Magi — from Adapa to Aleister Crowley

A chronology of magi / wise-men / royal-sage occult figures, opening with the deepest sage-strata — the Sumerian apkallu Adapa, the Egyptian deified sage Imhotep, the priestess-poet Enheduanna, Hermes Trismegistus, and Pharaoh's magicians Jannes and Jambres of Moses' era — through Pythagoras (number as the root of the cosmos), the Babylonian court magi (Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego), the priest-astronomer Berossus, the star-following Magi of Matthew 2, the neo-Pythagorean magus Apollonius of Tyana, the theurgist Iamblichus, the magician-martyr Saint Cyprian of Antioch ('San Cipriano', whose Libro de San Cipriano and Dragón Rojo transmit the Solomonic-Egyptian magical lineage to Iberia), the Arabic astrologers Abu Ma'shar, Al-Kindi (De radiis stellarum) and Maslama al-Qurtubi (Picatrix), the medieval Iberian sages — Ramon Llull, Alfonso X the Wise, Arnaldus de Villanova, Moses de León — the Renaissance Christian-kabbalists and royal astrologers, the Baroque Jesuit mage Athanasius Kircher (Oedipus Aegyptiacus), and the modern Hermetic line of Eliphas Lévi and S.L. Mathers, ending with Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), founder of Thelema, who re-read scripture by the stars and codified the Solomonic Goetia. 40 figures across 3500 BCE – 1947 CE. Click a card to open its profile — a Wikipedia-sourced biography, an infobox of facts, and a works-and-contributions table.