The short answer to your question is yes indeed, powers can be unleashed by “reading” about esoteric spiritual matters.
The subject is fascinating, and can lead you into discoveries of intense and surprising spiritual powers that are at work in the physical world.
The cost to your physical mental health and your spiritual soul in toying with the knowledge potentially gained as an interested amateur, can be extremely high.
You will probably do it anyway, since you have already started down this path.
I also continued on that path. Millions have already done so, and many of them have warned others against it, but few usually listen to them, no matter how clearly or how vaguely they describe the danger.
Some others of them intentionally set out to lure others ever deeper into the subject. Misery does love company.
Are you very certain your time, personal research skills, and curiosity wouldn't be better used in seeking a cure for cancer, a better alternate power or food source, or solving a math problem? No?
Well, at least after your journey, you will have firmly picked a side in the battle of good versus evil.
And in the final spiritual battle, all who will wage it will know which side we each openly picked to do battle for.
Well said.