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Originally Posted by Daigoro
Too (un)clear things up- linguistically, the word occult means "to hide," and thus occult knowledge, or occultism, is "hidden knowledge.
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Etymology is not always the friend of understanding.
Occultism and the occult in modern usage pretty firmly refer to supernatural/paranormal matters, not hidden ones as such. (Occult as an adjective is still used to mean hidden in some contexts.)