The Christian religion is itself absolutely riddled with occult teachings and practices of a really quite extraordinary sort...but this would not be apparent to Christians, because they are used to their own occult practices and take them for granted! :-) They only notice "the occult" when it falls outside the boundaries of what they know and take for granted.

And I don't blame the situation on Jesus at all! I admire and respect Jesus and his teachings tremendously. He is not to blame for the gross and weird things that have been done in his name all over the place. In fact, if he was here now (in the flesh, I mean) I don't think most of the Christian churches would like what he had to say one bit.

All organized religions contain occult teachings and practices of one kind or another...most of which goes fairly much over the heads of most of the congregation, who are basically concerned with outer forms and behaviours rather than deeper subtleties of religious thought and belief.

"Occult" does not mean "evil"...it means "hidden" (from the general view and understanding of average people in an average state of mind).