Sepharial

Sepharial or Walter or Walter Gorn Old Gornold ( 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.

Life and work

Childhood, marriage, children

Walter Richard Old was born on 20 March 1864 in Handsworth, now a district of Birmingham, as one of six children of George († 1868) and Amelia Old († 1891). The father was Haberdasher, the family in a good financial position. After attending primary school Old served an apprenticeship at a chemist in Birmingham. Which activity is unclear, he pursued after his apprenticeship.

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

The Theosophist

1887 Old began a correspondence with Helena Blavatsky, visited them in London and then immediately fell to their charisma. He joined the Blavatsky Lodge in rose after a short time as Vice-President of the Lodge and was from 1890 to 1891, according to Archibald Keightley, General Secretary 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 journal The Theosophical Vahan.

In 1892 he traveled to India to support Henry Steel Olcott, the President of the Theosophical Society. There he became embroiled in the Judge Case, a scandal involving allegedly forged by William Quan Judge Master letters of the Masters of Wisdom. In April 1894 Old returned to England, gave Edmund Garrett of the Westminster Gazette newspaper written material to the case and Judge stated that in his view the whole affair. In October 1894 Garrett began in the Gazette with the release of the substance that moved the Masters of Wisdom as quackery and the Theosophical Society in a bad light. The result was that a number of boxes collapsed and many members of the Theosophical Society turned their backs. During this time, Old was expelled from the Theosophical Society. Since he saw himself exposed because of the disclosure of the documents a series of attacks, he changed 1894/95 his name to Walter Gornold, also wrote Walter Gorn Old, and left London.

The Astrologer

From his youth to Old esotericism, especially astrology, numerology and the occult interest and formed autodidactically. In 1887 he published his first book on astrology under the pseudonym Sepharial, that name made ​​him known. In all, he wrote 58 books, including several astrological basic works which have retained their validity today. To this end, he published a number of articles and essays in various newspapers and magazines such as British Journal of Astrology or Old Moore 's Almanack.

Works (selection)

  • A manual of occultism. Rider, London 1972, ISBN 0-09-110910-8.
  • Symbolic Zodiac degrees, 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 of 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
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