The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle and tried desperately to open each of the three giant doors. The library's closed, lady. But the woman didn't seem to care. She seized one of the heavy ring-shaped handles, heaved it backward, and let it fall with a loud crash against the door. Then she did it again. And again. And again. Wow, the homeless man thought, she must really need a book.
Dan Brown...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means โhiddenโ or โobscured.โ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or โoccult,โ and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything โoccultโ as evil, and the prejudice survived.
Dan Brown