Word: occultist
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...With Moricand I entered new waters. Moricand was not only an astrologer and a scholar steeped in the hermetic philosophies, but an occultist . . . Rather tall, well built, broad-shouldered, heavy and slow in his movements, he might have been taken for a descendant of the American Indian family . . . Perhaps the closest description I can give of him at the outset of our acquaintance is that of a Stoic dragging his tomb about with...
...Bloods," an athletic elite corps. At Chartres, as he calls his school, Lewis, a lifelong bachelor, lost his virginity to a dancing mistress, and the remnants of his Christianity to his house mother. The house mother was running "the mazes of Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Spiritualism; the whole Anglo-American Occultist tradition . . . From the tyrannous noon of revelation I passed into the cool evening of Higher Thought, where there was nothing to be obeyed, and nothing to be believed except what was either comforting or exciting...