The Tree of Life and a few notes on the Grades of the A.·.A.·.

The Initiation of the Neophyte reflects the Initiation of the Minor Adept; the Initiation of the Zelator reflects the Initiation of the Magister Temple; the Initiation of the Practicus reflects the Initiation of the Magus; the Initiation of the Philosophus reflects the Initiation of the Ipsissimus. The process starts again with the Dominus Liminus whose circumstances and ordeals are analogous to those of the Probationer. Again, the Initiation of Adeptus Minor is analogous to that of the Neophyte, though on a higher plane, and the Initiation of the Adeptus Major is analogous to that of the Practicus, and the Initiation of the Adeptus Exemptus is analogous to Probation and to the position and progress of the Dominus Liminus.

A quote from
Marcelo Ramos Motta

Arise, O sleeper, for the night of loneliness hath rolled up the hangings of her couch, and my heart is burning like a sun of molten brass; awake before the Beast riseth and enter the sanctuary of Eden and defile the children of dawn. Thou Child-Man, cast off the cloak of dreams who before thy sleep wast enraptured with the strength of love. Fair and fresh didst thou come from the woods when the world was young, with breast like the snowy hills in the sunlight, and thine hair as a wind-ravished forest of oak, and thine eyes deep and still as the lakes of the mountains. No veil covered thee, and thou didst revel naked in the laughter of the Dawn, and under the kisses of mid-day didst thou leap with the sun, and the caressing hands of night laid thee to rest in the cradle of the moon. Thoughts did not tempt thee, Reason played not the prude with thee, nor imagination the wanton. Radiant child that thou art, thou didst grow in the light that shone from thine eyes, no shadow of darkness fell across thy path: thy love was strong and pure --- bright as the stars of night, and deep as the echoing depths of hills of amber, and emerald, and vermilion.

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