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The Foundations of Esotericism
GA 93a

List of Personalities — reference to Lecture number(s)

Alexander VI, Pope (1430 – 1503), became Pope in 1492, 2.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC), 6.
Attila (Absolute Ruler of the Huns from 445 – 453), 31.
Augustine (354 – 430), 8.

Bakunin, Michael (1814 – 1876), anarchist, 30.
Blavatsky, Helen Petrovna (1831 – 1891), 3,4, 6, 7, 10, 19, 20, 26.
Boniface, St. (Wynfrith, about 675 – 754), 31.
Buchner, Ludwig (1824 – 1899), 9.

Caesar, Caius Julius (100 – 44 BC.), 5, 10.
Collins, Mabel (1841 – 1927), author of ‘Light on the Path’, 11.

Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321), 8, 20.
Dionysius the Areopagite, 13.
du Bois-Reymond, Emil (1818 – 1896), 21.

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762 – 1814), 21.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749 – 1832), 5, 21, 27.

Haeckel, Ernst (1834 – 1919), 9, 21, 30.
Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich (1770 – 1831), 21.
Heraclitus (540 – 480 BC.), 21.
Herzen, Alexander Ivanovich (1812 – 1870), 30.
Homer (9th century BC.), 13.

Kant, Immanuel (1724 – 1804), 8, 23, 31.
Kerner, justinius (1786 – 1862), author of ‘The Seeress of Prevost’, Note13.
Kortum, Karl Arnold (1745 – 1824), 4
Kropotkin, Peter Alexeievich Count von (1842 – 1921), 30.

Laplace, Pierre Simon Marquis de (1749 – 1827), 8, 23.
Langsdorff, Georg von, Note 56.
Lassalle, Ferdinand (1824 – 1864), 30.
Levi, Eliphas (1810 – 1875), 7, 13.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), 2, 3.

Marx, Karl (1818 – 1883), 30.
Michelangelo (1475 – 1564), 21.
Moleschott, Jakob (1822 – 1893), 9.

Newton, Isaac (1643 – 1727), 21.
Novalis (Friedrich George von Hardenberg) (1772 – 1801), 13.

Oken, Lorenz (1779 – 1851), 6.

Paracelsus, Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, (1493 – 1541), 1, 4, 15, 28.
Peters, Karl (1856 – 1918), 31.
Plato (427 – 347 BC.), 3.

Raphael Santi (1483 – 1520), 21.
Robespierre, Maximilian de (1758 – 1794), 15.
Rosenkreuz, Christian (1378 – 1484), 9.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712 – 1778), 15.
Row (Rao), Subba (1856 – 1890), 14.

Sinnett, Alfred Percy (English Theosophist), 8.
Spencer, Herbert (1820 – 1903), 21, 31.
Schuré, Edouard (1828 – 1929), 10.

Tacitus, Cornelius (about 55 – 116 AD.), 31.
Tolstoi, Count Leo (1828 – 1910), 2, 5, 31.

Ulfilas (also Wulfilas), Gothic Bishop (310 – 383), 2, 5.

Voltaire, Francois Marie A. (1694 – 1778), 15.

Wasman, Erich, S.J. (1859 – 1931) Natural Scientist, 21.