All authentic occult Ways bring enlightenment - that is, they bring a living apprehension of the cosmos as a unified Being, and the purpose of individual existence in accord with that Being. In the Dark Tradition, this apprehension is but a beginning.
http://www.whiteunderground.com/ona/jupiter/beyond_illusion.htm
It is indicative of the sorry state of most occult paths - and the people who follow them - that there is an abundance of dis-information, deceit, mystification and cultivation of egos.
http://www.whiteunderground.com/ona/sun/the_deceitful_occult_ego.htm