secretist

A dealer in secrets or arcana.

Boyle condemned "the avarice" of those "secretists" who secured profit through the practice of intellectual privacy .

Laboratories were to be contrasted with the private shrines of "secretist” philosophers and Hermetics whom Boyle criticized for their refusal to communicate in public.

A secretive person; a keeper of secrets.

An exhibitionist rather than a secretist, Crowley published much material that was previously hidden from the public.

The monarch frames his defense with a definition of a good prince as categorically without private interests: "for Kings being publike persons, by reason of the office and authority, are as it were set (as it was said of old) upon a publike stage, in the sight of all the people, where all the beholders eyes are attentively bent to look and pry in the last circumstance of their secretist drifts."

A member of a secret society or a known society with secret ceremonies.

No oathbound secretist is free to obey God, or church, or State; he must obey the behest of an irresponsible society, or as it may prove to be, a band of infamous conspirators.

The resolution was adopted with little difficulty, and all communion with secretists and all reception of secret society members ceased .