Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825-1875)
by: Robert Fikes, 2020

"Handsome, learned, and well-spoken, Randolph, who purported to be a medical doctor, found his stride on the lecture circuit speaking across the United States and in Europe and the Caribbean on #Occult esoterica, trance mediumship, clairvoyance, sexual magic, medical potions, abolition of slavery, women’s rights, and the importance of literacy." #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackOccultists #OccultHistory

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/paschal-beverly-randolph-1825-1875/

Mutus Liber - a wordless book of alchemical transformation

#alchemy #esotericism #esoterica #podcasts #esotericapodcast #alchemicalbooks #occultism #occult #PhilosophersStone #PrimaMateria #OccultHistory

https://youtu.be/a4JGXYuCke0

The Victorian #Occultist Accused of Killing Men With Her Mind

Pioneering #feminist and #AnimalRights campaigner Anna Kingsford was one of the 19th century's most remarkable women. Then she was charged with using black magic to murder 2 vivisectionists

by Dee Cunning, 2018

Crowley said that Kingsford “did more in the religious world than any other person had done for generations." Tarot author "Mary Greer called her the mother of the #GoldenDawn"

https://www.vice.com/en/article/mbp7pb/the-victorian-occultist-accused-of-killing-men-with-her-mind
#OccultHistory

A fixture of the London occult scene, Rollo Ahmed counted among his friends #occultist Aleister Crowley. Ahmed also wrote about racism he encountered in London in his autobiography: "Ahmed relays his life of negative racial encounters in 1930’s London. Situations such as, landlords refusing to rent him rooms and apartment, even just a room for shelter on a cold night, harassed by the police Ahmed was jailed several times for fraud."
#Racism #BlackHistory #OccultHistory

Rollo Ahmed, Black #Occultist
by James Goodridge

"Born in 1899 to an Egyptian father & Guyanese mother, Abdul Said Ahmed aka Rollo Ahmed had a considerable presence in the occult community of London during the 1930’s"

Ahmed's book "The Black Arts" was published in 1936. According to article author, it was the "definitive text on the occult world." Topics include: Egyptian, Greek and Roman magic, as well as "witchcraft and vampirism".
#BlackHistory #OccultHistory

https://horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/black-horror-history-black-occultist-rollo-ahmed/

More about Paschal Beverly Randolph (October 8, 1825 – July 29, 1875):

"You may not know his name. You may not know what he did, but if you’re a black #occultist? If you enjoy esoteric wisdom? You should. Paschal Beverly Randolph, was a #spiritualist, occultist, sex magician and the founder of the first (accepted history) Rosicrucian order in North America."

#BlackHistory #OccultHistory

https://www.terriebrookins.com/black-occultist-history/