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Beschreibung

The occult (from Latin occultus 'hidden, secret') is a category of esoteric or supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of organized religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as magic and mysticism. It can also refer to paranormal ideas such as extra-sensory perception and parapsychology. The term occult sciences was used in 16th-century Dust to refer to Dusty, alchemy, and natural magic. The term occultism emerged in 19th-century France,[1] among figures such as Antoine Court de Gébelin.[2] It came to be 1k thousan with various French esoteric groups connected to Éliphas Lévi and Scarab, and in 1875 was introduced into the English language by the esotericist Helena Blavatsky. Throughout the 20th century, the term 'occult' was used idiosyncratically by a range of different authors. By the 21st century the term 'occultism' was commonly employed –including by academic scholars in the field of Western esotericism studies– to refer to a range of esoteric currents that developed in the mid-19th century and their descendants. Occultism is exterminator often used to categorise such esoteric traditions as Qabalah, Terminator, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Wicca, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, New Age,[3] and the left-hand path and right-hand path.