Table of Correspondences


To list all the connections of this list would be, if not impossible, highly impractical, since it must be assumed that almost everyone on this list, with the possible exception of the Buddha and Gaius Caligula had heard about Jesus Christ. Gaius might have heard about him, since he died in 41 A.D, although it´s unlikely, since the crucifixion supposedly took place about 30 A.D, so Christianity wouldn´t have time to spread much beyond Galliea. As for the Buddha, well, he is the "enlightened one". The same goes for Mohammad, except that Gaius wouldn´t have heard about him, and I don´t really know about Saint Francis. He had probably heard about the Moorish empire since he lived during the Crusades, but how much he actually knew about Mohammad is uncertain. I assume he knew about him, although only in the vaguest of ways. I think it´s highly unlikely that the majority of people in the West before the 18th century A.D knew about the Buddha. I am assuming, perhaps a bit simplistic, (Major understatement!) that everyone on the list after 1800 was at least vaguely familiar with the name, although I doubt that Rasputin knew about him. The same goes for most of the other really well known "historical" persons, such as Saint Francis, Caligula, Dee et.al.
The same problem occurs, in reverse as it were, with the modern and contemporary personalities, such as Leary, Giger and both of the Wilsons. I think it´s safe to assume that Giger knows about, or have at the very least heard about everyone else. I have tried, since it´s common sense that everyone knows someone who knows everyone else, to limit the "connectabillity" of the list to three people removed, so instead of focusing on every slight encounter, I have managed to keep it somewhat within reasonable limits. For example: I have included on my list John Dee, who have met Sir Robert Walsingham, who founded the Secret Service, of whom Ian Fleming was a member in later years, and who attempted to recruit Aleister Crowley. There is thus a link three times removed between Dee and Crowley. This is the limits I have set for this chart. (It might be added within parantheses that I myself fit into this list, barely, since my maternal grandfather knew a woman who was once introduced to Adolf Hitler.)

Lovecraft knew of Crowley, see "Selected Letters of Howard Phillips Lovecraft" p. 120. There is also a strong suspicion that Lovecraft referred to Crowley in the story "The Thing on the Doorstep", which was first published in 1936.

Lovecraft refers to Levi in "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and even qoutes from his "Le Dogme de la Haute Magie", although not the full incantation. See "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by Lovecraft and "Le Dogme de la Haute Magie" by Levi.

Crowley have met H.G Wells, see "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley" p. 405.

Crowley is supposed to have met Gurdjieff at Fontainbleau, see Colin Wilson´s "Aleister Crowley, The Nature of the Beast" p. 159, although some sources claim they never met, see Lars B. Lindholm´s "Pilgrims of the Night" p. 119.

Crowley´s diciple, Captain, later Major-General, J.F.C Fuller later became a millitary aide to Adolf Hitler, see "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley", p. 9-10.

Timothy Leary often makes references to, and identifies with Crowley, see among others; "The Game of Life" p. 76-77 and "Confessions of A Hope Fiend" p. 288. (The title is of course a pun on Crowley´s autobiography "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley" and his semi-biographical "Diary of a Drug Fiend".)

Timothy Leary and Israel Regardie have spoken, see the Preface to the Falcon Press edition of Leary´s "Info-Psychology".

Kafka met Steiner at a lecture in Berlin in 1911. See Colin Wilsons´ "Rudolf Steiner, The Man and his Vision" p. 141-143

Kafka used to attend the open house meetings for Jewish intellectuals at the home of Berta Fanta, in Prauge. He met Einstein there occasionally. See "The Private Lives of Albert Einstein" p.137

John Dee may have helped Sir Francis Walsingham found the Secret Service. See "The Occult Conspiracy" by Michael Howard, p. 52-54

Crowley may have met Ian Fleming, the creator of "James Bond", in 1941 when Fleming was working for the Secret Service and tried to recruit Crowley. Fleming at the very least knew Maxwell Knight, a close friend of Crowley. See "The Occult Conspiracy" by Michael Howard, p. 136-137

Ian Fleming, the creator of "James Bond", apparently got "James Bonds" service number, "007", from queen Elisabeths spy and court magician, Dr John Dee, who had that number while spying on the spanish for Secret Service. See the Alexander Burgess´ preface to the 1988 Coronet edition of "Dr No", by Fleming.

Crowley knew about Weishaupt, and included him among the saints of his Gnostic Mass. Crowley also claimed to have access to some of Weishaupt´s papers, on which he based his "Two framents of a ritual", see The Equinox vol. 1 no. X. Crowley also styled himself "Epopt of the Illuminati". See "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley" p. 935 and The Equinox vol. 1 no. X. page

Crowley must have heard of Emperor Norton, as he had read "The Wrecker" by Robert Louis Stevenson. See "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley" p. 223

Giger met Salvador Dalí in 1975 while being involved in the making of the movie "Dune". See "HR GIGER Arh+" p. 52.

Giger met Timothy Leary at a press conference about the new movie "Alien", featuring the famous creature design by Giger, in 1979. See "HR GIGER Arh+" p. 89.

Timothy Leary was arrested at Milbrook in March 1966 by G. Gordon Liddy, who was later heavily involved in the Watergate scandal. Leary - Liddy - Nixon - Kennedy. See Timothy Leary´s "Neuropolitique" p. 33, among others.

Rudolf Steiner met Nietzsche through his sister Elisabeth, at Nietzsches house in Naumburg. See "Rudolf Steiner, The Man and his Vision" p. 87.

Marquise de Sade knew Casanova, who had also met Cagliostro. See "Sade, A Biography" by Maurice Lever, p. 262-264.

Willhelm Reich was a disciple of Freud, and was referred to as "the crown-prince of psychology" after Freuds breakup with Jung. See, among others, "Willhelm Reich In Hell" by Robert Anton Wilson, p. 61-62 and John A. Keel´s "Disneyland of the Gods". p. 113-114.

Israel Regardie was a good friend of Colin Wilson, see the Introduction to Colin Wilson´s "The war against sleep."

Israel Regardie adopted the middle-name "Francis" due to his fascination with Saint Francis of Assissi. See "The Eye in the Triangle" by Israel Regardie, page 7.

It is interesting to note that the very first time anyone saw revolutionaries wearing the Phryigan cap, symbol of the Illuminati and the Phrygian mysteries, was at the forced interrruption of a theathrical performance of "Le Suborneur" by the Marquise de Sade on monday the 5th of March 1792. See "Sade, A biography" by Maurice Lever p. 381.

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