>>13543380A mystic is talking to God directly. An esotericist is stopping on the way there to listen to the machine elves play on their fake/gay harps, or just seeing all the different levels of realities. An occultist is someone who wants to use all these unseen forces to influence our physical world. A satanist is someone who wants to use these forces for evil/selfish purposes. The idea of selling your soul to the the Devil in order to be granted powers that God wouldn't give you, is firsg looked at in-depth by Faust. Fulfilling Self indulgence over everything else is attributed to Nietzche. Ironically, both of these guys were Christian men, and Nietzche was just extrapolating on ideas that Marcus Aurelius had layed out, similar to the greek idea of ataraxia. Nietzche took it further by explaining that you have to work at yourself in this life in order to create an afterlife that's completely carefree and pleasurable (even though that idea is old as dirt). He has to be the most cherry-picked and misquoted philosopher of all time, especially when you consider the fact that he was was very influential to Adolf Hitler. Everyone has impure motives. There's a dark side in all of us. The people that convince themselves that they don't are usually the craziest and most dangerous people in history. Ever heard of an atheist who is a Satanist? The church of satan was started as a joke by a carnival barker. By the way, why does every atheist argue against the Christian definition of God not existing? It's like they know which God they're in denial of. They never argue against Hinduism or scientology. Occultists and satanists are faggots, which is why the physical aliens don't talk to them anymore. They only get some demonic entity that absolutely rapes their soul in exchange for fucking shit up in this world.