Adept

on the Taoists.

Is it called the Adepts?

Yes, it's the Adept series.

I own it.

who works in silence and whom not but silence can express Welcome to the Great Work.

In the tradition of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, over the next three years you will be guided through self-initiation of the six grades, from zero equals zero neophyte to the portal of the Vault of the Adepti, at which time you may undertake a physical five equals six full temple initiation, or continue to follow your path along different routes of adepthood on your way to mastery.

In the rare old times, Golden Dawn members could easily work through these out-of-order grades in less than two years, but to find your path through self-initiation is necessarily harder.

And this is mentioned and outlined in an unpublished Golden Dawn manuscript.

I

want to say Adepts.

Yeah, is it Lunarian?

That sounds

There's rare exceptions to that, which is sick.

That's how you know that... obviously like, especially like certain Adepti who are couples, like you can tell, like you see the love there and it's like, Oh, like they're so fucking sweet.

Like the sweet little old cup, like old Hierophant and Hierophantria, like they're so beautiful and you know, they have a great relationship and they've obviously done the alchemical, like they've done the work, you know what I mean? So like Adepti, they can, they can, I've seen that like be like really beautiful, but yeah.

Otherwise couples in the same lodge is usually a recipe for disaster.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Most.

So, So some Adepti in the Golden Dawn and other – and essentially like Ceremonial Magic offshoots, so like OTO, Thelema, whatever, or even OTA or even like Gardener, Wicca, things like that.

The main initiation of the Golden Dawn is the Adeptus initiation.

For many people, that's the portal ceremony, which is an initiation to the Vault of the Adepti.

And that's all you need.

Then your portal, you're allowed to be a Hierophant.

Wheel of Books.

And let's see, we have the Edict Mythologies, Adepts in the Western Esoteric Traditions, The Wisdom of the Knowing Ones, which is a Gnostic book, I think.

Prophecies of Paracelsus, the Nag Hammadi, Balsanga Saga, Epic of Gilgamesh, Pista Sophia, the Aurelinda, Poetic Edda, the Eye of God.

It's a whole treatise.

Provided you have reached the decision to travel the Path of Return, also known as the Royal Road of the Alchemists, you are about to begin a journey which is both fantastic and life-changing.

For once you begin to walk the path which leads to the climbing of the Stairway of the Adepts, nothing will be the same.

The path indicates a certain prepared and laid-out route that you will travel to reach your goal.

Determination and persistence need to be your watchwords, as you should not stray from your trek, at least not so far as to lose your way.

And they generally seem inclined to resent, somewhat, the first appearance of a neophyte on the astral plane, so that he usually makes their acquaintance under some unpleasant or terrifying form.

if however he declines to be frightened by any of their freaks they soon accept him as a necessary evil and take no further notice of him while some among them may even after a time become friendly and manifest pleasure on meeting him some among the many subdivisions of this class are much less childlike and more dignified than those we have been describing and it is from these sections that the entities who have sometimes been reverenced under the name of wood gods or local village gods have been drawn such entities would be quite sensible of the flattery involved and the reverence shown to them would enjoy it and would no doubt be quite ready to do any small service they could in return the village god is also often an artificial entity but that variety will be considered in its appropriate place the Adept knows how to make use of the services of the Nature Spirits when he requires them.

but the ordinary magician can obtain their assistance only by processes either of invocation or evocation that is either by attracting their attention as a suppliant and making some kind of bargain with them or by endeavouring to set in motion influences which would compel their obedience Both methods are extremely undesirable, and the latter is also excessively dangerous, as the operator would arouse a determined hostility which might prove fatal to him.

Needless to say, no one studying occultism under a qualified master would ever be permitted to attempt anything of the kind at all.