author
Paschal Beverly Randolph
1825–1874
A bold 19th-century writer and occult thinker, he moved through spiritualism, medicine, and radical ideas with unusual energy. His books helped shape later Rosicrucian and esoteric traditions in the United States.
3 Audiobooks
Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story
by Paschal Beverly Randolph
The Wonderful Story of Ravalette
by Paschal Beverly Randolph
Dhoula Bel: Ein Rosenkreuzer-Roman
by Paschal Beverly Randolph
About the author
Born in New York City in 1825, Paschal Beverly Randolph became known as a writer, spiritualist, trance medium, and physician. Sources describe him as an early African American figure in American occult and spiritualist circles, and as the founder of one of the earliest Rosicrucian organizations in the United States.
Randolph wrote extensively and developed ideas that later readers associated with Rosicrucianism, mysticism, and sexual magic. He also traveled widely, lectured, and built a reputation as an unconventional public intellectual whose work crossed religion, reform, healing, and esoteric practice.
He died in 1875. Although he is still a relatively niche figure, Randolph remains important to historians of American spirituality because of the range of his writing and his lasting influence on later occult movements.