Sepharial

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Sepharial or Walter Gornold or Walter Gorn Old (pseudonyms, actually Walter Richard Old ) (born March 20, 1864 in Handsworth (now Birmingham ), England ; † December 23, 1929 in Hove , England) was an English author , astrologer and theosophist .

Live and act

Childhood, marriage, children

Walter Richard Old was born on March 20, 1864 in Handsworth , now a district of Birmingham , as one of six children of George († 1868) and Amelia Old († 1891). The father was a gentleman's outfitter , the family lived in good financial circumstances. After attending elementary school, Old completed an apprenticeship with a druggist in Birmingham. What activity he pursued after his apprenticeship is unclear.

In June 1896 he married Marie Moore . The marriage had six children.

The theosophist

In 1887, Old began an exchange of letters with Helena Blavatsky , then visited her in London and immediately fell into her charisma. He joined the Blavatsky Lodge , rose after a short time to the vice-president of the lodge and was from 1890 to 1891, after Archibald Keightley, Secretary General of the British Section of the Theosophical Society ( British Section of the Theosophical Society ). From December 1890 to July 1891 he was editor of the theosophical journal The Vahan .

In 1892 he traveled to India to support Henry Steel Olcott , President of the Theosophical Society. There he got entangled in the Judge Case , a scandal involving the masters of wisdom allegedly forged by William Quan Judge . In April 1894, Old returned to England, gave Edmund Garrett of the Westminster Gazette written material on the Judge Case and explained the whole matter to him from his point of view. In October 1894, Garrett began publishing the material in the Gazette that cast the Masters of Wisdom as charlatanry and the Theosophical Society in a crooked light. The result was that a number of lodges collapsed and numerous members of the Theosophical Society turned their backs. During this time, Old was expelled from the Theosophical Society. Since he was exposed to a number of attacks because of the disclosure of the documents, he changed his name to Walter Gornold , also spelled Walter Gorn Old , and left London in 1894/95 .

The astrologer

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From a young age, Old was interested in esotericism , especially astrology , numerology and occultism, and continued his self-taught education. At the age of twenty-three he published his first book on astrology (in 1887) under the pseudonym Sepharial ; this name made him known. He wrote a total of 58 books, including several basic astrological works, which are still valid today. In addition, he published a number of articles and essays in various newspapers and magazines such as B. the British Journal of Astrology or Old Moore's Almanack .

Works (selection)

  • A manual of occultism . Rider, London 1972, ISBN 0-09-110910-8 .
  • Symbolic degrees of the zodiac, the interpretation of the 360 ​​degrees of the horoscope . Chiron-Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-89997-107-8 .
  • The science of numerology . Borgo Press, San Bernardino 1986, ISBN 0-89370-692-2 .
  • The kabala of numbers . Cosimo, New York 2005, ISBN 1-59605-404-2 . (Reprint from 1913)
  • Your fortune in your name, or, Kabalistic-astrology, being the Hebraic method of divination by the power of sound, number, and planetary influence . Borgo Press, San Bernardino 1981, ISBN 0-89370-656-6 .
  • "The Manual of Astrology", W. Foulsham, Slough, Berks. reissued 1997. ISBN 0-572-01029-X

literature

  • Kim Farnell: The Astral Tramp, a Biography of Sepharial . Ascella, Mansfield 1998, ISBN 1-898503-88-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sepharial
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walter Gornold; Walter Gorn Old; Walter Richard Old
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English author, astrologer and theosophist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Handsworth, Birmingham , England
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1929
Place of death Hove