Occultist vs buffoon

An occultist does his or her work in privacy and keeps it private and there's nothing more to be said about this.

Buffoons, on the other hand, have an urging need to put on public displays of... whatever it is they boast of doing. Whether it's posting pictures of altars decorated with Christmas lights or videos in which one is accompanied by his mummy-like wife that stands there as grotesque decor and flashes a nightmarish smile while her husband is rambling on about some kind of secret Jesus spells, their efforts are solely aimed to draw attention. It is a cheap marketing gig.

But at least some buffoons are somewhat knowledgeable and experienced, Impotentor AΩ included. Others solely rely on backing from among their list of so called friends (and their mom) to compensate for them not having a clue about shit while posing as foremost experts in more than one tradition or practice. There are others still who, without relying on their mom despite living with her even in their 40s, take this shit show to yet another level of clowning.

Having received legitimacy through association with somewhat familiar figures in occulture, who themselves are trying their hardest to remain in the spotlight for as long as possible, this third group of buffoons put on public displays of "rituals" for the alleged purpose of teaching. I will skip the part about mimicking a Mercury ritual when the planet is highly debilitated, despite there being an expert astro whatnot among them, or my supposition the buffoons in question simply copied Uncle Al's instructions from Liber O (which mention Mercury specifically) to come up with a resplendent decor. Instead, I will directly address the utter dumbfuckery of it all, especially on the part of the gullible fools who showed up and paid for that clown show.

You can't teach someone by showing alone. You have to have them do it and do it repeatedly over a considerable time. This quite a lot of time, if you want them to learn correctly and be able to proceed towards engaging magical operations in a safe manner. Besides cleansing and strengthening their inner structure, people have to familiarize themselves with particular ritual structures and work into them, so to speak. 

Learning a bunch of correspondences from a list is merely the beginning. One must be able to comprehend the structure created by incorporating those correspondences into the working, alongside particular gestures and so on. Moreover, one's own microcosmic structure must be able to easily attune itself to the microcosmic structure one creates, not to mention the force called upon.

Otherwise, going through the motions of a mime act in front of a crowd of onlookers will leave an impression that anyone who puts on a black cloak and waves a sword dramatically while reciting some words in a grave tone is a magician. On the other hand, from the perspective of an outsider observing the gullible crowd, it would seem as if paying to watch pantomime for the goal of becoming a magician is as productive as paying to watch someone play a computer game in order to become a crack gamer.

To make matters even worse, these clowns are doing a convention next month in which they're going to dicuss aliens...

For the sake of occulture sanity this better represent the zenith of buffoonery, but something tells me it's not. These are not occcultists but infantile grown-ups who play a role to make money. So long as this kind of larvae feed off the still breathing fame of certain, either practicing or armchair occultists, all they can do is increase in size.