The Occultist Database

The Occultist Database fue una iniciativa académico-artística concebida a colación de nuestro eXc dossier Miroir (2013). En esta base de datos académica relacionada con las materias ligadas a "lo oculto" iríamos vinculando información textual y gráfica relacionada con los principales personajes (intelectuales y filósofos, charlatanes, escritores, científicos y pseudocientíficos, experimentadores, ilusionistas y pintores). Esa fue nuestra intención hace más de una década y a ello nos emplazamos en lo sucesivo.

Description: The Occultist Database was an academic initiative proposed by the scientific committee of Studia Hermetica Journal, whose main objective was to recover the memory of those authors related in one way or another with the occult currents developed between 1800 to 1950. As historians of thought, we wanted to see revalued an entire episode of Western History which has been unjustly relegated to the depths of many libraries.

The historical-critical methods and the artistic expression constitute our ways to face the tons of sources, manuscripts and graphic material waiting to be rescued for the future generations. We know how to do it and we hope to acquire the resources to accomplish this daunting task.

Objectives: the critical edition of unpublished manuscripts, the making of a taxonomy which meets the doctrines and theories related to the field, the recovering of the memory of those opuses and personalities unfairly forgotten.

Progression:

-Essay: “Literature & Occultism in the Victorian Era” (N-Sphere, 10-11/2011), by Iván Elvira.

-Essay: “Zanoni, una novela rosacruz” (Studia Hermetica, 01/12), by Iván Elvira.

-Paper: “Pneumathurgy: a glimpse into the Occult” (Studia Hermetica, 12/2013), by Iván Elvira.

-De Umbris Idearum’s entry (30/12/2013): L’imagination créatrice, by Iván Elvira.

-Paper: “Jung, del Psicoanálisis a la Psicología Analítica” (Studia Hermetica, 12/2015), by David de los Santos Juanes.

-Review: “Reseña crítica de la fuente On the nightmare” (Studia Hermetica, 12/2015), by David de los Santos Juanes.

-De Umbris Idearum’s entry (26/12/2015): Símbolos de transformación, by Iván Elvira.

Precursors

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772).

Conte di Cagliostro (1743-1795).

Martinez de Pasqually (ca.1727–1774).

Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803).

Jean-Baptiste Willermoz (1730-1824).

Occultists

Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956). Occultist.

Max Théon (1848–1927). Occultist.

L. W. de Laurence (1868-1936). Occultist.

Louis Charbonneau-Lassay (1871-1946)

Ivan Aguéli (1869-1917).

Gérard Encausse (Papus) (1865-1916). Occultist.

Pierre-Augustin Chaboseau (1868 -1946).

Victor-Émile Michelet (1861-1938).

Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves (1842-1909). Occultist.

Antoine Fabre d’Olivet (1767-1825). Occultist.

Hector Durville

Henri Durville (1887–1963).

Éliphas Lévi (1810 -1875). Occultist.

Stanislas de Guaita (1861-1897). Occultist.

Emmanuel Lalande (Marc Haven) (). Occultist.

Adolphe Desbarolles (1804 - 1886).

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873).

Albert Poisson (Philophotes) (1868-1893). Occultist.

Camille Flammarion (1842-1925). Astronomer, Occultist.

Victor-Émile Michelet (1861-1938).

Fernand Rozier (1839-1922).

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801).

Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828).

James Braid (1795-1860).

Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815). Mesmerist.

Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825-1875).

Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942). Occultist.

Edmund William Berridge (1843 – 1923).

Robert Wentworth Little (1840-1878).

William Robert Woodman (1828–1891).

William Wynn Westcott (1848-1925).

Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854-1918). Occultist.

Paul Foster Case (1884-1954). Occultist.

Paul Le Cour (1871-1954). Occultist.

Aleister Crowley (1875 -1947). Occultist.

Hargrave Jennings (1817-1890). Occultist.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831- 1891). Theosophist.

Henry Steele Olcott (1832-1907). Theosophist.

William Quan Judge (1851-1896).

Annie Besant (1847-1933). Theosophist.

Katherine Tingley (1847-1929). Theosophist.

Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-934). Theosophist.

James Ingall Wedgwood (1883-1951).

George Sidney Arundale (1878- 1945).

George Robert Stowe Mead (1863-1933).

John William Brodie-Innes (1848-1923). Occultist.

Robert William Felkin (1853-1926). Occultist.

Alexandre Albéric Thomas (Marnès) (). Occultist.

Abel Thomas (Abel Haatan) (). Occultist.

John Yarker (1833-1913). Occultist.

René Philipon (1870-1936). Occultist.

Frederick Hockley (1809-1885). Occultist.

François Charles Barlet (1838- 1925).

Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843). Homeopathist.

Pierre Curie (1859-1906). Physicist.

William Crookes (1832-1919). Chemist.

Carl-Friedrich Zimpel (1800-1878). Spagirist.

Herbert Stanley Redgrove (1887-1943). Chemist.

Jean Bricaud (1881-1934). Occultist.

Eduardo Frosini (1879-?). Occultist.

Paul Sédir (1871-1926).

François Jollivet-Castelot (1874-1937). Occultist.

Jules Lermina (William Cobb) (1839-1915). Journalist. Occultist.

Pierre Dujols (1862-1926). Occultist.

Ferdinand Maack (1861–1930). Occultist.

Amedeo Rocco Armentano (1886-1966). Occultist.

Arturo Reghini (1878-1946). Occultist.

Eugène Canseliet (1899-1982). Occultist.

Walter Gorn Old (1864-1929). Theosophist.

Jean Julien Champagne (1877-1932). Occultist.

Theodor Reuss (1855-1923).  Occultist.

Franz Hartmann (1838-1912). Theosophist.

Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden (1846-1916). Theosophist.

Paul Chacornac (1884-1964). Occultist

Henri Coton-Alvart (1894-1988).

Friedrich Eckstein (1861-1939). Theosophist.

Johannes Hans Balzli (¿?). Theosophist.

Anna Kingsford (1846-1888). Theosophist.

Alfred Percy Sinnett (1840-1921). Theosophist.

William Scott-Elliot (d.1930). Theosophist.

Ernest Egerton Wood (1883-1965). Theosophist.

Isabelle de Steiger (1836-1927). Theosophist.

Lionel Hauser (). Theosophist.

Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). Anthroposophist.

Marie Steiner-von Sivers (1867-1948). Anthroposophist.

Rudolf John Gorsleben (1883-1930). Ariosophist.

Guido von List (1848–1919). Ariosophist.

Lanz von Liebenfels (Jörg Lanz) (1874–1954). Ariosophist.

Philipp Stauff (1876–1923). Ariosophist.

Friedrich Bernhard Marby (1882-1966). Ariosophist.

Siegfried Adolf Kummer (1899-?). Ariosophist.

Occult & Theosophical fellowships

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

The Theosophical Society is an organization formed in 1875.

L’Orde Martiniste (1891).

The Anthroposophical Society, 1902.

The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis, also called the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC).

The Societas Rosicruciana.

Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix, 1888.

L’ordre équestre du Saint-Sépulcre de Jérusalem.

Groupe Indépendant d’Études Ésotériques (1889).

Société Hermétique des Protylites (1891).

École Hermétique (1894).

Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft (Guido von List Society, ca. 1905).

Occult & Theosophical magazines

Lucifer was a journal published by Helena Blavatsky. The first edition was issued in September 1887 in London.

L’Initiation. Revue philosophique indépendante des hautes études (1888-1912).

Mysteria. Revue mensuelle illustrée d’études initiatiques (1913-1914).

L’Etoile (1889-1895).

La Voie (1904-1907).

L’Hyperchimie: revue mensuelle d’alchimie, d’hermétisme et de médecine spagyrique (1896-1898).

Rosa Alchemica (1902-1925).

Noveaux horizons de la scienze et de la Pensée (1905-1914).

La Rose+Croix, revue syntétique de las sciences d’Hermes (1920).

The Journal of the Alchemical Society (1913-1915).

Alchemistische Blätter (1927-1930).

Lotusblüthen (1893-1900).

Neue Lotusblüten (1908-1915).

Ostara, Briefbücherei der Blonden und Mannesrechtler was a German nationalist magazine founded in 1905 by the occultist Lanz von Liebenfels in Vienna, Austria.

Sophia. Revista Teosófica de Orientalismo y Ocultismo (1893-1914; 1923-1932, 1936).

Spiritualists

Allan Kardec (1804- 1869).

Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910).

Cora Lodencia Veronica Scott (1840–1923). Medium.

Anna Eva Fay Pingree (1851-1927).

Precursors

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828).

Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741-1825).

William Blake (1757 -1827).

Symbolist painters

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (M. K. Čiurlionis) (1875- 1911).

Louis-Marie Désiré-Lucas (1869 -1949).

Jean Delville (1867-1953).

Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946).

William Degouve de Nuncques (1867-1935).

Serafino Macchiati (1861-1916).

Félicien Rops (1833– 1898).

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898).

Precursors

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776-1822).

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805).

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).

Novalis (1772-1801).

Symbolist writers

Jean Moréas (1856–1910).

Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 –1898).

Arthur Rimbaud (1854– 1891).

Paul-Marie Verlaine (1844–1896).

Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855).

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786–1859).

Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore-Lucien Ducasse) (1846–1870).

Alice de Chambrier (1861–1882).

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821–1867).

Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (1838-1889).

Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949).

Other writers related to the Occult

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939).

Honoré de Balzac (1799 -1850).

Henry James (1843-1916).

Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932).

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962).

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930).

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894).

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937).

August Strindberg (1849-1912).

Guy de Maupassant (1850- 1893).

Maurice Magre (1877-1941).

Édouard Schuré (1841-1929).

Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907).

Philosophy

Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (1853-1900).

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860).

Friedrich  Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900).

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854).

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831).

Franz Xaver von Baader (1765-1841).

Gothic & Romantic Writers

Abraham Stocker (1847-1912).

John William Polidori (1795-1821).

Mary Shelley (1797- 1851).

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792- 1822).

Lord Byron (1788-1824).

John Keats (1795-1821).

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-ca.1913)

The Ghost Story

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873).

Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869-1951).

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936).

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).

Charles Dickens (1812-1870).

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 -1940).

Pulp magazines

Ghost Stories was a pulp magazine which published 64 issues between 1926 and 1932.

Sci Fi Precursors

H. G. Wells (1866-1946).

Illusionists

Harry Houdini (1874-1926).