1. Introduction

Part I. Race, Place, and Othering

2. Mrs. Rosa Frances Swiney: Imperial Feminism and Eugenics in Theosophical Evolutionist Thought

3. The Myth of Pamela Colman Smith’s Blackness: Ethnic Impersonation in the Modern Esoteric Milieu

4. “Eastern Methods”/“Western Bodies”: Dion Fortune’s Shifting Positions on Yoga, 1929–1940

Part II. Locating the Feminine

5. The Devil Wears Pink: The Representation and Role of Woman in the Occultism of Maria de Naglowska

6. The Power of Beauty: Eleanor Kirk’s Feminine Esotericism

7. Painterly Desire: Ithell Colquhoun’s Other-than-Human Art

Part III. Rethinking Influence, Power, and Authority

8. Doreen Valiente: Unmotherly Mother of Modern Witchcraft

9. The Crucible of Modernity: Florence Farr and the Esoteric Woman

10. Madeline Montalban: Magus of the Morning Star

11. ‘The Seeker’: Frieda Harris’s Quest for Esoteric Fulfillment

12. George Yeats: Amanuensis to Inner Plane Spirits

Part IV. Embodiment

13. “Telling the World’s Fortune”: Eileen Garrett, Psychic Medium and Pioneer Parapsychologist

14. How to Make a Magician: Kabbalah, Psychotherapy, and the Mechanics of Syncretism in Colette Aboulker-Muscat’s Waking Dreamwork

15. Dion Fortune and the Temples of the Numinous

16. True Knowledge of God Obscured in Mind and Body: Hildegard of Bingen’s Medical and Religious Understanding of Adam’s Fall

17. Concluding Thoughts: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses