Word: occultation
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...This examination has some occult purpose...
...been sleek, blond Jack Honoré, the tall and loquacious Swedish barber just down Nassau Street, the check would have been cashed. Great Princeton character though Joe is, Barber Jack is a greater. By some occult means, he possesses himself of names, schools, home towns, parental fames-some say, of the tax returns, creeds and girlfriends' names-of every member of every entering class. Barber Jack would have known instantly that the freshman spoke the truth, that he was indeed John Davison Rockefeller III. He would have known that Freshman Rockefeller had entered Princeton University after preparing at Loomis...
Torn open by capitalism in search of markets, Japan was strong enough to retaliate in kind. But, because she possesses vitality, she is non the less a blossom of the East. Her people may enshroud a mystic temper and a love of occult ritualism with the paraphernalia of foreign trade; it is but in self-defense: she smells of sandalwood still. Her cults her shrines, her potentates, her very homes and villages, are only curious mysteries to Caucasian eyes. Yet theirs are roots before which the Christian faith is a seedling. There is no power in intercourse with the west...
Does the CRIMSON really mean to assert and hold that for this product of the college, this "man" of superior intelligence and "occult" knowledge, that for this man "to revert to religion goes wholly against his reason"? That he has had implanted in his reason" facts and arguments which refute Christ's teachings...
...certain but that the latter is possible. Still, under this guise, much trickery is perpetrated. The difference between magicians and those who claim they can communicate with the spirits, is that the ormer admit the presence of fraud and deception. When spiritualists cannot readily produce their occult messages, they will turn to trickery, instead of postponing the seance to another time, which is sufficient proof of their inability...