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E. E. Rehmus

E. E. Rehmus, also alternatively given as Ed Rehmus, Edward Rehmus or Edward E. Rehmus (June 1929 – March 2004), was an American occultist, linguist, Egyptologist, classicist, writer, editor, translator, illustrator, cartoonist, and occasional graphic artist primarily known for being the author of The Magician's Dictionary.

Biography

Early life and youth

Joseph Haskew, his long-term partner, wrote of Rehmus's early life and youth:

Maturity

Haskew further adds:

Involvement with High-IQ societies

As a polymath and philomath, Rehmus was actively involved with the quest to understand and expand human intelligence, himself being a member of several high-IQ support groups. Among these affiliations was his involvement with the San Francisco area Mensa society; he often contributed to that local society's publication, The Ecphorizer. His contributor notice from The Ecphorizer runs thus:

Author of The Magician's Dictionary

His public reputation rests mainly on his contribution to the study of the occult through his renowned book The Magician's Dictionary, a vast pseudo-encyclopaedic work first published in 1990 that proposes a re-evaluation of some of the core building blocks of modern belief structures through definition and commentary on key words and phrases, from "Aaron" to "Zuvuya".

Other activities

Apart from founding and editing various magazines and journals (sometimes under pseudonyms), Rehmus was a regular contributor to numerous and diverse scholarly and amateur publications, providing articles, texts, artworks, and even erudite crossword puzzles. While he remained an obscure figure to the public eye during his lifetime, the posthumous volume The Magic of Ed Rehmus, compiled and edited by Fred Vaughan and published in 2006, sheds light on his personal life and many other previously inaccessible aspects of his thought, wide interests, and activities.

Selected works

Books and articles

  • I'm Over Here. Sausalito: Contact Editions/Angel Island Publications, 1962.
  • The Magician's Dictionary: An Apocalyptic Cyclopaedia of Advanced Magic(k)al Arts and Alternate Meanings. 1st edition. Los Angeles: Feral House, March 1990. . .
  • The Magician's Dictionary: An Apocalyptic Cyclopaedia of Advanced Magic(k)al Arts and Alternate Meanings. 2nd edition. October 1996. (Available on-line here.)
  • The Magic of Ed Rehmus. Edited by Fred Vaughan. Seattle: Russell Vaughan, 2006. (Available to download here and to buy from Lulu.com.)

Contributions to The Ecphorizer

Translations

Notes and references

Notes

References