The Occult in Christian Perspective Vol. Today, occultism, a secret subterranean river in world culture, has become popular, is attracting great superficial interest, and is in danger of becoming stylish. Theosophy, now approaching the wider masses, is popularizing occult doctrines, mostly those of the East.
Indian occultism is the most acceptable.
Materialistic Europe, having betrayed the faith of Christ, finds it easy to accept Eastern spiritualism. It is a strange and terrible thing to say, but Christianity is becoming more foreign and less acceptable to the modern mind of Christian Europe than Buddhism. The popularization of occult doctrines is of enormous symptomatic significance for our time. The way of positivism and rationalism, along which modern man has traveled, has already shown its terrible fruits, and man now yearns for a return to his secret and pristine sources. Theosophy wishes to bring modern man to mysticism and religion with no sacrifice.