The Two Aspects of Occultism Today There are lots of ways to divide the approach to occultism in various forms today. For this post, I'll describe it as the technological/spiritual, and the religious. The technological/spiritual sees magick as means to achieving goals. Often, part of the technology involves the use of spiritual practices. Thus, although magick doesn't require a religious basis, for many people it includes a deeply spiritual basis. In fact, one of the goals can be attuning oneself with the Divine. This can be called "finding your true will." Your true will is seen as being totally in harmony with the Divine, and once you discover what your true will is—your direction