Why Is the Occult So Associated with Satanism?

The association isn’t grounded in fact.

A typical perspective on the Occult is that it is either Evil or utilizes symbols that have for some time been related with Satanism. Truth be told, nor is valid. Individuals have talked of the “Occult” for a long time with no Sinister/ satanism, ramifications. Indeed, Occultism just alludes to the investigation of shrouded information and isn’t related with a specific strict belief.

A large portion of the relationship between the occult and Satanism just happened in the nineteenth century, in the wake of occultists like Aleister Crowley and Eliphas Levi. These figures were not Satanists either, yet some used more Evil symbolism, or have since been grasped by present day Satanists.

The Pentagram

Many believe the five-pointed star, especially when drawn inside a circle, has consistently been a Satanic symbol. Actually, the pentagram has been utilized for a huge number of years in different societies with no Satanic or abhorrent suggestions.

In the nineteenth century, point down pentagrams some of the time represented soul being subsumed by issue, instead of a point-up pentagram, which represented the superiority of soul over issue. For this explanation, numerous twentieth century Satanists embraced the point down pentagram as their symbol.

Past to the nineteenth century, those implications related with the orientation of the pentagram didn’t exist, and the symbol was utilized to represent to everything from the InGolden Proportion to the human microcosm to the injuries of Christ.

Eliphas Levi’s Baphomet

Levi’s representation of Baphomet was intended to be a highly allegorical picture speaking to various enchanted standards. Unfortunately, individuals saw the revolting goat body and the uncovered bosoms and assumed it represented Satan, which it didn’t.

The utilization of the name “Baphomet” all by itself created further turmoil, with numerous individuals imagining that it alludes to an evil spirit or in any event an agnostic (pagan) god. Indeed, it alludes to not one or the other. It originally appeared in the Medieval times, most likely as a corruption of Mahomet, the Latinized form of Mohammad.

The Knights Templar were later blamed for worshiping a being called Baphomet, which has normally been deciphered as the name of an evil/demond presence or an agnostic/ pagan divinity, albeit such beings are totally missing from any historical record.

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley was an occultist who later became the prophet of Thelema. He was harshly restricted to Christianity and indecently vocal about these perspectives. He talked of giving up babies (by which he implied discharging without delivering a pregnancy) and considered himself the Incomparable Beast, a being in the Book of Revelation that numerous Christians compare with Satan.  He delighted in the subsequent antagonistic exposure, and right up ’til the present time numerous individuals think he was a Satanist, which he wasn’t. He likewise didn’t speak to the majority of occultists.

Freemasonry

A large number of the nineteenth century occults were additionally Freemasons or members of different orders impacted by Freemasonry. They borrowed a portion of the Freemason custom imagery for their own occult practices. That association between the two gatherings has given negative impressions of both. Some denounce that the Freemasons are occult naturally, while the different Evil rumors about the Freemasons (to a great extent motivated by the Taxil Fabrication) gets moved to the Masonic occultists.

Paganism

Occult reasoning has existed in Christian Europe for many years, and quite a bit of it is established decently legitimately in Judeo-Christian folklore, utilizing the names of heavenly attendants, perceiving the world is made by a solitary God, drawing upon the Jewish language, and so forth.

In the nineteenth century, numerous occultists stayed Christian. In any case, some were keen on Paganism in any event as allegory, and the discussion over the suitability and level of pagan impacts was really one of the reasons for the breaking down of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a major nineteenth century occult organization.

Today, the occult network incorporates a wide assortment of strict feelings both Judeo-Christian and pagan. These realities have prompted the impression of some that all occultism is established in pagan religion. At any rate, this makes it in spite of the Christian religion, and a few Christians compare those things non-Christian as being Evil/ Satanic.