Теон, Макс

Max Theon AKA "Eliezer Mordechai Theon Ben-Rivka" AKA Louis-Maximilian Bimstein AKA Aia Aziz Poland / France 1848 – 1927 Teachers: P. B. Randolph; Chassidim of Poland; Coptic magician Paulos Metamon; Eliphas Levi; Students: Pascal Themanlys; H.P. Blavatsky; Mary Chrystine Woodroffe Ware (Madame Alma Théon), wife; Augusta Roife (Miss Teresa), secretary; Louis Themanlys (Pascale's Father) ; F. Charles Barlet ; Peter Davidson; Thomas Burgoyne; William Alexander Ayton; Rene Caille; Albert Jounet; Ellip B. Page; Thomas Moore Johnson; Dr. Jirah Dewey Buck; William B. Shirley; Emma Hardinge Britten; Hargrave Jenning; Papus; Theodor Reuss; C.C. Zain; Henry and Belle Wagner, C.C. Zain's initiators; Thomas M. Johnson, Platonist, in Missouri; Mrs. Josephine Cables, Rochester, NY; Joscelyn Godwin; Friends: Matteo Alfassa, The Mother AKA Mirra Alfassa or Mirra Richard; Sri Aurobindo ; Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie; John Yarker; Enemies: H.P. Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott once large numbers of Theosophists began defecting to the H.B.of L, forcing them to start an "ESOTERIC Section" of "practical occultism" which remained disappointingly intellectual; A.E. Waite; Hurrychund Chintamon, who swindled Blavatsky; Rene Guenon; Pierre Duvar; William Q. Judge, who was rejected for membership from the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor or H.B.L.; Organizations: inspired The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, 1884, using Randolph's practical methods and his own Philosopie Cosmique Author: VISIONS OF THE ETERNAL PRESENT, La Tradition Cosmique; Comments: "Cosmic movement"; Qabalist; Rosicrucian; sex magick; Magic Mirror or Crystal gazing; husband - wife mesmerists and subject/muse/gateway to the Astral; Resources: http://www.kheper.net/topics/Theon/; http://www.abpw.net/cosmique/index.htm; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Theon; see also The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor by Joscelyn Godwin, et al