A brief, easy-to-read-and-digest history - and legacy, reflections and teachings - of the legendary first woman, Lilith.
Her feminist story of unshakeable, natural rebellion, and everything it represents, and that continues to be relevant, is inspiring.
'Lilith: The First Witch: History, Myth, and the Forbidden Power of the Dark Divine' does more than explore the myths and legends concerning Lilith (it even looks into her various portrayals throughout popular culture); it tells the truth of what it means to be a woman. A woman who can and must feel alive, and be authentic and free.
I could highlight every brilliant, insightful passage in this small indie nonfiction book that can be devoured in an afternoon. Just read it.
Let Lilith live, and be free, and be remembered, as her true self, away from dogma. She is not a demoness, nor a succubus, nor a manhating baby-eater, nor a seductress, nor even strictly a witch or a goddess.
She is a liberator of women everywhere, throughout the ages.
A complex being of unstoppable, defiant, challenging, healing feminine power, and of sacred, ancient, timeless knowledge and truth.
No more shall she be misunderstood and demonised.
Okay, here are, ahem, some highlighted passages:
'This book will show you Lilith not as a villain, but as a survivor. Not as a seductress, but as a symbol of sacred rage. She is the dark mirror--reflecting back the truths we fear about feminine power, sexuality, and autonomy. Her story is the story of every woman who has been silenced, punished, or erased for being too wild, too sexual, too loud, too much.
This is not a gentle book. Lilith doesn't whisper. She howls. She demands. And though her, you will remember a part of yourself that has always been there--buried, but not broken.
Lilith: The First Witch is your invitation to reclaim the forbidden. To rise from the ashes of obedience. And to walk once more in the path of the first woman who refused to bow.' - page 2
'It is important to note that the transformation of Lilith into a demon was not just misogyny--it was theological surgery. By making her monstrous, male-dominated systems could erase the history of powerful women, sacred sexuality, and feminine mysticism. The process was deliberate. The consequences, enduring.
Yet she endured too.' - page 26
'Lilith teaches us that what is called demonic is often what is most divine when it resists control.' - page 26
'Psychologically, these archetypes--succubus, vampire, femme fatale--represent the projection of repressed desire and rage. They are not born from evil, but from what society has refused to see in itself. They are the shadows of patriarchal guilt, the reflections of fear that women who own their power, especially sexual power, are ungovernable.
And yet--these archetypes also endure because they liberate.' - page 57
'The collective psyche remembers Lilith even when religion tries to forget her. She rises in times of cultural upheaval, when voices long silenced begin to howl. She returns when justice [and equality] is demanded. She appears when women stop apologizing and when men begin dismantling the parts of themselves built on domination.
She is not limited to gender. She lives in every soul who has ever been told to shrink.' - page 85
'Lilith is not returning. She never left.
What's happening now is not her reappearance [resurgence]--it is our readiness to meet her.' - page 87
'MY BODY IS NOT A SIN.
MY TRUTH IS NOT A THREAT.
MY WILDNESS IS NOT A WOUND.' - page 88
'The rise of the feminist divine is not coincidental--it is ancestral. Lilith's myth lives in every matriarch silenced, every mystic burned, every witch drowned. But her spirit outlives every suppression. Her defiance is the seed from which the future grows.' - page 88
'Lilith is the archetype of those reclaiming:
The erotic as holy.
The menstrual cycle as sacred.
The anger as clarifying.
The body as divine.
The voice as spell.
The "too muchness" as exactly enough.
Across the world, women are telling their daughters: "YOU ARE NOT HERE TO BE SILENT. YOU ARE HERE TO BE SOVEREIGN."
Men are asking, for the first time, what Lilith might mean to them--not as a demon of temptation, but as the feminine force within them that was denied. She appears when they question inherited authority. When they reject domination. When they open to softness, surrender, and soul.
Queer and trans communities are also reclaiming Lilith--not as a binary figure, but as the embodiment of fluidity. She lives beyond structure, beyond gender roles, beyond submission. She is the part of the psyche that defies containment, and in that defiance, she becomes a guardian of truth.
Lilith's spiritual legacy is not about a return to the past. It is about an evolution. It is not about erasing tradition, but expanding it. She is not against light. She is against false light--the kind that blinds rather than reveals.' - page 89
'[Lilith] does not come to save you. She comes to remind you that you were never meant to be tamed.' - page 90
'I AM NOT HERE TO BE LESS.
I AM HERE TO BE WHOLE.
I AM LILITH--ALIVE, AWAKE, AND FREE.' - page 94
From the blurb:
'The woman who defied God. The witch who walked out of Eden. The dark goddess they tried to erase.
Uncover the truth of Lilith--the first woman, the first exile, and the original witch--in this groundbreaking, historically rooted and spiritually potent masterpiece.
More than a myth, Lilith is a force of cosmic rebellion. Before Eve, there was Lilith: a woman born of the same earth as Adam, who refused to submit, refused to be silenced, and chose exile over obedience. Branded as a demon, feared by religion, and erased from scripture, Lilith's truth has been buried for centuries. This book brings her back--fierce, free, and fully remembered.'
Fuck the patriarchy.
No oppressive system can control and suppress the unconscious, the inner mind and life that knows the truth, impossible to hide and bury forever.
"Take a walk on the wild side" and "Be wild and free" are not empty and meaningless platitudes and catchphrases.
Remember. Resist. Recognise Lilith. Reclaim her.
Free Lilith, and be free with her.
Let Lilith live, and live as Lilith. Become Lilith.
Live free without apology. Without permission. Without shame.
Live as you. Put yourself first.
Read also this - 'I Am Lilith' by Melanie Dufty.
She is not limited to gender. She lives in every soul who has ever been told to shrink.' - page 85
'Lilith is not returning. She never left.
What's happening now is not her reappearance [resurgence]--it is our readiness to meet her.' - page 87
'MY BODY IS NOT A SIN.
MY TRUTH IS NOT A THREAT.
MY WILDNESS IS NOT A WOUND.' - page 88
'The rise of the feminist divine is not coincidental--it is ancestral. Lilith's myth lives in every matriarch silenced, every mystic burned, every witch drowned. But her spirit outlives every suppression. Her defiance is the seed from which the future grows.' - page 88
'Lilith is the archetype of those reclaiming:
The erotic as holy.
The menstrual cycle as sacred.
The anger as clarifying.
The body as divine.
The voice as spell.
The "too muchness" as exactly enough.
Across the world, women are telling their daughters: "YOU ARE NOT HERE TO BE SILENT. YOU ARE HERE TO BE SOVEREIGN."
Men are asking, for the first time, what Lilith might mean to them--not as a demon of temptation, but as the feminine force within them that was denied. She appears when they question inherited authority. When they reject domination. When they open to softness, surrender, and soul.
Queer and trans communities are also reclaiming Lilith--not as a binary figure, but as the embodiment of fluidity. She lives beyond structure, beyond gender roles, beyond submission. She is the part of the psyche that defies containment, and in that defiance, she becomes a guardian of truth.
Lilith's spiritual legacy is not about a return to the past. It is about an evolution. It is not about erasing tradition, but expanding it. She is not against light. She is against false light--the kind that blinds rather than reveals.' - page 89
'[Lilith] does not come to save you. She comes to remind you that you were never meant to be tamed.' - page 90
'I AM NOT HERE TO BE LESS.
I AM HERE TO BE WHOLE.
I AM LILITH--ALIVE, AWAKE, AND FREE.' - page 94
From the blurb:
'The woman who defied God. The witch who walked out of Eden. The dark goddess they tried to erase.
Uncover the truth of Lilith--the first woman, the first exile, and the original witch--in this groundbreaking, historically rooted and spiritually potent masterpiece.
More than a myth, Lilith is a force of cosmic rebellion. Before Eve, there was Lilith: a woman born of the same earth as Adam, who refused to submit, refused to be silenced, and chose exile over obedience. Branded as a demon, feared by religion, and erased from scripture, Lilith's truth has been buried for centuries. This book brings her back--fierce, free, and fully remembered.'
Fuck the patriarchy.
No oppressive system can control and suppress the unconscious, the inner mind and life that knows the truth, impossible to hide and bury forever.
"Take a walk on the wild side" and "Be wild and free" are not empty and meaningless platitudes and catchphrases.
Remember. Resist. Recognise Lilith. Reclaim her.
Free Lilith, and be free with her.
Let Lilith live, and live as Lilith. Become Lilith.
Live free without apology. Without permission. Without shame.
Live as you. Put yourself first.
Read also this - 'I Am Lilith' by Melanie Dufty.
EDIT: I have now written a review of a companion indie 'Lilith' book, 'Lilith: Awakening The Dark Feminine Energy: History, Symbols, Secret Rituals, and Esoteric Practices to Reclaim the Sacred Feminine Long Suppressed by Patriarchy' by Melissa Smith. Link here.
Final Score: 4/5
Final Score: 4/5
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