What Do You Think The Purpose Of Magick Is? Options

I guess I came to Magick trying to find Gnosis, enlightenment, as well as daily peace and meaning. I have practiced and studied several spiritual paths, and found this one to be quite right for me. However, have been having doubts lately as to whether these goals can be attained through the Western Mystical Tradition. I am wondering if anyone practicing Thelema or Golden Dawn or any other Western Mystical path has attained anything akin to samadhi, or enlightenment, or if it's all just a sham.

I acknowledge that using these rituals and overall philosophy can induce brain change. I know my brain has changed since I started. Yet what is the end result? I read books by Crowley and Regardie, yet what was the result of their Work?

I just wanted to know what other people think. Does anybody else have any thoughts?

That's cool.

What you were saying brought to mind the idea of "The Three Eyes," some christian philosopher came up with. I don't know what his name was off hand, and am to lazy to research right now, but essentially he said that man has three ways of looking at the universe. With an eye of flesh (sensory, empirical), an eye of reason (logical, rational thought,) and the eye of the spirit (intuitive mystical intelligence.)

Ken Wilber said of these that they should idealy be working fine and have juristiction over their own realm. But when one intrudes upon the other he called it a "category error." For example a mystic shouldn't be an make pronouncements on geology using the eye of the spirit. The rationalist can say a lot about both realms, and can reach contrary conclusions , as E. Kant demonstrated. So like you said you get your inner rationalist to fussy about The Great Work, (s)he's going to have a few fits....especially working with Qabalah

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