The occult 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 'sec
In the 1990s, the Dutch scholar Wouter Hanegraaff put forward a new definition of occultism for scholarly uses.
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, more commonly the Golden Dawn, was a secret society from the Western esoteric tradition, that was heavily based on Rosicrucianism and inspired by Freemasonry, ch
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers in Egyptian costume performing a ritual in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn