Martin P. Starr

I am an independent scholar of Western Esotericism and New Religious Movements. My current academic interests revolve around the interplay of neo-rosicrucianism, independent eucharistic church movements, theosophy, and freemasonry. My background for these studies is reflected in more than four decades of research and writing on the English synthetic occultist Aleister Crowley and his disciples Wilfred Talbot Smith, Charles Stansfeld Jones, C. F. Russell and Kenneth Grant.