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A passion for the occult

The Midnight Séance Society was founded in 1898 by the enigmatic American occultist Grover Hoffman, a former student of comparative religion and an avid reader of European esoteric movements. Deeply influenced by the ritual structure and initiatory model of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), Hoffman sought to establish a parallel order, one devoted not to ceremonial magic in the Thelemic sense, but to disciplined spirit communication grounded in the doctrines of Allan Kardec’s Spiritism.