SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Occultation, Aleister Crowley

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

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1st midterm (muliple choice, true/false) march 2nd 40% (1 hr) Final exam (muliple choice, true/false) tbd 60% (2 hr) Occult not always associated with negaive pracices. Means hidden, something that is occulted means it is hidden. Hidden to the select few that have been given the ability to see and understand the secrets. Presidigitaion (hand is faster than the eye concept). Magick aleister crowley added the k onto the end of the word to difereniate supernatural from entertainment pracices. Means something of other worldly origins or the manipulaions of forces. A natural force in the world that is present all the ime even though we may not visually detect it, but we can detect its efects. There isn"t really black magic and white magic, like electricity is electricity, magic is magic; the nature of the magic is determined by the user.