Something I see come up frequently in discussions around goetic magic is how it seems coercive and domineering in it's approach towards spirits. Leading to this phantasm that goetic spirits will be hostile towards the magician. Which I understand from the perspective of someone new to this style of magic. With the threats of chains, hell fire, and more it can seem heavy handed. Especially if you are coming from a paradigm that humanizes spirits. This way of compelling spirits would seem disrespectful because you wouldn't talk to another person that way, so why a would you do so with a spirit?
What I think is important to have in mind is the world view these texts and traditions operate from. The people who originally did this style of magic, and documented it, typically didn't view these spirits as their equals. When you read these texts there is an air of having a divinely given right to command spirits. As this comes from the idea that we are made in god's image and have aspects to us spirits don't have that give us this position over them. Something to also keep in mind about these methods is that, the magi is playing the role of Solomon and stepping into that name and power. These spirits have a pact with Solomon, know Solomon, and know they are to come under the terms of their agreement. If you show them that you aren't Solomon, and that you don't know the proper protocols they are gonna notice and not obey. So there is a level of theater involved in Solomonic magic that people stepping into it need to understand. You ARE Solomon during ritual, and so you have the right to command these spirits. And if you want them to obey you better be convincing.
These magicians are using different philosophies and beliefs than you find in most modern occult practices too. Pulling from things like theurgy, Iamblichus' works, neoplatonism, heremeticism, and other emerging philosophies. Where it is believed the magi has authority to do these things because of factors like their knowledge of the divine, their use of divine names and formulas, and their lifestyles. They were not so concerned about how the spirits they are calling "feel" as they deemed them lesser than the divinities who's name they were calling them under. Because the type of spirits who are classed as goetic were thought to simpler spirits, only capable of specific tasks or feats.
Within modern history there is a lot of fear around goetic/Solomonic magic because of the idea of these spirits bucking back. Within the text the answer is very simple as to why the spirit might not be complying, and the answer is typically something the magician did or didn't do properly. Not in a blaming sorta way, but more so that the necessary tools and precautions weren't followed. Maybe the names weren't said right, the tools were improperly made, the magician wasn't properly chaste and cleansed, ect... The reasons could be many. Any perceived danger isn't because of the method of conjuration, it would be because of an unprepared magi.
Now I myself have tried a handful of grimoires within Solomonic magic (such as, the Greater and Lesser Keys, Verum, Crossed Keys, Book of Oberon, the Books of Moses, and more) with mixed results and varying amounts of sucsess. I have been able produce spirits into physical form/sight with their methods, but I've also had situations blow up. So, a lot plays into why something might succeed or fail.
One consistent thing I've observed tho, is not once has a spirit been upset by the means I conjured them through. Meaning, not once have they been mad at me for threatening them should they not answer me. They aren't not coming because I used a god name they dislike or felt I was bully. The reasons they've refused me were for things like using the wrong incenses so the smells in the room were inhospitable to them, for facing the wrong direction upon their arrival so they thought I was disrespecting them by not showing my face, or for working closely with angelic spirits they are in opposition of. Something that seems important to these types of spirits is respect, and in my experience they respect authority and when they sense you lacking it they take advantage. So if people aren't comfortable taking on the role of Solomon, like I mention earlier, they might struggle with this.
My perspective on this becomes a little different when you start to take these systems into a more dressed down folk magic setting. Tho i still all the same mechanics, such as divine names, authority, the tools, ritual clothes, ect. I don't try and shoehorn goetic spirits into say pagan systems because it makes me comfortable. I try to respect the spirit's grimoiric origin and approach them through that within my folk practice. So for example, I've started using a goetic spirit pots within my occult practice. Where I make permanent spirit houses for my goetic spirits that are worked in a more folk magic way, but the pots themselves are made using grimoire methods. As well as the tools I use in this ceremonial and folk work.
I have my own thoughts on the nature of goetic spirits, but that's a whole other post. To circle back to how these types of approaches impact the spirit, I really haven't seen evidence that the spirits have an opinion. They are following divine order they were put into this position to follow, there are no thoughts or feelings about it.
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