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[[Thelema]] is a philosophical and mystical system founded by [[Aleister Crowley]] early in the 20th century. This is a '''list of Thelemites''', self-professed adherents of Thelema (including those who identified as Thelemites during part of their lives but subsequently left the faith) who have Wikipedia articles. These individuals come from diverse backgrounds, including artists, writers, occultists, scientists, musicians, and more, hailing from countries such as the United States, England, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Brazil.
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== A ==
* [[Kenneth Anger]] (1927-2023), American underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and writer.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Anger |first1=Kenneth |title=Keneth Anger: how I made Lucifer Rising |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jul/22/how-we-made-lucifer-rising |website=www.theguardian.com |date=July 22, 2013 |access-date=February 13, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Represa |first1=Marta |title=Kenneth Anger on the Occult |url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/3567/kenneth-anger-on-the-occult |website=www.anothermag.com |date=April 22, 2014 |access-date=March 13, 2021}}</ref>


== B ==
* [[Frank Bennett (occultist)|Frank Bennett]] (1868–1930), Australian chemist.<ref>{{cite book |last=Richmond |first=Keith |year=2004 |title=Progradior and the Beast |publisher=Neptune Press |isbn=978-0954706340 |pages=99–100, 145}}</ref>
* [[William Breeze]] (b. 1955), American writer and musician.<ref>{{Cite news |issn=0261-3077 |last=Flood |first=Alison |title=Unseen Aleister Crowley writings reveal 'short-story writer of the highest order' |work=The Guardian |access-date=2017-11-09 |date=2015-10-15 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/15/unseen-aleister-crowley-writings-short-story-the-drug}}</ref>
* [[Mary Butts]] (1890–1937), English modernist writer.<ref>{{cite book |last=Booth |first=Martin |author-link=Martin Booth |title=A Magick Life: A Biography of Aleister Crowley |year=2001 |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |location=London |isbn=0-340-71806-4 |pages=375–76}}</ref>
== C ==
* [[Marjorie Cameron]] (1922–1995), American artist, poet, actress and occultist.<ref>{{cite book |title=Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron |last=Kansa |first=Spencer |year=2011 |publisher=Mandrake |location=Oxford |isbn=978-1-906958-08-4 |pages=75–77, 247}}</ref>
* [[Barbara Canright]] (1919–1997), American [[human computer]] at [[NASA]]'s [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]], member of [[Agape Lodge]].{{sfnp|Starr|2003|p=365}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-women-behind-the-jet-propulsion-laboratory/482847/ |title=The Women Behind the Jet Propulsion Laboratory |first=Nathalia |last=Holt |website=[[The Atlantic]] |date=June 2016}}</ref>
* [[Aleister Crowley]] (1875–1947), English occultist, ceremonial magician, writer, and founder of Thelema.
== D ==
* [[Lon Milo DuQuette]] (b. 1948), American writer, lecturer, musician, and occultist.<ref>{{cite book |first=Lon Milo |last=DuQuette |title=My Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician |publisher=Red Wheel/Weiser |year=1999 |isbn=1-57863-120-3}}</ref>
==E==
* [[Sally Eaton]] (b. 1947), American Wiccan high priestess, liturgist, singer and actress.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rabinovitch |first1=Shelley |first2=James |last2=Lewis |title=The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-paganism |page=27}}</ref>
== F ==
* [[Jeanne Robert Foster]] (1879–1970), one of Crowley's "[[Babalon#Office of the Scarlet Woman|Scarlet Women]]" who took the magical name Sister Hilarion.<ref>{{cite book |last=Churton |first=Tobias |author-link=Tobias Churton |year=2017 |title=Aleister Crowley in America: Art, Espionage, and Sex Magick in the New World |publisher=Inner Traditions/Bear |isbn=978-1-62055-631-3 |page=240}}</ref>
* [[J. F. C. Fuller]] (1878–1966), Major-General in the British Army, military historian, and strategist.{{sfnp|Kaczynski|2024}}
== G ==
* [[Peaches Geldof]] (1989–2014), English columnist, television personality, and model.<ref>{{cite news |title=Peaches Geldof has signed up to Aleister Crowley's sex cult OTO |date=April 15, 2013 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/shortcuts/2013/apr/15/peaches-geldof-aleister-crowley-sex-cult-oto |access-date=2024-03-13}}</ref>
* [[Karl Germer]] (1885-1962), German and American businessman and occultist, O.H.O. of O.T.O. (1947–1962).{{sfnp|Starr|2003|p=127}}
* [[Kenneth Grant]] (1924–2011), English ceremonial magician and advocate of Thelema.{{sfnp|Starr|2003|p=324}}
== H ==
* [[Lady Frieda Harris]] (1877–1962), English artist known for her design of Crowley's ''[[Thoth Tarot]]''.<ref>{{cite book |publisher=Mayflower |last=Symonds |first=John |title=The Great Beast: The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley |location=St Albans, Herts. |year=1973 |isbn=978-0583121958}}</ref>
* [[Leah Hirsig]] (1883–1975), American schoolteacher and occultist, most famous of Crowley's [[Scarlet Women]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Lawrence |last=Sutin |author-link=Lawrence Sutin |title=Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley |publisher=St. Martin's Griffin |place=New York |year=2000 |page=330}}</ref>
* [[Christopher Hyatt]] (1943–2008), American psychologist, occultist, and writer.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Christopher |last1=Hyatt  |first2=Zehm |last2=Aloim |title=The Magic of Israel Regardie |publisher=New Falcon Publishing |isbn=1-56184-230-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The New Encyclopedia of the Occult |last=Greer |first=John Michael |page=205 |publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-56718-336-8}}</ref>
== J ==
* [[Charles Stansfeld Jones]] (1886–1950), Canadian occultist and ceremonial magician.{{sfnp|Starr|2003}}
* [[George Cecil Jones]] (1873–1960), English chemist, occultist, [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn|Golden Dawn]] member and co-founder of the [[A∴A∴]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Eshelman |first=James A. |year=2000 |title=The Mystical & Magical System of the A A: The Spiritual System of Aleister Crowley & George Cecil Jones Step-by-step |publisher=[[College of Thelema]] |isbn=978-0970449603}}</ref>
== K ==
* [[Richard Kaczynski]] (b. 1963), American occult writer and psychologist.<ref>{{cite book |last=Shoemaker |first=David |year=2022 |title=Living Thelema: A Practical Guide to Attainment in Aleister Crowley's System of Magick |publisher=Red Wheel/Weiser |isbn=978-1578637799 |page=271}}</ref>
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* [[Rose Edith Kelly]] (1874–1932), English wife of occult writer Aleister Crowley from 1903 to 1909.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
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== L ==
* [[James Lees (English magician)|James Lees]] (1939–2015), English magician known for [[English Qaballa]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Thompson |first=Cath |title=All This and a Book |year=2018 |publisher=Hadean Press Limited |isbn=978-1-907881-78-7}}</ref>
== M ==
* [[Grady Louis McMurtry]] (1918–1985), American [[ceremonial magic]]ian and "Caliph" of [[Ordo Templi Orientis|O.T.O.]]<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hanegraaff |first1=Wouter J. |url=http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/dictionary-of-gnosis-and-western-esotiricism/ordo-templi-orientis-DGWE_269?s.num=0 |title=Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism |last2=Faivre |first2=Antoine |last3=Broek |first3=Roelof van den |last4=Brach |first4=Jean-Pierre |date=2005 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004141872 |edition=Online |location=Leiden |access-date=11 August 2018}}</ref>
* [[Marcelo Ramos Motta]] (1931–1987), Brazilian occult writer and member of [[A∴A∴]]{{sfnp|Readdy|2018|pp=ii–iii, 156–304}}
== N ==
* [[Nema Andahadna]] (1939–2018), American occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer of ''[[Liber Pennae Praenumbra]]''.{{sfnp|Grant|1980}}
* [[Victor Neuburg (poet)|Victor Neuburg]] (1883–1940), English poet and writer.{{sfnp|Kaczynski|2024}}
* [[Noname Jane]], American pornographic actress.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nonamejane.com/?page_id=98 |title=Official bio |accessdate=2012-06-12 |publisher=Noname Jane's Official Site |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328171324/http://www.nonamejane.com/?page_id=98 |archivedate=March 28, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Eric Nord]] (born Harry Helmuth Pastor; 1919–1989), American [[Beat Generation]] coffeehouse and nightclub owner, poet, actor, and [[Hipster (1940s subculture)|hipster]], the "King of the Beatniks".{{sfnp|Starr|2003|p=250}}
* [[Sara Northrup Hollister]] (1924–1997), American occultist and second wife of [[Scientology|Scientologist]] founder [[L. Ron Hubbard]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Pendle|first=George|author-link=George Pendle|title=Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons|publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]]|year=2006|isbn=978-0-15-603179-0|location=Orlando, FL|page=203–4}}</ref>
== P ==
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* [[Jack Parsons]] (1914–1952), American rocket engineer, chemist, and occultist.<ref>{{cite book |title= ''"Foreword" to'' Three Essays on Freedom ''(J.W. Parsons)'' |last= Beta |first= Hymenaeus |year= 2008 |publisher= Teitan Press |location= York Beach, Maine |isbn=978-0-933429-11-6 |pages=x–xi}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= Three Essays on Freedom |last= Parsons |first= John Whiteside |year=2008 |publisher= Teitan Press |location= York Beach, Maine |isbn=978-0-933429-11-6 |page=67}}</ref>
* [[Helen Parsons Smith]] (1910–2003), American occultist and book editor, wife of John "Jack" Whiteside Parsons who married [[Wilfred Talbot Smith]] after Parson's death.{{sfnp|Starr|2003|p=276}}
== R ==
* [[C. F. Russell]] (1897–1987), American occultist and founder of the magical order G.B.G.{{sfnp|Starr|2003|p=77}}
== S ==
* [[Phyllis Seckler]] (1917–2004), American occultist and writer, and a lineage holder in the [[A∴A∴]] tradition.{{sfnp|Readdy|2018|pp=157–300}}
* [[Harry Everett Smith]] (1923–1991), American polymath, artist, experimental filmmaker, bohemian, mystic, record collector, hoarder, student of anthropology and Neo-Gnostic bishop.<ref>[[Ed Sanders]], biographical essay in Liner Notes to ''Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 4'', Revenant RVM 211 (2000).</ref>
* [[Wilfred Talbot Smith]] (1885–1957), English occultist and ceremonial magician.{{sfnp|Starr|2003|pp=12–17}}
== W ==
* [[Leila Waddell]] (1880–1932), Australian violinist who became a Scarlet Woman of Aleister Crowley.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cantú |first=K. E. |year=2023 |title=Like a Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami and Śivarājayoga |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0197665473 |page=383, n. 74}}</ref>
* [[James Wasserman]] (1948–2020), American writer and occultist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tahutilodge.org/history.php |title=Tahuti Lodge O.T.O., serving the New York City Metropolitan Area |year=2009 |work=Tahutilodge.org |publisher=Tahuti Lodge, [[Ordo Templi Orientis]] |access-date=November 22, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123143703/http://tahutilodge.org/history.php |archive-date=November 23, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Wasserman |first=James |title=In the Center of the Fire: A Memoir of the Occult 1966-1989 |page=187 |publisher=Ibis Press |location=Lake Worth, FL |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-89254-201-7}}</ref>
* [[Sam Webster (writer)|Sam Webster]], American writer, publisher, co-founder of the Chthonic Auranian Templars of Thelema and [[Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn|OSOGD]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Wicker |first=Christine |title=Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America |pages=207–236 |publisher=HarperSanFrancisco |date=2005 |isbn=0-06-072678-4}}</ref>
* [[Jane Wolfe]] (1875–1958), American silent film character actress.<ref>{{cite book |year=2008 |first=Jane |last=Wolfe |title=Jane Wolfe: The Cefalu Diaries 1920 - 1923 |publisher=Temple of the Silver Star |isbn=978-0997668636}}</ref>
==Former Thelemites==
* [[Augustus Sol Invictus]] (b. 1983), American [[far-right]] political activist, attorney, blogger, and [[white nationalist]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2015/10/libertarian-party-drama-goat-sacrifice-eugenics-and-a-chairs-resignation-026236 |title=Libertarian Party drama: Goat sacrifice, eugenics and a chair's resignation |last=Caputo |first=Marc |date=October 1, 2015 |work=[[Politico]] |access-date=May 27, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170708025722/http://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2015/10/libertarian-party-drama-goat-sacrifice-eugenics-and-a-chairs-resignation-026236 |archive-date=July 8, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> He has subsequently claimed to have reverted to Catholicism in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Progress |first=HAWES SPENCER The Daily |date=2024-02-21 |title=Florida man charged in 2017 torch cases speaks: He's stopped drinking goat blood |url=https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/florida-man-charged-in-2017-torch-cases-speaks-hes-stopped-drinking-goat-blood/article_239db006-d040-11ee-9264-0b922cb08932.html |access-date=2024-02-23 |website=The Daily Progress |language=en}}</ref>
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[[Thelema]] is a philosophical and mystical system founded by [[Aleister Crowley]] early in the 20th century. This is a '''list of Thelemites''', self-professed adherents of Thelema (including those who identified as Thelemites during part of their lives but subsequently left the faith) who have Wikipedia articles. These individuals come from diverse backgrounds, including artists, writers, occultists, scientists, musicians, and more, hailing from countries such as the United States, England, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Brazil.
[[Thelema]] is a philosophical and mystical system founded by [[Aleister Crowley]] early in the 20th century. This is a '''list of Thelemites''', self-professed adherents of Thelema (including those who identified as Thelemites during part of their lives but subsequently left the faith) who have Wikipedia articles. These individuals come from diverse backgrounds, including artists, writers, occultists, scientists, musicians, and more, hailing from countries such as the United States, England, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Brazil.


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Thelema is a philosophical and mystical system founded by Aleister Crowley early in the 20th century. This is a list of Thelemites, self-professed adherents of Thelema (including those who identified as Thelemites during part of their lives but subsequently left the faith) who have Wikipedia articles. These individuals come from diverse backgrounds, including artists, writers, occultists, scientists, musicians, and more, hailing from countries such as the United States, England, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Brazil.

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Top • # • A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z

A

  • Kenneth Anger (1927-2023), American underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and writer.[1][2]

B

C

D

E

  • Sally Eaton (b. 1947), American Wiccan high priestess, liturgist, singer and actress.[10]

F

G

  • Peaches Geldof (1989–2014), English columnist, television personality, and model.[13]
  • Karl Germer (1885-1962), German and American businessman and occultist, O.H.O. of O.T.O. (1947–1962).[14]
  • Kenneth Grant (1924–2011), English ceremonial magician and advocate of Thelema.[15]

H

J

K

L

M

N

P

R

  • C. F. Russell (1897–1987), American occultist and founder of the magical order G.B.G.[34]

S

  • Phyllis Seckler (1917–2004), American occultist and writer, and a lineage holder in the A∴A∴ tradition.[35]
  • Harry Everett Smith (1923–1991), American polymath, artist, experimental filmmaker, bohemian, mystic, record collector, hoarder, student of anthropology and Neo-Gnostic bishop.[36]
  • Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885–1957), English occultist and ceremonial magician.[37]

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Former Thelemites

  1. ↑ Keneth Anger: how I made Lucifer Rising, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jul/22/how-we-made-lucifer-rising
  2. ↑ Kenneth Anger on the Occult, https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/3567/kenneth-anger-on-the-occult
  3. ↑ Richmond, Keith  (2004). Progradior and the Beast. Neptune Press, 99–100, 145. ISBN 978-0954706340. 
  4. ↑ Flood, Alison. "Unseen Aleister Crowley writings reveal 'short-story writer of the highest order'", The Guardian, 2015-10-15. 
  5. ↑ Booth, Martin (2001). A Magick Life: A Biography of Aleister Crowley. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 375–76. ISBN 0-340-71806-4. 
  6. ↑ Kansa, Spencer (2011). Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron. Oxford: Mandrake, 75–77, 247. ISBN 978-1-906958-08-4. 
  7. ↑ , ()
  8. ↑ Holt, Nathalia (June 2016). The Women Behind the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 
  9. ↑ DuQuette, Lon Milo (1999). My Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician. Red Wheel/Weiser. ISBN 1-57863-120-3. 
  10. ↑ The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-paganism, 27. 
  11. ↑ Churton, Tobias  (2017). Aleister Crowley in America: Art, Espionage, and Sex Magick in the New World. Inner Traditions/Bear, 240. ISBN 978-1-62055-631-3. 
  12. ↑ , ()
  13. ↑ "Peaches Geldof has signed up to Aleister Crowley's sex cult OTO", April 15, 2013. 
  14. ↑ , ()
  15. ↑ , ()
  16. ↑ Symonds, John (1973). The Great Beast: The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley. St Albans, Herts.: Mayflower. ISBN 978-0583121958. 
  17. ↑ Sutin, Lawrence (2000). Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley. St. Martin's Griffin, 330. 
  18. ↑ The Magic of Israel Regardie. New Falcon Publishing. ISBN 1-56184-230-3. 
  19. ↑ Greer, John Michael (2003). The New Encyclopedia of the Occult. Llewellyn Worldwide, 205. ISBN 978-1-56718-336-8. 
  20. ↑ , ()
  21. ↑ Eshelman, James A.  (2000). The Mystical & Magical System of the A A: The Spiritual System of Aleister Crowley & George Cecil Jones Step-by-step. College of Thelema. ISBN 978-0970449603. 
  22. ↑ Shoemaker, David  (2022). Living Thelema: A Practical Guide to Attainment in Aleister Crowley's System of Magick. Red Wheel/Weiser, 271. ISBN 978-1578637799. 
  23. ↑ Thompson, Cath (2018). All This and a Book. Hadean Press Limited. ISBN 978-1-907881-78-7. 
  24. ↑ (2005) Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, Online, Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004141872. 
  25. ↑ , ()
  26. ↑ , ()
  27. ↑ , ()
  28. ↑ Official bio, http://www.nonamejane.com/?page_id=98  Accessed: 2012-06-12  article status: dead  (Publisher: Noname Jane's Official Site)
  29. ↑ , ()
  30. ↑ Pendle, George (2006). Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 203–4. ISBN 978-0-15-603179-0. 
  31. ↑ Beta, Hymenaeus (2008). "Foreword" to Three Essays on Freedom (J.W. Parsons). York Beach, Maine: Teitan Press, x–xi. ISBN 978-0-933429-11-6. 
  32. ↑ Parsons, John Whiteside (2008). Three Essays on Freedom. York Beach, Maine: Teitan Press, 67. ISBN 978-0-933429-11-6. 
  33. ↑ , ()
  34. ↑ , ()
  35. ↑ , ()
  36. ↑ Ed Sanders, biographical essay in Liner Notes to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 4, Revenant RVM 211 (2000).
  37. ↑ , ()
  38. ↑ Cantú, K. E.  (2023). Like a Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami and Śivarājayoga. Oxford University Press, 383, n. 74. ISBN 978-0197665473. 
  39. ↑ Tahuti Lodge O.T.O., serving the New York City Metropolitan Area, http://tahutilodge.org/history.php  article status: dead  (Publisher: Tahuti Lodge, Ordo Templi Orientis)
  40. ↑ Wasserman, James (2012). In the Center of the Fire: A Memoir of the Occult 1966-1989. Lake Worth, FL: Ibis Press, 187. ISBN 978-0-89254-201-7. 
  41. ↑ Wicker, Christine (2005). Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America. HarperSanFrancisco, 207–236. ISBN 0-06-072678-4. 
  42. ↑ Wolfe, Jane (2008). Jane Wolfe: The Cefalu Diaries 1920 - 1923. Temple of the Silver Star. ISBN 978-0997668636. 
  43. ↑ Libertarian Party drama: Goat sacrifice, eugenics and a chair's resignation, http://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2015/10/libertarian-party-drama-goat-sacrifice-eugenics-and-a-chairs-resignation-026236  article status: live
  44. ↑ Florida man charged in 2017 torch cases speaks: He's stopped drinking goat blood, https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/florida-man-charged-in-2017-torch-cases-speaks-hes-stopped-drinking-goat-blood/article_239db006-d040-11ee-9264-0b922cb08932.html  (Language: en
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