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Claude said:

Hmm would you mind explaining this further? As said elsewhere I'm not a magician, and I'm also not a pagan, and the idea of making a form for my God to step in baffles me. So I may just be lacking in background.

It's hard to explain without going into the overall worldview of the Golden Dawn, which I don't claim to be an expert in.  But they were loosely based around an egyptian pantheon, and I believe the practice was very loosely based on the Egyptian concept of building statues which then had their mouths ceremonially opened to receive the spirit in whose likeness they were made, in order that they could see, hear, and receive offerings.

But what do you mean by invoking the energy of the nonhuman self into it and then stepping into it? Is there a difference between oneself and one's nonhuman self? Isn't the point that somebody *is* nonhuman? Or am I missing something?

*shrugs* To use myself as an example, I'd say that each of my nonhuman lives had its own distinct energy.  My energy as a dragon was very different from my energy as an elf or satyr.  My current energy is different again from all of them, though it incorporates aspects of the energies from each of the lives to which I have awakened.  But if I were to attempt this, and build an astral version of my draconic form, I'd focus on invoking the energy of that life into it.

On the other hand, since we all have our spiritual/astral forms in the system, which we use for differentiation, interaction and self-representation, maybe this is already what we do by default? These forms are flexible and we can do with them what we want basically, but they normally represent how someone perceives him- or herself, including sensory idiosyncrasies, sometimes of the form one had in a past life that one came here from, sometimes edited versions thereof, sometimes relatively freely set-up… they're as close as we come to personal trueforms, even if they're sometimes flexible and changing, and we're basically always in them; during controlling the body they sometimes overlayer in a way that is hard to explain or get ignored and turned on low for a while, depending on personal style and situation.

From what I understand, there's a difference between constructed astral forms in this sense and one's natural astral body.  The types of visualization used are supposed to give it an almost palpable presence.