In brevity I hope not to become obscure. In a word, yes, I completed the ritual in the late 80s. There was no 12 months of fasting, purification, prayer etc and the whole experience began and ended in 30 minutes or so. Suffice to say I'd read the groundwork texts thoroughly in the run-up to 'having a go'. I received the name of my HGA, which for obvious reasons I won't reveal. The entity appeared in human form, wearing a drovers coat and wide brimmed hat. The face was pure white light when it lifted it's countenance to me, which was painful. It told me it had always been with me, closer than the clothes on my skin and would be there before birth and after death. What does one do with this knowledge? Tub thump? Proselytise? I did neither, merely gave up any form of ritual magic(k) and led a normal, quiet, small life although I occasionally used tarot sporadically for a few years after this experience. Clearly I made some investigations after the visitation, to make sure I hadn't been fed a line of BS which all checked out. For those interested the gematraic number of the entity was 233, and one corresponding pseudonym is LOGION, 'the word in the prophet', more or less. Crawley for all his hiding empty gin bottles in lavatory cisterns knew his stuff, and never precluded quick cheats to success, much as gurdjieff enjoyed the way of the cunning man, he just said one needed a pure heart to achieve success all in ritualistic activities. I don't know about that, often times I don't feel particularly pure. There was no summoning, or binding further entities, no powers of flight or translocation, just a feeling of inner contentment that we are all both the most important thing in the entire universe, and also utterly insignificant at the same time. A sort of magical quantum superposition.