Crossword-Solution: OCCULTISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Occultism | n. | A certain Oriental system of theosophy. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “OCCULTISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the study of the supernatural | 1 answer |
| esoterism | 1 answer |
| belief in and the study and practice of magic, astrology, etc | 1 answer |
| Supernatural belief | 1 answer |
| Study of the supernatural | 1 answer |
| CHIROMANCY | 2 answers |
| CABALA | 5 answers |
| kabbalah | 5 answers |
| Palm reading? | 5 answers |
| metaphysics | 5 answers |
| A BELIEF IN SUPERNATURAL POWERS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF BRINGING THEM UNDER HUMAN CONTROL | 11 answers |
| sortilege | 16 answers |
| thaumaturgy | 16 answers |
| alchemy | 16 answers |
| convertibility | 16 answers |
| transfiguration | 17 answers |
| Transmutation | 19 answers |
| incorporeality | 26 answers |
| Wizardry | 27 answers |
| mysticism | 28 answers |
| Transition | 31 answers |
| Clairvoyance | 34 answers |
| legerdemain | 36 answers |
| Enchantment | 41 answers |
| Divination | 43 answers |
| witchcraft | 50 answers |
| sorcery | 51 answers |
| CONVERSION ___ | 68 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with OCCULTISM (5)
The passage is a definition of divine magic, which is apparently another term for alchemy; and lays down the great doctrine of all mediaeval occultism, as of all modern theosophy--of a soul-power equally operative in the material and the immaterial, in nature and in the consciousness of man.
When I observed to my friend, the professor’s wife, that the life of Madame de S--, with its unofficial diplomacy, its intrigues, lawsuits, favours, disgrace, expulsions, its atmosphere of scandal, occultism, and charlatanism, was more fit for the eighteenth century than for the conditions of our own time, she assented with a smile, but a moment after went on in a reflective tone: “Charlatanism?--yes, in a certain measure.
When I tried to get a little more definite account of the coffin-boat and the dead lady that is given in _The Journal of Occultism_ he simply shrugged his shoulders.
She had to be helped into my room--in strict accordance with what one sceptical critic of occultism has called "the Vampire etiquette." She made violent haste in getting away at cock-crow.
What used to be the mystery and occultism of the few is now general knowledge, so that all the playing at occultism by conceited people now seems jejune and foolish.
Quotes with OCCULTISM (3)
Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God... It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.
People's imaginations have continued to work, right up to our own day; hence the incredible crop of fanciful allegations attributing to the Templars every kind of esoteric rite and belief, from the most ancient to the most vulgar, every variety of alchemical or magical knowledge, all kinds of initiation and affiliation rituals, those already in existence at the time and those yet to be conceived — in a word, all the "secrets" devised the slake the thirst for mystery inherent …
If our minds and hearts are not filled with God’s truth, something else will take His place: cynicism, occultism, false religions and philosophies, drugs — the list is endless.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2003–2011).