occultism

Example Sentences

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At Halloween, the focus is on death, occultism and nightmares.

From Washington Times • Oct. 29, 2023

“Angels become a very big deal” for long-time practitioners who’ve made occultism their primary focus, said Hunter, an angel-loving occultist.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2023

Smashing Pumpkins’ forthcoming album, “Cyr,” out Friday, is a roving 20-song double album that courses with currents of ’80s synth-pop and darkwave occultism — tailored most fittingly for the darkest days of the year.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2020

“A kind of secular mystery cult, God-building was another part of the late-19th-century European current in which occultism and science marched hand in hand,” Gray writes.

From New York Times • May 8, 2011

Mine has always been the study of the least understood of the sciences—I mean occultism.

From The Moving Finger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)