His house became a kind of academy, where wits, experimentalists, occultists, philosophers, and men of letters worked and talked.
"The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened"
Kenelm Digby
His the Presence that cheered the solitary mystics, the hunted occultists, the patient seekers after truth.
"Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries"
Annie Besant
So far as the wonder-working and the teachings are concerned, we may briefly dismiss these first with the acknowledgment that most great Teachers have wrought works which, on the physical plane, appear as miracles in the sight of their contemporaries, but are known by occultists to be done by the exercise of powers possessed by all Initiates above a certain grade.
"Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries"
Annie Besant