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==Occultism== | ==Occultism== | ||
[[File:Aleister Crowley-Golden Dawn.jpg|350px|thumb|Occultist Aleister Crowley wearing his ritual attire]] | [[File:Aleister Crowley-Golden Dawn.jpg|350px|thumb|Occultist Aleister Crowley wearing his ritual attire]] | ||
The French esotericist Éliphas Lévi popularised the term "occultism" in the 1850s. His reinterpretation of traditional esoteric ideas has led to him being called the origin of "the occultist current properly so-called." | The French esotericist [[Éliphas Lévi]] popularised the term "occultism" in the 1850s. His reinterpretation of traditional esoteric ideas has led to him being called the origin of "the occultist current properly so-called." | ||
In the English-speaking world, prominent figures in the development of occultism included [[Helena Blavatsky]] and other figures associated with her [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] Society, senior figures in the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]] like William Wynn Westcott and [[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers]], as well as other individuals such as Paschal Beverly Randolph, Emma Hardinge Britten, [[Arthur Edward Waite]], and—in the early twentieth century—[[Aleister Crowley]], [[Dion Fortune]], and [[Israel Regardie]]. | In the English-speaking world, prominent figures in the development of occultism included [[Helena Blavatsky]] and other figures associated with her [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] Society, senior figures in the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]] like William Wynn Westcott and [[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers]], as well as other individuals such as Paschal Beverly Randolph, Emma Hardinge Britten, [[Arthur Edward Waite]], and—in the early twentieth century—[[Aleister Crowley]], [[Dion Fortune]], and [[Israel Regardie]]. | ||