Still from The Kybalion film (2022)

Modern Occultism

An exploration

Mitch Horowitz
4 min readSep 6, 2022

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The occult is an idea. Simple in concept yet seismic in impact, it is that there exist unseen dimensions or intersections of time, all possessed of their own events, causes, intelligences, and perhaps iterations of ourselves, whose influence is felt on and through us.

Since relatively early in the revival of the search for ancient spiritual concepts during the Renaissance — by…

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China