>>10119360So, in short, there's a few basic principles you need to put in your backpack before starting your journey into occultism.
1) everything is a concept. Occultism has a bad habit: not caring about language, and most of all, simple language. So everything has 100 different names, and nothing is explained clearly. Another bad habit is "theatrics": instead of naming something "the Inner world of emotion" they will name it "Alchemical Silver". Because they want to sound cool.
Also there's two or three different things that are called "Alchemical Silver", because fuck you.
If you start studying a school of occultism, they will start mentioning GODS, SPIRITS, HIGHER BEINGS, ANGELS, DEMONS or even aliens.
In the end though, just like "The Flaming Sword", "The World Tree" and "The Philosopher's Stone" they are just philosophical concepts.
2) It's all the same shit. With slight variations, occult Hinduism, and Christian Kabbalah, and Alchemy, and I suspect even Scientology, are extreeemely similar. They take from the same place, which they claim is "super ancient" but in reality it's just basic Platonism and Neo-Platonism. NONE of them for example would agree with Democritus. They do use different words for everything, but there you go.
Freemasons use the Bible in the West and the Veda in India and the Koran in Arabia and they just use them the same way.
3) these people are a bit nutty. You know all the crazy conspiracy theories about the Illuminati ruling the world? You don't find them only among the profane and uninitiated, there's a bunch of delusional Satanists and Kabbalists and Occultists that will tell you the same. There is a LOT of useless trash online. Skip whatever sounds stupid or crazy or tries too hard.
4) This "discipline" of emotionally and physically connecting with the spirit doesn't have one name, they're all a bit wrong, but the closest I can find are Kabbalah, Hermeticism, Theosophy, Neoplatonism, mysticism and Alchemy.
