occultist

C16418
concept

An occultist is a practitioner who studies and manipulates hidden, mystical, or forbidden forces through esoteric knowledge, rituals, and arcane artifacts.

All labels observed (19)

Label Occurrences
occultist canonical 60
esotericist 11
ceremonial magician 4

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: occultist
Generated description
An occultist is a practitioner who studies and manipulates hidden, mystical, or forbidden forces through esoteric knowledge, rituals, and arcane artifacts.

Instances (87)

Instance Via concept surface
Franz Hartmann
linked to: Hartmann
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Eliphas Levi —
Dion Fortune —
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa occult philosopher
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers —
Israel Regardie —
Aleister Crowley —
John Dee occult philosopher
Anton LaVey —
René Guénon esotericist
Iamblichus of Chalcis theurgist
Gerald Gardner —
Alejandro Jodorowsky esotericist
Professor Westervelt mesmerist
Robert Cochrane —
Alan Moore —
Karl Krafft —
Georgie Hyde-Lees —
Paracelsus —
Austin Osman Spare —
Rudolf Steiner esotericist
John Constantine occult detective
Rasputin (Hellboy) —
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky —
Henry Steel Olcott —
Charles Webster Leadbeater —
Telchines sorcerers
Jean Delville —
Langdon Everett Caul —
Emeric Belasco —
Kent Nelson human sorcerer
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby mesmerist
William Walker Atkinson —
Theodor Reuss —
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
linked to: Mathers
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MacGregor Mathers —
Moina Mathers —
Israel Regardie —
Israel Regardie
linked to: Regardie
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William Wynn Westcott —
Paul Foster Case —
Violet Mary Firth —
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
linked to: Agrippa
occult writer
Catherine Monvoisin occult practitioner
Adam Lesage alleged sorcerer
Florence Farr —
William Robert Woodman —
Alphonse Louis Constant —
Aleister Crowley
linked to: Crowley
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Henry of Aragon, Duke of Villena —