From: mimir@stein.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
Subject: Manifesto of the Thelemic Golden Dawn
Organization: The Friends of Loki Society
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:45:04 GMT




                      THE MANIFESTO OF THE
                    NOVUS ORDO AUREAE AURORA
                                          
                          Issued by the
                    Thelemic Order and Temple
                       of the Golden Dawn

                       In Association with
                   New Falcon Publications and
              the Israel Regardie Foundation, Inc.

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

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

     In the Exalted Name of the Sun Ra-Hoor, and by His Mighty
and Supreme Benediction of Force and Fire:  May His Great Light
of Power be upon you all, so that in each of your hands may be
positioned the One Flaming Sword of His Omnipotent Strength and
Might, and so that you may become free warriors of Our Lord the
Sun in our most holy and exalted army of free and courageous men
and women, which most exalted army we know under the chosen name
of the Novus Ordo Aureae Aurora, which is unlike the Old Order
insofar as that its Ceremonies and Teachings are dedicated to the
essential and inevitable establishment of the Law of Thelema
which is the Law of the New Aeon. The Old Order of the Golden
Dawn, which was organized in the Old Aeon of Osiris, was
subjected to the awful restrictions and limitations of the past,
whereas the New Order of the Golden Dawn is free from the fetters
of the Old Age of Restriction, and its Great Work is the Liberty
of every individual in the Dawning Light of the Rising Sun of
this New Aeon of Horus. 

     Members of the New Order of the Golden Dawn constitute a
Religious Body of Free Warriors who, by their might and skill,
seek to extend the Dominion of the Law of Thelema upon earth. The
New Order seeks to make fit its members for the Great War of
Horus which is now made manifest in the world of men and women.
Our Lord of the New Aeon is a God of War; but the War of Horus is
not, in essence, an outer war between nations of men and women;
rather is the War of Horus a personal battle for freedom, an
individual means to establish the New Law of the New Aeon, to
emancipate ourselves from the Old Ways of Restriction and to
flame forth free with Light and Liberty as mighty stars on our
own celestial orbits. The Weapon of Horus, symbolizing War, is
the Sword which indicates the active and militant force of the
Magician or the dynamic energy of his True Will. Members of the
New Order are instructed in the magical use of the Sword of
Horus; in other words, they are instructed in the Magick of the
Will by which they achieve their individual victory and conquer
all things in their personal battle for freedom.

     The magical doctrine of the New Order of the Golden Dawn
asserts that every man and every woman has a course in life, just
as every star has its own orbit, and that the duty of each person
is to pursue his own course, just as every star must move in its
own orbit. This magical doctrine of the Science of Stars further
states that we have no other right but to do our own Wills, to
fulfil our own destinies; and that any deviation from this path
is a direct violation of the Law of Thelema which is the Law of
Liberty. When we really know and do our Wills we are absolutely
free within the necessary limits fixed by our own inherited
destinies; but as long as we are ignorant of our own Wills we are
not in harmony with the Universe and we become slaves of a false
fate wrought by nothing! Liberty is the essential cause behind
the manifestation of all existence: everything is born to be
free; everything lives to be free. Knowing one's True Will, and
executing that supreme knowledge, is what makes a man free, while
ignorance of the True Will goes against the actual current of the
Universe and leads to awful restriction. 

     The New Order of the Golden Dawn is a Thelemic Academy of
the New Aeon which seeks to instruct all its members in the
Spirit of Liberty. All forms of instruction within our New
Order's programme for initiation are wholly devoted to that
essential task. As a matter of fact, all initiated members of our
New Order of Thelema are bound by a Great Oath of Magick which
aims at the complete and sole dedication of their lives to the
exercise of the Law of Liberty and its essential unfoldment in
the ineluctable scheme of  divine  evolution.  The sole aim of
the New Order is the perfect constitution and most exalted
accomplishment of the Great Work of this  New Aeon of Horus. Its
one destination is absolute freedom in Light!

     The New Order of the Golden Dawn is a Thelemic Body of
Initiates who are dedicated to the magical development of a New
Race of free men and women who are consecrated to the Law of
Thelema, to establish the New Kingdom of Horus upon earth.
Members of the New Order are pledged to assist in the dynamic
creation and essential establishment of a New Civilization
governed by the Law of the New Aeon. The Law is for all; thus
members do not concern themselves with initiating a selected few;
they concern themselves with the initiation of all mankind; and
those who are initiates of the New Order are obligated to that
grand task by way of the development of their own individual
freedom; their principal work is to uphold that obligation by
fulfilling the Law itself, that is, by doing their own True Will.

     The New Order of the Golden Dawn is a Royal Academy of the
Magick of Light, dedicated to the works of Scientific Illuminism,
whose method is Science and whose aim is Religion. Its chief
methods or principles of discipline are scientific and occult
research, practical mysticism, ceremonial magick and tantric
alkhemi. It derives its wisdom from various Eastern and Western
religious sources. It reflects and concentrates the Wisdom of the
Ages, and it seeks to illumine all its earnest members in that
Supreme Truth. 

     Now just as the Spirit of Wisdom is an eternal fact of the
Universe, so is the essence of the New Order of the Golden Dawn a
timeless reality. The Order is new only insofar as that its
Ceremonies and Teachings are not of the same type as that of the
Old School, so that its body is resurrected into a new splendid
form. In the Old School men were instructed to bend their knees
and to sacrifice themselves like slaves on a cross of suffering. 
But in the New School men are instructed to bend their knees to
neither man nor god, and they are initiated into the Supreme
Truth that there is no god but Man. The cross of suffering is now
a Cross of Joy, and the false idea of sacrifice is abolished for
ever from the Philosophy of the Order of the Golden Dawn. 

     Since there is only One Order in the Whole Universe, it is a
fundamental truth that the New Order of the Golden Dawn is of the
same category as that One Order in essence; but its external
rites and teachings are unique and  not of the same category as
that of other external schools of the Mysteries. In essence it is
the True and Invisible Order of the Rosicrucians, that is, it is
the True Community of the Elect, or the Invisible Society of the
Secret Brotherhood of Initiates; but its philosophy has naught to
do with Christian mythology nor does it have aught to do with the
fable of Christian Rosenkreutz. It is, on the contrary, the
transformation of these mythical fairy tales and superstitions
into the sublime light of scientific and spiritual truth. 

     The New Order of the Golden Dawn has seven principal grades
which compose three groups, the  Orders  of the S.'. S.'., of the
R.'. C.'., and of the G.'. D.'. respectively. These three groups
constitute the whole of the Novus Ordo Aureae Aurora, that is,
the New Order of the Golden Dawn.  Before a candidate can
progress on the Tree of Initiation, by proper advancement into
the following seven grades, he must first endure the trials and
tribulations of the probationary grade of a Neophyte (0 Degree).
The following is a listing of the grades of the Novus Ordo Aureae
Aurora in their proper groups.    

                    The Order of the S.'. S.'.
         Ipsissimus .........................  7th Degree
         Magus ..............................  6th Degree 
         Magister Templi ....................  5th Degree

                    The Order of the R.'. C.'.
                 (Babe of the Abyss -- the link)
         Adeptus Exemptus ...................  4th Degree
         Adeptus Major ......................  3rd Degree
         Adeptus Minor ......................  2nd Degree

                    The Order of the G.'. D.'.
                  (Dominus Liminis -- the link)
         Zelator ............................  1st Degree
         Neophyte ...........................  0 Degree

     The Ceremonies of the New Order have been constructed to
accord with the revolutionary and dynamic principles of The Book
of the Law, and they are solely designed to instruct the
Candidate in the Mysteries of Thelema, for the accomplishment of
his True Will, and for the supreme attainment of the Knowledge
and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel. The Rising God of
the New Temple is Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, born
from the past Aeons of Isis and Osiris. Horus is a god of Liberty
and Life, unlike Osiris who was a god of Restriction and Death.
The New Order of the Golden Dawn is not bound to the ways of the
Old Aeon, but is determined to establish the Law of the New Aeon
as expounded in The Book of the Law. The Order of the Golden Dawn
now embraces and upholds the Law of Thelema and seeks to extend
that Law in the world, to establish the New Kingdom of Horus upon
earth. The Old Temple has been transformed into a New Temple for
Our Lord Horus to indwell, that the Great Work of the New Aeon
may be accomplished in His Name.

     Members of the New Order of the Golden Dawn are dedicated to
the magical task of establishing on earth, with practical
business way, the revolutionary and dynamic principles of The
Book of the Law. They accept The Book of the Law as their sole
Rule of Life, and they are consecrated to the Spirit of that book
and to the Word which it proclaims. The Book of the Law is a
revelation of paramount importance; it is the Supreme Link to the
Great White Brotherhood, by which we may participate in the
excellent knowledge and lofty administration of the Great Work.

     In The Book of the Law, I: 40, Nuit, Our Lady of the Stars
proclaims, "Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look
but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the
Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt
shall be the whole of the Law." The first Grade referred to is
the Man of Earth Triad which concerns the lesser mysteries of the
Novus Ordo Aureae Aurora, which is, properly speaking, the First
Order of the degrees of the Neophyte, Zelator and Dominus
Liminis; the next Grade is the Lovers Triad which concerns the
mysteries of the Novus Ordo Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis, which
is the Second Order of the degrees of the Adeptus Minor, Adeptus
Major, and Adeptus Exemptus; and the next Grade is the Hermit
Triad which concerns the mysteries of the Novus Ordo Astrum
Argentinum, which is the Third Order of the degrees of the
Magister Templi, Magus, and Ipsissimus. 

     In The Book of the Law,  I: 50,  Our Lady Nuit further
proclaims, "There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task.
Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in
three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be
tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest.
Thus ye have star & star, system & system; let not one know well
the other." Members of the Man of Earth Triad are the gross who
must pass through the fire of initiation by suitable tests of
purification, consecration and preparation. Members of the Lovers
Triad are the fine who must be tried in matters pertaining to the
intellect. Members of the Hermit Triad are the lofty chosen ones
in the highest, the elect of the A.'. A.'., who endure the
supreme spiritual tests and ordeals of the Most Holy Order of the
A.'. A.'., that is, the Order of the Silver Star. 

     The First Order of the Man of Earth Grade is known as the
Outer College of the A.'. A.'., and this Outer College teaches
the Lesser Mysteries of Nature. The Second Order of the Lovers
Grade is known as the Inner College of the A.'. A.'.; it is
further known as the College of the Holy Ghost (Collegia ad
Spiritum Sanctum), and this Inner College of the Holy Ghost
concentrates and expounds the Greater Mysteries of Nature. The
Third Order of the Hermit Grade is known as the Secret College of
the A.'. A.'., which is above and beyond the outer and the inner.

     The grade of Zelator is the stage of Birth; Dominus Liminis
is the stage of Puberty; the grade of Adeptus Minor is the stage
of Life; the grade of Adeptus Major is the stage of Death; and
the grade of Adeptus Exemptus is the stage of Life after Death.
The Babe of the Abyss is beyond all these. The other grades of
Magister Templi, Magus, and Ipsissimus pertain to stages beyond
man's power to comprehend; they are spiritual experiences of the
most exalted type and cannot be defined by human philosophic
terms. The Third Order of the A.'. A.'. is beyond man's power to
know; he must experience a different species of consciousness to
Understand what is beyond knowledge, to commune with the
Invisible Masters, to attain true Wisdom, and to be crowned with
the Celestial Light of the Dawning Aeon of Horus.

     The Neophyte is further called a Probationer; the Zelator is
further called a Magician; and a Dominus Liminis is further
called an Advanced Magician. The Adeptus Minor is further called
the Adept Magician; the Adeptus Major is further called the
Master Magician; and a member of the Adeptus Exemptus grade is
further called a Perfect Magician. The Magister Templi is also
known as the Most Excellent Master; the Magus as the Most Exalted
Magician; and the Ipsissimus as the Most Illuminated One.

     The seven grades of the New Order correspond with the seven
Chakkras of Yoga, the seven ancient Planets of Astrology and the
seven sacred Metals of Alkhemi. They also correspond with the
seven principal Sephiroth of the Qabalistic Tree of Life. It must
be noted here that Malkuth (Earth) is the synthesis of the three
Elemental Sephiroth of Yesod (Air), Hod (Water) and Netzach
(Fire). In Malkuth these three Sephiroth are the particular
energies which constitute its form. Thus in Malkuth is
concentrated the elemental powers which the Zelator is obligated
to master by way of exercising the Magical Powers of the Sphinx. 
A perfected Zelator, who has completed his course of training, is
further called a Theoricus, Practicus and Philosophus. The
Thelemic Ceremony of the Zelator of the New Golden Dawn confers
initiation into the Mysteries of the Four Elements represented by
the Four Qabalistic Sephiroth below the Sephira of Tiphareth. 

     The symbol of the Novus Ordo Aureae Aurora is a Gold Cross
of Equal Arms surmounted by an upright White Triangle. The Cross
itself represents the four grades of Zelator, Adeptus Minor,
Adeptus Major and Adeptus Exemptus. The White Triangle represents
the three higher grades above the Abyss which separates man and
god, and which none may pass but they who are free of self,
unidentified with their human ego. Yet this work is only for the
few, and not all may partake of these Higher Mysteries at this
time in the course of cosmic evolution. In Alkhemical terminology
the Cross represents the Four Elements of Fire, Water, Air and
Earth; the Triangle represents the Three Principles of Sulphur,
Salt and Mercury. The Cross further represents the four Elemental
Chakkras called Muladhara, Svadhistthana, Manipura, and Anahata;
the Triangle represents the three higher Chakkras called
Vishuddhi, Ajna and Sahasrara. The special number of this symbol
is seven, referring to the seven principal Forces of Nature which
are represented by the seven ancient Planets of Astrology, the
seven Chakkras or Centres of Prana in Yoga, and the seven Sacred
Metals of Alkhemi. These seven principal Forces of Nature are
represented in the Thelemic Ceremony of the Zelator by seven
Officers in the Temple, of which three are greater and four
lesser. As Officers in this Ceremony, they act as human
representatives of those seven holy Forces to duly initiate a
Neophyte as a Zelator in the Novus Ordo Aureae Aurora.

                         THE FIRST ORDER
                    OF THE MAN OF EARTH TRIAD
                    (Novus Ordo Aureae Aurora)

                            NEOPHYTE

     Neophyte. -- His principal business is to discover his own
True Will, and to begin to obtain the knowledge and control of
the nature and powers of his own being. He is further to begin to
devote himself to the essential acquisition and performance of
the Four Powers of the Sphinx, that is, to Know, to Dare, to Will
and to Keep Silence, so that he may become genuinely fit for his
initiation. He is further to devote himself to the study and
practice of such things as he may deem fit for the cultivation of
his magical aspirations to the Higher Life of Thelema.  

     The Neophyte grade has no real correspondence with a
Chakkra, Planet or Metal. Muladhara, the Root Chakkra, is only an
approximation of its nature. It is purely a probationary grade
without any reference to a Sephira on the Tree of Life. It is a
stage of inner trial, when the Candidate's devotion to the Great
Work is tested by the Secret Guardians of the Mysteries. It is
the key to the higher initiations. 
 
                             ZELATOR

     Zelator. -- His principal business is to perform his True
Will in the world of men and women. Zelator is the name of a 
"zealous student". It 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 Inner
Self, the Athanor is the human body, and the Fire is the sacred
flame of the True Will. The Zelator must keep this Fire burning
in his body and brain, by constant dedication of himself to the
Great Work of performing his True Will, that he may fulfil the
Law of Thelema. The Zelator grade of the New Order of the Golden
Dawn contains within its formulae the initiation of the Neophyte
into the Mysteries of the Four Elements, so that the Zelator may
ascend up the Tree of Life to Tiphareth without having to undergo
the common initiations of Yesod (Air), Hod (Water), and Netzach
(Fire). Malkuth, the Sephira of the Zelator grade, is the Sphere
of Earth, which is the synthesis of Air, Water, and Fire. 

     The Zelator grade refers to Malkuth, the Tenth Sephira on
the Tree of Life. Its corresponding Yoga Chakkra is Muladhara,
the Lotus of four petals. Its corresponding  ancient planet is
Saturn, and its alkhemical metal is Lead. 

                         DOMINUS LIMINIS

     Dominus Liminis. -- (Lord of the Threshold). His principal
business is to obtain sufficient control of the aspirations of
his own being, to sufficiently perfect himself in all of the
Magical Rituals of the grades of the Neophyte and Zelator, and
thus to prepare himself for his initiation into the grade of
Adeptus Minor Without to become an Adept Magician of the New
Second Order of the Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold. 

     A Dominus Liminis meditates on the diverse Knowledge and
Power that he has acquired as a Magician in the Novus Ordo Aureae
Aurora, and he shall harmonize that Knowledge and Power as
perfectly as he is fit. Dominus Liminis is the Link between one's
elemental self and one's Holy Guardian Angel. This so-called
grade pertains to the Element of Spirit and it specifically
refers to the Veil of Paroketh which separates the first and
second Orders of the Grades of the Man of Earth and the Lovers. 

     The Dominus Liminis is a Crown to the Four Elements of Fire,
Water, Air and Earth, which pertain to the grade of Zelator. He
formulates the topmost point of the Blazing Star or Pentagram and
concerns himself with the summarization of the elemental
mysteries of the elemental grade of the Zelator, equilibrating
his elemental self which is to be completely surrendered to his
Holy Guardian Angel in the grade of Adeptus Minor Without, for
the attainment of His Knowledge and Conversation.  

     The Dominus Liminis grade has no real correspondence with a
Chakkra, Planet or Metal. Anahata, the Heart Chakkra, is only an
approximation of its nature. 

                        THE SECOND ORDER
                       OF THE LOVERS TRIAD
                    (Novus Ordo Rosae Rubeae 
                        et Aureae Crucis)

                          ADEPTUS MINOR

     Adeptus Minor. -- His principal business is to attain the
Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel. He must
awaken and manifest the Dawning Beauty and Light of the New Order
and fully devote his soul, mind and body to the Great Work of
Thelema. He is a Very Honoured Hierophant in the making, and
should therefore devote himself to the supreme task of expounding
the Mysteries of Thelema to the world. 

     There are two Adeptus Minor initiations -- the inner and the
outer. The outer initiation concerns the Royal Mysteries of the
Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; it is, in essence, an
inner stage of Self-Initiation and concerns the attainment of the
Knowledge and Conversation of the Adept's Inner Genius. The inner
initiation of the Adeptus Minor concerns the secret and supreme
operation of the formula of the Rosy Cross for the grand
attainment of the Philosopher's Stone, the Medicine of Metals,
and the Elixir of Life, which is the Supreme Secret of Initiates,
and should only be known by a True Adept of the Sacred Mysteries
of Thelema. The former may be obtained by any Zelator of good
report who is invited to the grade by the proper authority of his
Temple, under  official dispensation from the Greatly Honoured
Chiefs; yet the latter can only be obtained by special invitation
from the Greatly Honoured Chiefs, and not by any other means.  

     The attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy
Guardian Angel is the essential theme of the magical system of
the New Order. The Ceremony of this grade is not designed to
invoke the Holy Guardian Angel, but rather to bring the Zelator
to a point of responsibility within himself by which he can
invoke his own Holy Angel by his own necessary method. The
invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel is a personal affair for
each member of the New Order, and only he may discover and apply
the particular method by which to invoke that Holy Angel. No
member of the New Order, no matter what his grade, can reveal to
another member the method by which to invoke his Holy Angel. It
is entirely an operation of Self-Initiation. There are no
absolute rules to this true form of initiation, for that is the
inner secret of each member, and only he can know and apply those
rules by his own personal effort and aspirations. 

     The knowledge of the formula and operation of the Rosy Cross
is the Supreme Arcanum of the Secret Sanctuary of our Holy Order
of Thelema. It is a scientific secret to be revealed only by one
Inner Adept to another, for it involves the Supreme Rite of the
Sun and Moon by which they manufacture the Philosopher's Stone,
that is, the Holy Quintessence. Inner Adepts who attain this
secret are members of the Order of the White Lion which is
another name for the Circle of High Initiates who attain this
inner grade. Men and women of this inner grade are called Royal
Knights and Royal Dames of the White Lion. It is they who
constitute the Circle of High Initiates who master the Secret of
the White Lion and who, by their secret subtlety and great skill,
accomplish the Great Work of creating the "Magical Child". 

     The Adeptus Minor grade refers to Tiphareth, the Sixth
Sephira on the Tree of Life. Its corresponding Yoga Chakkra is
Anahata, the Lotus of twelve petals. Its corresponding ancient
planet is Mercury -- or alternatively Sol -- and its alkhemical
metal is Quicksilver or Gold. 

                          ADEPTUS MAJOR

     Adeptus Major. -- His principal business to attain the Power
to Combat by obtaining a general mastery of the Royal Science and
Art of Magick. He is to be a Warrior Lord of the New Order,
conquering and victorious, consecrating the world to the Law of
Thelema by the Power of his Sword of Might. In The Book of the
Law it is said: "From gold forge steel. Be ready to fly or to
smite!"  These holy verses define the task of the Adeptus Major
in detail. He is to forge by the power of his Holy Guardian Angel
a Martian Weapon of Might. That mighty weapon is the Sword of
Horus, by which the Adeptus Major goes forth to battle and
conquer. The Adeptus Major experiences the destruction of his
sense of personal self as a separate entity from others,
experiencing and seeing the union of all in Horus, and he goes
forth to battle the illusions of separateness so that he may be
free from the same. This does not entail that he annihilates his
personality, but only his sense of it. The Adept does not
annihilate his personality until the critical adventure of
crossing the Abyss.   

     The Adeptus Major grade refers to Geburah, the Fifth Sephira
on the Tree of Life. Its corresponding Yoga Chakkra is
Svadhistthana, the Lotus of six petals. Its corresponding ancient
planet is Mars, and its alkhemical metal is Iron.

                        ADEPTUS EXEMPTUS

     Adeptus Exemptus. -- His principal business is to attain the
Power to Love. He is to cultivate and exercise inner compassion
for all his fellow men and women, and to completely devote
himself to the essential task of assisting all to accomplish the
Great Work of Thelema. He is further to become master of all the
Sacred Arts and Magical Rituals of the New Order, perfecting
himself in all things. The Adeptus Exemptus is exempt from the
delusion of the sense of separate personality; he is free from
the illusions of the sense of self, for he knows that all life is
the One Life, and that all life is a vehicle of expression for
that One Self of the Whole Universe. He therefore practices the
Art of Compassion in response to this supreme truth. When he has
attained to these he may then attempt the supreme task of
liberating himself from the mind by putting each idea against its
opposite and refusing to prefer either, cultivating a perfect
balance in his mind; and he must consecrate himself as a pure
vehicle for the influence of the New Order. He is then fit for
the Supreme Initiation, to undergo the Great Ordeal of the Abyss,
to rid himself of all his attainments and of himself as well,
even of his Holy Angel to which he has so ardently aspired and
attained, so that he may become a Babe of the Abyss, to grow in
the womb of its Holy Mother.  

     The Adeptus Exemptus grade refers to Chesed, the Fourth
Sephira on the Tree of Life. Its corresponding Yoga Chakkra is
Manipura, the Lotus of ten petals. Its corresponding ancient
planet is Jupiter, and its alkhemical metal is Tin. 

     (Note: There are two methods of initiation for the Adeptus
Major and Adeptus Exemptus grades of the New Order. There are the
standard Adeptus Major and Adeptus Exemptus Ceremonies, which are
performed with other members of the New Order as in the preceding
ceremonies; or, if the Adept be sufficiently united to his Angel,
and in genuine communication with the same, he may design his own
Ceremonies for the grades, which he will present to the Chiefs of
the Order with a detailed report, after each initiation. The
Chiefs will then confer the grades upon the Adept if they judge
him true of power.)

                         THE THIRD ORDER
                       OF THE HERMIT TRIAD
                  (Novus Ordo Astrum Agentinum)

                         MAGISTER TEMPLI

     Magister Templi. -- (Master of the Temple). The Master of
the Temple is sworn to interpret every phenomenon as a particular
dealing of God with his Soul. This exalted grade is reserved for
those who pass the Ordeal of the Abyss which involves the
essential attainment of the annihilation of the personality of
the Adept. This attainment concerns the most critical initiation
and adventure in the Order. The Master of the Temple is a Master
of Mysticism and His Word is to comprehend the existing Universe
in accordance with His own Mind. 

     To become a Magus, He must renounce His enjoyment of the
Infinite so that he may formulate himself as the Finite; he must
attain the practical secrets alike of initiating and governing
His proposed New Universe; and he must completely identify
Himself with the impersonal idea of Love. 

     The Magister Templi grade refers to Binah, the Third Sephira
on the Tree of Life. Its corresponding Yoga Chakkra is Vishuddhi,
the Lotus of sixteen petals. Its corresponding ancient planet is
Venus, and its alkhemical metal is Copper or Brass. 

                              MAGUS

     Magus. -- The Magus is sworn to make every act an expression
of his Magical Formula. This exalted grade is not attainable by
many, for it is the stage of the Supreme Incarnation of the Logos
of the New Aeon. The Magus is a Master of Magick and His Work is
to create a New Universe in accordance with His Will. He utters a
Creative Magical Word that transforms the planet. A member of
this exalted grade is sworn to identify himself with the Current
Word of the New Aeon and to exert his Will to establish it. To
attain the Grade of Ipsissimus he must destroy all duality in
thought, word and deed. 

     The Magus grade refers to Chokmah, the Second Sephira on the
Tree of Life.  Its corresponding Yoga Chakkra is Ajna, the Lotus
of two petals. Its corresponding ancient planet is Luna, and its
alkhemical metal is Silver. 

                           IPSISSIMUS

     Ipsissimus. --  This most exalted grade is not attainable by
many, for it is the stage of the Supreme Attainment of The All.
The Ipsissimus is "He who is most Himself". He does not act, but
from Him all actions proceed. He is beyond all duality, and he is
free from every form of limitation. Nothing binds Him, and in Him
all is accomplished.

     The Ipsissimus is pledged to keep silence regarding the fact
of his supreme attainment. He is to take the Oath of His grade in
the presence of one of the Chiefs of the Order, who must also
keep silence regarding this matter.

     The Ipsissimus grade refers to Kether, the First and Highest
Sephira on the Tree of Life. Its corresponding Yoga Chakkra is
Sahasrara, the Lotus of a thousand and one petals. Its
corresponding ancient planet is Sol -- or alternatively Mercury
-- and its alkhemical metal is Gold or Quicksilver. 

     (Note. There are no official ceremonies designed for the
grades of Magister Templi, Magus, and Ipsissimus. These are
grades of inner initiation, and cannot be fit into a particular
ceremonial formula of any standard type, since they concern
matters of infinite and transcendent importance and are in no
wise applicable to one particular body or unit. There are Oaths
of the grades, and there are instructions concerning those
grades, but there are no ceremonies designed to confer those most
exalted initiations. A member of the A.'. A.'. attains his
degrees after submitting a full report of each initiation to the 
Chiefs of the Order, and after they judge him true of power.) 

                     GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURE

     Members of the Man of Earth Triad are not directly involved
in the government of the New Order; their principal duty is to
themselves, to advance in the knowledge of their own True Will.
They are, properly speaking, dedicated to their own self-
initiation and progress. It is not until they advance to the
Lovers Triad that they can become involved, if it be their Will,
in the government of the New Order. 

     Adepts involved in the government of the New Order are known
as the Greatly Honoured Superior Hierophants/Hierophantrias,
officially appointed as such under the Hand and Seal of the
Greatly Honoured Chiefs of the Grand Temple and Order. The
Greatly Honoured Superior Hierophants/Hierophantrias are under
the direct supervision of the Greatly Honoured Chiefs and are
pledged to act on behalf of the same. They are the
representatives of the Chiefs of the New Order and may be elected
to the Lesser Council of Seven. The Lesser Council of Seven are
the Visible Hierarchy of the Great White Brotherhood. Adepts can
remain apart from the external government of the New Order,
working in silence for the same if they will. 

     Members of the Hermit Triad are they who work in silence for
the inner government and they may be elected to the Greater
Council of Seven by the Chiefs of the New Order. There may only
be seven members of the Greater Council at any one time, of which
three are always the Chiefs of the Order. Members of the Greater
Council are called the Grand Masters of the New Order and may be
located in any part of the world. But if the need should arise,
they must all gather at the Grand Temple for Official Meetings
concerning matters of international importance. The Greater
Council of Seven are the Invisible Hierarchy of the Great White
Brotherhood. 

                      MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMME

     Membership in the New Order is open to all free men and
women over the age of 18. Members may withdraw from membership at
any time if they so will. Participant Members receive our
quarterly Newsletters and membership status for $66 per year.
Participant Members may become involved in our Hermetic System of
Self-Initiation, they may also receive our monthly Lessons for
$93 extra per year, and they may become ceremonially initiated.

                     CEREMONIAL INITIATIONS

     Ceremonial Initiations are conducted four times a year
during every Equinox and Solstice for Participant Members. First
Order initiations of the Man of Earth Triad are $66.00 per grade.
Second Order initiations of the Lovers Triad are $120.00 per
grade. Initiation into the Third Order of the Hermit Triad is
without financial obligation of any sort. After the Neophyte
initiation there must be a three month wait before the next
initiation into the grade of Zelator. After the Zelator
initiation there must be a nine month wait before the next
initiation into the grade of Dominus Liminis; and after
initiation into the grade of Dominus Liminis there must be a wait
of three months before the next initiation into the grade of
Adeptus Minor Without. Ceremonial initiations are now regularly
conducted by Officers of the Grand Temple in L.A., CA, USA. 

     Members who are unable to attend a ceremonial gathering for
group initiations may apply to the Grand Temple of the New Order
for our Self-Initiation Ceremonies of the Neophyte and Zelator
grades. The initiation into the grade of Dominus Liminis is a
work of Self-Initiation, thus aspirants of the New Golden Dawn
may work all the Man of Earth grades in solitude, under the
approval of the Grand Temple of the New Order. To progress
higher, to the next grade of Adeptus Minor Without, is by
invitation only, under the hand and seal of the Chiefs of the New
Order. Members who work all the Man of Earth grades in solitude
must be initiated into the grade of Adeptus Minor Without by way
of ceremonial congress. 

                     SELF-INITIATION SYSTEM

     The New Order offers to Participant Members a System of
Self-Initiation that is most powerful in assisting the Magician
in his magical and hermetic endeavors. This system is related to
the twenty-two Major Arcana of Tarot and the twenty-two Paths of
the Qabalistic Tree of Life. It is a system by which twenty-two
Magical Oaths are successively taken to ascend the Tree of Life
following the magical course of the Hermetic Serpent. It is, in
fact, the secret system of the Qabalah as represented and
communicated by the New Order.

     The basic idea and intent of each Oath is that you will
experience and consummate the astrological, planetary, or
elemental force of each Path on the Tree of Life to achieve
universal knowledge and to attain greater awareness of your True
Self and its True Will. This Esoteric System of Self-Initiation
is offered to Participant Members as a further means for them to
perform and accomplish the Great Work of the New Aeon.

                       BUSINESS STRUCTURE

     The business functions of the New Order are executed at the
Grand Temple which is the International Headquarters of the New
Order (currently operating in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.).
Correspondence letters, Applications, Initiation and Membership
donations must be sent to the Grand Temple at 1626 N. Wilcox Ave.
#418, L.A., CA, 90028, U.S.A.. Donations of all kinds are used
solely for the essential establishment of the New Order of the
Golden Dawn. 

                      BUSINESS AND SUCCESS

     As said in The Book of the Law: "The lords of the earth are
our kinsfolk" and "the highest are of us."  The New Order of the
Golden Dawn is a Royal Society for the lords of the earth, who
aim high in life and who prove the efficacy of the Law of Thelema
by performing their True Will and achieving great success in
their spiritual and material endeavors. Success is our only
proof; and we perform all our Thelemic services according to high
business standards, based on the injunction in The Book of the
Law: "all must be done well and with business way."

       In nomine Novus Ordo Aureae Aurora, Sic sit vobis!

                  Love is the law, love under will.