Occult Knowledge and Spirituality

These are my beliefs from my personal life experience thus far...I would like to first state that occult knowledge is not satanic. It is merely out of the realm of traditional religious knowledge, and thus severely misunderstood. Because many occult teachings provide ancient teachings for spiritual amplification and evolution of the individual consciousness, it can be regarded as threatening material to religious organizations which would keep you bound with fear of God, the spirit realm, and that which is new. Similarly, because of the effectiveness of many of these teachings, the knowledge has been covered up and kept secret from the population, only used and privately practiced by the established powers (I wonder what books are held in the Vatican's private library?) and or the curious and brave. What is now deemed occult knowledge was once the standard spiritual knowledge known and practiced by indigenous cultures around the globe which enabled them to interact with the the "ancients" and spirits on multiple dimensions. The occult knowledge represents a powerful tool for self transformation, one which has the ability to "enlighten" the population to the point where spiritual knowledge no longer must be sought out in books... for the enlightened know the truth exists within as it does without. When you are afraid you can be controlled. The established powers have used fear to manipulated society throughout the ages, and it is how current governments are able to continually manipulate society (terrorists! terrorists! terrorists! danger danger! threat! war!) into pursuing their agenda. There is no such place as an eternal prison of torture and fire - for the truly wicked, purgatory-like stages of spiritual cleansing and purification renew the diseased soul. The notion of hell only exists as the one created by an individual through bearing the weight of a guilty consciousnes. Hell is the feeling we have inside of ourselves when do not love or value ourselves, when we are not proud of ourselves and do not value our work,  when we do not understand that we are part of the divine and that collectively we embody God. It is the feeling we have when we are not proud of ourselves, when we think that we are unoriginal or unimportant, when we think that we are unworthy, etc... We all make mistakes. Mistakes are opportunities to learn from, and thus grow consciously. Experiencing mistakes is part of the evolution of our individual consciousness as well as the growth of the collective consciousness and is quintessential for personal spiritual growth and the collective spiritual growth of humanity at large - as a whole. For we must first learn what we do not want before me may discover that which we do indeed desire. Traditional religious texts do contain powerful and profound truths which no spiritual being could deny and one may extrapolate the fundamental truths from the manipulations, yet it would be naive to believe that they represent the unerred word of God. History is evident with examples which prove otherwise.  

(Written January 22, 2012)