THE EQUINOX
only be drawn aside by Invitation from the Second Order for
the Philosophus who has passed the five examinations symbolic
of the five elements and the five Paths leading from the First
Order thereto, and who has been duly approved of by the
Higher Powers.
“The Three grades of the Second Order are entitled:
Adeptus Minor,
or Lesser Adept, 5°=6° answering to Tiphereth,
the Reconciler, in the midst of the Sephirotic Tree. Adeptus
Major, or Greater Adept, 6°=5° answering to Geburah. And
Adeptus Exemptus, or Exempt Adept, 7°=4° answering to
Chesed.”
THE RITUALS OF THE ORDER OF THE
GOLDEN DAWN
RITUAL OF THE 0°=o0° GRADE OF NEOPHYTE
As the Ritual of the Grade of Neophyte is, with perhaps
the exception of the Ritual of the Grade of Adeptus Minor,
the most important of all the Rituals of the G.:.D.-., it
will be necessary here to enter upon it fully, so that the
reader may in some sort initiate himself.
But the pathway must be pointed out, and that clearly, so
that the pilgrim does not take at the very commencement of
his mystic journey a wrong turning, one of those many
turnings which at the very start lead so many into the drear
and dismal lands of fear and doubt.
The following description of the Temple and the Officers
in the o° = o° Grade is taken from one of the official books
of theG.*. D.°. called Z. 1, and is as follows :
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