I’ve come across Swart’s material before, although I haven’t really read him. I have an overall pretty bare-bones knowledge of Kabbalah.
Would you mind elaborating on the disk gateway to infinity? Are you familiar with their Light from the Dark practice? It is presented in the books as an energy work technique, which isn’t wrong, but it involves contemplating infinity, infinite darkness and light, within and without. It’s a pretty short and simple practice, but contemplating infinite space, even just contemplating the size of the planet, the solar system, the galaxy, the galaxy group, the universe, is enough to blast your brain as it is, let alone infinity.
I believe I’ve at least dabbled with all of their books, and to your point, there are some rituals that don’t seem to directly involve summoning Source-Consciousness (God, whatever label you want to use, God being more Kabbalah style), but in my experience, this hasn’t mattered when it comes to manifesting the result requested in the ritual, nor has it seemed to affect speed of manifestation.
The reason I don’t entirely agree with the idea that the GoM’s material is poorly simplified is because it has worked very, very well for me over the years I have been practicing. I think people get caught up on trying to jam everything, everything into a ritual, when that isn’t necessary. If all is of God, then is it really necessary to invoke countless Godnames, summon every element, contemplate all the spheres, etc, to manifest a simple result? I don’t think this is so much a question of philosophy as it is one of empirical experience. I have done sex magick by literally just making an intention, symbolizing it as a sigil, and masturbating, looking at it at orgasm, and that worked. Not only did it work quickly, nearly immediately, with no considerations of God or spheres, the results grew and expanded over the course of months and years, all from a relatively speedy masturbation session and a symbolized intention.
If someone is having difficulty with manifesting results, I’d say trying to read thick philosophical texts is likely counter-productive, unless their goal is to manifest an advancement in philosophy.
Does anything fucking matter then? Why not make my magick into, whenever I want to manifest something, I throw some peanuts at a wall. I fully expect that to work for many things. There’d be so many goddamn peanut synchronicities I’d go nuts. Results would manifest in a strangely peanutty way. I’d forever be haunted by the peanut man, leaving drops of peanuts everywhere I went, my life slowly devolving into a landscape of legumes.
Spirits seem to be real and have some sort of existence, though, so that means we have to caveat every sort of conversation like this with, yeah but if you want some other mystical things to happen or if you want to access archetypal powers, now we are entering the realm where there is correct and incorrect, because it seems that you do have to plug yourself into Source-Consciousness, even though you already are, but you have to do it consciously and experience the energy consciously.
To summarize this 2500+ pages of material, for practical manifestation I think barely anything can definitely work with magickal intention, but spirits help you get better with intentions and realizing what intention can do outside of your mind, and some concepts are important for enlightenment magick.
This is really difficult to discuss in a concise manner.