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 ---------- >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 >> >