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
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
MacGregor Mathers
Moina Mathers
Israel Regardie
Israel Regardie
linked to: Regardie
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
Henry of Aragon, Duke of Villena