Clifford Bias

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Clifford Bias was one of America's most prominent psychics. Born in Huntington, West Virginia in 1910, he claimed to communicate since the age of 5 with people who had long since passed away. Throughout the ensuing years his mediumship as a clairvoyant in America grew stronger. Franklin Roosevelt and wife, Eleanor, were said to hold counsel with him privately on many occasions.

Clifford Bias was ordained into the ministry in 1937 and served as a minister of churches in Jackson, Michigan; Buffalo, New York; Toledo, Ohio; St. Petersburg, Florida; 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 (Camp Chesterfield, Indiana). He was dean of the Universal Spiritualist Institute, which held sessions each summer on various Mid-Western college campuses.

Clifford 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 Wiser in 1981. ^[1]

He retired in 1985 and settled in Anderson, Indiana, where he died on February 1987.

He is featured in the novel "The Hierophant of 100th Street", based on a true story.