E. E. Rehmus Explained

Birth Date:June 1929
Birth Place:Upper Michigan, United States
Death Date:March 2004 (aged 74)
Death Place:San Francisco
Occupation:Writer, illustrator, occultist
Language:English
Subject:Occult, language, mythology, religion
Notableworks:The Magician's Dictionary
Partner:Joseph Haskew

E. E. Rehmus, also alternatively given as Ed Rehmus, Edward Rehmus or Edward E. Rehmus (June 1929 – March 2004),[1] 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.[2] 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

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Books and articles

Contributions to The Ecphorizer

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Translations

Notes and references

Notes

  1. The Magic of Ed Rehmus, "The Journeys of Edward Rehmus", page 2
  2. The Magic of Ed Rehmus, "Forward", pages xi–xii
  3. It is now known that Rehmus' academic, intellectual, and artistic production is much larger than accounted for in this article. Those interested in obtaining further information pertaining to his works are directed to Fred Vaughan's The Magic of Ed Rehmus, and especially the "Forward" (pages xi–xii), which contains more than the list provided here, albeit lacking a formal bibliography. The following list of works, considerably incomplete, is limited to those observed and verified.
  4. Some material from this book was posthumously posted between 2006 and 2007 as contributions from Edward Rehmus on the "Reason and Rhyme" blog. Fred Vaughan, who owns the rights to Rehmus' written materials (see The Magic of Ed Rehmus, "Forward", page xii), is an active member of the blog as well as being an editor and publisher.
  5. Web site: Ecphorizer Contributors . Ecphorizer.com . November 2, 2013.
  6. Book: The Prophet of Compostela: A Novel of Apprenticeship and Initiation – Henri Vincenot – Google Books . Google Books. December 1995. November 2, 2013. 9780892815241 . Vincenot . Henri .

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