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- Sometimes referred to as the “founder of occultism,” Lévi was a committed Roman Catholic and socialist interested in many older esoteric traditions, including ceremonial magic, Kabbalah, and the use of the tarot.
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Jul 22, 2024 · Central to the promotion of the term occultism in the English language was a Russian writer, Helena Blavatsky, who first used it in an 1875 article.
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- 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
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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.
Oct 31, 2021 · But during the Renaissance, many of the best minds in Europe studied the philosophy and science of the occult. The period witnessed an outpouring of systematic philosophical and scientific treatises on the occult.
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.
In the 1960s, the relationship of the occult to the prevailing conception of a scientific revolution became tangled up with a hypothesis attributed, somewhat unfairly, to Frances Yates. A leading scholar of occult philosophy in the Renaissance period, Yates was one of the earliest proponents of its influence on science.
The suggestion that Newton's interest in alchemy stemmed from his efforts to understand the active principles in matter was first made in McGuire J. E., “Force, active principles and Newton's invisible realm”, Ambix, xv (1968), 154–208, p. 166.
