CABBALISTIC AND HERMETIC MAGIC
The word occultism, in English terminology, stands for the search for hidden knowledge, some knowledge that is unknown to the general public and known only to very specific people. There is also the terminology of occult art or even occult science.
In Greek, the concept of occultism is synonymous with the concept of magic. The word magician, as ancient Greek writers say, denoted the priest of Persia, and this is known to us by the example of the three magi (or wise men) bearing gifts, as we remember from the Christmas holiday.
However, the word magic is a very negative phenomenon and is condemned by the Bible because it is the cooperation of humans with demons, through which humans acquire extraordinary knowledge or skills. Depending on the outcome people seek, magic is subdivided into individual disciplines, such as divination, that is, trying to know the future, white magic, trying to heal someone or solve a problem, and the worst form, the black magic, that is, to destroy someone else.
Man, respectively, who is actively engaged in occultism and seeks to acquire the powers provided by demons, is called a magician or occultist. Magicians are known to have existed in all peoples of antiquity, from the Celtic Druids to the tribal sorcerers of Central Africa and from the pre-Columbian civilizations of America to India and the Far East.
Obviously, this is because people have been wanting and yearning to satisfy their pride, to fulfill immoral desires, to nourish their selfish ego. And exactly there is always the enemy of man, the Devil, who is willing to fulfill all our sinful desires, in return for surrendering our souls to him.
Man's first contact with occultism is none other than that described in the third chapter of the book of Genesis, in the Old Testament. Adam and Eve live happily in Paradise on earth, having a perfectly harmonious relationship with God. And there we observe that the serpent appears, in order to destroy this blessed state. How does it succeed? By deception, that is, by lying, fraud.
He persuades Eve that if she violates God's command, which was not to try the fruit of the tree of the knowledge, of good and evil, she will acquire forbidden, occult knowledge, that will help them to open their eyes and eventually become "as gods".
And how does Eve react? She believes in the fallacy of the serpent and is fascinated by the view of the fruit of knowledge. And so Adam and Eve were enthralled by the fallacy of occultism, seeking the occult knowledge and eventually acquiring it, eating the fruit.
Unfortunately, however, the result was not what the serpent promised, but what God had warned that they would lose the possibility of immortality and eventually die. Exactly what Genesis describes is the permanent way in which the Devil deceives, fools man, and leads him to destruction.
The Devil has been telling the same lie to man for thousands of years, that he will become a god without God. The phrase "You become Gods" is the motto, the tale repeated by Satan and misleads the whole universe. And the suffering people, instead of trusting the true God, believe in the lies of the Devil and are led to destruction.
