Average wannabe spiritualist dabbler:
Sun square is so bright and beautiful am I right?
Satan so scary and intimidating, :'((
I'll just do the Sun squares and meditations and keep my cowardly comfortable beliefs that have been programmed into my soul, surely they are much better than the scary ebul Satan :'((
If someone gets as far as seeing the Planetary squares from the JoS, there is no reason not to dedicate and clean the enemy programming from your soul. If someone can't even do that after looking that far, they aren't worthy to receive the benefits from this path either, which they won't even if they try to advance...
There are many levels of psychology and psychological influence upon and within a person. They can be very complex and can overlap and can be difficult to fathom and traverse. There are also other things in people's lives which might make it difficult to go through with things. I think it has been said that the reason we reincarnate is to find the truth and overcome bad things. Also I seem to recall something along the lines of between incarnations and regarding being reincarnated, we are to learn things and... well... from memory it seemed more like the christian "god" and "judgement day" upon our Souls... as to then be reincarnated and learning to overcome things which we didn't learn in previous lives, to better ourselves and eventually escape the Wheel or Karma and remove the need for reincarnating, and instead live.
Seeing the post by HPHC about levels of Gods and Humans, it seems like the OP's friend is not an andrapod, or is overcoming that stage/level. The Olympics is on at the moment - one does not become an Olympic gold-medalist on day one of training; and if they try to advance, then they will reap benefits sooner or later, burning off the karmic seeds and making proper their Karma. She might have been influenced by media and other things, and the sheer, blatant, obvious lack of clear and noticeable Spiritual things in her surroundings. Talking about magical, mystical, freaky things in such a spiritless, materialistic world doesn't quite work unless they have had some psychological conditioning or input previously and/or it being in their Soul already; if she was with Satan in any previous life, then she'd be more inclined to these things and needs the correct trigger to 'unlock' or 'activate' things. At least testing the waters she can learn things about that, then maybe make the decision to go with it properly.
Things take time. For some people, lifetimes.
Now, this girl is not an SS. She knows the truth about Satan, etc, but doesn't believe in our beliefs, and she generally doesn't like the concept of dedicating to a religion.
I can't speak for others, but I prefer to not believe beliefs; instead, I prefer to know things, have knowledge, be able to refer to facts and - if possible and safe to do - refer to actual demonstrations (which is not safe to do in this World at this time). Of course, there is some overlap for some people, having faith in one's own abilities or believing what you are told, but having beliefs in beings in the sky who tell us how to live (or guide us for positive existence) without actual tangible results is pointless - and more so, the Siddhis, our own learned abilities which we can actually do our actual selves... actually, not praying to anyone or anything and getting no results.
I would also argue that we don't dedicate ourselves to a religion; rather, we dedicate ourselves to a cause. "Religion" is just what it's know as, because that's a term that people understand. Pronounce "religion" backwards, and it sounds a bit like "knowledge", maybe 'knowledger' one who has knowledge, gnosis, a Mage, a Wise One... Maybe the word "religion" is a magic word used to reverse knowledge - "god" hates you for having knowledge of good and evil, after all... and not forgetting "woe unto those for putting evil for good and good for evil" - religion instead of knowledge and knowledge instead of religion.
These things are just my thoughts. I might be right, I might be wrong.
Very briefly, from merely a couple of minutes of research, a possible source for the word "religion" is from the Latin "religio" meaning "to bind" or "to tie fast"; or from the Latin "relegere" meaning "to read again" or "to go over again", maybe implying careful consideration or a conscientious approach to worship and moral conduct (according to the authours of said religion) in a deity or divine power. "Knowledge" basically comes from Proto-Germanic and Old High German meaning "to know". So when I said
Maybe the word "religion" is a magic word used to reverse knowledge just above, I wasn't far off. I wonder if "religion" is also connected to "relegate", and "ligate" or" religate" (which is old for "relegate") meaning to bind with a ligature... a bandage... because (the jew reckons) we need to suckle on the jew's dirty teet, mothering by the jew...