Born in 1939 in Vienna (Austria), Stejnar has been engaged in magic and mysticism since his early youth. Through numerous publications and media appearances he became well known at home and abroad. Next to running his own jewellery store he directed for twenty years the "Institute for scientific destiny research" and is founder of Gnostic Hermeticism, which carries the old Traditions forward into the third millenary. He is particularly concerned with Freemasonry and Astrology, as this is where he found the interface that links the world of the spirit with the world of matter, and thus the world of esotericism with the world of science. Stejnar is reckoned to be the successor of famous magician Franz Bardon, and he is mentioned in the preface of the new edition of George R.S. Mead's work on Gnosis "Fragments of a Faith Forgotten" next to great minds such as C.G.Jung, Mozart, Hegel, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka and next to adepts such as Jakob Böhme, Papus, Eliphas Levi and Aleister Crowley to be the last of the major gnostics.