컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 THE THELEMIC TEMPLE AND ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN In Association with New Falcon Publications and the Israel Regardie Foundation, Inc. 1626 N. Wilcox Ave. #418 Los Angeles, CA 90028 CHIEF OFFICERS Christopher Hyatt, Ph.D. (Frater Supreme Chief) Sir David Cherubim (Frater Superior Chief) Greetings and Salutations. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There is now emerging in the world a New Temple and Order of the Golden Dawn. It is a Magical-Religious-Scientific Order dedicated to the vital perpetuation of the teachings of Aleister Crowley, Israel Regardie, Christopher Hyatt, David Cherubim and the Great Minds which have held holy the Law of Thelema in its many forms. The principal function of the Temple and Order is to initiate aspirants into the Royal Life of Thelema. It is a Magical Order of the New Aeon wherein men and women, by the essential aids of science and religion, can evolve in Freedom, and duly prepare themselves for the Great Initiation into the Invisible Order of the A.'. A.'., that is, the Order of the Silver Star. The Temple and Order are devoted to the magical development of a New Race of free men and women who are consecrated to the Law of Thelema. 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. Members of the Temple and Order 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 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 Rising God of the New Temple is Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, born from the past Aeons of Isis and Osiris. 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 Temple and Order are dedicated to the magical task of establishing on earth 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 of the New Aeon of Horus. The Ceremonies of the New Order of the Golden Dawn 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 Temple and Order seek 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 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 Temple and Order asserts that every man and every woman has a proper course in life -- a True Will -- 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 on its own orbit. This magical doctrine of the Science of Stars further states that we have no right but to do our own True Will, 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 True Will, we are then absolutely free within the necessary limits fixed by our own inherited destiny; but as long as we are ignorant of our own True Will, 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 program 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 the New Aeon of Horus. Its one destination is absolute Freedom in Light! 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 alchemy. 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. The New Order of the Golden Dawn 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! 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. The Thelemic Temple and 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 seven grades of the New Order correspond with the seven Chakras of Yoga, the seven Planets of Astrology, and the seven Metals of Alchemy. Moreover, the grade of Zelator is the stage of Birth; 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 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 Silver Star 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. 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 Argentum, 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. Love is the law, love under will. Copyright (C) 1992 e.v. The Thelemic Temple and Order of the Golden Dawn. -----------------------end of file---------------------------