The Aeternum Notebooks

Behind Fulcanelli, a 20th-century master alchemist, lies a network of occultists and an uncertain identity. The origins of a hermetic...

From Palermo to the salons of Paris, Cagliostro was a healer, alchemist, clairvoyant, and founder of an Egyptian Rite. A...

Who was Robert Fludd really? An English physician, alchemist, defender of the Rosicrucians, and great theorist of the macrocosm and...

Who was Michael Maier really? Physician to Rudolf II, alchemist, poet, advocate of the Rosicrucians, and author of Atalanta fugiens,...

Who was Heinrich Khunrath really? A physician, Christian alchemist, reader of Paracelsus, and intellectual associate of John Dee, Heinrich Khunrath...

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

Who was Mlle Lenormand really? A cartomancer, author, and bookseller, Marie-Anne-Adélaïde Lenormand (1772-1843) became one of the great figures of...

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...

Who was Oswald Wirth really? Born in Switzerland in 1860, a mesmerist, Freemason, secretary to Stanislas de Guaita, and leading...

Who was Paul Sédir really? Yvon Le Loup was initially one of Papus’s close collaborators and a major author of...

Who was John Dee really? Mathematician to Elizabeth I, bibliophile, astrologer, alchemist, and author of Monas Hieroglyphica, John Dee (1527-1608/1609)...