The Occult: A History is a 1971 book by English writer, Colin Wilson. Topics covered include Aleister Crowley, G. I. Gurdjieff, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Kabbalah, primitive magic, Franz Anton Mesmer, Gregor Rasputin, Daniel Dunglas Home, Paracelsus, P. D. Ouspensky, William Blake, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Cornelius Agrippa, and various others. The book is divided into the following sections: Part One: A Survey of the Subject Magic-The Science of the Future The ...

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• Occult - Occultism
• Occult - History
• Occult - The Occult and Christianity

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Occultism is the study of supposed occult or hidden wisdom. To the Occultist it is the study of Truth, or rather the deeper truth that exists beyond the surface: 'The Truth Is Always Hidden In Plain Sight'. It may be considered by some to be a 'grey' area, perhaps larger than any other in the realm of religion. It can deal with subjects ranging from talismans, magic (alternatively spelled and defined as magick), sorcery, and voodoo, to ESP (Extra-sensory perception), numerology, lucid dreams, or even religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. ...

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Occult, Occult - Occultism, Occult - History, Occult - The Occult and Christianity

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Ouija (pronounced wee-juh or wee-jee) refers to the belief that one can receive messages during a séance by the use of a Ouija board (also called a talking board or spirit board) and planchette. The fingers of the participants are placed on the planchette which then moves about a board covered with numbers, letters and symbols so as to spell out messages. Ouija is a trademark for a talking board currently sold by Parker Brothers. While the word is not a genericized trademark, it has become a ...

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• Ouija - History
• Ouija - How is it done?
• Ouija - Skeptical view
• Ouija - Criticism of Ouija boards
• Ouija - Literature
• Ouija - Etymology
• Ouija - Non-occult usage
• Ouija - Books

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In various religions, Gabriel (גַּבְרִיאֵל, Standard Hebrew Gavriʼel, Latin Gabrielus, Tiberian Hebrew Gaḇrîʼēl, Arabic جبريل Ǧabrīl Jibrael) is an angel who serves as a messenger from God. He appears first in the Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible. The name Gabriel can mean "man of God", "hero of God", or "God has shown himself mighty." According to the Abrahamic religions, Gabriel is an archangel who serves as a messenger from God. He is sometimes regarded as t ...

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• Gabriel - Gabriel in Jewish history and the Hebrew Bible
• Gabriel - Gabriel in Christianity
• Gabriel - Gabriel in Islam
• Gabriel - Gabriel in Angelology and the Occult
• Gabriel - Gabriel in Music
• Gabriel - Gabriel in Fiction
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The Moon as seen from Earth Ammonia Carbon dioxide The Moon is the planet Earth's only natural satellite. It has no formal name other than "The Moon", although in English it is occasionally called Luna (Latin for moon), or Selene, to distinguish it from the generic "moon" (natural satellites of other planets are also called moons). Its symbol is a crescent (Unicode: ☾). The terms lunar, selene/seleno-, and cynthion (from the Lunar deities Selene and Cynthia) refer to the Moon (apo ...

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• Moon - The two sides
• Moon - Orbit
• Moon - Earth & Moon
• Moon - Origin and history
• Moon - Physical characteristics
• Moon - Composition
• Moon - Selenography
• Moon - Presence of water
• Moon - Magnetic field
• Moon - Atmosphere
• Moon - Eclipses
• Moon - Occultation of stars
• Moon - Observation of the Moon
• Moon - Exploration of the Moon
• Moon - Human understanding of the Moon
• Moon - Myth and folk culture
• Moon - The Moon as muse
• Moon - Astrology
• Moon - Scientific understanding
• Moon - Meteor impact on the Moon
• Moon - Legal status
• Moon - Satellites
• Moon - Surface installations
• Moon - Lunar location listings

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Cassini-Huygens is a joint NASA/ESA/ASI unmanned space mission intended to study Saturn and its moons. The spacecraft consists of two main elements: the Cassini orbiter, named after the Italian-French astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and the Huygens probe, named after the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens. It was launched on October 15, 1997 and entered Saturn's orbit on July 1, 2004. On December 25, 2004 the probe separated from the orbiter at approximately 02:00 UTC, with deployment confirmed by th ...

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• Cassini-Huygens - Overview
• Cassini-Huygens - History
• Cassini-Huygens - Spacecraft design
• Cassini-Huygens - Instrumentation
• Cassini-Huygens - Plutonium power source and controversy
• Cassini-Huygens - The Huygens probe
• Cassini-Huygens - Important events and discoveries
• Cassini-Huygens - Timeline
• Cassini-Huygens - Jupiter flyby
• Cassini-Huygens - Test of Einstein's theory of general relativity
• Cassini-Huygens - Spoke phenomenon verified
• Cassini-Huygens - New moons of Saturn
• Cassini-Huygens - Phoebe flyby
• Cassini-Huygens - Saturn rotation
• Cassini-Huygens - Orbiting Saturn
• Cassini-Huygens - Titan flybys
• Cassini-Huygens - Huygens encounter with Titan
• Cassini-Huygens - Enceladus flybys
• Cassini-Huygens - Radio Occultations of Saturn's Rings
• Cassini-Huygens - Trajectory
• Cassini-Huygens - Notes
• Cassini-Huygens - Books and print references

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A UFO or Unidentified Flying Object is simply defined as any object or optical phenomenon observed in the sky which cannot be identified, even after being thoroughly investigated by qualified people. A fuller definition was given by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, late astronomer, U.S. Air Force consultant and UFO proponent, as "the reported perception of an object or light seen in the sky or upon the land the appearance, trajectory, and general dynamic and luminescent behaviour of which do not suggest a logical, conve ...

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• Unidentified flying object - History
• Unidentified flying object - Etymology
• Unidentified flying object - Foreign versions of term
• Unidentified flying object - Pronunciation
• Unidentified flying object - UFOs and popular culture
• Unidentified flying object - Typical reported characteristics of UFOs
• Unidentified flying object - Scientific UFO field studies
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• Unidentified flying object - United States
• Unidentified flying object - Official governmental studies
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• Unidentified flying object - United States
• Unidentified flying object - Civilian UFO investigation groups
• Unidentified flying object - United States
• Unidentified flying object - Other UFO organizations
• Unidentified flying object - Science and UFOs
• Unidentified flying object - Physical evidence
• Unidentified flying object - Identified flying objects IFOs
• Unidentified flying object - Popular ideas for explaining UFOs
• Unidentified flying object - Evidence and explanations
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• Unidentified flying object - Paranormal mystical and occult crossover
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• Unidentified flying object - Theories
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In the late 1970s, Ray Sherwin and Peter Carroll, two young British occultists with a strong interest in ritual magic, began to publish a magazine called The New Equinox. Both were connected with a burgeoning occult scene developing around a metaphysical bookstore in London's East End called The Phoenix. According to themselves, both men quickly became dissatisfied with the state of the Magical Arts and the deficiencies they saw in the available occult groups. So in 1978 they published a small announcement in their magazine proclaimin ...

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Illuminates of Thanateros, Illuminates of Thanateros - History, Illuminates of Thanateros - Structure, Illuminates of Thanateros - Relation to the occult subculture

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According to De Castries, excessively large cities pose a clear danger to the people living in and near them by allowing mass quantities of certain substances (city-stuff) to accumulate, which in turn draw the attention of paramental forces. Through the manipulation of the paramental forces, a megapolisomancer could predict and alter the future. "The electro-mephitic city-stuff whereof I speak has potencies for achieving vast effects at distant times and localities, even in the far future and on other orbs, but of the manipulations required for the production and ...

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Megapolisomancy, Megapolisomancy - Megapolisomancy fictional occult pseudoscience, Megapolisomancy - The Occult Science of Megapolisomancy, Megapolisomancy - Neo-Pythagorean Metageometry, Megapolisomancy - Paramentals, Megapolisomancy - Protections Against Paramentals, Megapolisomancy - Fictional History of Thibaut De Castries

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"The ancient Egyptians only buried people in their pyramids. We are living in ours." - De Castries Leiber provides little background about Thibaut De Castries. When De Castries arrived in San Francisco in 1900, he had already written Megapolisomancy. The most commonly accepted rumor about his life prior to 1900 was that he had escaped from the Franco-Prussian War as a teenager, fleeing Paris in a balloon with his dying father, his father's mistress (who allegedly later became his own), and a black panther that his father ...

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Megapolisomancy, Megapolisomancy - Megapolisomancy fictional occult pseudoscience, Megapolisomancy - The Occult Science of Megapolisomancy, Megapolisomancy - Neo-Pythagorean Metageometry, Megapolisomancy - Paramentals, Megapolisomancy - Protections Against Paramentals, Megapolisomancy - Fictional History of Thibaut De Castries

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FUDOFSI was established in defense of the Orders of Lyon and the other societies that were not involved with FUDOSI. FUDOFSI was strongly opposed to FUDOSI, Harvey Spencer Lewis and his organisation Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC). Very little information is known about FUDOFSI due to the Second World War. Like so many other occult societies, FUDOFSI is considered to have disappeared during the war. In 1944 Constant Chevillon, the head o ...

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FUDOFSI, FUDOFSI - History, FUDOFSI - Attitude towards AMORC and H. S. Lewis, FUDOFSI - The First Meeting of FUDOFSI, FUDOFSI - The End of FUDOFSI, FUDOFSI - External link

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Essays Alexandre David, Fama Fraternitatis - Introdution, [15]. Corinne Heline, The Seven Jewels and the Seven Stages of Initiation , [16] Fictional literature Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale (1842), [17]. Prentiss Tucker, In the Land of the Living Dead: an Occult Story (1929), [18]. Hermann Hesse, Journey to the East (1932, also "Journey to the Land of the Morning/of the Tomorrow" (Die Morgenlandfahrt)) ...

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Rosicrucian, Rosicrucian - Origins, Rosicrucian - History, Rosicrucian - Influence on Freemasonry, Rosicrucian - Rose Cross: Alchemy and Divine Sciences of Healing & of the Stars, Rosicrucian - The Manifestos, Rosicrucian - Modern groups, Rosicrucian - Esoteric Christianity groups vs. Para-Masonic groups, Rosicrucian - List of 'Para-Masonic' groups, Rosicrucian - List of 'Esoteric Christianity' groups, Rosicrucian - Reference literature

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Megapolisomancy is a fictional occult science created by Fritz Leiber, an influential American writer of fantasy and science fiction. Featured in Leiber's novella Our Lady of Darkness, megapolisomancy is the art of predicting and manipulating the future through the existence of large cities. In Our Lady of Darkness, the primary practitioner of this pseudoscience is fictional occultist Thibaut de Castries, whose seminal work, Megapolisomancy: A New Science of Cities, concerns the physical, psychological and paramen ...

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Megapolisomancy, Megapolisomancy - Megapolisomancy fictional occult pseudoscience, Megapolisomancy - The Occult Science of Megapolisomancy, Megapolisomancy - Neo-Pythagorean Metageometry, Megapolisomancy - Paramentals, Megapolisomancy - Protections Against Paramentals, Megapolisomancy - Fictional History of Thibaut De Castries

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Ordo Templi Orientis - The beginnings. The founding of Ordo Templi Orientis began with a wealthy paper chemist, Carl Kellner (1851-1905). A student of the occult and familiar with several modern secret organizations, he had come to believe that he had discovered a “Key” to the symbolism of Freemasonry and to the Mysteries of Nature itself. He then aspired to create an Academia Masonica that would unifiy the various systems of Masonry. Kellner, along with an associate, Theodor Reuss (1855-1923), decided to cal ...

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Ordo Templi Orientis, Ordo Templi Orientis - Philosophy of O.T.O., Ordo Templi Orientis - Initiation, Ordo Templi Orientis - Structure, Ordo Templi Orientis - International, Ordo Templi Orientis - National, Ordo Templi Orientis - The Gnostic Catholic Church, Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. bodies, Ordo Templi Orientis - History, Ordo Templi Orientis - The beginnings, Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. and Aleister Crowley, Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. after Crowley, Ordo Templi Orientis - Schisms in the Thelemic community, Ordo Templi Orientis - Teachings, Ordo Templi Orientis - Opposing views

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In the technique of directional drilling, a mechanical calculator was used to perform calculations necessary to solve "how do I get 'there' from 'here'" problems. This board has traditionally been nicknamed a "Ouija Board." These calculations are done by computers these days, but often the name persists as the public or internal name of the relevant module. Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, an ...

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Ouija, Ouija - History, Ouija - How is it done?, Ouija - Skeptical view, Ouija - Criticism of Ouija boards, Ouija - Literature, Ouija - Etymology, Ouija - Non-occult usage, Ouija - Books

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During the year, the moon occults sometimes stars and planets. Because the moon is close to the earth, occultations of stars are not visible everywhere, where the moon is at occultation time over the horizon. Because of the moving nodes of the moon, in each years other stars are occulted. Occultation of stars by the moon can be used for determining the diametre of the stars. The contact dates can be used for ...

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Moon, Moon - The two sides, Moon - Orbit, Moon - Earth & Moon, Moon - Origin and history, Moon - Physical characteristics, Moon - Composition, Moon - Selenography, Moon - Presence of water, Moon - Magnetic field, Moon - Atmosphere, Moon - Eclipses, Moon - Occultation of stars, Moon - Observation of the Moon, Moon - Exploration of the Moon, Moon - Human understanding of the Moon, Moon - Myth and folk culture, Moon - The Moon as muse, Moon - Astrology, Moon - Scientific understanding, Moon - Meteor impact on the Moon, Moon - Legal status, Moon - Satellites, Moon - Surface installations, Moon - Lunar location listings

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The use of talking boards has roots in the modern Spiritualism movement that began in The United States in the mid-19th century. Methods of divination at that time used various ways to spell out messages, including swinging a pendulum over a plate that had letters around the edge or using an entire table to indicate letters drawn on the floor. Often used was a small wooden tablet supported on casters. This tablet, called a planchette, was affixed with a pencil that would write out messages in a fashion similar to automatic writing. It should be noted that many of these met ...

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Ouija, Ouija - History, Ouija - How is it done?, Ouija - Skeptical view, Ouija - Criticism of Ouija boards, Ouija - Literature, Ouija - Etymology, Ouija - Non-occult usage, Ouija - Books

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A Ouija board is operated by one or more users. They place the planchette on the board and then rest their fingers on the planchette. The users start moving the planchette around the board and speaking to the entity (or entities) they wish to summon; They then begin asking questions of it. Eventually the planchette will come to rest on one letter after another, spelling out a message. Often an additional participant records the messages on paper. As with automatic writing, the messages are often vague and open ...

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Ouija, Ouija - History, Ouija - How is it done?, Ouija - Skeptical view, Ouija - Criticism of Ouija boards, Ouija - Literature, Ouija - Etymology, Ouija - Non-occult usage, Ouija - Books

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Few people who have investigated Ouija boards from a skeptical viewpoint accept that a piece of cardboard sold as a game can conjure spirits, evil or benevolent. The accepted theory among psychologists and skeptics is that the participants are subconsciously making small, involuntary, physical movements using a well-known, and well-understood, phenomenon called the Ideomotor effect. Experiments consistently suggest that, at best, the messages are received involuntarily from the participants themselves, and, at worst, by a manipulative player, possibly with the connivance o ...

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Ouija, Ouija - History, Ouija - How is it done?, Ouija - Skeptical view, Ouija - Criticism of Ouija boards, Ouija - Literature, Ouija - Etymology, Ouija - Non-occult usage, Ouija - Books

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