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] is a philosophical and mystical system founded by ] 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 Misplaced Pages 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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This is a '''list of self-described Thelemites''' and other professed adherents of the philosophy of ]. |
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* ] (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> |
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* ] (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> |
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* ] (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> |
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* ] (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> |
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* ] (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> |
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* ] (1919–1997), American ] at ]'s ], member of ].{{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=] |date=June 2016}}</ref> |
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* ] (1875–1947), English occultist, ceremonial magician, writer, and founder of Thelema. |
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* ] (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> He is also a National and International governing officer of the Thelemic organization ].<ref>{{Citation| title = Agape 1.3| access-date = 2010-11-29| url = http://lib.oto-usa.org/agape/agape.1.3.c.pdf}}</ref> |
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*Frater Da'Neos |
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* ] (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> |
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* ] (1879–1970), one of Crowley's "]" 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> |
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* ] (1878–1966), Major-General in the British Army, military historian, and strategist.{{sfnp|Kaczynski|2024}} |
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* ] (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> |
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* ] (1885-1962), German and American businessman and occultist, O.H.O. of O.T.O. (1947–1962).{{sfnp|Starr|2003|p=127}} |
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* ] (1924–2011), English ceremonial magician and advocate of Thelema.{{sfnp|Starr|2003|p=324}} |
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* ] (1877–1962), English artist known for her design of Crowley's '']''.<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> |
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* ] (1883–1975), American schoolteacher and occultist, most famous of Crowley's ].<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> |
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* ] (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.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Urban |first1=Hugh |title=Magia sexualis: Sex, magic, and liberation in modern Western esotericism |date=2006 |page=137 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520932883}}</ref> |
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* ] (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> |
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* ] (1886–1950), Canadian occultist and ceremonial magician.{{sfnp|Starr|2003}} |
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* ] (1873–1960), English chemist, occultist, ] member and co-founder of the ].<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=] |isbn=978-0970449603}}</ref> |
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* ] (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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* ] (1874–1932), English wife of occult writer Aleister Crowley from 1903 to 1909.{{cn|date=February 2024}} |
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* ] (1939–2015), English magician known for ].<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> |
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* ] (1918–1985), American ]ian and "Caliph" of ]<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> |
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* ] (1931–1987), Brazilian occult writer and member of ]{{sfnp|Readdy|2018|pp=ii–iii, 156–304}} |
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* ] (1939–2018), American occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer about the ].{{sfnp|Grant|1980}} |
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* ] (1883–1940), English poet and writer.{{sfnp|Kaczynski|2024}} |
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* ], 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> |
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* ] (born Harry Helmuth Pastor; 1919–1989), American ] coffeehouse and nightclub owner, poet, actor, and ], the "King of the Beatniks".{{sfnp|Starr|2003|p=250}} |
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* ] (1924–1997), American occultist and second wife of ] founder ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Pendle|first=George|author-link=George Pendle|title=Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons|publisher=]|year=2006|isbn=978-0-15-603179-0|location=Orlando, FL|page=203–4}}</ref> |
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* ] (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> |
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* ] (1910-2003), American occultist and book editor, wife of John "Jack" Whiteside Parsons who married ] after Parson's death.{{sfnp|Starr|2003|p=276}} |
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* ] (1897–1987), American occultist and founder of the magical order G.B.G.{{sfnp|Starr|2003|p=77}} |
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* ] (1917–2004), American occultist and writer, and a lineage holder in the ] tradition.{{sfnp|Readdy|2018|pp=157–300}} |
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* ] (1923–1991), American polymath, artist, experimental filmmaker, bohemian, mystic, record collector, hoarder, student of anthropology and Neo-Gnostic bishop.<ref>], biographical essay in Liner Notes to ''Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 4'', Revenant RVM 211 (2000).</ref> |
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* ] (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> |
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* ] (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, ] |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> |
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* ], American writer, publisher, co-founder of the Chthonic Auranian Templars of Thelema and ].<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> |
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* ] (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> |
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* ] (b. 1983), American ] political activist, attorney, blogger, and ].<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=] |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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==See also== |
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*{{cite book |last=Grant |first=Kenneth |author-link=Kenneth Grant |title=Outside the Circles of Time |publisher=Muller |year=1980 |isbn=978-0584104684}} Contains a lengthy account of the writing of Nema's ''Liber Pennae Praenumbra''. |
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*{{cite book |last=Kaczynski |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Kaczynski |year=2024 |title=Friendship in Doubt: Aleister Crowley, J. F. C. Fuller, Victor B. Neuburg, and British Agnosticism |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-769400-8}} |
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*{{cite book |last=Readdy |first=K. |year=2018 |title=One Truth and One Spirit: Aleister Crowley's Spiritual Legacy |publisher=Ibis Press |isbn=978-0892541843}} |
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*{{cite book |title=The Unknown God: W. T. Smith and the Thelemites |last=Starr |first=Martin P. |year=2003 |publisher=Teitan Press |location=Bollingbrook, Illinois |isbn=978-0-933429-07-9}} |
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