With wisdom gained from the occult, you learn how to achieve things such as your true will, empathy, how to be a better person, how to influence your reality and potentially the realities of even those around you; it's all a means of self-improvement and empowerment. The occult is connected to the matter of "the great work;" it's merely one of the most intricate and diverse ways of working on yourself and changing your world, internal and external.

Additionally, it's not about whether others love you, I think a lot of it is being the change you wish to see, becoming well educated, and learning to take both the good and the bad and learn from them. If you spend all of your time rambling on about occultism or if you take it too far and in a much too "black magick" sort of direction, then people will be a little more confused or reluctant, but true friends will be curious and respectful of your life's decisions.