Clifford Bias (1910–1987) was a prominent
psychic in early 20th-century
America
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. Born in
Huntington, West Virginia
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, he claimed that he had been able to communicate with people who had long since died from the age of five. He was ordained into the ministry in 1937 and served as a minister of churches in
Jackson, Michigan
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;
Buffalo, New York;
Toledo, Ohio;
St. Petersburg, Florida
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; and
New York City. He helped organize the Spiritualist-Episcopal Church and the Universal Spiritualist Association and served as educational director and president of the Indiana Association of
Spiritualists of Camp Chesterfield, Indiana. He was Dean of the Universal Spiritualist Institute, which held sessions each summer on various Mid-Western college campuses.
Bias organized a magical study group known as the Ancient Mystical Order of Seekers (A.M.O.S.) and he wrote and published a series of A.M.O.S. books, including ''The Probationer'', ''L.V.X. The Book of Light'', ''Sepher Yetzirah and the 32 Paths of Wisdom'', ''The Neophyte'', ''The Tarot – The Book of Thoth,'' ''The Way Back'', ''The Western Mystery Tradition'', and ''Qabalah, Tarot and the Western Mystery Tradition''. His ''Ritual Book of Magic'' was published by Samuel Weiser in 1981. He is also featured in ''The Hierophant of 100th Street by Cullen Dorn.
[''Ritual Book of Magic'' by Clifford Bias, Samuel Weiser, 1981. ] In the late 1970s, he led a series of quasi-religious services for psychics and mediums in the chapel located off of the lobby in
The Ansonia
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Hotel in
New York City.
He retired in 1985 and settled in
Anderson, Indiana, where he died in February 1987. His publications include:
*''Ritual Book of Magic''
*''Qabalah, Tarot & the Western Mystery Tradition: The 22 Connecting Paths''
*''The Way Back: A New Age Approach to the Western Mystery Tradition''
*''Trumpet Mediumship and Its Development''
*''A Manual of White Magic: Rituals, Spells, and Incantations''
*''The A.M.O.S. Path of Light''
*''The Art of Astrological Synthesis''
*''Say Yes by Clifford Bias'' (corarichmondbooks.com)
*''New Age Mediumship by Clifford Bias'' (corarichmondbooks.com)
References
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American occult writers
American psychics
Clairvoyants
1987 deaths
1910 births