Occultism (the individual, the hermit):

The occult means "that what is hidden",... "that what isn’t visible for everybody",...

This is not very complicated,... you don’t have to look very far.

Let me give you a simple, daily example:

Scientifics claims that every house is co-inhabited by dozens of spiders,...

this means also in your and my house,...

but we seldom see those spiders because our pet-spiders are living hidden,...

they are living out-of-our-sight,

they are not visible to us....

Those hidden spiders are a subject for the occultism.

The occultist is the one who amuses himself with looking for those hidden spiders,

On the one site to prove that those spiders really exists,

On the other site to discover what mysteries those spiders may revealed,...

The occultist reasons that somebody or something is hidden for a good reason,

And that reason could be wealth, power, wisdom, immortality,...

In short,... everything the occultist can imagine (Think happy thoughts)...

So he starts looking for those spiders.

But the reason a spider hides, is probably to avoid being trampled.

Apart from this, it is an ordinary spider, nothing more, nothing less.

No might, no fame, no treasures,... only disappointment,...

However, the occultist has one great advantage in his crazy, hopeless job.

While looking and looking for those spiders, the occultist finds all other kinds of things,...

things he wasn’t really looking for at all,... things that are interesting enough to remember for later.

Sometimes those things have a lot more to offer than the original goal, the original spider.

And when everybody thinks the occultist is a ridicul, little guy looking for spiders,

he is already on a new trail.

A trail that maybe leads to wealth, power, wisdom, immortality,...

In short,... everything the occultist can imagine (Think happy thoughts)...

For so far the occultist and the occult.

Olivier Hufkens, ã1998