Who is Ike Baker?
Ike Baker
is an author, content creator, practicing ceremonialist, and senior initiate of several lineages within the Western Esoteric Traditions, including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Martinist Order of America, and Blue Lodge, and York Rite Freemasonry. With over 20 years of study, training, and practice, Ike is also an international lecturer and presenter, as well as an instructor for multiple premiere educational organizations including the Hermopolis Academy and the Institute for Hermetic Studies. He is a sitting Temple Chief of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Ike hosts the ARCANVM YouTube channel, and podcast, where he produces presentation-style videos on the occult and esoteric, and converses with some of the foremost practitioners, scholars, and authors in the fields of magic, esotericism, and the occult. He also co-hosts the Aetherica Podcast with Sky Mathis.
In 2024, Ike co-founded and co-organized the Hermopolis Symposium with Dr. Mervat Abdel-Nasser at the New Hermopolis village in Minya, Egypt which brought together the world's leading scholars and practitioners for a four-day colloquium at the location of ancient Hermopolis. He also is the organizer and host of the Southeastern Masonic Symposium in Asheville, North Carolina.
Ike works to bridge academic, and practitioner-based perspectives, and bring both his, and his guests/collaborators' years of experience to avail the modern practitioner, researcher, and enthusiast of the occult and esoteric traditions.