Many people seem to erroneously believe that when you Dedicate, then you are a "Dedicated Zevist".
Zevism is a transformative path. When you dedicate, you are almost the same person as yesterday, minus the fact you have opened your eyelids and finally woke up. Albeit this is a closing of a large circle of ignorance in one's life, another new circle opens up; a life in which you must learn to exist with outside of the sleeper state.
This state is foreign, and of course, one is always on the risk to fall asleep again. If you choose to fall asleep again, so you will.
The above process is a step of bravery and goodness, and something that is like telling to the Gods: "Hello, I am here and I am serious to grow in the path". Then the Gods can give you major pushing in the direction of growth. But it's the case that you still have walking to do.
A process here takes place; a path opens and you are supposed to grow in it. In most ways you are still the same person. If you dedicated on the 23rd of December, you were smoking in the 22th, and you will likely smoke on the 24th. This has not changed.
One must not delude themselves that they made a major leap in core and actual development; one just opened a gate to evolve and advance. A primary, but the most important of all the steps. Yet after this one still has an array of things they had before, which now, they can start a journey to improve, fix and work on, with renewed hope, vigor and power which comes from the assistance of the Gods.
Many who do not take these steps or deny the baggage they bring with it, be this psychological, mental, traumatic, misplaced understanding, tend to think that the above Rite of Passage saves anything. If you were a thief or a drunkard all your life, and I take you suddenly to the house of the Gods, still the same underlying factors are there, and they are not worked or absolved just because you took a step in there.
Certainly the environment helps, but one must make certain valid decisions and follow them. One can be "Dedicated" for 20 years and still have many lingering issues that are not worked on. These issues do hamper one's potential, and if one does not fix them, they still drag you down and do not allow you to manifest your higher self.
It's also possible for some personalities to act in very deluded manners even after they join this path. I seek no judgement here just to give you some valid facts about all of this so you can grow and do your best.
Let's say for example one was in a lifestyle that was related to drugs and other perilous things. One just crossed the gate; making likely the single best choice compared to their previous life. The life is still there, one does everything they were doing before. There is just a golden ticket to a better existence in their pocket. But if they use it or not and apply it, that is another matter.
If one goes and adds around 100 worse choices immediately after this good choice of acquiring the ticket, that is clearly not indicative that one is going to grow.
Just going into the gym and saying "Hello, I am here" and having the best trainers, plans and nutrition, but you literally just leaving the next day and doing nothing, will not yield results.
People who do not walk the path on the actual way, are just bragging about a gym membership. "I once even joined the best gym", they say, as they consume 25 cheeseburgers. Does that matter? It does matter you took the step at some point; but then you might have left or one is still struggling with certain bad habits. These plague you and keep you down.
The golden gym membership card means a lot of things and is the entry point of the shape you envisioned, for the person who takes their baggage and starts working immediately, it is indeed a golden pass. For the other person who does not practice, it is still a shiny golden pass to a new life, but this pass has to be used daily on the gate of the gym - where you must go in and actually train.
Some people also might leave or give up when they see they actually have to work with this card instead of just "having it", which is hampering and delaying their own potential. Eventually the universe will guide you there again, maybe after a lot of suffering, to re-consider whether or not you should be using the card.
The smart trainee knows that they must use the card and they get to work.
People with not much understanding, on their head also think that let's say asinine amounts of dedication time entitle you into all sorts of things. 1 year grand master, 3 months narcissist, 6 months self proclaimed high priestess, the list is endless. If one takes a couple of steps back and is objective, they will see that they are just starting out.
What is a good way to solve this? One must look at other trainers. One must exist in the society with other Zevism, and seek also the best. Yes, there are also some Zevism who are not using this pass and they also sadden me greatly, as they are harming themselves and their potential. But if one hangs around this for a long time, they will be lost also. So who should one be going with and after? Those who use the pass to the path.
This can be understood easily by a person who trains for 5 years (and you would also understand your own self better in 5 years and understand why you were like this in 3 months), but one person who just woke from slumber can easily get overconfident, or also totally lack confidence in their attainment which is great (even if a little time is involved). But the outcome is accumulating, and one must try to not over-estimate or underestimate the path and themselves.
To close the topic here, one becomes a Spiritual Satanist, by actually becoming a Zevist - the Dedication is a call to actually become Dedicated, and to Dedicate your soul to working on it. One is truly dedicated when they know dedication; the active act of going after the dedication of your soul.
-High Priest Zevios Metathronos