​Preface

This book is a teaching centered on Lilith as the patron deity of a self-deification path. It offers the cosmology, the architecture of the cage, the nature of the bond between a human will and a god, and the path by which the cage is dismantled.

Lilithism is not a grimoire in the usual sense. It contains no ritual scripts, no sigils, no step-by-step invocations. The reader who opens it expecting a manual of practice will need to look elsewhere — and the final chapter names the places where such material can be found. A ritual performed without understanding what it addresses is a gesture aimed at nothing. The understanding is what this book supplies.

The intended reader is a practitioner or someone close to becoming one. The arguments presented here are not addressed to the academic skeptic who wants evidence before he will consider the possibility that gods exist. Such a reader is welcome to examine the philosophical structure on its own terms, but the book was not intended to persuade him. It was written for the one who has already felt the pull toward the Nightside and needs a map of the territory he is entering.

Daniel Esprit