The Aeternum Notebooks

Julien-Ernest Houssay, known as Abbé Julio, was a Catholic priest, religious journalist, faith healer, and bishop of an independent church....

Who was Hildegard of Bingen really? A Benedictine abbess, visionary, composer, and author of texts on nature and medicine, she...

Who was Anne Osmont really? A poet, journalist, translator, and later an occult author, she associated with Guaita, Péladan, Barlet,...

Who was Paracelsus really? A Renaissance physician, alchemist, surgeon, and religious author, Theophrastus von Hohenheim revolutionized European medicine by championing...

Who was Allan Kardec really? Before becoming the leading theorist of French Spiritism, Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail was a pedagogue...

Who was Alex Sanders really? Born Orrell Alexander Carter, initiated into Gardnerian Wicca in the early 1960s and later co-founder...

Who was Doreen Valiente really? A translator associated with Bletchley Park during the war, Gerald Gardner’s high priestess, and a...

Who was Papus really? A physician, author, and founder of L’Initiation and the Martinist Order, Gérard Encausse was one of...

Who was Nostradamus really? Physician-apothecary, astrologer, and author of almanacs and the famous Prophecies, Michel de Nostredame has been surrounded...

Who was Éliphas Lévi really? Seminarian, socialist author, occultist, and theorist of High Magic, Alphonse-Louis Constant profoundly transformed 19th-century esotericism....

Who was Scott Cunningham really? A major American author on Wicca and natural magic, he helped legitimize solitary practice with...

Who was Catherine Deshayes, known as La Voisin, really? A fortune-teller, palm reader, and central figure in the Affair of...