Let’s Define the Occult

Occult is a word people love to throw around. So much so, it’s become a garbage collection term for anything outside mainstream religion, especially from Christians.

In reality, the term simply means:

– Hidden and difficult to see
– Supernatural practices and techniques

Hidden and difficult to see sounds like the search for knowledge. This would also explain archeology. Microbiology. The study of the Covid virus and how we got a vaccine. Pretty much anything science.

Supernatural practices are the essence of the Bible. It’s an exercise in the occult? Raising the dead. Water to wine. A never ending feast. Healing the sick without medicine. Those are all supernatural events.

Going back to the Satanic Panic, games and books readily got the label of occult. D&D is the most well know, even though it incorporated ideas from the Bible.

The Bible has rituals. The Bible has spells. The Bible has charms and incantations.

Then video games got whitewashed with the term. Games like Ultima with ideas of Compassion, Justice, and Valor were stamped as a gateway to the occult. Most people would consider compassion a worthy trait, maybe even a “virtue.”

Symbols like the Ankh, representing the Afterlife, which sounds like heaven, were all labelled as occult. It wasn’t the Christian heaven, so they were associated with the demonic.

The misguided labelling continues.

Triangles are occult and symbols of the Illuminati, which doesn’t exist.

Anything with a 6 in it, is the occult and represents the demonic. And it doesn’t have to be a 6. Anything with a loop, or a line that could be a loop is good enough. A sloppy circle over an “i” is an occult symbol.

Any star is a representation of the occult, because it can rotate to be upside down. Ignore the fact that applies to everything.

Occult is applied to whatever the religious factions don’t understand or could undermine their authority and control. Why? In many respects the occult is seen as “the spiritual realization of the individual.” The occult moves the center of focus back to the individual, making God and Church less important.

When that sort of thing happens, the Church starts to lose it, and they lash out. Can’t have people thinking and acting for themselves.

As a point of reference, here’s a few things considered occult[1]:

– Yoga
– Gravity
– Exorcism