First of all, the term “occult” is simply a Latin-derived word for “hidden” or “unseen.” It was adopted by Renaissance scholars and translators who were looking for a way of referring to the rediscovered spirituality of the ancient world, particularly the rites, rituals, and initiatory religions of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Occult revivalists of the Renaissance, and much less so their antecedents in the antique world, in no way conceived of themselves as sinister.
Belief in the occult simply means belief in an unseen dimension of life whose comprehensive forces can be felt on and through us — the rub is that this search usually occurs outside the parameters of a traditional faith. Hence, some religionists historically look suspiciously upon off-the-grid seekers
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