save the generalised instructions in Liber 418 (the 8th Aethyr) and
the detailed Canon and Rubric of the Mass actually used with suc-
cess by Frater Perpuraso in His attainment. This has been
written down by Himself in Liber Samekh. But they have
published such accounts as those in The Temple of Solomon the
King and in John St. John. They have taken the only proper
course; to train aspirants to this attainment in the theory and prac-
tice of the whole of Magick and Mysticism, so that each man may
be expert in the handling of all known weapons, and free to choose
and to use those which his own experience and instinct dictate as
proper when he essays the Great Experiment.
He is furthermore trained to the one habit essential to
Membership of the A-. A..; he must regard all his attainments as pri-
marily the property of those less advanced aspirants who are con-
fided to his charge.
No attainment soever is officially recognised by the A-. A-.
unless the immediate inferior of the person in question has been
fitted by him to take his place.
The rule is not rigidly applied in all cases, as it would lead to
congestion, especially in the lower grades where the need is great-
est, and the conditions most confused; but it is never relaxed in the
Order of the R. C. or of the S. S.: save only in One Case.
There is also a rule that the Members of the A-.A.. shall not
know each other officially, save only each Member his superior who
introduced him and his inferior whom he has himself introduced.
This rule has been relaxed, and a “Grand Neophyte” appointed
to superintend all Members of the Order of the G. D. The real
object of the rule was to prevent Members of the same Grade
working together and so blurring each other’s individuality; also to
prevent work developing into social intercourse.
The Grades of the Order of the G. D. are fully described in
Liber 185" and there is no need to amplify what is there stated.
It must however, be carefully remarked that in each of these pre-
liminary Grades there are appointed certain tasks appropriate, and
that the ample accomplishment of each and every one of these is
insisted upon with the most rigorous rigidity. *
1. This book is published in the Equinox Vol. III No. 2,
2. Liber 185 need not be quoted at length. It is needful only to say that
the Aspirant is trained systematically and comprehensively in the various
technical practices which form the basis of Our Work. One may become
expert in any or all of these without necessarily making any real progress,
just as a man might be first-rate at grammar, syntax, and prosody without