The Mystery School

The Backoffice

How a student’s private Backoffice opens, one stage at a time.

Illustrative preview only. The Backoffice is a system of its own, and this page shows how it opens.

Each stage opens when the one before it is marked complete. The reading, the practice, the ritual sheets and the Head Master’s recordings for a stage all open together.

My BackofficeGrade 1 · Aspirant, under Hermes

The stages of the first grade

The initiation of the Aspirant
Performed live by the Head Master, or an officiant he permits, on the date booked: the gate of Earth, under Hermes
Complete
The Preface and the Introduction
The order of the book and the ladder of the ascent
Complete
Primer, Chapters 1 to 4 and 8
The grades, the journal, the care of the body and safety, with the Advanced Report of the nativity obtained free on AwakenedSky.com
Complete
Primer, Chapters 5 to 7: the yoga
The four days of learning the set, and the first sessions recorded
Open · mark complete with the date and time
The Central Doctrine, in order
A few gains from each chapter written in the journal
Opens next
The Divine Arcana Tarot and the throws
Each prescribed throw once, recorded by position
Opens next
The open-book tests, chapter by chapter
The Central Doctrine, the Tarot book and the Primer, one test for each chapter
Opens next
The journal sent for examination
Scanned with a phone into one PDF and sent, examined by the Head Master, and the title Arcana Adept given
Opens next

Each open step carries its reading, its practice with an optional tally, the Ritual Builder sheets it needs and the Head Master’s audio journal of the same step.

The third grade

The Decan Year opens a sign at a time

In the Decan Year a sign’s three windows open in the Backoffice ten days before that sign’s first decan begins, and the next sign’s three open ten days before it. Each window holds its ritual set, its scrying instructions and the Head Master’s recordings of that decan.

The example shows a year opened at the vernal equinox.

AriesOpens ten days before Aries I
Aries I: Kratos
Mar 21 to 30 · Two of Wands, Dominion · Mars in Aries
Ritual set · Scrying · Recordings
Aries II: Arete
Mar 31 to Apr 10 · Three of Wands, Virtue · the Sun in Aries
Ritual set · Scrying · Recordings
Aries III: Telesphorus
Apr 11 to 20 · Four of Wands, Completion · Venus in Aries
Ritual set · Scrying · Recordings
Taurus
Opens ten days before Taurus I
Locked

Ritual Builder and videos

Choose the ritual set and print its sheet for the temple. Watch the professionally filmed video of the Head Master performing each of the five types of ritual work, and hear his recordings of the Divine Names and the Latin of the invocations in his voice.

Initiation

Each of the first five grades opens with an initiation that the Head Master, or an officiant he permits, performs for you live. Choose the date and hour here, at a time you can be alone in a quiet room for an hour.

Audio journals

The Head Master’s spoken journal for each stage you have opened.

  • [Recording title] · [length]
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Divine Election engine

State the purpose, give a date range, receive the most favorable day and hour and a draft Pronouncement of the Election to edit and approve.

Opens to the Magister Aionis

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