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
25 teachers
Hermeticism
Hermes Trismegistus
As above, so below
Legendary / non-historical (texts c. 100-300 CE)
Hermeticism
Ramon Llull
Combinatorial generation of reality from first principles
c.1232-1316
Hermeticism
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
The human as a self-shaping being who chooses its own nature
1463-1494
Hermeticism
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
The three-world correspondence system of magic
1486-1535
Hermeticism
Giordano Bruno
Magical memory as a mirror of an infinite cosmos
1548-1600
Hermeticism
Robert Fludd
The macrocosm-microcosm correspondence
1574-1637
Hermeticism
Johann Valentin Andreae
Lutheran theologian who penned the founding Rosicrucian allegory.
1586–1654
Hermeticism
Comte de Saint-Germain
Enigmatic courtier and alchemist later mythologised as an immortal adept.
c.1691/1712–1784
Hermeticism
Albert Mackey
Physician turned Freemasonry's foremost encyclopaedist and codifier.
1807–1881
Hermeticism
Albert Pike
Scottish Rite leader who systematised Masonic philosophy in a single tome.
1809–1891
Hermeticism
Franz Hartmann
Esoteric synthesis; Paracelsian-Theosophical magic
1838-1912
Hermeticism
Walter Russell
Mind-centered universe of light & rhythm
1871-1963
Hermeticism
Paul Foster Case
Tarot, Qabalah & sound vibration
1884-1954
Hermeticism
Mouni Sadhu
Concentration & initiation training
1897-1971
Hermeticism
W.E. Butler
Practical magic & the trained mind
1898-1978
Hermeticism
Frances Yates
Recovering the Hermetic tradition in Western thought
1899-1981
Hermeticism
Manly P. Hall
Perennial hidden wisdom
1901-1990
Hermeticism
Lao Russell
Co-creative partnership with universal law
1904-1988
Hermeticism
Three Initiates (The Kybalion)
Seven Hermetic Principles
published 1908
Hermeticism
Abdullah
Hebrew Kabbalah and 'the law' - living from the wish fulfilled through disciplined imagination
fl. 1920s-1930s
Hermeticism
Denning & Phillips
Practical Qabalah & creative visualization
Melita Denning 1920-1997; Osborne Phillips b. 1942
Hermeticism
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
Pathworking & guided inner journeys
1929-2023
Hermeticism
Antoine Faivre
Defining esotericism as a form of thought
1934-2021
Hermeticism
Marian Green
Solitary natural magic
b. 1939
Hermeticism
David Conway
Magic as natural philosophy
b. 1942