The idea of "occult sciences" developed in the sixteenth century. The term usually encompassed three practices—astrology, alchemy and natural magic—although sometimes various forms of divination were also included rather than being subsumed under natural magic. These were grouped together because, according to the historian of religion Wouter Hanegraaff, "each one of them engaged in a…
Scientology was created in 1952 by the magnetic pioneer and sci-fi essayist L. Ron Hubbard. It has been assigned a religion by the US and the UK governments for charge purposes. Yet, it has additionally been called an "anti-sacred faction" in Germany and a "dangerous cult" in France and in numerous pieces of the US.…
There is wide assortment of organizations which are intensely occult in their concentration and normally describe themselves as occult, elusive, or both. A portion of the more notable organizations include:
Hermetic Order of the Brilliant Day break
Rosicrucians (Order of the Rose Cross)
Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.)
Society of the Inner Light
Servants of the…
