Teaching, A personnal experience of teaching Options

"When the pupil is ready a teacher appears", this quote has been said so many times that I can't even count
The point is that actually I'm at a point where many persons came to me asking me to be teached in magick
Well personnally I don't mind but why are all these guys so venal? I mean, there is nothing wrong with wanting to get powers
To converse with beings from other dimensions (from spirits to elementals) but It seems that they just do not understand that there is a little bit more behind the works. Am I somekind of a idealist thinking that the main aim for magicians is to search higher truths?
Is this stupid to think that magick is much more about expanding consciousness, that occult powers are onely a side effect that sould not distract from our personnal questing?
I mean I once found a web site where they told me I would be allmighty, it was the soul hunting site and the understandings I found during this periode are so different from what I percieve in most of members of the community as if they thought that magick is just about selling goodies
Sorry if I seem so desperate, I'm certainly not an (IMG:style_emoticons/default/angel.gif) but MAN if I only deserve that kind of pupils, I think I'm gonna change country for real!

yep, those that come these days seem want all the stuff in the world, while we were, or at least i was, taught that what lies ahead, as well as inside, is far more important that accumulation of stuff and powers - what's the purpose of understanding karma, three-fold law, or even do as thou wilt, if there is no tomorrow or higher great work to pursue - if the magnum opus of the mage isn't spiritual evolution, what else would it be? - world domination or some such nonsense?

nowadays i follow the old old old method of giving those who come to be taught a list of snipes to hunt, which gives them great experience in the multifold dimensions of the real world as they try to find the non-existent creatures, and those that do return for more are usually worth the trouble

i blame tv

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