[Opinion] Invocation as a form of ritual?

[DiLoco_DelEted]

In thinking of what to write in my ritual diary, I got momentarily stumped.
Then I considered Barrett and Agrippa, and it hit me ... Did they start with the LIRP and LIRH? Or what were their rituals clear as day? Invocation leading to effective evocations.

 

[SkullTraill]

What question are you asking here? Invocation is a type of ritual.

Can you try to focus and make a coherent point or ask a singular, clear question?

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

That's the point of my post. In Barrett, Waite, Agrippa, we see tons of Invocation, which was the question - is that a valid ritual. Question answered well. My point is most authors automatically make use of a ritual such as the LBRP rather than invocation, do not discuss clairvoyance, trance or clairaudience, just light a candle, fill the temple with incense smoke and invoke til the cows get possessed.

 

[HoldAll]

Invocation leading to effective evocations.

I think what you mean is something like "The Headless One" rite from the PGM that Crowley first used as a preliminary invocation for Goetic evocations and then turned into "The Bornless One" in his Liber Samekh. It's something like the assumption of a godform to be able to easier command the spirits, so that idea makes good sense.