Liber Occultus

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

Last updated: 16 July 2026
These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the Liber Occultus website, including its articles, essays, comments, contact forms, written-guidance materials and related services.
By accessing or using this website, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms of Use.
If you do not agree with these Terms, please discontinue your use of the website.

1. About Liber Occultus

Liber Occultus is an independent authorial and educational project devoted to magic, mysticism, occult traditions, spiritual development, philosophy and related fields of study.
The website is operated by:
Max Ihnatenko
Ukraine
Email: contact@liber-occultus.com

2. Purpose of the Website

Liber Occultus provides:
  • original articles, essays and research;
  • reflections on magic, mysticism and spiritual practice;
  • educational and historical materials;
  • information about books and authorial projects;
  • written guidance and correspondence;
  • opportunities for professional, editorial and research collaboration;
  • public discussion through supported commenting services.
The website is intended for educational, literary, cultural and informational purposes.

3. No Professional or Emergency Services

The information published on Liber Occultus does not constitute:
  • medical or psychiatric advice;
  • psychological diagnosis or therapy;
  • legal advice;
  • financial or investment advice;
  • emergency or crisis assistance;
  • a guaranteed prediction, diagnosis or supernatural result.
No doctor–patient, therapist–client, lawyer–client, fiduciary or other regulated professional relationship is created through the use of this website or through correspondence with Liber Occultus.
You remain responsible for your own decisions, actions, wellbeing and interpretation of the information provided.
For medical, psychological, legal, financial or emergency concerns, please contact an appropriately qualified professional or the relevant emergency service in your location.

4. Mystical and Spiritual Content

Liber Occultus discusses traditions, beliefs, experiences and practices that may be interpreted differently by different people and cultures.
Descriptions of mystical, spiritual, religious, paranormal or anomalous experiences represent:
  • authorial interpretations;
  • personal experience;
  • traditional teachings;
  • philosophical or cultural perspectives;
  • subjects for reflection and further study.
Such material should not be understood as a guarantee that another person will have the same experience or obtain the same result.
Nothing on this website requires you to accept a particular religious, metaphysical or spiritual belief.

5. Written Guidance

Written guidance is offered exclusively through email unless otherwise expressly agreed.
Requests should be sent to:
mentorship@liber-occultus.com
Before writing, you should read the Mentorship page and provide sufficient context for your question.
Submitting a request does not guarantee:
  • that the request will be accepted;
  • that a response will be provided;
  • a particular response time;
  • a particular spiritual, practical or personal outcome;
  • continuing correspondence or long-term mentorship.
Liber Occultus may decline requests that:
  • fall outside the scope of the project;
  • require medical, psychiatric, psychological, legal or financial intervention;
  • involve an immediate risk of harm;
  • request assistance with unlawful, coercive, abusive or dangerous conduct;
  • contain threats, harassment or deliberately false information;
  • cannot be responsibly addressed through written correspondence.
Written guidance is intended to support reflection, learning and the responsible development of personal practice. It does not replace professional care or independent judgement.

6. Voluntary Support

There is no fixed fee for written guidance unless a separate written arrangement expressly states otherwise.
After receiving a response, you may voluntarily support Liber Occultus with an amount you personally consider appropriate.
Voluntary support:
  • is entirely optional;
  • does not purchase certainty or a guaranteed outcome;
  • does not guarantee priority, continuing correspondence or future services;
  • does not affect the seriousness with which an accepted enquiry is considered;
  • supports the time devoted to writing, research and the continued development of the project.
Payments are processed independently by the selected payment provider, such as PayPal, and may also be governed by that provider’s terms and privacy policy.
Please contact contact@liber-occultus.com if you believe that a payment was made in error or without your authorisation.

7. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, the content of Liber Occultus is owned by or licensed to Max Ihnatenko and is protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.
Protected content may include:
  • articles and essays;
  • books and manuscript extracts;
  • research and educational materials;
  • original terminology and structured concepts;
  • photographs, illustrations and graphic elements;
  • logos and branding;
  • page design and original website text.
You may:
  • read and access the content for personal, non-commercial purposes;
  • share a direct link to a publicly available page;
  • quote brief extracts for commentary, criticism, research or discussion, provided that the author and source are clearly identified.
Without prior written permission, you may not:
  • republish complete articles or substantial extracts;
  • copy or reproduce books, courses or educational materials;
  • sell, license or commercially exploit website content;
  • remove authorship, copyright or source information;
  • present Liber Occultus content as your own;
  • create misleadingly similar copies of the website or project;
  • systematically scrape, extract or archive website content;
  • use substantial website content to train commercial artificial-intelligence or machine-learning systems;
  • translate and republish complete materials as independent publications.
Requests for permission should be sent to:
max@liber-occultus.com

8. Comments and Public Contributions

Some pages may allow visitors to publish comments through Facebook or another third-party commenting service.
By publishing a public comment, you confirm that:
  • you are responsible for its contents;
  • you have the right to publish it;
  • it does not unlawfully violate another person’s rights;
  • it does not disclose private information without permission;
  • it is relevant to the subject being discussed.
Comments may be moderated, hidden or removed when they contain:
  • threats, harassment or personal abuse;
  • discriminatory or hateful content;
  • defamatory allegations;
  • private or identifying information about another person;
  • spam, advertising or repetitive promotion;
  • malicious links or harmful software;
  • impersonation or deliberate deception;
  • instructions encouraging illegal or dangerous activity;
  • content unrelated to the discussion;
  • substantial copyrighted material posted without permission.
The removal of a comment from Liber Occultus does not necessarily remove information stored or displayed by Facebook or another third-party provider.
Use of Facebook Comments is also subject to Meta’s own terms, policies and account-management tools.

9. Rights in Public Contributions

You retain any intellectual-property rights you hold in your original public contributions.
By deliberately submitting material for public display on Liber Occultus, you grant Liber Occultus a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to display, reproduce and technically process that material only as reasonably necessary to operate, moderate and preserve the relevant website discussion.
This licence ends when the contribution is deleted from the website, except where temporary technical copies remain in backups or where retention is required by law.
Private emails, mentorship requests and contact-form messages are not treated as public contributions and will not be published without your permission, except where disclosure is required by law.

10. Acceptable Use

You must not use Liber Occultus to:
  • violate applicable law;
  • threaten, intimidate, exploit or harass another person;
  • obtain or disclose another person’s private information unlawfully;
  • distribute malware or interfere with website security;
  • attempt to gain unauthorised access to the website, accounts or connected services;
  • submit automated spam or excessive requests;
  • impersonate Liber Occultus, Max Ihnatenko or another person;
  • falsely imply an endorsement, partnership or official relationship;
  • conduct fraudulent or deceptive activity;
  • reproduce or commercially exploit protected content without permission.
Access may be restricted where reasonably necessary to protect the website, its users, its content or connected services.

11. Contact Forms and Personal Data

When you use a contact form, send an email or request written guidance, the personal information you provide will be processed as described in the Privacy Policy.
Please provide only information that is reasonably necessary for your enquiry.
Do not send:
  • passwords;
  • complete payment-card details;
  • copies of identity documents unless specifically and lawfully requested;
  • unnecessary medical records;
  • private information belonging to another person without their authorisation.
The Privacy Policy is available at:
https://liber-occultus.com/privacy-policy

12. Translation and Language

You may contact Liber Occultus in any language.
Automated translation or AI-assisted language tools may be used where necessary to understand your message or prepare a response.
Translations may not always preserve every cultural, religious, mystical or technical nuance. Where the precise meaning of a term is important, you may be asked to clarify it.

13. External Links and Third-Party Services

Liber Occultus may include links to services operated by third parties, including:
  • Facebook;
  • PayPal;
  • Tilda;
  • publishers;
  • educational or research resources;
  • other websites referenced in articles.
External websites are operated independently and may have their own terms, privacy practices and security procedures.
A link does not necessarily constitute endorsement of every opinion, product, service or statement published on the external website.
Liber Occultus is not responsible for content, availability or data processing controlled independently by third-party services.

14. Accuracy and Availability

Reasonable efforts are made to keep website information accurate and accessible.
However:
  • historical, philosophical and religious interpretations may differ;
  • information may become incomplete or outdated;
  • pages may contain accidental errors;
  • website access may occasionally be interrupted;
  • articles may be edited, expanded, corrected or removed.
Liber Occultus does not guarantee that the website will always be uninterrupted, error-free or available in every location.
Material changes or corrections may be made without preserving every previous version.

15. Limitation of Responsibility

To the extent permitted by applicable law, Liber Occultus is not responsible for loss or harm arising solely from:
  • reliance on general informational or spiritual content as a substitute for professional advice;
  • personal decisions made without appropriate independent judgement;
  • misuse of practices or information described on the website;
  • the actions, content or availability of independent third-party services;
  • unauthorised access caused by circumstances outside reasonable control;
  • temporary website interruptions or technical errors.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any responsibility that cannot lawfully be excluded or limits any mandatory consumer rights available to you.

16. Children and Young People

Liber Occultus is primarily intended for adults.
A person who has not reached the age of legal majority in their country should use the website with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian.
Minors should not submit sensitive personal information or request individual written guidance without the knowledge and authorisation of a parent or legal guardian.

17. Suspension or Withdrawal of Access

Liber Occultus may suspend, restrict or withdraw website functions where reasonably necessary for:
  • maintenance or technical changes;
  • security;
  • prevention of abuse;
  • protection of intellectual property;
  • compliance with legal obligations;
  • discontinuation or restructuring of the project.
Where reasonably possible, significant planned changes will be communicated through the website.

18. Changes to These Terms

These Terms of Use may be updated when:
  • website functions change;
  • new services or commenting tools are introduced;
  • project practices change;
  • legal or regulatory requirements are updated.
The latest version will be published on this page with its revision date.
Your continued use of the website after an update means that the revised Terms will apply to future use. Changes will not retrospectively remove rights that have already arisen under applicable law.

19. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Ukraine.
This provision does not deprive a consumer of any mandatory protection or right that applies under the law of the consumer’s usual country of residence.
Where a dispute cannot be resolved through direct communication, it may be submitted to a court or competent authority having jurisdiction under applicable law.

20. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply.
The affected provision should be interpreted or limited only to the extent necessary to make it lawful and enforceable.

21. Contact

Questions concerning these Terms of Use may be sent to:
Max Ihnatenko
Liber Occultus
Email: contact@liber-occultus.com