SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Master Order, Occultation, Medicine Man
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Occult, magick, culture, myth, religious stances, transcendent, liminal. Something occulted is something hidden but it is hidden to everyone except for those who have a need/ reason to know what it means. Magick = casting spells, reading future, astrology. Like electricity can"t see the effects but can feel it and its impact. Craft and knowledge of being a witch. Western europeans who studied religions different from their own. Foreign religious practices and medicine men keyed the term. Shaman = created in the 1960s to refer to someone who works with spirits and doesn"t master/ order them into doing anything. Refers to with trials during european renaissance and reformation (last person to be accused of witchcraft was in 1700s) Catholics and protestants mostly accused each other. During the 1930s now there was a religious movement where people called. Being called a witch is a form of empowerment and spirituality. Goddess worship due to lack of higher female spirituality.
