People ask this form time to time, we don’t remove these threads as the people who respond tend to change and there’s sometimes new suggestions that are super helpful, and they tend to to be so easy to find in the search as the words “beginner”, “recommendation” and “books” is a bit generic and lots of posts come up that aren’t book recommendations at all.
To help with this we have created a bunch of “collection” thread where we link post we liked so they don’t get lost. We have one for book recommendations here, and the 6th link down looks like it has ideas specific to beginners.
I would also strongly recommend you work with something like Robert Bruce’s Psychic Defense Handbook to get you your basic energy working, energy sensitivity and ability to defend yourself in place. It’s ideal to know how to fix a common problem, especially like having an unwanted entity bothering you, before you summon anything.
So, you’ll want to get your spiritual hygiene sorted out, and start work on developing your astral senses.
All our collection’s and links to member-tutorials as well as the educational BALG newsletters that used to be put out are here: getting started with magick guide, notables, and tuts.