John Yarker

John Yarker (Westmorland, 17 aprile 1833 – Withington, 20 marzo 1913) è stato uno scrittore, massone e occultista britannico.

Discendente da Reinhold Yarker de Laybourne, vissuto a metà del XVII secolo, nel 1849 si trasferì con i genitori nel Lancashire e poi a Manchester.

Il 25 ottobre 1854, all'età di 21 anni, fu iniziato nella Loggia dell'Integrità n. 189 di Manchester, affiliata Gran Loggia Unita d'Inghilterra. All'inizio del 1855 assunse il ruolo di Maestro.^[1] Sette anni dopo, nel 1862, si dimise dalla massoneria.^[2][3]

Nel 1872 Yarker istituì il Sovrano Santuario del Rito Antico e Primitivo della Massoneria per l'Inghilterra e l'Irlanda sotto l'autorità di un brevetto rilasciato dal Gran Maestro americano di quell'organizzazione, Harry Seymour. In seguito, Yarker divenne Vice Gran Maestro Internazionale (1900) e Gran Maestro Internazionale (1902) del Rito di Menfi-Misraim, succedendo a Giuseppe Garibaldi.^[4]

Morì a Withington, nel Lancashire.

• Yarker, John. Notes on the Orders of the Temple and St. John and the Jerusalem Encampment, Manchester. Manchester: n.p., 1869.
• Yarker, John. Notes on the Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity; The Gnosis and Secret Schools of the Middle Ages; Modern Rosicrucianism; and the Various Rites and Degrees of Free and Accepted Masonry. London: J. Hogg, 1872; rpt. New York: J. W. Bouton, 1878.
• Yarker, John. Masonic Charges and Lectures, A Series Translated from the French. Manchester: Isaac W. Petty & Son, 1880.
• Yarker, John. "English Ghost Stories," Theosophist, Feb 1880, 1: 114.
• Yarker, John. Manual of the Degrees of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry, Issued by the Sovereign Sanctuary, 33rd Degree, in and for Great Britain and Ireland. S.l.: n.p., 1881.
• Yarker, John. "The Beni Elohim," Theosophist, Aug 1881, 2: 237–8.
• Yarker, John. "The Beni Elohim and the Book of Enoch," Theosophist, Apr 1882, 3: 171–2.
• Yarker, John. Genealogy of the Surname Yarker; With the Leyburn, and Several Allied Families, Resident in the Counties of Yorkshire, Durham, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, Including All of the Name in Cumberland, Canada, America, and Middlesex (from the Conquest to the Present Time). Manchester: A. M. Petty, 1882.
• Yarker, John. "Can the Double Murder—Or Produce Results on the Material Body," Theosophist, Mar 1883, 4: 149–50;
• Yarker, John. "The Adwaita Philosophy versus the Semitic Bible," Theosophist, Apr 1883, 4: 175.
• Yarker, John. Recapitulation of All Masonry, or, A Description and Explanation of the Universal Hieroglyph of the Master of Masters. Dublin: Sovereign Sanctuary, 1883.
• Yarker, John. Speculative Freemasonry: A Historical Lecture Upon the Origin of Craft and High Grade Freemasonry, and Showing the Great Antiquity of the Combined System, Delivered Before the Brethren of the Palatine and Jerusalem Chapter, No. 2 on the Roll of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Assembly at Their Place of Meeting, the Grosvenor Hotel, Deansgate, Manchester, 26 November 1883. Liverpool: Joseph Hawkins, 1883.
• Yarker, John. The Kneph, 1884–1900.
• Yarker, John. Two Lectures on High Grade Masonry. Liverpool: n.p., 1886.
• Yarker, John. The Code of Apex and the Sat Bhai, revised. London: n.p., 1886.
• Invictus [Robert H. Fryar?] and John Yarker, The Letters of Hargrave Jennings, Author of "The Rosicrucians," "Phallicism," &c., &c.: Forming the Unabridged Correspondence with the Editor of the Bath Occult Reprints, between 1879 and 1887, with Frontispiece. Bath: Robert H. Fryar, 1895.
• Thomas Inman and John Yarker, Supernatural Generation. Bath: R. H. Fryar, 1896.
• Yarker, John. "Aureus:" the Golden Tractate of Hermes Trismegistus: Concerning the Physical Secret of the Philosopher’s Stone: In Seven Sections: With an Introductory Essay by J. Yarker. Bath: Robert H. Fryar, 1886.
• Villars de Montfaucon and John Yarker, Sub-Mundanes: Or, the Elementaries of the Cabala, Being the History of Spirits. Bath: R. H. Fryar, 1886.
• Villars de Montfaucon and John Yarker, Continuation of the Comte De Gabalis, or New Discourses Upon the Secret Sciences; Touching upon the New Philosophy: Posthumous Work: Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, M.D.CCXV. Bath: Robert H. Fryar, 1897.
• Antoine Androl and John Yarker, The Assistant Génies, and Irreconcileable Gnomes, or Continuation to the Comte de Gabalis. La Haye, M.DCC.XVIII. Bath: Robert H. Fryar, 1897.
• L. A. Cahagnet and John Yarker, Magnetic Magic. [Bath]: [Robert H. Fryar], 1898.
• Yarker, John. "Obituary of Dr. Karl Kellner," Ars Quatuor Coronatorum 1905, 18: 150.
• Yarker, John. The Arcane Schools: A Review of Their Origin and Antiquity; with a General History of Freemasonry and Its Relation to the Theosophic, Scientific, and Philosophic Mysteries. Belfast: W. Tait, 1909.^[5]
• Yarker, John. The Ancient Constitutional Charges of the Guild Free Masons: To Which Is Added a Comparison with York Freemasonry. Belfast: William Tait, 1909.
• Yarker, John. "The Apocalypse Unsealed" [recensione], The Equinox 1911, I(6): 164–7.
• Yarker, John. "The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry" [recensione], The Equinox 1912, I(7): 413–7.

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