Very interesting, regarding the four ordeals, this is a very helpful insight, thank you.. I have a followup question.
The original reason that provoked me to ask this question, was after reading this quote from samael:
"In the Internal Worlds, the candidate has to invoke the Guardian of the Threshold. A terrifying electrical hurricane precedes the terrible apparition."
It seems to me like an important statement,
I just do not comprehend yet how should one be invoking and asking for these initiations..
I'll try to explain how I understand the word
"invoke", and maybe then you'll be able to point me in the right direction or provide some insight.. as to if I am heading in the right direction?
For example, when one is going through process of asking [or
invoking] the divine mother for the elimination/comprehension of a defect, one
"consults", or
"uses" their stored and transmuted energires, at the right point
[for example, in the moment one begins to astrally unfold] they, in that moment, beseech the mother to show them how to comprehend this, or that "i" that has been thoroughly retrospected. Thus, if placed correctly, and done with sufficent faith, one may find themselves in the astral, in a scenario where they are confronted with the ego, or a given a clarvoyant vision, or a claraudient message, ect... that will provide them a lesson to comprehend that given defect..
Is this a correct way of explaining the process of invoking? for example to invoke a guardian of a threshold, [or a master, or buddha, or a god/goddess] The idea, is we beseech our mother, or our inner being, to call upon the given deity/trial/or location we wish to project to? And if done correctly, like in the moment we begin to astrally unfold, we should accurately be taken to that being, or temple?
So the idea is that, whenever we by-chance discover we are out of the physical body in a dream lucidly for example, or find ourselves entering into a deeper stage of meditation, one is presented with this opportunity?
So the idea you express, is that this results in, the experience of us facing some level, of the four ordeals?