Charubel

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John Thomas (1826-1908) - a Welsh clairvoyant, occultist and healer better known as Charubel.

As a young man John Thomas took the path traditionally taken by natural clairvoyants for most of the last thousand years and studied for the Christian ministry. However, he ultimately felt forced to choose between his religious life and his occult and psychic interests and abilities.

Adopting the pseudonym "Charubel", he published numerous books and was editor of several esoteric periodicals. He co-authored Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised with the much younger mystic and astrologer Sepharial (Dr Walter Gorn Old).

He developed a set of occult symbols that he is known for; these were first published in Alan Leo's Astrologer's Magazine in 1893.