John William Brodie-Innes

John William Brodie-Innes (10 March 1848 – 8 December 1923) was a leading member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's Amen-Ra Temple in Edinburgh.

A lawyer by profession, he was a member of the Sette of Odde Volumes (a London bibliophile society), and was its president in 1911.

The most well-known is The Devil's Mistress (1915), a supernatural horror novel centred on the real-life accusations of witchcraft made against Isobel Gowdie.

(Fortune was also taught by such occult practitioners as Moina Mathers and Dr Theodore Moriarty).

Throughout the dissensions of the Golden Dawn, Brodie-Innes remained loyal to MacGregor Mathers, and on the death of his chief in 1918 published an affectionate obituary titled "MacGregor Mathers - Some Personal Reminiscences"[3] in the May 1919 issue of The Occult Review.