From: mimir@stein.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
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Subject: Zelator Information for the Thelemic Golden Dawn
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Date: 7 Nov 92 01:12:58 GMT
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                    THE TASKS OF THE ZELATOR
                    OF THE THELEMIC ORDER OF
                         THE GOLDEN DAWN

                      By Sir David Cherubim
                     (Frater Superior Chief)
                     Copyright (c) 1991 e.v.

                          First Degree
                           (Magician)

        Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

The principal business of the Zelator of the Thelemic Order of
the Golden Dawn is to do his True Will, to realize his True Self
in action. Zelator is the title of the assistant of an Alkhemist
who must keep the fire burning in the Athanor or Alkhemical
Furnace. The Alkhemist of the Operation is the Holy Guardian
Angel, the Athanor is the human body, the Fire is the Sacred
Flame of the True Will, and the Zelator is the self or
personality of the Angel. As a Zelator you are to keep the Fire
of your True Will burning in your body and brain, by constant
dedication of yourslef to the Great Work of doing your True Will,
that you may fulfil the Law of Thelema. 

The word Zelator is derived from the ancient Egyptian Zaruator,
signifying "Searcher for Hathoor." Hathoor is otherwise called
Het-Heru, that is, the House of Horus. This House of Horus is
Nature Herself, the Temple of the Four Elements, of which you are
a zealous student.

In the New Zelator Grade of the Thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn
there is concentrated the Mysteries of the Four Elements, so that
the Zelator of the New Order of the Golden Dawn is further
entitled a Theoricus, Practicus, and Philosophus. In this Grade
of Zelator you will complete the preliminary course of elemental
initiation as represented by the four Qabalistic Sephiroth called
Malkuth, Yesod, Hod and Netzach, which are the Elemental
Sephiroth of the Qabalistic Tree of Life. Study well, O Zelator,
all Qabalistic Mysteries connected with these four Sephiroth of
the Tree of Life to attain an adequate comprehension regarding
the Four Elements of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, and so shall
you advance in your Knowledge of Nature.

To Know, to Dare, to Will and to Keep Silent. These are the true
Mysteries of the Grade of Zelator. The fruit of their performance
is the Supreme Power to Go. To Go is the function of a God; it is
the act of doing one's True Will. To Know, to Dare, to Will, and
to Keep Silent are the magical means to control the Four
Elements, to direct them according to the dynamic course of your
True Will unto the ultimate attainment of the supreme realization
of your True Self.

To exercise the Four Powers of the Sphinx is to invoke the
highest in yourself and to act as a Lord on earth. In the Book of
the Law it is said, "The lords of the earth are our kinsfolk" and
"the highest are of us." It is further said  that  "success is
your proof." As a Zelator you are obligated to aspire to be the
Lord that you are, which is the highest in you, by way of doing
your True Will; and the only proof of your power is the measure
of your success, which is the fruit of your dedication.

The Zelator of the Thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn is further
entitled a "Magician." That is, the Zelator is one who exercises
the four Magical Powers of the Sphinx to accomplish his True Will
and to realize his True Self in action.  A Magician is one who
studies and controls the elements of his own nature, and applies
those essential elements to the practical scheme of fulfilling
his True Will. The Magician is a maker of himself; he determines
his own course of action in the Universe; he creates his own
world in accordance with his own true nature. He lives and
breathes as a god, a self-created Lord of dynamic power and
creativity. He understands the hermetic saying, "As above so
below, and as below so above", and he acts in accordance with
that wisdom, achieving success on earth below as in heaven above,
and this as a sign of his illumination and progress. The outer is
the symbol of the interior: the True Will of the Magician is a
symbol of his True Self, and that by way of action. The key words
of the Grade of Zelator are "DO IT." 

The Thelemic Ceremony of the Zelator of the New Order of the
Golden Dawn can directly inspire the Magician to do his True
Will, to express the dynamic current of his own True Self. The
Zelator is bound by Oath to do his True Will, and this very act
of limitation is his magical means to absolute freedom, to be and
to express his True Self. The force of limitation is Saturn; but
this force is also the source of freedom when we are able to use
limitation instead of being used by it. To take an Oath is a
binding of the Will to a self-determined course of action; it is
a limiting of one's concentration so that one may attain the
object of one's Magick Oath. The Zelator binds himself to a
single course of action, that is, the course of his True Will, to
realize his True Self, since a Magician is a follower of the Path
of the Universe, conforming with her laws on all planes; and the
True Will of the Magician is the Universal Will, and the True
Self of the Magician is the Universe itself. 

In the Ceremony of the Zelator Grade the Magician takes an Oath
to exercise the Four Powers of the Sphinx, that is, to Know, to
Dare, to Will and to Keep Silent so that he may attain the lofty
power to Go, to do his True Will and to realize his True Self.
All else contributes to this kinetic course of dynamic action,
cultivating Light, Life, Love and Liberty. The Oath is the Word
and the Will; it is our vehicle of creative power and our magick
link to freedom. 
  
Before you can advance to the next grade of Adeptus Minor
Without, you should know and be able to perform certain Rituals
which will be essential to your magical training and progress in
the Novus Ordo Aureae Aurora. These are: 

     1. The Lesser and Greater Rituals of the Pentagram
     2. The Supreme Pentagram Rituals of the Four Elements
     3. The Royal Ritual of the Sphinx
     4. The Royal Ritual of the Middle Pillar

There will be a magical preparation three months before the
actual Ceremony of your initiation into the grade of Adeptus
Minor Without which you will conduct by yourself, and this
magical preparation is termed your Dominus Liminus Initiation.

The Zelator Grade refers to Malkuth, the Tenth Sephira on the
Qabalistic Tree of Life. Its corresponding Yoga Chakkra is
Muladhara, the Lotus of Four Petals. Its corresponding
Astrological Planet is Saturn, and its Alkhemical Metal is Lead.
It is the stage of Birth in the Novus Ordo Aureae Aurora, that
is, the New Order of the Golden Dawn.

                Love is the law, love under will.
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