I am conscious of the privilege of having worked with Frater Fiat Lux, 7=4, a member of Whare Ra since the 1930s. With the passing of that generation, very few remain who were formed within the old Temple culture. Most who now approach the Order do so through its published corpus. Fiat Lux trained meContinue reading “When the Golden Dawn was an Order”
Category Archives: (j) Praxis
On the Work of the Neophyte
From the series “On the Work of the Grades” – reflections on the path of the Candidate through the Grades. One task of the Neophyte is to establish separation — to draw a deliberate line between the life that was and the life that now begins. This involves a conscious reorientation of the will. TheContinue reading “On the Work of the Neophyte”
On the Work of the Zelator
From the series “On the Work of the Grades” – reflections on the path of the Candidate through the Grades The Zelator lays the groundwork — to make firm that foundation upon which all later progress must depend. The Element of Earth is assigned to this Grade. Earth is form, body, and substance: the vesselContinue reading “On the Work of the Zelator”
Concerning the Vivification of the Minutum Mundum
“Colour cannot be specifically defined unless one goes into microns of wave-length, and even then there are tints containing black or white, or even both. Many writers have tabulated colours in the Four Scales, but working from tabulations is not only lazy but also by-passes the very growth of the psyche we court. As theContinue reading “Concerning the Vivification of the Minutum Mundum”
On the Work of the Theoricus
From the series “On the Work of the Grades” – reflections on the path of the Candidate through the Grades The work of the Theoricus is to awaken the inner sense — to perceive not only through the eyes or the intellect, but through the awareness of the intelligence that lies beneath and binds allContinue reading “On the Work of the Theoricus”
On the Work of the Practicus
From the series “On the Work of the Grades” – reflections on the path of the Candidate through the Grades The work of the Practicus bears fruit when the student learns to see clearly into the waters of their own nature. In the Water of Hod, emotion must be transcended and transformed. Emotion often precedesContinue reading “On the Work of the Practicus”
On the Work of the Philosophus
From the series “On the Work of the Grades” – reflections on the path of the Candidate through the Grades The journey through the Outer Grades mirrors Nature’s own slow evolution and awakening. From mineral to plant, from plant to animal, from animal to man: each stage adds motion, perception, and thought just as aContinue reading “On the Work of the Philosophus”
The Living Flame
One of the documents I was given by Fiat Lux to aid me in my Adeptus Minor studies was his “5=6 Notebook”, as he referred to it. The notebook is approximately A5 in size, bound in a green hard cover. Its contents include: – Subjects for Study; – The Supreme Ritual of the Hexagram; TheContinue reading “The Living Flame”
The Temple Diagrams
When I first began my Work, I relied on old Whare Ra copies of the rituals to study the Temple “Tablets” or diagrams. These old rituals were produced on a jelly copy process that left the images slightly blurred, sometimes obscuring important details in the diagrams. These were copies of the diagrams shown to CandidatesContinue reading “The Temple Diagrams”
Legitimacy and Lineage in the Golden Dawn
Much has been written and argued about the “legitimacy” or “lineage” of modern Golden Dawn temples. The subject is often presented as if there were a single, unbroken line back to 1888, which one can simply trace and thereby claim authority. The reality is far more nuanced. The Golden Dawn fractured in 1900, just 12Continue reading “Legitimacy and Lineage in the Golden Dawn”
