There was nothing occult about the man.

" This enquiry produced the following reply: A subject like that of the occult influences of the planets (using the word occult in no bad sense but simply as meaning not thoroughly traced) can be approached in two wayseither by the à priori probability of the existence of such influences, or by the à posteriori evidence of their effects.

It is for this reason that the Bible, which is the most deeply occult of all books, continually lays so much stress upon the efficiency of faith and the destructive influence of unbelief; and in like manner, all books on every branch of spiritual science emphatically warn us against the admission of doubt or fear.

I asked, as I read out a formula more studiously occult than those of the Pharmacopoeia.

How dulce to vive occult to mortal eyes, Dorm on the herb with none to supervise, Carp the suave berries from the crescent vine, And bibe the flow from longicaudate kine! To me, alas!