Do you have to fully commit to one path?

[Asolsutsesvyl]

Personally, I don't think that the paths offered by mainstream religions are all that useful in themselves. That's the perspective after long study of more esoteric ideas. A main dividing line is between those who are happy with the standard version of religious teachings, and those who are into the more esoteric varieties. As noted by various people who have looked further than I have into esoteric versions of religions, the paths and the structure of the more refined ideas converge at the level of the esoteric teachings, though the vocabularies and outward symbols and activities may differ. (E.g., Sufism - esoteric Islam - is much more similar to esoteric Christianity than the mainstream religions are similar. With eastern religions, there's a greater difference in how things are phrased, but there's still a convergence in more abstract understanding, unlike how it is at the level of the mainstream.)

Some people find groups and/or teachers who, for years or sometimes a lifetime, can genuinely provide a good "path" worth committing to. The more general case, esoterically, has the name of the "Way of the Fool" in western vocabulary, referring to the Tarot card "The Fool" as the main symbol for a path where an inward commitment grows and becomes fixed, while outwardly people do not tie themselves to any groups or teachers in a permanent sense. (There's a book about the Way of the Fool, "The Zelator", by David Ovason - which has very interesting ideas, but too many cultural references unfamiliar to me to be fully accessible.)

The Law of One books align quite well, regarding the basics, with ideas from various esoteric teachings, e.g. the esoteric Christian "Fourth Way" teaching. I think what Ra provides amounts to a very nice and more universal starting point, from which personal searches can branch out and perhaps merge back. (The spiritual purity of the teaching provided by Ra is the reason why it can remain the basis of further attempts at syntheses.)

I don't think it is useful to provide much general advice on committing or not committing to any particular path. The main thing in mind would be that if anything important is missing, or if anything central does not align with what is at the core of what you find meaningful, then it is probably best to keep the door open for changes in direction.

As I know from experience, when a spiritual "package deal" is provided by some group, it may prove useful in the short term, but it may be a bad investment of time and energy to commit to it if it requires abandoning anything important and close to your heart, despite all that seems good about the "package deal". The more appearing to be given, the more difficult it is to see what's taken away through commitment.