The Finances of Occultists
or
Occult Finance
January 16, 2013
G.D.O'Bradovich III
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Generally speaking, Occultists come from a middle or upper class background. The security afforded by this lifestyle of relative leisure and little worry about their daily bread allows the future Occultist many opportunities to read, learn, and reflect on varied topics. No child ever says “When I grow up I want to be an occultist”, yet these children overcome chance to accomplish what they never suspected existed. This easy lifestyle of the teenage and early adult life allows, we are speaking generally, interactions with more educated or cosmopolitan people than would be likely with the lower class life.
The financial security of mature Occultists seem to ebb and flow from doing well to being almost destitute. Occultists tend to surround themselves with a handful of “benefactors” that allow the Occultist to pursue their great work. Occultists have a tendency to die in poverty. This poverty can be explained either by their indifference to money, since they did not work for it, but inherited it, or by the expenses involved in Occult workings. Mozart’s final ten years were marked by periods of plenty and impoverishment and borrowing from Michael von Puchberg. Puchberg has achieved an obscure immortality, not by what he accomplished in life, but by supporting Mozart during his last years. Puchberg, as a benefactor to one man, has benefited the whole of humanity by Mozart’s late great works. We are not implying Mozart was an Occultist, but only that his life’s finances could be viewed in this particular light. As is well known, Mozart was initiated into Freemasonry at the age of 25. Plato states that philosophy has been given a poor image by philosophy's practitioners. Substituting “the occult” for “philosophy” yields interesting results. The budding Occultist must be curious and have a good memory and Plato never tires of reminding the reader of these hallmarks of Philosophers. Socrates was known for “just getting by” financially and Plato came from and married into the upper class.
The correlation between poverty and death is so persistent that one could call it a Law of Occultism. Based on this law, we can state that if one is called an “Occultist” by the world, but does not die destitute or if one leaves a trust to continue their work or to benefit others, then these individuals are not true Occultists, but merely benefactors.
The search for connections between seemingly unrelated subjects is a hallmark not only of Occultism, but also of Philosophy, The uninitiated person believes that the king or president is the power of the office, but philosophers know that the guiding forces in politics is the unelected advisor. In the Occult, the “unknown superiors” are so commonplace in secret societies that they are frequently ignored by most researchers.
The exuberant researcher may, in a moment of ecstasy, state that banking and the creation of credit, is a way for Occultists to have a perpetual and ever ready supply of credit for their Great Work. It is one thing to transmute lead into gold as the Alchemists were alleged to perform, but something different to create credits that circulate in the money supply with the same value as gold. In this system of credit creation, no one, not even a Great Occultist, could determine the true value of the money supply. Our excited researcher would also state that only an Occultist’s mind could conceive of the creation of credit without any tangible assets supporting this unfettered expansion of the credit supply at will and I agree.
The financial security of mature Occultists seem to ebb and flow from doing well to being almost destitute. Occultists tend to surround themselves with a handful of “benefactors” that allow the Occultist to pursue their great work. Occultists have a tendency to die in poverty. This poverty can be explained either by their indifference to money, since they did not work for it, but inherited it, or by the expenses involved in Occult workings. Mozart’s final ten years were marked by periods of plenty and impoverishment and borrowing from Michael von Puchberg. Puchberg has achieved an obscure immortality, not by what he accomplished in life, but by supporting Mozart during his last years. Puchberg, as a benefactor to one man, has benefited the whole of humanity by Mozart’s late great works. We are not implying Mozart was an Occultist, but only that his life’s finances could be viewed in this particular light. As is well known, Mozart was initiated into Freemasonry at the age of 25. Plato states that philosophy has been given a poor image by philosophy's practitioners. Substituting “the occult” for “philosophy” yields interesting results. The budding Occultist must be curious and have a good memory and Plato never tires of reminding the reader of these hallmarks of Philosophers. Socrates was known for “just getting by” financially and Plato came from and married into the upper class.
The correlation between poverty and death is so persistent that one could call it a Law of Occultism. Based on this law, we can state that if one is called an “Occultist” by the world, but does not die destitute or if one leaves a trust to continue their work or to benefit others, then these individuals are not true Occultists, but merely benefactors.
The search for connections between seemingly unrelated subjects is a hallmark not only of Occultism, but also of Philosophy, The uninitiated person believes that the king or president is the power of the office, but philosophers know that the guiding forces in politics is the unelected advisor. In the Occult, the “unknown superiors” are so commonplace in secret societies that they are frequently ignored by most researchers.
The exuberant researcher may, in a moment of ecstasy, state that banking and the creation of credit, is a way for Occultists to have a perpetual and ever ready supply of credit for their Great Work. It is one thing to transmute lead into gold as the Alchemists were alleged to perform, but something different to create credits that circulate in the money supply with the same value as gold. In this system of credit creation, no one, not even a Great Occultist, could determine the true value of the money supply. Our excited researcher would also state that only an Occultist’s mind could conceive of the creation of credit without any tangible assets supporting this unfettered expansion of the credit supply at will and I agree.