Well we start to see the relativity of things when approaching spiritual work, or at least that’s a potential outcome for many people. While it’s pretty cliche, The Matrix does bring up the idea that our reality is based on a number of perceptual expectations that, because they are shared by those around us, seem to shape a “universal” reality. But when we start getting into activities that peel back those layers of perception, things start to change in a way that, for many people, can be as liberating as it is scary as all shit!
In my somewhat limited experience, I can say that i have found evidence of things like hierarchies being much more dependent on the human operator rather than the power form summoned. A power form like lucifer, for instance, might come across completely different to a Hindu than to a Christian. This can have a lot to do with the internal Matrix that Lucifer has to manifest through in order to be perceived by the operator. The Hindu comes from a different background than the Christian, and therefore his internal Matrix is different than the Christian in certain regards.
Moreover, that particular Matrix shapes how outcomes of a work might manifest. For a person who has spent several years de-conditioning their personal makeup of the perceptual expectations of this Matrix, they might be able to manifest things far differently than someone who hasn’t done any of that work prior. So for an Eastern magician, something like flying might actually involve the direct movement of their body through the air, while someone working a 9-5 with 3 kids and a mortgage might only be able to fly by plane.
I have worked with entities that were made by a person who only realized the entity through their own creativity. In these experiences, even though I did not know what the entity was or that it was only “created” 2 weeks ago, I found these entities to be just as powerful, multifaceted, and “ancient” as a deity with an 8,000-year-old history. If I were to be honest, such things are far more interesting to me than working with something like Lucifer, who has had a Matrix built around him/her that may or may not be worthwhile to a particular practitioner.
At the end of the day, I honestly feel that, if a person can, they might benefit from looking at magick in a neutral lens, without these associations of “light” and “dark”. Since these associations are just perceptual ideas that aren’t really ingrained in anything other than human-contrived ideas, there can be a lot of liberation from drawing one’s own conclusions about what they perceive, rather than going into a work with a lens that might askew things to a perspective that can possibly mar the potential of what’s available to them.