And, like the occultist, the believer in another faith discovers that, ridiculous as his ritual may seem to the uninitiated, it sometimes works for him.
Moricand was not only an astrologer and a scholar steeped in the hermetic philosophies, but an occultist .
While the three explorers are pursuing their experiment, some occultist zealots find out about it and threaten to kill them unless they surrender the Templars' secret.
Isn’t as easy as pick your poison “Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.” That’s a somewhat well known quote attributed to Paracelsus, a Renaissance physician, botanists, alchemist, astrologer and occultist.
May 4, 2014 - The Daily Iberian