Why are many rich people connected to an esoteric school? Do you believe that there is something immaterial/magical that helps these people to succeed financially?

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Esoteric religion has long been a province of the rich and connected. Think about it. You have to spend years studying an obscure body of knowledge kept secret both for the reason that the secrecy is hip, and also because there is absolutely nothing practical about the “sacred laws of Hermes Trismegistus.”

It also serves a social purpose. Freemasonry is an esoteric fraternity that’s basically a boy’s club dressing up once a month to get away from their wives. Secret handshakes, obscure lingo, how could this stuff not be fun?

I have done all of it, so let me speak from experience. I’ve developed spiritual abilities, I even use those abilities to practical effect. There is nothing that esoteric practice offers over ordinary run-of-the-mill faith. Nothing, that is, except that it’s a tiny bit easier to build belief in a more tangible set of instructions, when you have nothing else to go on. And that’s what matters when it comes to using spiritual abilities in the real world.

Belief tops everything. Joan of Arc, with nothing more than a piercing stare and unyielding conviction, managed to turn the tide of a war. Do you think she wasted any time learning the laws of Polarity and Levels? Do you think she had any clue about Kabbalah? Of course not! She got out in that army and led the people!

No, 99% of esoteric practitioners were either rich before they ever got started, or aren’t rich, or their financial station won’t be much changed by their practice. If anything you can fritter away an entire fortune pursuing magick, as Aleister Crowley found out. Having inherited his father’s fortune, did nothing to make it grow, throwing it away on mountaineering trips, travel, and expensive accommodations in which he could practice sex magick “appropriately.” He died broke.

The ones that manage to improve their station, do so with the same spiritual tools that everyone else uses. The esotericism is just window dressing on solid manifestation practice. Manifestation has three steps, Intend, Release, Manifest. Do all three of these properly and the world is your oyster.

And manifestation practice isn’t even the most powerful spiritual technique we can learn! It’s spiritual child’s play! The big boy stuff improves perception. Perception happens at lightning speed. Casting spells requires you to sit around and wait for them to come true. When I was doing manifestation hard-core, I’d have a dozen or more wishes manifest every week. But it requires you to see and request and wait.

The real stuff, you see, request, and don’t wait. It just happens. It’s not perfect, but you learn from every failure. And it changes how you see the universe. You want to tune yourself, your emotional state, your understandings. Not the size of your bank account.

You start seeing things holistically. A million bucks doesn’t just happen in this world. I could manifest it, but how it comes about is important. I thought an entertainment career could work for me. When I took acting classes, I found out it wasn’t for me. I like programming better, so I do that. I thought I wanted a business, but later decided it was too much effort.

Taking things day to day, item to item, difficulty to difficulty, and continuously building, ratcheting higher and higher and removing all the leaks, using your spiritual vision to see all the angles, that’s how you use divine power.

The esoteric is like struggling to learn a language you’ll never be able to master. The effort to learn crowds out material concerns, and if you’re not careful, you’ll lose money quicker than you gain it just like Crowley.