hobie,
You are welcome, I posted it with the intentions of giving a clearer picture to all, of what the Occult really is, Esclaramonde illustrates it very well when he says that it's only "Occult" until we find out about it, and I might add, learn from it.
Famous people from the past were Rosicrucians, like Plato, Newton and DaVinci.
Now, they were real "Rosicrusians" (the name is not that important though); meaning that they were using the knowledge to do good and better humanity as a whole. The Rosicrusian Cosmo-Conception papers tell it like it is. It is just knowledge and they are propagating it.
But you can be UNEQUIVOCALLY SURE that this knowledge is also used to do a LOT of EVIL by other secret societies, or just evil individuals pursuing their own agendas with help of the unseen world entities coupled with their profound mastery of the mechanics of life and the cosmos. They attain this knowledge by training.
If you were face to face with the so-talked-about "Black Pope", believe me, you better know something, and have REAL FAITH, or he would swallow you whole.
To give you an idea of this power without limits read the following excerpts....

(1)"To become wise you must desire wisdom with as great intensity as you just now desired air. You must struggle for it, to the exclusion of every other aim in life. It must be your one and only aspiration, by day and by night. If you seek wisdom with that fervor, my son, you will surely become wise."
That is the first and central requisite the aspirant to occult knowledge must possess--an unswerving desire, a burning thirst for knowledge; a zeal that allows no obstacle to conquer it; but the supreme motive for seeking this occult knowledge must be an ardent desire to benefit humanity, entirely disregarding self in order to work for others. Unless prompted by the motive, occult knowledge is dangerous.

(2)These invisible sound-vibrations have great power over concrete matter. They can both build and destroy. If a small quantity of very fine powder is placed upon a brass or glass plate, and a violin bow drawn across the edge, the vibrations will cause the powder to assume beautiful geometrical figures. The human voice is also capable of producing these figures; always the same figure for the same tone. If one note or chord after another be sounded upon a musical instrument--a piano, or preferably a violin, for from it more gradations of tone can be obtained--a tone will finally be reached which will causes the hearer to feel a distinct vibration in the back of the lower part of the head. Each time that note is struck, the vibration will be felt. That note is the "key-note" of the person whom it so affects. If it is struck slowly and soothingly it will build and rest the body, tone the nerves and restore health. If, on the other hand, it be sounded in a dominant way, loud and long enough, it will kill as surely as a bullet from a pistol.

Depends on how you use it....... :-)