The Manuscripts give the specific outlines of the Grade Rituals of the Order and prescribe a curriculum of graduated teachings that encompass the Hermetic Qabalah, astrology, occult tarot, geomancy, and alchemy.

However, Western occult practice mostly includes the use of astrology ( calculating the influence of heavenly bodies ), bibliomancy ( reading random passages from a book, such as Liber Legis or the I Ching ), tarot ( a deck of 78 cards, each with symbolic meaning, usually laid out in a meaningful pattern ), and geomancy ( a method of making random marks on paper or in earth that results in a combination of sixteen patterns ).

It teaches Hermetic Qabalah, astrology and occult tarot.

The cards are traced by some occult writers to ancient Egypt or the Kabbalah but there is no documented evidence of such origins or of the usage of tarot for divination before the 18th century.

Despite this, the identification of the tarot cards with the Egyptian Book of Thoth was already firmly established in occult practice and continues in modern urban legend to the present day.

The occult tarot decks are based on decks of this type.

In divinatory, esoteric and occult tarot, the Minor Arcana are believed to represent relatively mundane features of life.

Subjects dealt with in this series include the occult, the tarot and Hermetic Qabalah.

The highest MKL a magician can have is 22 ( as the 22 " Major Arcana " cards of occult tarot ).

Controversies have developed over interpretations of spiritual warfare methods, and purposes, by Christian groups who have used spiritual warfare as a justification to persecute others, even amongst the Christian community as well as other groups, such as practitioners of transcendental meditation, Freemasons, women accused of witchcraft, and owners of occult objects ( e. g. native American art, Oija boards, tarot cards ).

Some traditions of Stregheria use the ritual tools of cup, wand, pentacle and blade, which are seen in the suits of occult or divinatory tarot cards and amongst many systems of Western occultism.

teaches by correspondence, covering esoteric psychology, occult tarot, Hermetic Qabalah, astrology, and meditation techniques.

In 777, Aleister Crowley associates Hod to the Four Eights of occult tarot, Anubis, Thoth, Hanuman, Loki, Hermes, Mercury, Jackal.

As a young man, Encausse spent a great deal of time at the Bibliothèque Nationale studying the Kabbalah, occult tarot, the sciences of magic and alchemy, and the writings of Eliphas Lévi.

Encausse's early readings in tarot and the lore of the Kabbalah in translation was inspired by the occult writings of Eliphas Lévi, whose translation of the " Nuctemeron of Apollonius of Tyana " printed as a supplement to Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ( 1855 ), provided Encausse with his nom de plume: " Papus " means " physician.

Etteilla published his ideas of the correspondences between the tarot, astrology, and the four classical elements and four humors, and was the first to issue a revised tarot deck specifically designed for occult purposes ( 1791 ).

At about the same moment, the tarot captured the imagination of the Frenchman Antoine Court de Gebelin, who brought it to Europe's attention as a purported key to the occult knowledge of Egypt.

All this gave rise to " Egyptomania " and occult tarot.

It is related to the priestess card in the occult tarot ( according to Arthur Edward Waite's " Pictorial Key to the Tarot ") and Liber 777 associating it with Isis, Cybele, Demeter, Rhea, Woman, The Virgin Mary, Juno, Hecate, Yoni, The Three Threes of the Tarot, etc.

Paul Foster Case ( October 3, 1884 – March 2, 1954 ) was an American occultist of the early 20th century and author of numerous books on occult tarot and Qabalah.

A modern scholar of the occult tarot and Qabalah, Paul Foster Case was born at 5: 28 p. m., October 3, 1884 in Fairport, New York.

Over the next three decades, Case organized the curriculum of correspondence lessons covering practically the whole corpus of what is called the Western Mystery Tradition: occult tarot, Qabalah, and Alchemy.

Case left behind extensive published writings on occult tarot and Qabalah and even more unpublished writings that are circulated today through the Mystery School he founded.

* Divinatory, esoteric and occult tarot

" The Sydney newspaper Truth on 5 January 1921 expressed a similar view ; " For the true explanation of these fairy photographs what is wanted is not a knowledge of occult phenomena but a knowledge of children.

The story is presented by Le Fanu as part of the casebook of Dr Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult doctor in literature.

Gardner is internationally recognised as the " Father of Wicca " among the Pagan and occult communities.

In these cases it is termed Thyrotoxicosis Factitia ( L, facticius: artificial or self-induced ); it is also known by other terms such as exogenous thyrotoxicosis, alimentary thyrotoxicosis or occult factitial thyrotoxicosis.

It is speculated that this was due to some occult papers having been found in a hansom cab, in which Westcott's connection to the Golden Dawn came to the attention of his superiors.

I do not allege that this condition is induced through the transmission of a magnetic or occult influence from my body into that of my patients ; nor do I profess, by my processes, to produce the higher supernatural phenomena of the Mesmerists.

Kult's magic system is largely drawn on the same real-world occult belief systems as some modern magick societies.

While CT of the lungs is usually adequate, a positron emission tomography ( PET ) scan of the body may also be performed to search for an occult tumour, particularly of the lung.

While it is true that Nostradamus claimed in 1555 to have burned all of the occult works in his library, no one can say exactly what books were destroyed in this fire.

In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e. g. an " occult bleed " may be one detected indirectly by the presence of otherwise unexplained anemia.

The term occult is also used as a label given to a number of magical organizations or orders, the teachings and practices taught by them, and to a large body of current and historical literature and spiritual philosophy related to this subject.

Occultism is the term used to describe the study of occult practices including ( but not limited to ) magic, alchemy, extra-sensory perception, astrology, spiritualism, and divination.

Direct insight into our perception of the occult does not usually consist of access to physically measurable facts, but is arrived at through the mind or the spirit.

An oft-cited means of gaining insight into the occult is the use of a focus ; a physical object, a ritualistic action ( for example, meditation or chanting ), or a medium in which one becomes wholly immersed.

They may view the occult as being anything supernatural or paranormal which is not achieved by or through God ( as defined by those religious denominations ), and is therefore the work of an opposing and malevolent entity.

The word has negative connotations for many people, and while certain practices considered by some to be " occult " are also found within mainstream religions, in this context the term " occult " is rarely used and is sometimes substituted with " esoteric ".

Though there is a Christian occult tradition that goes back at least to Renaissance times, when Marsilio Ficino developed a Christian Hermeticism and Pico della Mirandola developed a Christian form of Kabbalism, mainstream institutional Christianity has always resisted occult influences, which are: