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After you do that, we will be cool and tell you there is no such thing as selling your soul. You can learn magick and keep your soul at the same time.
In truth, you have to be willing to pay a price (similar to the concept of selling your soul as theory only) meaning you have to be willing to work your ass off for fame and such. You can learn what magick is and what it isn't. Magick can absolutely help in massive ways, but you still have to be willing to burn and change the parts of you that cannot hold what you wish for so to speak (You have to be willing to change and grow).
Easy example of being willing to burn, you want status. You have to be willing to burn off the parts of you that cannot hold the status that you want. Internal bullshit we all have, low self image, trauma, fear, etc. You gotta work through that stuff. You can choose not to and stay where you are at, remember, your best efforts got you what you have today right? So, something has to change (burn).
Smarter folks than me can point you in the right direction, but the answer lies inside you. Demons/angels/Deities can help you with that part. They wont do it for you though. The scariest part of all this is YOU facing YOU. Other than that, learning the magick is the easy part.
You don't need any occult mastery for this. You just need to be insincere, corrupt, willing to give BJs to right people (literally and figuratively), and unabashedly greedy.
No fancy, ceremonial demon pact needed. Study the behavior of billionaires and reality TV stars, and get going!
You can't sell your soul , but a magician can sell your soul to pay off your debt to him. Although controversial and way to the side in some New World cults, a sorcerer can sell other people's soul, but only if they owe him something. One day all debts will come due, so stay out of debt.
You don't need any occult mastery for this. You just need to be insincere, corrupt, willing to give BJs to right people (literally and figuratively), and unabashedly greedy.
No fancy, ceremonial demon pact needed. Studynbehavior of billionaires and reality TV stars, and get going!
You're speaking from the perspective of an "ego". a persona, a mask. You can't sell something that contains "you". But... you Can bastardize and prostitute "you", that is to say what you "believe" to be you, that should be worth something to someone, you're likely in the wrong marketplace.
I think working in public service like a cashier/cook at a restaurant requires the mask of you to be corrupted/false. I've heard and expiernced that its exhausting. Eventually you see enough people start to lose hope in humanity working like that. These are my thoughts.
Questions arise like why does Brad need perfection for his taco salad. What has Brad done? Does Brad deserve my laborious taco salad that I made with blind devotion to food. Am I treated like the person controlled by Remy the Rat from Ratatouille or am I treated like Remy therat.
Why can't I eat my perfect taco salad. Instead its Brad. Brad eats my taco salad and my ego has to pretend that I'm okay with that. That was my taco salad. Betrayal.
(This is mostly joking. I thought this might be funny)
We do not sell our souls and we dont buy them either. You will find that no real occultist has ever sold their soul. First of all, no entity even wants it most likely. Also, because your soul is worth more than earthly desires. If you want fame and money, go to Andrew Tates YT shorts.
As the others said, you don't do this. What you should do is ask yourself what you want money and status for? Some people want it just to try and paper over the cracks in their life, to give themselves a sense of self-worth. As @FireBorn said, you can use magic to help you achieve that, but you will need to work your ass off. You, yourself, are the Great Work. Magic helps you become the person you think you ought to be, and is not some spiritual credit card.
Wrong mindset. It says "I'm such a hopeless loser that I'll never achieve fame and fortune, and this is why I have to do something drastic and sell the most valuable possession I have. Then everything I desire will drop into my lap." You're basically saying that you're undeserving and helpless, the polar opposite of a magician's self-image.
Instead, study wealth magic, for example Jason Miller's "Financial Sorcery". Wealth magic will involve your long-term active participation and initiative. Don't think of yourself as a victim of fate – victims don't have agency. Wealth magic can be both a magical education and a path towards personal growth. As for status… status will require recognition by your new-found peers, and they'll drop you in a flash if they smell 'loser' about you, no matter how rich or how willing you are to buy their approval.