Oswald Wirth

Joseph Paul Oswald Wirth (5 August 1860, Brienz, Canton of Bern – 9 March 1943) was a Swiss occultist, illustrator and writer. Oswald Wirth's long career writing about freemasonry and related esoteric topics appears to have begun in 1880 with an eight-page paper titled Catholicisme et Franc-Maçonnerie listed in the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. At age 23, he was initiated as a freemason. In 1887, Wirth was practicing as a hypnotic healer or, as he described it, "curative m…