According to
Mitch Horowitz’s book OCCULT AMERICA, the answer is yes. I found his book
fascinating and very informative. I can actually say of some of his
revelations, “I didn’t know that…”
The beliefs in
the Bible (Faith religion,) Ouija (A concept in receiving an answer using a
board,) Spiritualism (Belief in spirits,) Theosophia (Divine wisdom,) to the
Holy Koran another faith based religion are a number of philosophies Horowitz
enlightens us on.
The origin, people,
and the development of those beliefs and many others, or as he calls them
Occults, are covered in a historical manner. Those groups are not all American
based, but flourished here, because of our freedom of speech and religion
democratic thinking. Where as in the country of origin, many would have been
killed for thinking what they professed in America.
It would be
foolish for me to go over every group he outlines in this chuck full of
information book. I’ll just mention here what a member of Science of Right
Thinking Occult, Ella Wheeler Wilcox is famous for saying, “Laugh and the world
laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone.”