12-03-2009, 12:41 PM
Actually occult simply means hidden or difficult to see... Nothing fancier than that.
Sometimes they speak of occult bone fractures. Meaning there is a fracture but you can't see it on the x-ray...
Occult knowledge is difficult to see. It's not that it's complex material or that it's hidden, it's just that it doesn't fit common insights and is rejected by the street level conditioned mind. I don't know if it was here, but someone made the remark that to people who did not understand the occult neither words or books could educate them. And to those who do understand it, words or books are no longer required.
It sounds elitist but it's not so bad. Practically everyone here won't be challenged by the occult way of putting things. This stuff was difficult a few decades ago. Times have changed a great deal...
Wicca is only 50 years old and was at the time invented by members of another occult society, our friends the masons. There's a lot of confusion about that as well. The whole of wicca is essentially freemasonry... The symbolism used contains a lot of dead giveaways. The pillars, the circle, the formal rituals which are copies of the ceremonial magical rituals used by the masons.. I'm not sure if it was an attempt to answer the neo-romanticism ideals that were popular at the time or whether there is some other goal.
I've participated in wiccan rituals and was actually part of a small coven for a while. I followed the neophyte course of one particular coven but bailed because it didn't turn out to be my thing. Much later I discovered it's secret heritage.
Sometimes they speak of occult bone fractures. Meaning there is a fracture but you can't see it on the x-ray...
Occult knowledge is difficult to see. It's not that it's complex material or that it's hidden, it's just that it doesn't fit common insights and is rejected by the street level conditioned mind. I don't know if it was here, but someone made the remark that to people who did not understand the occult neither words or books could educate them. And to those who do understand it, words or books are no longer required.
It sounds elitist but it's not so bad. Practically everyone here won't be challenged by the occult way of putting things. This stuff was difficult a few decades ago. Times have changed a great deal...
Wicca is only 50 years old and was at the time invented by members of another occult society, our friends the masons. There's a lot of confusion about that as well. The whole of wicca is essentially freemasonry... The symbolism used contains a lot of dead giveaways. The pillars, the circle, the formal rituals which are copies of the ceremonial magical rituals used by the masons.. I'm not sure if it was an attempt to answer the neo-romanticism ideals that were popular at the time or whether there is some other goal.
I've participated in wiccan rituals and was actually part of a small coven for a while. I followed the neophyte course of one particular coven but bailed because it didn't turn out to be my thing. Much later I discovered it's secret heritage.