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Éliphas Lévi
- The most enduring Satanic symbol was created by occult author Éliphas Lévi. Lévi describes him as the horned goat deity Baphomet, in his 1854 book Dogme et Rituel, which linked Baphomet with Satan.
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Jul 22, 2024 · The most prominent figure to do so was the Dutch historian Wouter J. Hanegraaff, who in an influential 1996 study defined occultism to mean Western esoteric traditions that attempted to “come to terms with a disenchanted world.”
- Ethan Doyle White
Feb 15, 2017 · Throughout this period, he came into contact with a number of humanists who were engaging with the new religious ideas circulating at the time. Therefore, his reputation as an “occult philosopher” assumed more complex aspects.
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.
- Paul Larson
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Oct 31, 2021 · With the advent of the Protestant Reformation, Luther and Calvin denounced heterodox practices, initiating the steady decline of the practice of occult philosophy. Jon and Ken consider the importance of language in various spiritual systems of belief.
The most celebrated humanist contributions to occult philosophy were made by the Florentines Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, as well as by the German humanist Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Ficino revived the Neoplatonic theory of spirit, which he saw as existing throughout all of creation in the form of an organic “World Soul.”
May 18, 2018 · Alongside such notions, that of occult philosophy (later called occult science [s]) came into use in the Renaissance, meaning a synthesizing religious project of a philosophical and cosmological nature, on which occult practices proper were supposed to be founded.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s manual of learned magic, De occulta philosophia (1533), explicated the ways in which magicians understood and manipulated the cosmos more systematically than any of his predecessors.
