occultIsm

[Eng.occult; -ism.] The name given to a system of theosophy practiced in the East. Its adepts claim to be able to produce seemingly_miraculous effects by purely natural means. [OcCULTIST.) "Occultism is not merely an isolated discovery, showing humanity to be po e ed of certain powers over Nature, which the narrower study of Nature from the merely materialistic standpoint has failed to develop; it is an illumination cast over all previous spiritual speculation worth anything, of a kind which knits together some apparently divergent systems."-A. P. Sinnett: The Occult World , p. 6.