Scholars, intellectuals, are not initiates. They do not know the doctrine. They are not educated in the real meanings of the symbols and stories, which hide initiatic knowledge. Be wary studying the writings of intellectuals, since they only write what their five senses tell them.
Tantric and alchemical stories are symbolic, not literal or historical. They may draw from some historical points, but are not literal histories.
Only the initiates of those traditions know the real meanings of their symbols. They do not reveal them to non-initiates. Thus, the intellectuals, frustrated at not being initiates, interpret those stories at their own whim, then their readers believe those mistaken interpretations.
We must warn the Gnostic students that the intellect is the most dangerous potion the tenebrous utilize in order to withdraw the student from the path of the razor’s edge.
In addition, many of the stories are used by black magicians to justify their black magic.