Those attacks were during the time I was much more serious about this path, and never occurred after i was taking a break from warfare so I'm not sure what to think about what you say. Also, what does "being in accordance to the path" exactly mean, besides spirituality? Does it necessarily mean you have to adhere to strict racial regimens or other things, just in order to get "close" to the gods?
Most of what many newbies refer to as "Spiritual Attack" is just your subconscious mind experiencing unease over what you are doing, in the same way a new person does certain uneasy things they are not used to, and they are getting small fear attacks or whatever.
New meditators can experience situations like for example not wanting to meditate or reactions to meditation. This is not always the enemy. It's the fact that you are doing something different and new, and that your brain does not immediatley understand the fact of meditation; so it reacts to the foreign experience. This goes away with time. Many people call this "psychic attack" and it is not the case.
In the case of the enemy, they lie about this topic. For example, Muslims are told that if they yawn during prayer, it's "Satan causing the yawn". This is because they have no knowledge and they are slaves. So yawning has become of "Satan" and some sort of "enemy imposition".
Real spiritual attacks expand further beyond this topic, and while the enemy can have programmed people against meditation and therefore, they represent an outcome of this, they are not direct psychic attacks per se.
As far as the warfare is concerned, it's called warfare because it has to do with both the psychological aspect and also there is a confrontation of opposing energy. But if one is not facing this oppositional energy, you are not growing.
When the real enemy is concerned, they will try to press you when you develop serious powers. This they will do whether or not you want to take an active stance against them or not. They will in fact see you as easy fruit if you do not do this.
Of course, they will prioritize other people who are further ahead, rather than someone who is let's say not posing any real danger and only cares about taking an easy route. Then at some point down the line when they have addressed the strong, they will go after the weak.
An invader of a village has no immediate access to someone, just because others have decided to do the handling of the hard aspect of life. In the mind of the invader however, the weak is the free food they will eat later on. So one must not think they are "fine" just because they are not growing their ability in spiritual warfare. They are just there for a later date.
So in the same sense a child in a house is safe to play with toys, that happens because their father is somewhere else encountering issues of poverty or other life issues related to existence, so they can play with the toys at home and be fine.
Listening to the Gods in all matters would be the wisest thing, yes. For example, you mention the "racial regimens" like it was not biology, but some sort of imposed rule. It's not an imposed rule, it's something nature itself created on top of beings. If one wants to adhere to it, it's like drinking water and staying hydrated. If not, there are some consequences around it, it's not punishments from the Gods involved in that aspect.
Disconnect from the ethical knowledge of the Gods, is not far distant from being wrong spiritually. Ethics is how one positions themselves spiritually. For example, if one is in violation of a written "ethic" of moderation which can relate to diet, one is not going to be punished for "Unethical behavior" by the Gods, but one will have to experience the outcome of wrong positioning in front of the eyes of nature, ie, if the mistake is done all the time, one will grow obese or unhealthy and then have to experience the consequences of this. If the written ethical rule did not exist, the problem would still exist.
The writing of the ethic of moderation only reassures you know about the function of the law itself. It's like mentioning gravity to someone, so they understand about the gravitational pull. Every ethic listed in Spiritual Satanism is not like other "religions" which just make up ethics out of nowhere, such as the opinion of a jew, or the opinion of whomever. It's about universal constants and universal laws, that one, likes it or not, is subject to.
Yet even without this, the rules and laws would still exist. The content there is exalted because it explains to you what kind of universe you are in and how you can better navigate it. You can choose still to navigate it worse and have to experience a set of consequences for doing this choice.
These consequences are not brought by direct punishment of the Gods, but because one is not being accordance to the path. The path is not something that was only set solely by the Gods, it's built on universal rules that affect any being, even the Gods.
There are Ethical virtues like for example, honesty. If one runs all their existence on maximum dishonesty, then it's only a matter of time until one will no longer be trusted by nobody. That is not something that has occurred as punishment from the Gods, albeit it can also tie to that; fundamentally, one has been a liar to all their brothers and sisters and therefore they have lost their own integrity.
This loss of integrity carries consequences with it, same as following the "rule". The max loss of this is that nobody will take them seriously, or in worse cases other outcomes. But it's not because one followed the rule; the rule was here to show you what was best for you on a universal standard.
Lastly, in order to get closer to the Gods, who are Gods because they know these topics really well and they have adhered to them enough until they elevated themselves, yes, one is closer to the Gods by knowing and adhering to these, rather than not. That's for the same way a person in knowledge of laws of physics and applying them via engineering, is closer to success about flying an airplane or to the sky, rather than someone who simply has no knowledge or application of the laws of engineering and physics related to a said airplane or the sky.
Not following certain ethics, can weaken you in the eyes of nature. This therefore opens you up to violations that arise from other beings who are more consistent with these ethics. If you do not have in other words a familiarizing with flying airplanes, you are easily the prey of someone who does know how to fly a warplane. That is not because of make believe, it's because the other being knows how to do this based on advanced laws.
If I do not practice anything close to proper cooking, then I am not a cook. If I ever cook, I cooked by coincidence. I also certainly should not consider myself head of the cooking geniuses of the world either. I do not know or adhere to the laws related to cooking, so I cannot benefit from them or help others benefit from them.
In one sentence, if one is practicing nothing of the Gods, then one cannot be said to be a partaker of affairs close to them. The Gods are higher beings for that reason and they are not humanoids that wander lost all the time, not knowing what to do. This is the difference between them and humans, and why humans want to get higher on the ladder of existence.
-High Priest Hooded Cobra 666