Helena Roerich (1879–1955) was a Russian philosopher and writer who, in collaboration with the Masters, produced the Agni Yoga ("Living Ethics") books and translated Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine into Russian.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1954) Russian writer and translator, co-creator with Nicholas Roerich of the Agni Yoga (Living Ethics) teaching. Born in Saint Petersburg, she married the painter Nicholas Roerich and took part in expeditions across Central Asia and India. She said she received telepathic communications from spiritual masters, which she compiled into the Agni Yoga books, and she translated Helena Blavatsky's *The Secret Doctrine* into Russian, publishing essays under various pseudonyms. She co-directed the Roerichs' cultural institutions from India until her death in Kalimpong in 1954.
Related Periodicals: Okkultizm i Ioga
Roerich, Nicholas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) was a Russian painter, explorer, and mystic who, with his wife Helena, founded the Agni Yoga ("Living Ethics") teaching and the Roerich Pact for the protection of culture.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1947) Russian painter, writer, and archaeologist, co-founder with Helena Roerich of the Agni Yoga teaching. Born in Saint Petersburg, he studied art and law and produced numerous paintings of Himalayan landscapes and spiritual traditions. He led expeditions across Central Asia and initiated the Roerich Pact, a 1935 treaty signed by numerous nations to protect artistic, scientific, and historic institutions in wartime. He directed international cultural centres and museums until his death in Kullu, India, in 1947.
Related Periodicals: Russkii Frank-Mason
Rogers, E. C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) American author of Philosophy of Mysterious Agents; a probable ‘E.R.’ in the blog’s reading.
Chasing Emma: The Occult Sciences; circa 1855
Chasing Emma: A Break In The Action: Why Google Books Really Sucks
Rogers, Edmund Dawson
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Edmund Dawson Rogers (1823–1910) was an English journalist and Spiritualist, a founder of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1910) British journalist, editor, and spiritualist, a co-founder of the
Chasing Emma: Letters By Occult Agency: William Eglinton; Susan W. Fletcher and E. Dawson Rogers
Related Periodicals: Light
Rogers, Frances
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Atlantis, Luxor and Elephanta
Rogers, L.W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) L. W. Rogers (1859–1953) was an American Theosophist, lecturer, and president of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1953) American theosophist, lecturer, and editor, who served for over a decade as National President of the Theosophical Society in America. Rogers worked in journalism before devoting himself to theosophical work as a platform speaker on universal brotherhood and Eastern cosmology. He edited the society's periodical *The Messenger* and wrote *Elementary Theosophy* and *Gods in the Making*. He directed the society's national headquarters at Wheaton, Illinois, until his death in 1953.
Related Periodicals: Ancient Wisdom | The Column | Modern Miracles | Theosophic Messenger
Related Monographs: Dreams and Premonitions (1923), Gods in the Making (1924)
Rogers, Loyal Dexter
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Auto-Hemic Therapy: Its Science and Philosophy (1922)
Rohmer, Sax
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) "Sax Rohmer" (Arthur Henry Ward, 1883–1959) was an English author of the Fu Manchu thrillers and of occult fiction, with a genuine interest in Egyptology and magic.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Review
Rolland, Romain
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Romain Rolland (1866–1944), the French novelist and Nobel laureate, author of biographies of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda and correspondent of Freud on the "oceanic feeling."
Related Periodicals: Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship)
Related Monographs: The Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel (1931)
Rolleston, Frances
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) English scholar (1781–1864), author of Mazzaroth; the blog recovers her life and poems.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1864) British writer and classical scholar who studied the ancient origins of the constellations and their mystical significance. She published *Mazzaroth: or, the Constellations* (1862–1865), a multi-volume treatise arguing that the names and symbols of the ancient zodiac preserved a primitive prophetic revelation common to all early civilizations, drawing on classical literature, Hebrew philology, and astronomy. She died in Keswick, England, in 1864.
Chasing Emma: Some Notes On Frances Rolleston (1781-1864)
Chasing Emma: More on Frances Rolleston (1781-1864)
Chasing Emma: Hiding Out With Frances/Employed In The Service Of Idols
Rolleston, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Named in the blog’s notes on Frances Rolleston.
Chasing Emma: Some Notes On Frances Rolleston (1781-1864)
Rolt-Wheeler, Francis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1876–1960) was an American-born author and astrologer who founded an astrological institute in Nice.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1960) British-American author, Episcopal clergyman, and esoteric teacher. Born in London, Rolt-Wheeler emigrated to the United States and was ordained an Episcopal minister, writing serialized educational adventure books for young readers, notably *The Science-History of the Universe* (1909). He later researched astrology, Rosicrucianism, and Hermetic philosophy, relocating to Nice, France, where he founded the Hermetic-astrological centre L'Astrosophie and published esoteric essays and books. He died in France in 1960.
Chasing Emma: The (Occult) Science of Spam: October 1930
Chasing Emma: Francis Rolt-Wheeler: 1876-1960
Related Periodicals: L'Astrosophie | The Seer
Romanes, George James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) British evolutionary biologist (1848–1894) in the Darwin–Huxley circle, treated in ‘Romanes-Blake-Darwin.’
(Source: Gemini) British-Canadian evolutionary biologist (1848–1894), a protégé of Charles Darwin and a pioneer of comparative psychology.
Chasing Emma: Romanes-Blake-Darwin
Romero, Israel Rojas
(Source: Gemini) (?–1985) Colombian Rosicrucian writer, teacher, and translator active in the expansion of Rosicrucianism in South America. He served for decades as National President and Grand Master of the
Related Periodicals: Ariel (Colombia) | Rosa-Cruz | Union Espiritualista Americana
Roosevelt, Eleanor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), the American diplomat and First Lady; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Modern Mystic
Roosevelt, Theodore
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), 26th President of the United States; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Forecast
Rosenbusch, Hans
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Der physikalische Mediumismus (1925)
Rosse, Herman
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Masks & Demons (1924)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), the English Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter, who held séances after his wife's death; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Day (New York)
Rossi, Marco
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Marco Rossi was an Italian Spiritualist/psychical writer associated with the movement's periodicals.
Related Periodicals: Ultra (Rome)
Rossigneux, Ch
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Hypnotisme et Spiritisme (1920)
Rothe, Frau
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Anna Rothe (1850–1907) was a German "flower medium" whose apports of flowers and fruit were exposed as fraud, leading to her criminal conviction in 1902.
Related Periodicals: Au-Dela [Brussels]
Rouse, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) A critic named in the blog’s dispute over Art Magic; the modern scholar Leslie Price appears alongside.
Chasing Emma: Emma; Defending Art Magic: August 18; 1876
Rousseau
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), the Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Humildade
Roustaing, B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jean-Baptiste Roustaing (1805–1879) was a French lawyer and Spiritist whose "Roustaingism" — a docetic reinterpretation of the Gospels through mediumship — split the movement in Brazil and France.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1879) French jurist and magistrate whose Spiritist writings shaped the development of modern Spiritism, particularly in Brazil. A magistrate and lawyer in Bordeaux, Roustaing embraced Allan Kardec's Spiritism and claimed to receive mediumistic communications offering a Spiritist interpretation of Christian theology. He authored the four-volume *Les Quatre Évangiles* (The Four Gospels, 1866), which sought to reconcile biblical narratives with the laws of spiritual evolution and founded a distinct branch of Spiritist thought. He died in 1879.
Related Periodicals: La Lumiere Pour Tous | Revista da Sociedade Academica | Revista Espirita [Rio de Janeiro] | Senda
Rouxel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Rouxel was a French writer on animal magnetism and its history active in the later nineteenth century.
Related Periodicals: L'Initiation
Rovira, Math. N.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Revista Universal Magnetismo Experimental y Terapeutico
Roviralta, Jose
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Loto Blanco | Revista Universal Magnetismo Experimental y Terapeutico
Row, B. Suryanaran
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) B. Suryanarain Row (1856–1934) was an Indian astrologer, founder-editor of The Astrological Magazine and a reviver of Hindu astrology.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1937) Indian astrologer, mathematician, writer, and editor of Vedic astrology. He founded *The Astrological Magazine* in 1895, the first monthly astrological journal in English, and wrote *The Astrological Self-Instructor* and *Compendium of Astrology*. He mentored his grandson, B.V. Raman, and continued his publications, lecturing, and translation work until his death in Bangalore in 1937.
Related Periodicals: Astrological Magazine (India)
Row, Subba
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) T. Subba Row (1856–1890) was a South Indian lawyer and Theosophist, an erudite exponent of Advaita and esoteric doctrine admired by Blavatsky.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1890) Indian attorney, scholar, and theosophist active in the early development and philosophical defence of the
Related Periodicals: LotusBluten
Rowbotham, Samuel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Samuel Rowbotham (1816–1884), "Parallax," was the English founder of modern flat-earth doctrine ("zetetic astronomy").
(Source: Gemini) (?–1884) English inventor, writer, and lecturer, founder of the Zetetic flat-earth movement. Born in London, Rowbotham managed a cooperative agricultural commune before promoting an alternative cosmology. Writing under the pseudonym 'Parallax,' he conducted experiments on the Old Bedford Level canal to argue that the Earth is a flat plane, and authored *Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe* (1849), a system of natural philosophy based on literal biblical interpretation and empirical observation. He lectured across Great Britain until his death in London in 1884.
Related Periodicals: The Zetetic
Roxroy, Randolph
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) "Professor Roxroy" was the name used by a large early-twentieth-century mail-order astrology business that sold personalized horoscopes internationally.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Twentieth Century Astrology
Roy, Ram Mohan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833), the Bengali reformer and founder of the Brahmo Samaj, a pioneer of modern Hinduism and of Indo-Western religious dialogue.
(Source: Gemini) Bengali social and religious reformer (1772–1833), founder of the Brahmo Samaj and a leading figure of the nineteenth-century "Bengal Renaissance."
Related Periodicals: Logos (Chicago)
Royo, Antonia Martinez
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Constancia | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires) | Luz Astral (Chile) | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | Teosofia en el Plata
Rudhyar, Dane
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985) was a French-American composer, painter, and Theosophist who pioneered modern psychological ("humanistic") astrology. Born Daniel Chennevière (see that entry).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1985) French-American composer, astrologer, writer, and artist, born Daniel Chennevière in Paris; the founder of humanistic astrology. He graduated from the Sorbonne and emigrated to the United States in 1916, working as an avant-garde composer and novelist. He synthesized astrology with the analytical psychology of Carl Jung and Eastern metaphysics, and authored *The Astrology of Personality* (1936) and *The Planetarization of Consciousness*. Died in San Francisco in 1985.
Related Periodicals: American Astrology | Loto Blanco | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Rudolph, Hermann
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Nationalsozialismus und Theosophie (1933)
Ruge, Ludwig
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Zum Gedachtnis an H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) (1931)
Ruggles, Augustus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) American medium (1840–1903), Augustus D. Ruggles, associated with Robert Hare and the spirit-control ‘John King.’
Chasing Emma: Extracting Oxygen from Lead: Mrs. Ruggles and Her Husband
Rumble, Leslie
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Rosicrucians (1949)
Ruskin, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John Ruskin (1819–1900), the English art critic and social reformer; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Psychological Review of Reviews
Russak, Marie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Marie Russak (later Hotchener, 1865–1945) was an American Theosophist and singer, an associate of Annie Besant; see the "Hotchner, Marie Russak" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1945) American singer, Theosophist, and editor, born in California (later Marie Russak Hotchener). Trained as an opera singer in Europe, she joined the
Related Periodicals: The Channel | The Star | Theosophic Messenger
Russell, Bertrand
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Analysis of Mind (1921)
Russell, C.F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Cecil Frederick Russell (1897–1987) was an American occultist, a one-time associate of Aleister Crowley who founded the magical order "G∴B∴G∴" (
(Source: Gemini) (?–1987) American occultist, writer, and teacher, born Cecil Frederick Russell in the United States. He served as a radio operator in the U.S. Navy before studying magical and Qabalistic systems in Sicily. He formulated a mathematical system of Qabalistic analysis and in 1932 founded the Choronzon Club (later the Great Brotherhood of God, or G.B.G.) in Chicago. Authored *Book of Shin* and *Znuz is Znees*. Died in 1987.
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Russell, Florence
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Mystic Key | Radiant Life | Super-Psychology
Russell, G.W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) George William Russell (1867–1935), the Irish poet, painter, and Theosophist who wrote as "AE"; see the "AE" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1935) Irish poet, painter, and writer, born in Lurgan and known by his pseudonym AE (Æ). He studied in Dublin, where he met W.B. Yeats. A Theosophist, he co-founded the
Related Periodicals: The Irish Theosophist
Russell, George William (AE)
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.85) "AE" (or Æ) was the pen name of George William Russell (1867–1935), Irish poet, painter, editor, and mystic. A leading figure of the Irish Literary Revival and an active Theosophist, he edited The Irish Homestead and The Irish Statesman and was a close associate of W. B. Yeats.
(Source: Gemini) George William Russell (1867–1935), who wrote as 'Æ'; Irish writer, editor, painter, and mystic, and a figure of the Irish Literary Revival. Born in Lurgan; studied art in Dublin, where he met W. B. Yeats. An active Theosophist, he co-founded the
Related Periodicals: Theosophia
Russo, Edoardo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Edoardo Russo was an Italian psychical researcher and contributor to the review Luce e Ombra.
Related Periodicals: Clypeus
Rutter, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Deviser of the ‘Magnetoscope’; discussed with Reichenbach and Alfred Smee.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History; Part 2x10E4: The Rutter Magnetoscope
Ryan, C.J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Charles J. Ryan (1865–1949) was an English-American Theosophist, artist, and historian of the Theosophical movement at Point Loma.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1949) British-born American Theosophist, artist, writer, and educator, born in Halifax, England. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London before emigrating to the United States and joining the Point Loma Theosophical Community under Katherine Tingley. He taught art, history, and astronomy at the Raja-Yoga Academy and Theosophical University, and authored *What is Theosophy?* and *Theosophy in Brief*. Died in California in 1949.
Related Periodicals: Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
Sabin, Oliver C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Oliver C. Sabin was an American who founded a Washington, D.C. "Evangelical Christian Science" church and healing movement around 1900, publisher of The Washington News Letter.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1914) American New Thought leader, publisher, and author, born in Ohio. Trained as a lawyer and editor, he came to mental science and Christian Science, and in 1899 co-founded the Evangelical Christian Science Church in Washington, D.C., advocating non-sectarian spiritual healing. He edited the monthly *The Washington News Letter* and authored *Christology: Science of Health and Happiness*. Died in 1914.
Related Periodicals: Das Wort (St. Louis) | Eltka | Washington News Letter
Sadler, William S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) American physician (1875–1969), the ‘Sleeping Subject’ case and founder of the Urantia movement; treated in the blog on Spiritualism and eugenics (Martin Gardner as a modern commentator).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1969) American surgeon, psychiatrist, and author, born in Spencer, Indiana. He studied medicine at the University of Chicago and Cooper Medical College and taught psychiatry at the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago. He investigated spiritualist mediums, trance communications, and alternative religious movements through abnormal psychology, and authored *The Mind at Mischief* (1929). He played a central role in the study circles that compiled *The Urantia Book*. Died in 1969.
Chasing Emma: Sidebar: Being Martin Gardner; Being Ernest Moyer
Chasing Emma: Sidebar: Testable Facts
Chasing Emma: Sidebar: William S. Sadler on Sterilization of the Feeble-Minded
Chasing Emma: Note: Eugenics
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Sadony, Joseph Alexander
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Joseph A. Sadony (1877–1960) was an American mystic and self-styled seer who founded the Educational Research Laboratories at Valley of the Pines, Michigan.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1960) American writer, philosopher, and inventor, born in Montabaur, Germany, and emigrated to the United States as a child. He built his estate Valley Pines in Montague, Michigan, as a sanctuary for philosophical and scientific research into human intuition and psychology. He wrote the syndicated newspaper column "Duffel Bag," collected into *Gates of the Mind* (1948). Died in 1960.
Related Periodicals: The Great Work in America | Mind Digest | Orion Magazine | The Whisper
Related Monographs: Human Radio (1924), From the Bow of the Ship (Book One): A Study of a Point of View (1925), Gates of the Mind (A Condensation of Volume I) (1948)
Sage, Xenophone Lamotte
The stage name, and nom du travail, of Ewing Virgil Neal.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1949) American hypnotist, publisher, and cosmetics manufacturer, born Ewing Virgil Neal in Missouri and performing under the pseudonym Xenophon LaMotte Sage. He co-founded the
Sahler, C.O.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) C. O. Sahler was an American physician who ran a "psycho-sanatorium" at Kingston, New York, treating patients by mental and suggestive methods.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1917) American physician and psychiatrist, born in Ulster County, New York. He took his medical degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City in 1884 and practiced in Kingston, New York, where in 1899 he founded the Sahler Sanitarium, an early center for treating nervous and mental disorders through suggestive therapeutics. Authored *Psychic Life and Laws* (1901) and *Suggestive Therapeutics*. Died in Kingston in 1917.
Related Periodicals: Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews
Saint-Marcq, Georges Le Clement de
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Bulletin Spirite de Liege | Le Messager | Lumen | Paix Universelle | Your Personality
Related Monographs: Les Raisons de l'Eucharistie (1930)
Saint-Martin, L.-C. de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin (1743–1803), "the Unknown Philosopher," was a French mystic and disciple of Martinez de Pasqually whose writings gave rise to Martinism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1803) French philosopher, mystic, and writer, born in Amboise; the founder of Martinism. He studied law and served as an army officer, becoming a disciple of Martinez de Pasqually. Writing under the pseudonym "Le Philosophe Inconnu" (The Unknown Philosopher), he authored *Of Errors and Truth* (1775), *The Temple of Man*, and *The Ministry of the Spirit*, synthesizing Western esotericism, Christian mysticism, and the cosmology of Jakob Böhme. Died in Châtenay-Malabry in 1803.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Almanach du Magiste | La Verite (Lyon)
Related Monographs: Theosophic Correspondence between Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and Kirchberger, Baron de Liebistorf (1949)
Salles, Manlius
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Revue Contemporain des Sciences Occultes et Naturelles
Salm-Salm, Felix
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Prince Felix Salm-Salm, soldier-adventurer, raised as a possible Ghost Land connection.
(Source: Gemini) Prussian prince and soldier of fortune (1828–1870) who served as an officer in the American Civil War and in the army of the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico.
Chasing Emma: Felix Constantin Alexander Johann Nepomuk; Prince Salm-Salm
Samadhi, Delta
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Spiritualist Monthly
Related Monographs: The Master Key to Psychic Unfoldment (1931)
Sampson, Holden Edward
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Holden Edward Sampson was an English esoteric-Christian writer of the early twentieth century who taught a system of "Thesauros" or divine gnosis.
Related Periodicals: Azoth | The Morning Star | The Occult Digest
Sand, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) George Sand (Aurore Dupin, 1804–1876), the French Romantic novelist; cited here in a periodical context.
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Sandby, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) English clergyman cited for his letter to John Elliotson on table-turning.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1880) English Anglican clergyman, author, and magistrate, born in England, who studied and advocated animal magnetism and mesmerism. He took his M.A. at Merton College, Oxford, in 1826 and served for decades as vicar of Flixton in Suffolk. He authored *Mesmerism and its Opponents* (1843), a rationalist defense of mesmeric healing as compatible with Christian ethics. Died in London in 1880.
Chasing Emma: The Dancing of the Tables: Sandby to Elliotson; May 28; 1853
Sandeman, Mina
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Spiritualist novelist (1856–1931), also Maria Carlotta Perpetua, of the Sandeman family.
Chasing Emma: Dealing in Spirits: A Note on Mina Sandeman (1856-1931)
Sanderson, Ivan T.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ivan T. Sanderson (1911–1973) was a Scottish-American naturalist and writer, a founder of cryptozoology and popularizer of anomalous phenomena.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1973) British-American naturalist, biologist, and science writer, born in Cardiff, Wales; a founder of modern cryptozoology. He studied zoology, geology, and botany at Eton and Cambridge and led collecting expeditions across Asia, Africa, and South America. A prolific author and broadcaster, he co-founded the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained (SITU) in 1965 to study reports of cryptids and other anomalies. Died in New Jersey in 1973.
Related Periodicals: Anomaly | Beyond Reality | Clypeus | Pursuit (SITU)
Sandino, Cesar
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) César Augusto Sandino (1895–1934), the Nicaraguan revolutionary, who was also drawn to Spiritism and the "Magnetic-Spiritual School" of Joaquín Trincado.
Related Periodicals: La Balanza
Sanger, Roderick Round
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Officiant named in the account of the first Spiritualist ceremony of July 1886.
Chasing Emma: July 1886: The First Spiritualist Marriage In England?
Sanjivi, R.T.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) T. R. Sanjivi was the Indian founder of the "Latent Light Culture" at Tinnevelly and editor of the eclectic occult magazine The Kalpaka.
Related Periodicals: The Kalpaka
Santesson, Hans Stefan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Hans Stefan Santesson (1914–1975) was an American editor of science fiction and of Fate-style paranormal magazines, and a writer on the occult.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1975) American editor, writer, and reviewer of Swedish heritage, based in New York. He edited the periodical *Fantastic Universe* (1956–1960) and numerous science-fiction and fantasy anthologies. He was also a researcher of Fortean and anomalous phenomena, writing and lecturing on subjects such as the lost continent of Mu. Died in 1975.
Related Periodicals: Pursuit (SITU)
Santucci, James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) James A. Santucci is an American scholar of religion, editor of the journal Theosophical History and a leading academic authority on the Theosophical movement.
Related Periodicals: L'Etoile D'Orient
Saraswati, Sivananda
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Swami Sivananda Saraswati (1887–1963) was an Indian physician turned monk who founded the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1963) Indian spiritual teacher, physician, and author, born Kuppuswami Iyer in Pattamadai, Tamil Nadu; founder of the Divine Life Society in 1936. He studied medicine at Tanjore Medical College and practiced in British Malaya before renouncing medicine in 1923 to settle in Rishikesh, where he taught yoga, Vedanta, and traditional Indian medicine and wrote over two hundred books and scriptural translations. Died in 1963.
Related Periodicals: Divine Life (Rikhikesh)
Saradananda, Swami
(Source: Gemini) (?–1927) Indian monk, author, and administrator, born Sarat Chandra Chakravarty in Calcutta; a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. He lectured on Vedanta across Europe and the United States, and in 1898 became the first Secretary of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, directing it for nearly three decades. He authored the biography *Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga* (*Sri Ramakrishna, the Great Master*). Died in Calcutta in 1927.
Related Periodicals: Mind | Immortality
Sardou, Victorien
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Victorien Sardou (1831–1908) was a French dramatist and, in his youth, a celebrated Spiritist automatic "drawer" of the "houses" of the planet Jupiter.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1908) French dramatist and writer, born in Paris. He wrote *La Tosca* (1887) and *Fédora* for Sarah Bernhardt. He was an active advocate of Spiritualism and the philosophy of Allan Kardec, conducting private automatic-drawing and automatic-writing séances and defending his spiritual experiences in his lectures and writings. Died in Paris in 1908.
Related Periodicals: No Cemiterio | Petit Echo de l'Inconnue | Seculo XX
Sargent, Epes
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Epes Sargent (1813–1880) was an American editor and author whose Planchette and The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism were influential defenses of the movement.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1880) Nineteenth-century American author, poet, editor, and playwright. Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard College, he worked as a newspaper editor and dramatist in Boston and New York while investigating mediumship and spirit survival, seeking a scientific and philosophical basis for the phenomena. He wrote *Planchette; or, the Despair of Science* (1869) and *The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism*. Died in Boston in 1880.
Chasing Emma: October 1877: The Terms Commonly Accepted By Spiritualists
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Satie, Erik
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Erik Satie (1866–1925), the French composer, who for a time was the official composer of Péladan's Rose+Croix and founded his own one-man "Metropolitan Church of Art."
Related Periodicals: Catalogue du Salon de la Rose+Croix
Saussaye, Chantepie de la
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye (1848–1920) was a Dutch theologian and pioneer of the comparative "science of religion."
Related Periodicals: Progress (Chicago)
Savage, M.J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Minot Judson Savage (1841–1918) was an American Unitarian minister who wrote extensively and sympathetically on psychical research and immortality.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1918) Nineteenth-century American Unitarian minister and psychical researcher who worked to reconcile Christian theology with evolution. Born in Norridgewock, Maine, and educated at the Bangor Theological Seminary, he served as pastor of churches in Boston and New York City and investigated mediumship and spirit survival, seeking an empirical basis for psychical research. He wrote *Psychics: Facts and Theories* (1893) and *Life Beyond Death*. Died in Boston in 1918.
Related Periodicals: The Light of Truth
Saverte, Eusebe
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Eusèbe Salverte (1771–1839) was a French writer whose The Occult Sciences sought to explain ancient marvels and magic by natural (rationalist) causes.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1839) Nineteenth-century French politician and scholar, born in Paris, who served as a magistrate and member of the Chamber of Deputies. He studied natural and psychological explanations for ancient miracles and supernatural claims, and wrote *Des Sciences occultes, ou Essai sur la magie, les prodiges et les miracles* (1829), which sought to explain ancient magical feats through natural philosophy and physics. Died in 1839.
Related Periodicals: Ray Palmer's Forum
Saxon, Elizabeth L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Southern Spiritualist and suffragist, cited for her 1873 antebellum recollections.
Chasing Emma: 1873: Elizabeth L. Saxon on Ante-Natal Impressions
Saxon, Isabelle
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) An eyewitness quoted in the blog’s 1864 audience-response note.
Chasing Emma: Audience Response; 1864
Scatcherd, Felicia Rudolphina
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Felicia R. Scatcherd (1862–1927) was an English journalist, psychical researcher, and Spiritualist, active in spirit-photography and survival debates.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1927) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British journalist, editor, and spiritualist active in peace, women's suffrage, and psychical research. Born in London, she edited the monthly *The Asiatic Quarterly Review* and investigated spiritualist mediums and trance communications, working with William Crookes and Arthur Conan Doyle. She also organized international congresses promoting comparative religion and peace. Died in London in 1927.
Related Periodicals: International Psychic Gazette
Schaya, Leo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Leo Schaya (1916–1985) was a Swiss writer of the Traditionalist school, an interpreter of the Kabbalah and of universal metaphysics.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1985) Twentieth-century Swiss writer, philosopher, and Kabbalist of Jewish heritage associated with the Perennialist school. Working in Geneva, he studied the metaphysical and cosmological foundations of the Kabbalah alongside the Traditionalist philosophers René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon, and wrote *The Universal Meaning of the Kabbalah* (1958), which set Jewish mysticism alongside comparative religious metaphysics. Died in 1985.
Related Periodicals: Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles
Schlatter, Francis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Francis Schlatter (1856–1896) was an Alsatian-American shoemaker who became a celebrated faith healer, "the Healer," drawing thousands to Denver in 1895 before vanishing.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century Alsatian-American shoemaker and independent spiritual healer. Born in Alsace, he emigrated to the United States and worked as a shoemaker before a spiritual calling in 1893 led him to travel on foot across the American West, providing free, non-sectarian healing; large crowds sought him in Denver, Colorado. He wrote the autobiographical *The Harper of the Great King* (1896). Died in the late nineteenth century.
Related Periodicals: Universal Truth
Schlesinger, Julia
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American spiritualist editor and publisher active in San Francisco and Oakland. She co-founded and edited the monthly *The Carrier Dove* (1884–1892) and compiled *Workers in the Vineyard* (1896), a historical record of early Spiritualist pioneers, mediums, and lecturers on the Pacific Coast. She also organized local Spiritualist societies and educational classes.
Chasing Emma: Julia Schlesinger on EHB; circa 1864
Chasing Emma: The Only Way To Know Was To Join The Ring: Notes on Julia A. Stevens Fish Schlesinger Garrison
Chasing Emma: The Societas Fraterna: Notes on Dr. Louis Schlesinger
Chasing Emma: The Truth Shall Make You Free: The Liberator; September 1898
Chasing Emma: The Portly Anatomy of the Fraud Siren: William Emmette Coleman on Mediumistic Fraud in San Francisco
Related Periodicals: The Carrier Dove | Liberator (SFO) | The Light of Truth | The Philomathean [Chaney]
Schlesinger, Louis
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Societas Fraterna: Notes on Dr. Louis Schlesinger
Related Periodicals: The Carrier Dove
Schmidt, K.O.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) K. O. Schmidt (1904–1977) was a German New Thought and "cosmic wisdom" author, a prolific writer on positive thinking and mysticism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1977) Twentieth-century German writer, editor, and publisher in the New Thought movement. He translated and propagated New Thought principles in Germany, edited the metaphysical periodical *Die Weisse Fahne*, and wrote many guides offering a system of mental training and positive thinking. Died in 1977.
Related Periodicals: Weisse Fahne
Schneider, Rudi
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Rudi Schneider (1908–1957) was an Austrian physical medium whose séances were tested by Schrenck-Notzing and Harry Price amid famous controversies over fraud.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1957) Twentieth-century Austrian physical medium, born in Braunau am Inn, known for telekinesis and ectoplasmic phenomena produced in seances. He submitted to controlled laboratory investigations — using infrared photography — by Harry Price, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, and Eugène Osty. Died in 1957.
Related Periodicals: Bulletin and Proceedings of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research
Schopenhauer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), the German pessimist philosopher of "the World as Will," whose engagement with Indian thought and "animal magnetism" interested esoteric writers.
Related Periodicals: El Sendero (Teziotlan)
Schroeder, A.T.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1953) Twentieth-century American lawyer and free-speech advocate. Born in Horicon, Wisconsin, and trained at the University of Wisconsin, he practiced law in Utah and New York City and in 1902 co-founded the Free Speech League, a forerunner of the ACLU, defending radical, free-love, and freethought publishers. He wrote *Free Speech for Radicals* (1916) and *Constitutional Free Speech*. Died in 1953.
Related Periodicals: Lucifer's Lantern
Schroeder, Theodore
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Theodore Schroeder (1864–1953) was an American free-speech lawyer and writer on the "psychology" of religion, sex, and mysticism.
Related Periodicals: American Journal of Eugenics | Azoth | Soundview
Related Monographs: Are All Radicals Insane? (1921), Witchcraft and the Erotic Life (1930)
Schroeder, Werner
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Bridge to Freedom | Spiritual Caravan | Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Schuchard, Marsha Keith
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Marsha Keith Schuchard is an American scholar of the esoteric currents (Swedenborg, Kabbalah, Freemasonry) behind Blake and eighteenth-century culture.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American literary scholar and historian of Western esotericism. Educated at the University of Texas at Austin, she has researched the esoteric, kabbalistic, and Masonic backgrounds of William Blake, Emanuel Swedenborg, and William Butler Yeats, and wrote *Why Mrs Blake Cried* (2006) and *Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven*.
Related Periodicals: New Philosophy (Swedenborg Scientific Association)
Schuessler, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) John F. Schuessler is an American aerospace engineer and UFO investigator, a longtime leader of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American aerospace engineer and ufologist who worked on NASA's Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs. He co-founded the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in 1969 and later served as its International Director, investigating unidentified flying objects. He wrote *The Cash-Landrum UFO Incident* (1998), documenting a close-encounter case.
Related Periodicals: MUFON UFO Journal
Schuon, Frithjof
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) was a Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter, the foremost representative (with Guénon and Coomaraswamy) of the Traditionalist / Perennialist school. A Sufi shaykh, he taught the transcendent unity of religions.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1998) Twentieth-century Swiss-born Traditionalist philosopher, writer, and painter, and a leading exponent of the Perennial Philosophy. Born in Basel, he studied the metaphysical unity of religious traditions and sacred art alongside the Traditionalists René Guénon and Ananda Coomaraswamy, and wrote *The Transcendent Unity of Religions* (1953) and *Understanding Islam*, a philosophical defense of the esoteric core of world religions. Died in the United States in 1998.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frithjof_Schuon
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett) | Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles
Schure, Edouard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Édouard Schuré (1841–1929) was a French writer whose The Great Initiates (1889) — sketching Rama, Krishna, Hermes, Moses, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, and Jesus as a chain of adepts — was enormously influential in Theosophical and occult circles.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1929) Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French writer, music critic, and esotericist. Born in Strasbourg and educated at the University of Strasbourg, he worked in Paris on comparative mythology and the history of religions and became an associate of the composer Richard Wagner and of Rudolf Steiner. He wrote *The Great Initiates* (1889), a synthesis of ancient esoteric teachings and comparative mythology. Died in 1929.
Related Periodicals: Cruz del Sur | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | Psyche [Beaudelot]
Related Monographs: Mrs Besant and the Present Crisis in the Theosophical Society (1934)
Schutel, Cairbar
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Cairbar Schutel (1868–1938) was a Brazilian pharmacist and Spiritist, "the apostle of Brazil," founder of the influential paper O Clarim.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1938) Brazilian Spiritist writer, editor, publisher, and pharmacist, known as the 'Apostle of Spiritism in Brazil.' Born in Rio de Janeiro, he ran a pharmacy in Matão, São Paulo, where he also served as the town's first mayor. A propagator of Allan Kardec's Spiritism, he founded the weekly newspaper *O Clarim* (1905) and the journal *Revista Internacional do Espiritismo*, and wrote booklets defending spirit communication. Died in Matão in 1938.
Related Periodicals: Revista Internacional do Espiritismo
Schwartz-Bostunitsch, Gregor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch (1883–after 1945) was a Russian-German occultist and anti-Masonic, antisemitic propagandist who became an SS officer.
Related Periodicals: Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
Related Monographs: Eine sonderbare Trauung (1933)
Schweizer, Albert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), the Alsatian theologian, musician, physician, and Nobel Peace laureate; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Scott, Cyril
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Cyril Scott (1879–1970) was an English composer and poet, a Theosophist and occult author (The Initiate series) who wrote on the esoteric influence of music.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1970) English composer, writer, and poet with a parallel interest in Western esotericism. Born in Oxton, Cheshire, and trained at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, he pursued theosophy, Indian philosophy, and alternative health therapies alongside his musical career. He wrote *The Initiate* trilogy (published anonymously in 1920) and *Music: Its Secret Influence Throughout the Ages*. Died in Eastbourne, England, in 1970.
Related Periodicals: The Metaphysician (Palatine) | Modern Mystic | Mothers' Occult Digest
Related Monographs: Watchers of the Seven Spheres (1933)
Scott, James L.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [4]: The Lasting Fame of the Rev. J. L. Scott
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [5]: The Clapp Letters
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [6]: Disclosures From The Interior
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [8]: Warring with God
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [9]: Pulling Up Stakes
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [10]: Under Interior Direction
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [12]: Designed By Heaven
Related Periodicals: The Millenial Messenger
Scott, Mrs. C.A. Dawson
(Source: Gemini) (?–1934) British writer, poet, and playwright, principal founder of PEN International (1921), who wrote under the pseudonym 'Sappho.' She was also active in spiritualism and psychical research, co-founding the
Related Periodicals: Survival (Uk)
Related Monographs: From Four Who Are Dead: Messages from H. D. Lowry, W. T. Stead, H. F. N. Scott, George Dawson (1926)
Scott, R.T.M.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: True Mystic Science
Related Monographs: The Black Magician (Another Adventure of 'Secret Service Smith') (1925)
Scott, Reginald
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Reginald Scot (c. 1538–1599) was the English author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), a skeptical exposé that nonetheless preserved much magical lore.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1599) Sixteenth-century English country gentleman, Member of Parliament, and magistrate, educated at Hart Hall, Oxford. He authored *The Discoverie of Witchcraft* (1584), a systematic skeptical treatise arguing that belief in witchcraft was unchristian and unsupported by physical law, attributing alleged magical feats to delusion, organic illness, or sleight of hand. Died in Kent in 1599.
Related Periodicals: True Mystic Science
Scott, Sir Walter
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), the Scottish novelist and poet, author of Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Sacred Circle
Scully, Frank
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Frank Scully (1892–1964) was an American journalist whose Behind the Flying Saucers (1950) launched the crashed-saucer and "little men" legend.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1964) Twentieth-century American journalist and columnist, a longtime contributor to *Variety*, educated at Columbia University. He published *Behind the Flying Saucers* (1950), the first major book to claim that the United States government had recovered crashed extraterrestrial craft and bodies, shaping early public perceptions of UFOs and government secrecy. Died in Palm Springs, California, in 1964.
Related Periodicals: Saucer Sentinel
Seabrook, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) William Seabrook (1884–1945) was an American journalist and occult adventurer whose books on Haitian voodoo (The Magic Island) and witchcraft popularized the exotic and the occult.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1945) Twentieth-century American journalist, traveler, and author, educated at Mercer University and a reporter for *The New York Times*. He traveled in Arabia, West Africa, and Haiti; his *The Magic Island* (1929) introduced the Haitian concept of the zombie to English-speaking readers, and he wrote *Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today* (1940) on Western esotericism and occult practice. Died in New York in 1945.
Related Periodicals: Entretiens Idealistes
Related Monographs: Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today (1940)
Sealby, Jackson
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Presented as the man behind the conjuror ‘Charles Colchester’; Judge Edmonds and Mary Todd Lincoln appear in the same account.
Chasing Emma: Strangers N. Y. City Directory: Charles Colchester and Jackson Sealby
Sears, Franklin Warren
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Column
Related Monographs: The Psychology of Use, or The Extravagance of Economy (1921)
Sedir, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) "Sédir" (Yvon Le Loup, 1871–1926), the French Christian mystic and former Martinist; see the "Loup, Yvon Le" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1926) French occultist, Martinist, and Christian mystic of the late nineteenth-century French occult revival, born Yvon Le Loup in Dinan. A clerk in Paris, he collaborated with Papus and Saint-Yves d'Alveydre and belonged to the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross and the
Related Periodicals: Almanach du Magiste | Bibliotheque des Sciences Esoteriques | Curiosite | Eudia | L'Initiation | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Mysteria | Nouveaux Horizons | Psyche (Paris) | Revue du Spiritualisme Moderne | Voile d'Isis
Related Monographs: Histoire et Doctrines des Rose-Croix (1932), Histoire et Doctrines des Rose-Croix (1939)
See, Evelyn Arthur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Evelyn Arthur See was the American founder of the "Absolute Life" church in early-1900s Chicago, a controversial New Thought/"soul-mate" movement.
Related Periodicals: The Higher Law | Higher Thought (See) | The Interpreter (Chicago) | Mind | The New Man | Our Home Rights | Realization | Religion
Segno, A. Victor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) A. Victor Segno founded the "Segno Mentalism" mail-order success movement and the "
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American mentalist, hypnotist, writer, and New Thought publisher based in Los Angeles. He founded the American Institute of Mentalism and the Segno Success Club and authored *The Law of Mentalism* (1902), teaching that health, success, and prosperity could be attained through mental suggestion, and distributed a mail-order course on thought waves internationally.
Chasing Emma: Out of Nowhere: Some Notes on A. Victor Segno (1870 - 1933)
Chasing Emma: A Lesson in Soul-Culture: 1903
Related Periodicals: Attainment | The Balance | The Hypnotic Magazine | Nautilus | Neue Gedanken | The Segnogram
Segno, Annie Dell
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Out of Nowhere: Some Notes on A. Victor Segno (1870 - 1933)
Related Periodicals: Attainment
Seiling, Max
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Max Seiling (1852–1928) was a German engineer and writer on Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1928) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German engineer, theosophist, and writer based in Munich. An associate and biographer of the psychical researcher Carl du Prel, he wrote on mediumship and spiritualism, including *Helena Petrovna Blavatsky und die Theosophie* (1918) and *Meine Erfahrungen auf dem Gebiete des Spiritismus*. Died in 1928.
Related Periodicals: Die Ubersinnliche Welt
Selby, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) English playwright and actor associated with The Marble Heart.
Chasing Emma: The Marble Heart
Sellers, Samuel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Named in the blog’s 1852 account of the marriage of Sarah Abbott.
Chasing Emma: 1852: The Marriage of Sarah Abbott and Samuel Sellers
Semelas, Demetrius Platon
(Source: Gemini) (?–1924) Greek occultist and initiatory leader in early twentieth-century Martinism and Western esotericism, born in Constantinople. He relocated to Paris, joined the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross, and founded the Ordre d'Amon to preserve initiatory traditions, writing on metaphysical cosmology and translating esoteric texts. Died in France in 1924.
Related Periodicals: Eon (Athens) | Force de la Verite | Eon
Semenoff, Marc
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Ideal et Realite | L'Astrosophie | Mouvement Cosmique | The Seer
Related Monographs: La Science Secrete des Inities et la Pratique de la Vie (1928)
Sen, Keshub Chunder
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Keshub Chunder Sen (1838–1884) was a Bengali reformer, a charismatic leader of the Brahmo Samaj who developed a devotional "New Dispensation" and influenced Western views of Hinduism.
Related Periodicals: The Index
Seneca
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BCE–65 CE), the Roman Stoic philosopher and dramatist; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Yogi (Sydney Flower)
Seon, Alexandre
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Alexandre Séon (1855–1917) was a French Symbolist painter associated with Péladan's Salons de la Rose+Croix.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1917) French Symbolist painter, decorator, and illustrator, born in Chazelles-sur-Lyon. Trained at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, he co-founded the Salon de la Rose+Croix in 1892 with Joséphin Péladan. Died in Paris in 1917.
Related Periodicals: Catalogue du Salon de la Rose+Croix
Sephariel
(Source: Gemini) (?–1929) English astrologer, author, and theosophist of the late Victorian astrological revival, born in Birmingham (pseudonym of Walter Gorn Old). A member of Helena Blavatsky's London circle, he co-founded the Philae Lodge and wrote numerous astrological works, most notably *The Manual of Astrology* and *The Kabala of Numbers*, promoting precessional calculation and Kabbalistic astrology. Died in England in 1929.
Related Periodicals: The Sphinx (Boston)
Sercombe, Parker Holmes
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Parker H. Sercombe was an American editor and "life"-reform promoter of Chicago's bohemian and New Thought circles around 1900.
Related Periodicals: Sunna Dagor Message | To-Morrow
Serres, Olivia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Olivia Serres (1772–1834) was an English painter and adventuress who styled herself "Princess Olive of Cumberland"; cited here in an astrological context.
Related Periodicals: The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century | The Straggling Astrologer
Severance, Juliet H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Juliet H. Severance (1833–1919) was an American physician, Spiritualist, and radical reformer active in labor, free-thought, and women's-rights causes.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1919) Nineteenth-century American physician, freethinker, spiritualist, feminist, and labor reformer, born in DeRuyter, New York. She took her medical degree from the Russell Trall Hydropathic Medical College in New York in 1858 and practiced in Wisconsin. A leader in the
Related Periodicals: Foundation Principles | Liberty | New Thought (Moses Hull) | The Olive Branch | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Severn, Elizabeth
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) American healer and psychotherapist, ‘Dr Severn’ (later Ferenczi’s patient ‘RN’); named with Hudson, Sawyer and others.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: What Will Become Of The Doctors?
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: She Does Not Discard Physicians Or Medicine
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: The Devils in Mrs. Romadka
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: The Bohemian Scribblers; the Mental Poise Society and the Doll Hospital
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Thinking Herself Straight to Success
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Never Sick; Poor; nor Unsuccessful -- Mento-Psychology; 1906
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Seton --> Kapp --> Sears -----> Severn
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Two Other Blessed Words
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Both Target and Archer -- Severn's Psychology of Behavior
Related Monographs: The Psychology of Behaviour: A Practical Study of Human Personality and Conduct (1920), The Discovery of the Self: A Psychological Cure (1934)
Severn, J. Millott
(Source: Gemini) (?–1942) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British phrenologist, author, and publisher, born in Codnor, Derbyshire. He ran a phrenological consulting practice in Brighton, served as President of the British
Related Periodicals: The Kalpaka | The Popular Phrenologist | Self-Culture
Severy, Melvin L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Melvin L. Severy (1863–1951) was an American inventor and author of massive occult-philosophical novels such as The Mystery of June 13th and Gillette's Social Redemption.
Related Periodicals: Esoteric
Sexton, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) George Sexton (1825–1898) was an English lecturer who moved from secularism to Spiritualism (and later evangelical Christianity), a noted debater on the movement's behalf.
Chasing Emma: Punch and Judy Boxes: D. D. Home on the Partisans of Darkness; 1875
Related Periodicals: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis) | Christian Spiritualist (UK) | Freelight | Psychische Studien | The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
Seymour, C.R.F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Colonel C. R. F. Seymour (1880–1943) was a British occultist and colleague of Dion Fortune in the Society of the Inner Light, an influential writer on ritual and the "old gods."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1943) Twentieth-century British occultist, writer, and teacher, a leading figure in the Society of the Inner Light. A former military officer, he studied Hermeticism, Kabbalah, and Celtic mysticism and collaborated with Dion Fortune and the medium Christine Hartley, writing essays on ritual magic later collected as *The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage*. Died in 1943.
Related Periodicals: L'Astrosophie
Seymour, Charles J.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Mid-twentieth-century British writer, journalist, and spiritualist researcher. A newspaper editor and contributor, he studied psychical phenomena and mediumistic communication and wrote *This Spiritualism* (1940), *The Middle Way*, and *Curiosities of Psychical Research* in defence of spiritualist philosophy.
Related Periodicals: Aquarian Path
Shaftesbury, Edmund
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Edmund Shaftesbury" was the pen name of Webster Edgerly (1852–1926), an American promoter of "Ralston Health" and elaborate systems of personal magnetism and self-culture.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1926) Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American author and educator, born in Massachusetts (pseudonym of Webster Edgerly). Trained in law at Boston University, he founded the Ralston Health Club and wrote numerous works on personal magnetism, mental training, deep breathing, and dietetic reform. Died in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1926.
Related Periodicals: The New Liberator
Related Monographs: Life Building Method of the Ralston Health Club ('All Nature' Course) (1920), The Cultivation of Personal Magnetism, Book One (Step 1: Sources of Magnetism; Step 2: Enemies of Magnetism) (1924), Magnetism of the Sexes (Sex Magnetism) (1925), Mental Magnetism: A Study of the Seven Realms of Mind (1925), Operations of the Other Mind (1925), Future Seeing and Philosophy of Philosophies (1930), Thought Transference, or the Radio-Activity of the Human Mind (1930), Instantaneous Personal Magnetism (1935)
Shah, Idries
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Idries Shah (1924–1996) was an Afghan-British author who popularized Sufism in the West through many books of teaching-stories and "the Way of the Sufi."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1996) Twentieth-century author and teacher of Sufism, born in Simla, India, of Afghan-Indian heritage (born Syed Idries El-Hashimi). He presented Sufi teaching as a universal practical psychology and wrote *The Sufis* (1964) and *Tales of the Dervishes*, introducing Sufi stories and poetry to Western readers, directing educational and publishing organizations from England. Died in London in 1996.
Related Periodicals: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Shah, Sirdar Ikbal Ali
(Source: Gemini) (?–1969) Twentieth-century Afghan-Indian author, diplomat, and scholar of Sufism, born in India of Afghan descent. Educated in Edinburgh and Oxford, he wrote on Sufi philosophy and Asian history, including *Islamic Sufism* and *The Golden Pilgrimage*, and was the father of Idries Shah. Died in Tangier, Morocco, in 1969.
Related Periodicals: Twentieth Century Astrology
Shakespeare
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) William Shakespeare (1564–1616); cited here in a periodical context (often in relation to the "authorship" and Baconian-cipher controversies).
Related Periodicals: The New World
Shaver, Richard Sharpe
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Richard Sharpe Shaver (1907–1975) was an American writer whose "Shaver Mystery" tales of malevolent underground "deros," published by Ray Palmer in Amazing Stories, sparked a 1940s sensation.
Related Periodicals: Caveat Emptor | Comsep | The Hidden World (Palmer) | Light on the Path and Weekly Truth Sheet (Brotherhood of the White Temple) | Ray Palmer's News Letter | Shaver Mystery Magazine
Shaw, George Bernard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), the Irish playwright and Fabian; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: New Ideas (Comprehensionism)
Sheerin, Robert
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews | Wings of Truth
Sheldon, Arthur Frederick
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Arthur Frederick Sheldon (1868–1935) was an American "science of salesmanship" teacher whose service philosophy ("He profits most who serves best") influenced Rotary.
Chasing Emma: Man-Building: The Occult Roots of Scientific Salesmanship
Related Periodicals: The Business Philosopher
Sheldon, May French
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) American author and explorer, named in an insurance-related aside.
(Source: Gemini) American author, editor, and explorer (May French Sheldon, 1847–1936), among the first women to lead a scientific expedition into East Africa; daughter of Elizabeth J. French.
Chasing Emma: E&O Insurance: Elizabeth J. French; May French Sheldon and Monisa A. French
Longley, Mary Theresa Shelhamer
(Source: Gemini) (?–1918) American Spiritualist medium, author, and lecturer. Born in Massachusetts, she worked as a trance medium delivering platform lectures said to be given under spirit guidance. She edited *The Banner of Light* and published *Our Life After Death* and *The Spirit World*, setting out doctrines of the soul's progression in the afterlife. Her trance communications were denounced by clergymen and skeptics as superstition and fraud. Died in 1918.
Related Periodicals: The Light of Truth | Voice of Angels | The Banner of Light | Immortality (New York)
Shelton, Thomas Jefferson
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Thomas Jefferson Shelton was an American New Thought editor and publisher of the magazine Christian (Denver), a colorful popularizer of mental science.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1926) American New Thought author, editor, publisher, and lecturer. Formerly a minister in the Christian Church, he settled in Denver, Colorado, where he founded local study branches and launched the monthly periodical *Christian*. He wrote booklets on spiritual realization and thought control and ran his own printing presses and healing work. Died in Colorado in 1926.
Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought (Chicago) | The Balance | The Christian (Shelton) | The Radix
Shepard, Jesse Francis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Jesse Francis Shepard (1848–1927), later the writer "Francis Grierson," was an American musical medium famous for improvised piano "spirit" performances.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1927) American pianist, singer, and essayist, born in Birkenhead, England and raised in Illinois, who wrote under the pen name Francis Grierson. He gave improvised musical recitals across Europe and the United States and drew on Western esotericism in his essays, including *The Valley of Shadows* (1909), *Modern Mysticism*, and *The Celtic Temperament*, which combined historical recollection with mystical reflection. Died in Los Angeles in 1927.
Chasing Emma: Collisions: Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie; Jesse Shepard; and Transfacial Mediumship
Related Periodicals: Die Ubersinnliche Welt | Iris de Paz (Huesca)
Shepard, Olivia Freelove
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Medium [Los Angeles] | Spirit Mothers and Astraea
Shevitch, Serge
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Serge Shevitch was a Russian-American journalist and socialist, an early member of the
Related Periodicals: New York Echo
Shew, Joel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Joel Shew (1816–1855) was an American physician and a leading pioneer of the "water cure" (hydropathy) in the United States.
Related Periodicals: The Water-Cure Journal
Shiller, Robert E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Translator of Adelma von Vay; Harold Bloom appears as a modern reference.
Chasing Emma: History as Carnage; and the (Un)Burial of the Dead
Chasing Emma: Adelma's Translator: More on Robert E. Shiller
Related Monographs: Spirit, Power, and Matter (1948)
Shindler, Mary
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Mary Dana Shindler (1810–1883) was an American hymn-writer and author who embraced Spiritualism, recounted in A Southerner Among the Spirits.
(Source: Gemini) American poet and hymn-writer (Mary Dana Shindler, 1810–1883), author of popular hymns and sacred verse who in later life embraced Spiritualism.
Related Periodicals: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis)
Shine, Mabel Gifford
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Ideal Review | Mastery | Neue Gedanken | Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews
Related Monographs: Early Days of New Thought Science (1920)
Shirley, Ralph
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Ralph Shirley (1865–1946) was an English publisher (Rider & Co.) and editor of The Occult Review, a central organ of the early-twentieth-century occult revival.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1946) British publisher, author, and astrologer. Educated at New College, Oxford, he was for decades a director of the publishing house William Rider & Son. In 1905 he founded and edited *The Occult Review*, a monthly journal of psychical research and esoteric studies, and wrote *The New Astrology* and *The Problem of Rebirth*. Died in 1946.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Two Other Blessed Words
Related Periodicals: The Horoscope [London] | Jamieson's Planet Reader | The Occult Review
Shorter, Thomas S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Thomas Shorter (1823–1899) was an English Spiritualist writer and editor, co-editor of the Spiritual Magazine, sometimes writing as "Thomas Brevior."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1899) British editor, author, and social reformer who published under the pen name Thomas Brevior. Born in London, he advocated working-class education and cooperative reform, and co-founded and long edited *The Spiritual Magazine*, a leading journal of British Spiritualism. He wrote *The Two Worlds, the Natural and the Spiritual* (1864). Died in 1899.
Chasing Emma: The Karens Believe The Spirits Of The Dead (Sad Day; Part 1)
Chasing Emma: The Soul's Question
Chasing Emma: Recovering Thomas Shorter's Library
Chasing Emma: Thomas Shorter (1823-1899)
Chasing Emma: 1841: Other Spiritualisms
Chasing Emma: French Letters: Some Notes on the Planchette
Chasing Emma: Frederick Hockley's Obituary in Light: November 28;1885
Chasing Emma: Our Medium: Phreno Lamurch; Shorter's Confessions and the Charing Cross Spirit Circle
Related Periodicals: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis) | The Psychological Review | The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
Shou, Peryt
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) "Peryt Shou" (Albert Christian Georg Schultz, 1873–1953) was a German occultist who wrote on astral magic, "cosmic" spirituality, and the mysteries of the runes.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1953) German writer, editor, publisher, and occultist who wrote under the pseudonym Peryt Shou (born Albert Christian Georg Schultz). He researched ancient mythologies, spiritual alchemy, and mental suggestion, and authored occult works including *The Book of the Living God* and *The Esoteric Path*, setting out a system of spiritual self-realization and cosmic consciousness. He directed esoteric schools and publishing houses. Died in 1953.
Showers, Frederica
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Mother of the medium Mary Rosina Showers (1826–1895); appears in ‘The Daughter of a Lady.’
Chasing Emma: Til To-Morrow to Pay: January 1895
Chasing Emma: The Daughter of a Lady: Some Notes on Mary Rosina Showers (1857-?)
Showers, Mary Rosina
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Materialization medium (b. 1857), also Mary Rosina Paul and ‘Miss Showers,’ the ‘daughter of a lady.’
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) British physical medium, born in India to a British military family and later active in England, known for materialization séances conducted under trance. She was investigated by the physicist William Crookes and produced the materialized spirit personalities 'Florence' and 'Lenore'. She later retired from mediumship.
Chasing Emma: The Daughter of a Lady: Some Notes on Mary Rosina Showers (1857-?)
Chasing Emma: Til To-Morrow to Pay: January 1895
Sibly
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ebenezer Sibly (1751–1799) was an English physician and astrologer whose richly illustrated New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences was widely reprinted.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1799) English physician, astrologer, and writer. Born in Bristol, he studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen and practised in London while writing on astrology and Hermetic science. His works include *A New and Complete Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology* (1790) and *The Key to Physic*. Died in London in 1799.
Related Periodicals: Spirit of Partridge
Siegmeister, Walter
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Walter Siegmeister (1903–1965), who wrote as "Raymond Bernard," was an American author of hollow-earth, Atlantean, and "Agharta" books.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1965) American writer, publisher, and alternative-health advocate who wrote under the pen name Dr. Raymond Bernard (born Walter Siegmeister). Born in New York City, he took a doctorate in education at New York University in 1932 and wrote on esotericism, alternative health, and hollow-earth theory, most notably *The Hollow Earth* (1964) and *Agharta*, combining Eastern mysticism with alternative geography. Died in Brazil in 1965.
Related Periodicals: Christian Spiritualist Quarterly
Sievers, Marie von
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Marie von Sivers (1867–1948), later Marie Steiner, was a Russian-Baltic actress who became the wife and close collaborator of Rudolf Steiner in the Anthroposophical movement.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1948) Baltic-German actress, theosophist, and anthroposophist, wife and close collaborator of Rudolf Steiner (born in Włocławek, Poland). After joining the
Related Periodicals: Gnosis (Vienna)
Simmonite, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Subject of an 1862 Sheffield prosecution; the astrologer W. J. Simmonite is named alongside.
Chasing Emma: The House on Corporation Street: The Simmonites; June 1862
Simmonite, William J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) W. J. Simmonite (1800–1863) was an English clergyman, astrologer, and mathematician, author of astrological and "arcana" works reprinted well into the twentieth century.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) English astrologer, medical botanist, schoolmaster, and writer active in Sheffield during the Victorian revival of astrology. He wrote textbooks and almanacs on astro-meteorology and herbal medicine, including *The Prognostic Astronomer* (1851), *The Celestial Philosopher*, and *The Astro-Meteorologist*. Died in the mid-nineteenth century.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Three: A Note on John Story (1848-1907)
Related Periodicals: Quarterly Celestial Philosopher | The Scientific and Literary Messenger
Simpson, James
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Phrenological Journal
Related Monographs: Sunray Lessons in Divine Science (1935)
Caithness, Marie Countess of
(Source: Gemini) (?–1895) Spiritualist, theosophist, writer, and feminist, born in London of noble Spanish descent and known as the Countess of Caithness and Duchesse de Pomar. She hosted an esoteric salon in Paris, was a close associate of Helena Blavatsky, and co-founded the French Branch of the
Related Periodicals: La Lumiere (Grange) | L'Etoile | Pansophja | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden
Sinclair, Upton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), the American muckraking novelist, whose Mental Radio (1930) documented telepathy experiments with his wife Mary Craig Sinclair.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1968) American novelist and social activist, born in Baltimore and educated at the City College of New York and Columbia University, best known for the exposé novel *The Jungle* (1906). Of domain relevance is *Mental Radio* (1930), documenting his experiments in his wife's apparent telepathy, which carried a preface by Albert Einstein. Died in New Jersey in 1968.
Related Periodicals: The Sun-Worshiper
Sinistrari, P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ludovico Maria Sinistrari (1622–1701) was an Italian Franciscan whose treatise De Daemonialitate on incubi and succubi became a curiosity of demonological literature.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1701) Italian Franciscan theologian and philosopher, born in Ameno and educated at the University of Pavia, who served as a professor and as a counselor to the Congregation of the Inquisition in Rome. He wrote on demonology and moral theology, most notably *De Daemonialitate* (On Demoniality, c. 1680), which examined beliefs about incubi, succubi, and spiritual entities. Died in 1701.
Related Periodicals: Mondo Occulto | Pursuit (SITU)
Sinnett, A.P.
Alfred Percy Sinnett (1840-1921) was a British journalist and Theosophist whose close correspondence with the Mahatmas Koot Hoomi and Morya -- the adepts claimed by Blavatsky as her teachers -- produced the celebrated "Mahatma Letters." As editor of The Pioneer in Allahabad, India, he met Blavatsky and Olcott in 1879 and quickly became a leading Theosophist. His books The Occult World (1881) and Esoteric Buddhism (1883) were among the first popular presentations of Theosophical doctrine and attracted thousands of recruits to the movement. After returning to England he became president of the London Lodge of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1921) British journalist, editor, and theosophist. Born in London, he edited *The Pioneer* in Allahabad, India, and collaborated with Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott. His books *The Occult World* (1881) and *Esoteric Buddhism* helped introduce Theosophical cosmology to Western readers. He served as President of the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._Sinnett
Chasing Emma: My Search for William Eglinton: Joey and the Marriage
Chasing Emma: A Shallow; Log-Headed and Grossly Selfish Age: Hargrave Jennings Reviews A. P. Sinnett; 1881
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Related Monographs: Collected Fruits of Occult Teaching (1920), The Early Days of Theosophy in Europe (1922)
Sinnett, Patience
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Patience Sinnett was an English Theosophist, wife of A. P. Sinnett, and a participant in the early Theosophical circle around Blavatsky in India and London.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1908) British theosophist and writer. Born in England, she married the journalist Alfred Percy Sinnett in 1870 and travelled with him to India, where she collaborated with Helena Blavatsky and was among the early members said to receive correspondence from the Theosophical masters. She wrote *The Purpose of Theosophy* (1885), a short introduction to Theosophical teaching, and helped run the London Lodge. Died in 1908.
Related Periodicals: Broad Views
Sisters, Bangs
(Source: Gemini) American Spiritualist mediums based in Chicago, Illinois: Lizzie Bangs (c. 1859–1920) and May Bangs (c. 1862–1917). They were known for 'precipitated spirit portraits' — oil paintings of the deceased said to appear on canvas without human hands during their séances — and demonstrated their mediumship to visitors and psychical investigators. Lizzie died in 1920 and May in 1917.
Related Periodicals: Hindu Spiritual Magazine
Sisters, Fox
(Source: Gemini) American mediums credited with founding the modern Spiritualist movement: Margaret Fox (1833–1893), Kate Fox (1837–1892), and their elder sister Leah Fox (1814–1890). In March 1848, at the family home in Hydesville, New York, Margaret and Kate claimed to communicate with a spirit through rapping sounds; with Leah's support they gave public demonstrations of spirit communication that sparked the rapid spread of Spiritualism. The sisters died between 1890 and 1893.
Related Periodicals: The Age of Progress
Sitchin, Zecharia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Zecharia Sitchin (1920–2010) was an author whose The 12th Planet and "Earth Chronicles" claimed the Sumerian gods were extraterrestrial "Anunnaki" from the planet Nibiru.
(Source: Gemini) (?–2010) Azerbaijani-born American author, born in Baku and raised in Palestine, who studied economic history at the University of London and became the leading proponent of the ancient-astronaut hypothesis. His book series, beginning with *The 12th Planet* (1976), read ancient Mesopotamian tablets as evidence of extraterrestrial visitors and human origins. Died in New York in 2010.
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Sizer, Nelson
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Nelson Sizer (1812–1897) was a leading American practical phrenologist and long-time examiner and writer for the Fowler & Wells firm.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1897) American phrenologist, author, and lecturer who served as President of the
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal | Practical Phrenologist (New York)
Skinner, Doug
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Contemporary American writer, translator, composer, and Fortean researcher based in New York City. He has translated French authors including Alphonse Allais, René Daumal, and Alfred Jarry, and contributed to Fortean and parapsychological periodicals including *Fortean Times* and *The Anomalist*. He has written essays and booklets on historical anomalies, folklore, and alternative science, and works as a musician and theatrical performer.
Related Periodicals: Fate Magazine (Palmer)
Skinner, J. Ralston
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) J. Ralston Skinner (1830–1893) was an American author of Key to the Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery in the Source of Measures, a work of sacred geometry admired by Blavatsky.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1893) Nineteenth-century American lawyer, mathematician, and Kabbalist who practised as an attorney in Cincinnati, Ohio, and researched ancient metrology and esoteric symbolism. Born in Lockport, New York. He published *Key to the Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery in the Source of Measures* (1875), proposing a system of geometric proportions underlying both the Hebrew Kabbalah and the Great Pyramid of Giza. He corresponded with contemporary occultists and theosophists, who drew on his metrological research. Died in 1893.
Related Periodicals: The Path
Slade, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Dr. Henry Slade (1835–1905) was an American slate-writing medium whose 1876 London prosecution for fraud, and testing by Zöllner in Leipzig, made him internationally notorious.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1905) Nineteenth-century American spiritualist medium known for physical mediumship and independent slate-writing, in which messages appeared on two slates bound together with a fragment of slate pencil. Born in New York. He conducted séances across North America, Europe, and Australia. His phenomena were investigated by the physicist Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner at the University of Leipzig, who published supportive reports on his mediumship. Died in Michigan in 1905.
Chasing Emma: Slade; Massey; Alfred Russel Wallace; W. H. Harrison... and Charles Bravo
Chasing Emma: Kellar's Beautiful Production
Chasing Emma: The E. B. Ward Inheritance Case: October; 1875
Chasing Emma: Sending Slade to Russia: June 1876
Chasing Emma: Repositioning: Henry Slade; in 1872-3
Chasing Emma: March 1866: The Beginnings of Independent Slate-Writing
Chasing Emma: The Letter W: An Account of the Development of Slade's Mediumship
Chasing Emma: But Will They Come When You Do Call Them?
Chasing Emma: Slade; They Can See It All: The Beginning of Henry Slade's Decline
Chasing Emma: Home; Slade and Knapp LLP: The First Independent Slate-Writing; Redux
Chasing Emma: The Set-Up; Part Two: Fleet Street and Burlington House; August 4; 1876
Chasing Emma: Taken In The Act: The Slade Prosecution
Chasing Emma: October 6; 1876: The Dr. Slade Number [Second Edition.]
Chasing Emma: A Scoundrel On Whom Every Honest Man Should Spit: Francis Ward Monck's Oration on Liberty; January 1877
Chasing Emma: Vicious Practices: Henry Slade; 1893
Chasing Emma: At Last; In Whispers: Henry Slade; September 1893
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Slade, S.C.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Sending Slade to Russia: June 1876
Related Periodicals: The Popular Phrenologist
Slater, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) English optician and Spiritualist appearing in a sampling of the Marc-and-Deveney queue.
Chasing Emma: Sampling the Queue: Tyerman-Slaters-EHB
Slayton, G. M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Named with Robert Hare, Charles Linton and Hudson Tuttle in a survey of the field.
Chasing Emma: A Short Cut Through The Field of Mediumship: Amherst and G. W. Slayton; January 1856
Slenker, Elmina D.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Elmina D. Slenker (1827–1908) was an American free-thought and sex-reform writer, jailed under the Comstock laws for her frank marriage advice.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1908) Nineteenth-century American freethought writer, novelist, and social reformer who published under the pen name 'Aunt Elmina.' Born in LaGrange, New York. She contributed to freethought and liberal periodicals, advocating rationalist ethics, secular education, and sexual reform, and wrote books and children's storybooks including *Studying the Bible* (1870), *The Darwins*, and *Little Blossom*. Died in New York in 1908.
Related Periodicals: Watchman
Slocum, William Neill
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Banner of Progress | The Golden Gate | The Philomathean [Chaney] | Common Sense
Small, W. Emmett
(Source: Gemini) (?–2001) Twentieth-century American theosophist, editor, and publisher associated with the Point Loma Theosophical Community. Born in San Diego, California, and educated at the Theosophical University at Point Loma, he worked under Katherine Tingley and Gottfried de Purucker. He edited *The Theosophical Path* and *The Eclectic Theosophist* and wrote articles and introductory guides on theosophical cosmology. Died in California in 2001.
Related Periodicals: Eclectic Theosophist | Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
Smee, Alfred
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) English surgeon and electro-biologist (d. 1878) cited on electro-biology (1845).
(Source: Gemini) English surgeon and electro-chemist (1818–1877), surgeon to the Bank of England, inventor of the Smee galvanic battery, and an early user of the term "electro-biology."
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Part Four: Philosophizing with a Battery
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Part Ten: Electrobiology and 1845
Chasing Emma: And Another One...
Smiley, Charles W.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1912) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American statistician, editor, and New Thought writer. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and educated at Wesleyan University, he served as chief statistician for the United States Fish Commission in Washington, D.C. He co-founded and edited the metaphysical periodicals *Occidental* and *Self-Culture* and wrote textbooks and booklets on practical psychology and mental science. Died in 1912.
Related Periodicals: The New Man
Smyth, Charles Piazzi
(Source: Gemini) (?–1900) Nineteenth-century British astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal for Scotland and as professor of practical astronomy at the University of Edinburgh. Born in Naples, Italy. He authored *Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid* (1864), arguing that the Great Pyramid encoded a system of divinely inspired sacred metrology. Died in 1900.
Related Periodicals: Our Race | The International Standard
Smith, Francis H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Baltimore maker of a spirit dial-device (the psychograph).
Chasing Emma: Help For The Ghosts: Psychographs; Spiritual Telegraph Dials; and Neurotography
Smith, Helene
(Source: Gemini) (?–1929) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Swiss spiritualist medium, born Catherine-Élise Müller in Geneva. A commercial clerk, she entered trance states in which she described past lives and visits to the planet Mars, producing a consistent 'Martian' language. She was studied by the psychologist Théodore Flournoy, who documented her case in *From India to the Planet Mars* (1900). Died in Geneva in 1929.
Related Periodicals: La Lumiere (Grange)
Smith, James Elishama
(Source: Gemini) Scottish writer and editor (James Elishama "Shepherd" Smith, 1801–1857), a Christian-socialist journalist associated with the reform movements of his day.
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Herald
Related Monographs: How I Became a Spiritualist: A Paper (1921)
Smith, Laura Cuppy
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American spiritualist lecturer, trance medium, feminist, and social reformer, also published under her maiden name Laura Cuppy. Born in New York. She lectured widely for spiritualist and progressive societies across North America, particularly in California, campaigning for women's suffrage, abolition, and labor reform, and contributed to reform and spiritualist journals. Died in the late nineteenth century.
Related Periodicals: Foundation Principles | The Present Era | Spiritual Reporter
Smith, Philip
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) A real deceased crewman of the Pacific (‘P. C. Smith’), not a spirit-control, in Emma’s account of the sinking.
Chasing Emma: Emma and the Sinking Of The Pacific
Chasing Emma: Wednesday; January 23; 1856
Smith, Uriah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Uriah Smith (1832–1903) was a leading Seventh-day Adventist author and editor, known for his prophetic exposition of Daniel and Revelation.
Related Periodicals: Signs of the Times
Smith, W. Whately
(Source: Gemini) (?–1947) Twentieth-century British parapsychologist and psychologist who later published as Whately Carington. Born in London and educated at Cambridge University, he was a leading member of the
Related Periodicals: Psychic Research Quarterly
Related Monographs: A Theory of the Mechanism of Survival: The Fourth Dimension and Its Applications (1920), The Foundations of Spiritualism (1920), The Case Against Spirit Photographs (1921)
Smythe, Albert E.S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Albert E. S. Smythe (1861–1947) was an Irish-Canadian Theosophist, founder of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1947) Irish-born Canadian journalist, editor, poet, and theosophist who co-founded the Theosophical Society in Canada. Born in Gracehill, Ireland, he worked as a newspaper editor in Toronto. He edited *The Canadian Theosophist*, served for decades as General Secretary of the Canadian theosophical organization, and published poetry. Died in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1947.
Related Periodicals: Canadian Theosophist | The Lamp | Theosophic Messenger | Theosophy | Mind
Related Monographs: Mrs. Lothbury's Gospel (1920)
Snow, Herman
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Herman Snow was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist author and bookseller, a former Unitarian minister.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Herman Snow (1812-1905)
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Clarion
Snyder, Theresa
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Sesamums
Related Monographs: Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems (1930)
Sohrab, Mirza Ahmad
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Mirza Ahmad Sohrab (1890–1958) was a Persian-American Baha'i who, with Julie Chanler, founded the "New History Society," leading to a celebrated break with the Baha'i administration.
Related Periodicals: Bahai News | Star of the West (Bahai)
Solanot, Antonio Torres
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century Spanish aristocrat (Viscount de Torres-Solanot), writer, editor, and Spiritist leader who co-founded and served as President of the Spanish Spiritist Union. He propagated Allan Kardec's Spiritist philosophy, edited spiritist periodicals, and wrote *The Spiritualist Movement in Spain* and *Letters on Spiritism*. Died in the early twentieth century.
Related Periodicals: El Buen Sentido | Iris de Paz (Huesca) | El Criterio Espiritista | El Espiritista (Madrid) | Revista de Estudios Psicologicos | Revue Spirite
Soro, Vincenzo
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Il Gran Libro della Natura: Opera Curiosa del Secolo XVIII (1921), La Santa Gnosi (1922)
Sorondo, Alejandro
(Source: Gemini) (?–1921) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century Argentine educator, cartographer, and Spiritist writer. He served as Director of the National Bureau of Land and Colonization and co-founded and led the Constancia Spiritist Association in Buenos Aires, propagating Allan Kardec's Spiritist philosophy through books, journals, and charitable associations. Died in Buenos Aires in 1921.
Related Periodicals: La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires) | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | The Radiant Truth | Teosofia en el Plata
Sotheran, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Charles Sotheran (1847–1902) was an English-American bibliographer, Freemason, and socialist who was a founding member of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1902) Late nineteenth-century English-born American bibliographer, journalist, and theosophist. Born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, he worked as an editor and book cataloger in New York City. An associate of Helena Blavatsky, he co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 and served as its first librarian. He wrote *Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer* (1876) and contributed to radical and reform journals. Died in 1902.
Chasing Emma: Market Engineering
Chasing Emma: The Theosophical Blackboard: The Daily Graphic's Campaign Against The Theosophical Society
Related Periodicals: New York Echo | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Sothern, E. A.
(Source: Gemini) English comic actor (E. A. Sothern, 1826–1881), famous for the role of Lord Dundreary in Our American Cousin.
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Times
Southwell, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Owenite freethinker who rendered Dupuis into English (c. 1850).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1860) Nineteenth-century English radical, freethought lecturer, and writer, an early figure in the development of secularism. Born in London and initially an actor, he co-founded and edited the freethought journal *The Oracle of Reason* (1841), one of the earliest secular periodicals in Britain. He later emigrated to Australia and New Zealand, founding theatrical companies and newspapers. Died in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1860.
Chasing Emma: Southwell's Dupuis: Circa 1850
Souza, Henrique Jose
(Source: Gemini) (?–1962) Twentieth-century Brazilian esotericist, writer, and teacher who founded the Brazilian
Related Periodicals: Luzeiro
Spalding, Albert G.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Albert G. Spalding (1849–1915), the American baseball pioneer and sporting-goods magnate, who in later life joined the Theosophical community at Point Loma.
Related Periodicals: The Century Path
Spalding, Baird T.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Baird T. Spalding (1872–1953) was the American author of the popular series Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1953) Early-to-mid twentieth-century American writer and esoteric teacher, author of the series *Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East*. Born in Cohocton, New York. He claimed to have travelled in India, Tibet, and East Asia studying under spiritual masters, and co-founded the publisher DeVorss & Co. to issue his works. Died in Arizona in 1953.
Related Periodicals: American Occultist | Comforter | Voice of the I AM
Related Monographs: Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East (1924), Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, Volume II (1927), Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, Volume III (1935)
Spear, Austin Osman
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) was an English artist and occultist whose sigil magic and "Zos Kia Cultus" became foundational to later chaos magic.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Gazette
Spear, John Murray
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John Murray Spear (1804–1887) was an American Universalist minister and Spiritualist who, guided by spirits, attempted to build a mechanical "New Motive Power" messiah.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1887) Nineteenth-century American Universalist minister, abolitionist, spiritualist, and social reformer. Born in Boston, he was ordained a Universalist minister and worked for the abolition of slavery, prison reform, and the peace movement alongside William Lloyd Garrison. In the 1850s he became a central figure in early Spiritualism, claiming spirit-inspired designs for a perpetual-motion device known as the New Motive Power or 'New Motor.' Authored *Messages from the Superior State* (1852). Died in 1887.
Chasing Emma: Be Not Weary In Well Doing: The University of Pittsburgh's Sheldon Papers Collection
Related Periodicals: The Agitator | Common Sense | Dawn (1872) | Illustracion Espirita (Mexico) | The Medium and Daybreak | The Spirit World (Hayden)
Spearman-Cook, Gladys I.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1983) Twentieth-century British esoteric teacher, writer, and healer. Born in London, she founded the
Related Periodicals: The Occult Gazette
Spedalieri, Baron J.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1892) Nineteenth-century Italian-born French Kabbalist, translator, and esoteric writer. Born in Sicily, he settled in France, where he became a friend, patron, and disciple of Éliphas Lévi and studied the Kabbalah and Christian Hermeticism. He compiled and edited Lévi's correspondence, published as *The Letters of Éliphas Lévi*. Died in Marseille in 1892.
Related Periodicals: The Path
Speighthumberston, Clara E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Spence, Lewis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Lewis Spence (1874–1955) was a Scottish scholar of mythology and folklore and a prolific writer on Atlantis and the occult.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1955) Scottish journalist, folklorist, and mythologist. Born in Forfarshire, he studied at the University of Edinburgh and worked as a sub-editor for *The Scotsman* and the *British Weekly*, researching comparative mythology, Celtic folklore, and legendary lost continents. Authored *The Popol Vuh* (1908), *The Myths of Ancient Mexico*, and *The Problem of Atlantis*, and co-founded the National Party of Scotland in 1928. Died in Edinburgh in 1955.
Related Periodicals: Atlantis Quarterly | Beyond
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Spence, Payton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Author of a Spiritualism-and-medicine essay noted in the blog.
Chasing Emma: Aside: Spiritualism and Medicine
Spencer, Herbert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), the English philosopher of evolution who coined "survival of the fittest"; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Sunna Dagor Message | To-Morrow
Spicer, Henry
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History of Early English Spiritualism: Henry Spicer; Esq.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Part Eight: Hats; Tables; Raps
Chasing Emma: A Bosjeman's Ideal of Spiritualism: Hogg's Instructor; 1853
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Spinoza
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), the Dutch rationalist philosopher of a single divine Substance; a touchstone for monist and pantheist currents in the metaphysical press.
Related Periodicals: The World Liberator
Spivey, Thomas Sawyer
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Sprague, A.W.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1862) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist trance lecturer, poet, and reformer. Born in Plymouth, Vermont, she worked as a schoolteacher before attributing her recovery from a chronic illness in 1853 to spirit healing, after which she lectured widely on spiritualism and social reform, advocating women's rights, prison reform, and abolition. Authored *The Poet and Other Poems* (1864) and *I Still Live*. Died in 1862.
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Sprague, E. W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Springett, Bernard H.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Spunda, Franz
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Spurzheim, Johann
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776–1832) was a German physician who, with Franz Joseph Gall, developed and popularized phrenology, spreading it in Britain and America.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1832) Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German physician and phrenologist, co-founder of phrenology with Franz Joseph Gall. Born in Tholey, he studied medicine in Vienna and travelled across Europe and Britain lecturing on brain anatomy and the localization of function. Authored *The Physiognomical System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim* (1815) and *Phrenology, or the Doctrine of the Mind*, and introduced phrenology to the United States. Died of typhus in Boston in 1832.
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Stahl, Ethel
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Staley, Amelia Fargo
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Leading of a Minister (1922)
Stanhope, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) A Stanhope named in ‘The Call, Part Four: The Countess.’
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Four: The Countess of Blessington's Magician
Stanhope, John Roddam Spencer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Pre-Raphaelite painter (1829–1908), Roddam Spencer Stanhope, of ‘Eve Tempted’; linked to No. 9 Stanhope Street.
(Source: Gemini) English painter (1829–1908) of the Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic movements and a pupil of G. F. Watts.
Chasing Emma: An Offering Of Sweet Savour
Chasing Emma: New Light on No. 9 Stanhope Street
Stanhope, Philip Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Lord Stanhope, English peer named with Bulwer-Lytton and Burton in the blog’s Masonic threads.
Chasing Emma: A Trout In The Milk: Plotting The Orphic Circle
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part One: Lord Stanhope's Crystal Ball
Chasing Emma: Emma's Four Men
Chasing Emma: Stanhope's Tutor
Chasing Emma: The Key To The Occult Sciences
Chasing Emma: And From Masonry; A Return To The Orphic Circle
Chasing Emma: Philip Henry Stanhope's Obituary
Chasing Emma: The Zoist; Volume 10
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), the American women's-rights leader and author of The Woman's Bible; cited here in a reform/periodical context.
(Source: Gemini) American suffragist and reformer (1815–1902), a principal organizer of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and co-author of its Declaration of Sentiments.
Chasing Emma: EHB and Susan B (Anthony): December 1866
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Stanton, M. O.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Encyclopedia of Face and Form Reading: A Complete Summary of Character Analysis (1920)
Star, Ely
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) "Ely Star" (Eugène Jacob) was a French astrologer of the later nineteenth century, author of Les Mystères de l'horoscope.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1942) French astrologer, author, and occultist, born Eugène Jacob. Working as an astrological consultant in Paris, he combined classical Hermeticism with planetary calculation. Authored *Les Mystères de l'Horoscope* (1887), setting out a method for natal chart interpretation. Died in 1942.
Related Periodicals: La Vie Mysterieuse | The Sphinx (Boston)
Stauffer, Mack
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Stawell, F. Melian
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Stead, Estelle W.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1966) Twentieth-century British spiritualist, editor, author, and actress. Daughter of the journalist William Thomas Stead, she worked as a stage actress and writer before turning to spiritualism after her father's death in the Titanic disaster of 1912. She directed the Stead Bureau in London and published *The Blue Island* (1922). Died in 1966.
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Stead, W.T.
William Thomas Stead (1849–1912) was a pioneering English investigative journalist and social reformer who became a leading Spiritualist. He founded the psychical quarterly Borderland (1893), published the automatic-writing communications of the dead Julia Ames (After Death), and set up "Julia's Bureau" for spirit contact. He died on the Titanic.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1912) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British investigative journalist, editor, spiritualist, and peace advocate. Born in Embleton, he edited the *Pall Mall Gazette* and campaigned for social reform, international arbitration, and the scientific investigation of spiritualism, co-founding *Borderland* and establishing Julia's Bureau. Authored *Real Ghost Stories* (1897). Died on the Titanic in 1912.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._T._Stead
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Stead, William Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) W. T. Stead (1849–1912), the English journalist, reformer, and Spiritualist; same person as the "Stead, W.T." entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1912) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British investigative journalist, editor, spiritualist, and peace advocate. Born in Embleton, he edited the *Pall Mall Gazette* and campaigned for social reform, international arbitration, and the scientific investigation of spiritualism, co-founding *Borderland* and establishing Julia's Bureau. Authored *Real Ghost Stories* (1897). Died on the Titanic in 1912.
SPR PSI Encyclopedia: Stead, William T.. William Thomas Stead (1849-1912) was a pioneering British journalist, social reformer, and medium whose interest in the paranormal led him to collect ghost stories, practise automatic writing, and publish Letters from Julia (1909), based on communications he believed he received from a deceased American journalist friend. He drowned in the sinking of the Titanic, and reports of his own postmortem communications appeared at séances in the months that followed.
Related Periodicals: Borderland
Stearns, Professor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) A ‘Professor Stearns’ tied to the Fort Wayne Magnetic Association (1858).
Chasing Emma: Proof To-Morrow Night: Magnetic Demonstration and the Development of Mediumship; 1858
Stebbins, Catharine
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) A ‘Catharine/Katharine Stebbins’ cited on how mediums learn their craft.
(Source: Gemini) American abolitionist and suffragist of Hicksite Quaker background, a colleague of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the women's-rights movement.
Chasing Emma: We Do These Things So And So: October 1885
Stebbins, Genevieve
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) American exponent of the Delsarte system, treated as an under-appreciated occult figure.
(Source: Gemini) American teacher and performer, a founder of the American Delsarte system of expression and "harmonic gymnastics."
Chasing Emma: Church of Light Conference Material
Chasing Emma: The Mage's Voice: William Walker Atkinson; 1910
Stebbins, Giles B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Giles B. Stebbins (1817–1900) was an American abolitionist, Spiritualist, and reform lecturer and anthologist.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1900) Nineteenth-century American abolitionist, author, lecturer, and spiritualist. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he campaigned for abolition, temperance, and women's rights and lectured on spiritual philosophy. Authored *Chapters from the Bible of the Ages* (1872) and *After Dogmatic Theology, What?*. Died in Detroit in 1900.
Chasing Emma: We Do These Things So And So: October 1885
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Steiger, Brad
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Brad Steiger (1936–2018) was an American writer who produced scores of popular books on UFOs, the paranormal, reincarnation, and "star people."
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth- and early twenty-first-century American author, journalist, and researcher of parapsychology, ufology, and anomalous phenomena, born Eugene E. Olson. Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, he studied at Luther College and the University of Iowa. Authored *Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places* (1970) and *Project Blue Book*.
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Steiger, Mme. Isabelle de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Isabelle de Steiger (1836–1927) was an English painter and occultist, a member of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century English painter, writer, and theosophist active in the revival of Hermetic philosophy and alchemy. Born in Liverpool, she studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and worked as a portraitist. A member of the
Related Periodicals: The Occult Review | The Unknown World
Steiner, Rudolf
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was an Austrian philosopher, occultist, social reformer, and architect who founded Anthroposophy, a spiritual movement with roots in Theosophy and German idealist philosophy. After leading the German section of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Austrian philosopher and social reformer, founder of Anthroposophy. Born in Donji Kraljevec, he studied philosophy at the Vienna Institute of Technology and the University of Rostock and worked to link natural science with spiritual philosophy. Authored *The Philosophy of Freedom* (1894), founded the Waldorf school system, established the Goetheanum, and originated biodynamic agriculture.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner
Chasing Emma: Bound in Cloth: Rudolf Steiner; 1909
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Steinke, Grace Lobach
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Jewels of Truth (1920)
Stephens, Charles Asbury
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Immortal Life: How It Will Be Achieved (1920)
Stephenson, Roslyn D'Onston
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) British occultist and journalist, ‘Roslyn D’Onston,’ who wrote for the Pall Mall Gazette.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1916) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British writer, occultist, and journalist, associated with the Jack the Ripper case. Born in Hull, England. He studied ceremonial magic, Kabbalah, and physical mediumship, and authored *The Children of Lilith* (1888) and *The Paten*, interpretations of classical esoteric symbolism and mystical theology. Died in 1916.
Chasing Emma: What Is Called Superstition Is Still Rife: William Stainton Moses on the Whitechapel Murders; December 1888
Sternberg, Rhea
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Stetson, Augusta E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Sermons Which Spiritually Interpret the Scriptures, and Other Writings on Christian Science (1924)
Stevens, Albert C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) American compiler of the Cyclopedia of Fraternities, cited in the blog’s ‘Occult History, with Pie Charts.’
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American journalist and editor of the *New York Commercial*. Born in New Jersey. He compiled *The Cyclopaedia of Fraternities* (1897), an encyclopedic reference cataloguing over six hundred secret societies and fraternal organizations, and collaborated with Masonic scholars.
Chasing Emma: Occult History; with Pie Charts: 1907
Stevens, E. Winchester
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Watseka Wonder (1928)
Stevens, Ernest
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Vibrations: Their Principles, Light and Colors, Their Uses (1921)
Stevens, Ernest J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Vibrations: Their Principles, Light and Colors, Their Uses (1921)
Stewart, Anna
To be added.
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Stewart, G. C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Associated with The Hierophant (1859) in the blog’s account of Emma and the astro-Masons.
Chasing Emma: Emma and the Astro-Masons: G. C. Stewart
Stilwell, Arthur Edward
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Stobart, Mrs. St. Clair
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British suffragist, humanitarian, and spiritualist author. Born in London. She founded the Women's Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps and served as a leader of the Spiritualist Community in London. She authored *The Apocrypha of a Spiritualist* (1930) and *Torchbearers of Spiritualism*, defending spirit communication and biblical psychical research.
Related Periodicals: Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke) | Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research
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Stockdale, F. B.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Future Life: Fact and Fancies (1921)
Stocker, R. Dimsdale
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Stockham, Alice Bunker
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Alice Bunker Stockham (1833–1912) was an American physician and reformer, author of Tokology and of Karezza, a doctrine of controlled, spiritualized sexuality.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1912) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American physician, publisher, and reformer, among the first female obstetricians and gynecologists in the United States. Born in Ohio; studied at the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College. She combined physiological education with spiritual philosophy and theosophy, and authored *Tokology: A Book for Every Woman* (1883) and *Karezza: Ethics of Marriage*, the latter setting out a method for controlled marital intimacy. Died in 1912.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Center | Eclectic Medical Journal | Life Culture | Occult Truths | Soundview | Wings of Truth
Stoddard, Christina
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Trail of the Serpent (1936)
Stoddard, Henry Lee
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Stoddart, Christina
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Light-bearers of Darkness (1930)
Stoker, Bram
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Bram Stoker (1847–1912), the Irish author of Dracula (1897), whose vampire lore drew on folklore and the occult revival; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Review
Stokes, Henry Newlin
(Source: Gemini) (?–1942) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American chemist, editor, and theosophical critic. Born in Washington, D.C.; took a doctorate in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University and worked as a research scientist for the United States Geological Survey. A critical member of the
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Oriental Esoteric Society Bulletin | O.E. Library Critic
Stokes, S. E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Stone, Helena
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The New Age Bible Interpretation, Old Testament, Vol. III: The Promise / The Preparation (1946)
Stoneham, Charles A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) American financier and owner of the New York Giants (1865–1939), named with Neal and Segno in the ‘Ring Saga.’
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 11: The Occult History of the New York Giants
Storey, Arthur
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Manual of Graphology (1923)
Story, Alfred Thomas
(Source: Gemini) (?–1934) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British journalist, poet, and author who wrote on phrenology, physiognomy, and self-improvement. Born in England. He authored *The Manual of Phrenology* and *The Life of John Linnell*. Died in 1934.
Related Periodicals: The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story)
Story, John
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Three: A Note on John Story (1848-1907)
Related Periodicals: The Astrologer (Powley)
Stout, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Sir Robert Stout, New Zealand statesman and premier, named in an account of Emma Hardinge Britten in New Zealand.
Chasing Emma: Cut By Her Own Sword: EHB in New Zealand; 1879
Strauss, Heinz Arthur
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Street, John Commodore
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) J. C. F. Grumbine? — no; John Commodore Street was an American member of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American occultist, author, and physician, a leading member of the
Related Periodicals: Eleanor Kirk's Idea | The Gnostic | Mercury
Stretton, Thomas Cox
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Pinnacles on the Cliffs of Despair: Further Notes on J. G. H. Brown
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Strieber, Whitley
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Whitley Strieber (b. 1945) is an American author whose best-seller Communion (1987) recounted claimed alien-abduction experiences.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American novelist, journalist, and alternative researcher known for writings on extraterrestrial encounters and human consciousness, drawing on the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff. Born in San Antonio, Texas. He authored *Communion* (1987), an autobiographical account of his alleged encounters with non-human 'visitors'.
Related Periodicals: Caveat Emptor
Strobl, Karl Hans
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Strong, Alice Powell
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Strutton, Harry J.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1935) Early twentieth-century British editor, author, and occultist. He edited *The Occult Review* (1925–1935), succeeding its founder Ralph Shirley; under his direction the journal covered astrology, spiritualism, and Western Hermeticism. Died in 1935.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Review
Sturgewhiting, J. R.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Mystery of Versailles: A Complete Solution (1938)
Subasingha, D.J.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) theosophist, educator, and Buddhist scholar active in the Buddhist revival and the expansion of the
Related Periodicals: The Buddhist Ray
Sucher, Willi
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Willi Sucher (1902–1985) was a German-British anthroposophist who developed "astrosophy," a spiritual-scientific approach to the stars.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1985) Twentieth-century German-born astrosophist, author, and lecturer who developed astrosophy, a form of astrology based on Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy. Born in Germany. He authored *Cosmic Christianity* and *Isis Sophia: An Outline of a New Star Wisdom*, and established the Astrosophy Research Center in Great Britain and later the United States. Died in California in 1985.
Related Periodicals: Modern Mystic
Sudre, Rene
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) René Sudre (1880–1968) was a French journalist and "metapsychical" writer who sought a naturalistic (non-spiritist) theory of psychic phenomena.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1968) Twentieth-century French parapsychologist, journalist, and author. Born in France; worked as a science journalist and broadcaster. He studied telepathy, clairvoyance, and mediumship, collaborating with Gustave Geley at the Institut Métapsychique International, and authored *Treatise on Parapsychology* (1956), a rationalistic framework for anomalous phenomena. Died in 1968.
Related Periodicals: Revue Metapsychique
Sugrue, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Thomas Sugrue (1907–1953) was an American journalist whose sympathetic biography of Edgar Cayce, There Is a River (1942), spread the psychic's fame.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1953) Twentieth-century American journalist, author, and literary critic. Born in Naugatuck, Connecticut; studied at Washington and Lee University. He authored *There is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce* (1942), a biography of the psychic Edgar Cayce. Died in New York in 1953.
Related Periodicals: Mind Digest
Sullivan, Geo A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Sulzer, Georg
(Source: Gemini) (?–1929) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century Swiss jurist, author, and spiritualist. Born in Switzerland; served as President of the Swiss Supreme Court (Tribunal Fédéral). He investigated psychical phenomena and mediumship and authored *A Swiss Judge's Experiences with Spiritualism*, a defense of spirit communication from a judicial and scientific perspective. Died in 1929.
Related Periodicals: Weisse Fahne
Sumangala
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala (1827–1911) was a leading Sinhalese Buddhist scholar-monk and a supporter of Olcott and the Theosophists in the Sinhalese Buddhist revival.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1911) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) Buddhist monk, scholar, and educational reformer active in the Buddhist revival and the
Related Periodicals: The Buddhist Ray
Summers, A. Leonard
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Fallacies of Spiritualism: A Survey of Recent Claims and Pretensions (1922)
Summers, Montague
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Montague Summers (1880–1948) was an English clergyman and eccentric scholar of witchcraft, vampires, and the Gothic, who wrote as a professed believer in their reality.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1948) Early twentieth-century English author, clergyman, and scholar of witchcraft, demonology, and gothic literature. Born in Clifton, England; studied theology at Trinity College, Oxford. He produced an English translation of the *Malleus Maleficarum* (1928) and authored *The History of Witchcraft and Demonology* and *The Vampire: His Kith and Kin*. Died in Richmond, London, in 1948.
Related Periodicals: The Occult Review
Related Monographs: The History of Witchcraft and Demonology (1926), The Discovery of Witches: A Study of Master Matthew Hopkins (with a reprint of the 1647 original) (1928), The Vampire, His Kith and Kin (1928), Demonolatry (1930), A Treatise of Ghosts (1933), A Popular History of Witchcraft (1937)
Sunderland, La Roy
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) La Roy Sunderland (1804–1885) was an American abolitionist minister who developed "Pathetism" (a theory of mesmerism/suggestion) and moved through Spiritualism to skepticism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1885) Nineteenth-century American abolitionist, Methodist minister, author, and physician active in mental science, mesmerism, and alternative medicine. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire. He co-founded the anti-slavery Liberty Party, developed a drugless healing method he termed 'Pathetism,' authored *Pathetism: Man Considered in Respect to His Organization* (1847), and edited the journal *The Magnet*. Died in Massachusetts in 1885.
Chasing Emma: Magnetism and Psychology: 1842
Related Periodicals: Common Sense | The Dissector | Herald of Truth [Cincinnati] | The Magnet | The Phreno-Magnet | Spiritual Philosopher (Etincelle) | The Spiritual Republic | The Spiritual Age (Boston)
Sunner, Paul
(Source: Gemini) (?–1956) Twentieth-century German physician, author, and psychical researcher. Born in Germany. He investigated telepathy, psychokinesis, and mediumship, and edited the periodical *Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie* (formerly *Psychische Studien*). Died in 1956.
Related Periodicals: Psychische Studien | Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie
Surya, G.W.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1949) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Austrian-German occultist, homoeopath, and alchemist, born Demetrius Georgievitz-Weitzer and writing under the pseudonym G.W. Surya. Born in Austria. He authored *Modern Alchemical Medicine* and *Astrology and Homoeopathy*, connecting Hermetic principles with modern biological systems, and ran natural-health clinics and esoteric study circles across Central Europe. Died in 1949.
Related Periodicals: Weisse Fahne | Pansophic Intellectualizer | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
Related Monographs: Moderne Rosenkreuzer oder Die Renaissance der Geheimwissenschaften: Ein okkult-wissenschaftlicher Roman (1924)
Sutcliffe, G.E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) G. E. Sutcliffe was an English Theosophist at Adyar who wrote attempting to reconcile Theosophical cosmology with modern science.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British-Indian physicist, author, and theosophist. Born in England, he worked as a professor of physics in Bombay and sought to synthesize Newtonian physics and thermodynamics with the teachings of the
Related Periodicals: Theosophic Gleaner
Related Monographs: Studies in Occult Chemistry and Physics, Volume I (1923)
Suzuki, D.T.
D. T. Suzuki (1870–1966) was the Japanese Buddhist scholar who, more than anyone, introduced Zen to the West. An associate of Paul Carus at Open Court, he wrote the influential Essays in Zen Buddhism and taught at Columbia; his wife Beatrice Lane was a Theosophist.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1966) Twentieth-century Japanese scholar, philosopher, and translator, the principal figure in introducing Zen Buddhism and Shin Buddhism to the West. Born in Kanazawa, Japan, and educated at Tokyo Imperial University, he translated Buddhist texts and worked on comparative mysticism, collaborating with Paul Carus at the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._T._Suzuki
Related Periodicals: The Open Court
Swaffer, Hannen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Hannen Swaffer (1879–1962) was a famous English journalist and drama critic, a fervent public Spiritualist and member of Barbanell's home circle.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1962) Twentieth-century British journalist, editor, and spiritualist known as the 'Pope of Fleet Street.' A dramatic critic and editor at newspapers including *The People* and the *Daily Mirror*, he converted to Spiritualism in 1924 and became a public advocate for the movement, lecturing across Britain. Authored *Northcliffe's Return* (1925). Died in 1962.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke) | Psychic News
Swainson, W. P.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Thomas Lake Harris and His Occult Teaching (1922)
Swarts, Andrew J.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American mental healer, publisher, and social reformer active in the early New Thought and Christian Science movements. In the 1880s he founded and edited the periodical *The Mental Healing Monthly* in Chicago and wrote instructional essays on mental science and spiritual healing.
Related Periodicals: The Better Way | Light of Ages | Light of Messiah | Logos (Chicago) | Mental Science Magazine | Mind Cure and Science of Life | The New Man | The Radical Spiritualist | The Temple of Health
Swedenborg, Emanuel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.90) Swedish scientist and visionary (1688–1772) whose writings underlie much nineteenth-century Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1772) Eighteenth-century Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, and Christian mystic. Born in Stockholm and educated at Uppsala University, he worked as a metallurgist and royal assessor. Following a series of spiritual visions beginning in 1743, he turned to theology and biblical interpretation, authoring *Heaven and Hell* (1758) and *Arcana Cœlestia* and formulating a cosmology of spiritual correspondences that influenced later writers and theosophists. Died in London in 1772.
Chasing Emma: Frank Podmore; Christian Scientist
Sweet, Elizabeth
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist medium active in New York. She developed her mediumship under Leah Fish, eldest of the Fox sisters, and was a member of the 'Sacred Circle' organized in 1853 by Judge John Worth Edmonds and George T. Dexter. After her death her communications were compiled by her husband, Gilbert Sweet, and published as *The Future Life* (1869).
Related Periodicals: The Sacred Circle
Sweeting, Mary Anne
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) A ‘Mrs. Sweeting’ named as a mother in the blog; Cora Richmond appears in the same post.
Chasing Emma: Stories Within Stories: The Childhoods of W. J. Colville
Szekeley, Edmund
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Edmond Bordeaux Székely (1905–1979) was a Hungarian-American author who founded the "International Biogenic Society" and produced the popular Essene Gospel of Peace.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1979) Twentieth-century Hungarian scholar, philosopher, and natural-health writer associated with raw foodism, vegetarianism, and biogenic living. In 1928 he co-founded the International Biogenic Society with Romain Rolland. He published *The Essene Gospel of Peace* (1937), which he claimed to have translated from ancient Aramaic manuscripts in the Vatican archives, and in 1940, with his wife Deborah Shainman, founded the Rancho La Puerta health retreat in Tecate, Mexico. Died in 1979.
Related Periodicals: The Indian Naturopath
Szikossy, Frank
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) A figure named in the blog’s ‘Silence After Carnage.’
Chasing Emma: Silence After Carnage: More On The (Von) Vay Excavation
Richardson, John E. (T.K.)
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American attorney, publisher, author, and mystic, principal founder of the
Related Periodicals: Mitteilungen des Gral-Ordens | Christliche Theosophie | East and West | The Great Work in America | Life and Action | The Lindlahr Magazine | Mitteilungen des Neuen Gral-Ordens | The New Man | The Progressive Thinker | To You | The Whisper
Related Monographs: Harmonic Self-Unfoldment (Harmonic Booklet Series, Bound Volume I) (1925), Harmonic Self-Unfoldment (Harmonic Booklet Series, Bound Volume II) (1926), The Great Message: A Definite Message from the Great School of the Masters (Harmonic Series Vol. V) (1927), Harmonics of Evolution (Harmonic Series Vol. I) (1928), The Great Known (Harmonic Series Vol. IV) (1928), The Great Psychological Crime (Harmonic Series Vol. II) (1928), The Great Work: The Constructive Principle of Nature in Individual Life (Harmonic Series Vol. III) (1928), Self-Unfoldment: The Practical Application of Moral Principles to the Living of a Life (1929), Self-Unfoldment: The Practical Application of Moral Principles to the Living of a Life, Vol. II (1934)
Tafe, Maina L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) An obscure figure appearing in the corpus; identity uncertain (flagged for review).
Related Periodicals: The Direct Voice
Tagore, Rabindranath
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), the Bengali poet, composer, and Nobel laureate whose Gitanjali and mystical humanism were embraced in Western spiritual circles.
Related Periodicals: Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship) | Rincarnazione | Union Espiritualista Americana
Related Monographs: To the Nations (1921)
Tailhade, Laurent
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Laurent Tailhade (1854–1919) was a French Symbolist poet, satirist, and anarchist sympathizer; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Calendrier Magique
Taillepied, Noel
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Treatise of Ghosts (1933)
Taliesin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Taliesin, the legendary early-medieval Welsh bard, invoked in occult and Druidic literature as a type of the initiated poet-seer.
Related Periodicals: Hesperian Bard
Tallmadge, Nathaniel P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Former U.S. senator and Wisconsin governor turned Spiritualist, president of the Society for the Diffusion of Spiritual Knowledge.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1864) Nineteenth-century American politician, jurist, and Spiritualist. He served as a United States Senator from New York and as the third Governor of the Wisconsin Territory before becoming a public defender of early Spiritualism, petitioning the US Senate to investigate psychical phenomena. He contributed the introduction to Charles Linton's *The Healing of the Nations* (1855). Died in 1864.
Chasing Emma: The Men of the SDSK
Chasing Emma: All Religious Organizations Must Eventually Become Partial: August 1854
Tanguay, Blanche
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Named in an 1892 mammoth-pictorial-circular item.
Chasing Emma: 1892: Mammoth Pictorial Circulars
Tansley, A. G.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Machinery of the Mind (1922)
Tardo, Evatima
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Performer (1871–1905) noted for apparent pain-immunity, the subject of ‘A Roadside Shrine for Evatima Tardo.’
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American vaudeville and dime-museum performer, born Eva Kennedy in Trinidad, known for demonstrations of insensibility to pain and venomous snakebites. Her act drew scrutiny from physicians and psychical researchers examining her apparent anesthesia and was endorsed as genuine by Harry Houdini.
Chasing Emma: A Roadside Shrine for Evatima Tardo (1871-1905)
Tarkington, Booth
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Fortean Society Magazine
Related Monographs: Neither Dead Nor Sleeping (1920)
Taylor, Ada White
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Mystic Spell: A Metaphysical Romance (1923)
Taylor, Charles Henry
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: By Wireless from Venus, or The Primal Elements: A New Theory of Creation and of the Creator and of The Life Hereafter (1922)
Taylor, Sarah E. L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Fox-Taylor Automatic Writing 1869-1892 (Unabridged Record) (1932)
Taylor, W. G. Langworthy
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Fox-Taylor Automatic Writing 1869-1892 (Unabridged Record) (1932)
Taylor, William Marcus
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Taylor, Wilson M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Science of Approach (1920)
Tchertkoff, V.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Teener, James W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Unity School of Christianity (A Dissertation) (1939)
Templeman, Helen
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Message to the People on Spirit-Materialization (1929)
Themanlys, Claire
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Le Rayon Vert (1922), Premiers Pas vers la Route Spirituelle (1922), Un Sejour chez les Grands Inities (1931)
Thimmy, Rene
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: La Magie a Paris (1934)
Thomas, C. Drayton
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Transition (1947)
Thomas, Charles Drayton
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Life Beyond Death With Evidence (1947)
Thomas, Franklin A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: How to Hold Circles for Developing Mediumship at Home (1920), Soul Science: The Proof of Life After Death (1920), Philosophy and Phenomena of Spiritualism (1922)
Thompson, C. J. S.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Mystery and Romance of Astrology (1929)
Thompson, Herbert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden (1921)
Thompson, Lilian Spencer
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Geometric Telepathy (1939)
Thomson, J. Arthur
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told (1922)
Thorndike, Lynn
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A History of Magic and Experimental Science During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era (1923)
Thorogood, Brackett K.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The 'Margery' Mediumship (the Sir Oliver Lodge thumbprint experiments) (1932)
Thurston, Herbert
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Church and Spiritualism (1933), Blavatsky, Besant and Co. (The Story of a Great Anti-Christian Fraud) (1939)
Tibbits, Walter
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Pages from the Life of a Pagan: A Romance of the Real (1921), Walter, an Englishman (Before and since Transition) (1922), Veiled Mysteries of India (1929), Hell's Bells and Heaven Tells (1948)
Tinker, James
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spiritualism for the Student and Investigator: A Symposium (1923)
Tooley, Sarah A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Psychic Phenomena in the Old Testament (1921)
Trail, Moon
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Aimless Dead (Leave It to God!) (1936)
Trethewy, A. W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The 'Controls' of Stainton Moses ('M.A. Oxon.') (1923)
Trewhitt, Paul W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Study in Spirit Wisdom (1921)
Tristram, R. M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Letters from Christopher (1944)
Trust, Josephine C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Atoms Aura Reveals Secrets (1945), Key to Success, Revealed by Parchments (1948)
Tucker, Prentiss
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: In the Land of the Living Dead: An Occult Story (1921)
Tuckett, Ivor Ll
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Evidence for the Supernatural ('Uncommon Sense') (1937)
Tweedale, Charles L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Man's Survival After Death, or The Other Side of Life (1920), The Vindication of William Hope, or The Exposers Exposed (1933)
Tweedale, Violet
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Beautiful Mrs. Davenant: A Novel of Love and Mystery (1920), Phantoms of the Dawn (1924), The Cosmic Christ (1930)
Udny, E. Francis
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: A Help to Worship in the Liberal Catholic Church (1927)
Underhill, Evelyn
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-Day (1922), Man and the Supernatural (1928), The Golden Sequence: A Fourfold Study of the Spiritual Life (1933), The House of the Soul (1940)
Unger, Charles
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Man's Highest Purpose (The Lost Word Regained) (1930)
Upadhyaya, Ganga Prasad
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Origin, Scope and Mission of the Arya Samaj (1940)
Valier, Max
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Verborgene Gewalten im Weltgeschehen: Eine neue Raum-Kraft-Lehre (1922)
van Orden, Archibald Stark
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion (The Coue 'Method', Complete & Unabridged Edition) (1922)
van Saun, Ruth
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Honey-Comb, or Nine-Months (1920)
Van Tassel, George W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) George Van Tassel (1910–1978) was an American contactee who hosted the Giant Rock spacecraft conventions and built the "Integratron" near Landers, California.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1974) Twentieth-century American ufologist, author, and contactee, builder of the Integratron and host of the Giant Rock Spacecraft Conventions. Born in Jefferson, Ohio, he worked as an aviation flight inspector, including with Howard Hughes, before relocating to Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert in 1947. He claimed to receive communications from cosmic visitors, notably Ashtar, and authored *I Rode a Flying Saucer* (1952). Died in 1974.
Related Periodicals: Clarion Call | College of Universal Wisdom
Tatya, Tookaram
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Tukaram Tatya (1836–1898) was a Bombay merchant and Theosophist who did much to publish Hindu scriptures and promote the Society in India.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1898) Nineteenth-century Indian cotton merchant, philanthropist, and theosophist in Bombay. He joined the
Related Periodicals: Theosophic Gleaner
Taxil, Leo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) "Léo Taxil" (Gabriel Jogand-Pagès, 1854–1907), the French anti-clerical hoaxer who fabricated the "Palladism"/Diana Vaughan Masonic-Satanism scare; see the "Jogand-Pages" entries.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1907) Nineteenth-century French writer and journalist, born Gabriel-Antoine Jogand-Pagès in Marseille, best known for the 'Taxil Hoax.' After editing anticlerical periodicals he claimed a conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1885 and published books portraying Freemasonry as a network of devil-worshippers, drawing praise from Pope Leo XIII, before publicly confessing the affair as a hoax in April 1897. Died in 1907.
Related Periodicals: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | La Franc-Maconnerie Demasquee | La France Antimaconnique | Luz Astral (Buenos Aires) | Memoires d'une Ex-Palladiste | Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes | Revue Mensuelle Diable aux XIX Siecle
Taylor, Bayard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Bayard Taylor (1825–1878), the American poet, travel writer, and translator of Goethe's Faust; cited here in a periodical context.
(Source: Gemini) American poet, travel writer, translator, and diplomat (1825–1878), known for his popular travel books and his verse translation of Goethe's Faust.
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal | The Sunbeam
Taylor, Malcolm
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Discussed via a Scottish-poet angle, with Bastian and Cora Richmond named nearby.
Chasing Emma: Tools for the Dabblers In An Unknown Science; Part One: Some Notes on Harry Bastian and Malcolm Taylor
Chasing Emma: Tools for the Dabblers In An Unknown Science; Part Two: Some Notes on Harry Bastian and Malcolm Taylor
Chasing Emma: Tools for the Dabblers In An Unknown Science; Part Three: Some Notes on Harry Bastian and Malcolm Taylor
Taylor, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) English radical clergyman (‘the Devil’s Chaplain’), author of The Diegesis, an Art Magic source.
Chasing Emma: Signal Phrases: Art Magic; its Progenitors and its....Children
Chasing Emma: Emma's Mysterious Guide
Chasing Emma: The Bridge of Time - On Becoming Skeptical
Taylor, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Thomas Taylor (1758–1835), "the English Platonist," was the prolific translator of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and the Neoplatonists whose versions carried ancient philosophy into Romantic and occult circles.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1835) Late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English translator and Neoplatonist philosopher, known as 'the Platonist.' Born in London, he produced English translations of Plato and Aristotle together with the Orphic fragments and the treatises of Plotinus, Porphyry, and Proclus. His translations and commentaries influenced New England Transcendentalism and writers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Blake, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Died in London in 1835.
Related Periodicals: The Platonist | The Straggling Astrologer
Taylor, Wayne Hannibal
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Wayne Hannibal Taylor was an American occultist and author who led a "Golden Dawn" (Wayne Taylor) group and published in the Ascended-Master and Rosicrucian vein.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Bridge to Freedom | Golden Dawn (Wayne Taylor) | Mentor (Myneta and Taylor) | Solograph
Taylor, William P.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Daily Meditation | Modern Astrology (Rose Dawn)
Tebb, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) English anti-vaccinationist and Spiritualist (1830–1917), named with Thomas Shorter.
Chasing Emma: Spirits and Smallpox: Some Notes on William Tebb (1830-1917)
Teder
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Teder" was the occult name of Charles Détré (1855–1918), the French Martinist who succeeded Papus as head of the Order; see the "Detre, Charles" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1918) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century French occultist, author, and fraternal leader, born Henri-Charles Détré, prominent in the organizational development of Martinism. After the death of Gérard Encausse (Papus) during the First World War, he became the fourth Grand Master of the
Related Periodicals: L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique
Teed, Cyrus R.
Cyrus Reed Teed (1839–1908) was an American eclectic physician who, after a visionary experience, took the name "Koresh" and founded Koreshanity — a religion built on his "Cellular Cosmogony," the belief that humanity lives on the inside of a hollow Earth. He led the Koreshan Unity commune at Estero, Florida.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1908) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American physician, author, and religious leader, founder of the Koreshan Unity, who took the name Koresh. Born in Delaware County, New York, he practiced eclectic medicine before an 1869 experience he described as a divine illumination. He developed a cellular Hollow Earth cosmology holding that humanity lives inside a concave sphere, founded a communal settlement at Estero, Florida, and edited the journal *The Flaming Sword*. Died in Florida in 1908.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Teed
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Doctor Factories
Related Periodicals: The Flaming Sword | The Guiding Star | Mind Cure and Science of Life | The Morning Star | Plowshare and Pruning Hook
Teeple, Georgiana
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late twentieth-century American editor, publisher, dowsing practitioner, and author associated with dowsing, radiesthesia, and pyramidology. With Bill Cox she co-founded and co-edited the bi-monthly newsletter *Pyramid Guide* (1972–1981), and she co-edited and illustrated the posthumous dowsing books of Verne L. Cameron, including *Map Dowsing* and *Aquavideo*.
Related Periodicals: Pyramid Guide (Cox)
Telano, Rolf
(Source: Gemini) (?–1962) Twentieth-century American medium, author, and contactee active in early ufology and telepathic channeling, born Ralph Merridette Holland and writing as Rolf Telano. He claimed to receive communications from a Venusian figure called Borealis and authored *The Flying Saucers* (1952) and *A Spacewoman Speaks*, and designed a telepathic transmission device he called Project Hermes. Died in 1962.
Related Periodicals: Voice from the Gallery
Tenhaeff, W.H.C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) W. H. C. Tenhaeff (1894–1981) was a Dutch parapsychologist, holder of an early university chair in the subject, best known for his studies of the psychic Gerard Croiset.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1981) Dutch psychologist and parapsychologist, holder of the first university chair in parapsychology. Born in Apeldoorn, he took his doctorate at the University of Utrecht. He investigated telepathy, clairvoyance, and the personalities of sensitives, and conducted extended research on the Dutch medium Gerard Croiset. In 1953 he became special professor of parapsychology and director of Utrecht's
Related Periodicals: Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie
Tennyson, Frederick
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) English poet (1807–1898), elder brother of Alfred Tennyson and a committed Spiritualist.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1898) Nineteenth-century English poet, older brother of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Born in Lincolnshire and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He lived for decades in Italy and took part in the Anglo-Florentine spiritualist circle alongside Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and was a lifelong adherent of Swedenborgianism and spiritualism. He authored the poetry collections *Days and Hours* (1854) and *The Isles of Greece*. Died in London in 1898.
Chasing Emma: Frederick Tennyson; Spiritualist
Terrer, Federico Climent
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Federico Climent Terrer was a Spanish Theosophist and translator, a prolific contributor to Spanish-language Theosophical and occult periodicals.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1945) Spanish theosophist, educator, and translator active in Catalonia. He produced Spanish translations of esoteric literature, including H.P. Blavatsky's *Isis Unveiled* and works by Annie Besant. A founding member of the 'Inmortalidad' Lodge in Barcelona, he edited the periodical *Teosofía*. Died in 1945.
Related Periodicals: Loto Blanco | Teosofia Madrid
Terry, Alfred H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Named for a 1921 Spiritualist creed in ‘In The Museum of Spiritualism.’
Chasing Emma: In The Museum of Spiritualism: Alfred Terry's Creed; 1921
Related Monographs: Spiritualism: What Is It? (1921), Spiritualism: What Is It? (1922)
Terry, William Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) W. H. Terry (1836–1913) was the leading Australian Spiritualist of Melbourne, founder and editor of the long-running journal The Harbinger of Light.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1913) Nineteenth-century Australian spiritualist bookseller and publisher. Born in Islington, London, he emigrated to Melbourne in 1853 and worked in the family drapery business before establishing a spiritualist bookstore that became a centre of the movement. He founded and edited *The Harbinger of Light* (1870–1905), and served as a Councillor of the
Related Periodicals: The Glowworm | The Harbinger of Light | The Psychological Review
Terzaghi, Giuseppe
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century Italian physician, editor, and magnetist. He investigated mesmerism, somnambulism, and physical mediumship, and founded and edited *Cronaca del Magnetismo Animale* (1853–1854), the first Italian periodical devoted to animal magnetism. He held that table-turning arose from vital electric forces rather than spirits.
Related Periodicals: Cronaca del Magnetismo Animale
Tesla, Nicholas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), the Serbian-American electrical inventor and visionary whose speculations on cosmic energy made him a recurring figure in occult and "free-energy" periodicals.
(Source: Gemini) Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer (1856–1943), a pioneer of alternating-current power and wireless technology.
Related Periodicals: Fate Magazine (Palmer) | Revista de Estudios Psiquicos (Chile)
Tetlow, J. B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) A contributor named in The Two Worlds for 1888.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British medium, psychometrist, and trance lecturer based in Rochdale. He delivered platform addresses under the guidance of his spirit controls and contributed articles to Spiritualist periodicals including *The Two Worlds* and *The Medium and Daybreak*.
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds For 1888
Thayer, Mary B.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American physical medium known as the 'Flower Goddess of Boston.' Born in Massachusetts, she worked as a professional medium in Boston, producing 'flower apports' in which cut flowers and plants were said to fall during dark séances. Her phenomena were tested by Colonel Henry Steel Olcott.
Related Periodicals: Facts
Thayer, Tiffany
(Source: Gemini) (?–1959) Twentieth-century American novelist and Fortean. Born in Freeport, Illinois, he worked as a copywriter and novelist. In 1931 he co-founded the
Related Periodicals: Clypeus | Fortean Society Magazine
Thebes, Mme de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Madame de Thèbes" (Anne Victorine Savigny, 1845–1916) was a celebrated Parisian palmist and prophetess whose annual almanacs of predictions were widely read.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1916) French clairvoyant, cartomancer, and palmist, born Anne-Victorine Savigny in Paris. A former actress, she took up palmistry and chiromancy and published popular annual booklets of prophetic forecasts, said to have anticipated the outbreak of the First World War. Died in 1916.
Related Periodicals: Voile d'Isis
Themanlys, Louis Moise
(Source: Gemini) (?–1943) French author and esoteric philosopher, a disciple of Max Théon and administrator of the Cosmic Movement in France. With his wife, Claire, he co-founded the 'Idéal et Réalité' circle. He managed publication of the movement's French periodical *La Revue Cosmique* from Paris and mentored his son, Pascal Themanlys, in the Cosmic tradition. Died in 1943.
Related Periodicals: Ideal et Realite | Art, Science et Peuple | Mouvement Cosmique | Revue Cosmique
Themanlys, Paschal
(Source: Gemini) (?–2000) French-Israeli poet, Kabbalist, and author. Born in Paris to Louis and Claire Themanlys, he published a first poetry collection, *The Emerald Monocle*, in 1924. He drew on Lurianic Kabbalah and the teachings of Max Théon. After emigrating to Israel in 1949 he headed the French section of the Jewish Agency's Information Department and co-founded the Amitiés Israël-France society, and established the Argaman Center in Jerusalem. Died in 2000.
Related Periodicals: Ideal et Realite
Related Monographs: Quelques Colonnes dans le Temple (1927)
Theobald, F.J.
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century English Spiritualist medium and author. Writing under spirit guidance, she authored *Homes and Work in the Future Life* (1884–1886) and *Heaven Opened*, describing the soul's progression after death. She worked closely with her brother, Morell Theobald.
Chasing Emma: Third Time's The Charm: The London Spiritualist Alliance; March 1884
Related Periodicals: Christian Spiritualist (UK)
Theobald, Morell
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) English accountant and Spiritualist, author of Spirit Workers in the Home Circle; the ‘Theobald clan.’
(Source: Gemini) (?–1908) Nineteenth-century English businessman, author, and Spiritualist. Born in Birmingham, he worked as an insurance broker in London and held séances at home with his family and their cook, Mary. He authored *Spiritualism at Home* (1884) and *Spirit Workers in the Home Circle*, though his home phenomena drew skepticism from investigators such as Frank Podmore. He served on the inaugural Council of the
Chasing Emma: At-Homes: What Gives?
Chasing Emma: Third Time's The Charm: The London Spiritualist Alliance; March 1884
Theon, Max
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Max Théon (Louis-Maximilian Bimstein, c. 1848–1927) was a Polish-born occultist, a founder of the "Cosmic Movement" and reputed early teacher of Mirra Alfassa ("the Mother") and of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1927) Polish-Jewish occultist, philosopher, and Kabbalist, founder of the Cosmic Movement, born Louis-Maximilian Bimstein in Warsaw. He settled at an estate in Tlemcen, Algeria, with his wife, Mary Ware (Theona), and formulated a 'Cosmic Tradition' drawing on Western Hermeticism, Kabbalah, and physical mediumship. He directed publication of *La Revue Cosmique* and mentored a circle of students including Mirra Alfassa, later co-director of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Died in Algeria in 1927.
Related Periodicals: Art, Science et Peuple | The Morning Star | Arya | L'Astrosophie | Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | Ideal et Realite | Kosmicke Rozhledy | Le Magicien | Mouvement Cosmique | Revue Cosmique | Sri Aurobindo Circle | Symbolisme
Related Monographs: La Tradition Cosmique, V: Extraits du Livre de la Vie (1920)
Theroux, Michael
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American alternative researcher, editor, and electronics specialist. A former U.S. Marine Corps radar technician, he joined the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation (BSRF) in 1986 and served as its Director from 1995, editing the *Journal of Borderlands Research*. His work included the series *Detecting Biodynamic Signals* on measuring subtle physical forces in radionics and etheric physics.
Related Periodicals: Journal of Borderland Research
Thibetan, Phylos the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1899) Nineteenth-century American author and medium, born Frederick Spencer Oliver in Washington, D.C. Relocating to northern California near Mount Shasta, he claimed to receive automatic-writing dictations over three years from a spirit named Phylos the Thibetan, describing ancient Atlantis. He died in 1899; his mother published the resulting book, *A Dweller on Two Planets*, posthumously in 1905.
Related Periodicals: Voice of the I AM
Related Monographs: A Dweller on Two Planets, or The Dividing of the Way (1920)
Thirouin, Marc
(Source: Gemini) (?–1972) Twentieth-century French lawyer and ufologist. In 1951 he founded and directed the Ouranos group (the International Commission of Scientific Inquiry), an early civilian UFO research body, and co-founded and edited its journal *Ouranos* alongside the writer Jimmy Guieu. Died in 1972.
Related Periodicals: Ouranos
Thomas, Alexandre-Alberic
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Bibliotheque des Sciences Esoteriques | Bulletin de la Societe D'Etudes Psychiques de Nancy
Thomas, Dana Lloyd
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century American translator and scholar of Western esotericism, based in Italy. He has translated and analyzed the writings of Arturo Reghini and Julius Evola, and contributed to reference works including the *Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism* and journals such as *Politica Romana* and *Pagine Filosofali*.
Related Periodicals: Ignis
Thomas, Eugene E.
(Source: Gemini) (1894–?) Twentieth-century American author of occult and speculative fiction. He wrote *Fragments from the Past* (1930) and *Brotherhood of Mt. Shasta* (1946), narratives of timeslip travel to Atlantis and encounters with secret masters inside Mount Shasta, blending New Thought, Lemurian legend, and popular psychology.
Related Periodicals: Cosmic Dawn (Los Angeles)
Thomas, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John Thomas (1805–1871) was an English-American physician who founded the Christadelphians, a Bible-literalist, non-Trinitarian movement.
Chasing Emma: Out Upon His Lonely Way: The End of Charubel
Related Periodicals: The Occult Magazine (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor) | The Occultist (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor) | The Seer and Celestial Reformer
Thomas, Wendell
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Wendell Thomas was an American author of Hinduism Invades America (1930), an early critical survey of Indian religious movements in the United States.
(Source: Gemini) (1896–?) Twentieth-century American scholar and author on Eastern philosophy and its reception in the West. He wrote *Hinduism Invades America* (1930), an analysis of how Vedanta, yoga, and Theosophical movements were reshaping American spirituality, and *On the Resolution of Science and Faith* (1946).
Related Periodicals: Illumination
Related Monographs: Fragments from the Past (1930), Hinduism Invades America (1930)
Thompson, David
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) A later direct-voice medium (the ‘Silver Birch’ context); the modern writer Stemman appears alongside.
Chasing Emma: Shades of Adbullah: Some Notes on Spirit Identity
Thompson, Vance
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Vance Thompson (1863–1925) was an American journalist and author of popular works on health, diet, and "how to live" self-culture.
Related Periodicals: The Channel
Thompson, Matthew McBane
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Scottish-American organizer of irregular 'fringe' Masonic bodies. Born in Scotland, he emigrated to the United States and founded the
Chasing Emma: 1854-1859: Philander Doesticks and the Witches of New York
Related Periodicals: Annales Initiatiques | Universal Free Mason | Initiates
Thomson, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.82) William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, the British physicist, named in the blog.
Chasing Emma: How Our Ideas Commend Themselves To Those Who Follow: The Ether; 1891
Thoreau, Henry David
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.88) American writer (1817–1862), cited for ‘Life Without Principle’; modern critics Braude and Gutierrez appear alongside.
Chasing Emma: A Hoof Amidst The Stars: Henry David Thoreau; On The Milieu
Thornton, Madame
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) ‘Madame E. F. Thornton,’ treated in the blog as a probable cutout or front identity.
Chasing Emma: An Instrument of Intense Power: The Witches of the Psychomotrope; 1866-1868
Thurston, Father
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Father Herbert Thurston, S.J. (1856–1939) was an English Jesuit scholar and cautious psychical researcher who wrote on stigmata, levitation, and "the physical phenomena of mysticism."
(Source: Gemini) (?–1939) English Jesuit priest, scholar, and psychical researcher. Born in London and educated at the University of London, he was ordained in the Society of Jesus in 1890. He evaluated psychical research, ghosts, and poltergeists, joining the
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Times
Tiede, Ernest
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century German astrologer, occultist, and author. Born in East Prussia, he worked on astrology, natal horoscopy, and Hermeticism. He wrote *Astrologisches Lexikon* (1920), published by the Theosophisches Verlagshaus in Leipzig, setting out a system of astrological interpretation, and directed regional astrological study groups.
Related Periodicals: Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
Tietkens, Ernest Augustus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Singer, cricketer and clerk (1838–1916), a ‘Standard Spiritualist’ profiled by the blog.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British spiritualist, poet, and author. He wrote *Mediumistic and Psychical Experiences of Ernest A. Tietkens* (1911), a record of his encounters with physical phenomena and spirit communications, and published volumes of spiritual poetry including *The Heavenly Link* and *Star Rays*, donating the proceeds to the
Chasing Emma: Ernest Augustus Tietkens (1838-1916)
Tiffany, Joel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Joel Tiffany (1811–1893) was an American lawyer and Spiritualist, editor of Tiffany's Monthly and author of a philosophical defense of spirit communion.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1893) Nineteenth-century American lawyer, publisher, and author associated with the early Spiritualist movement. Born in Barkhamsted, Connecticut, and trained in law, he wrote *Spiritualism Explained* (1856) and *The Astral World—Higher Occult Powers*, setting out a methodology for understanding mediumship, clairvoyance, and spirit healing. He founded and edited *Tiffany's Monthly* (1856–1859). Died in 1893.
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Clarion | Tiffany's Monthly
Tilton, Theodore
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Theodore Tilton (1835–1907), the American journalist and reformer at the center of the Beecher–Tilton adultery scandal; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Voice of the Magi
Tindall, Alfred Frederick
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) English Spiritualist (1849–1909), author of Spiritual Christianity Revealed (1908); Blavatsky is named alongside.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British composer, organist, and occultist. Born in London and active as a church organist and choir director, he founded and directed the
Chasing Emma: 1890: From The Other Side; The Remarkable and Instantaneous Transference Of A Sceptical Gentleman
Chasing Emma: Tindall Practicing Rapproachment
Chasing Emma: Some Notes on Alfred Frederick Tindall (1849-1909)
Chasing Emma: Plainsong; by Post: More on A. F. Tindall
Tingley, Katherine A.
Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley (1847-1929) was a prominent American Theosophist who founded a Theosophical community at Point Loma, California. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, she was active in social work in New York before meeting William Quan Judge, who brought her into Theosophy. After Judge's death in 1896 she succeeded him as leader of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1929) American theosophist, social reformer, and educator, known as 'The Purple Mother.' Born in Newbury, Massachusetts, she did early social-relief work in New York City before succeeding William Quan Judge in 1896 as leader of the
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/tingley-katherine-augusta-westcott-1847-1929
Chasing Emma: 1854-1859: Philander Doesticks and the Witches of New York
Chasing Emma: October 1891: Invalid Chairs and Lectures on Psychodromedary
Chasing Emma: June 1896: Dueling Lecturers
Chasing Emma: 1881-1894: One of Our Best Mediums
Related Periodicals: Blatter fur Universale Bruderschaft | The Century Path | Eclectic Theosophist | The Fra | Hesperia | The International Theosophist | Light of Messiah | Neue Lotusbluten | New Outlook | The New Way | The Pacific Theosophist | Proceedings of the Blavatsky Association | Raja-Yoga Messenger | Spirit Mothers and Astraea | The Temple Artisan | Theosophia | The Theosophical Forum | Theosophical Forum (Purucker) | Theosophical News | The Theosophical Path | Theosophical Quarterly | Theosophische Forum | Theosophische Pfad | Theosophische Warte | Theosophisches Leben | Theosophy | U.L.T. | Universal Brotherhood
Related Monographs: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Foundress of the Original Theosophical Society (1921), Theosophy: The Path of the Mystic ('Links for Your Own Forging') (1922), The Gods Await (1926), The Travail of the Soul (1927), The Voice of the Soul (1928)
Tingley, Philo B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) ‘P. B. Tingley,’ named in an October 1891 item on invalid chairs; McCarthy also appears.
Chasing Emma: October 1891: Invalid Chairs and Lectures on Psychodromedary
Tischner, Rudolph
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Rudolf Tischner (1879–1961) was a German physician and psychical researcher and historian of animal magnetism and mesmerism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1961) Twentieth-century German ophthalmologist, parapsychologist, and author, credited with introducing the term 'extrasensory perception' through the English translation of his work. Practising as an ophthalmologist in Munich, he investigated telepathy and clairvoyance and collaborated with Albert von Schrenck-Notzing. He wrote *Telepathy and Clairvoyance* (1921), documenting tests of extrasensory perception, and later historical works on homeopathy and mesmerism. He co-founded psychical research societies in Central Europe. Died in 1961.
Related Periodicals: Neue Wissenschaft | Zeitschrift fur Kritischen Okkultismus
Related Monographs: Einfuehrung in den Okkultismus und Spiritismus (1923), Telepathy and Clairvoyance (1925)
Titi, Placido de
(Source: Gemini) (?–1668) Seventeenth-century Italian mathematician, astronomer, and Olivetan monk, developer of the Placidus house system in astrology. Born in Perugia, he taught physics and mathematics at the University of Pavia. He wrote *Physiomathematica* and *Primum Mobile*, setting out a time-based method for dividing the astrological houses that later became a standard of Western astrology. Died in Pavia in 1668.
Related Periodicals: Spirit of Partridge
Tobey, Carl Payne
(Source: Gemini) (?–1980) Twentieth-century American astrologer, mathematician, and author who applied statistical methods to traditional astrology. Born in Lynbrook, New York, he collaborated with the astrologer Grant Lewi, tested astrological premises through numerical research, and developed a clockwise zodiac system. He wrote *An Astrology Primer for the Millions* (1965) and ran correspondence courses. Died in 1980.
Related Periodicals: American Astrology | Wynn's Astrology
Todd, Benjamin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Benjamin Todd was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist and reform lecturer active on the Pacific Coast.
Related Periodicals: The Banner of Progress | Foundation Principles | Spiritual Reporter
Todd, Marion
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Marion Todd (1841–1914) was an American lawyer, Greenback-Labor and Populist orator, and reform writer.
Related Periodicals: Foundation Principles | Spiritual Reporter
Todd, Thomas Olman
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) ‘T. O. Todd,’ author of Hydesville (1905) and recipient of an 1897 letter from Emma Hardinge Britten.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century British printer, publisher, and spiritualist author based in Sunderland, England. At the request of Emma Hardinge Britten, he researched and published *Hydesville: The Story of the Rochester Knockings, Which Proclaimed the Advent of Modern Spiritualism* (1905), a historical account of the Fox sisters' mediumship.
Chasing Emma: Manchester; December 5th; 1897
Chasing Emma: December 5; 1897: EHB to Thomas Olman Todd
Togores, Francisco Montoliu y de
(Source: Gemini) (?–1892) Nineteenth-century Spanish agricultural engineer, lawyer, and translator, a founder of the Theosophical movement in Spain. Born in Tarragona, he held a professorship at the School of Agricultural Engineers in Madrid. Under the pseudonym 'Nemo' he translated theosophical works into Spanish, co-founded the first Spanish theosophical branch in 1891, and edited *Estudios Teosóficos*. Died in 1892.
Related Periodicals: Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona) | Sophia (Spain)
Tolcea, Marcel
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Romanian poet, essayist, and academic working on Western esotericism, comparative religion, and Traditionalist philosophy. Born in Sânnicolau Mare, he is a professor at the West University of Timișoara and has directed the Timișoara Museum of Art. He has translated and studied René Guénon, Mirra Alfassa, and Max Théon, and wrote *The Eye of the Heart* and the 2025 monograph *The Last Avant-Garde*.
Related Periodicals: Memra
Tolstoy, Leo
(Source: Gemini) Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828–1910), author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina and an advocate of Christian nonviolence.
Related Periodicals: The Truth | Vrede | New Outlook
Tonner, Lauritz Waldemar
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Named with Oxley, the ‘Twilight Mages’ and Blavatsky in ‘A Sharp Stroke of Psychical Diplomacy.’
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Danish-born manager, translator, and companion, for some forty years the secretary of the musical medium and author Jesse Shepard (Francis Grierson). Born in Thisted, Denmark, he emigrated to the United States in 1870 and was naturalized in Chicago. From 1885 he managed Shepard's séances, musical performances, and publications in Europe and America, including during the building of the Villa Montezuma in San Diego. He also worked as a translator for the United States government and as an aide to Herbert Hoover. Shepard died in 1927.
Chasing Emma: A Sharp Stroke Of Psychical Diplomacy: April 1894
Toohey, John H.W.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Christian Spiritualist | The Crucible | Foundation Principles | Spiritual Analyst | The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record | Spiritual Rostrum
Tope, Melanchthon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Melanchthon Tope was an American liberal-league and Spiritualist lecturer and editor of the later nineteenth century.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1945) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American phrenologist, author, and publisher. Born in Bowerston, Ohio, he founded the
Related Periodicals: Phrenological Era
Toronto, Richard Ross
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late twentieth and twenty-first-century American journalist, author, and editor, a researcher of the 'Shaver Mystery' and early ufology. Born in California, he founded and edited the fanzine *Shavertron* in 1979, dedicated to the work of Richard S. Shaver and Ray Palmer. He wrote *War over Lemuria* (2013) and *Rokfogo: The Mysterious Pre-Deluge Art of Richard S. Shaver*.
Related Periodicals: Shavertron
Torrents, Juan
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century Spanish printer, publisher, republican, and freethinker active in the early organization of Spiritism in Catalonia. Based in Sant Martí de Provençals, Barcelona, he ran a printing press and bookstore and promoted secularism, freemasonry, and spiritist ideas. In 1879 he co-founded and financed the weekly *La Luz del Porvenir* alongside the medium Amalia Domingo Soler, administering it until he transferred ownership to Soler in 1884.
Related Periodicals: Luz del Porvenir
Torteroli, Afonso Angeli
(Source: Gemini) (?–1928) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century Brazilian educator, author, and spiritist leader. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he propagated Allan Kardec's spiritism. In 1881 he organized the first Brazilian Spiritist Congress and founded the Centro da União Espírita do Brasil, the country's first unifying spiritist association, and edited the journal *Revista da Sociedade Acadêmica*. Died in 1928.
Related Periodicals: Renovador | Revista da Sociedade Academica
Toth, Max
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Max Toth was an American co-author of Pyramid Power (1974), a popularizer of the "pyramidology" fad of the 1970s.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American author and researcher associated with pyramidology and the New Age movement. He co-authored *Pyramid Power* (1976) with Greg Nielsen, an introduction to claimed applications of pyramid energy, and wrote *Pyramid Prophecies*.
Related Periodicals: Beyond Reality
Totten, Charles Adiel Lewis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Charles A. L. Totten (1851–1908) was a U.S. Army officer and prolific writer on British-Israelism and biblical prophecy and chronology.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1908) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American military officer, mathematician, professor, and apocalyptic writer, a propagator of British Israelism in the United States. Born in New London, Connecticut, he studied at West Point and taught military science at Yale. He worked on biblical chronology, prophecy, and pyramidology, and co-founded the
Related Periodicals: The Equitist | Our Race
Toulmin, Camilla
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) English author, later Mrs. Newton Crosland, whose novel Sweet Revenge is offered as the source of Emma’s stage name.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1895) Nineteenth-century English novelist, poet, essayist, and editor, later known as Mrs. Newton Crosland, with an interest in Spiritualism. Born in London, she contributed to Victorian periodicals and worked alongside Robert Browning and Mary Howitt. After her 1848 marriage to Newton Crosland she investigated psychical phenomena and held private séance circles. She wrote the autobiography *Landmarks of a Literary Life* (1893). Died in 1895.
Chasing Emma: Coincidence
Towne, Elizabeth
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Elizabeth Towne (1865–1960) was an American New Thought publisher and author, founder of the influential magazine Nautilus.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American New Thought publisher, editor, and author. Born in Portland, Oregon. In 1898 she founded and edited The Nautilus Magazine of New Thought, which reached a circulation of about ninety thousand. She authored more than a dozen books, served as President of the
Chasing Emma: Experiences in Self-Healing: A Look at the Entities in One Issue of a New Thought Periodical
Chasing Emma: You Can Catch Things From People Who Don't Belong To Your Church: The Death of Wallace D. Wattles (1860-1911)
Related People:
Related Periodicals: Advanced Thought (Chicago) | Nautilus | Neue Gedanken | New Thought (Chicago) | New York Magazine of Mysteries | The Radiant Centre | Sunna Dagor Message
Related Monographs: 53 Experiences in New Thought (1920), 15 Lessons in New Thought, or Lessons in Living (1921), How to Use New Thought in Home Life (1921)
Towne, William Elmer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) William E. Towne was an American New Thought writer and publisher who, with his wife Elizabeth Towne, produced Nautilus magazine in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American New Thought publisher, editor, and author. In 1900 he married the New Thought leader Elizabeth Jones (Elizabeth Towne), co-founding the Elizabeth Towne Company in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He served for decades as co-editor and publisher of The Nautilus Magazine of New Thought and wrote essays, textbooks, and daily guides on mental science and self-help.
Related Periodicals: Fred Burry's Journal | Free Man (Bangor) | Nautilus | New York Magazine of Mysteries | The Segnogram | Wings of Truth
Townshend, Chauncey Hare
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) English clergyman and mesmerist, friend of Dickens, in the blog’s history of magnetism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century English clergyman, poet, and collector, and an advocate of mesmerism and animal magnetism. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge; a friend and literary associate of Charles Dickens. He authored Facts in Mesmerism (1840), a defense of John Elliotson's experiments in artificial somnambulism and clairvoyance, published volumes of poetry, and bequeathed collections of art, coins, and gems to British museums.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Part Two: In The Soup
Toynbee, Arnold
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), the English universal historian of civilizations; cited here in a periodical context.
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Trail, Russell T.
(Source: Gemini) American hydropathic physician, editor, and author (1812–1877), a founder of the natural-hygiene and vegetarian movements and proponent of "hygeiotherapy," and founder of the New York Hygeio-Therapeutic College (1853).
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal | Herald of Health (M. L. Holbrook) | Laws of Health (Robert Walters) (Reading) | The Water-Cure Journal
Traenker, Heinrich
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German bookseller, publisher, and occultist active in Rosicrucianism and the
Related Periodicals: Pansophic Intellectualizer | Pansophja | Saturn Gnosis | F. U. D. O. S. I.
Trench, Brinsley le Poer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Brinsley le Poer Trench (1911–1995), 8th Earl of Clancarty, was a British UFO writer and editor who promoted hollow-earth and ancient-astronaut ideas.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century Irish peer (8th Earl of Clancarty), author, and ufologist. Educated at Pangbourne Nautical College. He edited Flying Saucer Review (1956–1959) and founded Contact International and the International Unidentified Object Observer Corps. He authored The Sky People (1960) and Secret of the Ages on ancient astronauts and subterranean civilizations, and used his seat in the House of Lords to organize the 1979 parliamentary UFO debate.
Related Periodicals: Flying Saucer Review | New Atlantean Journal
Trincado, Maestro Fundador Joaquin
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Spanish-born Argentine esoteric philosopher and Spiritist writer who founded the Escuela Magnético-Espiritual de la Comuna Universal (EMECU) in Buenos Aires in 1911. Born in Cintruénigo, Spain; trained in electrical engineering before emigrating to Argentina. He developed a system of Spiritist philosophy he called 'Trincadism' and authored more than forty books, notably The Philosophy of the Creator Spirit (1913) and The First Ray of Light, advocating communal living and the abolition of national borders. He established a network of communal agricultural colonies and schools across South America.
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(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Joaquín Trincado Mateo (1866–1935) was a Spanish-Argentine Spiritist who founded the Escuela Magnético-Espiritual de la Comuna Universal.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1935) Spanish-born Argentine Spiritist philosopher and writer. Born in Cintruénigo, Spain, he studied electrical engineering before emigrating to Argentina. In Buenos Aires in 1911 he founded the Escuela Magnético-Espiritual de la Comuna Universal (EMECU) and developed a system of Spiritist philosophy he called 'Trincadism.' He authored more than forty books, notably *The Philosophy of the Creator Spirit* (1913) and *The First Ray of Light*, advocating the spiritual unity of humanity, communal living, and abolition of national borders, and established communal agricultural colonies and schools across South America. Died in Buenos Aires in 1935.
Trincado, Mercedes Riglos Cosis de
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century Argentine Spiritist leader and administrator of the Escuela Magnético-Espiritual de la Comuna Universal (EMECU). In 1916 she married the EMECU founder Joaquín Trincado Mateo; after his death in 1935 she became Director General of the EMECU, directing its network of educational chairs, publishing editions of Trincado's works, and overseeing cooperative agricultural colonies.
Related Periodicals: La Balanza
Trine, Ralph Waldo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Ralph Waldo Trine (1866–1958) was an American New Thought author whose In Tune with the Infinite (1897) became one of the best-selling metaphysical books of all time.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American New Thought author and teacher. Born in Mount Morris, Illinois; studied history and political science at Johns Hopkins University. Influenced by Emerson's transcendentalism, he authored In Tune with the Infinite (1897), which sold widely and was translated into more than twenty languages, setting out a method for positive thinking and spiritual alignment.
Related Periodicals: International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | Vision | Zum Licht
Related Monographs: In Tune with the Infinite, or Fullness of Peace, Power and Plenty (1920), The World's Balance-Wheel (1920)
Trithemius, Johannes
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516) was a German Benedictine abbot, historian, and cryptographer whose Steganographia blurred cipher and angelic magic, and who taught Agrippa.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century German Benedictine abbot, chronicler, and occultist, and an early figure in cryptography. Born in Trittenheim; studied at the University of Heidelberg and served as abbot of Sponheim Abbey. He authored Steganographia and Polygraphia, which presented methods for encoding secret messages framed as occult conjurations, and influenced Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus.
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Troianovsky, A.V.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian occultist, astrologer, and translator who helped popularize French Hermeticism in pre-revolutionary Russia. He translated the major works of Gérard Encausse (Papus), including Predictive Tarot and Practical Magic, and from 1911 edited the Russian occult periodical Isis (Isida).
Related Periodicals: Izida
Troncoso, Gonzalo Pena y
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Mexican educator, novelist, military officer, and esoteric philosopher, and the chief promoter of Dosamantismo. Born in Mexico City; studied at the Colegio Militar and the Academia de San Carlos. A disciple of the physician Jesús Ceballos Dosamantes, whose system combined positivism, Spiritism, and pantheism, he published the esoteric novels Blanca: Hija de la Luz and Celeste: Nuevos ideales (1903) and the doctrinal work El Dosamantismo es la religión científica (1904).
Related Periodicals: Philadelphia (Buenos Aires)
Troufleau, Jean
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century French novelist, journalist, and occultist who wrote under the pseudonym Jean Dorsenne. Born in Algeria. Around 1930 he joined the Fraternité Polaire (Polar Brotherhood) in Paris and co-edited its journal Bulletin des Polaires, which described a method for consulting the
Related Periodicals: Bulletin Des Polaires
Troup, Charles A.S.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American editor, publisher, and Civil War veteran active in the early Christian Science movement in New England. A Union Signal Corps sergeant during the Civil War, he worked with Mary Baker Eddy as secretary and treasurer of the Christian Scientist Association in Boston in the 1880s. After a schism he co-founded and edited the independent monthly The Boston Christian Scientist (1889–1890).
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Troward, Thomas
Thomas Troward (1847–1916) was a British judge in India who, after retiring, became one of the most intellectually influential New Thought writers. His Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science (1904) applied judicial reasoning to metaphysics and shaped Ernest Holmes and the wider movement.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British judge and New Thought author. Born in Belgaum, India; served as a divisional judge in Punjab. He authored The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science (1904) and The Dore Lectures, combining theology, Eastern mysticism, and physical science into a method for spiritual development, and influenced Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Troward
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Related Monographs: The Law and the Word (1920), The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science (1925)
Troxell, Hope
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Hope Troxell was an American channel and teacher of the 1950s–60s who founded a "School of Thought" at June Lake, California, transmitting space-brother and Ascended-Master messages.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1979) Twentieth-century American UFO contactee, author, and spiritual teacher. She claimed to receive telepathic messages from Venusian entities and in 1960 founded The School of Thought in Altadena, California, teaching cosmic wisdom and Essene principles. She authored The Wisdom of the Universe (1957) and The Winged Life of Cosmos. Died in 1979.
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Truesdell, John Wheeler
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) American author (1836–1915) of The Bottom Facts Concerning the Science of Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American author, jeweler, and psychical investigator of mediumship. He investigated the mediums of his era, exposing the fraudulent methods of Charles Colchester, and authored The Bottom Facts Concerning the Science of Spiritualism (1883), an examination of both genuine and fraudulent phenomena.
Chasing Emma: The Problem With Muhlenberg: John Wheeler Truesdell (1836-1915)
Chasing Emma: The Truth Will Come Uppermost: Henry Kiddle to Dr. Silas Chesebrough; July 11; 1883
Truthlover, Anthony
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist editor, reformer, and writer in New York. Resident in Brooklyn, he published a series of essays in the Spiritual Telegraph in 1856 and in May 1866 founded and edited The Williamsburgh Spiritualist, defending spirit survival while criticizing the commercialism of contemporary séance circles.
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Tsonev, Ivan Rachev
(Source: Gemini) (?–1941) Early twentieth-century Bulgarian astrologer, editor, and esoteric author. A member of Peter Deunov's
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Tucci, Giuseppi
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Giuseppe Tucci (1894–1984) was the great Italian Tibetologist and Orientalist, explorer of Tibet and scholar of Buddhist art and religion.
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Tucker, Benjamin R.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Benjamin R. Tucker (1854–1939) was the leading American individualist anarchist, editor of the journal Liberty.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American publisher, editor, and social philosopher, a leading exponent of individualist anarchism and secular freethought. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He founded and edited Liberty (1881–1908), a platform for individualist philosophy that translated works by Mikhail Bakunin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and ran an independent publishing house.
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Tucker, Charles Alexander
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) A Victorian serial confidence-man treated in ‘A Singular Aspect of Plausibility.’
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Tumber, Catherine
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Contemporary American historian, journalist, and author on New Thought and New Age spirituality. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Rochester and authored American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality (2002), a study of how early feminist thought became intertwined with Gilded Age metaphysical movements led by Mary Baker Eddy, Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Elizabeth Towne.
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Tunie
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist 'spirit child' and purported mediumistic guide associated with the periodical The Voice of Angels. In the spiritualist literature Tunie was described as the 'angel daughter' of the journal's founder, David C. Densmore, who had died in childhood; under spirit inspiration she was presented as a regular correspondent delivering messages to grieving families.
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Turesay, Uzgur
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Turkish historian and academic, professor of history at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, whose research addresses the history of Spiritism and the occult in the late Ottoman Empire, comparative religion, and printing culture. Author of *Between Science and Religion: Spiritism in the Ottoman Empire (1850s–1910s)* (2018), a study of how spiritism was conceptualized as an experimental science by Ottoman intellectual elites.
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Turnbull, Colin M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Colin M. Turnbull (1924–1994), the British-American anthropologist (The Forest People); cited here in a periodical context.
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Turnbull, Coulson
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Coulson Turnbull (1866–1943) was an English-American Theosophist and astrologer, author of The Solar Logos and works on "divine astrology."
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American astrologer, writer, publisher, and esoteric philosopher, born in England, who emigrated to the United States. He synthesized Egyptian geometry, Kabbalah, and planetary vibration into a system of spiritual astrology and founded the Gnostic Press in San Diego. Authored *The Divine Language of Celestial Correspondences* (1905) and *The Solar Logos* (1923). He served on the founding board of the
Related Periodicals: The Glass Hive | Purdy's Monthly | The Stellar Ray
Turner, Albert
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American publisher and health reformer. He worked with the Fowler and Wells publishing company and with Russell Thacher Trall on the staff of *The Science of Health*, and founded, edited, and published *Health Culture Magazine*, a monthly of natural hygiene, vegetarianism, and physical culture.
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Turner, Christopher
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) British cultural historian, journalist, and editor, a contributor to *Cabinet Magazine*. Author of *Adventures in the Orgasmatron* (2011), on Wilhelm Reich, and *The Town Where the Dead Live* (2013), a study of the Spiritualist community of Lily Dale.
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Turner, H.B.
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Turner, Henry G.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Author of an 1869 anti-Spiritualism paper in Melbourne.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australian banker, writer, historian, and Unitarian lay preacher, born in London, who emigrated to Melbourne in 1854. A freethinker, he co-founded *The Melbourne Review* in 1875 and delivered and published the lecture *Spiritualism: A Paper read Before the Eclectic Association of Melbourne* (1869).
Chasing Emma: Contra Spiritualism: Australia; 1869
Tuttle, Emma
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Emma Rood Tuttle (1839–1916) was an American Spiritualist poet, lecturer, and Lyceum organizer, wife and collaborator of Hudson Tuttle.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1916) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American Spiritualist author, poet, and lyricist, and an animal-welfare reformer, born in Braceville, Ohio; she studied at Western Reserve University and Hiram College. With her husband, the Spiritualist author Hudson Tuttle, she lived at Walnut Grove Farm in Berlin Heights, Ohio. She co-authored *The Lyceum Guide* (1870) with J.M. Peebles and J.O. Barrett, a hymnal and curriculum for progressive Sunday Lyceums, and published *Blossoms of Our Spring* and *From Soul to Soul* (1890). Died in 1916.
Related Periodicals: The Agitator | The Herald of Progress (US) | Little Bouquet | The Ohio Spiritualist | The Spiritual Republic
Tuttle, Hudson
Hudson Tuttle (1836-1910) was an American Spiritualist, automatic writer, and author who became a trance medium as a teenager following his first séance at the home of a retired Congregational minister. Largely self-educated — with only eleven months of formal schooling — he produced his major work Arcana of Spiritualism (1871) under spirit guidance. His writings were quoted by the materialist philosopher Büchner in Force and Matter and by Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man, both of whom were unaware that the author was an uneducated Ohio farmer. He remained a working farmer in Berlin Heights, Ohio, throughout his life.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1910) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist author and seer, born in Berlin Heights, Ohio, and self-taught on his family's farm. He produced trance and automatic writings and authored *Scenes in the Spirit World* (1855) and *Arcana of Spiritualism* (1871), which set out a naturalistic account of spirit communication and mediumship. With his wife, Emma Rood Tuttle, he edited Spiritualist journals and directed state associations. Died in 1910.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/tuttle-hudson-1836-1910
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Tuttle, Marjorie
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American Theosophist, author, and administrator, born in California. She was Head of the Lotus Bureau at the Theosophical headquarters at Krotona, Hollywood, where she designed Sunday-school curricula to teach theosophy to children, and served as National Representative of the
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Twain, Mark
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens, 1835–1910), the American author, whose interest in mental telegraphy and dream-life, and whose "spirit"-dictated apocrypha, appear in the psychical press.
Related Periodicals: Patience Worth's Magazine
Twining, Harry LaVerne
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Harry LaVerne Twining (1874–1956) was an American physics teacher who wrote on the weighing of the soul and the physical basis of astral projection.
Related Periodicals: Impulse
Tyana, Apollonius of
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Apollonius of Tyana (c. 15–100), the Neopythagorean sage and wonder-worker whose life (by Philostratus) made him an archetype of the ancient adept, often compared with Christ in esoteric literature.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Ancient Greek Neopythagorean philosopher and ascetic, born in Tyana, Cappadocia. He taught Pythagorean philosophy and travelled across Greece, Persia, Egypt, and India, advocating vegetarianism and the silent worship of the supreme deity. His life was documented by the historian Philostratus, and his reputation as a wonderworker influenced the development of Neoplatonism and Western Hermeticism.
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Tyberg, Judith
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Judith Tyberg (1902–1980) was an American Theosophist and Sanskrit scholar, a student of Sri Aurobindo who founded the East-West Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American Sanskrit scholar, Theosophist, and educator, also known as Jyotipriya, born at the Point Loma Theosophical Community. She studied under G. de Purucker and taught at the Theosophical University. After time at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in India, she founded the East-West Cultural Center in Los Angeles in 1953. Author of *The Language of the Gods* (1940).
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Tybert, M.M.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American Theosophist, educator, and editor at the
Related Periodicals: Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
Tyerman, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Australian Free-Methodist-turned-Spiritualist (1838–1880), the blog’s exemplar case.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1880) Nineteenth-century British-born Australian Spiritualist, lecturer, and freethinker, born in England, who emigrated to Australia around 1864. Originally an ordained clergyman, he converted to Spiritualism and became a popular platform lecturer in Melbourne and Sydney. He delivered the lecture *Spiritualism as a Destructive and Constructive System* at Doughty Hall, London, in 1879, edited reform journals, and published booklets. Died in Sydney in 1880.
Chasing Emma: Cut By Her Own Sword: EHB in New Zealand; 1879
Chasing Emma: John Tyerman: 1838-1880
Chasing Emma: Sampling the Queue: Tyerman-Slaters-EHB
Tyndall, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John Tyndall (1820–1893), the Irish physicist and materialist popularizer of science; cited here in a periodical context (often as a foil to Spiritualism).
Related Periodicals: Freethinkers Magazine
Tyner, Mathilde Hoehn
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American New Thought teacher, healer, and author who practiced as a metaphysician in Denver, Colorado. With her husband, the editor Paul Tyner, she co-founded the
Related Periodicals: The Temple
Tyner, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Paul Tyner was an American New Thought editor and lecturer around 1900, author of The Living Christ and a promoter of "physical regeneration" and immortality.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American journalist, editor, and New Thought writer. With his wife, Mathilde Hoehn Tyner, he founded and edited the monthly journal *The Temple* (1897–1898) in Denver, and from 1898 edited *The Arena* for two years. His experience of cosmic consciousness was included in Richard Maurice Bucke's *Cosmic Consciousness* (1901).
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Uden, Konrad Friedrich
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Konrad Friedrich Uden (1754–1823) was a German physician who wrote on animal magnetism in its early scientific reception.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century German physician, editor, and author, born in Stendal, who studied medicine at the University of Halle and became a professor of pathology in St. Petersburg. He founded and edited the periodical *Archiv für Freimäurer und Rosenkreuzer* in Berlin and authored *Fragments pro and con Freemasonry* (1782).
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Underhill, Howard
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American astrologer, editor, and occultist, born in New York. He served as Vice-President of the American Academy of Astrologians in New York City and edited the astrology department of *Azoth: The Occult Magazine of America* (1917–1921), writing astrological essays including *Set and Seb* and *Amun or Amen*.
Related Periodicals: Azoth
Underhill, S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Samuel Underhill (1795–1879) was an American physician and lecturer on mesmerism ("electro-biology") who moved into Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1877) Nineteenth-century American physician, editor, and animal magnetist, born in New York. He founded and edited *Annals of Animal Magnetism* (1838) in Cleveland, Ohio, one of the first American periodicals devoted to the subject, and authored *Underhill on Mesmerism*. He also co-founded Owenite cooperative communities on the Hudson River. Died in 1877.
Chasing Emma: Launch Party: February 7; 1885
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Underwood, B.F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Benjamin Franklin Underwood (1839–1914) was an American free-thought lecturer and editor who, with his wife Sara, edited liberal and psychical-research journals.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American secularist, freethinker, journalist, and lecturer, born in New York City, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He lectured widely on evolution and secular ethics and, in 1887, founded and edited *The Open Court* in Chicago. Author of *The Influence of Christianity on Civilization* (1871).
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Underwood, Sara A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Sara A. Underwood (1838–1911) was an American free-thought and Spiritualist writer, co-editor with her husband B. F. Underwood and author of Automatic or Spirit Writing.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century English-born American freethought lecturer, editor, and reformer, born in Penrith, England, who married the freethinker Benjamin Franklin Underwood in 1862. She advocated woman suffrage and liberal religion, served as treasurer of the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts, co-edited the Boston *Index*, was associate editor of *The Open Court*, and edited the
Related Periodicals: The Golden Way | The Open Court
Urban, Hugh B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Hugh B. Urban is an American scholar of religion, a specialist in Tantra, secrecy, and modern esoteric and new religious movements.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) American scholar of religious studies and professor of comparative studies at Ohio State University, whose work addresses new religious movements, Western esotericism, and South Asian Tantra. Author of *Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power* (2003), *Magia Sexualis* (2006), and *The
Related Periodicals: International Journal of the Tantrick Order
Ustick, T.W.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American printer and publisher based in St. Louis, Missouri. He printed and published the monthly periodical *The St. Louis Magnet* (1845–1849), an early platform for coverage of Andrew Jackson Davis and Joseph Rodes Buchanan, and promoted animal magnetism and spiritual philosophy.
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Utke, Allen
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American chemist, ufologist, and author. Born in Wisconsin, he was a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. He co-founded the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in 1969 and served as an early director. Authored *Bio-Babel* (1978) and essays on cosmic cosmology and the "IRAM" (Immediate Reality and Meaning) quest, arguing for the reconciliation of science and faith.
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Vail, Isaac Newton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Isaac Newton Vail (1840–1912) was an American Quaker schoolteacher who propounded the "Annular" (canopy) theory of the earth's watery envelopes, influential in occult and flood-myth speculation.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1912) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American Quaker educator, schoolteacher, and theorist who formulated the "annular theory" (Canopy Theory) to reconcile biblical flood narratives with geology. Born in Barnesville, Ohio. Authored *The Earth's Aqueous Ring: or The Deluge and its Cause* (1874) and *The Waters Above the Firmament*. His work focused on a highly complex, Saturn-like water ring hypothesis, suggesting that the collapse of a toroidal ice canopy caused the historical Deluge and fossilization. Died in California in 1912.
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Vale, Gilbert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) American freethinker and author of an Elements of Astronomy, tied to astro-Masonic origins (1855).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1866) Nineteenth-century British-born American freethinker, author, and teacher of navigation. Born in England, he studied for the ministry before abandoning orthodox faith and emigrating to New York City, where he worked as a teacher of navigation and editor. He co-founded and edited the freethought journal *The Beacon*, organized and raised funds to erect the Thomas Paine Monument in New Rochelle in 1839, and authored a biography of Paine. Died in 1866.
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Chasing Emma: The Elements of Astronomy and Gilbert Vale
Chasing Emma: Southwell's Dupuis: Circa 1850
Chasing Emma: The Price Of These Three in One Is Twenty-Five Cents: The Origin of Astro-Masonry; and Gilbert Vale; 1855
Valjien, Cena San Lu
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American vaudeville performer, musician, and mentalist. Billed as a "wizard on the Hawaiian guitar" on the Orpheum circuit, she also studied practical numerology and mentalism, appearing as the onstage partner and wife of the publisher and mentalist Burton V. Brookhart (known professionally as Dr. Pierre Valjien), with whom she ran touring performances, character consultancies, and publishing ventures.
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Vallee, Jacques F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Jacques Vallée (b. 1939) is a French-American astronomer, computer scientist, and UFO researcher who advanced an "interdimensional" and folkloric interpretation of the phenomenon.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth- and twenty-first-century French-born computer scientist, venture capitalist, and ufologist. Born in Pontoise, France, he took a doctorate in computer science at Northwestern University and co-developed the first computerized database of UFO sightings for the United States Air Force. He proposed the "interdimensional hypothesis," which holds that UFOs represent multidimensional consciousness rather than extraterrestrial spacecraft. Authored *Passport to Magonia* (1969) and *Anatomy of a Phenomenon*.
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Valsan, Michel
(Source: Gemini) (?–1974) Twentieth-century Romanian-born French diplomat, scholar, and Sufi master, known under his initiatory name Shaykh Mustafa 'Abd al-'Aziz. Born in Romania, he devoted himself to René Guénon's Traditionalist school, translating and commenting on the writings of the medieval Sufi Ibn Arabi and contributing many essays to the journal *Études Traditionnelles*. He founded and directed the Alawiyya Sufi order in Bucharest and Paris. Died in 1974.
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Van Amburgh, F.D.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Fred De Witt Van Amburgh, the American New Thought / business-inspiration writer; see the "Amburgh, Fred De Witt" entry.
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van Calcar, Elise
(Source: Gemini) (?–1904) Nineteenth-century Dutch feminist, novelist, pedagogue, and author (born Eliza Carolina Ferdinanda Fleischacker), a leader of the early Spiritualist movement in the Netherlands. Born in Amsterdam. In 1877 she founded and edited *Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden* (On the Borders of Two Worlds), a Dutch monthly journal of Christian spiritualism that ran for twenty-nine annual volumes. She promoted Friedrich Fröbel's kindergarten methods and ran welfare organizations and séance circles in Wassenaar. Died in 1904.
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Van Hook, Weller
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Weller Van Hook (1862–1933) was an American surgeon and Theosophist, a general secretary of the American Section and defender of C. W. Leadbeater.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1933) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American surgeon, educator, author, and theosophist. Born in Indiana, he was Chairman of Surgery at Northwestern University and developed the Van Hook surgical operation in 1896. Introduced to theosophy by C. Jinarajadasa, he served five years as General Secretary of the American
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van Jostenoode, Paul Harald Arjuna Gravell
(Source: Gemini) (?–1932) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German-born theosophist, editor, and author associated with the German occult revival and Ariosophy, generally known as Harald Grävell van Jostenoode. He worked on Eastern religions, runic mysticism, and pan-German nationalism. After the death of Franz Hartmann in 1912 he assumed the chief editorship of the esoteric journal *Neue Lotusblüten*, and contributed to *Ostara*, setting out a program for the restoration of Aryan authority. Died in 1932.
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Van Poortvliet, Marie Tak
(Source: Gemini) (?–1936) Early twentieth-century Dutch art collector, patron, and agricultural reformer. With her life partner, the painter Jacoba van Heemskerck, she promoted abstract art and Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy, translating several of Steiner's works into Dutch. In 1926 she co-founded and financed "Cultuur Mij Loverendale," the first biodynamic farming company in the Netherlands, and assembled an art collection including works by Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian. Died in 1936.
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Van Tassel, Dorris
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American ufologist and administrator (born Eva Dorris Dennis). Married to the contactee George Van Tassel; after his death in 1978 she became President and Executive Director of the
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Van Vleck, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) A ‘Van Vleck’ named in the blog’s ‘Skepticism as a Trope.’
Chasing Emma: Skepticism as a Trope
Vandekerkhove, August
(Source: Gemini) (?–1923) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Belgian writer, painter, playwright, and occultist, known under the pseudonym S.U. Zanne, and founder of "Cosmosophy." Born in Kanegem, Belgium, he worked on Gnostic theology, Kabbalah, and the zodiac. He is credited with coining "the Age of Aquarius" in the French feminist magazine *La Fronde* (1890) and published *Le Savoir D'Astarot* (1900). Died in 1923.
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van Vliet, C. J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Vanderbilt, Commodore
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt (1794–1877), the American railroad and shipping magnate, who consulted Spiritualist mediums (including the sisters Woodhull and Claflin).
(Source: Gemini) American shipping and railroad magnate (1794–1877), builder of a vast fortune in steamships and the New York Central Railroad; in later life he consulted Spiritualist mediums and magnetic healers.
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Varley, C.F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Cromwell Fleetwood Varley (1828–1883) was an English electrical engineer of the transatlantic cable, a Spiritualist who applied instruments to test the medium Florence Cook.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century English electrical engineer, inventor, and researcher, chief engineer for the Electric and International Telegraph Company and a contributor to the transatlantic telegraph cable. A self-proclaimed medium and Spiritualist, he investigated the physical forces of the séance room, co-invented a galvanometer with William Crookes, and applied telegraphic instruments to test the medium Florence Cook. In 1871 he published a paper proposing that cathode rays were streams of electrical particles.
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Five: Setting The Scene for Emma
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Part Four: Philosophizing with a Battery
Chasing Emma: Spirit People: W. H. Harrison's Conversion Process
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Varley, Ellen Rouse
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Ellen Rouse, wife of Cromwell Fleetwood Varley; named with Marshall, Houghton and Slater.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British-born medium, artist, and socialite. She married the telegraph engineer Cromwell Fleetwood Varley in 1855 and gave séance demonstrations of trance remote viewing, telepathy, and spirit writing through a code of raps, which helped persuade her husband to investigate Spiritualism. She held séance circles in London and married Ion Hanford Perdicaris in 1872.
Chasing Emma: Spirit People: W. H. Harrison's Conversion Process
Varley, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John Varley (1778–1842) was an English watercolour painter and astrologer, a friend of William Blake and recorder of Blake's "Visionary Heads."
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English watercolour painter, art teacher, and astrologer. Born in Hackney, London, he co-founded the Old Watercolour Society in 1805 and studied astrology and physiognomy. With his friend William Blake he co-created the "Visionary Heads" (1819–1820) sketchbooks, documenting Blake's visions including *The Ghost of a Flea*, and authored *A Treatise on Zodiacal Physiognomy* (1828).
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Five: Setting The Scene for Emma
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Four: The Countess of Blessington's Magician
Chasing Emma: Stanhope's Tutor
Chasing Emma: More Light On John Varley The Elder
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Varley, Richard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Father of the painter John Varley, named in ‘Stanhope’s Tutor.’
Chasing Emma: Stanhope's Tutor
Varley, Samuel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Associated with ‘the Countess’s crystal’ across the blog’s ‘The Call’ series.
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Five: Setting The Scene for Emma
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Four: The Countess of Blessington's Magician
Vaschide, N.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Nicolae Vaschide (1874–1907) was a Romanian-French psychologist, a specialist in the study of sleep, dreams, and the psychology of "psychical" states.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1907) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Romanian psychologist and psychiatrist. Born in Buzău, Romania, he studied under Édouard Toulouse in France and worked at the Sorbonne and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. His research covered the psychophysiology of the hand, attention, sleep disorders, and telepathic hallucinations, in collaboration with Alfred Binet and Henri Piéron. He co-authored *The Technique of Experimental Psychology* (1904) and the posthumous *Les hallucinations télépathiques* (1908). Died in 1907.
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Vaughan, Bernard
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Vaughan, Diana
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Diana Vaughan" was the fictitious "repentant Palladist" invented by Léo Taxil in his great anti-Masonic hoax, exposed in 1897.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Fictitious figure at the centre of the Taxil Hoax, the anti-Masonic deception of the late nineteenth century. Invented by the French anti-clerical writer Léo Taxil (Gabriel-Antoine Jogand-Pagès), she was presented as a former high priestess of a devil-worshipping Masonic order, "Palladism," who had converted to Catholicism and written sensational confessions. The claims drew praise from Pope Leo XIII before Taxil publicly confessed the hoax at a Paris press conference in April 1897.
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Vaught, Emily H.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American publisher, editor, and phrenologist. After the death of her husband, the phrenologist Louis Allen Vaught, in May 1903, she directed his publishing enterprises, editing and revising his textbook *Vaught's Practical Character Reader* (1907) and managing the journals *Human Faculty* and *Human Culture* alongside Dr. Victor Gabriel Rocine. She directed the
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Vaught, Louis A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Louis A. Vaught was an American phrenologist, author of the widely sold Vaught's Practical Character Reader (1902).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1903) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American phrenologist, physiognomist, publisher, and author. Based in Chicago, he founded the
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Vause, John J.
Attorney, and the leading defender of mail-order mages haled before the US Post Office on fraud orders, in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode 9: Lawyering Up
Vay, Catharina
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Vay, Oedoen
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Vellma, La
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Vescelius, Eva Augusta
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Vesceliussheldon, Louise
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Viatte, Auguste
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Vidya, Bhagat Brahma
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Vidya, Brahma
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Vincent, Count St
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
von Klenner, Katharine Evans
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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von Lippmann, Edmund O.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
von Reichenbach, Carl
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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von Sebottendorff, Rudolf
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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von Vay, Baroness Adelma
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Baroness Adelma von Vay (1840–1925) was a Hungarian-Austrian aristocrat, medium, and prolific Spiritist author, a leading figure of Central European Spiritualism. (Also "von Vay, Baroness Adelma.")
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Austrian-Hungarian medium, writer, and natural healer, a pioneer of the Spiritualist movement in Central Europe. Born Countess Adelaide von Wurmbrand-Stuppach in Galicia, she married Baron Ödön von Vay and practised automatic writing, magnetic healing, and homeopathy. She authored *Geist, Kraft, Stoff* (Spirit, Power, and Matter, 1869), which she claimed to have written mediumistically, setting out a system of Christian Spiritualism and reincarnation, and ran publications and study circles.
Chasing Emma: Silence After Carnage: More On The (Von) Vay Excavation
Chasing Emma: Adelma's Adjutant: Caroline Corner (1855-1913)
Chasing Emma: Adelma's Translator: More on Robert E. Shiller
Chasing Emma: The Spiritualist Internationale
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Veillith, Raymond
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century French amateur astronomer, editor, and ufologist. In February 1958 at Chambon-sur-Lignon he launched *Lumières dans la Nuit* (LDLN) to document "mysterious celestial objects." He edited it from 1958 to 1988, making it the leading French ufological periodical, featuring contributions from Jacques Vallée and Aimé Michel, and later broadening its scope to organic agriculture, vegetarianism, and spiritual philosophy.
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Velasquez, Enrique
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Mexican spiritist author, editor, and leader in the development of Kardecist Spiritism in Mexico. For decades he was chief editor and publisher of the periodical *El Siglo Espírita* (founded 1906 under Antonio Becerra y Castro) and first editor of its successor journal *Helios*, the organ of the second Mexican spiritualist congress, working to organize Kardecist spiritist societies at a national and Latin American level.
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Velloso, Domingos Duarte
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Brazilian merchant, printer, politician, and Spiritist leader in Paraná. Born in Curitiba, where he served as a city councilor and was a Freemason. He co-founded the Federação Espírita do Paraná (FEP), serving as its treasurer and as chief editor of its journal *A Doutrina*, and ran a section titled 'Espiritismo e Catholicismo' defending Spiritism against Catholic criticism.
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Venetian, Paul the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Ascended Master in the teachings of Theosophy, the 'I AM' Activity, and the
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Verlage, Josephine
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American New Thought leader, writer, and teacher, based in New York. She served on the Executive and Advisory Committees of the
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Vernon, W. John
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century British mesmerist, lecturer, and healer. He gave 'Mesmeric Matinées' and public lectures in London, treating subjects of magnetic somnambulism, telepathy, and brain function, which he conceptualized as a galvanic battery possessing the positive and negative powers of electricity, and demonstrated the analgesic and anaesthetic effects of mesmerism.
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Verrill, Merton
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American medium, editor, and Spiritualist leader in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He served as president of the Spiritualist Mediums' Alliance, and in June 1920 founded and edited *The Spiritualist Messenger*, the Alliance's monthly organ.
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Verweyen, J.M.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1945) Twentieth-century German philosopher, theologian, author, and theosophist who served as General Secretary of the
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de Vesme, Cesare Baudi
(Source: Gemini) (?–1938) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century Italian-French psychical researcher, author, and editor. Born in Turin, he trained in law before turning to parapsychology, translating spiritist works and editing *Annales des sciences psychiques* and *Revue métapsychique* in Paris. He authored *A History of Experimental Spiritualism*, which won a prize from the French Academy of Sciences, and defended an empirical, non-dogmatic approach to psychical phenomena. Died in Paris in 1938.
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Vetterling, Carl Herman
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Carl Herman Vetterling (1849–1931), "Philangi Dasa," was a Swedish-American Swedenborgian-Buddhist who published The Buddhist Ray, the first Buddhist magazine in the United States.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1931) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Swedish-born American Swedenborgian, homeopath, and early Buddhist, who wrote under the pseudonym Philangi Dasa. He initially served as a minister in the Church of the New Jerusalem before turning to the relationship between Swedenborg's writings and Eastern mysticism. In 1887 he founded and edited *The Buddhist Ray*, the first Buddhist periodical published in the United States, and authored *Swedenborg the Buddhist* (1887) and *The Illuminate of Goerlitz* (1923), a study of Jacob Böhme. Died in 1931.
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Via, Jose de
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century Spanish theosophist, Martinist leader, and author who wrote under the pseudonym Persival. He was a regular contributor to the Spanish theosophical periodical *El Loto Blanco*, writing on theosophical education and mental training, and in the 1970s served as National Sovereign Delegate of the Ordre Martiniste in Spain.
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Viana, Angel Rojas
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Mid-twentieth-century Spanish-born theosophist, educator, editor, and author. Born in Spain, he relocated to Colombia, where he edited and directed the monthly periodical *Ariel* (Colombia, 1938–1947), organ of the Sociedad Académica de Estudios Esotéricos and the Universidad Espiritual de Colombia.
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Victor, Frances Fuller
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) American journalist and historian who wrote as ‘Florence Fane’ for The Golden Era.
Chasing Emma: October 1862: Emma Goes On The Stump
Victoria, Queen
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Georgiana Eagle: Queen Victoria's Medium (Not)
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Vie-Parodi, Victor
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century French novelist, editor, and metaphysician who approached comparative religion, folklore, and esotericism from a critical, rationalist standpoint. In 1931 he co-founded and served as literary editor of the monthly *Croire (Revue Critique, Documentaire et de Vulgarisation des Croyances)*, and wrote serialized novels of prehistoric reconstitution and essays on the 'Cult of Nature.'
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Viereck, George Sylvester
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) George Sylvester Viereck (1884–1962) was a German-American poet, journalist, and propagandist, author of occult and vampire fiction (The House of the Vampire).
(Source: Gemini) German-American poet, novelist, and publisher (1884–1962), author of the Gothic novel The House of the Vampire (1907), later imprisoned as a Nazi propagandist.
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Villa, Pancho
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Pancho Villa (1878–1923), the Mexican revolutionary general; cited here in a periodical context.
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Villar, Victor
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spanish-born Mexican merchant, publisher, and Spiritist leader. Born in Laguardia, Spain, he relocated to Mexico and in 1899 co-founded the Círculo Espiritista 'Amor y Progreso' in Cuautla, Morelos. He founded, financed, and edited the Kardecist monthly *Obrero Espírita* (1906–1913). His wife was the medium Mathilde Rivera de Villar.
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Vintras, Eugene
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Pierre-Michel-Eugène Vintras (1807–1875) was a French factory foreman who proclaimed himself the prophet of a new age, founding the heterodox "Œuvre de la Miséricorde," condemned by Rome. (Also "Vintras, Pierre-Michel-Elie.")
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century French religious mystic and sectarian leader in the French occult revival, founder of the Œuvre de la Miséricorde (Work of Mercy). Born in Bayeux, Normandy, he worked as a cardboard-factory manager before claiming visions of the Archangel Michael, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph in 1839 and declaring himself a reincarnation of the prophet Elijah. He authored *L'Évangile Éternel* and led congregations at Tilly-sur-Seulles and Lyon despite condemnation by Pope Gregory XVI.
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Virat, Lavedi
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late twentieth-century American metaphysician, publisher, and author based in Fairbanks, Alaska. She founded and directed the Vortex Institute and edited the quarterly *The Uni-Com Guide* (also published as *The Vortex*) during the 1970s, writing on parapsychology, yoga, meditation, and New Age philosophy.
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Vivekananda, Swami
Swami Vivekananda (Narendranath Datta, 1863–1902) was the foremost disciple of Ramakrishna and the monk whose electrifying address at the 1893 World's
(Source: Gemini) (?–1902) Nineteenth-century Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, and orator (born Narendranath Datta), a principal figure in introducing Vedanta and Yoga to the West. A disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahansa, he delivered an address at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, founded the Ramakrishna Mission and the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda
Related Organizations:
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Vives, Miguel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Miguel Vives i Vives (1842–1906) was a Catalan Spiritist, a revered moral teacher and healer in the Spanish Spiritist movement.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1906) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spanish Spiritist, homeopath, musician, and author, known as the 'Apóstol del Bien.' Born in Barcelona, he worked as a medium and co-founded the Federation of the Vallés, later the Federación Catalana de Espiritismo. He authored *Guía Práctica del Espiritista* (1894) and *El Tesoro de los Espiritistas*, and ran health clinics and charitable kitchens in Terrassa. Died in 1906.
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Vleck, William Van
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: A Short Life of Willam L. F. Van Vleck; Medium | Detective
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Voe, Walter De
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American New Thought author, publisher, and healer. In 1904 he authored *Healing Currents from the Battery of Life* and established the
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Vogt, A.E. Van
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) A. E. van Vogt (1912–2000), the Canadian-American science-fiction author, an early promoter of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics. (Also "Vogt, Mayne Van.")
(Source: Gemini) Canadian-American science-fiction author (A. E. van Vogt, 1912–2000), a leading writer of science fiction's "Golden Age" (Slan, The World of Null-A) and an early proponent of Dianetics.
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Volguine, Alexandre
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Alexandre Volguine (1903–1976) was a Russian-French astrologer and editor, a student of ancient and "lunar" astrology.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1976) Twentieth-century French astrologer, author, and researcher, born in Russia. He worked on ancient planetary systems, Hermetic symbolism, and lunar astrology, and in 1937 founded and edited *Les Cahiers Astrologiques*. He authored *The Ruler of the Nativity* and *The Technique of Solar Returns*. Died in 1976.
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Voliva, Wilbur Glenn
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Wilbur Glenn Voliva (1870–1942) succeeded Dowie as ruler of Zion City, Illinois, running it as a theocracy and famously preaching a flat earth.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American religious leader, author, and flat-earth advocate who controlled the theocratic community of Zion, Illinois. He studied theology at Hiram College and ministered in Ohio and Australia before joining John Alexander Dowie's Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in 1899, later running Zion's industries and its radio station WCBD. He taught that the earth is a flat circular plane enclosed by an ice wall and offered five thousand dollars to anyone who could disprove it under his terms.
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Vollrath, Hugo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Hugo Vollrath (1877–1943) was a German Theosophist and publisher who founded the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century German publisher, occultist, and author active in the Theosophical movement in Germany. In 1906 he founded the Theosophical Publishing House in Leipzig, which issued occult periodicals including *Prana* (1909–1919) and *Theosophie*. His interpretation of theosophy and his administrative methods brought him into conflict with Rudolf Steiner, contributing to a schism within the German Section of the
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von Bunsen, Christian
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Baron Christian von Bunsen, Prussian diplomat and scholar, in the blog’s Rugby discussions (1837).
Chasing Emma: The de Bunsens And Mesmerism
Chasing Emma: The Nature of Prophecy: Baron Bunsen and Dr. Arnold; 1837
von Bunsen, Frances Waddington
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Frances Waddington, Baroness von Bunsen, the memoirist wife of Christian von Bunsen.
Chasing Emma: The Nature of Prophecy: Baron Bunsen and Dr. Arnold; 1837
von Eckhartshausen, Karl
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Karl von Eckartshausen (1752–1803) was a Bavarian mystic and writer whose The Cloud upon the Sanctuary described a hidden "interior Church," a key text for later esoteric Christianity (and A. E. Waite).
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Eighteenth-century German mystic, philosopher, and author, and an electoral councillor in Bavaria, who wrote on the inner spiritual life, alchemy, and Hermeticism. His best-known work, *The Cloud upon the Sanctuary*, was translated into English by Isabel de Steiger and annotated by Arthur Edward Waite; his mystical letters were later cited as a source of inspiration for the
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von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Nees
To be added.
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von Racowitza, Helene
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Helene von Racowitza (1845–1911) was a German actress and writer, famous as the woman over whom Ferdinand Lassalle died in a duel, later a Spiritualist and Theosophical sympathizer.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century German actress and author, born Helene von Dönniges and also known as Helene von Schewitsch. She was the woman over whom the social-democratic leader Ferdinand Lassalle was killed in an 1864 duel with her fiancé, Prince Iancu Racoviță. After her first husband's death she worked as a professional actress, later married the Russian socialist Sergei Shevitch, and lived for a time in America. She became a follower of Rudolf Steiner's theosophical teachings and wrote *Princess Helene von Racowitza: An Autobiography* (1910).
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von Reichenbach, Karl
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.72) Baron Karl von Reichenbach, German chemist and proponent of the ‘odic force.’
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century German chemist, geologist, and industrialist who discovered paraffin, creosote, and the synthetic dye pittacal. In his later years he researched what he called the Odic force, a purported energy combining electricity, magnetism, and heat and emanating from living things, and wrote *The Odic Force: Letters on Od and Magnetism*. Born in Stuttgart; doctorate at the University of Tübingen; member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Part Two: In The Soup
von Schrenck-Notzing, Albert
To be added.
Schrenck-Notzing, Albert von. Albert von Schrenck-Notzing (1862-1929) was a German physician, sexologist, and pioneering investigator of physical mediumship. Based in Munich, he conducted extensive controlled studies of several European physical mediums, above all the French medium Eva C. (Marthe Béraud), whose ectoplasmic materialisations he documented in photographs and film. His book Phenomena of Materialisation (1913) remains one of the most detailed accounts of laboratory investigation of physical phenomena.
Related Periodicals: Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie | Annales des Sciences Psychiques | Revue Metapsychique | Zeitschrift fur Kritischen Okkultismus
Related Monographs: Phenomena of Materialisation: A Contribution to the Investigation of Mediumistic Teleplastics (1920)
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(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Baron Albert von Schrenck-Notzing (1862–1929), the German physician and psychical researcher of ectoplasm; a spelling variant of the "Notzing, Schrenck" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1929) German physician, psychiatrist, and parapsychologist. Born in Oldenburg and trained in medicine at the University of Munich, he established one of the first laboratories for experimental parapsychology in Germany and investigated the physical mediums Eva Carrière and Rudi Schneider. He wrote *Phenomena of Materialisation* (1914), which used flashlight photography and medical controls to document alleged materialization phenomena. Died in Munich in 1929.
von Struve, Gustav
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Gustav Struve (1805–1870) was a German revolutionary of 1848, a vegetarian, phrenologist, and reform enthusiast.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century German lawyer, publicist, and revolutionary, active in the Baden Revolution of 1848–1849 and later in American social reform. A phrenologist and an early leader of the German vegetarian movement, he advocated republicanism and separation of church and state and wrote *Pflanzenkost, die Grundlage einer Neuen Weltanschauung* (1869). Born in Munich; legal studies at the University of Göttingen.
Related Periodicals: Zeitschrift fur Phrenologie
Vorel, Irys
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Mid-twentieth-century American astrologer, writer, and tarot specialist, pseudonym of Margaret B. Bridgman. She served as astrology editor of *Current Astrology* alongside Helen Haas, wrote the novel *Venus Beware* (1933), and contributed instructional essays to *Fate* magazine, introducing a Yes/No tarot divination spread.
Related Periodicals: Current Astrology
Voronoff, Serge
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Serge Voronoff (1866–1951) was a Russian-French surgeon notorious for "rejuvenation" by grafting monkey-gland tissue into human patients.
Related Periodicals: Ideal et Realite
Vos, Calvin
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Future Home Journal
Related Monographs: The Unfinished Work of the United States: Its Origin, Mission and Destiny as Revealed in Its Unused Seal and the Holy Scriptures (1921)
Vulliaud, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Paul Vulliaud (1875–1950) was a French painter and scholar of the Kabbalah and Christian esotericism.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1950) Twentieth-century French writer, translator, painter, and scholar of Christian Kabbalah and Hebrew scripture, specializing in the Zohar. His principal work is the two-volume *La Kabbale Juive* (1923); he also translated works by Dante, Shakespeare, and Solomon ibn Gabirol. Born in Lyon; studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. Died in 1950.
Related Periodicals: Echo du Merveilleux | Entretiens Idealistes | Ignis | L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique | L'Initiation
Related Monographs: Histoires et Portraits des Rose-Croix (1936)
Wachmeister, Constance
To be added.
Related Periodicals: The Pacific Theosophist | Theosophical Siftings
Wachtmeister, Constance
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Countess Constance Wachtmeister (1838–1910) was a Swedish-English Theosophist and the close companion of H. P. Blavatsky during the writing of The Secret Doctrine. (Also "Wachmeister, Constance.")
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century theosophist, editor, and author, born Constance Georgina Louise de Bourbel de Montpincon. Born in Florence, she married Count Carl Wachtmeister, a Swedish diplomat, and lived in Stockholm; after his death she joined the
Related Periodicals: Vahan (Blavatsky)
Wackerman, Olive
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Named in ‘The Seeker and the Serial Con’; H. Spencer Lewis appears alongside.
Chasing Emma: The Seeker and the Serial Con: More on the Mystic Brotherhood
Wackerman, Ralph A.
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American publisher and Rosicrucian leader, based in Tampa, Florida. He served as Supreme Grand Master of the
Chasing Emma: The Seeker and the Serial Con: More on the Mystic Brotherhood
Related Periodicals: The Mystic Messenger
Waddell, L. A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons (1924)
Waddell, Laurence Austine
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons (1924)
Waddell, Leila
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Leila Waddell (1880–1932) was an Australian violinist and a "Scarlet Woman" and ritual collaborator of Aleister Crowley (the "Rites of Eleusis").
(Source: Gemini) (?–1932) Twentieth-century Australian violinist and occultist, known by the magical name Laylah. Born in Bathurst, New South Wales, she worked as a professional violinist before moving to London in 1908, where she became a collaborator and lover of Aleister Crowley. As the Scarlet Woman of Crowley's order the A∴A∴, she contributed to *Book 4* (Liber ABA) and performed in the *Rites of Eleusis* (1910). Died in 1932.
Related Periodicals: Equinox
Wade, Joseph M.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century British-born American textile manufacturer, editor, and spiritualist. He published the monthly periodical *Occultism* (1891–1895) and edited *Posthumous Memoirs of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky* (1896), which he claimed was dictated by Blavatsky's spirit through a typewriter operated by the spirit of George W. Stephens and supervised by the spirit of its inventor, G.W.N. Yost. Born in England.
Related Periodicals: Greeley | Occultism (The Key of Nature)
Wadia, B.P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Bahman Pestonji Wadia (1881–1958) was an Indian Theosophist and labor organizer who left Adyar for the
Related Periodicals: The Aryan Path | Faro Oriental | Theosophic Gleaner | Theosophical Movement
Related Monographs: The Inner Ruler (1922)
Wadia, Bahman Pestonji
(Source: Gemini) (?–1958) Late nineteenth and twentieth-century Indian theosophist, labor organizer, and author, known as B.P. Wadia. Born in Mumbai, he joined the Adyar
Related Periodicals: Theosophic Gleaner
Wadia, Sofia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Sophia Wadia (1901–1986) was a Colombian-Indian Theosophist, co-founder of the Indian Institute of World Culture and editor of the review The Aryan Path. (Also "Wadia, Sophia.")
Related Periodicals: La Idea (Buenos Aires)
Wadia, Sophia
(Source: Gemini) (?–1986) Twentieth-century Colombian-born naturalized Indian theosophist, editor, and author, born Sophia Camacho. Educated in Paris, London, and New York, she married B.P. Wadia in 1928 and moved to India, co-founding branches of the
Related Periodicals: The Aryan Path
Wagner, Edward A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American astrologer, editor, and author. Born in Philadelphia, he relocated to Hollywood, founded and edited *The National Astrological Journal* (1933–1935), and served for decades as chief editor of Dell's *Horoscope Magazine*. He also wrote annual guides and astrological handbooks.
Related Periodicals: Horoscope (Dell) | Journal of the National Astrological Association | National Astrological Journal
Wagner, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) Henry Wagner was an American Spiritualist associated with the movement's press in the later nineteenth century; details uncertain.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American physician, publisher, and occultist, based in Denver, Colorado, active in the
Related Periodicals: The Mountain Pine | The Platonist
Wagner, Inez
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American Spiritualist medium and pastor, active in the Midwest and later California, where she was pastor of the Progressive Society of Truthseekers in Los Angeles. Known as a trumpet medium for direct-voice communication, she was visited in May 1923 by Arthur Conan Doyle, who described her séance in *Our Second American Adventure* (1924). She also held message services at the Mississippi Valley Spiritualists Association.
Related Periodicals: Psychic Century
Waisbrooker, Lois
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Lois Waisbrooker (1826–1909) was an American Spiritualist, free-love, and women's-rights writer and editor, repeatedly prosecuted for her radical sex-reform publishing.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American individualist feminist, anarchist, and spiritualist author and editor, born Adeline Eliza Nichols, associated with the free-love and sex-radical movements. She worked as a spirit medium and linked spiritualism with social reform, wrote *Helen Harlow's Vow* (1871) and *A Sex Revolution* (1894), and edited the journals *Clothed with the Sun* and *Foundation Principles*. She was twice prosecuted under the federal Comstock laws.
Chasing Emma: The White Leaves of History [4]: Fast Forward
Chasing Emma: Haven Of All The Cults: March 1905
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Waite, Arthur Edward
Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942) was a British poet, mystic, and author who was one of the most prolific and influential writers on occultism and Western esotericism of his era. An early member of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and twentieth-century American-born British occultist, scholar, and author, co-creator of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck. Born in Brooklyn, he moved to Britain as a child and became a writer on Western esotericism, translating alchemical, Kabbalistic, and Hermetic texts. He joined and later led the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and co-designed the RWS tarot with the artist Pamela Colman Smith in 1909. His works include *The Pictorial Key to the Tarot* and *The Holy Kabbalah*.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._Waite
Chasing Emma: A Prominent and Peculiar Personality: A. E. Waite on James Burns
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Related Monographs: Saint-Martin, the French Mystic, and the Story of Modern Martinism (1922), The History of Magic, Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of Its Procedure, Its Rites and Its Mysteries (1922)
Waite, C.B.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American lawyer, judge, suffragist, and freethinker. Born in Wayne County, New York, he served as an appointed associate justice of the Utah Supreme Court under Abraham Lincoln, co-edited reform journals with his wife, the feminist author Catherine Van Valkenburg Waite, and wrote *History of the Christian Religion to the Year Two Hundred* (1881), a rationalist examination of early Christian texts.
Related Periodicals: Freethinkers Magazine
Wakamussen, Henry K.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Immortality of the Soul (1931)
Wake, C. Staniland
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Charles Staniland Wake (1835–1910) was an English anthropologist who wrote on the "serpent" and "phallic" origins of religion.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century British-American anthropologist and writer on the origins of religion, phallicism, and serpent worship, who presented before the Anthropological Society of London. After moving to the United States he took part in the World's Columbian Exposition's Congress of Anthropology in 1893. His works include *Serpent-Worship and Other Essays* (1888), *Ancient Symbol Worship*, and *Vortex Philosophy* (1907). Born in England.
Related Periodicals: The Metaphysical Magazine | Mind | The Open Court
Wakeman, Thaddeus B.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American lawyer, secularist, and author active in the organization of Positivism and freethought in the United States. Born in Connecticut, he studied at Princeton and practiced law in New York City. A promoter of Auguste Comte's 'Religion of Humanity,' he served for decades as president of the Liberal Club in New York and wrote *The Religion of Humanity*.
Related Periodicals: Freethinkers Magazine
Waldie, A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1842) Early nineteenth-century Scottish-born American printer and publisher active in early phrenological publishing in the United States. Born in Scotland, he established a printing press in Philadelphia and printed the first volumes of *The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany* (1838–1839) for its proprietors. Died in 1842.
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal
Walger, Carl Ludwig
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Spirit-Materialization at Chesterfield Spiritualist Camp and at Indianapolis, Indiana (1923)
Walker, Edward C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Edward C. Walker was an American free-thought and free-love writer and editor, a co-worker of Moses Harman on Lucifer, the Light-Bearer.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1920) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American anarchist, freethinker, and editor active in the women's suffrage, sex-radical, and free-love movements. He co-founded and edited the radical freethought journal *Lucifer, the Light-Bearer* with Moses Harman, defending women's sexual self-determination and reproductive freedom. Died in 1920.
Related Periodicals: Lucifer the Lightbearer
Walker, Thane
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American mystic and teacher, founder of The Prosperos. Born in Missouri. He drew on G.I. Gurdjieff's 'Fourth Way' philosophy, Gnostic theology, and positive psychology. In 1956 he co-founded The Prosperos in Florida with Phez Kahlil, a school of ontological education combining mysticism, comparative religion, and self-realization; it emphasized an oral tradition and an open attitude toward gender and sexual diversity, and he directed its seminars and regional study circles.
Chasing Emma: Emma the Infidel: 1878
Related Periodicals: Mentation
Related Monographs: Become Younger (1949)
Wall, O. A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Sex and Sex Worship (Phallic Worship) (1920)
Wallace, Abraham
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Jesus of Nazareth and Modern Scientific Investigation, from the Spiritualist Standpoint (1920)
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist who independently conceived evolution by natural selection (with Darwin) and founded biogeography. From the 1860s he was a convinced Spiritualist and psychical researcher, holding that natural selection could not account for the human mind and that the spirit survives death.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1913) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century British naturalist, explorer, and author, co-discoverer of natural selection. Born in Wales. He defended the scientific validity of mediumship and the survival of human consciousness, publishing *On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism* (1875), which argued for spirit communication under experimental controls. Died in 1913.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace
Chasing Emma: A. R. Wallace; Emma and the Christian Right
Related Periodicals: Anthropological Review [LAS] | The Arena | Revista Universal Magnetismo Experimental y Terapeutico | The Spiritualist | The Zetetic
Wallace, Austin D
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American Spiritualist clergyman, editor, and author, based in Eaton Rapids, Michigan. He served as Appellate Clergyman for the
Related Periodicals: Golden Rays (Michigan)
Wallace, C.L. Hunt
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century English lay healer, author, editor, and social reformer, active in the vegetarian, temperance, and anti-vaccination movements. Born Emily Honoria Leigh Hunt in London, a grandniece of the poet Leigh Hunt. She practised organic magnetism, mesmerism, and dietary therapeutics. Authored the novel *Visibility Invisible and Invisibility Visible* (1879) and the vegetarian manual *366 Menus* (1885), and took over ownership and editorship of Dr. T.L. Nichols' journal *The Herald of Health* (1890).
Chasing Emma: They Cure Some Things: Notes on Chandos Leigh Hunt
Related Periodicals: Herald of Health (T. L. Nichols)
Wallace, Helen Rhodes
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: How to Enter the Silence (1920)
Wallfisch, J.H.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century German editor, publisher, and esoteric author, writing under the pseudonym Dziecko. He co-founded, edited, and published the monthly periodical *Christliche Theosophie* (1895–1900), and authored the critical study *Richard Wagners Parsifal und das Bibel-Christentum* (1914), an exposition of Wagner's esotericism in relation to biblical Christianity.
Related Periodicals: Christliche Theosophie
Wallis, Edward Walter
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) E. W. Wallis (1855–1914) was an English trance medium, editor of The Two Worlds, and a leading organizer of British Spiritualism. (Also "Wallis, Edward Walter.")
(Source: Gemini) (?–1914) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British spiritualist author, trance medium, editor, and lecturer. He co-authored *A Guide to Mediumship* (1903) with his wife Mary Harrison Wallis, and served as long-running editor of the British Spiritualist journal *Light*. Died in 1914.
Chasing Emma: E. W. Wallis; Quoting Emma
Chasing Emma: Spreading The Light
Chasing Emma: 24 April 1891: "We Have Not Half Conquered"
Related Periodicals: The Two Worlds | Light
Wallis, Keene
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Strange Sexual Practices (Anthropological Studies) (1933)
Wallraff, Charles Frederic
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American editor, publisher, and author in New Thought, mentalism, and practical psychology. In 1916 he co-founded and edited the monthly periodical *Attainment: Magazine of Success* under the
Related Periodicals: Attainment
Walrond, George W.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British-born American spiritualist, astrologer, and author, active in the American West. Born in Great Britain, he worked as a professional astrologer and lecturer and co-founded spiritual centres in Denver, Colorado. He contributed essays on spirit communication, mediumship, and geocentric astrology to periodicals including *Light* and *The Progressive Thinker*, and hosted weekly séances.
Related Periodicals: The Stellar Ray | Advanced Thought (Chicago)
Walser, G.H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) George H. Walser (1834–1910) was an American lawyer and Spiritualist who founded the free-thought town of Liberal, Missouri.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1910) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American lawyer, politician, and freethinker, founder of the freethought town of Liberal, Missouri. Born in Indiana, he served as a prosecuting attorney and state legislator in Barton County, Missouri, and advocated secular education and separation of church and state. In 1880 he purchased two thousand acres and established Liberal as a community where unbelievers could raise their children free of religious dogma. Authored *The Life and Teachings of Jesus*. Died in 1910.
Related Periodicals: Voice of the Magi
Walsh, Marie A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American theosophist, editor, lecturer, and novelist, active in San Francisco from the late 1880s. She worked on comparative religion, Eastern philosophy, and the human aura in collaboration with Dr. A. Marques, and co-founded and edited *Mercury: A Theosophical Magazine* (1894–1899), for a time the official organ of the
Related Periodicals: Mercury (SFO) | The World's Advance Thought
Walter, William W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Unfoldment (1921)
Walters, Henry Guy
(Source: Gemini) (1856–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American philosopher, psycho-physiologist, and author, writing under the pseudonym Salvarona. Influenced by the psychology of William James, he studied the physiological aspects of psychic phenomena as a member of the American Institute of Scientific Research. Authored *The Wisdom of Passion* (1901) and *The Nervous System of Jesus* (1907), evaluating spiritual ecstasy and mediumistic trance states.
Related Periodicals: Nautilus
Walters, William John
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American theosophist, editor, and educator, based in San Francisco. He served as Conductor of the Lotus Circles and founded, edited, and published *Mercury: A Theosophical Magazine* (1894–1899), which became the official organ of the
Related Periodicals: Theosophic Messenger | Mercury (SFO)
Walther, Gerda
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Gerda Walther (1897–1977) was a German phenomenologist (a student of Husserl) and parapsychologist who wrote on mysticism and psychic phenomena.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1977) Twentieth-century German philosopher, parapsychologist, and author, a scholar of phenomenology and the study of mysticism. She completed doctoral studies under Alexander Pfänder and Edmund Husserl, receiving her degree in 1921. Authored *Phänomenologie der Mystik* (1923), and served as personal secretary to the parapsychologist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, assisting his investigations of physical mediums. Died in 1977.
Related Periodicals: Zeitschrift fur Metapsychische Forschung
Warcollier, Rene
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: La Telepathie: Recherches Experimentales (1921)
Ward, Eber
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) ‘Eber B. Ward,’ American industrialist, the subject of an inheritance case in the blog.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1875) Nineteenth-century American industrialist and shipbuilder, based in Detroit, Michigan, who in his later years became a committed Spiritualist. He hosted spiritualist meetings and advocated free discussion of spirit communication as proven fact. Died in 1875.
Chasing Emma: The E. B. Ward Inheritance Case: October; 1875
Ward, Frederick R.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century British astrologer, psychologist, and author, working on the relation between planetary configurations, the subconscious, and mental healing. He contributed the serialized essay series *Psychological Indications in the Horoscope* to *The Astrologer's Quarterly*, setting out a non-dogmatic method for using birth charts to address subconscious neuroses.
Related Periodicals: The Metaphysician (Palatine)
Ward, J. S. M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Gone West: Three Narratives of After-Death Experiences (1920), Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods (1921)
Ward, James Edward
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Wayfarer: Leaves from a Wanderer's Log (1922)
Ware, Mary Christyne
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) Mary Christyne Ware was a twentieth-century American New Thought / metaphysical writer; details uncertain.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century British-born occultist, medium, and author, known under the names Una, Madame Théon, and Alma, central to the Cosmic Movement. Born in Sutton Courtenay, England. With her husband, the occultist Max Théon (Louis Maximilian Bimstein), she co-founded the Cosmic Movement and was the principal contributor to its monthly journal *La Revue Cosmique* (1901–1908). Her mediumistic writings on the 'original tradition' influenced later mystics, notably Mirra Alfassa (the Mother).
Related Periodicals: Revue Cosmique
Warman, Edward B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Edward B. Warman was an American lecturer and author on physical culture, breathing, and New Thought "psychic science" around 1900.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1931) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American physical educator, author, and health advocate who also investigated personal magnetism, telepathy, and clairvoyance. He published the *Psychic Science Series* and authored *Psychic Science Made Plain* (1910), an introduction to mental telegraphy and hypnosis. Died in 1931.
Related Periodicals: Nautilus
Related Monographs: Psychic Science Made Plain, Volume I (1923)
Warnack, Henry Christeen
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American screenwriter, journalist, occultist, and editor, based in Los Angeles. An editorial writer for the *Los Angeles Times*, he co-founded the
Related Periodicals: Broadcast | East and West | Occult Press Review
Warnack, James M.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American journalist, editor, poet, and theosophist, Church Editor at the *Los Angeles Times*. A student and collaborator of Swami Yogananda, he contributed to the editing of *Autobiography of a Yogi* and edited Yogananda's *East-West* magazine. Authored the poetry collection *A Song of Infinity*.
Related Periodicals: Broadcast
Warne, George
(Source: Gemini) (?–1925) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American physician, editor, and Spiritualist. He served as President of the Illinois State Association and, from 1907, President of the National Spiritualists Association of Churches (NSAC), and directed the
Related Periodicals: The National Spiritualist | NSAC National Spiritualist
Warner, Charles W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Quacks (1934)
Warren, Henry George
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century British printer, publisher, and freemason, based in London. A Past Master of the Beadon Lodge, he was appointed Prestonian Lecturer in 1861 and edited and published the weekly *The Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror*, a platform for masonic education and history.
Related Periodicals: Masonic Mirror (Uk)
Warren, Owen G.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist, architect, editor, and author, based in New York City. He took part in the 'Sacred Circle' séance group alongside Judge John W. Edmonds and Dr. George T. Dexter, co-founded and edited the monthly periodical *The Sacred Circle* (1854–1856), and authored *Supernal Theology* (1852), a record of early spirit communications and visions.
Related Periodicals: The Sacred Circle
Warrick, F. W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Experiments in Psychics: Practical Studies in Direct Writing, Supernormal Photography and Other Phenomena (1939)
Warrington, A.P.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) A. P. Warrington (1866–1939) was an American Theosophist who founded the Krotona community in Hollywood and served as national president of the Society.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American theosophist, attorney, and banker. Born in Berlin, Maryland, he studied law at the University of Virginia and joined the
Related Periodicals: Mothers' Occult Digest | Server (Krishnamurti) | Theosophic Messenger
Wase, Charles
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Life's Practical Philosophy: An Introduction to Popular Metaphysics and Practical Psychology (1922)
Washburn, Owen R.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American Congregational minister, poet, and Spiritualist author. Born in Vermont, he served as pastor of the
Related Periodicals: The Direct Voice
Washington, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) George Washington (1732–1799), first President of the United States and a Freemason; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Rising Sun
Related Monographs: Letters from Eternity, Volume I (1932)
Watkins, A.M.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Psychic Science Monthly
Related Monographs: The Old Straight Track (1948)
Watkins, Charles E.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist medium and slate-writer, based in Cleveland, Ohio. He demonstrated direct (slate) writing under test conditions and attracted the attention of psychical researchers including Baron L. von Güldenstubbe, describing his process as a sudden 'drawing' from his body that left him unable to speak distinctly.
Related Periodicals: Psychic Science Monthly
Watkins, John M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John M. Watkins (1861–1947) founded the celebrated Watkins occult bookshop in London, a hub of the Theosophical and esoteric world.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British bookseller, publisher, printer, and theosophist, founder of Watkins Books in London. An associate of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, he opened his esoteric bookshop in Cecil Court in 1901, published books on mysticism and occultism, printed the first edition of Blavatsky's *The Secret Doctrine*, and co-published Carl Jung's *Seven Sermons to the Dead* (1925).
Related Periodicals: The Quest
Watson, Albert Durrant
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Birth Through Death: The Ethics of The Twentieth Plane (1920)
Watson, Elizabeth Lowe
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Elizabeth Lowe Watson (1842–1927) was an American Spiritualist trance lecturer and poet, a president of the California State Spiritualist Association.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1927) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American Spiritualist minister, lecturer, temperance advocate, and suffragist. Born in Solon, Ohio, she began preaching at fourteen and campaigned for abolition, women's suffrage, and peace, serving as president of the California Equal Suffrage Association from 1909 to 1911 and as pastor of the First Spiritual Union of San Francisco. She lectured in Australia and authored the collection *Song and Sermon* (1905). Died in 1927.
Related Periodicals: The Carrier Dove
Watson, Hewett Cottrell
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Hewett Cottrell Watson (1804–1881) was an English botanist and evolutionary thinker who was also a vigorous advocate of phrenology.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1881) Nineteenth-century English phrenologist, botanist, and evolutionary theorist. Born in Yorkshire, he edited *The Phrenological Journal* and authored *Cybele Britannica* (1847–1859), which set out a system of botanical vice-counties. He corresponded extensively with Charles Darwin on geographic distribution and species. Died in 1881.
Related Periodicals: The Phrenological Journal
Watson, Samuel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Samuel Watson (1813–1880) was an American Methodist minister who embraced Spiritualism, author of The Clock Struck One.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American Methodist Episcopal clergyman, editor, and author who served thirty years as a minister before turning to Spiritualism. He founded, edited, and published the monthly journal *The Spiritual Science* and authored the series *The Clock Struck One, Two, Three* (1872), arguing for the reconciliation of Christian theology and spirit communication.
Related Periodicals: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis)
Watson, Stewart Malcolm
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American publisher, editor, and mail-order hypnotist, who wrote under the pseudonym L. A. Harraden. Born in Michigan, he founded the L. A.
Chasing Emma: As a Means of Amusement: A Short Note on Prof. L. A. Harraden
Related Periodicals: Harraden's Herald of Hypnotism and Healing
Wattles, Wallace D.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Wallace D. Wattles (1860–1911) was an American New Thought author whose The Science of Getting Rich (1910) later inspired the film and book The Secret.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American New Thought author and reformer, associated with Elizabeth Towne's *Nautilus Magazine*. He authored *The Science of Getting Rich* (1910), which set out a method for achieving abundance through creative thought.
Chasing Emma: You Can Catch Things From People Who Don't Belong To Your Church: The Death of Wallace D. Wattles (1860-1911)
Related Periodicals: Nautilus
Watts, Alan W.
Alan Watts (1915–1973) was a British-American writer and speaker who popularized Zen, Taoism, and Vedanta for Western audiences. A former Anglican priest, his best-seller The Way of Zen (1957) and countless lectures made him a key voice of the 1960s counterculture.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1973) Twentieth-century British-American philosopher and author known for introducing and popularizing Zen Buddhism and Eastern philosophy in the West. Born in Chislehurst, England, he taught at the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco and authored *The Way of Zen* (1957) and *The Wisdom of Insecurity*, alongside radio broadcasts and lectures. Died in 1973.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts
Related Periodicals: Modern Mystic | Vedanta and the West
Wayland, Julius A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Julius A. Wayland (1854–1912) was an American socialist publisher, founder of the mass-circulation paper Appeal to Reason.
Related Periodicals: The New World
Weatherhead, D.W.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century English industrialist, publisher, printer, and Spiritualist, based in Keighley, Yorkshire. He founded, financed, and printed *The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph* (1855–1857), one of the first English Spiritualist periodicals, and published its successor *The British Spiritual Telegraph* at his own expense until 1860.
Related Periodicals: The British Spiritual Telegraph | The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph
Weatherly, Lionel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) English physician and author on the psychology of the supernatural, named in ‘A Mahatma, At Home.’
(Source: Gemini) (?–1940) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British physician and alienist. Born in Portishead, England, he studied hallucinations and insane jurisprudence and, with the stage illusionist John Nevil Maskelyne, co-authored the skeptical work *The Supernatural?* (1891), offering physiological explanations of spiritualist and occult phenomena. Died in 1940.
Chasing Emma: A Mahatma; At Home
Weaver, Lazette A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Webb, Alexander Russell
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Alexander Russell Webb (1846–1916) was an American journalist and diplomat who converted to Islam and became its first prominent American propagandist. (Also "Webb, A.R.")
Related Periodicals: The World's Advance Thought
Webb, James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Modern occult historian, author of The Occult Underground, the subject of ‘Reading James Webb.’
(Source: Gemini) (?–1980) Twentieth-century Scottish historian, an early pioneer of the modern historical study of Western esotericism. Born in Edinburgh, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and authored *The Occult Underground* (1974) and *The Occult Establishment* (1976), a historical framework for the modern occult revival. Died in 1980.
Chasing Emma: Reading James Webb
Webber, Charles Henry
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American astrologer, publisher, and author who wrote under the pseudonym 'Prof. Henry.' Based in Massachusetts, he co-founded the Boston Astrological Society and authored *Astrology in a Nutshell* (1902), an introduction to horoscope reading.
Related Periodicals: The Radix
Weber, Arthur
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century German theosophist, editor, and author, a collaborator of Franz Hartmann. He co-founded and edited the monthly *Theosophischer Wegweiser* and its supplement *Theosophische Rundschau*, and managed the Theosophical Central Bookshop in Leipzig, translating Oriental texts and directing regional study circles.
Related Periodicals: Theosophische Rundschau | Theosophischer Wegweiser
Related Monographs: Yearbook of American Churches, 1939 Edition (1939)
Webster, N.B.
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American educator, editor, and author, a professor in Norfolk, Virginia, and a collaborator of the antiquarian Sylvester Clark Gould. He served as first editor of the periodical *Miscellaneous Literary, Scientific, and Historical Notes, Queries, and Answers* (1882–1883), which compiled materials on spiritualism, occultism, and secret societies.
Chasing Emma: The Marble Heart
Related Periodicals: Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries
Webster, Nesta H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Nesta H. Webster (1876–1960) was an English author whose books on secret societies and "world revolution" made her a foundational figure of modern conspiracy theory.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century English author, historian, and conspiracy theorist. Born in London, she developed a theory of a continuous occult conspiracy directed by secret societies, and authored *The French Revolution* (1919) and *Secret Societies and Subversive Movements* (1924).
Related Periodicals: The Beacon Light
Related Monographs: World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization (1921), The Need for Fascism in Great Britain (1926), The Socialist Network (1926)
Wedel, Richard
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century German parapsychologist and photographer who studied spirit photography, trained in Karlsruhe. He contributed to the journals *Die Übersinnliche Welt* and *Psychische Studien*, publishing on methods for detecting fraudulent mediums and photographic manipulation.
Related Periodicals: Die Ubersinnliche Welt
Wedel, Theodore Otto
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Mediaeval Attitude Toward Astrology, Particularly in England (1920)
Wedgwood, James Ingall
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) James Ingall Wedgwood (1883–1951) was an English Theosophist and Co-Mason who founded the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century English theosophist, chemist, and prelate, co-founder and first Presiding Bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church. He joined the
Related Periodicals: Australian Theosophist | The Channel
Related Monographs: Theosophy, Past and Future (Four Convention Lectures, 54th Anniversary, Dec 1929) (1930)
Weege, Wilhelm
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century German spiritualist, naturopath, magnetic healer, and editor, based in Chemnitz, Saxony. He served for decades as Secretary-General (Bundessekretär) of the Deutscher Spiritualisten-Bund and as chief editor of its monthly organ *Okkultistische Rundschau*.
Related Periodicals: Okkultistische Rundschau
Weill, Robert
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century French-Austrian theosophist, Martinist, and editor, active in Paris and Vienna. He collaborated with Demetrius Platon Semelas and served as principal Delegate of the Æonian Tradition in Paris. He co-founded, edited, and published the esoteric journals *Eon* and *Force de la Vérité*, translated Hermetic texts, and directed regional study circles.
Related Periodicals: Force de la Verite
Related Monographs: The Progress of Pilgrim from Material Sense to the Spiritual Sense of God, Man, and the Universe (1922)
Weinfurter, Karel
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Man's Highest Purpose (The Lost Word Regained) (1930)
Weinholtz, August
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century German spiritualist, publisher, and occultist. Based in Berlin, Weinholtz co-founded the Verband Deutscher Okkultisten alongside Max Rahn and Leopold Engel, served as the treasurer of the spiritualist association Sphinx, and was the co-publisher of *Die Übersinnliche Welt*. He also held high-ranking office in the
Related Periodicals: Das Wort (Dresden) | Die Ubersinnliche Welt | Oriflamme
Weishaupt
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830) was the Bavarian professor who founded the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1830) Eighteenth-century German philosopher, professor of canon law, and author, founder of the Order of the Illuminati. Born in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, he studied under the Jesuits and became professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt. He founded the Order of the Illuminati on 1 May 1776 to propagate rationalism and freethought and to oppose religious and state authority; the order attracted European intellectuals before being banned by the Bavarian government in 1785. He died in Gotha in 1830.
Related Periodicals: Das Wort (Dresden)
Weiss, Ehrich
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Weiss, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) John Weiss (1818–1879) was an American Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist, a biographer of Theodore Parker.
Related Periodicals: The Friend of Progress
Weiss, Sara
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Sara Weiss was an American medium whose Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903) purported to describe Martian life dictated by a spirit guide.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American Spiritualist medium and author, born Sarah Ditto McBride in Rushville, Ohio, later of St. Louis, Missouri. Working as an amanuensis, she claimed to receive spirit communications from extraterrestrials and produced *Journeys to the Planet Mars* (1903), which described the history, transportation, engineering, and canals of a Martian civilization.
Related Periodicals: Austin Pulpit
Weisse, John A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century French-American physician, philologist, and occult scholar. Born in France, he studied medicine and languages before emigrating to the United States and establishing a psychiatric practice. He served as International Vice-President of the
Related Periodicals: New York Echo | The Spiritual Telegraph
Welch, Bert L.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American spiritualist, healer, and publisher, based in Brea, California. With his wife, the healer and writer Ruth Welch, he founded, edited, and published the monthly periodical *Chimes: A Metaphysical and Psychic Magazine* from 1942 to 1974, which listed mediums, spiritualist camps, and psychical research, and ran a book-distribution network and healing ministry.
Related Periodicals: Chimes
Welch, Jane Aikman
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Known and Unknown Life of Jesus the Christ (1924)
Welch, Ruth
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American spiritualist, medium, healer, and author. With her husband, the publisher Bert L. Welch, she taught psychical development and managed the monthly journal *Chimes* from 1942 to 1974, co-directing a spiritual ministry and book-distribution service. She authored instructional works on mediumship, most notably *Expanding Your Psychic Consciousness* (1951).
Related Periodicals: Chimes
Wellman, Flora
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American spiritualist medium, music teacher, and editor. Born in Massillon, Ohio, she later relocated to San Francisco, where she practiced as a professional medium and collaborated with the astrologer William Chaney. After the birth of her son, the author Jack London, in 1876, she married John London.
Related Periodicals: The Philomathean [Chaney]
Wells, Charlotte Fowler
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Charlotte Fowler Wells (1814–1901) was an American phrenologist and publisher, a partner in the firm Fowler & Wells and a pioneer businesswoman.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American phrenologist, publisher, and trustee. Born in Cohocton, New York, she taught the first class in phrenology in America and, with her brothers Orson and Lorenzo Fowler and her husband Samuel R. Wells, founded and directed the publishing firm Fowler & Wells Co. in New York City. She served for decades as vice-president of the
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal | The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story)
Wells, Helen
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American spiritualist medium, spirit artist, and author (Helen Butler Wells). After the deaths of her mother, husband, and son she took up spirit communication, automatic drawing, and clairaudient writing, and reactivated and directed the Spiritual and Ethical Society of New York, working as an 'instrument' for her spirit guide 'Eswald.' She published metaphysical books including *Spiritual America: As Seen From the Other Side* (1927) and established the Helen Wells Thought Extension Library of Psychic Science.
Related Periodicals: Immortality (New York)
Related Monographs: 'The Glories Thereof' ('Behold the Heavens Opened') (1922)
Wells, Samuel R.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Samuel R. Wells (1820–1875) was an American phrenologist and publisher, head of the Fowler & Wells firm and editor of the American Phrenological Journal.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1875) Nineteenth-century American phrenologist, publisher, and health reformer. Born in New York, with his wife Charlotte Fowler Wells and her brothers Orson and Lorenzo Fowler he co-founded the publishing house Fowler & Wells Co. in New York City. He edited and published *The American Phrenological Journal and Science of Health* and wrote textbooks on phrenology and physiology. He died in 1875.
Related Periodicals: American Phrenological Journal | The Phrenological Almanac | Science of Health
Welsh, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) English singing teacher whose articled pupils figure in the account of Emma’s early career.
Chasing Emma: Articled Singers; and The Great Sea Snake
Chasing Emma: Pierre Erard <--> Thomas Welsh
Chasing Emma: 1838: The Start Of A Career
Weltmer, Ernest
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American author, suggestive-therapeutics instructor, and publisher, associated with Weltmerism and mental healing. Born in Missouri, he studied under his father, the healer Sidney Abram Weltmer, and served as co-director and owner of the
Related Periodicals: Weltmer's Magazine
Related Monographs: The Weltmer Brief Course in Practical Psychology: A Key to Success, Health and Happiness in Thirty Lessons (1924), The Secret Power (1928)
Weltmer, S.W.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1956) Twentieth-century American physician, medical superintendent, and psychical researcher. Born in Missouri, he was co-director and researcher at the
Related Periodicals: Weltmer Journal | Weltmerism
Weltmer, Sidney Abram
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Sidney A. Weltmer (1858–1930) founded the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1930) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American author and magnetic healer, founder of 'Weltmerism.' Born in Wooster, Ohio, he developed the practical application of suggestive therapeutics, hypnotism, and mental suggestion and founded the Weltmer Institute of Suggestive Therapeutics in Nevada, Missouri, in 1897. He authored *The Weltmer Method* and *Regeneration* and ran mail-order healing, lecturing tours, and publications. He died in 1930.
Chasing Emma: Stamp Thereon The Word Fraudulent: Weltmerism in the Courts; 1900
Chasing Emma: Picture Yourself as a Suggestotherapist: Weltmerism in Nevada; Missouri; 1924
Chasing Emma: Metaphysical Chautauqua: Some Notes on the Life of Sidney Weltmer (1858-1930)
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Christian (Shelton) | The Inner Circle (Wells) | Magnetic Journal (Weltmer) | Weltmer's Magazine | Weltmer Journal | Weltmerism
Related Monographs: The Healing Hand (1922), The Weltmer Brief Course in Practical Psychology: A Key to Success, Health and Happiness in Thirty Lessons (1924)
Welton, Thomas
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century British artificial-limb and surgical-instrument manufacturer, spiritualist author, and early planchette maker. Born in London, he defended spiritualism and studied mesmerism, clairvoyance, and spirit communication. He translated the seventeenth-century dowsing treatise *Jacob's Rod* (1870) and wrote *Mental Magic: A Rationale of Thought Reading* (1884), and designed and manufactured some of the earliest commercial planchettes.
Chasing Emma: Vito-Magnetic Appliances
Related Periodicals: The Biological Review
Wenman, Alexandra
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Contemporary British angelic channel, author, and presenter working in angelic energy healing. Based in London, she served as chief editor of the holistic magazine *Prediction* and authored *Archangel Alchemy Healing* (2022) and the *Archangel Fire Oracle* deck, running workshops, seminars, and broadcasts.
Related Periodicals: Prediction
Weor, Samael Aun
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Samael Aun Weor (Víctor Manuel Gómez Rodríguez, 1917–1977) was a Colombian founder of the international "Universal Gnostic Movement," teaching a system of sexual alchemy and self-transformation.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century Colombian author and esotericist (born Víctor Manuel Gómez Rodríguez), founder of the Universal Christian Gnostic Movement. Born in Bogotá, he wrote over sixty works on Gnostic science, psychology, and alchemy, synthesizing Western esotericism, Eastern mysticism, and Hermetic teaching into a system of spiritual self-realization, and lectured across South America and Mexico, founding Gnostic academies.
Related Periodicals: Ariel (Colombia) | Rosa-Cruz
Werner, R. Caswell
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American publisher, editor, and occultist active in Los Angeles. He co-founded the
Related Periodicals: Occult Press Review
Weschcke, Carl L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.85) Carl Llewellyn Weschcke (1930–2015) was an American publisher. In 1961 he purchased the
Wesley, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Charles Wesley (1707–1788), the English hymn-writer and co-founder of Methodism; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The New World
Wesley, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.82) Founder of Methodism (1703–1791), cited for his Desideratum on electricity and medicine.
Chasing Emma: John Wesley; Electric Physician
Wessely, Carl
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
West, Simeon Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Named in ‘Call Me What You Please: The Splendid.’
(Source: Gemini) (?–1920) Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American legislator, pioneer, author, and Spiritualist. Born in Illinois, he served as a state legislator before relocating to Texas in 1892, where he founded and platted the town of Deer Park. A committed Spiritualist, he investigated mediumship and spirit communication, authored *Life and Times of S. H. West* (1908), and in 1911 erected a monument to his Kickapoo spirit guide Wausaneta in LeRoy, Illinois. He died in 1920.
Chasing Emma: Call Me What You Please: The Split Within Spiritualism; c. 1890
Westbrook, Richard Brodhead
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Richard Brodhead Westbrook (1820–1899) was an American clergyman-turned-freethinker and psychical writer, president of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American clergyman, lawyer, freethinker, and author. Formerly an ordained Methodist minister, he turned toward rationalism, studied law, and practiced as an attorney while criticizing Christian dogma and clerical authority. He authored *The Eliminator; Or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets* (1892) and *Girard's Will and Girard College Theology* (1883).
Related Periodicals: Freethought
Westcott, W. Wynn
Dr. William Wynn Westcott (1848–1925) was an English coroner, Freemason, and Theosophist who, with Mathers and Woodman, founded the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British coroner, ceremonial magician, and Freemason, a founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Born in Leamington, he studied medicine at University College London and served as Coroner for Northwest London. He studied Kabbalah, alchemy, and ceremonial magic, served as Supreme Magus of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA) from 1891 until his death, and in 1888 co-founded the Golden Dawn with Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, working from its cipher manuscripts. He authored *Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues*.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wynn_Westcott
Related Periodicals: Arohn | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | The Rosicrucian Brotherhood | Swastika (Amsterdam) | Oriflamme
Related Monographs: An Introduction to the Study of the Kabalah (1926)
Westermann, A.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Bulletin de la Societe D'Etudes Psychiques de Nancy
Wetherbee, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) John Wetherbee was a Boston businessman and Spiritualist, author of Shadows: Being a Familiar Presentation of Thoughts and Experiences in Spiritual Matters.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American stockbroker, author, and Spiritualist active in Boston. He supported the Spiritualist movement financially and investigated trance mediumship and the survival of consciousness, seeking business and financial advice through mediums, notably Fannie Conant. He co-founded regional spiritualist associations, lectured, and wrote *Shadows* (1885), a collection of spiritualist essays and testimonies.
Chasing Emma: The N. D. C. Axe
Related Periodicals: New Age (Boston)
Wheeler, Ethel Rolt
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Ethel Rolt-Wheeler was an English author of the early twentieth century who wrote on mystics, women mystics, and spiritual biography.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) British poet, author, journalist, and theosophist. Born in London, she wrote on comparative religion and theosophy and contributed essays and reviews to spiritualist and occult periodicals. Her brother was the author Francis Rolt-Wheeler. She authored *Behind the Veil* (1906), a collection of mystical stories illustrated by the occult artist Austin Osman Spare.
Related Periodicals: The Theosophical Review
Wheelock, A.A.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American spiritualist, inspirational lecturer, and organizer active in the American Midwest. During the 1870s he served as General Missionary Agent and Recording Secretary for the Ohio State Association of Spiritualists, traveling as a trance speaker, co-founding regional spiritualist societies, and compiling registers of active mediums.
Related Periodicals: The American Spiritualist
Whipple, E.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist author, lecturer, and editor based in Baltimore, Maryland. A contributing writer for the spiritualist journals *The Age* and *The New Life*, his essays argued for a reconciliation of evolutionary science and Spiritualism.
Related Periodicals: The Present Age
Whipple, Leander Edmund
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Leander Edmund Whipple was an American "mental science" teacher, founder of the American School of Metaphysics and editor of The Metaphysical Magazine.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American New Thought author, editor, and metaphysician. He founded and directed the American School of Metaphysics in New York City and edited *Metaphysical Magazine*. He authored *The Philosophy of Mental Healing* (1893) and *Practical Health* (1907), setting out a system of mental metaphysics.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Ideal Review | The Metaphysical Magazine | The Wise Man
Whitcomb, Nellie
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Mrs. J. H. R. Matteson's Psychic Clairvoyant Remedies (1920)
White, Betty Elizabeth
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Road I Know (1942), The Betty Book (1943)
White, Ellen G.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Ellen G. White (1827–1915) was the American visionary and prophetess whose "testimonies" and writings are foundational to the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
(Source: Gemini) American religious leader (1827–1915), a co-founder and prophet of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, known for her visionary experiences and prolific religious writing.
Chasing Emma: The Ghost of Ganargwa: May 1848
Chasing Emma: The Problem With Muhlenberg: John Wheeler Truesdell (1836-1915)
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: The Crucible
White, George Starr
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Think (1920), Youth Obtaind and Retaind (1921), Filtered Ultra-Red Rays: Their Discovery, Production and Therapeutic Value, in Connection with the 'Filteray Pad' and 'Penetray Pad' (1924)
White, James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) James Springer White (1821–1881), with his wife Ellen, was a principal founder and organizer of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
(Source: Gemini) American minister, editor, and publisher (1821–1881), a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and organizer of its early press; husband of Ellen G. White.
Related Organizations:
Related Periodicals: Signs of the Times
White, Nathan Francis
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist medium, inspirational lecturer, and social reformer, also known as N. Frank White. He worked as a trance speaker, giving public addresses in Boston, Lowell, and other cities that were reported in the *Banner of Light*.
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Telegraph
White, Stewart Edward
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Road I Know (1942), The Betty Book (1943), The Stars Are Still There (1946), The Unobstructed Universe (1946), With Folded Wings (1947)
White, Theodore H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) ‘T. H. White,’ a Baltimore Spiritualist named alongside Colonel Danskin.
Chasing Emma: Move Over; Colonel Danskin: The True Story of Theodore H. White
Related Monographs: American Psychic Directory: Directory of Astrologers, Mentalists and Occultists (1936)
White, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Associated with ‘Zadkiel’s Canon’; Blanchard is named alongside.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Six: Zadkiel's Canon
White, William
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) British publisher, biographer, and Swedenborgian scholar. He wrote the two-volume biography *Emanuel Swedenborg: His Life and Writings* (1867), tracing Swedenborg's transition from natural scientist to spiritual seer.
Related Periodicals: The Friend of Progress | The Psychological Review
White, William Allen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) William Allen White (1868–1944), the American "Sage of Emporia" journalist; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Ghourki
Whitehead, John
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American Swedenborgian scholar, editor, theologian, and translator within the
Related Periodicals: New Philosophy (Swedenborg Scientific Association)
Whitehead, Willis F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Willis F. Whitehead was an American Freemason and occult editor of the 1880s–90s who reissued works on the Rosicrucians and ceremonial magic.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1922) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American occultist, editor, and publisher based in Chicago, Illinois. He styled himself Supreme Grand Vizier of the Ancient Order of the Oriental Magi and founded the Royal Adepts of Mysticism. He authored *The Mystic Thesaurus; Or, Initiation in the Theoretical and Practical Secrets of Astral Truth* (1899) and edited Cornelius Agrippa's magical texts. Died 1922.
Related Periodicals: The Harbinger of Dawn | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | Star of the Magi | Wings of Truth
Related Monographs: Occultism Simplified, or The Mystic Thesaurus (1921)
Whiting, Lilian
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Whiting, Lillian
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Lillian Whiting (1847–1942) was an American journalist and author of popular New Thought / Spiritualist books such as The World Beautiful and After Her Death.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American author, journalist, poet, spiritualist, and theosophist. Born in New York and descended from Cotton Mather, she was chief editor of the *Boston Budget* and art editor of the *Boston Traveler*, and associated with Frances Willard and Annie Besant. She authored *The World Beautiful* (1894–1896) and *After Her Death* (1897).
Related Periodicals: International Psychic Gazette | Nautilus | Practical Ideals
Whitlock, L.L.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century American editor, publisher, and Spiritualist organizer based in Boston, Massachusetts. He founded, edited, and published the monthly periodical *Facts: Devoted to the Statements of Mental and Spiritual Phenomena* (1882–1887), which documented direct-voice, slate-writing, and materialization séances.
Related Periodicals: Facts
Whitman, Walt
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Walt Whitman (1819–1892), the American poet of Leaves of Grass, whose expansive mysticism deeply influenced New Thought and cosmic-consciousness literature. See also the "Whitman" entry.
Related Periodicals: Aquarian New Age | The Fra | The Spiritual Age (new York) | To-Morrow
Whitney, F.B.
To be added.
Related Periodicals: Daily Word
Related Monographs: Creed of the Dauntless (1931), Mightier Than Circumstance (1939)
Whitney, J.J.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American Spiritualist medium, life reader, and medical clairvoyant based in San Francisco. Associated with 'Light and Truth Spiritualism,' she worked for decades as a test and trance medium, holding message services at the city's Metropolitan Temple and giving clairvoyant, slate-writing, and spirit-healing demonstrations.
Related Periodicals: California Spiritual Messenger
Whittier, John Greenleaf
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), the American Quaker abolitionist poet; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: The Harbinger
Whitty, Michael James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Michael J. Whitty was an American editor of Azoth magazine and a co-founder, with Paul Foster Case, of the early Builders of the Adytum.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British-American theosophist, editor, and publisher, also recorded as Michael J. Whitty. Born in England, he emigrated to America and authored the introductory textbook *A Simple Study in Theosophy* (1917).
Related Periodicals: Azoth
Whitwell, Joseph P.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American Spiritualist, editor, and administrator who served as the third President of the
Related Periodicals: The National Spiritualist | NSAC National Spiritualist
Whymant, Neville
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Psychic Adventures in New York (1931)
Wiggin, Frederick A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Living Jesus: The Words of Jesus of Nazareth (1921)
Wiggs, George W.
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American publisher, commodities trader, occultist, and author based in Chicago, Illinois. Described as a leader of the
Chasing Emma: Chain Gang and Bucket Shop: A Note on Albert Sidney Raleigh and George W. Wiggs
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Wilburn, Cora
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Cora Wilburn (1824–1906) was an American Spiritualist author, poet, and reformer, one of the first Jewish-American women novelists.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1906) Nineteenth-century American novelist, poet, essayist, and Spiritualist, born Henrietta Pulfermacher in Alsace, France, and regarded as the author of the first American Jewish novel. She wrote on social justice, slavery, and women's rights and embraced Spiritualism. Her autobiographical novel *Cosella Wayne: Or, Will and Destiny* was published serially in the *Banner of Light* (1860). Died 1906.
Chasing Emma: March 1866: The Beginnings of Independent Slate-Writing
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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) was a hugely popular American poet ("Laugh, and the world laughs with you") and a New Thought and Spiritualist author.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American poet, New Thought writer, and theosophist. Born in Wisconsin, she studied under Emma Curtis Hopkins and was an associate editor of *New Thought Magazine*. She authored *The Heart of the New Thought* (1902) and *New Thought Pastels*, and her verse was widely syndicated in the Hearst newspapers.
Chasing Emma: Experiences in Self-Healing: A Look at the Entities in One Issue of a New Thought Periodical
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Wilde, George
(Source: Kim Farnell) 16 Apr 1860 - 1916. Wrote for Powley’s Astrologer under the name of ‘Mars and the Goat’. Wrote for Astrologer’s Magazine in 1890. He took pride in being a scientific astrologer and was based in Halifax. He was a railway signalman before turning to astrology and becoming the author of several astrology books and produced Antares almanac. Wilde married Phyllis Dickenson and had a daughter, Emily, born in 1885 who worked as a cotton reeler. Alan Leo accused Wilde of being over-hasty and not clear. Worse, he used a rubber stamp for his charts rather than buying printed chart forms. Leo said: ‘Where his clients were of the working or lower middle class order he was generally successful in his judgements, but when they moved in refined surroundings and were of the higher intellectual order his judgements were faulty and did not allow for the facilities that come through culture and opportunity.’ Wilde was highly successful as a professional astrologer and was friendly with such leading lights as Richard Garnett (A G Trent), Keeper of Books at the British Museum, and for many years friends with Robert Cross. As far as Wilde was concerned, astrology was a science and ideas such as karma and reincarnation were meaningless clutter. Also knew Joseph Dodson who operated the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British astrologer, author, and publisher, known as George Wilde of Halifax. Born in Halifax, England, he contributed to *The Occult Review* and collaborated with the astrologer Walter Gorn Old (Sepharial) and editor Ralph Shirley. He authored *Chaldean Astrology* and *The Primer of Astrology*.
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Wilde, Oscar
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), the Irish author and wit, whose palm was read by Cheiro; cited here in a periodical context.
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Wilder, Alexander
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Alexander Wilder (1823–1908) was an American physician, Platonist, and Theosophist who edited Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled and wrote on Neoplatonism and Eclectic medicine.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1908) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American physician, Platonist scholar, journalist, and author, prominent in eclectic medicine and an early member of the
Chasing Emma: What The Greeks Knew Of Electricity
Chasing Emma: Aside: Spiritualism and Medicine
Chasing Emma: Felt to Bouton; Bouton to Wilder; Wilder on Olcott
Chasing Emma: Rosicrucians; Resurgent: Alexander Wilder on Hargrave Jennings
Chasing Emma: Launch Party: February 7; 1885
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Wilder, Mae Edna
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) A figure (1880–1952) in Episode 6 of the ‘Ring Saga.’
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Episode Six: How Mae Edna Wilder Got Rid of a Double Chin
Wilkinson, Gilbert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Husband of Margaret (Emma’s sister), tied to Manchester and Cheetham Hill.
Chasing Emma: And Margaret; With Apologies
Chasing Emma: The Attraction of Cheetham Hill
Wilkinson, J.J. Garth
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) James John Garth Wilkinson (1812–1899) was an English homeopathic physician, Swedenborgian, and man of letters, an editor of Swedenborg and friend of Henry James Sr.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1899) Nineteenth-century English homeopathic physician, social reformer, translator, and author associated with homeopathy and the dissemination of Swedenborgian philosophy. Born in London, he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons before turning to homeopathy, William Blake's poetry, and the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. He served as a principal translator of Swedenborg's works from Latin into English, translating *The Animal Kingdom* (1843), and wrote the biography *Emanuel Swedenborg: A Biography* (1849). He collaborated with Ralph Waldo Emerson. Died in 1899.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History....Spiritualism and Insanity
Chasing Emma: The Wilkinson Brothers
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Wilkinson, Margaret Floyd
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.68) Margaret Floyd Wilkinson (1830–1903), sister of Emma Hardinge Britten and editor of her Autobiography.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British Spiritualist and family historian, sister of the Spiritualist author Emma Hardinge Britten, whose missionary and literary work she supported as companion and secretary. After marrying Gilbert Robinson Wilkinson she helped coordinate the early organizational meetings of the Spiritualists' National Federation (later the SNU) in 1890. A member of the Spiritualist community in Manchester, she was interred alongside her sister in the general cemetery at Harpurhey.
Chasing Emma: And Margaret; With Apologies
Chasing Emma: Margaret; Again
Chasing Emma: The Attraction of Cheetham Hill
Chasing Emma: Curatorial Heart Attack #2 (Almost)
Chasing Emma: Laying Aside Cherished Notions
Chasing Emma: 1912: The Death of Margaret Floyd Wilkinson
Chasing Emma: The End of Margaret Floyd Wilkinson: November 1912
Chasing Emma: EHB's Probate Record
Chasing Emma: The Residuary Legatee: EHB's Probate Records; Part Deux
Chasing Emma: The Learned Apostle of the Occult Sciences: A Seance with Frederick Hockley
Wilkinson, William
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century English solicitor, publisher, medium, and author involved in the early organization of the Spiritualist movement in Britain. Trained and practising as a solicitor, he turned to spiritual philosophy, comparative mysticism, and spirit drawings. In 1860 he co-founded and edited the monthly periodical *The Spiritual Magazine* alongside Thomas Shorter. He wrote *Spirit Drawings: A Personal Narrative* (1858) and translated writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.
Chasing Emma: The Wilkinson Brothers
Chasing Emma: Controversy; Conducted: Spiritualism in England; 1862
Chasing Emma: The End of Margaret Floyd Wilkinson: November 1912
Related Periodicals: The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
Wilkinson, Samuel Hinds
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Willard, Frances E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Frances E. Willard (1839–1898), the American reformer and long-time president of the Woman's
Related Periodicals: Purdy's Monthly | The World's Advance Thought
Willard, William F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Named in ‘The White Leaves of History.’
Chasing Emma: The White Leaves of History [2]: The New American Medium
Willbor, Mary B.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist author, novelist, and poet based in the American Midwest, who contributed essays, poems, and serialized fiction to the early Spiritualist and reform press. Her reformist novel *Violet: A True Story* ran as a serial in Hannah Frances Mary Brown's journal *The Agitator* (1858–1860).
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Willets, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Co-conductor of the Fox family’s publicity campaign, per ‘Spirit Conductors.’
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American Quaker, druggist, and Spiritualist based in Rochester, New York, active in the early defense and organization of Modern Spiritualism. Following the Hydesville manifestations he supported the Fox Sisters (Leah, Maggie, and Kate) against public accusations. With Isaac Post and Amy Post he helped organize the public investigation and spirit demonstrations at Corinthian Hall in November 1849.
Chasing Emma: Spirit Conductors: A Letter from George Willets to Erastus Meech; January 1850
Willey, Raymond C.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American engineer, dowser, editor, and author associated with dowsing and radiesthesia. In 1961 he co-founded the
Related Periodicals: American Dowser
Williams, Benjamin P.
The birth name of the astrologer and occultist who worked as Elbert Benjamine and under the pen name C. C. Zain; founder of the
Williams, Cecil
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Amsterdam Matter; And After: A Member of Council; B.N.A.S; October; 1878
Chasing Emma: This Age of Marvels -- The Beginning of Form Materialization; December 1872
Chasing Emma: The Genuineness of Those Who Claim To Be Mediums: Some Notes on Alfred Rita (1849-1922)
Chasing Emma: Anything But Truthful (Part One): Some Notes on Frank Herne (1850-1887)
Chasing Emma: This Is Too Much Of A Trick: Some Notes on Charles E. Williams (1849 - c.1910)
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Williams, Edward
(Source: Gemini) (?–1826) Late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Welsh poet, lexicographer, and antiquarian, writing under the bardic name Iolo Morganwg, regarded as a founder of Modern Druidry. Born in Glamorgan, Wales, he worked as a monumental mason before turning to Celtic literature, Welsh manuscripts, and Druidic lore. In 1792 he founded the *Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain* (Gorsedd of Bards of the Island of Britain), holding its inaugural ritual on Primrose Hill, London, and claimed to have compiled documentary evidence of an ancient British religion. Died in 1826.
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Williams, Edward Vaughn
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century British 'scientific' astrologer, author, and publisher who designed and sold mathematical planispheres for astronomical and predictive calculation. A pupil of the astrologer Thomas Oxley, he focused on astronomical mathematics while rejecting the spiritualist and occult movements of his era. He edited and published the monthly *The Astrologer's Magazine and Philosophical Miscellany* (1857).
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Williams, Gail
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Fear Not the Crossing (1920)
Williams, John Shoebridge
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American civil engineer, surveyor, militia officer, and Spiritualist author and medium. Born in a Quaker settlement in North Carolina, he served as brigade major in the War of 1812 and wrote *History of the Invasion and Capture of Washington* (1857), and worked on the western-summit survey for the proposed Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. He became a writing and speaking medium in 1852, publishing the monthly *Spiritual Manifestations* (1854) and *The Patriarchal Order, or, True Brotherhood* (1855).
Related Periodicals: The Christian Spiritualist | Spiritual Manifestations
Williams, Joseph J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Williams, M.E.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century American Spiritualist materializing medium, editor, and publisher of the weekly *The New York Beacon Light* (1885–1891). Based in New York City, she was president of the Spiritualistic Society at Adelphi Hall and held séances said to produce materialized spirit forms. She lectured on the thesis *Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist*, claiming Lincoln was a medium, and was the subject of several publicized exposures of fraud in New York and Paris.
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Williams, Sophia
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: You Are Psychic (1946)
Williams, Vivian May
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: There Is Nothing But God (1934)
Williamson, George Hunt
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) George Hunt Williamson (1926–1986), also "Brother Philip," was an American contactee and author (Other Tongues—Other Flesh, Secret of the Andes) of the 1950s saucer movement.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Mid-twentieth-century American author, lecturer, and occultist, born Michel d'Obrenovic and also writing as Brother Philip, active in the early UFO contactee movement and ancient-astronaut theorizing. Born in Chicago, he studied archaeology before turning to purported extraterrestrial and telepathic communication. In 1953 he co-authored *The Saucers Speak!*, claiming to document shortwave-radio contact with other worlds, and wrote *Other Tongues—Other Flesh* (1953) and *Road in the Sky* (1959), conducting archaeological expeditions in South America.
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Willis, F.L.H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Frederick L. H. Willis (1830–1914) was an American physician and Spiritualist, famously expelled from Harvard Divinity School over accusations of mediumship.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1914) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist medium, preacher, homeopathic physician, and writer. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, orphaned young and raised by grandparents, he boarded for a decade with Bronson Alcott's family. He became an active Spiritualist medium in 1854, and while at Harvard Divinity School was suspended and expelled in March 1857 over his mediumistic activities, an episode investigated by Harvard professors. He continued as a Spiritualist lecturer, preacher, and homeopathic physician. Died in 1914.
Chasing Emma: You Can't Do Without It: The Banner of Light; 1857
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Willis, Love M.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1908) Nineteenth-century American Unitarian and Spiritualist author, editor, and hymn writer. Born in Hancock, New Hampshire, she married the Spiritualist medium and physician Dr. Frederick L. H. Willis in 1858 and edited the journal *Tiffany's Monthly* with him. She wrote the hymn 'Father, Hear the Prayer We Offer' (1859). Died in 1908.
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Willlard, Cyrus Field
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American journalist, political activist, and Theosophist. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, he worked as a labor reporter for *The Boston Globe*. Inspired by Edward Bellamy's *Looking Backward*, he co-founded the first Nationalist Club in Boston in 1888 with Sylvester Baxter. A member of the
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Wills, Arthur J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Wilmans, Helen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Helen Wilmans (1831–1907), the American "Mental Science" New Thought leader and healer; see the "Baker, Helen Wilmans" entry.
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Wilmot, Lottie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) ‘Madame Lottie Wilmot,’ a figure in ‘Emma and Her Shadows.’
(Source: Gemini) (c.1840–1884) Nineteenth-century English-born actress, show-girl, and free-thought lecturer active in Australia and New Zealand, who popularized Spiritualism, secularism, and free-love reform in the colonies. Originally an actress, she traveled through Melbourne, Sydney, and Wellington, giving theatrical Sunday-evening addresses and character readings in the late 1870s and early 1880s and speaking on women's rights, mediumistic phenomena, and marriage reform. She filed several defamation suits against critics. Died in Wellington in 1884.
Chasing Emma: Emma and Her Shadows: Lotti Wilmot; 1878
Chasing Emma: Emma the Infidel: 1878
Wilson, E.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Emma; On Her Marriage
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Wilson, Ebenezer Vespasian
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (1818–1880) Nineteenth-century American Spiritualist medium, itinerant trance lecturer, publisher, and author. He co-founded and edited the weekly *The Spiritualist at Work* (1874–1876) with the publisher D.M. Bennett, and wrote *The Truths of Spiritualism* (1876), a record of personal psychic experiences. Died in 1880.
Chasing Emma: The Lesson We Desire To Teach: E. V. Wilson at Koons' Spirit Room; January 1855
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Wilson, Edward Arthur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Edward Arthur Wilson (1878–1934), "Brother XII," was an English-Canadian occultist who founded the
(Source: Gemini) (1878–1934) Twentieth-century English mystic, mariner, and spiritualist, known as Brother XII, who founded the Aquarian Foundation in British Columbia. Born in Birmingham, England, he worked as a sea captain and studied Eastern philosophy before propagating an apocalyptic cosmology drawn from theosophical teachings. In 1927 he established the utopian community Cedar-by-the-Sea near Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, attracting wealthy disciples who donated large sums. With his consort Mabel Skottowe (Madame Z) he controlled the compound until his followers rebelled. Died in 1934.
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Wilson, Ernest C.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Simple Truth, Harmonially Interpreted (1920), You and the Universe: A Book of Numbers (1922)
Wilson, Floyd B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Floyd B. Wilson was an American New Thought author of the early 1900s (Paths to Power, Man Limitless).
(Source: Gemini) (1845–1934) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American New Thought author, attorney, and philosopher. Trained in law and a member of the Supreme Court Bar, he wrote on mental suggestion and the alignment of mind, body, and soul, and co-founded New Thought forums. His books include *Paths to Power* (1901), *Man Limitless* (1905), and *Through Silence to Realization* (1906). Died in 1934.
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Wilson, Harriet E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), African-American author of Our Nig and a Spiritualist medium; Wetherbee and Cobb are named alongside.
(Source: Gemini) (1825–1900) Nineteenth-century American author, medium, and lecturer, born Harriet E. Adams, the first African American woman to publish a novel in the United States. Born in New Hampshire, she completed an indenture as a servant before writing her autobiographical *Our Nig* (1859). She later became a Spiritualist trance medium active in the Massachusetts Spiritualist Association, sharing the podium with Andrew Jackson Davis at conventions and lecturing on labor reform and spiritualist child education, and worked as a professional medium for nearly twenty years. Died in 1900.
Chasing Emma: Harriet E. Wilson; Spiritualist Medium
Wilson, Henry B.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: Ghosts or Gospels: The Methods of Spiritualism in Healing Compared with the Methods of Christ (1922)
Wilson, Rachel Mack
To be added.
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Windle, C. A.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Windsor, Lilla D.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Windsor, William
(Source: Gemini) (1857–1922) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American phrenologist, lawyer, and author. Trained in law and practising as an attorney, he established the 'Boston College of Vitosophy' and invented the phrenometer, a head-measuring device. He wrote textbooks on phrenology and the utopian novel *Loma, a Citizen of Venus* (1897), which set out a eugenicist, feminist-leaning vision of a Venusian society. Died in 1922.
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Windust, Orea E.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century English-born astrologer, occultist, translator, and author, writing under the pseudonym F.A.A. Schot, and sister of the publisher Albert R. Windust. Active in the French occult revival and Hermetic circles in North Africa, she worked on planetary configurations, Kabbalistic symbolism, and theosophy. With the author Francis Rolt-Wheeler she co-founded the Institut Astrologique de Carthage in Carthage, Tunisia, and served as president of its monthly journal *L'Astrosophie* (1929–1960). She wrote essays, ran astrological correspondence courses, and translated Anglo-American esoteric works.
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Wing, Tycho
(Source: Gemini) (1696–1750) Eighteenth-century English astrologer, land surveyor, and mathematician from a multi-generational family of astrologers. He served as coroner for Rutland from 1727 to 1742. In 1736 he took over the compilation and editing of the family's astronomical almanac, *Almanack and Prognostication*, from his father John Wing, and worked as a land surveyor publishing mathematical calculations. Died in 1750.
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Wingfieldstratford, Esme
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Open Road to Mind Training (1922)
Winkelmann, Johann Joachim
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), the German art historian and founder of the modern study of classical antiquity; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Periodicals: Archiv fur Freimaurer und Rosenkreuzer
Winkley, J.W.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American Unitarian minister, mental healer, and New Thought publisher. Born in New Hampshire and trained as a Unitarian pastor, he co-organized the Church of the Divine Unity in Boston in 1885 and edited and published the periodical *Practical Ideals*. He authored *The Way to the Ideal Life* (1904) and a memoir, *John Brown the Hero* (1905).
Related Periodicals: Practical Ideals
Winrod, Gerald B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Gerald B. Winrod (1900–1957) was an American fundamentalist evangelist, prophecy writer, and far-right "Jayhawk Nazi" agitator.
(Source: Gemini) American fundamentalist evangelist and publisher (1900–1957), founder of the Defenders of the Christian Faith and a prominent antisemitic, pro-Nazi agitator known as the "Jayhawk Nazi."
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Winslow, Caroline B.
To be added.
Related Organizations:
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Winston, Alvin
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Wirth, Joseph Paul Oswald
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Swiss-born French occultist, artist, and author. Born in Brienz, Switzerland, he worked as a pattern cutter before turning to Hermetic science, Rosicrucianism, and kabbalah, and served as secretary to the occultist Stanislas de Guaita. He designed the *Tarot of the Bohemians* (1889) and wrote *Le Tarot des Imagiers du Moyen Âge* (1927), setting out a comparative system of initiatory tarot symbolism.
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Wirth, Oswald
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Oswald Wirth (1860–1943) was a Swiss-French occultist and Freemason, a collaborator of Stanislas de Guaita, who designed an influential esoteric Tarot deck. (Also "Wirth, Joseph Paul Oswald.")
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Wise, Isaac M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Isaac Mayer Wise (1819–1900) was the chief American organizer of Reform Judaism; cited here in a periodical context.
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Withall, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Named with Flournoy and Meads in ‘A Highly Plastic Region.’
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British Spiritualist administrator, editor, and publisher. Based in London, he served for several decades as President of the
Chasing Emma: A Highly Plastic Region: William Butler Yeats at the London Spiritualist Alliance; May 1914
Witt, Henry
(Source: Gemini) (1833–1871) Mid-nineteenth-century American Spiritualist administrator, editor, and organizer in Brooklyn, New York. He was secretary and treasurer of the Spiritual and Progressive Association of Brooklyn. In 1860, with the
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Within, Inquire
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
Related Monographs: The Trail of the Serpent (1936)
Witt, A. W.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Wittgenstein, Emil de Sayn
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Prince Emil von Sayn-Wittgenstein (1824–1878) was a Russian general and Spiritualist, an active promoter of the movement in Russian aristocratic circles.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century German nobleman, Russian military officer, and Spiritualist author. A childhood friend of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, he served as aide-de-camp to Czar Alexander II during the Russo-Turkish War. He contributed letters on psychical phenomena to European spiritualist journals, notably Harrison's *The Spiritualist* (London), and joined the
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Wittig, Gregor Constantin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Gregor Constantin Wittig (1834–1908) was the German co-editor (with Aksakov) of Psychische Studien, a leading organ of scientific Spiritualism.
(Source: Gemini) (1834–1908) Nineteenth-century German theologian, parapsychologist, translator, and editor. Excommunicated after his views diverged from the church, he collaborated with the Russian psychical researcher Alexander Aksakov. In 1874 he co-founded and for decades edited *Psychische Studien*, a German parapsychological journal, and translated numerous English-language spiritualist works into German.
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Wodehouse, E.A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) E. A. Wodehouse (1879–1955), elder brother of the humorist P. G. Wodehouse, was a Theosophist and professor associated with Annie Besant's educational work in India.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century English academic, poet, and theosophist; brother of the novelist P.G. Wodehouse. Educated at the University of Oxford, he worked as a professor of English literature in India. A co-founder of the
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Wohl, Louis de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Louis de Wohl (1903–1961) was a German-British astrologer and novelist employed by British intelligence in the Second World War to counter Hitler's supposed astrologers.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) German-born British astrologer, novelist, and screenwriter, born in Berlin of Hungarian-Jewish descent. He worked as a novelist and screenwriter for German cinema before fleeing the Nazi regime in 1935 and reinventing himself in London as a professional astrologer, publishing *The Secret Service of the Sky* (1938). In 1940 he was recruited by the Special Operations Executive and MI5 to cast charts simulating the astrological advice Hitler might be receiving, and established the 'Psychological Research Bureau'.
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Wolfart, Karl Christian
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Karl Christian Wolfart (1778–1832) was a German physician, a leading advocate of Mesmer's animal magnetism and editor of Mesmer's later writings.
(Source: Gemini) (1778–1832) Late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German physician and pioneer of animal magnetism (mesmerism). A professor of medicine at the University of Berlin, he became a disciple and personal friend of Franz Anton Mesmer, and edited and published Mesmer's posthumous *Mesmerismus; oder, System der Wechselwirkungen* (1814).
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Wolfe, Humbert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) Humbert Wolfe (1885–1940), the English poet and civil servant; cited here in a periodical context.
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Wolff, Hannah M.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Hannah M. Wolff was an American Spiritualist and New Thought lecturer and writer of the later nineteenth century.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century American Spiritualist and author in the northeastern United States. In November 1891 she published a biographical letter in *The Better Way* recounting firsthand experiences with Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in 1873 and 1874, giving evidence of Blavatsky's early attendance at séances held by E.V. Wilson and her early mediumistic experiments.
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Wollstoncraft, Mary
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), the English author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; cited here in a reform/periodical context.
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Wolstenholme, Richard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) The groom in the account of the first Spiritualist wedding of July 1886.
(Source: Gemini) (1842–?) Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British Spiritualist leader, editor, and administrator in Lancashire. Born in Rhodes, near Manchester, he co-founded the Blackburn
Chasing Emma: July 1886: The First Spiritualist Marriage In England?
Wood, Chester G.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American New Thought author, mystic, and lecturer, based in Oak Park, Illinois. Writing for the Chicago *Occult Digest* and journals such as *Mystic World* during the 1920s and 1930s, he published instructional works including *Reflections of a Reputable Mystic* (1931) and *Awaken the Mystic Powers within You!*, and directed study circles on creative concentration.
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Wood, Ernest E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Ernest Egerton Wood (1883–1965) was an English Theosophist, Sanskrit scholar, and author of popular books on yoga and concentration.
(Source: Gemini) (1883–1965) Twentieth-century English-born American theosophist, Sanskrit scholar, and yoga author. Born in Manchester, he co-founded several lodges of the
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Wood, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Henry Wood (1834–1909) was an American businessman and New Thought author (Ideal Suggestion Through Mental Photography).
(Source: Gemini) (?–1909) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American New Thought philosopher, author, and social theorist. Born in Barre, Vermont, he pursued a commercial career before turning to mental healing. He authored *Ideal Suggestion Through Mental Photography* (1893) and *The New Thought Simplified* (1903), setting out a system of mental metaphysics, and was an early leader of the New Thought movement. Died in 1909.
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Wood, Miss
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) A materialization medium (‘Miss Wood’) named with Florence Cook and the spirit ‘John King.’
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century British Spiritualist medium, born in Newcastle, England. She worked alongside Annie Fairlamb Mellon as an official medium for the Newcastle Spiritual Evidence Society, demonstrating telekinesis and spirit materialization. In September 1882 she was exposed at Peterborough when her spirit control 'Pocka' was seized and found to be Wood herself covered in muslin; she maintained she was an unconscious instrument of spiritual forces.
Chasing Emma: Recovering From Miss Wood
Chasing Emma: And On Them I Confess My Faith Rests: William Stainton Moses on Form Manifestations; May 1877
Chasing Emma: Data-Driven History: The Latest Issue of Psypioneer
Wood, News E.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American physician, occultist, editor, and publisher, based in Chicago. He co-founded the Order of the Oriental Magi and served as its Supreme Grand Magus. With Willis F. Whitehead he founded, edited, and published the monthly *Star of the Magi: An Exponent of Occult Science, Art, and Philosophy* (1899–1903).
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Wood, Philip
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Title subject of ‘Rogues & Vagabonds, Part Four.’
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Four: Philip Wood Deserves A Flogging
Woodhead, J.E.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century American businessman, book collector, publisher, and psychical researcher, based in Chicago. He served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Western
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Woodcox, Benjamin F.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Woodhull, Victoria C.
Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) was an American Spiritualist, women's suffrage advocate, champion of free love, and the first woman to run for President of the United States, in 1872. With her sister Tennessee Claflin she operated a Wall Street brokerage firm and published Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, which championed women's rights, free love, and Spiritualism, and was the first American newspaper to publish the Communist Manifesto in English. Her nomination of Frederick Douglass as her Vice-Presidential running candidate and her exposure of the Beecher-Tilton affair made her one of the most notorious women of her era.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American suffragist, publisher, editor, and Spiritualist. Born in Homer, Ohio, she co-founded the first female-run stock brokerage firm on Wall Street and co-founded and edited *Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly*, advocating women's suffrage, labor reform, and sexual freedom. In 1872 she ran for President under the Equal Rights Party, and she championed the spiritualist movement.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/woodhull-victoria-1838-1927
Chasing Emma: EHB and Victoria Woodhull
Chasing Emma: Note: Eugenics
Chasing Emma: The Religion of Ghosts: For Another Day
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Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Mesmerism in Wall Street
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Woodhull, Zula Maud
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Zula Maud Woodhull (1861–1940) was the daughter of Victoria Woodhull, active with her mother in Spiritualist, reform, and publishing ventures.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century English-born American suffragist, publisher, editor, and author; daughter of the reformer Victoria Claflin Woodhull. With her mother she co-edited and published the London monthly *The Humanitarian* (1892–1901), a platform for social-hygiene and reform discussion, and wrote sociological essays and plays.
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Woodman, William Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Dr. William Robert Woodman (1828–1891) was an English physician and Freemason, the third of the founding "Chiefs" of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–1891) Nineteenth-century British physician, Freemason, and ceremonial magician. Born in London, he served as Supreme Magus of the
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Woodroffe, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Sir John Woodroffe (1865–1936), the British Tantra scholar who wrote as "Arthur Avalon"; see the "Avalon, Arthur" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British Sanskrit scholar, translator, and jurist who wrote under the pseudonym Arthur Avalon. Educated in law at the University of Oxford, he served as Advocate-General of Bengal. He translated and analyzed classical Sanskrit and Shakta texts, publishing *The Serpent Power* (1919) and *Shakti and Shâkta*, and introduced Tantra and Kundalini yoga to Western readers.
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Woodrow, Thomas W.
To be added.
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Woolf, Virginia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.88) English novelist (1882–1941), cited for Flush (1933) in ‘The Call, Part Two.’
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Two: Virginia Woolf; Being Catty
Woolgar, Sarah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) English actress named with Ellen Chaplin and Céleste in ‘Lady Sneerwell.’
Chasing Emma: Lady Sneerwell: Miss Emma Harding's First London Notice
Woollcott, Alexander
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Alexander Woollcott (1887–1943), the American critic and Algonquin Round Table wit; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Organizations:
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Workman, Rona Morris
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American poet, theosophist, fiction writer, and editor, based in Ojai, California. She served as chief editor of the quarterly *Mothers' Occult Digest* (1947–1952) under the
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Worsdale, John
To be added.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British astrologer, mathematician, and author. Working from the astrological system of the Italian monk Placido de Titi, he specialized in the calculation of house cusps and primary directions. He authored *Celestial Philosophy; Or Genethliacal Astronomy* (1825), setting out a method for calculating nativities, and published astronomical almanacs.
Chasing Emma: Died by the Visitation of God: John Worsdale; January 1826
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Seven: The Two John Worsdales
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Worth, Patience
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Wright, Frank Lloyd
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), the American architect, whose "organic" philosophy drew on Transcendentalism and Eastern thought; cited here in a periodical context.
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Wright, George E.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Wright, H.C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Henry Clarke Wright (1797–1870) was an American abolitionist, non-resistance and reform lecturer with Spiritualist sympathies.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth-century American clergyman, abolitionist, pacifist, and reformer, born in Sharon, Connecticut. He studied theology at Andover Theological Seminary, served as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, and co-founded the New England Non-Resistance Society in 1838. He contributed essays to the Spiritualist journal *Banner of Light* and wrote books on marriage reform and child-rearing.
Chasing Emma: Bela Marsh: A Downpayment on 14 Bromfield Street
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Wright, J. Gilbert E.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American research chemist, inventor, and psychical investigator. A research engineer for the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York, credited with inventing silicone rubber (Silly Putty), he also investigated telepathy, electronic voice communication, and spirit survival. He collaborated with the
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Wright, Leoline L.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Wright, Maurice B.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Wright, William Charlton
(Source: Gemini) (?–1850) Nineteenth-century British printer, publisher, and bookseller, established at Paternoster Row, London, by 1824. He published oracular, apocalyptic, and astrological works, founding and printing the weekly *The Straggling Astrologer* (1824) — which introduced the first works under the name 'Raphael' (Robert Cross Smith) — followed by *The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century*. He also printed weather almanacs. Died in 1850.
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Wronski, H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Józef Maria Hoëné-Wroński (1776–1853) was a Polish mathematician and messianic philosopher whose "Messianism" and "Absolute" influenced Éliphas Lévi and later occultists.
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Wulff, Erwin
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Wundt, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920), the German founder of experimental psychology, a prominent critic of Spiritualism; cited here in a periodical context.
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Wyckoff, Sarah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Named in ‘Horace Day: The Marriages.’
Chasing Emma: Horace Day: The Marriages
Wyke, Charles Lennox
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Sir Charles Lennox Wyke, British diplomat, an Orphic Circle candidate in the blog.
Chasing Emma: Sir Charles Lennox Wyke
Wyld, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Dr. George Wyld (1821–1906) was a Scottish homeopathic physician, an early president of the
Chasing Emma: Nothing In the World So Inexact: Anna Kingsford; June 1885
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X, Pope Leo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Pope Leo X (Giovanni de' Medici, 1475–1521), the Renaissance pope; cited here in a periodical context.
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Xavier, Francis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) St. Francis Xavier (1506–1552), the Jesuit missionary to Asia, credited with miracles; cited here in a periodical context.
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Xavier, Francisco Candido
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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XI, Louis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Louis XI of France (1423–1483), the "Universal Spider," noted for his interest in astrology; cited here in a periodical context.
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Xifre, Jose
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) José Xifré Hamel (1856–1920) was a wealthy Spanish Theosophist and disciple of Blavatsky who financed the movement and the Adyar headquarters. (Also "Xifre, Josep.")
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XII, Brother
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Brother XII" was Edward Arthur Wilson (1878–1934), founder of the
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Yarker, John
John Yarker (1833-1913) was a British Freemason and occultist who became one of the leading authorities on irregular Masonry and esoteric Masonic rites. He published a number of Masonic works and an abridged translation of Louis-Alphonse Cahagnet's Magie Magnétique. His most well-known work is The
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/yarker-john-1833-1913
Chasing Emma: From the Senior Partner's Desk
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Yarnall, Jane W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Jane W. Yarnall was an American New Thought author of the 1890s (Practical Healing for Mind and Body).
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Yates, Dorothy Hazeltine
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Yeats, W.B.
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), the Irish poet and Nobel laureate, was a lifelong occultist — a Theosophist, then for over thirty years a member of the
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats
Chasing Emma: A Highly Plastic Region: William Butler Yeats at the London Spiritualist Alliance; May 1914
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Yogananda, Paramahansa
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) was an Indian yogi who came to the United States in 1920 and founded the Self-Realization Fellowship, teaching Kriya Yoga. His Autobiography of a Yogi (1946) became one of the most influential spiritual books of the century.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramahansa_Yogananda
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Yorke, Gerald
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Gerald Yorke (1901–1983) was an English scholar and collector who served Aleister Crowley and became the principal archivist and bibliographer of his work.
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Yost, Casper S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Casper S. Yost (1864–1941) was an American newspaper editor whose book Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery (1916) publicized the Ouija-board authorship of Pearl Curran.
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Young, Brigham
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Brigham Young (1801–1877), the Latter-day Saint leader who succeeded Joseph Smith and directed the Mormon migration to Utah; cited here in a periodical context.
Related Organizations:
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Young, Frederic Rowland
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Stringboard: The Rev. Frederick Rowland Young
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Young, J. Milton
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American Spiritualist, editor, and administrator, based in Massachusetts. He served as Clerk of the New England Spiritualist Campmeeting Association at Lake Pleasant, Massachusetts, and was founding editor and publisher of the Spiritualist newspaper *The Wildwood Messenger*, coordinating regional camp meetings.
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Younghusband, Francis E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Sir Francis Younghusband (1863–1942), the British explorer and leader of the 1904 expedition to Tibet, who in later life became a mystic and founder of the World Congress of Faiths.
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Yurman, Louis Arthur
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American physiotherapist, naturopath, chiropractor, and astrologer, based in New York City. He served as chief of clinic at the Puderbach School of Massage and practiced the Weltmer Method of Suggestive Therapeutics of Nevada, Missouri. He contributed essays on drugless healing and planetary influence to astrological publications, notably Llewellyn George's *Journal of the National Astrological Association* during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Yve-Plessis, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Robert Yve-Plessis was a French bibliographer of the occult sciences, compiler of an important bibliography of sorcery, magic, and possession.
(Source: Gemini) (?–1933) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century French author, librettist, and bibliographer, working as an independent scholar in Paris. He studied argot linguistics and esoteric traditions and compiled the bibliography *Essai d'une bibliographie française méthodique et raisonnée de la sorcellerie et de la possession démoniaque* (1900). He also authored historical biographies. Died in 1933.
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Zacharias, Johannes
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Zahed, Eliphas Levi
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Éliphas Lévi Zahed" was the full Hebraized pen name of Alphonse Louis Constant (1810–1875), the French occultist; see the "Levy, Eliphas" entry.
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Zain, C.C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "C. C. Zain" was the pen name of Elbert Benjamine (1882–1951), founder of the
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century American astrologer, occultist, and author, pen name of Elbert Benjamine, born in Iowa. He joined the
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Zancig, Julius
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Twentieth-century Danish-American stage mentalist, author, and occultist, born Julius Jörgensen in Copenhagen; he emigrated to the United States and married Agnes Claussen. He developed a two-person signaling code (the 'Zancig Code') for thought-transference performances, and with Agnes established the stage act 'The Zancigs,' billed as 'Two Minds with but a Single Thought,' performing before psychical researchers including Oliver Lodge and Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1924 he published an autobiography, *Adventures in Many Lands*, disclosing the signaling method.
Zanelli, Armando
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Chilean theosophist, editor, and administrator, based in Valparaíso. He founded, edited, and directed the monthly *Revista Teosófica Chilena*, which launched in March 1920 as the organ of the Chilean Section of the
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Zannou, Aglaia
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Greek theosophist, editor, and philanthropist. She served as chief editor of *Pelecan*, the official Greek theosophical periodical, and donated her own property to house the permanent headquarters of the
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Zapata, Emiliano
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919), the Mexican revolutionary agrarian leader; cited here in a periodical context.
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Zariel, Magi
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century American astrologer, editor, and founder, born Walter Henry Lewis, based in Manchester, New Hampshire. He edited and published *Prophecy* (1915–1930), the organ of the National Astrological Society, founded the
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Zavadil, Josef
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Czech Hermeticist, chemist, and author, based in Prague. He studied alchemical symbolism, Kabbalah, and Tarot, collaborating with Pierre de Lasenic, and was a founding member of the Horev-Klub and Universalia in Prague, contributing essays to the occult journal *Horev*.
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Zell, Cardan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) ‘Dr. Zell,’ a figure named with Kabis and the Phelons in ‘Dr. Zell and the Princess Charlotte.’
Chasing Emma: Dr. Zell and the Princess Charlotte: Wyoming Occultists; 1892
Zerub, B.B.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth-century American editor, occultist, and author, based in Boston and later Applegate, California. Working with Hiram Erastus Butler on solar biology and character development, he served as chief editor of *The Esoteric: A Magazine of Advanced and Practical Esoteric Thought* in the late 1890s and helped run its publishing house and the Esoteric Fraternity community.
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Ziegler, Ignaz
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Ziegler, J.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Ziff, Judy
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Mid-twentieth-century American Scientologist, editor, and administrator, based at Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead, England, and later Los Angeles. Trained under L. Ron Hubbard, she served as editor-in-chief of *The Auditor: The Journal of Scientology* and directed the movement's publishing and communication networks.
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Zillman, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Paul Zillmann, the German occult publisher of the Neue Metaphysische Rundschau; same person as the "Zillmann, Paul" entry.
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century German occultist, editor, publisher, and translator, based in Gross-Lichterfelde near Berlin. He founded, edited, and published the monthly *Neue Metaphysische Rundschau* (New Metaphysical Review), covering spiritual philosophy, astrology, yoga, alternative healing, psychical research, and Gnostic studies, and translated English-language occult works into German.
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Zillmann, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Paul Zillmann was a German occult publisher and editor of the Neue Metaphysische Rundschau around 1900, an outlet for Theosophy and Western esotericism. (Also "Zillman, Paul.")
Related Periodicals: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau
Zingaropoli, Francesco
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century Italian Spiritualist, lawyer, editor, and author, based in Naples. He investigated mediumistic phenomena and haunted houses, contributed to the journal *Luce e Ombra*, and wrote *Morte Aparente e Sobrevivência da Alma* and the legal study *Case infestate dagli Spiriti* (1917). He also authored a biography of the psychical researcher Ercole Chiaia (1908).
Related Periodicals: Filosofia della Scienza | Luce e Ombra | Mondo Occulto
Zippel, Adolph
(Source: Gemini) (?–?) Early twentieth-century German esoteric scholar, critic, and author, examining the esoteric and mystical foundations of German opera. He authored *Lohengrin: Richard Wagners Oper von philosophischen-esoterischen Standpunkt aus betrachtet* (1913), published by the theosophical press of Karl Röhm in Lorch, and wrote articles on Gnostic, Rosicrucian, and theosophical themes.
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Zitko, Howard John
(Source: Gemini) (1911–2003) Twentieth-century American author, educator, mystic, and lecturer. He co-founded the World University Roundtable in Los Angeles in 1947 and established the World University in Tucson, Arizona, in 1967. He wrote on comparative religion, Lemuria, and alternative education, authoring *The Lemurian Theochristic Conception* and *New Age Tantra Yoga* (1974).
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Znamierowski, Jerzy
(Source: Gemini) (1895–1992) Twentieth-century Polish philosopher, academic, theosophist, and editor, educated at Warsaw. He worked on theosophical principles, Eastern mysticism, and nature philosophy, and served as chief editor of the monthly journal *Feniks* (1937), published in Warsaw by the Komitet Wydawniczy 'Feniksa.' He also translated Sanskrit texts and directed study circles.
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Zola, Emile
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Émile Zola (1840–1902), the French novelist and leader of literary naturalism; cited here in a periodical context.
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Zollner
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) J. C. F. Zöllner (1834–1882), the German astrophysicist and investigator of Slade's mediumship; see the "Zollner, Carl Friedrich" entry.
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Zollner, Carl Friedrich
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Johann Carl Friedrich Zöllner (1834–1882) was a German astrophysicist whose experiments with the medium Henry Slade led him to argue for a "fourth spatial dimension." (Also "Zollner.")
(Source: Gemini) (1834–1882) Nineteenth-century German astrophysicist and investigator of Spiritualism, born in Berlin, professor of physical astronomy at the University of Leipzig. He conducted experiments with the American physical medium Henry Slade on slate-writing and the 'fourth dimension of space,' and published his findings in *Transcendental Physics* (1878), arguing for the physical reality of spirit communication.
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Zoroaster
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Zoroaster (Zarathustra), the ancient Iranian prophet and founder of Zoroastrianism, a perennial figure in Western esoteric genealogies of wisdom.
(Source: Gemini) (c. 624–599 BC, traditionally dated) ancient Persian prophet, philosopher, and poet, founder of Zoroastrianism. Born in ancient Iran, he composed the sacred hymns known as the *Gathas* and taught the worship of a supreme creator, Ahura Mazdā, against contemporary polytheism; his doctrines of cosmic dualism, the struggle between light and darkness, and the Magi shaped later world religions and Western esotericism. H.P. Blavatsky cited Zoroaster and the Magi as masters of the occult crafts, and his association with Chaldean astrology, alchemy, and magic became a reference point for modern Theosophy and Hermetic philosophy.
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Zschokke, Heinrich
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Heinrich Zschokke (1771–1848) was a Swiss-German author who described a spontaneous faculty of "inner sight" into the lives of strangers, a much-cited case in psychical literature.
(Source: Gemini) (1771–1848) German-Swiss author, reformer, philanthropist, and government commissioner in Switzerland, active in the early history of animal magnetism and clairvoyance. He wrote on spiritual philosophy, mesmerism, and the natural laws of the soul, authoring the devotional *Hours of Meditation* (1809) and the clairvoyant story *Hortensia*, which portrayed magnetic trances and spirit vision. His writings were frequently translated and reprinted by American Spiritualists, most notably Andrew Jackson Davis.
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Zugen, Eleonore
To be added.
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Zwemer, Samuel M.
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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Zwicky, Fritz
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974), the Swiss-American astronomer who inferred "dark matter" and coined "supernova"; cited here in a periodical context.
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Zymonidas, Allessandro
Monograph-corpus author; biographical entry pending review. (Source: Claude — 1910–1950 SSOC monograph match, 2026-07-27.)
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