Meditation Is Key? Options

In all my reading and understanding of the many different avenues of the occult, a mutual factor has always been present. That factor is meditation. What I've been led to believe is that meditation can pretty much get you to where you're going, to the end. To the betterment of the self, hence your goal. If meditating holds such power, I was wondering what most of these other avenues of magick really do for the practitioner.

I'm not downgrading any other forms of magick, simply inquiring as to their purpose in life in comparison to meditation. I understand different aspects of magick, different wills and goals lead to different things and through different means however the end result is still the same and can be achieved through meditation alone. Or so I've been led to believe. Especially considering that meditation is a common part of most magickal practice, what makes the all powerful method of enhancing oneself to become yet another tool for the practicing magician? Again, I'm just curious and it's a question that's been on my mind. Something like, "Why do all this, if you can just do this and ultimately get the same results?".

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Interesting. So although meditation is a powerful practice, it has a limit? Or is what you are saying, once that meditator does more than meditate and observe, using their will and desire, he/she becomes the magician from mere action?

As mostly everything on this earth has a place and purpose for being there, I wonder, is meditation an interchangeable element meant to be used specifically with or for something else? Or simply alone. I suppose meditation is a tool to begin with considering what it yields and the reasons for meditating in the first place. However, I do understand your scenario and the circumstance thereof where the individual would have to do more than meditate. Delving into other areas the which you have illustrated for us does make sense to me and I thank you for your response =)