occultism (n.)

"神秘科学的教义、原则或实践"，1870年，来自 occult + -ism。相关词汇： Occultist。

Occultism, I should add, is to be distinguished from the primitive magic described by anthropologists, which is prescientific, prephilosophical, and perhaps prereligious, whereas occultism is a pseudo-science or system of pseudo-sciences, often supported by an irrationalist philosophy, and always exploiting the disintegrated débris of preexisting religions. [E.R. Dodds, "The Greeks and the Irrational," 1951, footnote]

需要补充的是，神秘主义应与人类学家所描述的原始魔法区分开来，后者是前科学、前哲学、或许是前宗教的，而神秘主义则是一种伪科学或伪科学体系，常常得到非理性主义哲学的支持，并且总是利用现有宗教的瓦解残骸。[E.R. Dodds，《希腊人与非理性》，1951年，脚注]