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- noun Plural form of
occultist .
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Examples
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At Dhoon Castle there is a secret chamber, which has engaged the pens of many so-called occultists, but which no man, save every heir, has entered for generations.
Brood of the Witch-Queen Sax Rohmer 1921
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But this word inevitably connotes the ideas of physical uncleanness and moral defilement, and its use would thus assist the survival of medieval ideas of the essentially corrupt nature of sexual passion -- such ideas as are exemplified by the quaint survival among certain "occultists" of the medieval doctrine of _incubi_ and _succubi_, by the belief that sexual dreams are induced by the "thought-forms" of other persons tormented by ungratified sexual desire!
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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I've seen some people talk of aether theory as if the only people who supposed such were crazy near-occultists.
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The major works and esoterica authored by the Von Baurs number in scores, though many have since been forgotten by all but the most learned of modern arcane scholars and occultists.
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Act One is very nearly a comedy about a close-knit group of British occultists; Act Two is a tragedy about Bolshevik "God builders" intent on remodeling life on Earth.
Never Say Die Thomas Meaney 2011
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Every year, thousands of Russians claim to have been defrauded by people calling themselves clairvoyants, occultists, and self-styled witches, who advertise their services in Russian media.
In Russia, faith healers are tested and licensed — by the federal government 2008
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I also felt initially suspicious about the setting, among occultists in New Orleans.
January Books 5) The City of the Dead bohemiancoast 2008
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Dependent upon and identified with lost Motherhood is the “Lost Name” of ancient writers and occultists.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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They hint at how both art and magic are brought to life by rituals and beliefs and that artists and occultists are not so very different.
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According to a number of occultists, the archangel Raphael is one of the seven angels of the apocalypse.
Russia: another doomsday sect awaits the end of the world 2008
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