Esoteric Teachers

"On the inner planes are teachers of all descriptions, some of profound knowledge, others not so much more advanced than those of you who are taught." -- Master Djwal Khul to Alice Bailey

• Evangeline Adams (1868-1932), astrologer
• William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932), New Thought organizer
• Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950), Indian mystic
• A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977), founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKON)
• Bahá'u'lláh, Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri (1817-1892), founder of the Baha'i Faith
• Alice Bailey (1880-1949), early Theosophist and founder of the Lucis Trust
• Annie Besant (1847-1933), President of the Theosophical Society
• Madame Blavatsky (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky) (1831-1891), co-founder of the Theosophical Society
• Catherine Booth (1829-1890), co-founder of the Salvation Army
• William Booth (1829-1912), co-founder of the Salvation Army
• Nona L. Brooks (1861-1945), co-founder of the Divine Science Church
• Paul Brunton (1898-1981), spiritual teacher
• Milton N. Bunker, founder of The American Grapho Analysis Society
• Eileen Caddy (1917-2006), co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation
• Peter Caddy (1917-1994), co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation
• Harriet Emilie Cady (1848-1941), Unity writer
• Paul Foster Case (1884-1954), Rosicrucian teacher, founder of Builders of the Adytum (BOTA)
• Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998), shaman
• Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), “The Sleeping Prophet”, clairvoyant
• Malinda Cramer (1844-1906), co-founder of the Divine Science Church
• Aleister Crowley, (Edward Alexander Crowley) (1875-1947), occultist
• Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), founder of Christian Science
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1892), leader of the Transcendentalist movement
• Stewart Farrar (1916-2000), Wiccan teacher
• Charles Fillmore (1854-1948), co-founder of the Unity Church
• Myrtle Fillmore (1845-1931), co-founder of the Unity Church
• Emmet Fox (1886-1961), minister of Divine Science
• Gerald Gardner (1884-1964), founder of the Wicca movement
• Neville Goddard (1905-1972), New Thought teacher
• Joel S. Goldsmith (1892-1964), founder of the Infinite Way Movement
• G. I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949), founder of the Fourth Way Movement
• Manly P. Hall, (1901-1990), historian of Freemasonry
• Lady Freida Harris (1877-1962), designer of the Thoth Tarot
• Max Heindel (Carl Louis von Grasshoff) (1865-1919), founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship
• Ernest Holmes (1887-1960), founder of the Religious Science movement
• Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849–1925), New Thought pioneer
• L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986), founder of Scientology
• Oscar Ichazo (1931- ), founder of the Arica School and developer of the Enneagram
• Marc Edmund Jones (1888-1980), astrologer
• William Quan Judge (1851-1896), co-founder of the Theosophical Society
• Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986), Hindu teacher
• Anton Szandor LaVey (Howard Stanton Levey) (1930-1997), founder of the Church of Satan
• Éliphas Lévi (Alphonse Louis Constant) (1810-1875), occult writer
• Charles W. Leadbeater (1854-1934), early Theosophist and co-founder of the Liberal Catholic Church
• Max Freedom Long (1890-1971), developer of Huna
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918-2008), developer of Transcendental Meditation
• Dorothy Maclean (1920- ), co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation
• Annie Rix Militz (1856-1924), New Thought organizer
• Muktananda (1908-1982), founder of the Siddha Yoga spiritual path
• Yoshikazu Okada (1901-1974), founder of the Mahikari movement
• Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907), co-founder of the Theosophical Society
• P. D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), spiritual teacher
• Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), Hindu teacher
• Phineas Quimby (1802-1866), founder of the New Thought movement
• Helena Ivanovna Roerich (1879-1955), founder of Agni Yoga
• Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), Theosophical teacher
• Jane Roberts (1929-1984), channel for Seth
• Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921-1990)), “Baba”, founder of Ananda Marga
• Sathya Sai Baba (1926-1911), Indian guru
• Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), founder of modern, academic study of Kabbalah
• Helen Schucman (1909-1981), channel for A Course in Miracles
• Florence Scovel Shin (1871-1940), New Thought teacher
• Kirpal Singh (1894-1974), founder of Rahani Satsang
• Alfred P Sinnett (1840-1922), Theosophical publisher
• Analee Skarin (1899-1988), Mormon mystic
• Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844), founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Baird T. Spaulding (1857-1953), spiritual teacher
• Rudolf Steiner (1875-1953), founder of the Anthroposophical Society
• Sun Myung Moon (1920-2012), founder of the Unification Church
• Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772), developer of Swedenborgianism
• Vivekananda (1862-1902) spiritual teacher
• Yogananda (1893-1952) Indian spiritual teacher
• Morning Glory Zell (Diana Moore) (1948-2014), co-founder of the Church of All-Worlds
• Oberon Zell-Ravenheart (Timothy Zell) (1942- ), co-founder of the Church of All-Worlds