Elias Ashmole

‘People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things. I am really more of a magician than anything else.’

William Stukeley. Born in 1687, Stukeley, a young Lincolnshire doctor, had found himself drawn to Stonehenge after seeing engravings of the site.

the founder of Astrology; the discoverer of Alchemy.

Dee disappeared from the historical records for five years. Legend has it that he used this time to travel around Europe acquiring knowledge of the Kabbala. This may be evidenced by the fact that in 1564 he published a mystical book with Kabbalistic themes, entitled Monas Hieroglyphica (The Hieroglyphic Monad). In this work he presented a curiously

Agrippa was born on 14 September 1496, in Cologne, Germany. He is best known for his 1533 publication, De Occulta Philisophia Libri Tres (Three Books of Occult Philosophy). The first book is on natural magic; the second on celestial magic; and the third on ceremonial magic.

It is associated with an outstanding scholar, William Buckland, the son of a Dorset clergyman who had lost his vision in an accident.