mark0987 wrote:When you perform another ritual in the same place, do you visualise the pentagram and hexagram on top of one another, one in blue, the other in gold, and then whatever principle you are involking all at once?
You can, but I think that's misleading. Establish one task, then place your mind on the next task.
There are some places where you do want a [list=]cumulative[/list] astral visualization, though usually when you are building a
single complex thing. For example, in Temple of Thelema's private work, a series of three separate actions cumulatively builds 11-point seals at the gateways, and therefore it is valuable to hold the larger framework in mind during this one 'building.'
However, for most work of the kind you seem to be describing, the effectiveness of your ritual ("it did its job") and your trust and confidence in what you are doing can free you to devote your attention (as you go) to simply the step you are currently doing. Think of it this way: You banish, and the place is banished. It will stay that way unless you do something to disequilibrate it. So next, you go on to the next step, whether a purification or a general invocation or a specific invocation, etc., and give
that next step the whole of your attention.
The symbols are purer that way. An exception (as mentioned above) would be when your entire operation (all of its phases) is building a single, complex geometry (or other pattern) that needs all of its parts simultaneously present.
Or is it more a matter of, you do the LBRP have it visualised well, then move on and let that visualisation fade into the background whilst you do the hexagram ritual, and so on?
Yes. The visualization fades, but its effect does not fade.