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, from 1892 to 1921, head of the Bahá'í Faith and the authorized interpreter of his father's teachings. Imprisoned or exiled for much of his life, he was freed after the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 and travelled through Europe and North America spreading the Bahá'í message of the unity of religions and humanity. He was knighted by the British government in 1920 for relief work in Palestine during the First World War.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBAbdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1
Referenced in: 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).
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ellingwood_Abbot
Referenced in: The Index | The Open Court
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Abbott
Referenced in: The Open Court
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
Abdu'l-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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBAbdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1
Referenced in: International Psychic Gazette
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
Aber, Mabel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Mabel Aber, an American materialization medium of the 1890s associated with 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
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.)
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Abhayananda
Referenced in: 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 Vedanta Society of New York for some twenty-five years, lecturing across North America, before returning to India in 1921 to found the Ramakrishna Vedanta Math in Calcutta and Darjeeling. At his death he was the last surviving direct disciple of Ramakrishna.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Abhedananda
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Abrams
Referenced in: The Chapala Round Table | The Lindlahr Magazine | The Philosopher's Stone | Physico-Clinical Medicine | The Psychological Review of Reviews
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.
Referenced in: Bulletin Des Polaires
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: L'Etoile D'Orient | Mondo Occulto
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.
Referenced in: International Psychic Gazette
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, Lucy E.
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Referenced in: The Balance
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Emma; the Master of Lindsay and Elongation
Chasing Emma: Groping With Eager Hands: Dunraven on Spiritualism; 1922
Adaros, Cabir Premel el
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Referenced in: Psychic Power
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
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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.
Chasing Emma: Information on Men and Schemes: Some Notes on Ursula Gestefeld; Part Three
Adkin, Thomas F.
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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
Referenced in: The Primitive Occult Journal | Weltmer's Magazine
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.
Referenced in: Theosophia
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.
Referenced in: Ultra (Rome)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Universal White Brotherhood, disseminating the esoteric solar teaching of his master Peter Deunov through voluminous published lectures.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society.
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
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mary_Alacoque
Referenced in: 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...
Albertis, John F.X.
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Referenced in: Wynn's Astrology
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
Referenced in: The Age of Progress | The Spiritual Age
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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society.
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.
Referenced in: The Golden Dawn
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarane_Alexandrian
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Arya | Sri Aurobindo Circle
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Allen_(author)
Referenced in: The Astrologers' Magazine [Williams] | The Business Philosopher | Clypeus | The Light of Reason (Allen) | Stendek
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
Allie, Georges
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Referenced in: Revue du Spiritualisme Moderne
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)
Alston, Pat
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Referenced in: Probe the Unknown
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 Martinist Order and the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose+Croix alongside occultists Papus and Stanislas de Guaita. Alta sought to synthesize orthodox Catholic theology with Gnosticism, Christian Kabbalah, and Hermetic science, advocating for a return to "primitive" Christianity and closer ties with Freemasonry. However, his synarchic doctrines and vocal opposition to papal clericalism drew ecclesiastical wrath. Following a conservative denunciation that exposed his real identity, the Bishop of Versailles suspended him from his priestly duties in 1910 on charges of agnosticism and occultism.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Atlantis (Le Cour) | L'Astrosophie | La Gnose | Revue Metapsychique | The Seer | Tomorrow (Garrett) | Tour Saint Jacques | Vaincre (Plantard)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Silent Partner
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Sun-Worshiper | Weisse Fahne
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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society, eventually becoming President of the Pacific Coast Federation of Branches (Jerome A. Anderson — Theosophy Wiki). He was a co-founder and editor of The New Californian, the West Coast's first major Theosophical journal, and was selected to represent the society at the historic 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago. A graduate of Toland Medical College, Anderson specialized in synthesizing late 19th-century biological evolution and physiological science with metaphysical doctrines of reincarnation and karmic law. His influential treatises, including Reincarnation: A Study of the Human Soul (1892) and Septenary Man (1895), sought empirical proofs for the existence of an "immortal ego." Following the 1895 American section split, he aligned with William Quan Judge and Katherine Tingley. However, he later became a vocal opponent of Tingley, criticizing the centralization of resources and alleged scandalous activities at her Lomaland community in Point Loma before his death in San Francisco. There is extensive material on Anderson on the Theosophy Wiki.
Referenced in: New Californian | The Pacific Theosophist
Anderson, John
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Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 (Kosmon Press), a promoter of the Oahspe bible and of Lemurian-themed material.
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
Referenced in: Lemurian Ambassador | The San Juan Record
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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Signs of the Times
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
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Le Rayonnement Intellectuel | Regnabit
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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Ultra (Rome)
Arc, Joan of
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.85) Joan of Arc (c. 1412–1431), the French visionary and military heroine burned as a heretic and later canonized, was frequently invoked in nineteenth-century French Spiritist literature as an exemplar of mediumship and spirit guidance.
Referenced in: La Verite (Lyon)
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
Arens, Norman
To be added.
Referenced in: Mystic World
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society in France, associated with the Isis branch in Paris.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society in 1881, Arundale became a close friend of both Helena Blavatsky and Annie Besant. Her Notting Hill house served as a vital nucleus for the London Lodge and the host site for Blavatsky's 1884 visit. A major pioneer of British Co-Masonry (Le Droit Humain), she joined in 1896 and helped Besant establish the first English mixed-gender lodge in 1902, eventually rising to the 33rd degree. That same year, she relocated to India, settling in Benares (Varanasi) to focus on theosophical education and women's advancement. She was also the adoptive mother of her great-nephew, George S. Arundale. Arundale's writings defended the doctrines of karma and reincarnation as natural evolutionary laws, most notably in The Idea of Re-birth (1903) and her posthumous memoir My Guest: H.P. Blavatsky (1932) (My Guest: H.P. Blavatsky — AbeBooks). She remained a respected spiritual leader in India until her death.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Arundale
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society Adyar. Raised by Francesca Arundale, he studied at Cambridge before relocating to India in 1903 to serve as Principal of the Central Hindu College in Benares. A passionate advocate for Indian nationalism and close associate of Annie Besant, Arundale was interned by British colonial authorities in 1917 for his leadership in the Home Rule movement. His 1920 marriage to 16-year-old Brahmin girl Rukmini Devi ignited fierce international controversy over their age and racial boundaries, and Devi's role in the Theosophical Society. Defying critics, the couple became cultural pioneers, founding the Kalakshetra Foundation in 1936, which catalyzed a major renaissance of traditional Bharatanatyam classical dance. Arundale's extensive publications, which integrated political independence with occult mysticism, include Mount Everest: Its Spiritual Attainment (1933) and Kundalini: An Occult Experience (1938). He died peacefully at Adyar in 1945.
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: The British Spiritual Telegraph | The Spirit World (Hayden) | The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
Ashford, Robert P.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Seeker and the Serial Con: More on the Mystic Brotherhood
Referenced in: The Mystic Messenger
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 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Theosophical Society. This connection is evidenced by an inscribed 1895 presentation copy of William Wynn Westcott's Numbers: their Occult Power and Mystic Virtue, gifted to Asmothiel by an associate and sold at a recent Lyon & Turnbull auction. Asmothiel's writings in The Sphinx focused on the esoteric significance of numbers, cyclic planetary influences, and the reconstruction of astrology as a recognized spiritual science. Although the author's true identity remains unverified, Asmothiel's contributions represent the late-Victorian synthesis of Hermetic Qabalah, esoteric numerology, and classical astrology.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey) | Illumination
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
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: L'Esprit (Paris) | Tempel
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.
Referenced in: The Yogi (Sydney Flower)
Auribindo, 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.
Referenced in: Tour Saint Jacques
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
Referenced in: Austin Pulpit | Fred Burry's Journal | The Hypnotic Magazine | Independent Pulpit [Waco] | The Occult (Detroit) | Radium | Reason
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1888 (De Republica seu Magistratibus Atheniensium — Christian White Rare Books). Operating a secret laboratory in his vicarage cellar, Aytoun conducted laboratory experiments to discover the Elixir of Life, constantly fearing discovery by his bishop. He was a highly respected translator of Latin alchemical and magical treatises, translating works of John Dee and Thomas Norton’s Ordinal of Alchemy. His extensive occult correspondences with Frederick Leigh Gardner were later collected and published posthumously as The Alchemist of the Golden Dawn (1985), offering modern historians an invaluable record of Victorian esoteric culture.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alexander_Ayton
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: The Carrier Dove | Harmony (Ponca City) | Irradiacion (Madrid) | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | The Light of Truth | Spectro-Chrome
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, Evie P.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Sunflower (NY)
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 Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship.
Referenced in: Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Kritischen Okkultismus
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.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society she broke from it and, with her husband Foster Bailey, founded the Lucis Trust (1922) and the Arcane School (1923). She wrote some two dozen books of "Ageless Wisdom" teaching, most of them said to be dictated telepathically by a Tibetan master, Djwhal Khul.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Bailey
Referenced in: 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
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.)
Referenced in: British Journal of Astrology
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 Arcane School, which he headed after her death.
Referenced in: 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
Bailey, Robert
To be added.
Referenced in: Wings of Truth
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Haute Science | L'Etoile
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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)
Referenced in: 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)
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Ball, John
To be added.
Referenced in: Dawn (San Francisco)
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.
Referenced in: American Occultist | The Bridge to Freedom | The Diamond | Voice of the I AM
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
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Hopedale Community in Massachusetts; he also investigated and wrote sympathetically on Spiritualism.
Chasing Emma: 1841: Other Spiritualisms
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: The Agony of Influence
Referenced in: 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).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Cromaat
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: Psychic News | Psychic World (Barbanell) | The Two Worlds
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.
Referenced in: Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
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.
Referenced in: The Channel | East and West | Light of India
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.
Referenced in: Clypeus | Nexus (James Moseley) | Saucer News (Moseley) | Saucer News Non-Scheduled Newsletter (Moseley) | Saucerian
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.
Referenced in: Curiosite | Le Magicien | Monde Occulte
Barnes, William Abner
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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, H.D.
See Barrett, Harrison D (below).
Referenced in: The National Messenger
Barrett, Harrison D
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Harrison D. Barrett (1863–1911) was an American Spiritualist, first president of the National Spiritualist Association (1893) and an editor of the Banner of Light.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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).
Referenced in: The Spiritual Republic
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 Society for Psychical Research (1882).
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 American Society for Psychical Research. He investigated telepathy, dowsing, mediumship, and deathbed visions across a long career, and was a key figure linking Victorian science to the study of survival-related phenomena. He was knighted for his contributions to physics in 1912.
Referenced in: Psychic Research Quarterly
Barrett, William F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) William F. Barrett (1844–1925), Irish physicist and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, an early scientific investigator of thought-transference and mediumship.
Chasing Emma: W. F. Barrett and Emily Kislingbury on Charles Carleton Massey
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
Barros, L. Da Rocha
To be added.
Referenced in: Religiao Espirita
Barton, Abraham Pool
To be added.
Referenced in: The Christian (Shelton) | International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | The Life [Kansas City] | Modern Miracles | Universal Truth
Barton, Catherine Josephine Wiggington
To be added.
Referenced in: International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | The Life [Kansas City]
Barton, Henry J.
To be added.
Referenced in: Betiero's Oriental Mysteries | Initiates | The Philomathian
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 Australian Centre for UFO Studies.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Basu, Upendra Nath
To be added.
Referenced in: The Pilgrim
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.
Referenced in: International Psychic Gazette
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.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society, whose esoteric ideas colored some of his fiction.
Referenced in: The Hermetist
Baumann, F.E.
To be added.
Referenced in: >Wahrheit-Sucher | Christliche Theosophie | Das Wort (Dresden) | Der Gral | Mitteilungen des Gral-Ordens | Mitteilungen des Neuen Gral-Ordens | Oriflamme | Zum Licht
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, John Martyn
To be added.
Referenced in: Gnostic Forum
Beals, Edward E.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Master Formulae: Atkinson & Beals; 1922
Referenced in: The Cosmic World | Mind Inc. | Pitagoras (Mexico) | Progress Magazine
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 Order of the Golden Age; see the "Beard, Sidney Hartnoll" entry.
Referenced in: Wings of Truth
Beard, Sidney Hartknoll
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) A variant spelling of Sidney Hartnoll Beard (1862–1938), founder of the Order of the Golden Age; see that entry.
Referenced in: Herald of the Cross
Beard, Sidney Hartnoll
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Sidney Hartnoll Beard (1862–1938) was a British food-reform advocate who founded the Order of the Golden Age, promoting vegetarianism as a spiritual and humanitarian cause. (Also appears as "Beard, Sidney Hartknoll" and "Beard, Sidney D.")
Referenced in: The Herald of the Golden Age
Beaudelot, A.M.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Sauveur des Peoples
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
Bedingfield, Richard
To be added.
Referenced in: Freelight
Bedoya, Enrique Pastor y
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: All-Seeing Eye
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)
Beighle, Nellie Craib
To be added.
Referenced in: 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
Belais, Diana
To be added.
Referenced in: Occult Life (LAX)
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.
Referenced in: The Aletheian
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
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.
Referenced in: The Nationalist [Boston] | The Sower
Bender, Albert K.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Albert K. Bender (1921–2016) was an American who founded the International Flying Saucer Bureau in the early 1950s; his claimed silencing by mysterious visitors seeded the "Men in Black" legend.
Referenced in: 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
Bener, Otto U.
To be added.
Referenced in: Lichtstrahlen
Benjamine, Elbert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Elbert Benjamine (1882–1951), who wrote as "C. C. Zain," founded the Church of Light in Los Angeles and produced its 21-course "Brotherhood of Light" system of astrology and occultism.
Referenced in: Astrological Bulletina | Current Astrology | Modern Astrology (Rose Dawn) | World Astrology Magazine | The Beacon Light | National Astrological Journal | The Occult Digest
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).
Referenced in: The Glass Hive | The Inner Life (Akron) | The New Liberator
Bennett, Arnold
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was an English novelist and journalist of the Edwardian period.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: Buchanan's Journal of Man (First and Second Series) | Hesperian Bard | Pacific Liberal | The Spiritualist at Work | The Truthseeker | The Word (Princeton)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century | The Straggling Astrologer
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.
Referenced in: 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 Tantrik Order in America and the Clarkstown Country Club. (Surname appears here as "Bernhard.")
Referenced in: International Journal of the Tantrick Order
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 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. See also the "Berridge, Edmund William" entry (same person).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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)
Berry, Hattie A. Cate
To be added.
Referenced in: Watchman
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 Theosophical Society in 1907 and led it until her death, developing the concept of the imminent arrival of a World Teacher and championing the young Jiddu Krishnamurti as its vehicle. She was also a prominent figure in Indian politics, founding the Home Rule League in 1916 and serving as President of the Indian National Congress in 1917.
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 International Club for Psychical Research in 1907 as a rival to the SPR, and argued throughout her career that psychical inquiry belonged within a broader programme of spiritual evolution and occult philosophy.
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
Referenced in: American Phrenological Journal | Aquarian New Age | Australian Theosophist | Boletin de la Sociedad Teosofica Espanola | Borderland | The Channel | Common Sense | Dawn (Sydney) | Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship) | The Divine Life | Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | Faro Oriental | Fiat Lux | Fohat | The Forecast | Gnosi | The Golden Way | Heraldo Rosacruz | Immortality | International Psychic Gazette | Isis (Lisbon) | L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique | L'Affranchi | La Estrella (Madrid) | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires) | Lucifer | Luz Astral (Chile) | Mensageiro | The Metaphysician (Palatine) | Modern Mystic | Mothers' Occult Digest | Mystic Light Library Bulletin | Neue Lotusbluten | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | New India (Besant) | O.E. Library Critic | The Occult Digest | Old Moore's Monthly Messenger | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | The Popular Phrenologist | Prana (Leipzig) | Proceedings of the Blavatsky Association | Revista de Estudios Psiquicos (Chile) | Rincarnazione | Ruusu-Risti | Server (Krishnamurti) | Sophia (Spain) | Star Bulletin | Ster in het Oosten | Teosofia en el Plata | Teozofija (Zagreb) | Theosophic Messenger | The Theosophic Voice | Theosophical Movement | The Theosophical Review | The Theosophist | Theosophy in Australasia | Theosophy in India | Ultra (Rome) | The Uplifting Veil | Virya | World Theosophy
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.
Referenced in: The Uplifting Veil
Besterman, Theodore
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Theodore Besterman (1904–1976) was a bibliographer, Voltaire scholar, and psychical researcher who worked for the Society for Psychical Research and wrote on divining and mediumship.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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).
Referenced in: 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.
Bielska, Gertrude de
To be added.
Referenced in: Azoth
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
Bikkhu, Sri Sobbhita
To be added.
Referenced in: F. U. D. O. S. I.
Bimstein, Louis Maximil(l)ian
The birth name of Max Théon, under which he is otherwise virtually unknown; see that entry.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Psychic News
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
Birven, Henri
To be added.
Referenced in: Das Wunder | The Prophet
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.
Referenced in: 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, J.P.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Popular Phrenologist
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
Referenced in: 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 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Referenced in: The Aryan Path | Mind Inc. | The Occult Review
Blake, C. Carter
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Charles Carter Blake
Chasing Emma: Romanes-Blake-Darwin
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record | Urania (Aldersgate)
Blanchard, E.L.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: E. L. Blanchard -- Connective Tissue?
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Annales Initiatiques | Force de la Verite
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), known as Madame Blavatsky or HPB, was a Russian mystic and writer who co-founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875 together with Henry Steel Olcott and William Quan Judge. Born into an aristocratic Russian family, she traveled widely in her youth before establishing herself as the principal theorist of Theosophy -- a system of thought she described as "the synthesis of science, religion and philosophy" drawing on Neoplatonism, Hindu and Buddhist ideas, and Western esotericism. Her major works, Isis Unveiled (1877) and The Secret Doctrine (1888), became foundational texts of the modern occult revival. She moved to India with Olcott in 1880 and later settled in London, where she died in 1891.
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
Referenced in: 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
Blech, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Charles Blech was a French Theosophist who served as general secretary of the Theosophical Society in France in the early twentieth century.
Referenced in: Sophia (Spain)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie
Bliss, James A.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The N. D. C. Axe
Chasing Emma: The National Developing Circle; Revisited
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | The Theosophical Ray | Weltmer's Magazine
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Psychische Studien
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.
Referenced in: 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
Blyton, Thomas
To be added.
Referenced in: Spiritual Notes
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.
Referenced in: The Phoenix (Hall)
Boehme
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Almost certainly Jakob Böhme (1575–1624), the German Christian mystic and theosopher; see the Boehme, Jacob entry.
Referenced in: 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.)
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: 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
Bogden, Henry
To be added.
Referenced in: The Kalpaka
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).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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).
Referenced in: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Haute Science | La Lumiere (Grange) | Reality | Revue du Psychisme Experimental
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 American Society for Psychical Research as education secretary and journal editor.
Referenced in: (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
Bonggren, Jacob E.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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
Bonnemere, Eugene
To be added.
Referenced in: L'Esprit (Paris) | Perda, Amor e Caridade
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)
Referenced in: The World's Advance Thought
Boos, Mildred Myneta Taylor
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Salvation Army in 1865 and served as its first General.
Referenced in: Know Thyself
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Channel
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Eclectic Theosophist | Ruusu-Risti
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
Referenced in: The Annals of Psychical Science | L'Astrosophie | Luce e Ombra | Revista di Studi Psichici | Revue du Monde Invisible | The Seer
Bradbury, Ray
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was an American author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
Referenced in: Search Magazine (Ray Palmer)
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
Referenced in: Fortean Society Magazine | La Estrella (Madrid) | Theosophic Messenger
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Braive, Maurice
To be added.
Referenced in: Ariel (Colombia)
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.
Referenced in: Ostara | Prana (Leipzig) | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Intelligence (Blue Lamoo)
Bratley, George H.
To be added.
Referenced in: New Thought Journal and Occult Review | The Practical Psychologist (London) | The Talisman
Braun, Parsival
To be added.
Referenced in: >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
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.
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.
Chasing Emma: The Psychological Society of Great Britain: 1875-1879
Breed, Stillman F.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Present Age
Bricaud, Jean
(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.
Referenced in: Annales de l'OUNE | Arohn | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Mysteria
Bricaud, Joanny
(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.
Referenced in: Annales Initiatiques | La Voie (Paris) | Mondo Occulto | Paix Universelle
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.
Referenced in: La Gnose
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.
Chasing Emma: The (Mail-Order Occult) Ring Saga; Interlude Four: Set to Star
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Spiritual Republic
Brittan, Emma Hardinge
Emma Hardinge Britten (1823–1899) was one of the most important figures of nineteenth-century Spiritualism — an English trance orator, medium, editor, and historian. Her Modern American Spiritualism (1870) and Nineteenth Century Miracles (1884) remain primary sources for the movement; she founded the weekly The Two Worlds (1887) and is credited with formulating Spiritualism's "Seven Principles." (Filed here as "Brittan"; the standard spelling is "Britten," and this may duplicate a Britten entry.)
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
Referenced in: 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
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
Referenced in: 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 | 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 Theosophical Society in 1875, though she later broke with Blavatsky. Her two major histories of Spiritualism, Modern American Spiritualism (1870) and Nineteenth Century Miracles (1884), remain key primary sources. In England she founded the spiritualist journal The Two Worlds (1887) and is credited with formulating the Seven Principles of Spiritualism adopted by the Spiritualists' National Union.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Hardinge_Britten
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
Referenced in: 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
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
Brock, William
To be added.
Referenced in: Immortality (New York) | Psychic Power
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
Brook, Harry Ellington
To be added.
Referenced in: Brain and Brawn
Brooks, Bishop Phillips
To be added.
Referenced in: Occult Press Review | Official Theomonistic Record
Brooks, Nona
To be added.
Referenced in: Daily Studies in Divine Science | Das Wort (St. Louis) | Divine Science Monthly | Divine Science News | Divine Science Weekly | First Divine Science Church Weekly Bulletin | The Gleaner | The Gnostic | Mental Science Magazine (Denver) | New Thought (London) | Power | The Truth | Weltmer's Magazine
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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship)
Brown, Edward Holmes
To be added.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: Facts (Friendship Centre UK)
Brown, Grace Mann
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Constructive Thoughts About Grace Mann Brown (1859-1925)
Referenced in: The Balance | The Essene | Nautilus | Self-Culture
Brown, Hannah F.M.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Agitator | Little Bouquet | The Lyceum Banner (Chicago) | The Present Age | The Rising Tide | The Spiritual Republic
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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: The Community's Journal | Spiritualistic Free Press and General Record | The Sword of Truth
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 J.
To be added.
Referenced in: Journal of Borderland Research
Brown, Thomas Townsend
To be added.
Chasing Emma: "I Lived In The House With Two Mediums"
Referenced in: The Little Listening Post | NICAP Reporter
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.
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part Two: Virginia Woolf; Being Catty
Referenced in: Immortality
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Modern Mystic | The Occult Observer
Bryan, Delmar DeForest
See, Bryant, Delmar DeForest, immediately below.
Referenced in: Mystic World | Neue Gedanken
Bryant, Delmar DeForest
To be added.
Referenced in: Adiramled | The Little Brown Book | The Phalanx | Sesamums
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.
Referenced in: 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.")
Referenced in: The Alpha | Brittan's Journal | Herald of Truth [Cincinnati] | The Journal of Human Science (Cincinnati) | Light From The Spirit World | The Progressive Thinker | The Psychical Review | Psychometric Circular | The Spirit World (Hayden) | The Vanguard
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).
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
Referenced in: Buchanan's Journal of Man (First and Second Series) | Eclectic Medical Journal | The Harbinger of Dawn | Light of Ages | Mind Cure and Science of Life | The St. Louis Magnet
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.
Referenced in: Advanced Thought and Divine Science | The Inner Circle (Wells) | The Kalpaka | Nautilus
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."
Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey) | Mystic Light Library Bulletin | New Californian | The Temple Artisan | Theosophy
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.
Referenced in: Angel Drummer | The Gnostic | Life and Action
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.
Referenced in: Fraternidad (Chile)
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Maurice_Bucke
Referenced in: The Temple
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
Bullet, Count de
To be added.
Referenced in: Revue Spirite
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.80) Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) was an English novelist and politician whose occult romances Zanoni and The Coming Race (with its life-force "Vril") strongly influenced later esoteric writers.
Chasing Emma: The Orphic Circle Meets At Craven Cottage...
Chasing Emma: The Call; Part One: Lord Stanhope's Crystal Ball
Chasing Emma: Sir Charles Lennox Wyke
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Part Ten: Electrobiology and 1845
Chasing Emma: Calibrating Hydropathy
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Measuring Diffusion Across Boundaries
Referenced in: The Astrologer and Oracle of Destiny | Licht en Waarheid | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | Sophia (Spain)
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
Referenced in: Camp-Meeting Guide | Freethinkers Magazine | Mind and Matter | The Progressive Thinker | The Psychological Review | The Truthseeker
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
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: The Institute For Homeless and Outcast Women; circa 1861
Burgoyne, T.H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Thomas H. Burgoyne (1855–1894) was a Scottish-American occultist, secretary of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor and author of The Light of Egypt. See also "Burgoyne, Thomas Henry."
Chasing Emma: Thomas Henry Dalton / T. H. Burgoyne -- His Descendents
Chasing Emma: Church of Light Conference Material
Referenced in: The Morning Star | The Platonist | Ye Quaint Magazine
Burgoyne, Thomas Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Thomas Henry Burgoyne (1855–1894), occultist of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor and author of The Light of Egypt; same person as the "Burgoyne, T.H." entry.
Referenced in: Le Magicien | The Occultist (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor) | The Oracle (Boston)
Burkhardt, Titus
To be added.
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett) | Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles
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
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Balance | Fred Burry's Journal | The Hypnotic Magazine | The Kalpaka | New York Magazine of Mysteries | Weltmer's Magazine
Burton, Caryl
To be added.
Referenced in: 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).
Chasing Emma: And From Masonry; A Return To The Orphic Circle
Chasing Emma: The Zoist; Volume 10
Chasing Emma: Days Later; Back in Jedda
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: The Hierophant | The Spirit Messenger | The Swedenborgian
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."
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
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: Psychische Studien
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Flying Saucers from Other Worlds
Byron, Madame
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) “Madame Byron,” a mid-nineteenth-century medium noted in the context of the exposed medium Charles Colchester.
Chasing Emma: Colchester in Context: October 29; 1860
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
To be added.
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 Theosophical Society in the United States. See also "Cables, Mrs. J.W."
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Path
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: American Occultist | Unity
Cahagnet, A.-L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Louis-Alphonse Cahagnet (1809–1885), French magnetizer and Spiritualist author; same person as the "Cahagnet, Louis Alphonse" entry.
Referenced in: Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
Cahagnet, Louis Alphonse
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Louis-Alphonse Cahagnet (1809–1885) was a French artisan turned magnetizer and Spiritualist, author of Magnétisme: Arcanes de la vie future dévoilée, recording somnambulists' visions of the afterlife.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden
Caithness, Marie Countess of
Marie Sinclair, Countess of Caithness and Duchess of Pomar (1830–1895), was a British aristocrat of Spanish descent, a wealthy Spiritualist and Theosophist who financed the spread of Theosophy in France, associated with Blavatsky, and wrote The Mystery of the Ages (1887).
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Sinclair,_Countess_of_Caithness
Chasing Emma: Dr. Britten's Home Battery
Chasing Emma: Emma; Watching the Carnival: March 1881
Referenced in: L'Etoile | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden
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
Callender, Florence Hewitt
To be added.
Referenced in: Life Culture
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Caminatta, Juan Carlos
To be added.
Referenced in: Ocultista (Buenos Aires)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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, Mary
To be added.
Referenced in: Gallery of Spirit Art
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, R.A.
To be added.
Referenced in: Light in the West
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.
Referenced in: Atlantis (Le Cour)
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).
Chasing Emma: February 10; 1850: New Light On The Foxes
Chasing Emma: Launch Party: February 7; 1885
Capuz, Carlos
To be added.
Referenced in: Almanaque del Espiritismo
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).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Adiramled | Fohat | Mercury | Modern Miracles | The Phalanx
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey) | The Fra | Soundview | Wings of Truth
Carpenter, William
To be added.
Chasing Emma: From the Senior Partner's Desk
Referenced in: The Biological Review | The Rosicrucian
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.
Chasing Emma: A Great Bladder for Dried Peas: William Stainton Moses on William Benjamin Carpenter; January 1877
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.
Referenced in: La Cruz Astral
Carre, Georges
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Society for Psychical Research at nineteen and went on to investigate many of the most prominent mediums of his era, including Eusapia Palladino, with whom he sat in Naples in 1908. He co-authored three books on astral projection with Sylvan Muldoon, including The Projection of the Astral Body (1929), and concluded after decades of research that approximately two percent of apparent psychic phenomena could not be explained by fraud.
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.
Referenced in: 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
Carson, Kit
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Christopher "Kit" Carson (1809–1868), the American frontiersman and guide; cited here in a periodical context.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society and editor of Astrology.
Referenced in: Astrology -- The Astrologers Quarterly
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.
Referenced in: Prediction
Carus, Mary
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Mary Hegeler Carus (1861–1936) was an American engineer and executive of the Open Court Publishing Company and Hegeler Zinc, and the wife of the philosopher Paul Carus.
Referenced in: 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 Open Court Publishing Company. An advocate of a "religion of science" and of Monism, he was an early and influential promoter of Buddhism and Asian thought in the West, sponsoring D. T. Suzuki.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Carus
Chasing Emma: Some Notes on Revelations of a Spirit Medium
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Foster_Case
Referenced in: Advanced Thought (Chicago) | Azoth | The Word (Percival)
Cashmere, J.H.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Absolutely Reliable: J. Howard Cashmere and John Bertrum Clarke
Referenced in: The Balance
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.
Referenced in: Realization
Castellot, F. Jollivet
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) François Jollivet-Castellot (1874–1937), French alchemist; same person as the "Castelot, Francois Jollivet" entry.
Referenced in: L'Astrosophie | Sbornik Pro Filosofii Mystiku a Okkultismus
Castelot, Francois Jollivet
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) François Jollivet-Castellot (1874–1937) was a French "hyperchemist" and alchemist who founded the Société Alchimique de France. His name appears here in several spellings.
Referenced in: Nouveaux Horizons | Rose Alchemica
Castelot, Jollivet
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Jollivet-Castellot — François Jollivet-Castellot (1874–1937), the French alchemist; see that entry.
Referenced in: Gnosi | L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique | Monde Occulte | Nouveaux Horizons | Rose Alchemica | Voile d'Isis
Cavalli, Vincenzo
To be added.
Referenced in: Filosofia della Scienza | Luce e Ombra | Mondo Occulto
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce
Referenced in: 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
Cazalis, Gaston
To be added.
Referenced in: Neos Pithagoras
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.
Referenced in: The Supernatural Magazine
Chaboseau, Augustin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Augustin Chaboseau (1868–1946) was a French historian and occultist, a co-founder with Papus of the Martinist Order. See also the "Chabosseau, Augustin" entry.
Referenced in: L'Initiation | Psyche (Paris)
Chabosseau, Augustin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) A variant spelling of Augustin Chaboseau (1868–1946), co-founder of the Martinist Order; see the "Chaboseau, Augustin" entry.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles | Voile d'Isis
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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: Angel Drummer | Freethought | The Gnostic | Higher Thought (See) | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | The Independent Pulpit | The Interpreter (Chicago) | Mind Cure and Science of Life | The Morning Star | The Occult Word | The Platonist | The Problem of Life | Reality | Religion | The World Liberator
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.
Referenced in: 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
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."
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: La Voie (Paris)
Chamuel, Lucien
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Lucien Chamuel (Lucien Mauchel) was a Parisian occult publisher and bookseller of the 1890s, whose Librairie du Merveilleux issued works of Papus and the Martinist circle.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Astara Foundation in California with his wife Earlyne Chaney.
Referenced in: Golden Rays (Michigan) | Ruby Focus | Voice of Astara
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)
Referenced in: The Adept | Astrological Bulletina | Common Sense | The Dream Interpreter and Oneirocritica (Investigator) | The Philomathean [Chaney] | The Spiritual Age | The Spiritual Age (Boston) | Suggestive Therapeutics
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Charles, George B.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Her Pathological System: Christian Science in Chicago 1882-1887
Referenced in: 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, Henry S.
To be added.
Referenced in: Purdy's Monthly
Chase, J. Munsell
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
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
Referenced in: Annals of Phrenology | Foundation Principles | The Index | The Rising Tide | The Spiritualist at Work | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
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.
Referenced in: Luz Astral (Chile)
Chavannes, Albert
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheiro
Referenced in: 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
Cheney, Adelaide A.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Radiant Centre
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.
Referenced in: The Glass Hive
Cherep-Spiridovich, H. Victor von Broens-Trupp
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Open Road
Chevillion, Constant
(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.
Referenced in: F. U. D. O. S. I.
Chevillon, Constant Martin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Constant Chevillon (1880–1944) was a French Martinist and Gnostic bishop, a leader of the F.U.D.O.S.I. federation, killed by collaborationist militia in 1944. See also "Chevillion, Constant."
Referenced in: Annales Initiatiques
Child, A.B.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: July 1858: History of Mediums // No. 5 -- Miss Emma Hardinge
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Herald of Progress (US)
Chohan, Maha
To be added.
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: Revue Francaise d'Astrologie
Chretienne, France
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Advanced Thought and Divine Science | Occult Truth Seeker | Psychical Research Review | The Spiritualist (US)
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).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: True Life
Claflin, Tennessee Celeste
Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1845-1923) was an American activist, newspaper publisher, and suffragist who, together with her sister Victoria Woodhull, published Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly (1870-1876), a radical New York periodical that championed women's suffrage, free love, and spiritualism, and was the first American newspaper to publish the Communist Manifesto in English. The sisters were the first women to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. Tennessee later emigrated to England, where she married the banker Francis Cook, eventually becoming Lady Cook.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Claflin
Chasing Emma: EHB and Victoria Woodhull
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Mesmerism in Wall Street
Referenced in: Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Claire, Elohim
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Clara, Angel
To be added.
Referenced in: Cruz del Sur
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
Referenced in: The Chapala Round Table | The Psychological Review of Reviews | Weltmer's Magazine
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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: The Balance
Clay, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Henry Clay (1777–1852), the American statesman and orator; invoked here within a Spiritualist/reform periodical.
Referenced in: 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
Cleary-Baker, John
To be added.
Referenced in: BUFORA Journal
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.
Referenced in: The International Theosophist | Proceedings of the Blavatsky Association | Theosophical News
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.
Referenced in: Mind Inc.
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.
Referenced in: Aquarian Path | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Close, Charles W.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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, R.S.
(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.
Chasing Emma: The (Soulual) Denver Mystic Healing Circle
Chasing Emma: Round The Barn: Occult IP; Specificity and T. S. Eliot
Referenced in: Aegyptus (The Coptic Fellowship of America) | MacDonald's Farmer's Almanac and Dream Book | The Oracle (Boston)
Clymer, Reuben Swinburne
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) R. Swinburne Clymer (1878–1966) was an American occultist who led the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis and disputed AMORC's claim to Rosicrucian authority. See also "Clymer, R.S."
Referenced in: 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
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
Referenced in: Hindu Spiritual Magazine | Self-Culture | The Stellar Ray
Coates, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Probably John Coats (1906–1979), international president of the Theosophical Society (Adyar); see the "Coats, John" entry.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society (Adyar) from 1973. See also the "Coates, John" entry.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Star of the West (Bahai)
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 Theosophical Society.
Referenced in: Advanced Thought (Chicago) | The Theosophical Review
Colavida, Jose Maria de Fernandez
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: The Citadel of All Truth: The First Prospectus for the Banner of Light
Referenced in: The Banner of Light
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, George
To be added.
Referenced in: Psychometric Circular
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
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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
Coll, Francis A.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Direct Voice
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.
Referenced in: Mind Inc. | The New Liberator
Collyer, R.H.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: No Valuable Consideration: Mind Cure
Chasing Emma: Robert H. Collyer: His Flame-Keeper
Referenced in: 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.
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
Referenced in: The Aletheian | Anubis (Voisin) | Aquarian New Age | The Banner of Light | The Center | Freedom | The Gnostic | The Golden Way | Higher Thought (See) | Immortality | International Psychic Gazette | Light of India | Mind | Mind Cure and Science of Life | Mystic Light Library Bulletin | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | The New Man | New York Magazine of Mysteries | The Occult Digest | The Occult Review | The Olive Branch | The Problem of Life | Psychical Research Review | Religion | Spirit Voices | The Spiritualist (US) | Sunna Dagor Message | Wings of Truth
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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: American Phrenological Journal | Zeitschrift fur Phrenologie
Comfort, Will Levington
To be added.
Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey) | The Glass Hive | Hamsa | The Inner Life (Akron) | Occult Life (LAX) | The Occultist (Los Angeles)
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.
Referenced in: The Truthseeker
Comte, Auguste
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) Auguste Comte (1798–1857) was the French philosopher who founded positivism and the "Religion of Humanity."
Referenced in: Paix Universelle | Revista da Sociedade Academica
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.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society (Point Loma) in 1945.
Referenced in: Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
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
Referenced in: The Age of Progress | The Principle
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.
Chasing Emma: Reception Aesthetics: <I>Modern American Spiritualism</i>
Referenced in: East and West | Freelight | The Open Court
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.
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
Referenced in: Guia [Recife]
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).
Referenced in: Broad Views | The Gnostic | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires) | Loto Blanco | Lucifer | The Occult Review | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires)
Cook, Tennessee Claflin
(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.
Referenced in: Foundation Principles | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Cook, Thomas
To be added.
Referenced in: Kingdom of Heaven | National Transition Moonly Voice | The New Republic
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 White Eagle Lodge.
Referenced in: Bulletin Des Polaires
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.
Referenced in: Mensch en Cosmos | Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles | Zalmoxis
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 Liberal Catholic Church in the United States.
Referenced in: Rincarnazione
Cooper, Robert
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Crude in Conception; and Defective in Execution: Some Notes on J. H. Powell (1830-1872)
Referenced in: Spiritual Review | The Spiritual Times
Corelli, Maria
(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."
Referenced in: The Metaphysical Magazine
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.
Referenced in: 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)
Cornish, John L.
To be added.
Correlli, Maria
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) A variant spelling of Marie Corelli (1855–1924), the best-selling English occult novelist; see the "Corelli, Maria" entry.
Referenced in: Cosme Monthly
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.
Referenced in: The International Theosophist | The Theosophical Path | Universal Brotherhood
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...").
Referenced in: Bulletin de la Societe Lorraine de Psychologie Appliquee | Tempel | Twentieth Century Astrology
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.
Chasing Emma: Psychical Depravity: Elliot Coues on Hiram Erastus Butler
Referenced in: The Golden Way | The Harbinger of Dawn | The Light of Truth | The Metaphysical Magazine
Courtney, W.S.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Journal of Progress | The Spirit World | The Spiritual Age (new York) | The Spiritual Telegraph
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.
Referenced in: Search Magazine (Ray Palmer)
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.
Referenced in: New York Spiritualist Leader
Cox, Edward W.
To be added.
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
Referenced in: Psychische Studien
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Craddock
Referenced in: Azoth | The Better Way | Expression | The Phalanx
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.
Referenced in: Advanced Thought and Divine Science | The Balance | Das Wort (St. Louis) | Divine Science Weekly | The Gnostic | Harmony | Religion
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_Crandon
Chasing Emma: Social Cost
Referenced in: New York Spiritualist Leader
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Mind Inc.
Cridge, Alfred
To be added.
Referenced in: The Present Era | The Vanguard
Chasing Emma: The Love Songs of Alfred Cridge (1824?-1902?)
Cridge, Anne Denton
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Love Songs of Alfred Cridge (1824?-1902?)
Referenced in: The Vanguard
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.
Referenced in: The Telepathic Magazine (Chicago)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crookes
Chasing Emma: The Spiritualist and the Physicist
Referenced in: Annales des Sciences Psychiques | Irradiacion (Madrid) | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | Psychische Studien | Regenerador [Rio de Janeiro] | The Spiritualist
Crosbie, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Robert Crosbie (1849–1919) was an American Theosophist who founded the United Lodge of Theosophists (ULT) in 1909 to return to the original teachings of Blavatsky and Judge.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Noetic Magazine
Cross, Rose
To be added.
Referenced in: Atlantis (Le Cour) | Echoes from Mount Ecclesia | Rays from the Rose Cross | Rosicrucian Fellowship
Crossley, Felicie Oneta
To be added.
Referenced in: Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research | Spiritualist Monthly
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Gateway Drugs: Crowe and Mackay
Referenced in: The Spiritual Universe
Crowell, Eugene
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Three "Two Worlds"
Chasing Emma: No Palliation of Systematic Knavery: William Emmette Coleman on Obsession Theory; May 1885
Referenced in: 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 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, from which he was expelled, he established the A∴A∴ (Argenteum Astrum) in 1907 and later became head of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO). His central text, The Book of the Law (1904), received, he claimed, by dictation from a supernatural entity named Aiwass, proclaimed the Law of Thelema: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Nicknamed "the Great Beast 666" by his mother and "the wickedest man in the world" by the British press, he remains one of the most controversial figures in the history of Western esotericism.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: All-Seeing Eye
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.
Referenced in: Exploring the Unknown | Spiritual Truth
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.
Referenced in: Patience Worth's Magazine
Curtiss, F. Homer
To be added.
Referenced in: Aegyptus (The Coptic Fellowship of America) | Aquarian New Age | Azoth | L'Astrosophie | The Seer | The Sunflower
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.
Referenced in: The Kalpaka
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Progress (Chicago)
d'Arc, Joan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Joan of Arc (c. 1412–1431), the French visionary and heroine; a duplicate of the "Arc, Joan of" entry, invoked in Spiritist literature.
Referenced in: The Olive Branch
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Almanach du Magiste
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'Ourche, Count
To be added.
Referenced in: Initiates and the People
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
Dahl, Christina
To be added.
Referenced in: Modern Astrology (Rose Dawn) | Today's Astrology
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Neue Wissenschaft
Dall, Caroline 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.
Referenced in: Una
Dall, Caroline Wells Healy
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1822–1912) was an American Transcendentalist, women's-rights reformer, and writer. See also the "Dall, Caroline Healy" entry.
Referenced in: New Age (Boston) | Una
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.
Referenced in: Spirit of the Age
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.
Referenced in: 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.)
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Nautilus
Danielson, Effa E.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: Immortality (New York)
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.
Referenced in: F. U. D. O. S. I.
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Wilford's Microcosm
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
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_David-N%C3%A9el
Referenced in: 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 Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (H.B. of L.), one of the most influential occult orders of the late nineteenth century. He emigrated to the United States and later settled in Georgia, where he ran a small community. He edited the H.B. of L.'s journal and corresponded widely with Theosophists and occultists of his era. He was also an authority on practical occultism and the author of The Mistletoe and Its Philosophy (1891) and The Violin (1881).
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
Referenced in: The Alpha | Anubis (Voisin) | Aquarian New Age | The Flaming Sword | The Gnostic | Initiates | The Interpreter (Chicago) | The Morning Star | The New Man | The Occult Magazine (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor) | Occult Truths | The Occultist (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor) | Our Home Rights | The Psychological Review | The Temple | The Temple Artisan | The Temple of Health | Voice of the Magi | The World's Advance Thought
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.
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
Referenced in: Annals of Phrenology | Archiv Fur Thiereschen Magnetismus (Den Halle) | The Buddhist Ray | The Friend of Progress | The Harbinger | Harmony (Ponca City) | Heat and Light for the Nineteenth Century | The Herald of Progress (US) | The Hierophant | Immortality (New York) | The Informer | Light From The Spirit World | Little Bouquet | The Magnet | The Mountain Cove Journal | The New Republic | The New World | Orion Magazine | Psychische Studien | The Shekinah | The Social Revolutionist | The Spirit Messenger | The Spirit World | The Spiritual Clarion | The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record | The Spiritual Offering | Spiritual Philosopher | Spiritual Philosopher (Etincelle) | Spiritual Reformer and Humanitarian | The Spiritual Telegraph | The Spiritual Universe | The Swedenborgian | Univercoelum
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
Referenced in: The Herald of Progress (US) | Progressive Age | The Spiritual Republic
Davis, Michael
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Notes on Mountain Cove [4]: The Lasting Fame of the Rev. J. L. Scott
Referenced in: The Oracle (Boston)
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.
Referenced in: New Age (Boston) | Una
Dawbarn, Charles
To be added.
Referenced in: The Harbinger of Dawn | Mind Cure and Science of Life | Spiritual Review | Suggestive Therapeutics
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.
Referenced in: The Astrologer (Powley)
Dawn, Rose
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Fate of the Mayan Order
Referenced in: Astro-Digest | Daily Meditation | Modern Astrology (Rose Dawn) | Today's Astrology | Twentieth Century Astrology | World Astrology Magazine
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, Dorothy
To be added.
Referenced in: Inspiration (Newhouse)
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
Referenced in: The Christian Spiritualist
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
Dayt, Ambroisine
To be added.
Referenced in: Source de Vie Eternelle
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.
Referenced in: 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 Bersaucourt, Albert
To be added.
Referenced in: Entretiens Idealistes
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.
Referenced in: (Quarterly Transactions of the British College of) Psychic Science
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 Cassinelli, Adela T.
To be added.
Referenced in: Alborea
de Champville, Fabius
To be added.
Referenced in: The Horoscope [London] | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | Revista Universal Magnetismo Experimental y Terapeutico
de Domenech, Hijos
To be added.
Referenced in: Revista de Estudios Psicologicos | Revista Espiritista (Barcelona)
de Gourmont, Remy
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic.
Referenced in: Almanach de l'Ymagier | Calendrier Magique
de Guaita, Stanislas
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislas_de_Guaita
Referenced in: Catalogue du Salon de la Rose+Croix | Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Echo du Merveilleux | Kosmicke Rozhledy | L'Anti-Materialiste | L'Etoile | L'Etoile D'Orient | L'Initiation | La Lumiere Maconnique | La Rose Croix | Lotus Rouge | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | Revue des Hautes Etudes | Rose Alchemica | Sbornik Pro Filosofii Mystiku a Okkultismus | Symbolisme
De Laurence, D. W.
(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.
Chasing Emma: Workers in the Vineyard: David Metcalfe on De Laurence and Atkinson
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.
Referenced in: Cruz del Sur | Faro Oriental | Helios | Hesperia | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires) | Loto Blanco | Lumen | Luz Astral (Chile) | Revista de la Federacion Teosofica del Uruguay | Revista Teosofica (Havana) | Sophia (Spain) | Teosofia en el Plata | Teosofia Madrid | Vi-Dharmah | Virya | Zanoni
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.
Chasing Emma: The Highest Degree of Unexpectedness: Augustus de Morgan on James E. Smith; James E. Smith on the Occult
de Naglowska, Marie
To be added.
Referenced in: La Fleche
de Negre, Jacques-Etienne Marconis
See de Negre, Marconis (below).
Referenced in: Le Soleil Mystique | Le Temple Mystique
de Palatine, Duc
To be added.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society, was a founding public spectacle of the movement.
Chasing Emma: Gossip; About the World in General: Some Notes on Joseph Henri Louis; Baron de Palm (1809-1876)
de Pardo, Micaela G.
To be added.
Referenced in: Helios
de Purucker, Hobard Lorenz Gottfried
Gottfried de Purucker (1874–1942) was an American Theosophist and, from 1929, leader of the Theosophical Society at Point Loma (later Pasadena). A gifted linguist, he lectured and wrote extensively to elucidate the teachings of H. P. Blavatsky.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_de_Purucker
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
de St-Marcq, Chevalier Georges Le Clement
To be added.
Referenced in: Bulletin Officiel du Bureau International du Spiritisme
de Torres-Solanot, Viscount
To be added.
Referenced in: El Espiritista (Madrid) | Iris de Paz (Huesca) | Revista de Estudios Psicologicos
de Vesme, Cesare Baudi
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Cesare Baudi de Vesme (1862–1938) was an Italian-French psychical researcher and historian of Spiritualism, editor of psychical-research reviews.
Referenced in: The Annals of Psychical Science | Revue des Etudes Psychiques
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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: Fountain of Light | Shiloh's Messenger of Wisdom
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.
Referenced in: The Ghourki | The New World | Theosophic Messenger
Del Mar, Eugene
To be added.
Referenced in: Aquarian New Age | Azoth | The Balance | The Beacon (Bailey) | The Business Philosopher | Eltka | The Exodus | Freedom | Mind | The Radiant Centre | Reality | Weltmer's Magazine
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.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/delanne-gabriel-1857-1926
Referenced in: 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.")
Referenced in: L'Initiation
Deleuze
(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).
Referenced in: Archives du Magnetisme Animal
Deleuze, Joseph Philippe François
Joseph Philippe François Deleuze (1753-1835) was a French naturalist and one of the leading theorists of animal magnetism in the early nineteenth century. He worked as an assistant naturalist at the Paris Jardin des Plantes and became a devoted practitioner and defender of mesmerism. His major work, Histoire critique du magnétisme animal (1813; English translation 1843), became one of the standard texts on the subject and was widely read by Spiritualists and mesmerists throughout the nineteenth century.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Philippe_Fran%C3%A7ois_Deleuze
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Denicke, Charles W.
To be added.
Referenced in: Mystic World
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Denis
Referenced in: Bulletin de l'Union Spirite Francaise | Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | Eternidade | Filosofia della Scienza | Paix Universelle | Pitagoras (Mexico) | Progres Spirite | Rincarnazione | Source de Vie Eternelle | Verdade
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
Densmore, Helen
To be added.
Referenced in: The Light of Truth
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
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: Common Sense | Free Man (Bangor) | The Gnostic | New Age (Boston) | The Social Revolutionist | The Spiritual Times | The Vanguard | Wings of Truth
Dentu, J.G.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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)
Referenced in: The Beacon Light | Occult Life (LAX)
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 Gnostic Church (Église Gnostique) after Jules Doinel.
Referenced in: L'Initiation | Le Reveil des Albigeois
Desbarolles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Adolphe Desbarrolles (1801–1886), the French palmist and author; same person as the "Desbarrolles, Adolph" entry.
Referenced in: The Sphinx (Boston)
Desbarrolles, Adolph
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Adolphe Desbarrolles (1801–1886) was a French painter and the most influential nineteenth-century popularizer of chiromancy (palmistry). See also the "Desbarolles" entry.
Referenced in: Graphologie
Desmond, Shaw
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Shaw Desmond (1877–1960) was an Irish novelist, poet, and Spiritualist, founder of the International Institute for Psychical Research.
Referenced in: Facts (Friendship Centre UK)
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.
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.
Referenced in: 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 Martinist Order.
Referenced in: 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
Deuillin, Pierre
To be added.
Referenced in: Symbolisme
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 Universal White Brotherhood. His thousands of recorded lectures and the movement he founded influenced followers worldwide (including Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov).
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Deunov
Referenced in: Zhitno Zarno
Devamata, Sister
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Sister Devamata (1867–1942) was an American Vedantist, a leading disciple and associate of Swami Paramananda.
Referenced in: Message of the East
DeVoe, Walter
To be added.
Referenced in: Hamsa | Inspiration | The Living Word | Religion | The Stellar Ray
Dewey, J.H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) John Hamlin Dewey, American mental-healer and "Christian Theosophy" writer; same person as the "Dewey, John Hamlin" entry.
Referenced in: >Wahrheit-Sucher
Dewey, John Hamlin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Hamlin Dewey was a nineteenth-century American clergyman-turned-mental-healer whose "Christian Theosophy" and mind-cure writings circulated in New Thought circles. See also "Dewey, J.H."
Referenced in: 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).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The International Theosophist | The Theosophical Path
Dickens
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Almost certainly Charles Dickens (1812–1870), the English novelist; see the "Dickens, Charles" entry.
Referenced in: The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record
Dickens, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) Charles Dickens (1812–1870), the English novelist, whose interest in mesmerism and ghost stories drew him into the era's psychical debates.
Chasing Emma: Emma and Charles
Chasing Emma: The Institute For Homeless and Outcast Women; circa 1861
Chasing Emma: Dickens on Spiritualism: 1855
Chasing Emma: Charles Dickens on American Spiritualism; June 1853
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Henry Morley
Referenced in: Hague's Horoscope | The Medium [Los Angeles]
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Institute of Mentalphysics.
Referenced in: The Mansion Builder
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.
Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Kritischen Okkultismus
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 Society for Psychical Research. See also "Dingwall, E.J."
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.
Referenced in: Psychic Research Quarterly | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Ditson, G.L.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Bulletin Des Polaires
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."
Referenced in: Entretiens Idealistes | L'Affranchi
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"
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Psychical Research Review
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.
Referenced in: 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...
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Fortean Society Magazine
Doinel, Jules
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Jules Doinel (1842–1902) was a French archivist who in 1890 founded the modern Gnostic Church (Église Gnostique), taking the name Tau Valentin II.
Referenced in: L'Etoile | L'Initiation | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Revue des Hautes Etudes | Revue Spirite
Domingo, Amalia
(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.
Referenced in: Constancia | Luz del Porvenir
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.)
Referenced in: Almanach de la Chance | La Vie Mysterieuse
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.
Referenced in: The Lamp
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_Donnelly
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: Fortean Society Magazine | Lemurian Ambassador | Light on the Path and Weekly Truth Sheet (Brotherhood of the White Temple)
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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Modern Mystic
Dow, Lorenzo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834) was an eccentric and hugely popular itinerant American Methodist revivalist.
Referenced in: The Seraph's Advocate
Dowd, Freeman B.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Sexual Science and the Riddle of Hermes: Freeman B. Dowd; 1871
Referenced in: 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)
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: Aquarian New Age | The Breath of Life (Christopathian) | Brotherhood (Los Angeles) | The Column | The Interpreter (Chicago) | Joy | Modern Miracles | Suggestive Therapeutics
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.
Chasing Emma: The Present Loose and Easy Regime: A Letter; from Southsea; to Light
Referenced in: Azoth | Bulletin Des Polaires | International Psychic Gazette | Light | Mind Inc. | Paragon Monthly
Doyle, Conan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), the novelist and Spiritualist advocate; same person as the "Doyle, Arthur Conan" entry.
Referenced in: Immortality and Survival
Dramard, Louis
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Ayn Rand; New Thought Novelist?
Chasing Emma: New (Magnetic) Thought: 1842; 1854; 1855
Referenced in: The Christian (Shelton) | Eltka | The Higher Law | Higher Thought (See) | The Journal of Practical Metaphysics | Practical Ideals | Rincarnazione
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.
Referenced in: The Journal of Practical Metaphysics | The Life [Kansas City] | Mind Cure and Science of Life
Driesch, Hans
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Hans Driesch (1867–1941) was a German biologist and vitalist philosopher who became president of the Society for Psychical Research.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Philosopher's Stone | Physico-Clinical Medicine
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.
Referenced in: Vedanta and the West
du Prel, Carl
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Carl du Prel (1839–1899) was a German philosopher and psychical researcher, author of The Philosophy of Mysticism.
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.
Referenced in: Annali dello Spiritismo in Italia | Die Ubersinnliche Welt | L'Initiation | Neos Pithagoras | Russkii Frank-Mason | Sphinx [Leipzig] | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
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
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.
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
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Aletheian
Dunlop, D.N.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Daniel Nicol Dunlop (1868–1935) was a Scottish-Irish Theosophist and later Anthroposophist, and an electrical-industry organizer; editor of The Irish Theosophist.
Referenced in: The International Theosophist | The Irish Theosophist | The Lamp | Theosophical News
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."
Referenced in: The New Life [Idaho]
Dupotet, Baron Jules Denis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Baron Jules Denis du Potet de Sennevoy (1796–1881) was a leading French magnetizer who did much to spread mesmerism in France and England.
Referenced in: Chaine Magnetique | Phare
Dupotet, Jules
See Dupotet, Baron Jules Denis, above
Referenced in: Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | Le Magicien
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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, R.E.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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)
Eagleton, John H.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Aletheian
Earhart, Amelia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Amelia Earhart (1897–disappeared 1937), the pioneering American aviator; invoked here in a metaphysical periodical context.
Referenced in: Celestial Life
Earll, Irene
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) The Rev. Irene Earll (1865–1938), an American Theosophical figure of the Temple of the People (Halcyon) community around Francia La Due and William Dower.
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.
Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey)
Eaves, A. Osbourne
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) A. Osborne Eaves, British occult and New Thought writer; same person as the "Eaves, Albert Osborne" entry.
Referenced in: Advanced Thought (Chicago) | Wings of Truth
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.
Referenced in: New Thought Journal and Occult Review | The Practical Psychologist (London) | The Talisman
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.
Referenced in: 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 Parapsychology Foundation.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau
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 Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston in 1879, established the Christian Science Journal in 1883, and in 1908 founded the Christian Science Monitor newspaper.
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
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: 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.
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Pilgrim | Ultra (Rome)
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 National Spiritualist Association.
Referenced in: 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.
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
Referenced in: The Principle | The Spiritual Telegraph
Edmunds, John W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Worth Edmonds (1799–1874), the New York judge and pioneer Spiritualist; a spelling variant of the "Edmonds, John W." entry.
Referenced in: The Sacred Circle
Edwards, Frederick
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Exploring the Unknown
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.
Referenced in: 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.
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)
Referenced in: Constancia | Spiritual Notes
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade
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.
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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Lemurian Ambassador | Theosophical Siftings
Ellis, Charles E.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: The Kalpaka | Nautilus
Emerson
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Almost certainly Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), the American Transcendentalist; see the "Emerson, Ralph Waldo" entry.
Referenced in: Practical Ideals
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), the American essayist and leader of Transcendentalism, whose idealism deeply shaped New Thought and American metaphysical religion.
Chasing Emma: Flatulency Versus Inspiration: Emerson on the Market in Occult Knowledge
Referenced in: 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 Martinist Order and wrote his father's biography.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: >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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Erdmann, Steve
To be added.
Referenced in: UFO Sighter
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.
Referenced in: Revista di Studi Psichici
Ervast, 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."
Referenced in: Omatunto | Ruusu-Risti
Ervasti, Pekka
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Pekka Ervast (1875–1934), the Finnish Theosophist and founder of Ruusu-Risti; a spelling variant of the "Ervast, Pekka" entry.
Referenced in: Tietaja
Erwood, Will J.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Mystic Key | The Occult (Detroit) | Radiant Life | Super-Psychology
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Carl_August_von_Eschenmayer
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History: Letheon
Esparza, Roque Jacinto Rojas
To be added.
Referenced in: 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 Gnostic Church; the same person as the "des Essarts, Leonce-Eugene Fabre" entry.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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, W.F.
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Felt_Evans
Referenced in: Mind Cure and Science of Life | Practical Ideals
Evans, Warren Felt
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Warren Felt Evans (1817–1889), the Swedenborgian minister and early theorist of mind-cure, a foundational figure in the emergence of New Thought.
Chasing Emma: No Valuable Consideration: Mind Cure
Eved, M.
To be added.
Referenced in: Mouvement Cosmique
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.
Referenced in: La Fleche
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Evola
Referenced in: Clypeus | Ignis | Mondo Occulto | Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes | Ultra (Rome) | Ur-Krur | Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles
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
Eyre, Thomas A.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Forecast
Faget, A. Laurent de
To be added.
Referenced in: Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | Source de Vie Eternelle
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.
Chasing Emma: The Body of Henry Cobler Moselmann: A Murder of Parasciences; 1839
Chasing Emma: William Baker Fahnestock (1804-1886)
Fairfield, Frederick Pease
To be added.
Referenced in: Aquarian New Age
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.
Referenced in: The Center
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.
Referenced in: Borderland | The Dream Interpreter and Oneirocritica (Investigator)
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.
Chasing Emma: The First Test Apparatus: Faraday on Table-Turning: June 30; 1853
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Faraday's June 1853 Letter to the Times
Faremont, H. de
To be added.
Referenced in: Revue du Spiritualisme Moderne
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.
Referenced in: Archives du Magnetisme Animal
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
Referenced in: The Psychological Review
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."
Referenced in: Light
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.
Referenced in: International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | Mind
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?
Farnese, A.A.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Progressive Thinker
Farr, Florence
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Florence Farr (1860–1917) was an English actress, writer, and prominent member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an associate of W. B. Yeats and G. B. Shaw.
Referenced in: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau
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
Farrington, William
To be added.
Referenced in: The Occult Word
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).
Referenced in: Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas | La Voie (Paris) | Revue Cosmique
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.
Referenced in: Almanach du Magiste | Bulletin de la Societe Scientifique d'Etudes Psychologiques | Cruz [Piaui] | Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | L'Anti-Materialiste | Paix Universelle | Revue Spirite
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.
Referenced in: Fate Magazine (Palmer)
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.
Chasing Emma: The Social Cost of Belief: S. C. Hall; December 1881
Referenced in: Baldwin's Illustrated Butterfly
Fay, H. Melville
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Manifestation and Its Discontents: December 1865
Referenced in: Union Spirite Bordelaise
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
Referenced in: Psychic Studies
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 Theosophical Society.
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
Referenced in: The International Standard | New Age (Boston) | Una
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.
Referenced in: Le Spiritualiste de la Nouvelle Orleans
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.
Referenced in: The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record | The Spiritual Universe
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.
Referenced in: The Swedenborgian
Fernandez, Federico W.
To be added.
Referenced in: La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires) | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires)
Ferrer, Jose Cembrano
To be added.
Referenced in: Revista Universal Magnetismo Experimental y Terapeutico
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.
Referenced in: Herald of the Cross
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 Great Brotherhood (Gran Fraternidad Universal), which spread widely in Latin America.
Referenced in: Yoga Union
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.
Referenced in: Approach (Sievers)
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)
Figley, U.G.
To be added.
Referenced in: New Thought (Moses Hull)
Fillmore, Charles
Charles Sherlock Fillmore (1854–1948) was, with his wife Myrtle, the co-founder of Unity (the Unity School of Christianity) in Kansas City in 1889, one of the largest New Thought movements. He launched its periodicals and "Silent Unity" prayer ministry and taught a metaphysical Christianity that included reincarnation.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fillmore_(Unity_Church)
Referenced in: The Life [Kansas City] | Mind Inc. | Modern Thought | Psychic Observer | Unity
Fillmore, Myrtle Page
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Myrtle Page Fillmore (1845–1931) was, with her husband Charles, the co-founder of Unity; her 1886 healing through affirmative prayer was the movement's founding event, and she led its "Silent Unity" ministry.
Referenced in: Modern Thought | Unity
Finck, Susan J.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Life As A Feast
Referenced in: The Harmonia | Spiritual Reformer and Humanitarian
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.
Referenced in: Psychic News
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Fischer, Bertha
To be added.
Referenced in: Guiding Light (New York)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: William Lloyd Garrison's Conversion Process: A Test Seance; 1854
Referenced in: Psychic World (Barbanell) | Tiffany's Monthly
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.
Chasing Emma: The Elementaries At Fishbough's Door: Human Nature; February 1876
Referenced in: The Journal of Progress | The Spiritual Clarion | Spiritual Philosopher | Spiritual Philosopher (Etincelle) | Tiffany's Monthly | Univercoelum
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).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion
Referenced in: Almanach du Magiste | L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique | Nueva Idea (Bogata) | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | Revista Spirita [Parana] | The Segnogram
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."
Referenced in: 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.
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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Flournoy
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandor_Fodor
Referenced in: Exploring the Unknown | Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Foote, E.B.
(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.
Referenced in: American Journal of Eugenics
Foote, Edward Bliss
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Edward Bliss Foote (1829–1906) was an American physician, health reformer, and birth-control and free-thought advocate, author of the best-selling Medical Common Sense. See also the "Foote, E.B." and "Foote, Edward Bond" entries.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Dr. Foote's Health Monthly
Ford, Arthur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Arthur Ford (1896–1971) was a prominent American trance medium, founder of the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, remembered for claiming to have received Houdini's secret code.
Referenced in: The Direct Voice | Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship | The Spiritualist (Golden Vista Press)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Reality
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
Forsyth, Simon
To be added.
Referenced in: Psychic World (Barbanell)
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."
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort
Referenced in: Fate Magazine (Palmer) | Fortean Society Magazine
Forthuny, Pascal
(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."
Referenced in: Revue Spirite
Forthuny, Paschal
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Paschal Forthuny" — a spelling variant of Pascal Forthuny (Georges Cochet, 1872–1962), the French psychic; see the "Forthuny, Pascal" entry.
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Fortune
Chasing Emma: EHB and Her Children
Referenced in: Inner Light (Fortune) | L'Astrosophie | The Occult Digest | Ostara | Ruusu-Risti | The Seer
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).
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
Referenced in: 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 National Spiritualist Association and its camp and church organizations.
Referenced in: Now
Foulsham, W.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Christian Banker
Fowler, J.A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Jessie Allen Fowler (1856–1932), American phrenologist; same person as the "Fowler, Jessie Allen" entry.
Referenced in: The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story)
Fowler, Jessie Allen
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Jessie Allen Fowler (1856–1932) was an American phrenologist, daughter of Lorenzo Niles Fowler, who carried on the family's phrenological institute and journal.
Referenced in: 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).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: American Phrenological Journal | The Magnet | The Water-Cure Journal
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, Dorus Morton
To be added.
Referenced in: The Present Age | The Present Era | Watchman
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.
Chasing Emma: Signposts on the Road to God: A Short Note on Emmet Fox (1886-1951)
Referenced in: Divine Science Monthly | The Gleaner | Mentation
Fox, Kate
(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.
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
Referenced in: The Spiritual Clarion
Fox, Katie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Kate (Katie) Fox (1837–1892), one of the founding Fox sisters of modern Spiritualism; same person as the "Fox, Kate" entry.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: February 10; 1850: New Light On The Foxes
Chasing Emma: Martyrs to the World's Ignorance: EHB on Margaretta Fox; 1893
Fox, Nettie Pease
To be added.
Referenced in: The Spiritual Offering
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
Referenced in: The Balance
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
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: The Progressive Thinker
Frank, Henry
To be added.
Referenced in: Eltka | The Ideal Review | Independent Thinker | Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews | Psychic Power | The Psychological Herald (Atlanta) | Wings of Truth
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Sir John Franklin; Wella Anderson; Social Network Speed; and the Economics of Modern Spiritualism
Fraser, Harold Lloyd
To be added.
Referenced in: Joy
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.
Referenced in: Croire
Freer, Ada Goodrich
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Ada Goodrich Freer (“Miss X”), a late-Victorian psychical researcher and scryer associated with the Society for Psychical Research and the Ballechin House haunting.
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.
Referenced in: Weisse Fahne
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: The Spiritual Clarion
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
French, Miriam Milner
To be added.
Referenced in: Fohat
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Brittan's Journal | The Index
Fryar, R.F.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Picking Through Godwin
Chasing Emma: The Boston Fire of 1872
Chasing Emma: 2 Prospect Terrace; Bath
Referenced in: Light and Life
Fryar, Robert H.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Robert Henry Fryar (1844-1909)
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Le Reveil des Albigeois | Revue du Psychisme Experimental
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."
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulcanelli
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 American Section of the Theosophical Society.
Referenced in: Antahkarana | The Beacon (Bailey) | Mercury (SFO) | Theosophic Messenger
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Seybert Commission on Spiritualism.
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 Theosophical Society.
Referenced in: Theosophical Forum (Purucker) | The Theosophical Path | Theosophy | Universal Brotherhood
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Occult Word
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.
Referenced in: Vimana (Finland)
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
Galligher, Maud P.
To be added.
Referenced in: All-Seeing Eye
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.
Referenced in: 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 Parliament of Religions in Chicago and lectured widely in the West.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Day (New York)
Gardener, Harry J.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Fluidity of Identity: Frater VIII; Harry J. Gardener and Harry Lawrence Juhnke
Referenced in: The Beacon Light
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gardner
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Kosmon Unity
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.
Referenced in: The Psychical Review
Garrett, Eileen Jeanette
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 Parapsychology Foundation and edited Tomorrow magazine.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_J._Garrett
Referenced in: Aquarian Path | Mensch en Cosmos | Tomorrow (Garrett)
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
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: William Lloyd Garrison's Conversion Process: A Test Seance; 1854
Referenced in: 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).
Referenced in: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | Purdy's Monthly | Soundview
Gaugin, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), the French painter; a spelling variant of the "Gauguin" entry.
Referenced in: Almanach de l'Ymagier
Gauguin
(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.
Referenced in: Revue Theurgique
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
Referenced in: 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)
Referenced in: Adiramled | Aquarian New Age | The Column | The Gleaner | The Harbinger of Dawn | How to Live for Health and Strength (Sebring) | It | Life Culture | Nautilus | Neue Gedanken | The New Man | New Thought Journal and Occult Review | The Psychological Herald (Atlanta) | Soundview | Sunna Dagor Message | Wilford's Microcosm
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Geley
Referenced in: Espiritismo (Buenos Aires) | Revista Internacional do Espiritismo
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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)
Georgievitz-Weitzer, Demeter
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Demeter Georgievitz-Weitzer (1873–1949), who wrote as "G. W. Surya," was an Austrian occult author on "scientific occultism," astrology, and spiritual healing.
Referenced in: Pansophic Intellectualizer | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
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
Gerhart, Harry
To be added.
Referenced in: All-Seeing Eye
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.
Referenced in: Spiritual Science Digest
Germain, St.
(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."
Referenced in: Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Germaine, Master St.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) "Master Saint Germain," the Ascended Master of Theosophical and "I AM" lore, based on the eighteenth-century Comte de Saint-Germain; see the "Germain, St." entry.
Referenced in: Solograph
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 Ordo Templi Orientis.
Referenced in: Pansophja | Saturn Gnosis
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."
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
Referenced in: The Christian (Shelton) | Das Wort (St. Louis) | The Exodus | The Hermetist | Mind In Nature | Universal Truth
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.
Referenced in: Spectro-Chrome | Visible Spectrum Researcher
Ghose, Aurobindo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Aurobindo Ghose — Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950), the Indian nationalist turned yogi and philosopher of Integral Yoga; see also the "Auribindo, Sri" entry.
Referenced in: Arya | Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship) | Sri Aurobindo Circle
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.
Referenced in: Hindu Spiritual Magazine
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.
Referenced in: Hindu Spiritual Magazine
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.
Referenced in: Irradiacion (Madrid) | Lotus Rouge | Revue du Monde Invisible
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).
Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey) | New Outlook
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
Gifford, T.V.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Character Builder
Gilbert, Robert A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) R. A. Gilbert (b. 1942) is a British antiquarian bookseller and historian of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Victorian occultism.
Referenced in: The Seer and Celestial Reformer | The Spiritual Herald
Gillespie, Frank
To be added.
Referenced in: Journal of the Australian Centre for UFO Studies (ACUFOS)
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.
Referenced in: Cosme Monthly
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.
Referenced in: L'Initiation | La Voie (Paris)
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.
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/witchcraftmagica00gril
Referenced in: Voile d'Isis
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.
Chasing Emma: The Dark Continent of Motive and Desire: Robert Ingersoll; 1888
Referenced in: International Psychic Gazette
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
Glover, Mary Baker
See Eddy, Mary Baker, above.
Referenced in: Christian Science Journal
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.
Referenced in: Revue Spiritualiste
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Open Road
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.
Referenced in: Eclectic Theosophist
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
Referenced in: The Christian Spiritualist
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.
Referenced in: The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story)
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
Referenced in: Free Man (Bangor) | Neue Gedanken | Soundview | The Temple
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.
Referenced in: L'Initiation
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, Leroy M.
To be added.
Referenced in: Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries
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.
Chasing Emma: December 1889: S. C. Gould's Bibliography of Thomas Lake Harris
Referenced in: The Adept | Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader | The Essene | The Gnostic | The Herald of the Golden Age | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | Immortality | Initiates | La France Antimaconnique | Life and Action | Mercury | Mind In Nature | The Morning Star | The Occult Word | The Oracle (Boston) | The Philomathian | Plowshare and Pruning Hook | The Prophet | The Radix | Roback's Astrological Almanac | The Rosicrucian Brotherhood | Shiloh's Messenger of Wisdom | The Sphinx (Boston) | Star of the Magi | The Temple Artisan | Voice of the Magi
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.
Referenced in: International Psychic Gazette | Light | The Unknown World
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, Steuart
To be added.
Referenced in: Wings of Truth
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.
Referenced in: Science of Health
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."
Referenced in: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Irradiacion (Madrid) | L'Etoile | La Lumiere (Grange)
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 Rosicrucian Fellowship (1909) at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, and wrote The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Heindel
Referenced in: Echoes from Mount Ecclesia | Rays from the Rose Cross
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).
Referenced in: Pansophja | Saturn Gnosis
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.
Referenced in: The Century Path
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.
Chasing Emma: November 1869: A Letter from Kersey
Referenced in: The Spiritual Republic
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.
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett)
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.
Referenced in: The Breath of Life (Christopathian) | The Interpreter (Chicago) | Modern Miracles | Our Home Rights | Suggestive Therapeutics
Green, Frances H.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Undocumented Aliens: 'Lost' Early Modern Spiritualists
Referenced in: The Agitator | Brittan's Journal | The Journal of Progress | The Spirit Messenger
Green, Gabriel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Gabriel Green (1924–2001) was an American UFO contactee who founded the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America and ran for U.S. president.
Referenced in: 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, Harriet Newell
To be added.
Referenced in: The Radical Spiritualist
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
To be added.
Referenced in: Probe (Rhode Island) | UFO Sighter | Weekly Research Magazine Look-See
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
Referenced in: The Spiritualist
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.
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
Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Phrenologie
Grey, Zane
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Zane Grey (1872–1939), the American author of Western novels; cited here in a periodical context.
Referenced in: The San Juan Record
Grier, A.C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Albert C. Grier (1864–1941), founder of the New Thought Church of the Truth; same person as the "Grier, Albert Cotton" entry.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Fountain (Spokane) | The Truth
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 Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor and Church of Light milieu.
Chasing Emma: Church of Light Conference Material
Chasing Emma: Call Me What You Please: The Split Within Spiritualism; c. 1890
Grimshaw, Susan
To be added.
Referenced in: Psychic Studies
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.
Referenced in: Pansophja | Saturn Gnosis
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 "Order of the White Rose" and author of many works on clairvoyance, auras, and psychic development.
Chasing Emma: 1899: The Market; In Minature (Plus Onotology)
Chasing Emma: The Complete Egg Separator: 1900
Referenced in: Anubis (Voisin) | Azoth | The Column | The Hypnotic Magazine | Immortality | Liberator (SFO) | Nautilus | Out of the Silence (Voisin) | Psychic Power | The Psychical Review | Spiritualist Monthly | The Stellar Ray | The Sunflower | Wings of Truth
Grunhut, Adolf
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Adolf Grünhut (1826–1906) was a Hungarian physician and a leading organizer of Spiritism in Budapest.
Referenced in: Reflexionen aus der Geisterwelt
Guaita, Stanislaus de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Stanislas de Guaita (1861–1897), the French Symbolist poet and founder of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross; a spelling variant of the "de Guaita, Stanislas" entry.
Referenced in: Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | Union Occulte Francaise
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.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/guenon-rene
Referenced in: Annales Initiatiques | Aquarian Path | Aries Quarterly | Atlantis (Le Cour) | Bibliotheque des Sciences Esoteriques | Bulletin Des Polaires | Clypeus | Eudia | Fraterniste | The Golden Dawn | Ignis | Iniciacion [Montevideo] | L'Initiation | La Fleche | La France Antimaconnique | La Gnose | La Voie (Paris) | Le Rayonnement Intellectuel | Le Reveil des Albigeois | Mensch en Cosmos | Oriflamme | Regnabit | Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes | Symbolisme | Tour Saint Jacques | Ur-Krur | Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles | Voile d'Isis
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.
Referenced in: Ouranos
Guion, Madame
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Madame Guyon (1648–1717), the French Quietist mystic; a spelling variant of the "Guyon, Madame" entry.
Referenced in: The Hermetist
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.
Referenced in: 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.
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
Gummi, G.H.
To be added.
Referenced in: Der Prophet (Munich)
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.
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, Das
To be added.
Referenced in: Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship)
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.
Referenced in: Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship)
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.
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: The Occult Review | The Prophet
Guyon, Madame
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Madame Guyon (Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon, 1648–1717) was a French mystic and leading exponent of Quietism, imprisoned for her doctrines. See also the "Guion, Madame" entry.
Referenced in: La Verite (Lyon) | Light and Life
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
Ha'nish, O.Z.
To be added.
Referenced in: British Mazdaznan Magazine
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.
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
Haas, Helen
To be added.
Referenced in: Current Astrology
Hacker, Jeremiah
To be added.
Referenced in: The Chariot of Wisdom and Love | Hacker's Pleasure Boat
Haeckel, Ernest
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was a German zoologist and popularizer of Darwin whose monist philosophy (The Riddle of the Universe) was widely debated in freethought and metaphysical periodicals. See also the "Haeckel" entry.
Referenced in: Sphinx [Leipzig]
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).
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hahnemann
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Ur-Krur
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: American Phrenological Journal
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: All-Seeing Eye | Aries Quarterly | Broadcast | Fred Burry's Journal | Horizon (Hall) | A Monthly Letter (Manly Hall) | The Phoenix (Hall) | Wynn's Astrology
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.
Chasing Emma: The Social Cost of Belief: S. C. Hall; December 1881
Hall, Spenser Timothy Finsbury
To be added.
Referenced in: The Phreno-Magnet
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 Society for Psychical Research and its early mediums.
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett)
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.
Referenced in: Aquarian Age
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)
Referenced in: The Age of Progress
Hammond, H.O.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: A Bosjeman's Ideal of Spiritualism: Hogg's Instructor; 1853
Referenced in: The American Spiritualist | The Ohio Spiritualist
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Zetetic
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Ur-Krur
Hanish, Otoman Zar-Adusht
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Otoman Zar-Adusht Hanish (c. 1844–1936) was the founder of Mazdaznan, a Zoroastrian-flavored American religious movement teaching breathing, diet, and "master thought." (Also appears as "Hanish, Otto" and "Ha'nish, O.Z.")
Referenced in: The Sun-Worshiper
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Christian Science Sentinel
Hanson, Virginia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Virginia Hanson (1897–1988) was an American Theosophist, author, and editor of the Theosophical Publishing House at Wheaton.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society (Point Loma) around 1900.
Referenced in: The Century Path
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.
Referenced in: Divine Science Monthly | Divine Science Weekly | Mental Science Magazine (Denver)
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).
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
Referenced in: The Spiritual Telegraph
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | Theosophical News | Theosophical Quarterly | Theosophy
Harley, Fanny M.
To be added.
Referenced in: Das Wort (St. Louis) | Mental Science Magazine | Neue Gedanken | Universal Truth
Harlowe, Marie Gossett
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Equinox
Harris, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) George Harris, a member of the Psychological Society of Great Britain.
Chasing Emma: The Psychological Society of Great Britain: 1875-1879
Harris, Iverson L.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Century Path | Eclectic Theosophist | Theosophia | Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
Harris, T.L.
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."
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
Referenced in: Light From The Spirit World | The Spiritual Magazine (UK) | The Williamsburgh Spiritualist
Harris, Thomas Lake
Thomas Lake Harris (1823-1906) was a Spiritualist mystic, poet, medium, and religious reformer born in Fenny Stratford, England, who moved to the United States as a child. He became a Universalist minister at twenty, associated with Andrew Jackson Davis, and then broke away to develop his own mystical Christian system. He became renowned as an inspirational poet and orator, producing long poems in trance — including an epic poem of 5,000 lines composed in thirty hours. He founded several utopian communities, most notably the Brotherhood of the New Life at Brocton, New York, and later at Fountain Grove, California. He claimed in 1891 to have discovered the elixir of life.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/harris-thomas-lake-1823-1906
Referenced in: The Gnostic | Hacker's Pleasure Boat | Herald of Light | The Millenial Messenger | The Mountain Cove Journal | The Problem of Life | The Shekinah | The Spirit Messenger | The Spiritual Herald | The Spiritual Telegraph | The Swedenborgian | Univercoelum | The World's Advance Thought
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, Lillian
To be added.
Referenced in: Teosofia en el Plata
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
Referenced in: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis) | Psyche (W. H. Harrison) | Spiritual News | Spiritual Notes | The Spiritual Times | The Spiritualist
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.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society's headquarters in Adyar, India, and was closely associated with Helena Blavatsky. His many books include Magic, White and Black (1886), a biography of Jacob Boehme, and studies of Paracelsus and Rosicrucian philosophy. He also founded the short-lived Theosophical Society Aquarius in Germany.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hartmann
Referenced in: 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
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
Harvey, W. Britten
To be added.
Referenced in: The Harbinger of Light
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
Hasman, Chas. G.
To be added.
Referenced in: California Spiritual Messenger
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.
Referenced in: The New Universe
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.
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
Referenced in: The Age of Progress | Almanaque del Espiritismo | The Christian Spiritualist | The Herald of Progress (US) | The Index | The Spiritual Age (new York) | The Spiritual Clarion | The Spiritual Telegraph
Hatch, David Patterson
To be added.
Chasing Emma: David Patterson Hatch (1846-1912) [File Under: Paul Karishka]
Referenced in: The Channel | Round Robin
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.
Chasing Emma: Fruits from a Walled Garden: More Incunabula and Ephemera
Referenced in: Blatter aus Prevorst | Magikon (Stuttgart)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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)
Hayburn, F.S.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Practical Psychologist (London)
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
Referenced in: Brittan's Journal | The Spirit World (Hayden)
Hayden, W.R.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Was Mrs. Roberts Really Mrs. Roberts?
Referenced in: The Spirit World (Hayden) | The Spiritual Age (Boston) | The Spiritual Telegraph
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
Hayward, Katherine
To be added.
Referenced in: The Father's House
Hazard, Thomas R.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Thomas R. Hazard on J. B. Conklin: May; 1868
Referenced in: Gallery of Spirit Art | Progressive Age | The Spiritual Offering
Hazelrigg, John
To be added.
Referenced in: Azoth | The Beacon Light | The Channel | Hazelrigg's Astrological Almanac | The Light of Truth | The Metaphysical Magazine | Mind | The Sphinx (Boston)
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.
Referenced in: Soundview
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.
Referenced in: Clarion Call | The Metaphysician (Palatine) | Sri Aurobindo Circle | Tomorrow (Garrett) | Vedanta and the West
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.
Chasing Emma: Hypnotism and Magnetic Girls
Heartt, John Elisha
To be added.
Referenced in: New York Echo
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
Heath, Laura M.
To be added.
Referenced in: New Thought (Moses Hull)
Hecht, Ben
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Ben Hecht (1894–1964), the American screenwriter, journalist, and novelist; cited here in a periodical context.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Open Court Publishing Company and its journals of science and religion.
Referenced in: 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 Rosicrucian Fellowship and led it after his death.
Referenced in: Aquarian Age | Rays from the Rose Cross
Heindel, Max
Max Heindel (1865-1919), born Carl Louis von Grasshoff, was a Danish-American occultist and astrologer who founded the Rosicrucian Fellowship in 1909. After an early association with the Theosophical Society and study with Rudolf Steiner, he claimed to have received spiritual instruction from a "Elder Brother" of the Rosicrucian Order, the substance of which he published as The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (1909). He established the Rosicrucian Fellowship's headquarters at Mount Ecclesia in Oceanside, California, where it remains today. He also wrote extensively on Christian astrology, developing an influential system linking astrology with esoteric Christianity.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Heindel
Referenced in: Alborea | The Beacon Light | Demain | Echoes from Mount Ecclesia | Heraldo Rosacruz | Lemurian Ambassador | Mercury | Mitteilungen der Rozenkreuzer Gemeinschaft | Mystic Light Library Bulletin | National Astrological Journal | New Age Interpreter | The Occult Digest | Rays from the Rose Cross | Rosa-Cruz | Rosicrucian Fellowship | Rozekruis (Heindel) | Sesamums | Tempel | Union Espiritualista Americana
Heine, Heinrich
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), the German Romantic poet and essayist; cited here in a periodical context.
Referenced in: Day (New York)
Heline, John Theodore
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Rays from the Rose Cross
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.
Referenced in: 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 Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua, influential in Latin America.
Referenced in: Ariel (Colombia) | Faro Oriental | La Cruz Astral | Obrero Espirita | Reflejo Astral | Yoga Union
Heller, Robert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Robert Heller (1826–1878), the stage magician and mentalist who imitated and debunked the Davenport Brothers.
Chasing Emma: Ernestein-Belpheghor-Barnums: May 7; 1864
Hempel, Gustav
To be added.
Referenced in: Beglaubigte Mittheilungen aus der Geisterwelt und dem Nachtgebiete der Natur
Henrion, Oscar
To be added.
Referenced in: Phare | Revue Belge des Sciences Psychologiques | Revue Belge du Spiritisme
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.
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Bright Horizons | The New Liberator | Weekly Studies in Soulcraft
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.”
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)
Herrenschneider, Federico
To be added.
Referenced in: Nueva Idea (Bogata)
Hervey, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) Charles Hervey, a minor figure noted in the blog.
Chasing Emma: Flaxen Ringlets
Hervey, J.
To be added.
Referenced in: Revue du Spiritualisme Moderne
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.
Referenced in: Blatter aus Prevorst
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Word (Princeton)
Heywood, E.H.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Crucible | Foundation Principles | Liberty | Spiritual Reporter | The Truthseeker
Heywood, Ezra Hervey
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Ezra Hervey Heywood (1829–1893) was an American individualist-anarchist and free-love reformer, publisher of The Word, repeatedly prosecuted under the Comstock laws.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: The Two Worlds | The Unseen Universe
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.
Chasing Emma: Emma's Mysterious Guide
Chasing Emma: Source-Hunting: How EHB Met Godfrey Higgins
Chasing Emma: January 1871 -- Art Magic; in Embyro
Referenced in: Our Race | The Rosicrucian Brotherhood
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.
Chasing Emma: You Can't Do Without It: The Banner of Light; 1857
Hilaire, Jean
To be added.
Referenced in: Union Spirite Bordelaise
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.
Referenced in: The Temple Artisan
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.
Referenced in: Psychic Research Quarterly
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.
Referenced in: Universal Brotherhood
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
Hindenburg, von
To be added.
Referenced in: Weisse Fahne
Hinds, William A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) William Alfred Hinds (1833–1910) was a member of the Oneida Community and author of American Communities, a standard survey of the communitarian movements.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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).
Referenced in: The Kalpaka
Hines, Frank D
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The (Soulual) Denver Mystic Healing Circle
Referenced in: The Balance | Denver Metaphysician | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires) | Occidental Mystic and Occult | Self-Culture
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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)
Referenced in: 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)
Hodge, Ethel
To be added.
Referenced in: Light of Messiah
Hodgson, Geoffrey
To be added.
Referenced in: Ancient Wisdom | Fiat Lux | Heraldo Rosacruz | Theosophic Messenger
Hodgson, Richard
Richard Hodgson (1855–1905) was an Australian-born psychical researcher for the Society for Psychical Research. He authored the 1885 "Hodgson Report" branding Blavatsky's phenomena fraudulent, exposed slate-writing mediums, and later became secretary of the American SPR and a convinced student of the medium Leonora Piper.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hodgson_(parapsychologist)
Chasing Emma: My Agreement with Imperator: Mrs. Piper's 1901 "Confession"
Referenced in: Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research
Hodson, 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.
Referenced in: Mothers' Occult Digest | Theosophy in Action
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.
Referenced in: 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, Giovanni
To be added.
Referenced in: Lux (Rome)
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
Hoffman, T.
To be added.
Referenced in: Sphinx [Leipzig]
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.
Referenced in: 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
To be added.
Referenced in: New York Beacon Light
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.
Referenced in: The Phrenological Review (Bernard Hollander)
Holler, Helmuth Peter
To be added.
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Holmes
Referenced in: Eternal Progress | Religious Science
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.
Referenced in: The Truth
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, Jennie Ferris
To be added.
Referenced in: Freethought | The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Holt, C.P.
To be added.
Referenced in: Human Nature (San Francisco)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Beyond Reality | Probe the Unknown
Home, D.D.
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.
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
Referenced in: Almanaque del Espiritismo | Australian Spiritualist | Journal de l'Ame | La Pensee Libre | Phare | Revue Contemporain des Sciences Occultes et Naturelles | The Spiritual Magazine (UK) | Spiritualisme Moderne | Union Spirite Bordelaise | The Williamsburgh Spiritualist | The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph
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
Hook, Van
To be added.
Referenced in: Reincarnation
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.
Referenced in: Society for the Study of Supernormal Pictures Budget
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).
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
Referenced in: The Christian (Shelton) | Christian Science Journal | Divine Science Weekly | Flashes of Truth (Boston) | Freedom | The Life [Kansas City] | The Master Mind | Mental Science Magazine | Mentation | Mind Cure and Science of Life | Modern Thought | Nautilus | Purdy's Monthly | Unity | Universal Truth
Hopps, John Page
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Traveling Towards Babylon; Towards Zion: Clough and Hopps
Chasing Emma: 1867: John Page Hopps; Trying The Spirits
Referenced in: 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
Horn, Mary E. Van
To be added.
Referenced in: The Harmonia
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 Theosophical Society.
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 Theosophical Society (1875).
Chasing Emma: TS Founders: John Storer Cobb
Hotchener, Henry
To be added.
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Promoting The Kaballah of the Egyptians
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.
Referenced in: Magic
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.
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
Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (UK)
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.
Referenced in: Das Wort (Dresden) | Oriflamme
Howe, Lyman C.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
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.
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
Referenced in: 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?)
Hoyt, H.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Sacred Circle
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.
Referenced in: 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.
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
Referenced in: The Aberree | Aquarian Path | Auditor (Scientology) | Clarion Call
Hubbe-Schleiden, Wilhelm
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden (1846–1916) was a German Theosophist, colonial theorist, and founder-editor of the review Sphinx, an organ of German psychical and Theosophical thought. See also "Hubbe-Schleiden."
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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)
Referenced in: 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, Henry B.
To be added.
Referenced in: Wilford's Microcosm
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.
Referenced in: The Hypnotic Magazine | Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews
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.
Referenced in: Cruz [Piaui] | Luz e Fe | The New World | Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden | Seculo XX
Hull, Mattie E.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Glyptinism; the Fiat of Intelligence; and New Thought in the Midwest; Circa 1892
Chasing Emma: Stridency
Referenced in: The Agitator | The Better Way | The Crucible | Foundation Principles | The Harmonia | Lake Pepin Gazette | The Light of Truth | Lucifer the Lightbearer | The Lyceum Banner (Chicago) | New Thought (Moses Hull) | The Progressive Thinker | Ray Palmer's Forum | The Religio-Philosophical Journal | The Spiritual Offering | Spiritual Reporter | The Spiritual Republic | Spiritual Rostrum | The Spiritualist at Work | Spiritualist Monthly | The Universe (Chicago) | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly | The World's Advance Thought
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
Referenced in: Aquarian Path | International Psychic Gazette | L'Astrosophie | The Theosophical Review
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.
Referenced in: Anomaly
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
Hunter, Jesse Montague
To be added.
Referenced in: Christian Yoga Monthly
Huntley, Florence Chance
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Florence Huntley (1861–1912) was an American author associated with the "Great School of Natural Science" and its Harmonic Series of occult teachings.
Chasing Emma: The Shepherdess of Paradise: Chicago; 1922
Referenced in: Christliche Theosophie | Harmony (Ponca City) | Life and Action | The Metaphysical Magazine
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett) | Vedanta and the West
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.
Referenced in: 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
Hynek, J. Allen
Hyneman, Leon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Leon Hyneman (1805–1879) was an American Masonic editor and historian of Freemasonry.
Referenced in: 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 American Society for Psychical Research from 1906 until his death.
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.
Referenced in: Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Metaphysician (Palatine)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Uriel
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.
Referenced in: Aquarian Age | Occult Life (LAX)
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.
Referenced in: Mind
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.
Referenced in: The Friend of Progress | The Present Era | Spirit of the Age | The Word (Princeton)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: The Dark Continent of Motive and Desire: Robert Ingersoll; 1888
Referenced in: 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 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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)
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.
Referenced in: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Fenice | Ur-Krur
Irvine, Alexander
To be added.
Referenced in: 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 "Fratres Lucis" (Brotherhood of Light).
Chasing Emma: Psychography Under Lock and Key: October 1884
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett) | Vedanta and the West
Jackman, Mabel Aber
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Shepherdess of Paradise: Chicago; 1922
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: For the Defense; Monsieur Jacolliot: August 1875
Referenced in: Bulletin Des Polaires | Illustracion Espirita (Mexico) | Sophia (Spain)
Jacquelin, Bernice H.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Eudia
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 American Society for Psychical Research and investigator of the medium Leonora Piper.
Chasing Emma: Explaining Belief: The Significance of Joseph Jastrow
Chasing Emma: My Agreement with Imperator: Mrs. Piper's 1901 "Confession"
Referenced in: Mind Inc. | Swastika (Amsterdam)
Jamieson, W.F.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) W. F. Jamieson was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist and freethought lecturer and debater.
Referenced in: The Crucible | Foundation Principles | Lake Pepin Gazette | The Spiritual Offering | Spiritual Reporter | The Spiritual Republic | Spiritual Rostrum | The Spiritualist at Work | The Universe (Chicago) | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Explaining Belief: The Significance of Joseph Jastrow
Jecker, Walter W.
To be added.
Jefferson, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the American statesman and deist; invoked here in a freethought/periodical context.
Referenced in: The Fra
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.
Referenced in: Revista Teosofica (Havana)
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.
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
Referenced in: The Herald of the Golden Age | The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
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.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society (Adyar) from 1946 to 1953.
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Memoires d'une Ex-Palladiste
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.
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: Eclectic Theosophist
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.
Chasing Emma: The Self; in the Social
Chasing Emma: New Typhon Press Release: The Selected Correspondence of Thomas Moore Johnson; Volume One
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Occult Digest | Shrine of Wisdom
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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (UK) | The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
Jones, Lloyd Kenyon
To be added.
Referenced in: Communication | Suggestive Therapeutics | True Mystic Science
Jones, Marc Edmund
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Marc Edmund Jones (1888–1980) was an American astrologer, a founder of the Sabian Assembly and originator of the "Sabian symbols."
Referenced in: American Astrology | The Column | Hamsa | Occult Life (LAX)
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.
Referenced in: Little Bouquet | The Religio-Philosophical Journal | The Spiritual Republic | The Spiritualist at Work | Texas Spiritualist
Jouin, L'Abbe Ernest
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Monsignor Ernest Jouin (1844–1932) was a French Catholic priest and anti-Masonic, antisemitic conspiracy writer, editor of the Revue Internationale des Sociétés Secrètes. See also "Jouin, Monsignor."
Referenced in: Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes
Jouin, Monsignor
(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.
Referenced in: Revue Internationale des Societes Secretes
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.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society in 1875 alongside Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he emigrated to the United States at thirteen, was called to the New York bar, and became a devoted student of Blavatsky. He served as General Secretary of the American Section from 1886 and built Theosophy into a major movement in North America. After Blavatsky's death he led most American Theosophists in a secession from the international society, founding the Theosophical Society in America shortly before his death. His major writings include The Ocean of Theosophy (1893).
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
Referenced in: 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)
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).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Mensch en Cosmos
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.
Referenced in: The Occult Observer
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
Referenced in: Tempel
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.
Referenced in: 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.
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.
Referenced in: Amor e Fe | Annali dello Spiritismo in Italia | Aurora | Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Echo d'Alem-Tumulo | El Criterio Espiritista | Eternidade | Galileen | Guia [Recife] | L'Avenir | La Lumiere (Grange) | La Lumiere Pour Tous | La Ruche Spirite Bordelaise | Licht des Jenseits | Nueva Idea (Bogata) | Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden | Polyanthea Spirita | Progres Spirite | Progres Spiritualiste | Regenerador [Rio de Janeiro] | Revelacion (Buenos Aires) | Revista Espirita [Rio de Janeiro] | Revista Espiritista (Barcelona) | Revista Spirita [Parana] | Revista Spirita da Sociedade Academica | Revue Scientifique et Morale de Spiritisme | Revue Spirite | Revue Spiritualiste | Senda | Verdade | Verdade (Buenos Aires)
Kardec, Allen
"Allan Kardec" was the pen name of Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (1804–1869), a French educator who codified Spiritism. His five foundational works — beginning with The Spirits' Book (1857) — organized mediumistic teachings on reincarnation and moral progress into the doctrine that spread through France and, hugely, through Latin America.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Kardec
Referenced in: Almanach de la Survie
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.
Referenced in: 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 National Spiritualist Association.
Referenced in: The Better Way | Light for Thinkers | The Sunflower (NY)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keel
Referenced in: 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
Keeler, Pierre L.O.A.
To be added.
Referenced in: Facts | Psychic Observer
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ernst_Worrell_Keely
Referenced in: Lotus Rouge | Occult Science Library
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.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society in the early 1880s and remained active in it for the rest of his life, serving in various administrative capacities. Blavatsky spent her final years in the Holland Park home he shared with Archibald.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram_Keightley
Referenced in: The Pilgrim | The Prasnottara | The Theosophical Review | Ultra (Rome) | Vahan (Theosophical Society)
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
Kellar, Harry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Harry Kellar (1849–1922), the celebrated American stage magician, who both imitated and exposed Spiritualist effects.
Chasing Emma: Kellar's Beautiful Production
Kellar, Kenneth
To be added.
Referenced in: Starcraft
Kellner, Carl
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Carl Kellner (1851–1905) was an Austrian industrialist and occultist, a co-founder of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).
Referenced in: Oriflamme | Theosophischer Wegweiser | Virya
Kellogg, J.H.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943), the Battle Creek health reformer; same person as the "Kellogg, John Harvey" entry.
Referenced in: The Character Builder
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)
Kellogg, John Harvey
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943) was an American physician and Seventh-day Adventist who ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium and promoted "biologic living," vegetarianism, and hydrotherapy. See also "Kellogg, J.H."
Referenced in: The Battle Creek Idea | Good Health | Mind Cure and Science of Life
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.
Referenced in: The Rosicrucian Brotherhood
Kent, Austin
To be added.
Referenced in: The Crucible | The New Republic | The Spiritual Republic | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
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
Keperling, Ira L.
To be added.
Referenced in: Initiates | The Philomathian
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inayat_Khan
Referenced in: 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.
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
Referenced in: Mind Cure and Science of Life | New York Beacon Light | The Spiritual Offering
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.
Referenced in: Lemurian Ambassador
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."
Referenced in: Sphinx [Leipzig] | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
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
Referenced in: Angel Drummer | Facts | The Gnostic | Psychometric Circular | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
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.
Chasing Emma: Six Degrees of George Chainey
Referenced in: The Gnostic
King, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) George King (1919–1997) was an English occultist who founded the Aetherius Society (1955) after claimed contact with "Cosmic Masters," a leading UFO religion.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Freethought | The Spiritual Universe
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.
Referenced in: 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, Mary Jane
To be added.
Referenced in: The Spiritual Clarion
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
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society and, in 1884, founder of the Hermetic Society. Her trance-received teachings were published by Edward Maitland as Clothed with the Sun.
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
Referenced in: Angel Drummer | The Buddhist Ray | Herald of the Cross | Luz Astral (Chile) | Our Home Rights | The Gnostic
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.
Referenced in: Proceedings of the Blavatsky Association
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Kosmicke Rozhledy
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).
Referenced in: 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 British National Association of Spiritualists and later a Theosophist.
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
Referenced in: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis) | The Spiritualist | The Unknown World
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
Referenced in: Lyceum Banner [Liverpool]
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: All-Seeing Eye
Kneipp, Sebastian
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Sebastian Kneipp (1821–1897) was a Bavarian priest and pioneer of hydrotherapy ("the water cure"), a founding figure of the Naturopathic movement.
Referenced in: The Indian Naturopath | Nature's Path (Lust)
Knoche, Grace
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Grace F. Knoche (1909–2006) was an American Theosophist who served as leader of the Theosophical Society (Pasadena) from 1971.
Referenced in: The Theosophical Path
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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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.
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.
Referenced in: 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 Ordo Templi Orientis and related occult orders.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
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
Referenced in: The Age of Progress | Mondo Occulto | The Spiritual Universe
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 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn but that is unlikely. He began writing horoscope columns shortly after his arrival in Britain. His column in the Daily Mirror, ‘Calendar of Fate’, was at first in tabular form giving lucky hours, stones and colours for the date in question alongside a brief prediction. In May 1936 it was changed to a daily prediction. Kozminsky was replaced by Ann Maritza in October 1936. He used the same tabular form in Lucky Star in 1936, but in 1938 he was writing daily predictions and in 1939 had changed to a twelve-sign column format.
Referenced in: Wynn's Astrology
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.
Referenced in: Pansophic Intellectualizer
Krishnamurti, J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) was raised by the Theosophical Society as the vehicle of the "World Teacher"; in 1929 he dissolved the Order of the Star and spent the rest of his life teaching a radical, non-authoritarian spirituality.
Referenced in: 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
Krumm Heller, Arnold
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Arnold Krumm-Heller (1876–1949), "Huiracocha," the German-Mexican occultist and founder of the Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua; same person as the "Heller, Arnold Krumm" entry.
Referenced in: Gnose (Rio) | L'Etoile D'Orient | Luz Astral (Chile) | Rosa-Cruz | Rosa-Cruz (Berlin)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Beacon Light | The San Juan Record
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.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society in America and co-developed Therapeutic Touch.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Kuzel, Vladislav
To be added.
Referenced in: Horev [Prague]
La Due, Francia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Francia A. La Due (“Blue Star”), co-founder, with William Dower, of the Temple of the People at Halcyon, California.
Chasing Emma: All Life Is One: A Candle for the Rev. Irene Earll (1865-1938)
Laborde, Leon de
To be added.
Referenced in: Revue Spiritualiste
Lacey, Frederick W.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Monde Invisible
LaDue, Francia
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Francia A. LaDue (1849–1922) was an American Theosophist who, with William H. Dower, co-founded the Temple of the People at Halcyon, California.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Illumination
Lady Nada
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Magnetiseur (Geneva)
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.
Referenced in: L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique | Le Monde Psychique
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."
Referenced in: Mind Digest | Nautilus
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 Society for Psychical Research.
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Spiritismus
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.
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.
Referenced in: Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship)
Lant, John A.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Shrine of Wisdom
Larken, 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.
Referenced in: The Balance | Nautilus
Larkin, Edgar Lucien
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Edgar Lucien Larkin (1847–1924) was an American astronomer, director of the Lowe Observatory, and a popular writer who blended science with occult and Theosophical speculation. See also "Larken, Edgar Lucien."
Chasing Emma: The Other Life of Edgar Lucien Larkin
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Cosmic World | Eternal Progress | Progress Magazine | Religious Science
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
Larsson, Edwin
To be added.
Referenced in: Yhteis-Vapaamuurari
Lauer, Solon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Solon Lauer was an American New Thought writer and lecturer of the early twentieth century.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Conjuror's Magazine
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.
Referenced in: 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
Lawson, Agnes M.
To be added.
Referenced in: Divine Science Weekly
Layne, Meade
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Meade Layne (1882–1961) was an American founder of Borderland Sciences Research Associates, an early channel for "etheric" and flying-saucer communications.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: The Mark Probert Mediumship
Referenced in: Fortean Society Magazine | Journal of Borderland Research | Mind Digest | Round Robin | Voice from the Gallery
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).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Croire
Leadbeater, C.W.
Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934) was a British clergyman, occultist, and author who played a prominent part in the Theosophical Society. While a curate in the Church of England, he became interested in Theosophy and joined the Society in 1883. He moved to Adyar in 1884, developing reputedly clairvoyant abilities that made him highly influential alongside Annie Besant after Blavatsky's death. He contributed to the development of the Liberal Catholic Church and in 1908 identified the young Jiddu Krishnamurti as the vehicle of a coming World Teacher. His prolific writings include works on clairvoyance, the astral and mental planes, and the inner life.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/leadbeater-charles-webster-1854-1934
Referenced in: 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
Leadbeater, Charles Webster
Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854–1934) was an English clergyman-turned-Theosophist, a prolific clairvoyant author (The Astral Plane, The Chakras, Occult Chemistry with Annie Besant), co-founder of the Liberal Catholic Church, and the man who "discovered" the young Krishnamurti as vehicle of the World Teacher.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater
Referenced in: O.E. Library Critic
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Foundation Principles
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
Referenced in: Thought (Leavitt)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Probe the Unknown
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.
Referenced in: Rincarnazione | Server (Krishnamurti)
Leland, Theron C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Theron C. Leland, an American Spiritualist and shorthand reformer of the mid-nineteenth century.
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.
Referenced in: Echo du Merveilleux
Lenox, Ruth Scoles
To be added.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society in 1890, integrating Theosophical ideas — particularly reincarnation and karma — into his astrological practice. He founded the periodical Modern Astrology and the Modern Astrology Publishing Co., the first large-scale venture of its kind, with branches in Paris and New York. He was twice prosecuted for fortune-telling, being acquitted the first time and convicted and fined the second. He died on 30 August 1917 at Cornwall, England.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/leo-alan-1860-1917
Referenced in: The Astrologer (Powley) | The Astrologers' Magazine [Alan Leo] | Astrology -- The Astrologers Quarterly | L'Astrosophie | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | The Seer | The Seer and Celestial Reformer
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."
Referenced in: L'Etoile | L'Initiation | La Vie Mysterieuse | Neos Pithagoras | Paix Universelle | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires)
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.
Chasing Emma: Rep'ing Emma: Charles Edwards Lester (1815-1890)
Chasing Emma: Yet Another Biographical Summary: BofL; December 18; 1869
Lester, Reginald M.
To be added.
Referenced in: Churches Fellowship for Psychical Studies
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.
Chasing Emma: John Abraham Heraud
Levy, Eliphas
"Éliphas Lévi" was the pen name of Alphonse Louis Constant (1810–1875), the French occultist whose Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1854–56) recast magic as a universal science of will and symbolism. Widely regarded as the father of the modern occult revival, he shaped the Golden Dawn, Papus, and Crowley.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89liphas_L%C3%A9vi
Referenced in: La Verite (Lyon) | Paix Universelle
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.
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.
Referenced in: 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.
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
Referenced in: 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
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, John
To be added.
Referenced in: International Psychic Gazette
Lewis, Ralph M.
To be added.
Referenced in: F. U. D. O. S. I. | Rosicrucian Digest | Rosicrucian Forum
Leymarie, P.-G.
To be added.
Referenced in: Bulletin de l'Union Spirite Francaise | Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Irradiacion (Madrid) | Neos Pithagoras
Leymarie, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Paul Leymarie was a member of the French Spiritist publishing family that continued the Revue Spirite and the Librairie Spirite after P.-G. Leymarie.
Referenced in: Revue Spirite
Leymarie, Pierre-Gaetan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Pierre-Gaëtan Leymarie (1827–1901) was the successor of Allan Kardec as head of the French Spiritist movement and editor of the Revue Spirite, tried in the 1875 "spirit photography" case. See also "Leymarie, Paul."
Chasing Emma: For the Defense; Monsieur Jacolliot: August 1875
Referenced in: Revue Spirite
Lincoln
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Almost certainly Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865); see the "Lincoln, Abraham" entry.
Referenced in: Monde Invisible | Voice of the Magi
Lincoln, Abraham
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the American president, whose reputed interest in séances (through his wife Mary) made him a recurring figure in Spiritualist lore. See also the "Lincoln" and "Lincoln, President" entries.
Chasing Emma: The Coming Man
Chasing Emma: 1866: A Second Attempt At Transition?
Chasing Emma: October 1862: Emma Goes On The Stump
Chasing Emma: On The Road With Abraham: October 8-24; 1864
Referenced in: Hague's Horoscope | The Principle
Lincoln, President
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the American president; same reference as the "Lincoln, Abraham" entry.
Referenced in: New York Beacon Light
Lindberg, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), the American aviator; a spelling variant of the "Lindbergh, Charles" entry.
Referenced in: Intelligence (Blue Lamoo)
Lindbergh, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), the American aviator of the first solo transatlantic flight; cited here in a periodical context. See also the "Lindberg, Charles" entry.
Referenced in: New Outlook
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.
Referenced in: 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 Brotherhood of the Union.
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_von_List
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: The Pneumatologist
Litchfield, Beals
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Beals Litchfield, a figure in the c.1890 Hermetic Brotherhood / Church of Light circle.
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 Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA) in 1866.
Referenced in: The Rosicrucian
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Clothed With The Sun | The Ghourki | Occult Truths | Purdy's Monthly | Soundview | Ye Quaint Magazine
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).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: New Ideas (Comprehensionism)
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.
Referenced in: 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, E. Daniel
To be added.
Referenced in: Azoth
Lodge, Oliver
Sir Oliver Lodge (1851–1940) was a British physicist (a pioneer of radio) and psychical researcher, president of the Society for Psychical Research (1901–03). After his son Raymond was killed in 1915 he wrote the best-selling Raymond; or, Life and Death (1916) arguing for survival.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Lodge
Chasing Emma: The Spiritualist and the Physicist
Referenced in: Annales des Sciences Psychiques | Azoth | La Idea (Buenos Aires) | Mind In Nature | The Occult Review
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).
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso
Referenced in: Annales des Sciences Psychiques | Luce e Ombra | Lux (Rome) | Mondo Occulto | Nueva Atlantida (Montevideo) | Revue Scientifique et Morale de Spiritisme | Voprosy Psikhizma
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.
Referenced in: Christliche Theosophie | Weisse Fahne | Zum Licht
London, Jack
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Flinty-Hearted Calculator: Some Notes on W. H. Chaney (1821-1903)
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The New World
Longley, Mary Theresa Shelhamer
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Mary T. Shelhamer Longley (1848–1922) was an American Spiritualist medium and author (Life and Labor in the Spirit World), long associated with the Banner of Light.
Referenced in: The Banner of Light | Immortality (New York) | The Light of Truth
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.
Referenced in: Occult Science Library | Suggestion | Thought (Alameda)
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.
Referenced in: Das Wort (Dresden) | Revue Theurgique
Lord Byron
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824), the English Romantic poet; cited here in a periodical context.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Psychic World (Barbanell)
Lord Dunsany
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (1878–1957), the Irish author of fantasy and supernatural tales.
Referenced in: Equinox | Modern Mystic | Tomorrow (Garrett)
Lord Himalaya
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: UFO Research Newsletter
Lorenzen, Coral E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Coral E. Lorenzen (1925–1988) co-founded, with her husband Jim, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), a pioneering civilian UFO group.
Referenced in: APRO Bulletin
Lorenzen, Leslie James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) L. James (Jim) Lorenzen (1922–1986) co-founded and directed the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) with his wife Coral.
Referenced in: APRO Bulletin
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.
Referenced in: La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires)
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.
Referenced in: Almanach du Magiste
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Harbinger
Lowes, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) John Lowes (b. 1832), a possible member of the Nottingham Spiritual Circle (identity uncertain).
Chasing Emma: Some Strange Device: The Nottingham Spiritual Circle; Part Two
Lowndes, Robert A.W.
To be added.
Referenced in: Exploring the Unknown
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Almanach du Magiste
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.
Referenced in: Seculo XX
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.
Referenced in: Theriaki
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.
Referenced in: Philadelphia (Buenos Aires)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Das Wort (St. Louis) | Herald of Health (Benedict Lust) | How to Live for Health and Strength (Sebring) | The Indian Naturopath | Nature's Path (Lust)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Order of the Star in the East.
Referenced in: Bulletin Internationale de L'Etoile | Herald of the Star | International Star Bulletin | La Estrella (Madrid) | Ster in het Oosten
Luys, Jules
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Jules Luys (1828–1897), the French neurologist and controversial demonstrator of hypnotism at the Charité.
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.
Referenced in: 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 Society of Practical Christianity in New York and wrote on applied metaphysics.
Referenced in: Mind Inc.
Lynn, Cephas B.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Cephas B. Lynn was an American Spiritualist lecturer and editor of the later nineteenth century.
Referenced in: Foundation Principles | Spiritual Reporter
Lyttle-Garrett, Eileen Jeanette Vancho
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Eileen J. Garrett (1892–1970), the Irish medium and founder of the Parapsychology Foundation; a fuller form of the name in the "Garrett, Eileen Jeanette" entry.
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett)
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.
Referenced in: Das Wunder | Gnosis (Vienna) | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau
Macdonald, Eugene Montague
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Eugene Montague Macdonald (1855–1909) was an American freethought editor of The Truth Seeker.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Freethought
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Business Philosopher | Nature's Path (Lust)
MacGregor-Mathers, S.L.
(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.
Referenced in: Isis Moderne
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.
Referenced in: 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 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Referenced in: 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).
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
Referenced in: 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 R.H.
(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."
Chasing Emma: Collisions: Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie; Jesse Shepard; and Transfacial Mediumship
Referenced in: The Rosicrucian | The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
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.
Referenced in: The Rosicrucian Brotherhood
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Alma
Madero, Francisco I.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Francisco I. Madero (1873–1913) led the Mexican Revolution and served as President of Mexico; he was also a committed Spiritist who wrote under a pseudonym on the doctrine. See also "Madera, Francisco I."
Referenced in: Helios | La Balanza | La Cruz Astral | Obrero Espirita
Maeterlinck
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949), the Belgian Symbolist writer and Nobel laureate; see the "Maeterlinck, Maurice" entry.
Referenced in: Sbornik Pro Filosofii Mystiku a Okkultismus
Maeterlinck, Maurice
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) was a Belgian Symbolist playwright, poet, and essayist (Nobel Prize, 1911) whose mystical essays (The Treasure of the Humble, The Life of the Bee) explored the unseen and the occult. (Also appears as "Maeterlinck" and "Maeterlink, Maurice.")
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck
Referenced in: The Balance | The Yogi (Sydney Flower)
Maeterlink, Maurice
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949), the Belgian Symbolist writer; a spelling variant of the "Maeterlinck, Maurice" entry.
Referenced in: Cruz del Sur
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Bulletin Des Polaires
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Hermetic Society and editor of her posthumous Clothed with the Sun.
Chasing Emma: Nothing In the World So Inexact: Anna Kingsford; June 1885
Referenced in: The Gnostic | Herald of the Cross | The Unknown World | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
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.
Referenced in: F. U. D. O. S. I.
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.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Lucy Rose Mallory
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Manning, W.H.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Banner of Progress
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.
Chasing Emma: The Spirit Postmaster: Some Notes on J. V. Mansfield; Part One
Referenced in: Constancia | Facts | Voice of Angels
Mapes, James J.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) James Jay Mapes (1806–1866), the American chemist, agricultural scientist and Spiritualist investigator.
Chasing Emma: "I Lived In The House With Two Mediums"
Chasing Emma: A Hearty Soulful Enthusiasm: The Westchester Farm School; May; 1856
Mar, O.W. Le
To be added.
Referenced in: Occult Life (LAX)
Marata, Jacinto Esteva
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Business Philosopher | Mystic Light Library Bulletin | Nautilus | Success Magazine
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: HPB's Witness: Some Notes on Lydia Marquette; M.D.
Marra, Massimo
To be added.
Referenced in: L'Affranchi | Le Message Theosophique et Social
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).
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
Referenced in: Annals of Phrenology
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.
Referenced in: 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.
To be added.
Referenced in: L'Etoile D'Orient | O.E. Library Critic | Occult Press Review | Oriental Esoteric Society Bulletin | The Radiant Centre | The Radiant Truth
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.
Referenced in: Exploring the Unknown
Martens, Peter Christoph
To be added.
Referenced in: Christliche Theosophie | Der Gral | Mitteilungen des Neuen Gral-Ordens | Zum Licht
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | The New World | The Temple | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Mary, Mother
To be added.
Referenced in: Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: L'Affranchi
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.
Chasing Emma: A Mahatma; At Home
Mason, Edgar
To be added.
Referenced in: Our Home Rights
Massey, C.C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Charles Carleton Massey (1838–1905) was an English barrister, a founding member of the Theosophical Society in England and of the Society for Psychical Research.
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
Referenced in: Psychische Studien | The Psychological Review | The Spiritualist | Theosophical Siftings
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.
Chasing Emma: This Prodigious Farrago: April 1881
Referenced in: Almanaque del Espiritismo | Common Sense | The Vanguard [Wisconsin]
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.
Referenced in: Tour Saint Jacques
Mateo, Joaquin Trincado
(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.
Referenced in: La Balanza
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Inner Light (Fortune)
Mathers, S.L. Macgregor
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918), Golden Dawn founder and translator; same person as the "Mathers, Samuel Liddell" entry.
Referenced in: Fountain of Light | The Horoscope [London]
Mathers, Samuel Liddell
Samuel Liddell "MacGregor" Mathers (1854–1918) was a British occultist and, with Westcott and Woodman, a founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1888). He wrote and translated key texts (The Kabbalah Unveiled, The Key of Solomon, The Sacred Magic of Abramelin) and, from Paris, led the successor order Alpha et Omega. (Also appears as "Mathers, S.L. Macgregor" and "MacGregor-Mathers, S.L.")
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Liddell_MacGregor_Mathers
Referenced in: Azoth
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History...Hiram Mattison (1811-1868)
Mattson, Matthew N.
To be added.
Referenced in: Modern Astrology (Rose Dawn)
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.
Referenced in: The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century | The Straggling Astrologer
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.
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett)
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.
Referenced in: Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
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, May Benzenberg
To be added.
Referenced in: Living (May Benzenberg Mayer)
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.
Referenced in: 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?
Referenced in: New Thought (Moses Hull)
Mazzini, Giuseppe
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872), the Italian nationalist and revolutionary; cited here in a periodical context.
Referenced in: New York Echo
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.")
Referenced in: 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.
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.
Referenced in: Journal of Parapsychology | Tomorrow (Garrett)
McIntyre, F.T.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Adiramled | Advanced Thought (Chicago) | Old Moore's Monthly Messenger | Psychic Truth | Soundview | The Swastika
McKean, Samuel H
To be added.
McKenzie, James Hewat
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) James Hewat McKenzie (1869–1929) was a British psychical researcher who founded the British College of Psychic Science. See also "McKenzie, Hewat."
Referenced in: (Quarterly Transactions of the British College of) Psychic Science
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.")
Referenced in: The Arena | Fred Burry's Journal
McMurtry, Grady Louis
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Grady Louis McMurtry (1918–1985) was an American occultist who, as "Hymenaeus Alpha," revived the Ordo Templi Orientis after Crowley's death.
Referenced in: Magickal Link
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 Theosophical Society in 1909, he founded the Quest Society and edited its journal, The Quest (1909-1930). His studies of Gnosticism, particularly Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (1900), helped bring these traditions to a wider audience.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._R._S._Mead
Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey) | Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona) | Lucifer | The Quest | Rincarnazione | Sophia (Spain) | The Theosophical Review | Ultra (Rome) | Vahan (Blavatsky) | Vahan (Theosophical Society)
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.
Referenced in: Mothers' Occult Digest
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
Mehta, Rohit
To be added.
Referenced in: New India (Besant)
Mellon, Annie Fairlamb
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Annie Fairlamb Mellon, a Newcastle materialization medium of the 1870s–90s, later active in Australia.
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.
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Philosopher's Stone
Mendelssohn, Moses
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), the German-Jewish Enlightenment philosopher, recipient of Kant's 1766 letter on Swedenborg.
Chasing Emma: April 8; 1766: Kant; to Mendelssohn; on Swedenborg
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.
Referenced in: L'Initiation | Revista Internacional do Espiritismo | Union Occulte Francaise
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.
Chasing Emma: EHB and Adah Isaacs Menken
Mercier, Helen Bell
To be added.
Referenced in: The Glass Hive
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.
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett)
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mesmer
Referenced in: Die Ubersinnliche Welt
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Sphinx [Leipzig]
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).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Graphologie
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
Militz, Annie Rix
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Annie Rix Militz (1856–1924) was an American New Thought teacher, a student of Emma Curtis Hopkins who founded the Homes of Truth and the University of Christ.
Referenced in: Christ Mind (Rix) | Das Wort (St. Louis) | Flashes of Truth (Boston) | International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | The Master Mind | Mind | Nautilus | Religion | Unity | Universal Truth
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.
Referenced in: Modern Mystic
Miller, Joaquin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Joaquin Miller (1837–1913), the American "Poet of the Sierras"; cited here in a periodical context.
Referenced in: New Californian | The Temple
Miller, Orlando Edgar
To be added.
Referenced in: The Chapala Round Table | Mastery | The Psychological Review of Reviews
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."
Referenced in: Nautilus
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: Claude, with confidence 0.40) O. V. de L. Milosz (1877–1939) was a Lithuanian-French Symbolist poet and mystic whose visionary metaphysics influenced later esoteric writers.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Olive Branch
Mingle, Ida
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
Referenced in: American Wayshowers | The Light of Truth (Mingle) | The Occult Digest
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.
Chasing Emma: Lincoln the Lover: Cora Mickel Hoffer and the Atlantic Monthly Lincoln Forgery Case
Minty, D. Hird
To be added.
Referenced in: New York Spiritualist Leader
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.
Referenced in: Arohn
Mitchell, William Francis
To be added.
Referenced in: Fred Burry's Journal | Twentieth Century Astrology
Mitra, Peary Chand
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Peary Chand Mitra (1814–1883), the Bengali author and reformer, an early Indian Spiritualist correspondent.
Chasing Emma: The Spiritualist Internationale
Mittra, Peary Chand
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Peary Chand Mittra (1814–1883) was a Bengali writer and reformer, an early Indian Spiritualist and Theosophical sympathizer.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The New Universe
Monck, Francis Ward
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Francis Ward Monck (1835–1896?), an English materialization medium, exposed in 1876 but long defended (by Archdeacon Colley), one of the “Great Materializers.”
Chasing Emma: The Invisible Operating Agency: Oxley and Monck; June 1876
Chasing Emma: A Scoundrel On Whom Every Honest Man Should Spit: Francis Ward Monck's Oration on Liberty; January 1877
Chasing Emma: Stainton Moses' Pocket-Book: October 1877
Chasing Emma: Some Notes on the Life of Francis Ward Monck (1835-1896?)
Chasing Emma: Stringboard: The Rev. Frederick Rowland Young
Chasing Emma: Instantaneous Transferrence Of A Sceptical Gentleman: December 1873
Monck, Maria
To be added.
Referenced in: The Progressive Thinker
Moore, Francis
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Eight: Fun with Almanacks
Referenced in: Moore's Almanac | Old Moore's Almanack
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
Morand, G.
To be added.
Referenced in: Isis Moderne
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.
Referenced in: Catalogue du Salon de la Rose+Croix
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.
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: Inner Light (Fortune)
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
Morley, John
To be added.
Referenced in: New Outlook
Morrell, Benjamin
To be added.
Referenced in: The British Spiritual Telegraph | The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph
Morrison, Richard James
To be added.
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
Referenced in: The Biological Review | Zadkiel's Magazine
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."
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds for 1890
Chasing Emma: W. E. Coleman; J. J. Morse; and EHB
Referenced in: 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.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Solograph
Moseley, James Willet
See Moseley, James W>, above.
Referenced in: Nexus (James Moseley) | Saucer News (Moseley) | Saucer News Non-Scheduled Newsletter (Moseley) | Saucer Sentinel | Saucer Smear (Moseley) | Saucerian
Moseley, Jim
See Moseley, James W., above.
Referenced in: Saucer News Non-Scheduled Newsletter (Moseley)
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.
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)
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Almanach Prophetique
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.
Referenced in: The Greater World
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.
Referenced in: American Occultist
Mrs. Duncan
To be added.
Referenced in: Bulletin and Proceedings of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research
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."
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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).
Referenced in: Aries Quarterly | Light on the Path and Weekly Truth Sheet (Brotherhood of the White Temple) | The Occult Digest | Psychic Observer | True Mystic Science
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.
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
Referenced in: Doutrina | Eudia | The Herald of the Golden Age | Les Forces Mentales | Luz y Union (Barcelona) | Mind Cure and Science of Life | New Thought Journal and Occult Review | Rosa-Cruz | Source de Vie Eternelle | Spiritual Notes | The White Cross Library | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Mentation
Mumler, Hannah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Hannah Mumler (née Green, formerly Stuart), the clairvoyant wife and business partner of the spirit-photographer William H. Mumler.
Chasing Emma: The Woman In The Business: Hannah F. Green Stuart Mumler
Mumler, W.H.
(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.
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
Referenced in: Psychic Studies
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.
Referenced in: Raja-Yoga Messenger
Murillo, Manuel Navarro
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
Myers, F.W.H.
Frederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901) was an English classicist, poet, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research who coined "telepathy" and "supernormal." His posthumous Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (1903), with its theory of the "subliminal self," became a landmark of psychical research.
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
Referenced in: Die Ubersinnliche Welt
Naglowska, Maria de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Maria de Naglowska (1883–1936) was a Russian-French occultist and writer who taught a doctrine of sexual magic and the "Third Term of the Trinity" in 1930s Paris. See also the "de Naglowska, Marie" entry.
Referenced in: La Voie (Paris)
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.
Chasing Emma: A New Monetization Strategy
Chasing Emma: August 15; 1880: The End of America
Referenced in: Pacific Liberal | Revue du Psychisme Experimental
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Archiv Fur Thiereschen Magnetismus (Den Halle) | Zeitschrift fur Psychische Aerzte
Neal, Ewing Virgil
To be added.
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
Referenced in: The Hypnotic Magazine | The Segnogram | Twentieth Century Astrology | Weltmer's Magazine
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.
Referenced in: Theosophia
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 Theosophical Society.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Fetch Here A Coal Of Fire: J. B. Newbrough's Early Work
Referenced in: Eclectic Medical Journal | Kosmon Unity | Official Theomonistic Record
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.
Referenced in: The Business Philosopher
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 Christward Ministry in California.
Referenced in: Inspiration (Newhouse) | Training for Self-Conquest
Newhouse, Lawrence G.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story)
Newman, Thomas Gabriel
To be added.
Referenced in: California Spiritual Messenger | The Religio-Philosophical Journal
Newnham, William
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) William Newnham, an early-Victorian medical writer on mesmerism and the mind.
Chasing Emma: New (Magnetic) Thought: 1842; 1854; 1855
Newton
To be added.
Referenced in: Wilford's Microcosm
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.
Referenced in: New Age (Boston) | The New Era | New-England Spiritualist | Soundview | The Spiritual Age | 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 First Society of Spiritualists and a patron of mediums and spirit photography.
Referenced in: The Light of Truth
Newton, Isaac
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), the English physicist and mathematician, whose extensive private studies of alchemy and prophecy made him a figure of interest in occult periodicals.
Referenced in: The New World
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
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
Referenced in: Herald of Health (T. L. Nichols) | The New Republic | Nichols' Monthly | The Social Revolutionist | The Spiritual Magazine (UK) | The Water-Cure Journal
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).
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Esoteric Anthropology: Sex; Death and Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: T. L. Nichols and The Adelaide Bartlett Trial
Referenced in: Freelight | Herald of Health (T. L. Nichols) | The New Republic | Nichols' Monthly | The Water-Cure Journal
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 Theosophical Society (Adyar) from 1953 to 1973.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Iniciacion [Montevideo]
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.
Referenced in: Echo du Merveilleux
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.
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.
To be added.
Referenced in: Archive Fur Den Thiereschen Magnetismus (Jena)
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.
Chasing Emma: Living Men of Sense; Dignity and Education: William North on the Fox Sisters; Andrew Jackson Davis; and Spiritualism
Northrop, J.C.
To be added.
Referenced in: Paragon Monthly
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Progressive Thinker
Notzing, Schrenck
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Baron Albert von Schrenck-Notzing (1862–1929) was a German physician and psychical researcher, a pioneer investigator of "ectoplasm" and materialization mediums (Eva C., Willi Schneider).
Chasing Emma: Spirits of the Trade: Teleplasm; Ectoplasm; Psychoplasm; Ideoplasm
Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Kritischen Okkultismus
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.
Referenced in: Art, Science et Peuple
Noyes, John Humphrey
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) John Humphrey Noyes (1811–1886) was the American founder of the Oneida Community, developer of "Bible Communism" and "complex marriage."
Referenced in: The American Socialist | Free Church Circular | Oneida Circular | The Social Revolutionist
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.
Referenced in: Almanach du Magiste
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.
Referenced in: New Atlantean Journal
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.
Referenced in: The Metaphysician (Palatine)
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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Two Worlds
Obregon, Alvaro
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Álvaro Obregón (1880–1928), the Mexican revolutionary general and president; cited here in a periodical context.
Referenced in: The Chapala Round Table | The Psychological Review of Reviews
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).
Referenced in: Annales des Sciences Psychiques
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.
Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie
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.
Referenced in: Psyche (London)
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.
Referenced in: The Buddhist Ray
Olcott, Henry S.
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907) was an American lawyer, journalist, and agriculturalist who, with H. P. Blavatsky, co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 and served as its first president. Settling at Adyar, he became the first prominent American convert to Buddhism and wrote the Buddhist Catechism.
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
Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey) | Hindu Spiritual Magazine | Mensageiro | New York Echo | Progress (Chicago) | The Spiritual Scientist | The Theosophist
Old, W. Gorn
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Walter Gorn Old ("Sepharial," 1864–1929), the English astrologer; same person as the "Old, Walter Richard" entry.
Referenced in: Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona) | Journal of the Alchemical Society
Old, Walter Richard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Walter Gorn Old (1864–1929), who wrote as "Sepharial," was an English astrologer, Theosophist, and member of Blavatsky's inner group, a prolific author of astrological and occult works. (Also appears as "Old, W. Gorn" and "Old, William Richard Gorn.")
Referenced in: The Forecast | Luz Astral (Chile) | Vahan (Blavatsky) | Vahan (Theosophical Society)
Old, William Richard Gorn
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Walter (William) Gorn Old ("Sepharial," 1864–1929), astrologer and Theosophist; same person as the "Old, Walter Richard" entry.
Referenced in: British Journal of Astrology
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."
Referenced in: The Gnostic | The Unknown World | Uriel
Olive, Eliza
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Eliza Olive (1843–1911), an English Spiritualist medium and “Spiritualist doctor.”
Chasing Emma: Completely Free: Some Notes on Eliza Olive (1843-1911)
Oliveira, J. Soares
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Lemurian Ambassador
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.
Referenced in: Freemason's Quarterly Review (UK)
Omarr, Sydney
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Sydney Omarr (1926–2003) was a popular American newspaper astrologer whose syndicated horoscope columns reached millions.
Referenced in: Horoscope (Dell)
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.
Referenced in: The New Universe
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.
Referenced in: El Sendero (Teziotlan)
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.
Referenced in: Chimes
Ormsby, Frank Earl
To be added.
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
Referenced in: Planets and People
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.
Referenced in: Vrede
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.
Referenced in: Eudia | Forces Spirituelles
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.
Referenced in: Revue Metapsychique
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Ouspensky
Referenced in: Mensch en Cosmos | Neue Wissenschaft
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.
Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke)
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.
Referenced in: The Golden Gate | La Courriere/The Messenger
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.
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
Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (UK) | The Horoscope (Zadkiel) | La Table Parlante | The New World | Robert Owen's Millennial Gazette | The Spirit World (Hayden) | The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph
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.
Chasing Emma: Stratigraphy: How Mistakes Become Facts
Chasing Emma: Those of His Own Household: Henry James on Spiritualism; 1872
Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (UK) | The Index | The New World | The Spiritual Magazine (UK) | The Spiritualist
Oxley, Thomas
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Thomas Oxley was a nineteenth-century writer on astrology and the "celestial" sciences.
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
Referenced in: The Astrologers' Magazine [Williams]
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.
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
Referenced in: The Herald of Progress (UK) | Spiritual Review
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.
Referenced in: The Fra | Spirit Mothers and Astraea
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusapia_Palladino
Referenced in: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Die Ubersinnliche Welt | The Harbinger of Dawn | Irradiacion (Madrid) | Lux (Rome)
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.
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett) | Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles
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.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/palmer-raymond-alfred-1910-1977
Referenced in: 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
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 Theosophical Society, author of works on "blue and red light" therapy and the Kabbalah.
Chasing Emma: The Delanco; New Jersey Nexus
Chasing Emma: What The Greeks Knew Of Electricity
Referenced in: Angel Drummer | The Path | Spectro-Chrome
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 Martinist Order, he wrote widely on the Tarot, Kabbalah, and magic and served as an occult adviser at the Russian court.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Encausse
Referenced in: Almanach de la Chance
Paramahansa, Sri Mahatma Agamya Guru
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Agamya Guru Paramahamsa ("the Tiger Mahatma") was an Indian yogi who taught and lectured in Britain and America in the early 1900s, briefly a teacher of the young occultist scene. (Also "Paramahamsa, Sri Agamya Guru.")
Referenced in: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | Theosophischer Wegweiser
Paramananda, Swami
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Swami Paramananda (1884–1940) was an Indian monk of the Ramakrishna Order who founded Vedanta centres in Boston and Los Angeles and edited Message of the East.
Referenced in: Day (New York) | Message of the East
Pardee, L. Judd
To be added.
Referenced in: The Journal of Human Science (Cincinnati) | Voice of Angels
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.
Referenced in: Fortean Society Magazine
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.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part 11: The Case of the Credulous Amateur
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part 15: A Barbarous Compound of Lamenism
Parkinson, Allan
To be added.
Referenced in: The Christian (Shelton)
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.
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
Referenced in: The Christian (Shelton) | Communication | The Equitist | The Hypnotic Magazine | Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews | The Stellar Ray | Suggestion | The Vanguard [Wisconsin]
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
Referenced in: The Shekinah | The Spiritual Age (new York) | The Spiritual Clarion | The Spiritual Telegraph | The Sunbeam
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.
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Diable Au XIXe Siecle
Patterson, C.B.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Arena | International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings
Patterson, Charles Brodie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Charles Brodie Patterson (1854–1917) was a Canadian-American New Thought leader, editor of Mind and The Arena, and a prolific author on mental healing. (Also "Patterson, C.B." / "C.E.")
Referenced in: The Christian (Shelton) | Day (New York) | Fred Burry's Journal | The Hypnotic Magazine | The Library of Health | Mind | Practical Ideals | The Stellar Ray | Universal Truth
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.
Referenced in: L'Esprit (Paris)
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).
Referenced in: Vision
Peake, Margaret B.
To be added.
Referenced in: Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | Purdy's Monthly | Star of the Magi | Wings of Truth
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.
Referenced in: The Silent Partner
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.
Chasing Emma: We are all socialists now: Frank Podmore; Annie Besant and Fabianism
Pease, John Franklin
To be added.
Referenced in: Aquarian New Age
Peebles, J.M.
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.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/peebles-james-martin-1822-1922
Chasing Emma: Infidel Spiritualism: Emma's Fatal Mistake
Chasing Emma: July 5; 1876 -- Organizing Christian Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: The Strolling Player Question; Unsettling: 1899
Chasing Emma: Early Colville: Mage-in-the-Making
Chasing Emma: Ad Libitum: Sending J. M. Peebles Off; June 1870
Chasing Emma: Elisha Charles Dunn (1841-1914)
Referenced in: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis) | The American Spiritualist | Aquarian New Age | The Battle Creek Idea | Brain and Brawn | Freethinkers Magazine | Hindu Spiritual Magazine | International Psychic Gazette | La Courriere/The Messenger | Liberator (SFO) | The Light of Truth | The Lyceum Banner (Chicago) | Mind | The Mountain Pine | The Occult (Detroit) | The Occult Review | Oriental University Bulletin | Our Home Rights | Progressive Age | The Progressive Thinker | Psychic Observer | The Psychological Review of Reviews | The Spiritual Republic | Spiritual Review | The Temple of Health | The Universe (Chicago)
Peebles, James Martin
James Martin Peebles (1822–1922) was an American Spiritualist, physician, editor, and world-traveling lecturer known as "the Spiritual Pilgrim," a prolific author and reformer who circled the globe five times and lived nearly a century.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_Peebles
Referenced in: Philergos
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.
Chasing Emma: Explaining Belief: The Significance of Joseph Jastrow
Peithmann, E.C.H.
To be added.
Referenced in: Christliche Theosophie | Mitteilungen des Neuen Gral-Ordens | Ostara | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus | Zum Licht
Peithmann, Ernst Christian Heinrich
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) E. C. H. Peithmann (1865–1943) was a German Gnostic bishop and occultist who led a neo-Gnostic ("Gnostic Catholic") church and influenced the Ordo Templi Orientis milieu. (Also "Peithmann, E.C.H.")
Referenced in: The Prophet
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."
Referenced in: Catalogue du Salon de la Rose+Croix
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9phin_P%C3%A9ladan
Referenced in: Catalogue du Salon de la Rose+Croix | Journal du Magnetisme [Durville] | Kosmicke Rozhledy | L'Etoile D'Orient | L'Initiation | La Rose Croix
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.
Chasing Emma: Opening The FBI's Vault
Referenced in: American Occultist | The Beacon Light | Bright Horizons | The Divine Life | The Equitist | Fortean Society Magazine | The Galilean | The Glass Hive | Immortality (New York) | The Inner Life (Akron) | Intelligence (Blue Lamoo) | Lemurian Ambassador | Liberation | Mind Inc. | The New Liberator | The Philosopher's Stone | Purdy's Monthly | Reality [Pelley] | Rosicrucian Forum | The San Juan Record | Valor (Pelley) | Voice of the I AM | Weekly Studies in Soulcraft
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.
Chasing Emma: Send Stamp To Neptune: May 31; 1886
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.
Referenced in: Freedom | Independent Thinker | Neue Gedanken
Penzig, Ottone
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Otto (Ottone) Penzig (1856–1929) was a German-Italian botanist and a leader of the Theosophical Society in Italy.
Referenced in: L'Affranchi
Pepys, Samuel
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.90) English diarist (1633–1703), cited here for his 1667 diary entry on nocturnal knocking.
Chasing Emma: She Said Yes And Was Afeard: November 29; 1667
Percival, H.W.
See Percival, Harold W., below
Referenced in: The Beacon (Bailey) | The Word (Percival)
Percival, Harold W.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) was an American Theosophist who, claiming a state of "conscious immortality," wrote the vast metaphysical treatise Thinking and Destiny and founded the Word Foundation.
Referenced in: The Word (Percival)
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."
Referenced in: The Theosophical Ray
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.
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett) | Voile D'Isis - Etudes Traditionnelles
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.
Referenced in: Brahmavadin
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.
Referenced in: The Medium [Los Angeles]
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.
Referenced in: Progress (Chicago)
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.
Referenced in: Zalmoxis
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).
Referenced in: La Verite (Lyon) | Progres Spiritualiste
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.
Referenced in: Our Home Rights
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.
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds for 1889
Referenced in: The Buddhist Ray | Theosophical Siftings | The World's Advance Thought
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.
Referenced in: Almanach de la Chance | Psyche [Beaudelot] | Voile d'Isis
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 Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor and its "Hermetic Brotherhood of Light."
Chasing Emma: A Note from the Secretary: July 1887
Chasing Emma: Herr Bungalow: The Mystery of Nancy McKay Gordon
Referenced in: The Hermetist | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | The Path | Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Atlantis, Luxor and Elephanta | The Progressive Thinker | The Swastika | The World's Advance Thought
Phifer, Charles Lincoln
To be added.
Referenced in: Aquarian New Age | Conable's Path-Finder | The New World
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).
Referenced in: La Verite (Lyon)
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.
Referenced in: Archiv fur Freimaurer und Rosenkreuzer
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.
Referenced in: Voice of the Magi
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."
Referenced in: Intelligence (Blue Lamoo)
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).
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.
Referenced in: Revue Spiritualiste
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.
Referenced in: Annals of Phrenology
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Pike
Referenced in: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Memoires d'une Ex-Palladiste | The Phoenix (Hall)
Pillsbury, Parker
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Parker Pillsbury (1809–1898) was an American abolitionist, women's-rights advocate, and free-religion reformer.
Chasing Emma: May 1869: The Small World of Spiritualism
Referenced in: Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
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
Pinkham, Charles
To be added.
Referenced in: New Bible (Pinkham)
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."
Referenced in: Cruz del Sur | L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique
Piper, Leonora
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.90) American trance medium of Boston (1857–1950), the central subject of Society for Psychical Research cross-correspondence studies; the blog treats her 1901 ‘confession.’
Chasing Emma: Happy Thanksgiving from Mrs. Piper
Chasing Emma: My Agreement with Imperator: Mrs. Piper's 1901 "Confession"
Pisa, Attilio
To be added.
Referenced in: Senda
Pitman, F.
To be added.
Referenced in: The British Spiritual Telegraph | The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
Pitzer, George C.
To be added.
Referenced in: Modern Miracles | Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews
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."
Referenced in: Interstellar Communication
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.
Referenced in: Almanach Prophetique
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.
Referenced in: Spectro-Chrome
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."
Referenced in: Lemurian Ambassador | Modern Astrology (Rose Dawn)
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.
Referenced in: Shrine of Wisdom
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.
Referenced in: Arohn | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | Mercury | The Philosopher's Stone | The Rosicrucian Brotherhood
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.
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
Referenced in: Mind Cure and Science of Life
Podmore, Frank
Frank Podmore (1856–1910) was an English psychical researcher and author, a founding member of both the Fabian Society and the Society for Psychical Research. His histories — notably Modern Spiritualism (1902) — combined deep knowledge with an increasingly skeptical, naturalistic verdict.
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
Referenced in: The Community's Journal | The Medium and Daybreak | The Psychological Review
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."
Referenced in: Hague's Horoscope | The Spiritual Herald
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.
Referenced in: L'Initiation
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.
Referenced in: Modern Mystic
Polen, Van
To be added.
Referenced in: The Bridge to Freedom | Mentor (Myneta and Taylor) | Ruby Focus
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.
Referenced in: The Psychical 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.
Referenced in: The Harbinger of Dawn
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.
Referenced in: Light and Life | The Supernatural Magazine
Porter, Harriet
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) A ‘Mrs. Porter’ advancing a rival Pacific prophecy in the blog’s account.
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.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Spiritual Universe
Postel, Albert H.
To be added.
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
Referenced in: American Rosae Crucis | The Future Home Journal | Modern Miracles
Potter, Clifford William
To be added.
Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke) | Survival (Uk)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Haute Science
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.
Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke)
Powell, J.H.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Crude in Conception; and Defective in Execution: Some Notes on J. H. Powell (1830-1872)
Referenced in: The Spiritual Monthly and Lyceum Record | Spiritual Rostrum
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.
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 Ramakrishna Order who founded the Vedanta Society of Southern California and, with Christopher Isherwood, translated Hindu scriptures.
Referenced in: Vedanta and the West
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.
Referenced in: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | Oriental Esoteric Society Bulletin
Prather, Elmer S.
To be added.
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
Referenced in: American Rosae Crucis | Modern Miracles | Twentieth Century Astrology | The Future Home Journal | Suggestion
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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: The Seer (Orson Pratt -- LDS)
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 National Laboratory of Psychical Research in London in 1926 and later the University of London Council for Psychical Investigation. While he claimed to debunk fraudulent phenomena, his own methods and honesty were themselves the subject of controversy after his death.
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.
Referenced in: 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)
Priessnitz
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Vincenz Priessnitz (1799–1851) was a Silesian farmer who founded the modern "water cure" (hydrotherapy) at Gräfenberg.
Referenced in: Macrocosmo (Barcelona)
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.
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.
Referenced in: Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research
Printz, Thomas
A pseudonym for Innocente, Geraldine, above.
Referenced in: The Bridge to Freedom | Hope (Bridge to Freedom) | Thomas Printz' Private Bulletin (Bridge to Freedom Activity)
Probst-Biraben, J.H.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Summit Lighthouse and the Church Universal and Triumphant.
Referenced in: The Bridge to Freedom
Prophet, Mark L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Mark L. Prophet (1918–1973) founded the Summit Lighthouse in 1958, an Ascended-Master movement in the "I AM" lineage, later led by his wife Elizabeth Clare Prophet.
Referenced in: The Bridge to Freedom | Mentor (Myneta and Taylor)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: L'Astrosophie | The Seer | Theosophy | Universal Brotherhood
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: Psychic Observer
Pullen-Burry, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Henry Pullen-Burry was an English Theosophist and member of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor who wrote on occult qualities and correspondences.
Referenced in: Azoth
Purucker, Gottfried De
To be added.
Referenced in: The Channel | Fraternization News | Theosophia | The Theosophical Forum | World Theosophy
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.
Chasing Emma: The Reading Of Souls; And Spirit Chemists: Miss Emma Hardinge; Trance Lecture; May 15; 1858
Referenced in: 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).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Progressive Thinker
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."
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Parkhurst_Quimby
Chasing Emma: New (Magnetic) Thought: 1842; 1854; 1855
Referenced in: Mind Cure and Science of Life
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Dee; F.R. and Sis: Looking for Charlotte Elizabeth Dresser (1845 - 1930?)
Ragaz, J. Heinrich
To be added.
Referenced in: Weltraumbote
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.
Referenced in: Cahiers Astrologiques
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.
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett)
Rajagopal, D.
To be added.
Referenced in: Bulletin Internationale de L'Etoile | Herald of the Star | International Star Bulletin | La Estrella (Madrid)
Raleigh, A.S.
To be added.
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
Referenced in: Sesamums | The Temple Artisan
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.
Referenced in: Astrological Magazine (India)
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.
Referenced in: Saucerian
Randolph, P.B.
(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.
Referenced in: 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
Randolph, Paschal Beverly
Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825–1875) was an African-American physician, Spiritualist trance medium, and occultist who founded the earliest American Rosicrucian order (the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis) and introduced sexual magic ("erotic alchemy") to the West, decisively shaping later occultism.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschal_Beverly_Randolph
Chasing Emma: The Delanco; New Jersey Nexus
Chasing Emma: Skepticism as a Trope
Chasing Emma: Sage Words From Paschal Beverly Randolph
Chasing Emma: Spirits of the Trade; Part Deux: Materialization
Referenced in: The Alpha | Clothed With The Sun | The Journal of Progress
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
To be added.
Referenced in: The Sphinx (Boston)
Rawson, A.L.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: How Marsupial Animals Propagate Their Kind
Referenced in: Freethinkers Magazine
Rawson, Albert Leighton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Albert Leighton Rawson (1828–1902) was an American traveler, orientalist, and Freemason who claimed acquaintance with Blavatsky in Cairo and helped found several fraternal orders. (Also "Rawson, A.L.")
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: International Psychic Gazette
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.
Chasing Emma: Degenerate Angels and Elevated Apes: 1872
Rebik, Jan
To be added.
Referenced in: Herold (Prague)
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.
Referenced in: Journal of the Alchemical Society | The Kalpaka | The Metaphysical Magazine | The Occult Review
Redman, George Alexander
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) American medium (1835–1861), the subject of a short biographical snippet.
Chasing Emma: George Alexander Redman: 1835-1861
Redonnel, Paul
To be added.
Referenced in: Voile d'Isis
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.
Referenced in: Progress (Chicago)
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 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
To be added.
Referenced in: Spiritual Notes
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.
Referenced in: Thy Kingdom Come
Reuss, Theodor
Theodor Reuss (1855-1923) was a German occultist best known as the head of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) who recruited Aleister Crowley into the order and subsequently installed him as its outer head. A many-sided and mysterious figure, Reuss was variously a journalist, police spy, opera singer, and occultist. He assembled the OTO from a variety of Masonic and Rosicrucian sources and claimed that its inner teachings contained the secret of sexual magic. He also worked with anarchist circles in London in the 1890s.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/reuss-theodor-1855-1023
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Metapsychische Forschung
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.
Referenced in: Annales Initiatiques
Revel, Gaston
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Aquarian Age | Reality
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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Symbolisme
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Banks_Rhine
Referenced in: Journal of Parapsychology | Mind Digest | Neue Wissenschaft | Tomorrow (Garrett)
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.
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
Referenced in: Journal of Parapsychology
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.
Referenced in: Stendek
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Arya
Richardson, John E.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) John E. Richardson ("TK") was the American founder of the "Great School of Natural Science" and author of the Harmonic Series of occult instruction.
Chasing Emma: The Shepherdess of Paradise: Chicago; 1922
Chasing Emma: The Disease Designated Subjective Insanity: J. E. Richardson and the Edgemoor Sanitarium
Referenced in: Christliche Theosophie | East and West | The Great Work in America | Life and Action | The Lindlahr Magazine | Mitteilungen des Gral-Ordens | Mitteilungen des Neuen Gral-Ordens | The New Man | The Progressive Thinker | To You | The Whisper
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).
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Richet
Referenced in: Annales des Sciences Psychiques | The Annals of Psychical Science | Neos Pithagoras | Revista de Estudios Psiquicos (Chile) | Voprosy Psikhizma
Richmond, Cora L.V.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Cora L. V. Richmond (1840–1923), the celebrated American Spiritualist trance lecturer (née Scott), a founder of the National Spiritualist Association. (Also appears under "Hatch" and "Richmond, Cora Linn Victoria.")
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
Referenced in: The Golden Way | Immortality | Mind Cure and Science of Life | Planets and People | Psychic Observer | The Spiritual Offering
Richmond, Cora Linn Victoria
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Cora Linn Victoria Richmond (1840–1923), the American trance-lecturing medium; same person as the "Richmond, Cora L.V." entry.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Taking the Kingdom By Violence: David Richmond; January 1855
Richmond, G. Ray
To be added.
Referenced in: Wisdom of the Spirit
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.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Olney H. Richmond's Order of the Magi
Referenced in: Planets and People | Star of the Magi
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.
Referenced in: The Business Philosopher | The Character Builder
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.
Referenced in: The Arena
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Dawning Light
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.
Referenced in: Neue Wissenschaft
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.
Referenced in: The Harbinger
Rita, Alfred
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Materialization medium (1849–1922), full name Alfred Richard Rita, discussed among the ‘Great Materializers.’
Chasing Emma: The Genuineness of Those Who Claim To Be Mediums: Some Notes on Alfred Rita (1849-1922)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Revue Mensuelle Diable aux XIX Siecle
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.
Referenced in: Hague's Horoscope | Roback's Astrological Almanac
Roberts, Evan
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Evan Roberts (1878–1951) was the young leader of the great Welsh Revival of 1904–05.
Referenced in: Au-Dela [Brussels]
Roberts, J.M.
To be added.
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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Exploring the Unknown
Robertson, James
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Glasgow Spiritualist and author of the ‘Noble Pioneer’ essay on Emma Hardinge Britten.
Chasing Emma: December 1891: James Robertson Begins Digging In
Chasing Emma: Updated Edition of Robertson's <I>Noble Pioneer</I>
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.
Referenced in: Advanced Thought and Divine Science
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_B._Robinson
Referenced in: Fred Burry's Journal | Mind Inc. | Psychiana | Sanctuary (Syracuse)
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.
Referenced in: British Journal of Astrology
Roca, Abbe Paul
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.")
Referenced in: 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.")
Referenced in: Alliance Spiritualiste | Diable Au XIXe Siecle | Filosofia della Scienza | Le Spirite (Lyon) | Luce e Ombra | Paix Universelle | Revue du Monde Invisible
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.
Referenced in: Le Reveil des Albigeois
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.
Referenced in: Human Culture | Mystic World
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.
Referenced in: American Phrenological Journal | National Astrological Journal
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 London Spiritualist Alliance and of Light.
Chasing Emma: Letters By Occult Agency: William Eglinton; Susan W. Fletcher and E. Dawson Rogers
Referenced in: Light
Rogers, Frances
To be added.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society in America (1920–31).
Referenced in: Ancient Wisdom | The Column | Modern Miracles | Theosophic Messenger
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.
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship)
Rolleston, Frances
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.75) English scholar (1781–1864), author of Mazzaroth; the blog recovers her life and poems.
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.
Chasing Emma: The (Occult) Science of Spam: October 1930
Chasing Emma: Francis Rolt-Wheeler: 1876-1960
Referenced in: 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.’
Chasing Emma: Romanes-Blake-Darwin
Romero, Israel Rojas
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Forecast
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Ultra (Rome)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: L'Initiation
Rovira, Math. N.
To be added.
Referenced in: Revista Universal Magnetismo Experimental y Terapeutico
Roviralta, Jose
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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").
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Logos (Chicago)
Royo, Antonia Martinez
To be added.
Referenced in: 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).
Referenced in: American Astrology | Loto Blanco | Tomorrow (Garrett)
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
Rumball, James Quilter
To be added.
Referenced in: The Anti-Mesmerist
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Channel | The Star | Theosophic Messenger
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∴" (Great Brotherhood of God).
Referenced in: Mystic World
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.
Referenced in: The Irish Theosophist
Russo, Edoardo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Edoardo Russo was an Italian psychical researcher and contributor to the review Luce e Ombra.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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).
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
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.
Referenced in: The Great Work in America | Mind Digest | Orion Magazine | The Whisper
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.
Referenced in: Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews
Saint-Germain, Comte C. de
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Comte C. de Saint-Germain" was the name under which an early-twentieth-century American author published popular manuals of palmistry and fortune-telling.
Referenced in: The Phoenix (Hall) | Planets and People | Vrijmetselarij
Saint-Marcq, Georges Le Clement de
To be added.
Referenced in: Bulletin Spirite de Liege | Le Messager | Lumen | Paix Universelle | Your Personality
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.
Referenced in: Almanach du Magiste | La Verite (Lyon)
Salm-Salm, Felix
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Prince Felix Salm-Salm, soldier-adventurer, raised as a possible Ghost Land connection.
Chasing Emma: Felix Constantin Alexander Johann Nepomuk; Prince Salm-Salm
Samadhi, Delta
To be added.
Referenced in: Spiritualist Monthly
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Graphologie | Una | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Sandby, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) English clergyman cited for his letter to John Elliotson on table-turning.
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)
Sanders, Elsie
To be added.
Referenced in: Ariel (Colombia)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: L'Etoile D'Orient
Saradananda, Swami
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Swami Saradananda (1865–1927) was a direct disciple of Ramakrishna, general secretary of the Ramakrishna Mission and author of Sri Ramakrishna, the Great Master. (Also "Sardananda, Swami.")
Referenced in: Immortality
Sarak, Alberto de
To be added.
Referenced in: Constancia | El Sol [Lima] | Faro Oriental | La Cruz Astral | Luz Astral (Chile) | Teosofia en el Plata | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires)
Saraswati, Sivananda
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Swami Sivananda Saraswati (1887–1963) was an Indian physician turned monk who founded the Divine Life Society and the Sivananda tradition of Yoga-Vedanta.
Referenced in: Divine Life (Rikhikesh)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: October 1877: The Terms Commonly Accepted By Spiritualists
Referenced in: The Banner of Light | The Psychological Review
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."
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Saxon, M.M.
To be added.
Referenced in: All-Seeing Eye
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Universal Truth
Schlesinger, Julia
To be added.
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
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: El Sendero (Teziotlan)
Schrenck-Notzig, Albert von
(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.
Referenced in: Annales des Sciences Psychiques
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.
Referenced in: American Journal of Eugenics | Azoth | Soundview
Schroeder, Werner
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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).
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frithjof_Schuon
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Cruz del Sur | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | Psyche [Beaudelot]
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Metaphysician (Palatine) | Modern Mystic | Mothers' Occult Digest
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
Referenced in: The Millenial Messenger
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Entretiens Idealistes
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, Edith
To be added.
Referenced in: Mercury (SFO)
Sears, Julia Seton
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Julia Seton (Sears, 1862–1950) was an American physician and New Thought leader who founded the "New Civilization" church and movement. (Also "Seaton, Julia" / "Sears, Julia Seaton.")
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Never Sick; Poor; nor Unsuccessful -- Mento-Psychology; 1906
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Seton --> Kapp --> Sears -----> Severn
Referenced in: The Balance
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.
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: 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 "American Institute of Mentalism" in Los Angeles around 1900. (Also "Segno, Annie Dell.")
Chasing Emma: Out of Nowhere: Some Notes on A. Victor Segno (1870 - 1933)
Chasing Emma: A Lesson in Soul-Culture: 1903
Referenced in: 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)
Referenced in: Attainment
Seiling, Max
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Max Seiling (1852–1928) was a German engineer and writer on Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and Spiritualism.
Referenced in: 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, D.P.
To be added.
Referenced in: Eon (Athens) | Force de la Verite
Semelas, Demetrius Platon
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Demetrius Platon Semelas (1883–1955) was a Greek occultist and healer, a co-founder of the F.U.D.O.S.I. federation of initiatic orders. (Also "Semelas, D.P.")
Referenced in: Eon | Force de la Verite
Semenoff, Marc
To be added.
Referenced in: Ideal et Realite | L'Astrosophie | Mouvement Cosmique | The Seer
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Catalogue du Salon de la Rose+Croix
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Severn, J. Millott
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: 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."
Referenced in: L'Astrosophie
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.
Referenced in: The New Liberator
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."
Referenced in: Tomorrow (Garrett)
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).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: New Ideas (Comprehensionism)
Sheerin, Robert
To be added.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: The Business Philosopher
Sheldon, May French
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) American author and explorer, named in an insurance-related aside.
Chasing Emma: E&O Insurance: Elizabeth J. French; May French Sheldon and Monisa A. French
Shelhamer, Mary Theresa
To be added.
Referenced in: The Light of Truth | Voice of Angels
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Collisions: Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie; Jesse Shepard; and Transfacial Mediumship
Referenced in: Die Ubersinnliche Welt | Iris de Paz (Huesca)
Shepard, Olivia Freelove
To be added.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society in New York.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis)
Shine, Mabel Gifford
To be added.
Referenced in: The Ideal Review | Mastery | Neue Gedanken | Psychic Digest and Occult Review of Reviews
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.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Two Other Blessed Words
Referenced in: 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."
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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Neugeist
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.’
Chasing Emma: The Daughter of a Lady: Some Notes on Mary Rosina Showers (1857-?)
Chasing Emma: Til To-Morrow to Pay: January 1895
Shuddemagen, Conrad
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Gnosis (Vienna)
Silva, Agusto Elias da
To be added.
Referenced in: Espiritualismo Experimental | Reformador (Rio de Janeiro)
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, W.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.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Three: A Note on John Story (1848-1907)
Referenced in: Quarterly Celestial Philosopher
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society.
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
Referenced in: Broad Views | Camp-Meeting Guide | La Verdad (Theosophical) (Buenos Aires) | Loto Blanco | Revue des Hautes Etudes | The Theosophical Review | Theosophical Siftings | Ultra (Rome) | The Unknown World
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.
Referenced in: Broad Views
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.
Referenced in: Ancient Skies | Saucers Space and Science
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.
Referenced in: American Phrenological Journal | Practical Phrenologist (New York)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
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
Referenced in: Daybreak | Facts | Psychic Studies
Slade, S.C.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Sending Slade to Russia: June 1876
Referenced in: 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
Sleeper, Eunice
To be added.
Referenced in: Spirit Mothers and Astraea
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.
Referenced in: Watchman
Slocum, W.N.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Banner of Progress | The Golden Gate | The Philomathean [Chaney]
Smee, Alfred
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) English surgeon and electro-biologist (d. 1878) cited on electro-biology (1845).
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.
To be added.
Referenced in: The New Man
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, Gerald K.
To be added.
Referenced in: Purdy's Monthly
Smith, James Elishama
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.70) ‘Shepherd’ James Elishama Smith, editor of the Family Herald and author of The Divine Drama; a pre-Hayden English figure.
Chasing Emma: The Highest Degree of Unexpectedness: Augustus de Morgan on James E. Smith; James E. Smith on the Occult
Chasing Emma: The Family Herald: Spiritualism in England Before Mrs. Hayden
Chasing Emma: He Calls His Machine Psychometer: The Germans at Work; 1837
Smith, Jr. Gerald
To be added.
Referenced in: Shaver Mystery Club Letterzine
Smith, Laura Cuppy
To be added.
Referenced in: 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, Robert Cross
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Robert Cross Smith (1795–1832) was the first "Raphael," the English astrologer who founded Raphael's Almanac and revived popular astrology in the nineteenth century.
Chasing Emma: To Burst Asunder The Bonds of Natural Order
Chasing Emma: Six (or Seven) Raphaels; Three Zadkiels: Some Astrological Bait
Referenced in: The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century | The Horoscope (Zadkiel) | Spirit of Partridge | The Straggling Astrologer | Urania (Aldersgate)
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.
Referenced in: Signs of the Times
Smyth, Charles Piazzi
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819–1900), Astronomer Royal for Scotland, was the leading Victorian "pyramidologist," whose measurements of the Great Pyramid fed a vast occult-metrological literature. (Also "Smith, C. Piazzi.")
Referenced in: The International Standard
Smythe, Albert E.S.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Albert E. S. Smythe (1861–1947) was an Irish-Canadian Theosophist, founder of the Theosophical Society in Canada and editor of The Canadian Theosophist.
Referenced in: Canadian Theosophist | The Lamp | Theosophic Messenger | Theosophy
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)
Referenced in: The Spiritual Clarion
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.
Referenced in: Bahai News | Star of the West (Bahai)
Soler, Amalia Domingo
To be added.
Referenced in: Constancia | El Buen Sentido | Iris de Paz (Huesca) | La Revelacion (Alicante) | Luz del Porvenir | Luz y Union (Barcelona)
Sorondo, Alejandro
To be added.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society in New York.
Chasing Emma: Market Engineering
Chasing Emma: The Theosophical Blackboard: The Daily Graphic's Campaign Against The Theosophical Society
Referenced in: New York Echo | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Sothern, E. A.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) English-American comic actor named with Benjamin Coleman in the blog.
Chasing Emma: Emma; Benjamin Coleman; and E. A. Sothern
Southwell, Charles
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Owenite freethinker who rendered Dupuis into English (c. 1850).
Chasing Emma: Southwell's Dupuis: Circa 1850
Souza, Henrique Jose
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: American Occultist | Comforter | Voice of the I AM
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Be Not Weary In Well Doing: The University of Pittsburgh's Sheldon Papers Collection
Referenced in: The Agitator | Common Sense | Dawn (1872) | Illustracion Espirita (Mexico) | The Medium and Daybreak | The Spirit World (Hayden)
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.
Referenced in: Atlantis Quarterly | Beyond
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, A.H.
To be added.
Referenced in: Theosophical Quarterly
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.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: The Spirit World (Hayden)
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.
Referenced in: The World Liberator
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.
Referenced in: Annals of Phrenology | The Dream Interpreter and Oneirocritica (Investigator)
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.
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
Stannard, Mrs. J.
To be added.
Referenced in: Transactions of the Vril-Ya Club
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.
Chasing Emma: EHB and Susan B (Anthony): December 1866
Referenced in: The Alpha | Freethinkers Magazine | Mind | The Open Court | Una
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.
Referenced in: La Vie Mysterieuse | The Sphinx (Boston)
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._T._Stead
Referenced in: La Idea (Buenos Aires) | The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story)
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.
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.
Referenced in: 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.
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.
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.
Chasing Emma: We Do These Things So And So: October 1885
Referenced in: The Index | The Psychical Review | The Spiritual Republic
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."
Referenced in: Beyond Reality | New Atlantean Journal | Probe the Unknown
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 Hermetic Society and Golden Dawn and translator of alchemical and Hermetic texts.
Referenced in: 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 Theosophical Society from 1902, he broke with Annie Besant and the Theosophists in 1912-13 to establish the Anthroposophical Society. His comprehensive spiritual science addressed education (Waldorf schools), agriculture (biodynamics), medicine (anthroposophic medicine), architecture, and the arts. His major esoteric works include Theosophy (1904), Knowledge of the Higher Worlds (1904), and Occult Science: An Outline (1910).
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner
Chasing Emma: Bound in Cloth: Rudolf Steiner; 1909
Referenced in: Anthroposophie (Utrecht) | Cruz del Sur | Drieledige Indeeling (Utrecht) | Echoes from Mount Ecclesia | Gnosis (Vienna) | Mensch en Cosmos | Mercury | Mitteilungen des Gral-Ordens | Modern Mystic | New York Echo | The Occult Digest | Prana (Leipzig) | Rays from the Rose Cross | Rosa-Cruz
Stephenson, Roslyn D'Onston
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) British occultist and journalist, ‘Roslyn D’Onston,’ who wrote for the Pall Mall Gazette.
Chasing Emma: What Is Called Superstition Is Still Rife: William Stainton Moses on the Whitechapel Murders; December 1888
Sternhain, L. Fr. von
To be added.
Referenced in: Hermes (Karlsruhe)
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.’
Chasing Emma: Occult History; with Pie Charts: 1907
Stevens, G. Davenport
To be added.
Referenced in: Spirit Voices
Stewart, Anna
To be added.
Referenced in: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis) | Gallery of Spirit Art | Psychometric Circular
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
Stewart, Jean
To be added.
Referenced in: Occult Research Gladiator
Stobart, Mrs. St. Clair
To be added.
Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke) | Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research
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.
Referenced in: The Center | Eclectic Medical Journal | Life Culture | Occult Truths | Soundview | Wings of Truth
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.
Referenced in: The Occult Review
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
Storer, H.B.
To be added.
Referenced in: Foundation Principles | Spiritual Rostrum
Story, John
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Three: A Note on John Story (1848-1907)
Referenced in: 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
Stowell, C.C.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Better Way | The Light of Truth
Street, John Commodore
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) J. C. F. Grumbine? — no; John Commodore Street was an American member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's American temple, author of The Hidden Way Across the Threshold.
Referenced in: 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
Referenced in: The Sword of Truth
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.
Referenced in: Caveat Emptor
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Mind Digest
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.
Referenced in: The Buddhist Ray
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.
Referenced in: The Occult Review
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.
Chasing Emma: Magnetism and Psychology: 1842
Referenced in: Common Sense | The Dissector | Herald of Truth [Cincinnati] | The Magnet | The Phreno-Magnet | Spiritual Philosopher (Etincelle) | The Spiritual Republic
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.
Referenced in: Theosophic Gleaner
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._T._Suzuki
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (Erlestoke) | Psychic News
Swarts, Andrew J.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Frank Podmore; Christian Scientist
Sweet, Elizabeth
To be added.
Referenced in: 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
Swift, Jonathan
To be added.
Referenced in: Spirit of Partridge
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.
Referenced in: 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
T.K.
To be added.
Referenced in: Mitteilungen des Gral-Ordens
Tafe, Maina L.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) An obscure figure appearing in the corpus; identity uncertain (flagged for review).
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship) | Rincarnazione | Union Espiritualista Americana
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.
Referenced in: Calendrier Magique
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: The Men of the SDSK
Chasing Emma: All Religious Organizations Must Eventually Become Partial: August 1854
Tangley, N.
To be added.
Referenced in: TNT
Tanguay, Blanche
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Named in an 1892 mammoth-pictorial-circular item.
Chasing Emma: 1892: Mammoth Pictorial Circulars
Tarbell, Daniel
To be added.
Referenced in: The World's Paper
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.’
Chasing Emma: A Roadside Shrine for Evatima Tardo (1871-1905)
Tarkington, Booth
To be added.
Referenced in: Fortean Society Magazine
Tassel, George Van
(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.
Referenced in: Clarion Call
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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, Perry
To be added.
Referenced in: Daily Meditation
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Bridge to Freedom | Golden Dawn (Wayne Taylor) | Mentor (Myneta and Taylor) | Solograph
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Teed
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Doctor Factories
Referenced in: The Flaming Sword | The Guiding Star | Mind Cure and Science of Life | The Morning Star | Plowshare and Pruning Hook
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.
Referenced in: Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie
Tennyson, Frederick
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.65) English poet (1807–1898), elder brother of Alfred Tennyson and a committed Spiritualist.
Chasing Emma: Frederick Tennyson; Spiritualist
Tephi, Tea
To be added.
Referenced in: Our Race
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.
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: The Glowworm | The Harbinger of Light | The Psychological Review
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: The Two Worlds For 1888
Thacker, Sarah
To be added.
Referenced in: The New Man
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.
Referenced in: Voile d'Isis
Themanlys, Louis Moise
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Louis-Moïse Themanlys (1874–1943) was a French writer and leader of the "Mouvement Cosmique" founded by Max Théon, and editor of its review. (Also "Themanlys, L.M." and "Themanlys, Paschal.")
Referenced in: Art, Science et Peuple | Ideal et Realite | Mouvement Cosmique | Revue Cosmique
Theobald, F.J.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Third Time's The Charm: The London Spiritualist Alliance; March 1884
Referenced in: 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.’
Chasing Emma: At-Homes: What Gives?
Chasing Emma: Third Time's The Charm: The London Spiritualist Alliance; March 1884
Theodolinda
To be added.
Referenced in: Official Theomonistic Record
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 Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor.
Referenced in: 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
Thomas, Alexandre-Alberic
To be added.
Referenced in: Bibliotheque des Sciences Esoteriques | Bulletin de la Societe D'Etudes Psychiques de Nancy
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
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Illumination
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, Matthew McBane
To be added.
Referenced in: Initiates
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.
Referenced in: The Channel
Thomson, Matthew McBain
To be added.
Chasing Emma: 1854-1859: Philander Doesticks and the Witches of New York
Referenced in: Annales Initiatiques | Universal Free Mason
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
Thorndyke, E. Pauline
To be added.
Referenced in: Spirit Mothers and Astraea
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, Clark
To be added.
Referenced in: The Century Path
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."
Referenced in: The Spiritual Times
Tietkens, Ernest Augustus
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) Singer, cricketer and clerk (1838–1916), a ‘Standard Spiritualist’ profiled by the blog.
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
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 Theosophical Society in America and founded the Universal Brotherhood organisation. She established the School for the Revival of the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity at Point Loma and ran the Point Loma community as both a Theosophical centre and progressive school until her death from injuries sustained in a car accident.
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
Referenced in: 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
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.
Referenced in: Neue Wissenschaft | Zeitschrift fur Kritischen Okkultismus
Todd, Benjamin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Benjamin Todd was a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist and reform lecturer active on the Pacific Coast.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Manchester; December 5th; 1897
Chasing Emma: December 5; 1897: EHB to Thomas Olman Todd
Togores, Francisco Montoliu y de
To be added.
Referenced in: Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona) | Sophia (Spain)
Tolstoi, Leo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), the Russian novelist whose radical Christian-anarchist and non-resistance teaching influenced many reform and spiritual movements. See also the "Tolstoy" entry.
Referenced in: 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.’
Chasing Emma: A Sharp Stroke Of Psychical Diplomacy: April 1894
Toohey, John H.W.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Phrenological Era
Torres-Solanot, Antonio
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Viscount Antonio Torres-Solanot (1840–1902) was a Spanish aristocrat and one of the leading organizers and propagandists of Spiritism in Spain.
Referenced in: El Criterio Espiritista | El Espiritista (Madrid) | Revista de Estudios Psicologicos | Revue Spirite
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: Coincidence
Towne, E.C.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Friend of Progress
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.
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)
Referenced in: Advanced Thought (Chicago) | Nautilus | Neue Gedanken | New Thought (Chicago) | New York Magazine of Mysteries | The Radiant Centre | Sunna Dagor Message
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.
Referenced in: 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.
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.
Referenced in: Vedanta and the West
Traenker, Heinrich
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Heinrich Tränker (1880–1956) was a German bookseller, Rosicrucian, and O.T.O. leader who hosted the 1925 Weida Conference that split over Aleister Crowley. (Also "Tranker, Heinrich.")
Referenced in: F. U. D. O. S. I.
Trall, Russell T.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Russell Thacher Trall (1812–1877) was an American physician, a leading systematizer of hydropathy (the "water cure") and vegetarian hygiene. (Also "Trail, Russell T.")
Referenced in: Herald of Health (M. L. Holbrook) | Laws of Health (Robert Walters) (Reading) | The Water-Cure Journal
Tranker, Heinrich
To be added.
Referenced in: Pansophic Intellectualizer | Pansophja | Saturn Gnosis
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.
Referenced in: Flying Saucer Review | New Atlantean Journal
Trincado, Joaquin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Joaquín Trincado Mateo (1866–1935) was the Spanish-Argentine founder of the "Magnetic-Spiritual School of the Universal Commune," a widely spread Spiritist movement in Latin America. (See also the "Mateo, Joaquin Trincado" entry.)
Referenced in: El Heraldo de Ultratumba | Universo [Maracaibo]
Trincado, Maestro Fundador Joaquin
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Joaquín Trincado (1866–1935), "founding master" of the Magnetic-Spiritual School of the Universal Commune; same person as the "Trincado, Joaquin" entry.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | Vision | Zum Licht
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.
Referenced in: Licht en Waarheid
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Troward
Chasing Emma: How To Get What You Want: Some Notes on Genevieve Behrend (1864?-1950)
Referenced in: Day (New York)
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.
Referenced in: Cosmon (Crf)
Truesdell, John Wheeler
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) American author (1836–1915) of The Bottom Facts Concerning the Science of Spiritualism.
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
To be added.
Referenced in: The Williamsburgh Spiritualist
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.
Referenced in: Ultra (Rome)
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.
Referenced in: Liberty | The Word (Princeton)
Tucker, Charles Alexander
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) A Victorian serial confidence-man treated in ‘A Singular Aspect of Plausibility.’
Chasing Emma: A Singular Aspect of Plausibility: The Trajectory of a Victorian Serial Con Artist
Tumber, Catherine
To be added.
Referenced in: The Problem of Life
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.
Referenced in: Aquarian Path
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."
Referenced in: The Glass Hive | Purdy's Monthly | The Stellar Ray
Turner, H.B.
To be added.
Referenced in: Journal and Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research
Turner, Henry G.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Author of an 1869 anti-Spiritualism paper in Melbourne.
Chasing Emma: Contra Spiritualism: Australia; 1869
Tutankamun
To be added.
Referenced in: Occidental Mystic and Occult
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/tuttle-hudson-1836-1910
Referenced in: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis) | The American Spiritualist | The Banner of Light | The Better Way | Chimes | The Golden Way | The Light of Truth | Little Bouquet | The Present Age | The Present Era | The Progressive Thinker | The Spiritual Republic | The Spiritual Telegraph | Texas Spiritualist | The Two Worlds (Dixon)
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Licht en Waarheid | Mind and Matter
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.
Referenced in: Theosophical Forum (Purucker)
Tyerman, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.60) Australian Free-Methodist-turned-Spiritualist (1838–1880), the blog’s exemplar case.
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).
Referenced in: Freethinkers Magazine
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.
Referenced in: The Arena | The Coming Light | Eltka | Expression | Free Man (Bangor) | The Humanitarian | The Humanitarian (Review) | International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings | Mastery | Mercury (SFO) | The Metaphysical Magazine | Mind | Neue Gedanken | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | The Psychological Review of Reviews | The Radiant Centre | The Temple | Weltmer's Magazine | Wings of Truth
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.
Referenced in: Archiv fur Freimaurer und Rosenkreuzer
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.
Chasing Emma: Launch Party: February 7; 1885
Referenced in: The Magnet
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.
Referenced in: The Open Court
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: International Journal of the Tantrick Order
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.
Referenced in: The Equitist
Vale, Gilbert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) American freethinker and author of an Elements of Astronomy, tied to astro-Masonic origins (1855).
Chasing Emma: Gilbert Vale and Emma Hardinge Britten
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
Valentine, A.V.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Spiritual Universe
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.
Referenced in: Anomaly | Clypeus | Lumieres Dans La Nuit | Magonia
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.
Referenced in: The Silent Partner
van Calcar, Elise
To be added.
Referenced in: Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden | Rozekruis (Plantenga) | Toekomistig Leven
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.
Referenced in: Reincarnation | Rincarnazione | Theosophic Messenger
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
To be added.
Referenced in: Annales Initiatiques | La Lumiere (Grange)
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).
Referenced in: Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
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.
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
Referenced in: The Spiritualist
Varley, Ellen Rouse
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Ellen Rouse, wife of Cromwell Fleetwood Varley; named with Marshall, Houghton and Slater.
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."
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
Referenced in: The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century | The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story) | The Straggling Astrologer | Urania (Aldersgate)
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
Varney, A.
To be added.
Referenced in: Echo de L'Au-dela et d'Ici-bas
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.
Referenced in: Veritable Almanach du Merveilleux
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.
Referenced in: Diable Au XIXe Siecle | La France Antimaconnique | Memoires d'une Ex-Palladiste
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).
Referenced in: Human Culture | Human Faculty
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, Adelma von
(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.")
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
Referenced in: L'Etoile | Op De Grenzen Van Twee Werelden | Psychische Studien | The Spiritualist
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.
Referenced in: The Buddhist Ray
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
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).
Referenced in: Fortean Society Magazine
Villa, Pancho
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Pancho Villa (1878–1923), the Mexican revolutionary general; cited here in a periodical context.
Referenced in: La Cruz Astral | National Astrological Journal
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.")
Referenced in: Annales Initiatiques
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 Parliament of Religions introduced Vedanta and Yoga to the West. He founded the Ramakrishna Math and Mission and wrote the classic yoga treatises.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda
Referenced in: Brahmavadin | Isis Moderne | The Master Mind | Pacific Vedantist | Star of the East (Seattle, Sydney) | Theosophischer Wegweiser
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.
Referenced in: Macrocosmo (Barcelona)
Vleck, William Van
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: A Short Life of Willam L. F. Van Vleck; Medium | Detective
Referenced in: The Spiritual Clarion
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.")
Referenced in: The Aberree
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.
Referenced in: Cahiers Astrologiques | L'Astrosophie | Revue Francaise d'Astrologie | The Seer
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.
Referenced in: Leaves of Healing
Vollrath, Hugo
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Hugo Vollrath (1877–1943) was a German Theosophist and publisher who founded the Theosophical Publishing House in Leipzig and issued astrological and occult journals.
Referenced in: Prana (Leipzig) | Theosophischer Wegweiser | Zentralblatt fur Okkultismus
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).
Referenced in: LotusBluten
von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Nees
To be added.
Referenced in: Archiv Fur Thiereschen Magnetismus (Den Halle)
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.
Referenced in: New York Echo
von Reichenbach, Karl
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.72) Baron Karl von Reichenbach, German chemist and proponent of the ‘odic force.’
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.
Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie
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.
Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Phrenologie
von Vay, Baroness Adelma
To be added.
Referenced in: Licht des Jenseits | Reflexionen aus der Geisterwelt
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.
Referenced in: Ideal et Realite
Vulliaud, Paul
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Paul Vulliaud (1875–1950) was a French painter and scholar of the Kabbalah and Christian esotericism.
Referenced in: Echo du Merveilleux | Entretiens Idealistes | Ignis | L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique | L'Initiation
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.")
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: The Seeker and the Serial Con: More on the Mystic Brotherhood
Referenced in: The Mystic Messenger
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").
Referenced in: Equinox
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 United Lodge of Theosophists and founded ULT lodges in India. (Also "Wadia, Bahman Pestonji.")
Referenced in: The Aryan Path | Faro Oriental | Theosophic Gleaner | Theosophical Movement
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.")
Referenced in: La Idea (Buenos Aires)
Wagner, Edward A.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Mountain Pine | The Platonist
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.
Chasing Emma: The White Leaves of History [4]: Fast Forward
Chasing Emma: Haven Of All The Cults: March 1905
Referenced in: Angel Drummer | The Better Way | The Carrier Dove | Clothed With The Sun | The Crucible | Dr. Foote's Health Monthly | Foundation Principles | The Gnostic | Irradiacion (Madrid) | Liberator (SFO) | Liberty | Lucifer the Lightbearer | National Transition Moonly Voice | The Present Age | Purdy's Monthly | Soundview | Spirit Mothers and Astraea | Spiritual Reporter | The Spiritual Republic | Texas Spiritualist | To-Morrow | Una | The Word (Princeton)
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 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, he later founded his own Independent and Rectified Rite. He is best known to the general public as co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot (1909), designed with artist Pamela Colman Smith, which became the most widely used tarot deck in the English-speaking world. His scholarly works include The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry (1921), and studies of Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, and mysticism.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._Waite
Chasing Emma: A Prominent and Peculiar Personality: A. E. Waite on James Burns
Referenced in: The Aryan Path | Horlick's Magazine | Memoires d'une Ex-Palladiste | The Occult Digest | The Occult Review | The Occult Word | The Quest | Shrine of Wisdom | Theosophical Siftings | The Unknown World
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.
Referenced in: The Metaphysical Magazine | Mind | The Open Court
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.
Referenced in: Lucifer the Lightbearer
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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace
Chasing Emma: A. R. Wallace; Emma and the Christian Right
Referenced in: Anthropological Review [LAS] | The Arena | Revista Universal Magnetismo Experimental y Terapeutico | The Spiritualist | The Zetetic
Wallace, C.L. Hunt
To be added.
Chasing Emma: They Cure Some Things: Notes on Chandos Leigh Hunt
Referenced in: Herald of Health (T. L. Nichols)
Wallis, E.W.
(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.")
Chasing Emma: E. W. Wallis; Quoting Emma
Chasing Emma: Spreading The Light
Chasing Emma: 24 April 1891: "We Have Not Half Conquered"
Referenced in: The Two Worlds
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.
Referenced in: Voice of the Magi
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.
Referenced in: Zeitschrift fur Metapsychische Forschung
Ward, Eber
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.55) ‘Eber B. Ward,’ American industrialist, the subject of an inheritance case in the blog.
Chasing Emma: The E. B. Ward Inheritance Case: October; 1875
Ward, Frederick R.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Metaphysician (Palatine)
Ware, Mary Christyne
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) Mary Christyne Ware was a twentieth-century American New Thought / metaphysical writer; details uncertain.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Nautilus
Warnack, Henry Christeen
To be added.
Referenced in: Broadcast | East and West | Occult Press Review
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.
Referenced in: Mothers' Occult Digest | Server (Krishnamurti) | Theosophic Messenger
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.
Referenced in: The Rising Sun
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.
Referenced in: The Quest
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The (American) Spiritual Magazine (Memphis)
Watson, Stewart Malcolm
To be added.
Chasing Emma: As a Means of Amusement: A Short Note on Prof. L. A. Harraden
Referenced in: 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.
Chasing Emma: You Can Catch Things From People Who Don't Belong To Your Church: The Death of Wallace D. Wattles (1860-1911)
Referenced in: 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.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The New World
Weatherhead, D.W.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.’
Chasing Emma: A Mahatma; At Home
Webb, A.R.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Buddhist Ray
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.")
Referenced in: 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.’
Chasing Emma: Reading James Webb
Webber, Charles Henry
To be added.
Referenced in: The Radix
Webster, N.B.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Marble Heart
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Beacon Light
Wedgwood, James Ingall
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) James Ingall Wedgwood (1883–1951) was an English Theosophist and Co-Mason who founded the Liberal Catholic Church and consecrated Leadbeater a bishop. (Also "Wedgewood, James.")
Referenced in: Australian Theosophist | The Channel
Weinholtz, August
To be added.
Referenced in: 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 Order of the Illuminati in 1776, a byword ever after for secret-society conspiracy.
Referenced in: Das Wort (Dresden)
Weiss, John
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) John Weiss (1818–1879) was an American Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist, a biographer of Theodore Parker.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Austin Pulpit
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.
Referenced in: American Phrenological Journal | The Phrenological Magazine (A. T. Story)
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.
Referenced in: 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
To be added.
Referenced in: Suggestion
Weltmer, Sidney Abram
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Sidney A. Weltmer (1858–1930) founded the Weltmer Institute of Suggestive Therapeutics at Nevada, Missouri, a large mail-order "magnetic healing" enterprise. (Also "Weltmer" / "Weltmer, S.W.")
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)
Referenced in: The Christian (Shelton) | The Inner Circle (Wells) | Magnetic Journal (Weltmer) | Weltmer's Magazine | Weltmer Journal | Weltmerism
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.
Referenced in: Ariel (Colombia) | Rosa-Cruz
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.
Referenced in: 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
West, Simeon Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Named in ‘Call Me What You Please: The Splendid.’
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 American Secular Union.
Referenced in: Freethought
Westcott, W. Wynn
Dr. William Wynn Westcott (1848–1925) was an English coroner, Freemason, and Theosophist who, with Mathers and Woodman, founded the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1888) on the basis of the "Cipher Manuscript." He headed the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and edited the Collectanea Hermetica.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wynn_Westcott
Referenced in: Arohn | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | The Rosicrucian Brotherhood | Swastika (Amsterdam) | Oriflamme
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.
Chasing Emma: The N. D. C. Axe
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Theosophical Review
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.
Referenced in: The Ideal Review | The Metaphysical Magazine | The Wise Man
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.
Chasing Emma: The Ghost of Ganargwa: May 1848
Chasing Emma: The Problem With Muhlenberg: John Wheeler Truesdell (1836-1915)
Referenced in: The Crucible
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.
Referenced in: Signs of the Times
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
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
To be added.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: The Ghourki
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.
Referenced in: The Harbinger of Dawn | Neue Metaphysische Rundschau | Star of the Magi | Wings of Truth
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.
Referenced in: International Psychic Gazette | Nautilus | Practical Ideals
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.
Referenced in: Aquarian New Age | The Fra | The Spiritual Age (new York) | To-Morrow
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.
Referenced in: 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.
Referenced in: Azoth
Whitwell, Joseph P.
To be added.
Referenced in: The National Spiritualist | NSAC National Spiritualist
Wiggs, George W.
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Chain Gang and Bucket Shop: A Note on Albert Sidney Raleigh and George W. Wiggs
Referenced in: Sesamums
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.
Chasing Emma: March 1866: The Beginnings of Independent Slate-Writing
Referenced in: The Rising Tide
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.
Chasing Emma: Experiences in Self-Healing: A Look at the Entities in One Issue of a New Thought Periodical
Referenced in: The Aletheian | Anubis (Voisin) | Aquarian New Age | Astrological Review (Astrology Guild of America) | The Beacon (Bailey) | The Channel | Clothed With The Sun | The Column | Dawn (San Francisco) | East and West | The Exodus | Hindu Spiritual Magazine | Immortality | It | Light of India | The Light of Reason (Allen) | The Lindlahr Magazine | Mastery | Mercury (SFO) | Mind Cure and Science of Life | Mystic Light Library Bulletin | Nautilus | Neue Gedanken | New Californian | New Thought (Chicago) | Our Home Rights | Practical Ideals | Psychic Century | Radiant Life | Rays from the Rose Cross | Revista de Estudios Psiquicos (Chile) | The Segnogram | The Stellar Ray | Super-Psychology | The Telepathic Magazine (Chicago) | Theosophic Messenger | The Vanguard [Wisconsin]
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 Occult Publishing Company, which published works by Wilde amongst others. George Wilde liked to think the test horoscopes Alan Leo produced were his idea back in 1893, and he made that point in his advertisements again and again, especially in Old Moore’s Monthly Messenger, the forerunner of the British Journal of Astrology. Supplied free horoscopes to subscribers of Caledonia in 1895, although these weren’t published.
Referenced in: The Horoscope [London]
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.
Referenced in: Mind Inc. | Mondo Occulto
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.
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
Referenced in: American Phrenological Journal | Bibliotheca Platonica | The Century Path | Die Ubersinnliche Welt | The Dream Interpreter and Oneirocritica (Investigator) | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | The Ideal Review | The Metaphysical Magazine | Mind | The Platonist | The Psychological Review | The Rosicrucian Brotherhood | Theosophy | Universal Brotherhood | Weltmer's Magazine | The Wise Man | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly | The Word (Percival)
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.
Chasing Emma: Notes for a History....Spiritualism and Insanity
Chasing Emma: The Wilkinson Brothers
Referenced in: The Spiritual Herald
Wilkinson, Margaret Floyd
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.68) Margaret Floyd Wilkinson (1830–1903), sister of Emma Hardinge Britten and editor of her Autobiography.
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.
Chasing Emma: The Wilkinson Brothers
Chasing Emma: Controversy; Conducted: Spiritualism in England; 1862
Chasing Emma: The End of Margaret Floyd Wilkinson: November 1912
Referenced in: The Spiritual Magazine (UK)
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 Christian Temperance Union; cited here in a reform/periodical context.
Referenced in: 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.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Agitator
Willets, George
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) Co-conductor of the Fox family’s publicity campaign, per ‘Spirit Conductors.’
Chasing Emma: Spirit Conductors: A Letter from George Willets to Erastus Meech; January 1850
Willey, Raymond C.
To be added.
Referenced in: 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 Brotherhood of Light (1915) and the Church of Light (1932). Both benjamine_elbert and zain_cc are pseudonyms of this person.
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)
Referenced in: Fraternization News
Williams, John Shoebridge
To be added.
Referenced in: The Christian Spiritualist | Spiritual Manifestations
Williams, M.E.
To be added.
Referenced in: Communication | Die Ubersinnliche Welt | New York Beacon Light | Spirit Mothers and Astraea
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.
Referenced in: Bright Horizons | Valor (Pelley)
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.
Chasing Emma: You Can't Do Without It: The Banner of Light; 1857
Referenced in: The Present Age
Willlard, Cyrus Field
To be added.
Referenced in: Atlantis Quarterly | The Century Path | The Nationalist [Boston] | Universal Brotherhood
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.
Referenced in: Advanced Thought (Chicago) | The Business Philosopher | The Carrier Dove | The Christian (Shelton) | Fred Burry's Journal | Free Man (Bangor) | Freedom | The Gnostic | Higher Thought (See) | Independent Thinker | It | Mind Cure and Science of Life | Neue Gedanken | The New Man | New Thought Journal and Occult Review | Practical Ideals | Religion | Weltmer's Magazine | Wings of Truth | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
Wilmot, Lottie
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) ‘Madame Lottie Wilmot,’ a figure in ‘Emma and Her Shadows.’
Chasing Emma: Emma and Her Shadows: Lotti Wilmot; 1878
Chasing Emma: Emma the Infidel: 1878
Wilson, A.M.
Wilson, Ebenezer Vespasian
To be added.
Chasing Emma: The Lesson We Desire To Teach: E. V. Wilson at Koons' Spirit Room; January 1855
Referenced in: Foundation Principles | Spiritual Reporter | The Spiritualist at Work
Wilson, Edward Arthur
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.45) Edward Arthur Wilson (1878–1934), "Brother XII," was an English-Canadian occultist who founded the Aquarian Foundation colony on Vancouver Island, which collapsed in scandal and litigation.
Referenced in: The Glass Hive
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).
Referenced in: Nautilus
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.
Chasing Emma: Harriet E. Wilson; Spiritualist Medium
Wilson, Laura M.
To be added.
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.
Referenced in: Archiv fur Freimaurer und Rosenkreuzer
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.
Referenced in: The Beacon Light
Winslow, Caroline B.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Alpha | Eclectic Medical Journal | Mind In Nature
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.")
Referenced in: Alliance Spiritualiste | L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique | Neos Pithagoras | Nouveaux Horizons | Union Occulte Francaise | Yhteis-Vapaamuurari
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.
Referenced in: The Index
Withall, Henry
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) Named with Flournoy and Meads in ‘A Highly Plastic Region.’
Chasing Emma: A Highly Plastic Region: William Butler Yeats at the London Spiritualist Alliance; May 1914
Witt, Henry
To be added.
Referenced in: The Williamsburgh Spiritualist
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.
Referenced in: The Spiritualist
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.
Referenced in: Psychische Studien
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.
Referenced in: Loto Blanco
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.
Referenced in: Horoscope (Dell)
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.
Referenced in: Asklepieion
Wolfe, Humbert
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.30) Humbert Wolfe (1885–1940), the English poet and civil servant; cited here in a periodical context.
Referenced in: Twentieth Century Astrology
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.
Referenced in: The Spiritualist at Work
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.
Referenced in: Tiffany's Monthly
Wolstenholme, Richard
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) The groom in the account of the first Spiritualist wedding of July 1886.
Chasing Emma: July 1886: The First Spiritualist Marriage In England?
Wood, Chester G.
To be added.
Referenced in: Mystic World
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.
Referenced in: Fiat Lux | Fraternidad (Chile) | The Higher Law | New Outlook
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).
Referenced in: Coming Age | The Exodus | The Life [Kansas City] | Universal Truth
Wood, Miss
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.50) A materialization medium (‘Miss Wood’) named with Florence Cook and the spirit ‘John King.’
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.
To be added.
Referenced in: Betiero's Oriental Mysteries | MacDonald's Farmer's Almanac and Dream Book | The New Man | The Philomathian | Star of the Magi | Wings of Truth
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.
To be added.
Referenced in: Mind In Nature
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.
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
Chasing Emma: Spirito-Carnality: The Affinities of Free Love and Spiritualism
Chasing Emma: Pinboard: Mesmerism in Wall Street
Referenced in: Common Sense | The Crucible | Dawn (1872) | Foundation Principles | The Gnostic | The Humanitarian | The Humanitarian (Review) | The Philomathean [Chaney] | Spiritual Reporter | The Spiritualist at Work | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly
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.
Referenced in: The Humanitarian | The Humanitarian (Review)
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 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Referenced in: The Rosicrucian
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.
Referenced in: Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship)
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
Woolford, R.S.
To be added.
Referenced in: The Harmonia
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.
Referenced in: Fortean Society Magazine
Worsdale, John
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Died by the Visitation of God: John Worsdale; January 1826
Chasing Emma: Rogues & Vagabonds; Part Seven: The Two John Worsdales
Referenced in: Spirit of Partridge
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.
Referenced in: The Mansion Builder
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.
Chasing Emma: Bela Marsh: A Downpayment on 14 Bromfield Street
Referenced in: Eltka | The New Republic
Wright, William Charlton
To be added.
Referenced in: The Horoscope (Zadkiel) | The Straggling Astrologer
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.
Referenced in: Almanach du Magiste
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.
Referenced in: The Open Court
Wyckoff, Sarah
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Named in ‘Horace Day: The Marriages.’
Chasing Emma: Horace Day: The Marriages
Wydawniczy, Komitet
To be added.
Referenced in: Feniks
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 Theosophical Society in Britain and a Christian Spiritualist.
Chasing Emma: Nothing In the World So Inexact: Anna Kingsford; June 1885
Referenced in: Borderland | The Hypnotic Magazine | The Psychological Review
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.
Referenced in: Le Spiritualiste de la Nouvelle Orleans
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.
Referenced in: La Lumiere Pour Tous
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.
Referenced in: La Verite (Lyon)
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.")
Referenced in: Estudios Teosoficos (Barcelona)
XII, Brother
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "Brother XII" was Edward Arthur Wilson (1878–1934), founder of the Aquarian Foundation colony on Vancouver Island; see the "Wilson, Edward Arthur" entry.
Referenced in: The Beacon Light
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 Arcane Schools: A Review of Their Origin and Antiquity; with a General History of Freemasonry (1909). He edited the periodical The Kneph (1881-95) concerning Masonic matters, and was associated with Theodor Reuss in the early history of the Ordo Templi Orientis.
Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/yarker-john-1833-1913
Chasing Emma: From the Senior Partner's Desk
Referenced in: Borderland | Das Wort (Dresden) | Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries | Ignis | The Kneph | Le Soleil Mystique | Le Temple Mystique | The Lucis Magazine | New York Echo | Oriflamme | The Rosicrucian Brotherhood | The Seer and Celestial Reformer | Swastika (Amsterdam) | Universal Masonry
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).
Referenced in: Universal Truth
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 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. His system in A Vision (1925) was built from the automatic writing of his wife Georgie Hyde-Lees.
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
Referenced in: Equinox
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
Referenced in: Nature's Path (Lust)
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.
Referenced in: The Occult Observer
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.
Referenced in: Patience Worth's Magazine
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.
Referenced in: The Seer (Orson Pratt -- LDS)
Young, Frederic Rowland
To be added.
Chasing Emma: Stringboard: The Rev. Frederick Rowland Young
Referenced in: Christian Spiritualist (UK)
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.
Referenced in: Dharma (All-World Gandhi Fellowship)
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.
Referenced in: La Table Parlante
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.
Referenced in: Almanach du Magiste | Calendrier Magique | Faro Oriental | Neos Pithagoras | Ocultista (Buenos Aires) | Philadelphia (Buenos Aires) | Rosa-Cruz
Zain, C.C.
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.40) "C. C. Zain" was the pen name of Elbert Benjamine (1882–1951), founder of the Church of Light; see the "Benjamine, Elbert" entry.
Referenced in: National Astrological Journal | World Astrology Magazine
Zapata, Emiliano
(Source: Claude, with confidence 0.35) Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919), the Mexican revolutionary agrarian leader; cited here in a periodical context.
Referenced in: La Cruz Astral
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.
To be added.
Referenced in: Esoteric
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.
Referenced in: Theosophische Rundschau
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.")
Referenced in: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau
Zingaropoli, Francesco
To be added.
Referenced in: Filosofia della Scienza | Luce e Ombra | Mondo Occulto
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.
Referenced in: Luz [Parana] | Reflejo Astral | Star Lore | The Temple
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.
Referenced in: Progressive Age
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.")
Referenced in: Psychische Studien
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.
Referenced in: The World Liberator
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.
Referenced in: Spiritual Analyst
Zugen, Eleonore
To be added.
Referenced in: Bulletin and Proceedings of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research
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.
Referenced in: New Ideas (Comprehensionism)