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Occultist

noun

A believer in occultism; someone versed in the occult arts.

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"Occultist" Quotes from Famous Books

... is familiar to all literary students. SHAKSPEARE'S assumption of borrowed plumes is of course the classic example. But another and more subtle problem is the interchange of functions between two men of letters; and the theory recently advanced by the distinguished critic and occultist, Mr. Pullar Leggatt, deserves at least a ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov. 14, 1917 • Various

... much speculation as to who the child born in the year of Pollio's consulship, who was to bring in the new order of ages, could have been. But we may note that in the language of Occultism (and think of Virgil as an Occultist), the 'birth of a child' had always been a symbolical way of speaking of the inititation of a candidate into the (true) Mysteries. So that it does not follow by any means that he meant an actual baby born in that year; he may have intended, and probably did intend, some Adept then born ...

— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris

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