great 10/10 book imho
https://archive.org/details/weston-warren-father-of-lies
>Now in the last stage, where the man is the slave of the ego which drags him mercilessly down through every depravity, where reason is absolutely rejected,—here we have the occult ideal. Every person in this stage exhibits the same base instincts, which occultists call the "natural" instincts: they therefore call him the "true man." He has escaped the "hypocrisy" of reason.
>As these societies have to recruit new members, the first degrees of initiation are purged of all suggestion of the real nature of the group. The neophyte must be weaned of reason slowly and led gently down the slopes of depravity.
>The ego of the individual becomes a little phallic god, modelled on the big phallic god; and since the big phallic god is the collective ego of all past and present egos, the individual ego survives in the god
>FUNDAMENTALLY, occultism from the days of primitive man to the present has never changed a whit. In fact, occultists are always looking back to the ancient rites of savage tribes for fresh inspiration. The perverted use of the sex force is combined with the glorification of the ego and identified with the " God of Light,"— really, the power of evil.