The transmission
The Teachers
1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.
1,020 teachers · 42 traditions
37 teachers
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
John Dee
Angelic-language reality interface
1527-1608/9
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Frederick Hockley
Crystal / mirror scrying
1809-1885
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Éliphas Lévi
Astral light directed by will
1810-1875
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Paschal Beverly Randolph
Will at the moment of climax
1825-1875
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
J.W. Brodie-Innes
Astral pathworking
1848-1923
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
William Wynn Westcott
Graded initiatory structure
1848-1925
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
Ritual ascent of the planes
1854-1918
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Theodor Reuss
The occultist who built the O.T.O. and recruited Aleister Crowley.
1855–1923
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
A.E. Waite
Scholar-mystic who gave the modern world its definitive tarot.
1857–1942
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Florence Farr
Sphere-of-sensation visualisation
1860-1917
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Annie Horniman
Tea heiress whose money sustained both magic and modern theatre.
1860–1937
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Arthur Machen
Welsh visionary who made the numinous terrifying in prose.
1863–1947
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Papus (Gérard Encausse)
Tarot as occult mechanism
1865-1916
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
W.B. Yeats
Irish poet who wove ceremonial magic into a national imagination.
1865–1939
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Moina Mathers
Artist and seeress who gave the Golden Dawn its visionary face.
1865–1928
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Algernon Blackwood
Storyteller who found awe and dread in living nature.
1869–1951
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Allan Bennett
Vibratory god-form assumption
1872-1923
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Aleister Crowley
Change in conformity with Will
1875-1947
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
H. Spencer Lewis
Practical Rosicrucian mind and cosmic attunement
1883-1939
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Gerald Gardner
Ritual witchcraft as a living mystery religion
1884-1964
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Karl Germer
Crowley's successor who kept the O.T.O. alive after his master's death.
1885–1962
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Charles Stansfeld Jones (Frater Achad)
Reversed Tree attainment
1886-1950
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Margaret Lumley Brown
The Inner Light's 'Arch-Pythoness' who succeeded Dion Fortune as its medium.
1886–1975
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Dion Fortune
Tree of Life as map
1890-1946
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Christine Hartley
Inner Light magician whose ritual partnership produced landmark evocatory work.
1897–1985
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Israel Regardie
Magic as psycho-spiritual technology
1907-1985
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Franz Bardon
Step-graded elemental training
1909-1958
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
William G. Gray
Sonic / inner-temple ritual
1913-1992
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Jack Parsons
A rocket pioneer who fused experimental propulsion with ceremonial magick.
1914–1952
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Doreen Valiente
Poetic liturgy as the vessel of ritual power
1922-1999
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Kenneth Grant
Tunnels of Set / nightside
1924-2011
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Gareth Knight
Western mystery pathworking
1930-2022
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Lon Milo DuQuette
Psychological-symbolic ritual stance
1948-present
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Stephen Skinner
Operational grimoire method
1948-present
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
R.J. Stewart
Faery / underworld descent
1949-present
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Donald Michael Kraig
Eleven-lesson ritual curriculum
1951-2014
Ceremonial Magick (the Western Esoteric Revival)
Damien Echols
Ceremonial magick as survival
b. 1974