Sentence examples for occult learning from inspiring English sources

In order to recover this power over nature, man needs occult learning.

In each city, he gathered a circle of friends who shared his interests in humanist and occult learning and in the nascent religious reform movement.

His mastery of these sources of occult learning became both broader and deeper because of his contact with Italian occultists who shared his interests.

Another important addition to his knowledge of occult learning is a strange blend of Christian, Hermetic, and millennial ideas found in a dialogue, Crater Hermetis, by an eccentric Italian scholar, Ludovico Lazzarelli (1450 1500) (Hanegraaff 2009).

It not only attacks all fields of learning and all professions and occupations but also devotes a long series of chapters (30 48) to the many branches of occult learning, denouncing each of them as full of deceptions, uncertainties, and lies.

The great change that helped Agrippa transform his approach to occult learning was his realization first expressed in the short treatises and orations he wrote in Italy as he enriched his knowledge of Platonic, Hermetic, and Cabalistic texts from study with his new acquaintances there that true magic must be founded on religion, on faith, and not on human reason and the material world.

The more time you spend investigating common symbols of the occult and learning what you can about archetypal representation, the more significant your subconscious observations and communications will become.

I was eager to learn occult lore about our venerable marble temples and access the lost wisdom of the ages.

The goal that inspired Agrippa's lifelong efforts to master the wisdom of the past and to write and expand De occulta philosophia was the transformation of occult philosophy (that is, magic) from a body of learning often regarded as evil and forbidden into what he believed it had been in ancient times, "the absolute perfection of the most noble philosophy" (OP 1 2).

Learn some occult alphabets.

Just learning, learning, learning.