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Jul 22, 2024 · The earliest known use of the term occultism comes from French, where l’occultisme appears in Jean-Baptiste Richard’s 1842 work Enrichissement de la langue française (“Enrichment of the French Language”). The word’s popularization nevertheless results largely from its use by Alphonse Louis Constant, a French author who published a ...
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Feb 15, 2017 · Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. The intellectual biography of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486–1535) provides us with significant proof of a cultural crisis in the Renaissance.
In 1853, the Freemasonic author Jean-Marie Ragon had already used occultisme in his popular work Maçonnerie occulte, relating it to earlier practices that, since the Renaissance, had been termed "occult sciences" or "occult philosophy", but also to the recent socialist teachings of Charles Fourier. [ 9]
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.
Jan 1, 2020 · The first important figure was Plotinus (205–270 CE) whose cosmology of emanations was carried on by his students. Porphyry (233–309 CE) and Iamblichus (245–325) were among the followers of Plotinus whose work became the basis of later medieval esoteric philosophy.
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May 18, 2018 · In the nineteenth century and beyond, notions such as ether and/or Od force (of Karl von Reichenbach) came to a head in Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 's "Fohat," by which she meant a vital fluid permeating the universe.
Oct 1, 2007 · Szönyi divides his book into three parts: ‘Definitions’, introducing terms and concepts, ‘Input’, providing contextual material drawn from some of the best-known Renaissance works on magic, and ‘Output’, considering Dee's own works as evidence of magical practice.
