Book Discussion Books that shouldn't be practiced or even read

[jin2494]

The "becoming a living god" phrase is straight out of E.A. Koetting's modern marketing of the Left-Hand Path... a kind of occult self-help wrapped in infernal aesthetics. It's understandable why it appeals to younger practitioners: it frames rebellion as transcendence. But the concept drifts far from the deeper initiatory current it borrows from.

If you're genuinely interested in the Nightside or Qliphothic current, I'd really encourage staying close to the original material, especially as outlined by Kenneth Grant. His Typhonian work treats these forces as conditions of consciousness rather than deities to worship or command. Grant's approach is phenomenological and initiatory-about transformation through confrontation with the Unknown, not personal glorification.

In short: Koetting promotes empowerment through dominance; Grant maps metamorphosis through surrender. The difference is profound, one inflates the ego, the other refines it in fire.

And as you said... a "Spirit of Violence" might well offer care, but only to those who mirror its nature. If you're not that kind of being, its current will burn rather than bless. Discernment is the real initiation.

A yes Koetting the king of UPG

 

[Sedim Haba]

Yes, Donald Tyson has said publicly that it wasn't his personal grimoire on Lilith. It is a novel written to look like a grimoire (not hard to do just add in some Lovecraftian horror to be edgy).

Good to know. I have the PDF but not gotten to it yet. I don't connect to Lilith that way anyways.

I'd say anything in the NT written by Paul I find extremely toxic, as is some other NT books like 'revelations'.

The Qliphothic magic books I would not even touch, I already know all I need to from my years of Lurianic Kabbalah.

 

[DiscordianNun]

Personally there are no books off the top of my head that I would feel comfortable saying I think "no one" should practice or read. There are plenty that I'm not particularly fond of or don't like incorporating into my practice or have had bad experiences with but I think most still might be of some benefit to someone (some perhaps only as a learning experience but regardless).