“Colin Wilson and Faculty X” was first published in Quest, Summer 1995.
“Discovering Swedenborg” was first published in Fortean Times 220, March 2007.
“Jan Potocki and the Saragossa Manuscript” was first published in Fortean Times 140, November 2000.
“Éliphas Lévi: The Professor of Transcendental Magic” was first published in Fortean Times 120, March 1999.
“The Alchemy of August Strindberg” was first published in Fortean Times 180, February 2004.
“The Inimitable Madame B.” was first published in EnlightenNext 47, Fall/Winter 2011.
“Rudolf Steiner: The Dweller on the Threshold” was first published in Fortean Times 205, January 2006.
“Manly Palmer Hall: The Secret Teacher” was first published in Fortean Times 255, November 2009.
“Dion Fortune: Psychic Warrior” was first published in Fortean Times 287, May 2012.
“Aleister Crowley: The Beast Himself” was first published in Fortean Times 231, January 2008.
“Julius Evola: Mussolini’s Mystic” was first published in Fortean Times 191, Special Issue 2004.
“Jung and the Occult” was first published in Fortean Times 264, July 2010.
“Ouspensky in London” was first published in Quest, Autumn 1998.
“Jean Gebser: Leaping into the Unknown” was first published in EnlightenNext, Spring/Summer 2010.
“Owen Barfield and the Evolution of Consciousness” was first published in Lapis 3, 1996.
“The Strange Death of James Webb” was first published in Fortean Times 150, September 2001.
I’d like to thank the editors of Quest, Lapis, and EnlightenNext for their assistance in making this book possible. My special thanks goes to David Sutton, my editor at Fortean Times, for his generous and invaluable help and to Joscelyn Godwin for his needed suggestions. I am also indebted to Anja Flode Bjorlo for her inestimable contribution and to Richard Smoley for seeing the thing through. And once again I’d like to thank my sons, Maximilian and Joshua, and their mother, Ruth Jones, for their unfailing support.