occultistn.adj.

1876 C. Sotheran P. B. Shelley as Philosopher & Reformer 18 For the Man Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, the carpenter's carnate son, the mystical Essene and occultist, Shelley exceeded in love and reverence many of the most earnest Christians.

1881 A. P. Sinnett Occult World (1883) 12 The occultists have been a race apart from an earlier period than we can fathom.

1948 Yale French Stud. No. 2. 76 This is not only a view inherited from occultists, it translates an aspiration so profound that it is doubtless from it essentially that surrealism will be considered as having taken its substance.

1986 R. Pollack Teach yourself Fortune Telling iv. 66 Most occultists, however, connect the Tarot primarily to Kabbala, a vast and complex system of esoteric teachings.

1893 Mind 2 99 Even among the more rational votaries of hypnotism, who stand aloof from such superstitious errors, the insidious influence of this occultist current is apt to show itself in many ways.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 275/1 Cabalistic, occultist, Indian, and modern spiritualistic ideas and formulas.

1977 R. L. Wolff Gains & Losses iv. 316 Charles Maurice Davies['s]..book The Great Secret (1896)..was published anonymously. His occultist leanings were, however, well known.

1990 Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois) 30 Nov. 3/3 A magazine article..claimed the literature anthology contained violent and occultist materials.

1892 Philos. Rev. 1 680 The phenomena are explained by ‘sympathy’ or ‘double consciousness,’ theories which are closely allied to certain occultistic conceptions.

1898 A. McMillan Portentous Prophets & Prophetesses i. (heading) Occultistic.

1930 Jrnl. Philos. 27 672 The most important problems of recent religious psychology are to be discussed from various viewpoints (educational, experimental, sociological, psychiatric, pathological, theological, occultistic, etc.).