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Anna Sprengel
In the past, Anna supposedly helped in the foundation of the Golden Dawn. She was said to have functioned as a point of contact for the Secret Chiefs, much like Aleister Crowley would act as a point of contact for Aiwass, described by him as one of the theories concerning the Secret Chief. However, to most of the world it wasn't certain whether she actually existed or whether her existence was fabricated. In truth, Anna Sprengel was indeed a member of the Rosicrucian Order, master of its No.1 temple (also known as Lichte, Liebe, Leben) in Germany, and a priestess who could call on the power of the Secret Chiefs.

A letter which William Wynn Westcott supposed received from her was actually forged by him in order to give prestige to the cabal he helped found. Wanting to claim that the cabal was the continuation of an ancient Rosicrucian line, he faked a letter sent to the German cabal (whom he claimed to have two temples) as well as a response from Anna Sprengel authorizing the creation of a British branch (hence the Isis-Urania Temple being called #3), an exchange known as the Sprengel Letters (シュプレンゲル書簡). While he faked the letters, Westcott did actually know Anna Sprengel in some form and was acting as a cloud. Anna Sprengel apparently allowed for her name to be used in the formation of the Golden Dawn on a whim, breaking one of the rules of the Rosicrucian Order in the process.

At one time, Anna tried out the in  but was disappointed. Another time, she consumed a sample of that time's St. Germain, which apparently left a bit more of a tingle on the tongue than the present-day one.

At some point in the late 19th century, Anna Sprengel's body was stolen by the fraud Madame Horos under unknown circumstances. Having been summoned by Anna, Aiwass was to hunt down the fraud and return Anna to her body. While the Golden Dawn was still active, Madame Horos approached Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers posing as Anna Sprengel and made off with crucial cabal documents after deceiving him, bringing a disaster to the cabal and earning Mathers' hatred.

Alice Anotherbible
In reference to Alice herself, her name has been explicitly noted as that of the famous children's story,, which Aleister Crowley had suggested as must-read for those wishing to deepen their understanding of magic, claiming it took on a complete new meaning if the reader had sufficient knowledge of Kabbalah (though he never met Lewis Carroll and merely spread the legend himself), and listing it alongside the Goetia and the Golden Bough.

Alice's full background is unknown - although Aleister deduced that she was born from Magick, given his own role in connecting the story with the occult, it is not clear whether new life had been created for its creator's purposes or an existing person had their soul reshaped.

When Anna and Aradia first referred to her, they described her as though she has experienced Wonderland and events described in the book, including the game of croquet and the trial. According to Alice herself, she has gone on many strange adventures with people in the past, including one who wanted to become a god, one who wanted to be immortal and one who wanted to get back at academia for making fun of him.

At some point in the past, she became the center of the Bridge Builders Cabal, a hidden gathering of Transcendents for the purpose of making the world a better place. Seeking to make use of her unique abilities for their own ends, yet also afraid of Alice, given her exceptional power exceeding her fellow Transcendents as well as her capricious and childishly cruel nature, the rest of the cabal submitted to and catered for her whims, providing her with any toys or entertainment she wanted,  with their bases determined by her interests. She also played a role in them achieving their current positions and power, as the Transcendents had analyzed Alice to determine how to overwrite their own humanity.

Until recently at the time of December of the story's first year, Alice had been having fun in a remote island prison she had created (speculated by Aradia to perhaps be the influence of some American drama), and an incident in which she got upset was responsible for water and traces of life on a planet dozens of light-years away, which was subsequently discovered and being talked about by the public around the time that Anna was introduced to the group. The group's current base on December 29th was a cruise ship in a flooded stadium in the middle of a rainforest, with at least one giant yellow duck waddling around.

Aradia
In reference to Aradia herself, her name has been explicitly noted as that of a figure from a famous witchcraft grimoire (namely ). Said to be the daughter of and, Aradia was described as a goddess who shines in the dark night and "god of all witches", who supposedly took a physical body and descended to the human world to save the poor from the wealthy church. In the story, all witches' sabbaths are used to worship her and involve rituals meant to teach people how to resist oppression from the rich.

Aradia's full background is unknown, but she was described as a witch of the moon and light, and later described as though she was the figure from the book, the daughter of Lucifer and Diana who took physical form and descended as the goddess of all witches to save the ancient priestess of the night persecuted by the wealthy cross. On being addressed as "Maiden of Nuremberg" by Aradia, Anna referred to her as "the picture book witch who was pierced by its many spikes".

Aradia seeks to protect and save all witches from persecution, even in the present day. One recent failure that affected her was the death of an old woman living alone in a forest who had been made the scapegoat for an illness and had her home set on fire, who had urged her to save the next one before dying in Aradia's arms.

Bologna Succubus
She is a succubus associated with a case in 1468 where a man in, Italy was found guilty of running a brothel of succubi and executed for it. Because of court records concerning the case, she is apparently one of the few demons officially recognized by the government of the time.

Bridge Builders Cabal
Not much is known about the group and its past, though until recently Alice had been having fun in a remote island prison she had created, and an incident in which she got upset was responsible for water and traces of life on a planet dozens of light-years away, which was subsequently discovered and being talked about by the public around the time that Anna was introduced to the group.

Anna Sprengel's comments, coupled with the way R&C Occultics was modelled after the cabal and run to gain a deeper understanding of her target, described as a harmful organization that had taken root in hidden part of world, suggest that the Bridge Builders Cabal may have caused similar harm in the past, either on one of Alice's innocent whims or to advance the Transcendents’ interests, though not so openly cruel as R&C Occultics so the harm remained hidden below the surface.

Mary (Alchemist)
According to her story, "Good Old Mary" is an alchemist who took on the name of the Virgin Mary to hide her identity, and has alchemical skill that can produce miracles on the same level as the real one.

Mut Thebes
Mut Thebes's exact background before and after joining the Bridge Builders Cabal is currently unknown.

Trismegistus
The legendary figure Hermes Trismegistus ("Hermes Thrice-Great"), a syncretization of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth, was the attributed author of works such as the Hermetica, which form the basis of Hermeticism. Outside the story and legend behind it, the name Trismegistus was something like a shared penname which ancient scholars and academics used to release their papers anonymously.

Besides the influence of Hermeticism (and thus Trismegistus) on the Golden Dawn (a.k.a. the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), aspects tied to Trismegistus are also present in Thelema and Magick, with Hermes and Thoth are equated in Aleister Crowley's occult dictionary Liber 777,  as well as Thoth's name being used for the Thoth Tarot and the Egyptian god of writing also being associated with the Holy Guardian Angel Aiwass.

As for the Transcendent going by the name Trismegistus, his exact background before and after joining the Bridge Builders Cabal is currently unknown, though his fixation on common sense, his mentions of the and how superstitions creep into academia and distort common sense, and remarks on how no matter how logically one explains their academia theories there was nothing one could do when people brush them aside based on emotion, seem to show Touma glimpses as to what led him down his path.