JEAN MICHAUD

Born: 1884.

Died: 1961.

Jean Michaud was a composer, author, and occultist, who was deeply involved in esoteric circles in London from the 1920s through 1950s. He was also the author of a number of esoteric works, mostly published by his own UMA Press, London, in the late 1940s and had an extraordinary library, including unique Crowley manuscripts and typescripts. Michaud was a friend of the head of A.M.O.R.C., H. Spencer Lewis, and possibly also had some involvement with A.M.O.R.C. in Britain, for when Crowley and he first met on 26 July 1937, Crowley recorded in his diary 'Met Michaud A.M.O.R.C. publisher.' Despite Crowley's subsequent failed attempts to involve Michaud in his battle with H. Spencer Lewis over control of A.M.O.R.C., Crowley and Michaud became friends, and saw each other with some frequency over the following years, although they drifted apart after the outbreak of the Second World War.