No need for the condescending tone, people come here to ask legitimate questions. If you are too busy or important to be constructive then why post at all?
Tools in any magical operation are simply physical objects endowed with metaphysical meaning. The quality of the tool is generally a reflection of how much thought you’ve put into it…every moment you spend working on it you are magically imprinting it with the necessary symbolism and correspondences that grants it power. Whether or not you use them is a personal mater. They are not necessary, but definitely help localize the abstract principles that are fundamental for the success of the operation. I know people on both sides of the spectrum in regards to physical tools, and they are successful in their work either way. Now, this does not mean that you can simply forget about the tools, as they serve a specific purpose; rather you should fully understand them and have them and their symbolic concretions firmly ingrained in your mind so that you may recall their purpose at any point in the magical operation.
This also holds true for divine names and incantations which can either be spoken and vibrated out loud or done silently as long as you are imprinting the astral/ethereal plane with it’s vibration. This, however, is very hard to do if you have not done so out loud first. The same holds true for tools, if you have never spent the time thinking about how you would construct a physical tablet, or even drawing it out, your internalized version will be weak and for the most part useless.
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