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# occultism

«occultism» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Belief in or study of hidden or magical powers** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Belief in or study of hidden or magical powers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/occultism/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Westcott and others placed Sefer Yetzirah within Western occult traditions. Many Jewish readers see it instead as part of Jewish mysticism.

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «occultism» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/occultism/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.