Stone, A.T. (2014). The LCSH Century: One Hundred Years with the Library of Congress Subject Headings System. Taylor & Francis. p.60. ISBN 978-1-317-95688-4 . Retrieved 2023-02-28. The Mark of the Beast, or Seal of Babalon, is a creation of Aleister Crowley, a ritual magician and author who gained popularity when Ozzy Osbourne released his song, “Mr. Crowley”.

Sigils created with magical powers by the Icelandic people. Pictured is the stave known as Ægishjálmur. On a side note, it has also become a very important symbol for Thelemites, the follower of the Theleme religion founded by Aleister Crowley as he used the unicursal hexagram as the main symbol of the faith by adding a five-petal rose in the middle of it. Aleister Crowley’s Thelema Symbol Featuring a Unicursal Hexagram The Pentagram is the main symbol of Wiccans, which is a modern Pagan religion. The Pentagram looks like a five-pointed star drawn with a single line. The five corners or points of the star represent water, earth, fire, air, and spirit.As an animal that feeds on dead bodies, the raven has cemented itself as a sign of death and doom in the human psyche. The symbolism of ravens is so common that modern audiences identify it with a bad omen.

Seeking to define occultism so that the term would be suitable "as an etic category" for scholars, Hanegraaff devised the following definition: "a category in the study of religions, which comprises "all attempts by esotericists to come to terms with a disenchanted world or, alternatively, by people in general to make sense of esotericism from the perspective of a disenchanted secular world". [38] Hanegraaff noted that this etic usage of the term would be independent of emic usages of the term employed by occultists and other esotericists themselves. [38]Faivre, Antoine (1994). Access to Western Esotericism. SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. ISBN 0-7914-2178-3. The earliest known usage of the term occultism is in the French language, as l'occultisme. In this form it appears in A. de Lestrange's article that was published in Jean-Baptiste Richard de Randonvilliers' Dictionnaire des mots nouveaux ("Dictionary of new words") in 1842. However, it was not related, at this point, to the notion of Ésotérisme chrétien, as has been claimed by Hanegraaff, [7] but to describe a political "system of occulticity" that was directed against priests and aristocrats. [8]