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Abd El-Kader (1808-1883) was an Algerian emir and sultan, man of politics, soldier, a theologian and writer-poet.
From a very young age, he received an education in Sufism, through a study of the Koran and the main principles of the physical and moral sciences, geometry, astronomy, horse riding and the art of weapons.
After embarking on some travels, on the instructions of his father, he went to war to fight the French colonial army and returned victorious, becoming, as a consequence, a sultan. Preaching ‘Holy War’, he continued his fight against the French, before entering into negotiations with them for a ceasefire.

Alain Daniélou (1907-1994), alias Shiva Sharan (Shiva’s protégé), was a noted Indologist and musicologist. 
Taught to sing and play the piano as a child, he became interested very early on in both European and foreign forms of music.
In 1932, he travelled to India where he met Rabîndranâth Tagore who made him the director of the musical department of his Shantiniketan School. During his stay, he studied the Veena lute, Hindi and Sanskrit and consequently became deputy director of the Hindu University of Varanasi’s music college.

At this point he also founded the review “Littérature” with Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault in which he published his first Surrealist text, “Les Champs Magnétiques” (The Magnetic Fields). From 1919 to 1921, he was a member of the Dada Movement and also studied “l'automatisme psychique" (automatic writing).

Antonin Artaud, Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud (1896-1948) was a poet, novelist, actor, designer, dramaturge and theatre theorist.
Following a religious education with the Marist Fathers which gave him a solid knowledge of Catholic theology, Artaud, who had delicate health, started his work as a writer striving for the absolute, although in his lifetime, his ideas were poorly understood. He became the director the ‘Central Surrealist’ (the Bureau of Surrealist research), which he eventually left over an argument about joining the French Communist Party.

Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty in the Greek tradition. She is the equivalent of the Roman Venus. An alluring figure, she protects marriage, promotes romantic relationship and fosters family and childbirth. But she can be fearsome as she also symbolises the passion that destroys lovers or tempts them into adultery, vice and pleasure. There are two versions of her birth: according to the first, she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione, one of the daughters of the sea. According to the second version, she comes from the seed of Uranus’s severed genitals which fertilised the sea after they were thrown into the sea by Cronos, his own son, who had castrated him.

Cagliostro, alias Giuseppe Basalmo (1743-1795) was a mysterious personality, whose life gave rise to numerous theories.
Following a brief period with “les frères de la Miséricorde” (The Brothers of Misericord), he left his land of birth in search of other horizons, which resulted in him obtaining certain alchemical and medicinal secrets. As a result, he acquired a reputation as a wonder-worker following miraculous cures he administered in Strasbourg and Paris. Claiming to be a disciple of the Count of Saint-Germain - the alchemist who supposedly discovered the secret of immortality

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss Psychiatrist and disciple of Freud, whose ideas have been very influential in psychology and psycho-sociology. He also invented analytical psychology and was the pioneer of depth psychology, in which he integrated ideas from anthropology, alchemy, dreams, mythology and religion. His concept of the archetype, the collective unconscious and synchronicity are his major contributions, which he continued to develop throughout his life and work. He was also interested in philosophy, sociology, art and literature.

The German Christian Rosenkreutz (1378?-1484?), or Christian Rosy-Cross, was a part-real, part-mythical character. He was supposedly invented by Johann Valentin Andreae, who was probably one of the authors of the Rosicrucian Manifesto, according to various academic theories.
Initiated by 12 wise men who had been “imbued with Christ’s being” (according to R. Steiner), he was believed to be the founder of the Order of the Rosy-Cross, which declared itself to be a ‘Mystery School’. It is said his tomb was discovered in

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987) was considered the 11th reincarnation of the line of Trungpa tulkus, masters of the Kagyu lineage. One of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism, it is renowned for its strong emphasis on meditation practice. In addition, he was trained in the Nyingma tradition, the oldest of the four schools. He was also an adherent of the Rimay movement and one of the first people to bring Tibetan Buddhist teachings to the West.