A convenient GUIDE to our brief BIOGRAPHIES,

in which are presented certain lives, offered by way of Example and Edification, of notable figures of the original and most ancient Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, as well as other selected characters of generally Magickal import. They are listed in approximately chronological order.

 

Figures in our direct line of Initiatic Transmission are in bold type.

Christian Rosenkreutz (1378-1484)

Cagliostro (1743-1795)

Adam Weishaupt (1748-1811)

Saint-Germain (1690?-1784?)

Eliphas Levi (1810-1875)

MacGregor Mathers (1854-1918)

Moina Mathers (1865-1928)

A.E. Waite (1857-1947)

Florence Farr (1860-1917)

Arthur Machen (1863-1947)

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)

Wescott (1848-1925) and Woodman (1828-1891)

Allan Bennett (1872-1923)

Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)

Gerald Gardner (1884-1964)

Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956)

Dion Fortune (1890-1946)

Israel Regardie (1907-1985)

Michael J. Crowley (b. 1949)

 

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