Just because you don't believe in the occult doesn't mean they don't.
Though they're is alot of "is that a vaguely bent line roughly looking like a spiral?! Oh god I'm going insane from the pedo conspiracy!" From the internet occult hunter groups.
Water has been throughly muddled but so much of occult practiced by elite groups is really just advance meditation techniques and breaking down psychological barriers usually on the realm of not letting modern morality getting in your way of riches and power.
Example the Nxivm cult. Why did it get so much people even with its harsh system? Because it actually fucking worked.
I've avoided chiming in on this, but since it's a slow day. A very rough sketch as far as I can discern – I'm too groggy to be hyper-specific, so this is going to be a bit nebulous – as far as the 'elites' having occult beliefs, it seems to be a bit of a smorgasbord. There's the obligatory Gnosticism, which seems to thread but also blatant Satanism and Luciferianism. Whether or not the Satanism is true Satanism in that they actually believe in and are worshipping Satan, the adversary in the Bible, or it's just psychologically breaking yourself to be totally free of an imposed sense of ethics in order to follow the left-hand path and more effectively, brutally pursue power without conscience, is a matter of debate, people make compelling arguments for both. Either way, it's worth mentioning that even run-of-the-mill gangland criminals engage in a form of this with blood sports like dogfighting and hunting. Violence is a habit, and drug dealers like to keep themselves sharpened by engaging in bloodsports, so when they have to inflict violence on humans, it comes naturally and without hesitation.
The Luciferian side seems to be more interesting and less obviously grotesque. The will is very big in Luciferianism; there are the five I wills' in the Bible.
>I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN
>I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD
>I WILL SIT ALSO UPON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION
>I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS
>I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH
Think about how much God's will is mentioned in the Bible, God also wills everything into existence. So, there's great respect for the will, and in Catholicism, the will is a spiritual faculty. Unlike God and the angels, who're pure spirit, we're a composite of body and spirit. Unlike, say, your memory or imagination, which are a part of the body and can be used to tempt you because they're bodily, the devil can't move your will because it's spirit. I think I went off on a side quest there, anyway, if you're able to absolutely control your will and impose your will on the world and the masses must conform their wills to yours – instead of God – then you are, in a sense, godlike.