The Great Conversation
These are the men and women sitting around the Round Table of the Royal Art. They don’t all agree with one another. Some would probably vehemently disagree with others. They lived in different centuries and traditions. But each one discovered, guarded, transmitted, or illuminated some portion of the Mystery.
a Round Table. Some are kings, some are poets, some are magi, some are prophets, some are mystics, and some would probably argue fiercely with one another if they were all seated together. Yet each one is carrying some lamp that helps illuminate the Great Mystery.
The Gallery of the Tradition
- Adam
- Seth
- Enoch
- Thoth
- Hermes Trismegistus
- Zoroaster
- Orpheus
- Melchizedek
- Enoch
- Metatron
- Moses
- Solomon
- Elijah
- Noah
- Abraham
- Moses
- David
- Solomon
- Elijah
- Isaiah
- Jeremiah
- Ezekiel
- Daniel
- Ezra
- Pythagoras
- Heraclitus
- Parmenides
- Empedocles
- Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Philo of Alexandria
- the Teacher of Righteousness
- John the Baptist
- Yeshua the Christ
- Mary, Mother of Yeshua
- Mary Magdalene
- Plotinus
- Porphyry
- Iamblichus
- Proclus
- Origen
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- Meister Eckhart
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Julian of Norwich
- Francis of Assisi
- John of the Cross
- Jakob Böhme
- William Law
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- William Blake
- Merlin
- Christian Rosenkreutz
- Hiram Abiff
- Zosimos of Panopolis
- Mary the Jewess
- Cleopatra the Alchemist
- Rabbi Akiva
- Shimon bar Yochai
- Isaac the Blind
- Azriel of Gerona
- Abraham Abulafia
- Moses de León
- Joseph Gikatilla
- Moses Cordovero
- Isaac Luria
- Hayim Vital
- Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov
- Nachman of Breslov
- Elijah Benamozegh
- Gershom Scholem
- Jabir ibn Hayyan
- Avicenna
- Ibn Arabi
- Rumi
- Attar of Nishapur
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Hugh de Payne
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Thomas Aquinas
- Ramon Llull
- Meister Eckhart
- Dante Alighieri
- Johannes Trithemius
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
- Paracelsus
- Giordano Bruno
- John Dee
- Robert Fludd
- Mary the Jewess
- Zosimos of Panopolis
- Jabir ibn Hayyan
- Albertus Magnus
- Roger Bacon
- Ramon Llull
- Nicolas Flamel
- Basil Valentine
- George Ripley
- Heinrich Khunrath
- Michael Maier
- Johann Daniel Mylius
- Robert Fludd
- Thomas Vaughan
- Count of Saint Germain
- Fulcanelli
- Julius Evola
- Christian Rosenkreutz
- Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
- Éliphas Lévi
- Albert Pike
- Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
- Arthur Edward Waite
- Paul Foster Case
- Manly P. Hall
- Paracelsus
- Johann Georg Gichtel
- William Butler Yeats
- Aleister Crowley
- Valentin Tomberg
- Rudolf Steiner
- G. I. Gurdjieff
- Homer
- Virgil
- Ovid
- Chrétien de Troyes
- Wolfram von Eschenbach
- Robert de Boron
- Thomas Malory
- Dante Alighieri
- William Shakespeare
- William Blake
- Novalis
- Goethe
- W. B. Yeats
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Carl Gustav Jung
To add and place
- Nicholas of Cusa
- Marsilio Ficino
- Pico della Mirandola
- Teresa of Ávila
- Owen Barfield
- C.S. Lewis
- Joseph Campbell
- Mircea Eliade