Esoterica Historical Timeline:
Witchcraft, Magic, Sorcery
What follows is a condensed Esoterica Timeline following the highlights of magic, sorcery, witchcraft, and magickal thought through the centuries and their influence on the interdisciplinary studies of Western esotericism: Western esoteric traditions including alchemy, astrology, Gnosticism, gnosis, magic, mysticism, Rosicrucianism, and secret societies, and their ramifications in art history, history, literature, and politics.
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13th century BCE?: Zarathushtra founds Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Magi; Moses founds Judaism; mythical date of Hermes Trismegistus.
10th century BCE: Solomon, son of David, King of Israel flourished
4? BCE-33 CE: Jesus founds Christianity
1st century CE: Apollonius of Tyana flourished
1st to 3rd CE?: Testament of Solomon composed
100-300 CE: composition of Corpus Hermetica
204-270 CE: Plotinus, Neoplatonic philosopher and mystic (born in Egypt)
250-325 CE: Iamblicus, neoplatonic philosopher, was born in Chalcis, Coele-Syria
500 CE (circa): Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite flourished, probably a native of Syria
6th CE: Sefer Yetzirah edited
10th CE: Sword of Moses composed
1004-1007?: al-Majriti, author of Picatrix, passes
1054: Rome splits from orthodox church, forms Catholic church
1175?-1235: Michael Scot (Scottish)
1220?-1292: Roger Bacon (English)
1227: Pope Honorius III passes
1232: Ramon Llull born (Majorca)
1240: Abraham Abulafia, Sicilian Kabbalist, founder of ecstatic Kabbala, born in Saragosa
1248: Joseph Gikatilla, Spanish Sephardic Kabbalist, born
1250?: Liber Juratus (Sworn Book of Honorius) compiled by Honorius of Thebes, son of Euclid
1259: Peter de Abano [Pietro d'Abano], Italian physician and philosopher born. Professor of medicine in Padua.
1266: John Duns Scotus, Scottish scholastic philosopher and thrologian, born
1274: Ramon Llull's vision on Mount Randa
1280?: Sefer Ha-Zohar written by Moses de León but attributed to Simon ben Yohai
1292?: Abraham Abulafia passes
1308: John Duns Scotus passes
1314: Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, burned at the stake in Paris
1316?: Ramon Llull passes;
1316: Peter de Abano passes
1323: Joseph Gikatilla passes
1433: Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher born. Under the patronage of the de'Medicis, he translated many Greek classics including the Corpus Hermetica
1453: Fall of Constantinople to the Turks caused dispersal and spread of Greek manuscripts and scholarship
1455: Johannes Reuchlin, German humanist and lawyer, born. Reuchlin wrote on Kabbalah and propagated Hebrew stupasses
1462: Johannes Trithemius born at Trittenheim on the Moselle. Trithemius was a famous scholar and Benedictine abbot.
1463: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher and scholar, born
1466: Francesco Giorgi [Zorzi], Venetian philosopher, born. Author of De Harmonia Mundi (Venits, 1525)
1471: Ficino's translation of Corpus Hermeticum published
1474: Ferdinand and Isabella ascend to the throne
1483: Martin Luther born Eisleben, Saxony, Germany.
1486: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa born in Cologne Germany; Malleus Maleficarum published, major instrument of witch hunters; Giovanni Pico della Mirandola takes his theses to Rome
1489: Ficino's Libri de Vita published
1492: Ferdinand and Isabella expel Jews from Spain, center of Cabalistic stupasses, caused dispersal and spread of Jewish and Cabalistic manuscripts and scholarship; discovery of the New World
1493: Paracelsus (Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) born Einsiedeln Switzerland. Swiss physician and philosopher. He was tutored (by his account) by Trithemius.
1494: Reuchlin's De verbo mirifico published; Giovanni Pico della Mirandola passes
1499: Marsilio Ficino passes
1510: Agrippa's De Occulta philosophia finished Guillaume Postel, French mathematician, Kabbalist, and mystic born
1515: Johan Weyer born
1516: Johannes Trithemius passes
1517: Reuchlin's De arte cabalistica published; Martin Luther posts theses
1522: Johannes Reuchlin passes
1525: Giorgi's De harmonia mundi published
1527: John Dee born in London Maximillian II born
1533: Agrippa's De Occulta philosopha published; Isaak Luria, Jewish Kabbalist, born in Jerusalem; Queen Elizabeth I born at Greenwich palace in London (September 7)
1535: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa passes; Giambattista della Porta born in Naples. Author of Magia naturalis (Natural Magic) (1585, 1589)
1538?: Reginald Scot born. Author of Discouerie of Witchcraft (1584)
1540: Francesco Giorgi passes; Faust passes
1541: Paracelsus passes
1542: Inquisition established in Rome
1546: Martin Luther passes
1548: Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher born in Nola Italy.
1552: Simon Forman born Emperor Rudolph II born Guillaume Postel publishes Latin translation of Sefer Yetzirah:
1554: Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded
1555: Edward Kelley born
1558: Elizabeth I becomes queen of England; Giambattista della Porta's Magia Naturalis published; Zohar printed
1560?: Heinrich Khunrath born in Leipzig
1564: Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica published
1566?: Michael Maier, physician, alchemist, and philosopher, born in Rensburg, Holstein (Germany). Physician to Emperor Rudolph II.
1572: Isaak Luria passes
1574: Robert Fludd, English physician, philosopher, and mystic, born
1575: Jakob Boehme, German religious mystic, born; Arbatel Of Magic first appears
1576: Maximillian II passes
1581: Dee and Kelley start their "mystical experiments" Guillaume Postel passes
1584: Bruno's Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast published
1588: Johan Weyer passes
1595: Edward Kelley passes (Nov)
1599: Reginald Scot passes
1600: Giordano Bruno burned at the stake in Rome
1602: Athanasius Kircher born in Geisa a. d. Ulster, Germany (May 2) William Lilly, astrologer and translator of Trithemius, born in Diseworth, county Leicester, England
1603: Queen Elizabeth I passes; accession of James I
1605: Heinrich Khunrath passes
1606: Trithemius' Steganographia first published
1608: John Dee passes
1611: Simon Forman passes
1612: Emperor Rudolph II passes
1614-15: Rosicrucian manifestos published in Germany
1615: Giambattista della Porta passes
1617: Elias Ashmole born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England (May 23)
1617-19: Fludd's Utriusque cosmi historia published
1618: Maier's Atlanta Fugiens published
1620: Robert Turner 'of Holshot', translator of magical texts, born
1622: Thomas Vaughan, English Rosicrucian, born Michael Maier passes
1624: Jakob Boehme passes
1636: Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, German mystic and Kabbalist, born
1637: Robert Fludd passes
1652: Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus published Thomas Vaughan publishes English translation (not his own) of the Rosicrucian Fama and Confessio
1666: Thomas Vaughan passes
1677: Christian Knorr von Rosenroth published first volume of Kabbala Denudata:
1680: Athanasius Kircher passes
1681: William Lilly, astrologer and translator of Trithemius, passes
1684: Christian Knorr von Rosenroth published second volume of Kabbala Denudata:
1688: Emanuel Swedenborg, scientist and mystic, born in Stockholm, Sweden.
1689: Christian Knorr von Rosenroth passes
1692: Elias Ashmole passes Salem witchcraft panic
1707: Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, Hebrew poet and Kabbalistic mystic, born Padua
1734: Franz Anton Mesmer born in Iznang, Swabia (Germany) (May 23)
1747: Moses Hayyim Luzzatto passes
1749-56: Swedenborg's Arcana Coelestia published
1751: Ebenezer Sibly born
1772: Emanuel Swedenborg passes
1800: Ebenezer Sibly passes
1810: Eliphas Levi, (Constant, Alphonse Louis), French occultist, born in Paris, France. He is said to be largely responsible for the revival of magic in the 19th century.
1815: Franz Anton Mesmer passes
1831: Helena Petrovna Blavatski (Helena Petrovna von Hahn), cofounder of the Theosophical Society, born of German parents in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine).
1832: Henry Steel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society, born
1865: Papus (i.e. G.A.V. Encausse), French occultist and author born
1846: Anna Kingsford (Annie Bonus) born
1847: Annie Besant (née Wood), author and noted Theosophist born
1848: William W. Wescott born
1854: Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers born in London
1856: Levi's masterpiece Le Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie published
1857: Arthur Edward Waite born in Brooklyn, New York
1861: Rudolph Steiner born
1865: William Butler Yeats born in Ireland
1875: Eliphas Levi, (Constant, Alphonse Louis) passes (May 31)
1875: Aleister Crowley (Crowley, Edward Alexander) born (October 12)
1889: Mathers' edition of Kabbalah Unveiled published
1888: Anna Kingsford (Annie Bonus) passes Papus' Traité Elémentaire de Science Occulte published; Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn established in London
1889: Mathers' edition of Key of Solomon published
1890: Dion Fortune (i.e. Violet Mary Firth) born; W.B. Yeats joins the Golden Dawn
1891: Helena Petrovna Blavatski (Helena Petrovna von Hahn), cofounder of the Theosophical Society, passes
1897: Levi's Le Clef des Grandes Mystères published
1898: Julius Evola born Aleister Crowley joins the Golden Dawn; Mathers publishes The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage [Abramelin]
1899: C.G. Leland publishes Aradia, the Gospel of the Witches:
1900: Crowley expelled from the Golden Dawn
1901: Manly Palmer Hall born
1907: Henry Steel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society, passes Israel Regardie born
1909: Franz Bardon born
1916: Papus (i.e. G.A.V. Encausse), French occultist and author passes
1918: Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers passes
1925: William W. Wescott passes Rudolph Steiner passes
1933: Annie Besant (née Wood), author and noted Theosophist passes
1937: Israel Regardie publishes the Golden Dawn, which includes the bulk of the Golden Dawns' rituals and teachings.
1939: William Butler Yeats passes
1942: Arthur Edward Waite passes
1946: Dion Fortune (i.e. Violet Mary Firth) passes
1947: Aleister Crowley (Crowley, Edward Alexander) passes
1958: Franz Bardon passes
1974: Julius Evola passes
1985: Israel Regardie passes
1990: Manly Palmer Hall passes
