R.A. Gilbert

R.A. Gilbert AKA Robert Gilbert

England ? - present

Comments: Occult researcher ; one of several authors of the 70s whose scholarship and books brought the Occult Renaissance of the 70s to the people.; More a scholar than a Practitioner, from the little publicly known ; Antiquarian; Freemason ; A.E. Waite, Fellowship of the Rosy Cross; HOGD, Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, SRIA;

Teachers: A.E. Waite; Israel Regardie; Chic Cicero; Frederick Hockley; Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie; William Wynn Westcott; Rev. A.F.A. Woodford; Frederick Holland; William Alexander Ayton; Johann Friedrich Falk; A.E. Waite; William Robert Woodman; Sigmund Richter; F.G. Irwin; Dr. Robert Felkin; Estienne Morin;

Students: Desmond Bourke;

Friends: Stephen Skinner; Francis King; Ellic Howe; Nevill Drury; R.G.Torrens;

Organizations: Freemasonry; Fellow of the Rose Circle Research Society;

Author: The Golden Dawn Scrapbook: The Rise and Fall of a Magical Order (1998) ; Casting the First Stone: The Hypocrisy of Religious Fundamentalism and Its Threat to Society (1993); A.E. Waite: A Bibliography; Golden Dawn: Twilight of the Magicians (1983); The Golden Dawn Companion ; “Provenance Unknown: A Tentative Solution to the Riddle of the Cipher Manuscript of the Golden Dawn;

Resources: http://www.amazon.com/R.-A.-Gilbert/e/B001IOBL8W/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1344362653&sr=1-2-ent; http://www.rosecircle.org/cms/node/36;