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Occultism in modernity and onwards

Hast thou got da gnose? Unless you have studied it, it will be difficult!
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The madame born as Helena Petrovna Hahn von Rottenstern
Blavatsky
What movement did she play an important part in founding?
Theosophy
Title for a secret master.
mahatma
According to the madame a sixth race of humans will emerge to lead the world into a new era. What continent will they appear on?
America
An offshoot from the madames movement started by Rudolph Steiner that involves itself with architecture, pedagogy.
Antroposophy
Under what name do we know their pedagogy?
Waldorf
What is the last name of the sisters who, in 1848, began trying to communicate with a spirit in their Hydesville home, by a primitive alphabetical rapping code.
Fox
What is the collective name for the huge sphere of books, films, comics and computer games by esoteric concepts and thoughts?
occulture
What is the moving part of an ouija board called?
planchette
What do we call the stereotypical view of the East as being excessively romantic, mysterious and the source of esoteric wisdom?
orientalism
When the above is projected towards the lands of the Pharaoh we call it this instead.
egyptosophy
What esoteric organisation was started, by amongst others, William Wynn Westcott, with the expressed purpose of practicing magic, rather than just doing theoretical studies?
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
He was called the wickedest man in the world.
Aleister Crowley
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“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law!” comes from which esoteric religion?
Thelema
What is the central rite in this religion?
the Gnostic Mass
What does O.T.O. stand for?
Ordo Templi Orientis
What organisation, that still exists today, was founded in 1882 by Cambridge scholars to scientifically study supernormal events?
The society for psychic research
What is the name of the nudist and civil servant, who all but single-handedly founded modern witchcraft in England?
Gerald Gardner
What is his version of witchcraft called?
Wicca
Set out to be a Catholic priest, this french magician instead married and wrote books on socialism and feminism. His magic emphasizes equilibrium.
Eliphas levi
What did he call the global force that surrounds everything and that the magician supposedly can manipulate to even turn the night into day or change the very order of the seasons?
astral light
Who is said to be depicted in The goat of Mendés?
Baphomet
An esoteric current based on individuality, self deification and an antinomian stance can be called this "path"? Satanism is often included but also other currents.
Left hand path
Does the Satanic Temple believe in Satan as an entity
no
After a split from Church of Satan this theistic, ”satanistic”, organisation was formed.
Temple of Set
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