>>12986876Sure, magick which involves speaking to other entities is sometimes pretty brutal - but that's the price of admission and the ticket may be worth it.
While this practice was certainly engaged in the Heads would've been referred to as their Daemon names. Baphomet is the name of the house egregore of the Templars, which is basically the inner network which facilitates the transfer of information within a "sub-collective consciousness." It's more abstract than the heads basically and exists to preserve the passing down of divine knowledge between generations of initiates.
This isn't really a matter of evil, but communion with a reality that apparently intersects our own in real and tangible ways. Some see choosing to investigate that as a pathway to temporal power, others to existential ends. In the end, the important thing is that you're following a path that is truly yours. Right or wrong, let it be yours.