The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

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 : 244