What is holding you back from using the same verified powerful rituals to set yourself up right in life?
This is the question that always plagues my mind when I speak to occultists online, and it's exactly the reason why I wouldn't call myself a "magician" yet. I've only just started off but it doesn't matter to me how many years I've been at it, until I can use magic to make myself wealthy, I'm not going to consider myself a "magician".
I truly think that it's the "first true test". If you can't use magic to manipulate physical reality in your favor, how would you ever truly know (100% without a doubt) that you are actually doing magic and you aren't just delusional? To me, the obvious choice for a task of manipulating physical reality is to use magic in some way to acquire wealth.
This is why I think it's the obvious "first true test", because more wealth means you have more time to dedicate to your practice, you'll have more resources to acquire materials and tools for your practice, etc. You could dedicate your entire life to your practice and more likely complete the magnum opus, rather than spend 8 hours+ per day working a job, furthering someone else's goals and making someone else wealthy.
I personally think escaping "wage slavery" should be goal #1 for every magician. It's the first REAL test of your power.
Imagine waking up each day knowing that this day is entirely yours for the taking, nobody "owns" your time, it's 100% yours. I don't think most humans on this planet have ever experienced "true freedom". What most of us experience is the nicer more refined cousin of slavery lol.
The only people on this planet who are truly free are the wealthy, they completely own their time. If you don't have ownership over your time, that means someone else owns it, so essentially someone else owns you.
None of us are truly free so long as we have to use our most valuable resource (time) in trade for material resources (money). As of now we all have masters. There's no need for a physical whip because the very framework of society itself has become the whip. If you don't enslave yourself to the system, you will become homeless and then starve to death, as none of us are raised with the basic survival skills our ancestors had.
One thing I've always found ironic (even when I was a teen), is that the norm of society is most people work away their best years and
THEN when they are 60+, old, broken down by life, weak, low on energy, low on enthusiasm, drained of passion, etc, they are now allowed the "privilege" to "retire" and finally live freely lol. It's the biggest joke in modern day society.
You are allowed to do all traveling and sight seeing you want when you too tired to care about traveling, and too blind to enjoy sight seeing at it's best.
