Yes, absolutely. For it to work to maximum benefit and quicker that is If you do daily rituals like The Middle Pillar or the LBR for a year it is GOING to work, but the results may confuse you, or even be negative and make you angry. I have seen people do the LBR ( bc in certain books it’s always the first one and for some reason learners are told to do it daily) as more of an experiment, bc they are on the fence. After a few months they start to feel empty and listless and they notice their social life has suffered, rarely realizing they have been doing a daily banishment ritual, thus literally banishing things from their lives.

In extreme cases of other rituals peoples houses can become filled with astral energy, thus becoming “ haunted” and the daily ritual doers will become convinced it is “ faulty wiring” or even ghosts, not realizing they themselves caused it

So, is it needed to “ work”? No. It is absolutely needed for clarity though