The Aeternum Notebooks

First initiate of the Golden Dawn, temple artist, clairvoyant, and teacher, Moina Mathers was far more than MacGregor Mathers’s wife....

The history of divination in France cannot be separated from the imposing, mysterious, and deeply political figure of Marie-Anne-Adélaïde Lenormand....

The intellectual scene of the Belle Époque belonged to figures of high stature, but few matched the influence of Gérard...

Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) was a Renaissance scholar, physician, philosopher, and mage who dedicated his life to uncovering the secrets of...

Oswald Wirth is a major figure in the occult and symbolist revival at the end of the 19th century in...

Paul Sédir, whose real name was Yvon Le Loup, was a French writer and esotericist born in 1871 in Dinan...

John Dee (1527 – 1608/1609) was one of the most prominent scholars of the Elizabethan era. A mathematician, astronomer, astrologer,...

Dion Fortune, whose real name was Violet Mary Firth (1890-1946), was a British occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer. A prominent...

Joséphin Péladan (1858-1918) was a French man of letters known for his major role in symbolism and fin-de-siècle occultism. A...

Franz Bardon is a Czechoslovak occultist, Hermeticist, and esoteric author whose work marked the revival of Western magic in the...

Stanislas de Guaita was a French poet and occultist whose romantic life illustrates the esoteric fervor of the late 19th...

Pierre Piobb, whose real name was Pierre Vincenti-Piobb, was a French scholar, journalist, and occultist born in Paris on April...