Except this doesn't work. At all. The spiritual and the divine are arbitrary terms that mean nothing in Mage because everything is consensus. The Technocracy paradigm has plenty of space for the spiritual and the divine. They're called space aliens. Different window dressing same concept.
Your argument is literally that the Hermetics have different window dressing so their paradigm isn't static. The Technocracy "denial" of the immaterial is because they define material as "everything that exists" rather than having the physical and metaphysical. It denies the mystical in the sense that nothing is mystical, it has clear and understandable causes. In this sense the Hermetics deny the mystical with their rather... similar view of the world. Your argument involves the irrelevant set dressing not the actual core of the statements the paradigms make, which are identical. I don't know what you think saying the Hermetic one allows for "self-discovery" changes things. Technocrats gain Enlightenment too, any paradigm that works requires an allowance for self-discovery otherwise you get stuck at Arete 1.
The lack of the immaterial is actually closer to the truth than the Traditions and their separation. Dragons were perfectly material until they got booted into the Umbra and while in the Umbra you can interact with their solid selves just fine, like almost any other spirit. The only reason the mystics have a claim to the truth is ironically because of the Technocracy strengthening the Gauntlet.
That not actually true though; it's mentioned several times that the Technocracy higher-up have concluded that the transitions are fundamentally right in how the physical world and the spiritual world of the Umbra are twined, that the relationship is real, and that they're hiding this from their subordinates. The physical/spiritual divide in a nutshell, and at the higher levels the technocracy has infact admitted to themselves that they're wrong.
Likewise dealing with the spiritual is dealing with mystical forces; you can't reduce a forest spirit to a set of tree spirits without losing something fundamental to what a forest is. It deal with abstracts in a way that simple doesn't work with the Technocracies materialistic approach. What the early technocrats argued through their actions, successfully, was that the material approach is not inherently inferior to the spiritual. What they ignore now is that the inverse is also true, and that ignoring one in favor of the other is ultimately an inferior approach. They follow an extreme rather then take a holistic approach.
Not dealing with the spiritual doesn't make it go away. The Technocracy has worked hard to divorce the physical world from the spiritual, and while they've occulted the relationship, they haven't actually weakened it. The 'two' 'worlds' remain just at tightly tied, and the 'distance' simply means both sicked in different ways. Way that leave room for corruption.
The traditions by contrasts are all over the place, but because they have to compromise with each other, they do take a collectively holistic approach... and that is inherently better. The Traditions are simply in the right here.
Likewise the Divine manifest in such things as recognizing Avatars, souls, the cosmic principles of the triad. It can be a submissive belief in the divine, a holistic tao, or a transcendent gnosis. Whatever form it takes, it give insight into principles of balance, acts as a literal ward agaisnt supernatural evil, and helps bring insight. Out of the Conventions, only the New World Order still recognizes that such principles exist, much less cultivate them.
So again the Traditions are simply better about this, are in the right.
The basis of the Conventions power was that the traditions ignored the material (weaver) in favor of the mystical (wyld) and divine (wyrm). Early on though, they didn't ignore the other two principles. Now they do, and that's why they can't do things like make people believe in the future, eliminate pollution, or self-reflect on where they're going. They're out of balance.
Clarity is the most subtle of the three mage insanities. Compared with the actively poisonous Jhor, or the unreal dreams of Quiet it's easy to miss. That doesn't make it less dangerous or destructive. In fact, in it's subtly, it's by far the scariest of the three.
