AVP - you're quite right - I was thinking this question through from the starting point of Christianity, rather than Ceremonial Magick, which blurred my thinking, rather. I was speaking of CM in a very broad sense - including goetic, enochian &c, which in my experience do have primarily to do with summoning. Certainly, all of the most moving and effective CM ceremonies in which I have participated have had that as their focus - attuning the participants to the presence of The Divine.
To correct myself - an example of this from Wicca 101 might be: spirits are Summoned to the Circle, elementals and watchtowers are Invited, the Goddess and God are Just There. And in the Roman Catholic mass, the Trinity falls into the latter category, of being Omnipresent anyway.
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