What is the end goal of the occult?

[sajedbadir]

Material gain? Salvation?

 

[Necro]

Personal Gnosis

 

[akenu]

At a certain point the end goal stops being important. There are so many practices you can mess around and so many ways how to accumulate new personal experiences.

 

[lekvar]

Curiosity, mostly. I've always been fascinated by the Mystery Schools, and magic scratches that itch.

 

[hollowglasd]

to know myself and be true to myself

 

[boymatmat]

I wouldn’t strictly classify the goal of occultism as either material gain or salvation. Personally, I’d say spirituality, self-development, and a deeper connection with whatever one understands as the “higher” or transcendent aspects of reality are much closer to the core of it.

Of course, it can be used for very practical things too — love, success, money, protection, finding purpose, etc. I don’t think there’s necessarily anything wrong with that. But ideally, I think the practice should also push us beyond our current limitations rather than simply reinforce whatever we already want.

So if I had to give it an “end goal,” I’d probably call it elevation or transformation: becoming something more than what we started as, rather than simply getting more things from the mundane world.

 

[Firetree]

Material gain? Salvation?

To keep things hidden .

( To answer your thread title correctly )

 

[ortizem]

Material gain? Salvation?