Grand Masters

King Solomon the Apostate

c. 970-931 BCE

The unofficial first Grand Master.

The greatest magician.

Pythagoras

c. 570-495 BCE

The first official Grand Master.

The greatest inspiration.

Heraclitus

c. 6th-5th century BCE

The greatest mystic and riddler; father of the dialectic.

Empedocles

c. 493-434 BCE

The greatest showman.

Simon Magus

1st century CE

The most revered; most transcendent; most spiritual; most divine; man become God.

Hypatia

c. 350-370 to 415 CE

The noblest and bravest; the eternal feminine; the embodiment of Sophia, goddess of wisdom.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

1646-1716 CE

The greatest intellectual; greatest genius in human history.

Johann Adam Weishaupt

1748-1830 CE

The greatest political activist and revolutionary.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749-1832 CE

The greatest artist and aesthete; the most “complete” genius.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1770-1831 CE

The greatest visionary and system builder; the greatest advocate of dialectics.

Ammonius Saccas

175-243 CE

Paracelsus

1493-1541 CE

Joachim of Fiori

c. 1135-1202 CE