Hideo, The problem with the term "occult" is described adequately at
http://www.religioustolerance.org/occult.htm

While the burning of heretics is no longer practiced, the casting of
aspersions or the branding with tainting terms still is. Most often it is a
case of "the pot calling the kettle, black".

"Yes, man should follow the way of jen and stick to his principles." Basho

CDM


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>From: Hideo Nogami <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Small observations
>Date: Tue, Nov 14, 2000, 6:24 AM
>

> Thank you Charles for your note.
> I carelessly spelled it kabara as it pronounced in Japanese.
> As you noted, I found in the books I depended two kinds of spellings,
> that begins with K and with C.
> I corrected my page obeying the historian of religions.
> As for the term occult, I wonder if it had a derogatory meaning to be
> used for heretics.
> Or is it just a word that means esoteric?
>
> Hideo Nogami
>
>>     Hideo,  All due respect to the differences of cultures (Kultur Klufts)
>> -- "Kabara" should read "Kaballah" or "Caballah". Also I would suggest
>> reconsidering the repeated use of the term  "occult" with its  dark
>> connotations of unholy alliances, Satanism, and seances where the
>> studies of
>> mythology, hermeticism, alchemy, gnosticism and metaphysics have
>> the greater
>> bearing on the subject at hand i.e. Ezra Pound. See Pounds opinion of
>> Alister Crowley for example.
>>     Incidently, to a secular humanist there is nothing inherently "evil"
>> about questioning the fantasies and assumptions of the Judeo-Xtn
>> tradition.
>> It would behoove us to remain objective.
>>
>>     "All the Jew part of the Bible is black evil." (E.P. 1940)
>>
>> CDM
>>
>