The Occult Secrets
Occult
The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus (secret, hidden, secret), referring to the “hidden knowledge”. In the medical sense it is used to describe the structure or process that is hidden, for example, “hidden bleeding” can be detected indirectly by the presence of an otherwise unexplained anemia.
The word has many uses in the English language, popularly meaning “knowledge of the paranormal”, as opposed to “knowledge dimension”, commonly referred to as science. The term is sometimes popularly understood to mean “knowledge meant only for certain people” or “knowledge, which should be hidden”, but for most practicing occultists it is simply the study of deep spiritual reality beyond pure reason and the physical sciences. Terms and secret esoteric can be very close in meaning, and the three terms are often used interchangeably.
The term occult is also used as a label given to a number of magical organizations or orders, doctrine and practice taught them, and a large amount of current and historical literature and spiritual philosophy on this topic.
Occultism
Occultism is the study of occult or hidden knowledge. For the occultist this study, “True,” the deeper truth that exists beneath the surface: “truth is always hidden in the mind. It may include such subjects as magic (or writing, and is defined as magic), alchemy, ESP, astrology, spiritism, lithomancy and numerology. There is often a strong religious element to these investigations and convictions, and many occultists profess adherence to religions such as Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Luciferianism, Thelema, and Neopaganism. Although Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, as a rule not be considered