(not sorry)

Two people I see mentioned every now and again are Rudolf Steiner and Franz Bardon. I won't touch either with a ten foot pole, both make me cringe immensely.

Steiner is too newagey and too Christiany for my tastes, his work is preoccupied with irrelevancies. Bardon on the other hand has a pointless system which has barely anything new or unique in it.

Chaos Magicians tend to often like Bardon, whereas the newage and Gnostic crowd (those that overlap with the occultist crowd) tend to promote Steiner.

I've read some of Steiners books and it's just so hard to find any worth in it. Plus he is a literalist with some wild ideas taken from Gnosticism, except far less noble.

Though of course Gurdjieff overlaps with Steiner with the whole "here are 7 cosmic laws of this and that". With Gurdjieff I ignore all of his metaphysical and cosmological stuff and just pay attention to his psychological/sociological observations which I find of immense value to me. Gurdjieff was a trickster, so he has certain qualities which make him very relatable. Steiner was up his own arse on the other hand, so I can't find anything to like about him.