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== See also == == See also ==
*[[Occulture]] *[[Occulture]]
-*[[Occultism chronology]]+*[[Occultism chronology]] by Jeffery Howe
-OCCULTISM IN THE 19TH CENTURY -- A CHRONOLOGY+{{GFDL}}
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-1774+
-F.A. Mesmer discovers "animal magnetism," or Mesmerism+
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-1781+
-H. Fuseli, The Nightmare+
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-1790+
-William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell+
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-1795+
-F. Goya, Witches Sabbath+
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-1808+
-J.W. von Goethe, Faust, part I; French translation 1827+
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-1820+
-Wm. Blake's visionary portraits for John Varley (Ghost of a Flea)+
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-1829+
-Samuel Palmer paints in his Valley of Vision in Shoreham+
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-1832+
-J.W. von Goethe, Faust, part II finished. Goethe dies.+
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-1835+
-Honore de Balzac, Seraphita+
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-1842+
-E. Bulwer-Lytton, Zanoni, a Rosicrucian Tale+
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-1848+
-The Fox Sisters contact spirits through rapping; Spiritism Craze begins in Hydesville, N.Y.+
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-1850+
-Allan Kardec (pseudonym for Hyppolyte Leon Denizard Rivail) commences career as Medium in Paris;+
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-1855-57+
-Victor Hugo creates spiritist drawings, conducts seances+
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-1858+
-Victorien Sardou publishes automatic drawings of scenes on Jupiter (Mozart's house) in La Revue Spirite+
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-1860+
-Eliphas Levi (pseudonym for A.L. Constant), History of Magic+
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-1861+
-Allan Kardec, The Book on Mediums+
-William H. Mumler publishes first spirit photographs (in Boston)+
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-1862+
-Eliphas Levi, Fables et Symboles et leur explication+
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-1874+
-William Crookes, Research in the Phenomena of Spiritualism+
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-1875+
-Theosophical Society founded by H.P. Blavatsky & Col. Olcott in New York+
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-1877+
-H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled+
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-1882+
-Society for Psychical Research founded in London+
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-1884+
-J. Peladan, Le Vice Supreme+
-French branch of Theosophical Society founded; again in 1887 as Societe d'Isis+
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-1885+
-Carl du Prel, Philosophy of Mysticism+
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-1886+
-Stanislaus de Guaita, Au Seuil du Mystere+
-J.J. Tissot attends seances by William Eglinton to contact the late Mrs. Newton+
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-1888+
-H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine+
-W.B. Yeats joins the theosophists+
-S. de Guaita founds Kabbalistic Order of Rose+Croix in Paris+
-Papus (pseudonym for Gerard Encausse) founds journal L'Initiation (Paris)+
-Papus, Traite elementaire des sciences occultes+
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-1889+
-Edouard Schure, The Great Initiates+
-P. Gauguin, Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake+
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-1890+
-W.B. Yeats joins the Order of the Golden Dawn+
-James Frazer, The Golden Bough+
-Sar Josephin Peladan founds the Order ot the Catholic Rose+Croix, of the Temple and of the Grail (schism with Guaita)+
-Paul Serusier, Portrait of Paul Ranson in Nabi Costume+
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-1891+
-J.-K. Huysmans, La Bas (Down There)+
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-1892+
-War of the Roses; occult battles in Paris involving Jules Bois, S. de Guaita, J. Peladan, Abbe Boullan+
-Sar J. Peladan establishes Salons de la Rose+Croix in Paris; these continue until 1897+
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-1890s+
-Colonel de Rochas experiments with hypnotic regression to past lives+
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-1895+
-August Strindberg, "Introduction a une chimie unitaire," Mercure de France; alchemical experiments; see his Inferno+
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-1897+
-Bram Stoker, Dracula+
-S. de Guaita, La Clef de la Magie Noir+
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-1900+
-Fernand Khnopff erects an altar to Hypnos (date approximate)+
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-1901+
-Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater, Thought Forms+
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-1902+
-C.W. Leadbeater, Man Visible and Invisible+
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-1908+
-Piet Mondrian joins the Theosophical Society in Amsterdam+
-(Wassily Kandinsky also a Theosophist) {{GFDL}} +
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The word occult comes from the Latin occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret), referring to 'knowledge of the hidden'. In the medical sense it is used commonly to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g. an "occult bleed."

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