Interest in the occult tended toward ceremonial magic rather than witchcraft.

对神秘学的兴趣趋向于仪式性魔术而非巫术。

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Even though the occult may be happening all around us we are not to turn to it.

即使神秘学可能会发生在我们周围，我们无力改变它。

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But this phrase seems to have come from the fashion world, rather than the occult.

但是这个词好像来自时尚界，而不是民间。

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The occult gives Yeats aesthetic forms for understanding individual psychology and historical event.

神秘主义使叶芝从美学角度,理解个人的心理,和历史事件。

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Yeats was trained in the occult disciplines of Theosophy and Gnosticism. Those traditions merge in his early work with European symbolism, and also with Irish cultural nationalism.

叶芝曾受到通神论和诺斯替教,神秘主义教条的训练，这些传统,在他早期作品中与欧洲象征主义，和爱尔兰文化民族主义结合。

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The point is simply to recognize that the apples are occult symbols, which is to say they're not apples.

关键是要认识,苹果是神秘主义的象征，就是说它们并不是苹果。

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Glorifying and promoting the occult as a Christmas attraction is not only very tasteless but sad and very dangerous.

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One of them is denying she was ever really involved in the occult.

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Speculation over its original use ranges from human sacrifice and the occult, to ceremonial druidic practices, and has long confused and enraptured historians.

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