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If you really meditate on it, it’s all the same thing, people just interpret it differently. The key to ascension or illumination (becoming something greater/better than you are now) is ego death, understanding that you are a part of a whole much more complex than you can fathom, that as such you are both insignificant and significant to the whole. Once you complete ego death, you are free of the small human concerns that would normally plague a person. When you have finished dying you are free, from pain (both physical & intangible), from emotions, from conscience, from all things.
Buddhists and those on more logos-driven path choose to achieve ego death without frills and are not afraid to stare into the abyss. They are not afraid of nothingness. Occultists are afraid, which is why they seek earthly (outwardly created) guides. They never truly finish the process of ego death, while they grasp certain same truths (such as the fact that there is no such thing as good/evil as most see it, that the whole is greater than its parts) they retain humanity’s worst traits (greed, selfishness, consumption). So occultists can achieve a state of half-death, which affords them a great advantage over those who are not dying at all, but they are in turn made slaves to base human desires. I would continue because I also have schizoid tendencies but unlike 42 I have somewhere to be tomorrow so I am off to bed.