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Jul 22, 2024 · What is occultism and how does it differ from mainstream religion? Who are some of the key historical figures associated with occultism? What are some common practices or rituals in occultism? How has occultism influenced art, literature, and popular culture? What is the relationship between occultism and science throughout history?
- Ethan Doyle White
- The Terms Occult and Occultism
- The Various Definitions of Occultism
- Characteristics and Historical Survey of The Occultist Current
- The Occultist Current in Context, and Some of Its Main Representatives
- Bibliography
A distinction must be made between the original adjective occult and the substantive occultism which first appeared in the nineteenth century. Occult has a long history. For example, in the Renaissance it was often used in the expression occult properties, as in Marsilio Ficino's De Vita coelitus comparanda (1486, III, ch. 12), when he described ho...
In some of his ground-breaking writings devoted to methodological issues, Marco Pasi has cogently submitted that, historically, the relationship between esotericism and occultism has been the object of five distinct approaches: 1. Occultism is a synonym of esotericism. This was the position of many occultists (i.e., of those who stood within the so...
The so-called occultist current which flourished from the second half of the nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth centuries seems to display five characteristics which mark its originality within the context of the other Western esoteric currents: 1. A new attempt at synthesizing the so-called esoteric tradition as the occultists of that t...
The industrial revolution had given rise to an increasingly marked interest in the "miracles" of science. It had promoted the invasion of daily life by utilitarian and socioeconomic preoccupations of all kinds. In the middle of the nineteenth century, along with smoking factory chimneys, both the fantastic as a new literary genre and the phenomenon...
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna. "A Few Questions to 'Hiraf.'" In Spiritual Scientist(July 15, 1875): 217. Blum, P. R. "Qualitas Occulta." In Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, edited by Joachim Ritter and Karlfried Gründer, vol. 7. Darmstadt, Germany, 1989. Eamon, William. Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early ...
Neoplatonism, the foundation for much of later occult philosophy, naturally stemmed from Platonism starting with (as it is generally considered) Plotinus and developed further by Porphry, Iamblicus, and Proclus in the first few centuries CE.
Aug 5, 2014 · A remarkable book written in the 1970s attempted to correct that overly partial and incomplete vision of history: it is one of the works of the great scholar Frances W. Yates (d. 1981) and is entitled “The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age”.
occultism, Theories, practices, and rituals based on esoteric knowledge of the world of spirits and unknown forces. The wide range of occult beliefs and practices includes astrology, alchemy, divination, magic, and witchcraft and sorcery.
Nov 9, 2009 · Where does occultism fit on the map of modernity? Frank Miller Turner proposed an intriguing answer in his 1974 study Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England. The book examined the lives and struggles of six Victorian men: the philosophers Henry Sidgwick and James Ward, the scientists Alfred ...
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486 – 1535?) provided the first definitive statement for occult philosophy in his masterwork, De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres (Three books on occult philosophy), originally drafted in 1510 but greatly revised for its final publication in 1533.
