The occult is related to the metaphysics.
 The term occultism emerged in 19th-century France, where it came to be associated with various French esoteric groups connected to liphas Lvi and Papus,The earliest use of the term occultism in the English language appears to be in "A Few Questions to 'Hiraf'", an 1875 article by Helena Blavatsky, a Russian migr living in the United States who founded the religion of Theosophy
 However, in contemporary uses, occultism commonly refers to forms of esotericism that developed in the nineteenth century and their twentieth-century derivations

