In Western occultism and Renaissance magic, which grew out of an amalgamation of Greco-Roman magic, Jewish demonology, and Christian tradition, a demon is a spiritual entity that may be conjured and controlled.

His writings and the students he taught or influenced provide much of the foundation for modern Western occultism.

Helena Blavatsky moved to India in 1879, and her Theosophical Society, founded in New York in 1875, evolved into a peculiar mixture of Western occultism and Hindu mysticism over the last years of her life.

Some traditions of Stregheria use the ritual tools of cup, wand, pentacle and blade, which are seen in the suits of occult or divinatory tarot cards and amongst many systems of Western occultism.

The great task of Western occultism is to "pronounce the name" of Jehovah; if this be correctly done, the universe ("i.e." of sense) is annihilated, and the true universe, of spirit, is made present to the consciousness.

THE THREE BOOKS OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY Completely Annotated, with Modern Commentary - The Foundation Book of Western Occultism by Henry Cornelius Agrippa edited and annotated by Donald Tyson Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy is the single most important text in the history of Western occultism.

In Western occultism, Binah is seen to take the raw force of Chokhmah, and to channel it into the various forms of creation.

You have heard both in Oriental magic and in Western occultism of the phenomenon of the apport when some object is suddenly brought from a distance and appears in a new place.

It has been one of the largest single influences on 20th-century Western occultism.

They are inspired by the ancient myths of Egypt, Rome and Greece, Gnosticism and traditional Western occultism.