List of Thelemites

Thelema is a philosophical and mystical system founded by Aleister Crowley in 1904. 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.

A[edit]

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

B[edit]

• Frank Bennett (1868–1930), Australian chemist.^[3]
• William Breeze (b. 1955), American writer and musician.^[4]
• Mary Butts (1890–1937), English modernist writer.^[5]

C[edit]

• Marjorie Cameron (1922–1995), American artist, poet, actress and occultist.^[6]
• Barbara Canright (1919–1997), American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, member of Agape Lodge.^[7][8]
• William C. Conway (1865–1969), American neo-Druid and the leader of a mystical sect in the Latter Day Saint movement^[9][10]
• Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), English occultist, ceremonial magician, writer, and founder of Thelema.

D[edit]

• Lon Milo DuQuette (b. 1948), American writer, lecturer, musician, and occultist.^[11] He is also a National and International governing officer of the Thelemic organization Ordo Templi Orientis.^[12]

E[edit]

• Sally Eaton (b. 1947), American Wiccan high priestess, liturgist, singer and actress.^[13]

F[edit]

• Jeanne Robert Foster (1879–1970), one of Crowley's "Scarlet Women" who took the magical name Sister Hilarion.^[14]
• J. F. C. Fuller (1878–1966), Major-General in the British Army, military historian, and strategist.^[15]

G[edit]

• Peaches Geldof (1989–2014), English columnist, television personality, and model.^[16]
• Karl Germer (1885-1962), German and American businessman and occultist, O.H.O. of O.T.O. (1947–1962).^[17]
• Kenneth Grant (1924–2011), English ceremonial magician and advocate of Thelema.^[18]

H[edit]

• Lady Frieda Harris (1877–1962), English artist known for her design of Crowley's Thoth Tarot.^[19]
• Leah Hirsig (1883–1975), American schoolteacher and occultist, most famous of Crowley's Scarlet Women.^[20]
• L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American author and founder of the religion Scientology. Was briefly involved with Thelema and collaborated with Jack Parsons on a Thelemic ritual before founding his own religion.^[21]
• Christopher Hyatt (1943–2008), American psychologist, occultist, and writer.^[22][23]

I[edit]

• Augustus Sol Invictus (b. 1983), American far-right political activist, attorney, blogger, and white nationalist.^[24] He has subsequently claimed to have reverted to Catholicism in 2022.^[25]

J[edit]

• Charles Stansfeld Jones (1886–1950), Canadian occultist and ceremonial magician.^[26]
• George Cecil Jones (1873–1960), English chemist, occultist, Golden Dawn member and co-founder of the A∴A∴.^[27]

K[edit]

• Richard Kaczynski (b. 1963), American occult writer and psychologist.^[28]

L[edit]

• James Lees (1939–2015), English magician known for English Qaballa.^[29]

M[edit]

• Grady Louis McMurtry (1918–1985), American ceremonial magician and "Caliph" of O.T.O.^[30]
• Marcelo Ramos Motta (1931–1987), Brazilian occult writer and member of A∴A∴^[31]

N[edit]

• Nema Andahadna (1939–2018), American occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer about the Ma'atian current.^[32]
• Victor Neuburg (1883–1940), English poet and writer.^[15]
• Noname Jane, American pornographic actress.^[33]
• Eric Nord (born Harry Helmuth Pastor; 1919–1989), American Beat Generation coffeehouse and nightclub owner, poet, actor, and hipster, the "King of the Beatniks".^[34]
• Sara Northrup Hollister (1924–1997), American occultist and second wife of Scientologist founder L. Ron Hubbard.^[35]

P[edit]

• Jack Parsons (1914–1952), American rocket engineer, chemist, and occultist.^[36][37]
• 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.^[38]

R[edit]

• C. F. Russell (1897–1987), American occultist and founder of the magical order G.B.G.^[39]

S[edit]

• Phyllis Seckler (1917–2004), American occultist and writer, and a lineage holder in the A∴A∴ tradition.^[40]
• Harry Everett Smith (1923–1991), American polymath, artist, experimental filmmaker, bohemian, mystic, record collector, hoarder, student of anthropology and Neo-Gnostic bishop.^[41]
• Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885–1957), English occultist and ceremonial magician.^[42]

W[edit]

• Leila Waddell (1880–1932), Australian violinist who became a Scarlet Woman of Aleister Crowley.^[43]
• James Wasserman (1948–2020), American writer and occultist.^[44][45]
• Sam Webster, American writer, publisher, co-founder of the Chthonic Auranian Templars of Thelema and OSOGD.^[46]
• Jane Wolfe (1875–1958), American silent film character actress.^[47]

See also[edit]

• Magical organization
• Members of Ordo Templi Orientis

References[edit]

Works cited[edit]

• Grant, Kenneth (1980). Outside the Circles of Time. Muller. ISBN 978-0584104684. Contains a lengthy account of the writing of Nema's Liber Pennae Praenumbra.
• Kaczynski, Richard (2024). Friendship in Doubt: Aleister Crowley, J. F. C. Fuller, Victor B. Neuburg, and British Agnosticism. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-769400-8.
• Readdy, K. (2018). One Truth and One Spirit: Aleister Crowley's Spiritual Legacy. Ibis Press. ISBN 978-0892541843.
• Starr, Martin P. (2003). The Unknown God: W. T. Smith and the Thelemites. Bollingbrook, Illinois: Teitan Press. ISBN 978-0-933429-07-9.