The discourses published here arise from the historical context of Whare Ra, the New Zealand Temple of the Stella Matutina.
Their author, Kasmillos Peregrinus, writes within this current of the Golden Dawn tradition. His work is shaped in part by the teachings he received through the lineage associated with Frank Salt (Frater Fiat Lux), whose influence continues quietly through those he trained.
- (a) Candidate (11)
- (b) 0=0 Neophyte (16)
- (c) 1=10 Zelator (11)
- (d) 2=9 Theoricus (4)
- (e) 3=8 Practicus (4)
- (f) 4=7 Philosophus (4)
- (g) Portal (4)
- (h) Inner (18)
- (i) History (19)
- (j) Praxis (38)
- (k) Symbolism (28)
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How did the Chief expect a student to spend their Tuesday morning? One of Dr Felkin’s quiet contributions to the Order was to develop something that had remained largely unrealised within the curriculum inherited from the Isis-Urania Temple: how the Candidate was to continue the Work after the Ceremony had ended. While Initiation could impress the current of the Grade upon the Candidate, the Ceremony alone could not…
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Renaissance Hermeticism (more precisely Hermetic Platonism) as advanced by Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), provides an interpretive key through which the Order’s methods of Initiation, practice of meditation, and discipline of silence can be understood. This framework is not an adjunct to our practice; it is one of the fundamental philosophical and ethical keys through which the Order’s purpose becomes intelligible and operative. When the Work is approached in this…
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While the following cannot be considered exhaustive, nor representative of every phase of development during the more than sixty years of the Smaragdum Thalasses Temple No 49, it is nevertheless representative of what a student of Whare Ra would typically receive during their passage through the Outer Order—a process which, if pursued by a diligent student, extended over approximately three years. The core papers of the curriculum, such…
