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Astara Astara
Astara Astara is a hermetic occult fraternity founded in 1951 by Robert and Earlyne Chaney, both former Spiritualists. As a young medium, Robert Chaney had been active in the Spiritualist community in the Midwest in the 1930s and 1940s and was one of the founders of the Spiritualist Episcopal... Read more
Theosophical Society Theosophical Society
Theosophical Society The major modern organization advocating gnostic-esoteric teachings. The Theosophical Society was founded in New York in 1875 by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge, and others. It grew out of interest in the occult generated previously by the... Read more
Society for Psychical Research Society for Psychical Research
Society for Psychical Research (SPR) The British organization that became the focus for the emerging field of psychical research in the nineteenth century. Its establishment was proposed on June 6, 1882, at a meeting, by Sir William F. Barrett, and on February 20, 1882, the society came into... Read more
William Roy William Roy
Roy, William (1911-1977) Pseudonym of William George Holroyd Plowright, a notorious mediumistic fraud in British Spiritualist history. He boasted that he had earned £50,000 by cheating the bereaved and others who attended his fraudulent séances. He even made money out of publishing his... Read more
Wizards Wizards
"Magus" A spirit control of William Stainton Moses, supposed to be a member of the Mystic Band that delivered occult teaching in Moses's scripts. "Magus" did not disclose his name on Earth, but he said that he lived 4,000 years ago and belonged to an ancient African wonder-working... Read more
Astral body Astral body
Astral Body An exact replica of the physical body but composed of finer matter. The term is chiefly employed in Theosophy, and those numerous occult systems derived from it, to denote the link between the nervous system and the cosmic reservoir of energy. The astral body corresponds to the double... Read more
Survival Survival
Survival The continued possession of personality after the change called death. It is a fundamental doctrine of Spiritualism that Spiritualist phenomena demonstrate survival, and the investigation of that phenomena has been a major aspect of psychical research. The emergence of parapsychology... Read more
Channeling Channeling
Channeling A contemporary term for the earlier Spiritualist idea of mediumship, spirit entities conveying philosophical or spiritual advice or healing through mediums. Mediumship is generally thought of as the special activity of a few people who operate primarily to put people in contact with... Read more
Hereward Carrington Hereward Carrington
Carrington, Hereward (Hubert Lavington)(1880-1958) Psychical investigator and author of many popular books on psychic subjects. Carrington was born October 17, 1880, in St. Heliers, Jersey, Channel Islands, Britain. He was educated in London and Cranbrook, and immigrated to the United States in... Read more
Greater World Christian Spiritualist Association Greater World Christian Spiritualist Association
Greater World Christian Spiritualist Association British Spiritualist organization founded in 1931 as the Greater World Christian Spiritualist League. It grew out of the Zodiac Circle, which was organized in the early 1920s around the mediumship of Winifred Moyes. Moyes was a channel who... Read more

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