The word “OCCULT” has its origin in the vires OCCULTae, the unseen forces of nature, and in the OCCULTa, the secrets relating to the ancient mysteries; in fact, however, modern OCCULTism is by and large no more than the study of extrasensory phenomena, one of the most hazardous of pursuits by reason of its wholly empirical character and its lack of any doctrinal basis. Occultism ranges from pure and simple experiment to pseudoreligious speculations and practices; it is only one step further to describe all authentically esoteric doctrines and methods as “OCCULTism,” and this step has been taken either through ignorance, indifference, or carelessness, and without shame or scruple, by those who have an interest to serve by this kind of depreciation. It is as though one were to describe genuine mystics as OCCULTists on the grounds that they too were concerned with the unseen. (GTUFS: LogicT, The Contradiction of Relativism)