How to quit being an armchair occultist

vocal traditionalists are armchair occultists. Why would anyone initiated betray the secret?

You don't offend me, I tried to put enough humor in my reply to make that clear.
I'm a troll. And I found that to be a very usefull thing in the spiritual community. Wether you're talking with a suffi sheik, a tibetan rinpoche or anybody really. You get to see who's who real fast.

There are worse things than being an armchair occultist. There are the christmas trees, people that want as much medals and aprons as possible. There are the go getters, that are just there to exchange business cards. There are the narcistic egomaniacs that try to find ways to put themselves over others and act all guru-y. There are the marketting geniuses, etc... etc...

What you're saying is something I've heard so many times before. But all the spiritual paths you mentioned are dead or didn't even have anything of consistance to start with. These ideas are quickly fixed by reading rené guénon or someone like that.

Most of these orders are just boys clubs where they do some reenactments of real initiations we have all lived because we just try to mimic what life naturally puts us through, to understand it better. With symbols and stuff. Can be usefull. Can be irrelevant.

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