I think when I was at the farm house, I did not a middle of the night connection with what all these Thelemites are calling the HGA (Holy Guardian Angel). And I did reach the Oracle status on the ESP app verifying it, as well as finding my fluorite diamond that had fallen beneath my car seat. The latter two activities were accomplished through a rather direct intentional act.
I'm not sure what this all means. But at some level, its not under our control. But we do have a role in it. We can direct it.
Pete Kingsley's books are interesting as well. And the approach of the HGA surely is where that hissing sound of the snake, the ouroboros eating its own tail are pursued all the way down and the inside is turned to the outside, and the circle is completed.
But this was supposed to be about who wants to come in. Who is asking to come in? And to love what arises. Welcome everything, push away nothing.
So to put this all together, the mediation practice is to follow the hiss, and let the visitor arrive, and let it carry you on its chariot. All the way in. To the night. With your new black sheets. All the way down, and you go up to reach the HGA. Now where does a devotional practice come in?