Thirteen

The Modern Mystics Who Changed the World — In Honor Of Occult Day

Mitch Horowitz
10 min readNov 17, 2016

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The landscape of today’s world would look radically different without the influence of thirteen men and women whose experiments in the esoteric and occult changed how we live.

In religion, pop culture, money, psychology — as well as in our most intimate views of ourselves — these thirteen mystics, mages, and…

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China