Paschal Beverly Randolph

Paschal Beverly Randolph (October 8, 1825 - July 29, 1875) was an African American medical doctor, occultist, Spiritualist, trance medium, and writer. He is notable as perhaps the first person to introduce the principles of erotic alchemy to North America, and, according to A. E. Waite, establishing the earliest known Rosicrucian order in the United States. (Wikipedia)