Moina Mathers

Moina Mathers in Egyptian garb for her performance of the Rites of Isis in Paris, 1899
Drawing rendered by Moina Mathers for Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers' translation of the "Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage." (1897)

Moina Mathers, born Mina Bergson (28 February 1865 – 25 July 1928), was an artist and occultist at the turn of the 20th century. She was the sister of French philosopher Henri Bergson, the first man of Jewish descent to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927.[1] She is, however, more known for her marriage to the English occultist, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, one of the founders of the organisation Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and, after his death in 1918, for being the head of a successor organisation, called the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega.

  1. ^ Wasson, Tyler. (1987) Nobel Prize Winners: An A.H. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. H.W. Wilson Co. Pg. 90 ISBN 0-8242-0756-4