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The Mystery Tradition

The Requirements of the Mystery School

Every requirement of the six grades, set out in full: the reading, the counts of the practice, the chapter tests, the journal, and the weeks each part takes. The counts are rules of the School, so two students of the same grade do the same amount of work.

The Mystery School takes students from the Summer Solstice 2027. Entry $297, then $19 a month. All counts and times from Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Chapter 1.

Apply to the Mystery SchoolSee the six gradesSee the time table
6grades, from the Aspirant to the Magister Aionis
2¼ ha study day: reading, practice and journal
4 to 5study days a week, with gaps planned for
246chapter tests in three grades, every answer correct
3.1years on the typical road, 163 weeks

The basis of the work

One study day: an hour of reading, an hour of practice, fifteen minutes of journal

We ask no more than two hours a day of anyone. A grade is complete when its work is complete, and its length depends on the hours the student keeps, so the School counts the work by performances, recorded sessions and chapters read, and computes the weeks from those counts.

One hour of reading

The reading hour is 12,000 words, which is 200 words a minute, the pace we use for planning. A slower reader takes more days and a faster reader fewer.

One hour of practice

The yoga, the meditations and the rite. A Tarot throw is a full study day with its journal entry, and a rite of a gate, a planetary meditation or a level takes the practice hour of its day.

Fifteen minutes of journal

Written at the close of the practice while the session is fresh. The journal holds the rites, the record of every session, the throws and the nativity pages.

Four to five study days a week

Gaps of days and of weeks are planned for, since illness, travel, work and family make them certain. A gap undoes no grade, and the student goes on from the last entry.

The hours of a week

  • 4 days9 hours
  • 4.5 daysa little over 10 hours
  • 5 days11¼ hours

Two points set by the calendar

  • The Decan Year of the third grade opens at an equinox or a solstice, and one comes about every thirteen weeks.
  • The Natal Blueprint Invocation of the fourth grade is performed on the student’s birthday, which comes once a year.

A student who begins the first grade needs the Central Doctrine, Ritual Praxis and Instruction, The Divine Arcana Tarot, the deck of that name and a journal. Entry to the Mystery School includes every book and material of the School as digital PDF files, The Divine Arcana Tarot among them with all seventy-eight cards pictured. The deck itself is printed and ordered on its own.

The six grades

Every requirement, grade by grade

A student holds the title of the grade in which the student is working, and the title of the next grade is given on completion of its work and the examination of its journal. Each of the first five grades opens with an initiation that the Head Master, or an officiant he permits, performs for you live. Each grade below gives its reading, its counts of practice, its tests, its journal and its weeks.

  1. Grade 1, under Hermes

    Aspirant

    The Aspirant enters through the yoga, the reading of the Central Doctrine and the study of the Tarot, and performs no rite yet. The nativity study begins in the first week and runs through every grade after it.

    The reading

    • Ritual Praxis and Instruction, the IntroductionPreface and How to Use16,000 words, about 1.3 hours in the reading hour
    • Ritual Praxis and Instruction, the PrimerPart I, Chapters 1 to 886,000 words, about 7.2 hours in the reading hour
    • Central Doctrinein full, with a few gains from each chapter written in the journal830,000 words, about 69.2 hours in the reading hour
    • The Divine Arcana Tarotin full, with the throws it teaches421,000 words, about 35.1 hours in the practice hour

    About 78 hours in the reading hour, with about 35 more hours of the Tarot book read in the practice hour.

    The practice 40 recorded yoga sessions and 12 throws

    • at least 40 recorded sessions
      Raja KundaliniEach in the order of a session (RPI Ch. 5 §5.12), with a few lines in the journal after each: which exercises, how long, how the breath held, what was felt in the body.
    • 4 days
      The four days of learning the setThe physical set learned from the figures of Chapter 6, counted within the 40.
    • at least 20
      Full performances of the setCounted within the 40, since a session may carry the full set or its first exercise alone.
    • at least 12
      Meditations of UnityChapter 5, §5.9.
    • at least 8
      Sittings in the Śiva stateChapter 5, §5.10.
    • at least 7
      Condensed ascents with the descentThe seven embodiments, Chapter 7, §7.6. The deep ascent of seven weeks is optional and is never required in a grade.
    • every prescribed throw once
      Tarot throwsRecorded by position with a short interpretation in the Aspirant’s own words. The time table counts 12, one full study day each.
    • from the first week
      The nativityThe Advanced Report from AwakenedSky.com, free with the code in the Backoffice, its pages kept in the journal, beginning with the Ascendant, the Sun and the Moon (Chapter 8).
    Tests
    134 chapter tests, 585 questions. One open-book test for each chapter of the three books.
    Journal
    Scanned and sent for examination at the end of the grade, and returned with the Head Master’s notes.
    Time
    20.0 weeks on the typical road, from 16.6 to 25.9 (Table 1.3)
    Initiation
    The gate of Earth, under Hermes, performed live on a date you book
    Raised to
    Arcana Adept
    The work of the grade →

  2. Grade 2, under Apollo

    Arcana Adept

    The Arcana Adept learns the Theurgic Ritual of the Pentagram by building it in levels, then invokes the planetary gods and the signs through their gates. The reading follows the practice, each chapter read in the days before the practice that depends on it.

    The reading

    • Ritual Praxis and InstructionParts II to VIII, Chapters 9 to 63, with notes at the end of each chapter923,000 words, about 76.9 hours in the reading hour
    • The School Layman Explanationin full, read beside the levels120,000 words, about 10 hours in the reading hour

    About 77 hours, with about 10 more for The School Layman Explanation, done inside the 172 sessions as the practice calls for each part.

    The practice 172 sessions: 10 + 63 + 96 + 3

    • 10 sessions
      The planetary meditationsEach of the nine bodies once, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, each framed by the Earth and the lunar lens, and the complete sequence once (Chapter 23). About 2 weeks.
    • 63 sessions
      The levelsG1 to G5 of the Grand Invocation and P1 to P4 of the Pentagram, each performed at least seven times. Each level’s rite is copied in short into the journal before its first performance. About 14 weeks.
    • 60 sessions
      The gate runs of the ten planetsFor each god, three consecutive practice days of banishing, a night’s rest, three of invocation: Sol, Luna, Mercurius, Venus, Mars, Iuppiter, Saturnus, Caelus, Neptunus, Pluto.
    • 36 sessions
      The gate runs of the twelve signsFor each sign, three consecutive practice days of invocation, by element: Fire, Water, Air, Earth. The gate runs of planets and signs take about 21 weeks.
    • 3 sessions
      The Celestial rehearsalsLeo I with Eris, Aries I with Kratos, Virgo I with Epiphron (Chapter 54). Under one week.
    Tests
    74 chapter tests, 511 questions. One open-book test for each chapter beyond the Primer and for each chapter of the Layman.
    Journal
    Scanned and sent for examination at the end of the grade, and returned with the Head Master’s notes.
    Time
    38.2 weeks on the typical road, from 34.4 to 43.0 (Table 1.4)
    Initiation
    The gate of Air, under Apollo, performed live on a date you book
    Raised to
    Ritual Theurgos
    The work of the grade →

  3. Grade 3, under Hecate

    Ritual Theurgos

    The work of the third grade is the Decan Year, the 36 windows of the Sun’s year, each a span of ten days in which the Sun stands in one decan. The year opens at the first equinox or solstice after the title is given, or at a later one the Ritual Theurgos chooses.

    The reading

    • WaveForm Astrologyin full during the year, a block at a time between windows, with notes at the end of each chapter407,000 words, about 33.9 hours in the reading hour

    About 34 hours, 7.5 reading weeks inside the year at the typical pace.

    The practice 36 windows, at least 72 rites

    • at least once in each of 36 windows
      The Celestial riteThe planet that rules the decan, the sign it stands in and the daemon of the decan are invoked (Chapter 53).
    • 36, one in each window
      One other riteA banishing or a higher rite of the five sets. Banishing on the other days of the window is counseled.
    • 36, one in each window
      The scrying of three cardsThe Greater Arcana of the sign, the Greater Arcana of the planet and the small card of the decan, after the Celestial rite, recorded in the journal.
    • at least three paragraphs in each window
      The daemon in the lifeWritten in the journal on where the force of the daemon operates in the life of the Ritual Theurgos.
    • start over
      A missed windowOne whole window without the Celestial rite means working all 36 windows again from the next equinox or solstice. The earlier journal is kept as it is.
    The vernal equinoxAries I, Kratos to Pisces III, KorosThe summer solsticeCancer I, Eros to Gemini III, AteThe autumnal equinoxLibra I, Eirene to Virgo III, PloutosThe winter solsticeCapricorn I, Janus to Sagittarius III, Adrasteia
    Tests
    38 chapter tests, 192 questions. One open-book test for each chapter, taken after the last window.
    Journal
    Scanned and sent after the last window, and returned with the Head Master’s notes.
    Time
    52 weeks for the year, after a wait of 0 to 13 weeks for its entry, 6.5 on average
    Calendar
    The year opens at an equinox or a solstice.
    Initiation
    The gate of Water, under Hecate, performed live on a date you book
    Raised to
    Master or Mistress of the Temple
    The work of the grade →

  4. Grade 4, under Prometheus

    Master or Mistress of the Temple

    The work of the fourth grade is one rite, the Natal Blueprint Invocation, in which each of the ten bodies of the nativity is invoked in the sign it held at birth, every gate the chart needs opened once, and the personal daemon enthroned.

    The reading

    Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Chapters 56 and 57, read in the second grade, are performed here.

    The practice 1 day

    • once, before the day
      The natal briefThe presences of the nativity in their order, each sign with the natal planets that stand in it, each planet named in its sign. The declarations composed, the liturgy copied into the journal, the incense and stones laid out.
    • 1 day, performed whole
      The Natal Blueprint InvocationOn the birthday and on no other day, about two and a half to four hours, robe to departure, begun so that the closing falls before midnight.
    • once
      The completion meditationAbout five and a half hours after the closing (Chapter 19, §19.12).
    • twice
      The journal of the dayWritten on the evening of the day and again the next morning.
    Tests
    The fourth grade has no test.
    Journal
    Scanned and sent for examination, and returned with the Head Master’s notes.
    Time
    A wait of 0 to 52 weeks for the birthday, 26 on average
    Calendar
    The first birthday after the journal of the third grade is sent, once the natal brief is ready.
    Initiation
    The gate of Fire, under Prometheus, performed live on a date you book
    Raised to
    Agathos Theurgos
    The work of the grade →

  5. Grade 5, under Aion

    Agathos Theurgos

    The fifth grade works with time through the transits. The Agathos Theurgos follows the transits of the sky against the nativity and creates five rites based on time, each answering one configuration of consequence.

    The reading

    Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Chapters 58 and 59, read in the second grade, are performed here.

    The practice 5 rites

    • 5
      Transit ritesEach preceded by three or more successive days of banishing the transiting planet and performed as the contact approaches exactitude, or at a station of the transiting planet on the natal point.
    • 5
      The record of each riteWhy that time and day were chosen, what is invoked and why, and the experience of the rite, in the form of the election note (Chapter 59, §59.2).
    • the School’s rule
      The composition of the fiveAt least two different transiting planets, at least one of them Saturn or one of the three outer planets, and each rite on the days its own configuration sets.
    • weekly at best, monthly at least
      The transits followedThe days between the rites are kept for the daily rite.
    Tests
    The fifth grade has no test.
    Journal
    Scanned and sent at the end of the grade.
    Time
    About 20 weeks in the plan, each rite on the days the sky sets
    Initiation
    The gate of Spirit, under Aion, performed live on a date you book
    Raised to
    Magister Aionis
    The work of the grade →

  6. Grade 6, under the planet that rules the Ascendant of the chart

    Magister Aionis

    The sixth grade is the continuing work. It has no count, no test and no further title. The patron is the planetary god who rules the Ascendant of the Magister Aionis’s own chart by traditional rulership.

    The reading

    Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Part VIII, read in the second grade, is lived from here on.

    The practice No count

    • every birthday
      The annual renewalThe Natal Blueprint Invocation renewed in the same form on the day the Sun returns to its degree at birth.
    • weekly at best, monthly at least
      The transitsThe sky watched against the nativity.
    • for life
      The yoga and the daily riteThe cornerstone of the practice.
    • continuing
      The life of the HermitThe matured theurgist who lives the work (Chapter 35, §35.5).
    Aries risingMarsTaurus risingVenusGemini risingMercuryCancer risingthe MoonLeo risingthe SunVirgo risingMercuryLibra risingVenusScorpio risingMarsSagittarius risingJupiterCapricorn risingSaturnAquarius risingSaturnPisces risingJupiter
    Tests
    The sixth grade has no test.
    Journal
    Kept for life.
    Time
    Continuing
    Calendar
    The birthday, each year.
    Raised to
    no further title
    The work of the grade →

A woman may take the title Mistress of the Temple in place of Master. The yoga, the journal and the study of the nativity that open the first grade continue through every grade after it.

How the grades are tested

Every chapter has its own test, and every answer must be correct

The open-book tests of the grades are taken chapter by chapter. Every chapter of each required book has its own test, answered online with the books and the journal open. Every answer must be correct. A wrong answer returns the student to the section that holds it, and after rereading it the student takes the test again.

Each test has 3 to 10 questions, about one question for every 2,500 words, in multiple choice, yes or no, select all that apply. Each student also receives a workbook of the questions of every chapter, without the answers, to mark while reading, so that the reading and the test move together.

  1. Read the chapter, marking the workbook
  2. Take its test
  3. 100%Go on to the next chapter
A wrong answer: reread the section

We test what can be tested, careful reading and a practice that has been kept. No student is tested magically, and no title is given for an experience, a vision or a power. The journal stays with the student. At the end of each of the first five grades its pages are scanned with a phone into one PDF and sent from the Backoffice, and the Head Master returns his notes with the title of the grade. The examination of a journal takes weeks, and no table counts them.

The chapter tests of the grades
GradeBookTestsQuestions
AspirantCentral Doctrine67344
AspirantThe Divine Arcana Tarot57198
AspirantRitual Praxis and Instruction: Preface, How to Use and the Primer (Chapters 1 to 8)1043
Arcana AdeptRitual Praxis and Instruction: Chapter 9 to the end, with the appendices65461
Arcana AdeptThe School Layman Explanation950
Ritual TheurgosWaveForm Astrology38192
All three tested grades2461,288

The fourth, fifth and sixth grades have no test. Their work is the rite itself and its record in the journal.

Reading follows practice

Each chapter is read when the practice that depends on it is about to begin

The first grade reads the Central Doctrine through before any rite. From the second grade on, the chapters of Ritual Praxis and Instruction are read a chapter or two before the level or the gate run they teach, and WaveForm Astrology is read during the Decan Year, a block at a time between windows.

The whole reading is 2,803,000 words, about 234 hours at 200 words a minute.

How the Parts of Ritual Praxis and Instruction are read by grade (Table 1.6)
PartChaptersRead inWith the practice of
Introduction, Primer00a, 00b, 1 to 8Grade 1the yoga, the journal, the nativity study
II. The Call9 to 15Grade 2, first weeksthe planetary meditations
III. Preparing the Vessel16 to 23Grade 2, first weeksthe planetary meditations (Ch 23)
IV. The Theurgic Ritual of the Pentagram24 to 33Grade 2the levels G1 to P4
V. The Planetary Gods34 to 47Grade 2the planetary gate runs
VI. The House of the Sun48 to 55Grade 2 (48 to 54), Grade 3 (55)the sign runs, the Celestial rehearsals, the Decan Year
VII. The Natal Seal and Divine Timing56 to 59Grade 2 read, Grade 4 (56, 57) and Grade 5 (58, 59) performedthe birthday rite, the transit rites
VIII. The Return of the Double60 to 63Grade 2 read, lived thereaftercontinuous correspondence

The time table

The whole road, from a little over two years to about four

We computed the weeks from the word counts of the books and the counts of the grades, at three reading paces and three numbers of study days. Each road below is cut into the parts that make it.

Shortest111 weeks, 2.1 years

250 words a minute, 5 days a week, no waits, the transit rites in 8 weeks. With gaps: 128 weeks, 2.5 years.

Typical163 weeks, 3.1 years

200 words a minute, 4.5 days a week, average waits. With gaps: 187 weeks, 3.6 years.

Longest206 weeks, 3.9 years

150 words a minute, 4 days a week, longest waits. With gaps: 237 weeks, 4.5 years.

Weeks of each part, from Ritual Praxis and Instruction, §1.10 and Table 1.5.

Gaps, illness and travel add about 15 percent. The examination of a journal takes weeks that no table counts. A student finds a place on the tables by choosing a reading pace and a number of study days, and then adding the two waits the calendar sets.

Weeks for the first grade (Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Table 1.3)
Pace (words a minute)4 days a week4.5 days5 days
15025.923.020.7
20022.520.018.0
25020.818.516.6
Weeks for the second and third grades (Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Table 1.4)
4 days a week4.5 days5 days
Second grade: 172 sessions (the reading, with the Layman, is shorter at every pace)43.038.234.4
Third grade: the Decan Year525252
Third grade: wait for the entry0 to 130 to 130 to 13
WaveForm Astrology, reading weeks inside the year (150, 200, 250 words a minute)11.3, 8.5, 6.810.0, 7.5, 6.09.0, 6.8, 5.4

At 150 words a minute the reading hour sets the length of the grade, 103.6 days of reading against 101.8 of practice. At 200 and 250 words a minute the practice hour is the longer, 90.1 days against 77.7 and 83.1 against 62.1, because the Tarot book is read in it.

The whole road in numbers

What the six grades ask, added together

2.8Mwords of reading in seven parts, about 234 hours at 200 words a minute
40recorded sessions of Raja Kundalini in the first grade
12Tarot throws in the time table, one full study day each
172sessions of meditation, levels, gate runs and rehearsals in the second grade
36windows of the Decan Year, each with at least two rites
1Natal Blueprint Invocation, performed whole on the birthday
5transit rites, each recorded with the reasons for its time
246chapter tests across five books, every answer correct
1,288questions in the chapter tests of the grades
5journals scanned and sent for examination

What the student works with

The Backoffice and the Ritual Builder

The program reaches the student through two parts of the School’s system. The Head Master defines what each holds at each stage.

The Backoffice

The student’s private part of the School’s system. It opens the program one stage at a time, in the order of the reading and the counts above, and the student works a stage, marks it complete, and the next stage opens.

  • The reading of the stage
  • The practice log of the stage
  • The Ritual Builder sheets the stage needs
  • The chapter tests
  • The Head Master’s audio journals and their transcripts from his own passage through the same stage
See an illustrative preview of the Backoffice →

The Ritual Builder

The School’s software for the rite. It gives a ready ritual sheet for any operation the student is to perform, built by the gate law of Ritual Praxis and Instruction, and each sheet holds only its own rite.

  • Set 1 in its banishing form
  • Set 1 with the invoking round
  • Set 2, the Divine Infinite Being Invocation
  • A planetary god
  • A sign
  • A planet in a sign
  • A decan window of the Decan Year

Associate Membership

A short course of the Inner Order, with two tests

Associate standing is membership of the Inner Order and significant in itself. It stands outside the six grades and is no condition of entering as an Aspirant. It carries no credit toward any count, test or journal of a grade, and an Associate who takes up the grades begins at the foot of the first grade, as every Aspirant does. A person who pays the $19 a month and works through this course is a Contributor to the School. On passing both tests the Contributor is an Associate, an Associate Member of the Inner Order. A person who enters the Mystery School is an Aspirant by initiation.

Test 1 · M01

The Mystery School of Our Divine Infinite Being: An Introduction

The recorded training, watched in the Backoffice at the start of the course. After each segment comes a test of 3 to 5 questions, passed at 100%, and a wrong answer means watching the segment again.

≈ 110minutes
22segments
106questions

Test 2 · Exam

The Associate examination

Fifty questions in five parts of ten, answered online with the manual and the journal open, after the practice is complete. Every answer must be correct, and a wrong answer comes back with the section of the manual to read again.

50questions
5parts of ten
100%to pass

The practice before the examination

  • Learning the seat 3 days, 10 minutes a day
  • The Raja Kundalini session 3 sessions
  • A First Sounding 3 days, before the first rite
  • The Threshold Ritual of the Pentagram 3 performances, one a day at most
  • The Meditation of Unity 3 sittings
  • The planetary meditation 5 sittings: the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter
  • The Three-Card Question 1 throw, with its return at one week
  • The Five-Card Question 1 throw, with its return at one week
  • The nativity pages the Ascendant, the Sun and the Moon, one page each
  • The statement of intention written at the start, read again at the end
about 2 to 3 weeksat four to five practice days a week, one rite a day at most
$19a month, paid as a Contributor to the School during the course, with membership of AwakenedSky.com included

The journal is required of every Associate. It stays with the Associate, and the School never collects or reviews it.

About Associate Membership →

Questions

About the requirements

The length of the whole road

About 163 weeks, or 3.1 years, on the typical road of 200 words a minute and four and a half study days a week with average waits. The shortest road is 111 weeks and the longest 206, and with 15 percent added for gaps the three are 128, 187 and 237 weeks.

The length of a grade

A grade has no length in months and is complete when its work is complete. Two points in the road are set by the calendar, the opening of the Decan Year at an equinox or a solstice and the Natal Blueprint Invocation on the birthday.

A wrong answer in a chapter test

The test returns the section of the book that holds the answer. The student rereads it and takes the test again, as often as needed, until every answer is correct.

Associate Membership and the first grade

Anyone may apply to enter as an Aspirant directly. Associate standing is membership of the Inner Order in its own right, and an Associate who takes up the grades begins at the foot. During the course, before both tests are passed, the person paying the $19 a month is a Contributor to the School.

The fees of the grades

Entry into the grades is $297, then $19 a month. Each entry into a new grade is a further $297, and it opens that grade with its initiation. The $19 a month continues.

Cancelling the monthly fee

A student can cancel the $19 a month. A grade, once earned, stays the student’s title. While a student is not a paying member, the School does not recognize the standing, and the student has no access to the Backoffice or to the Zoom events of the Inner Order held once a month. A student can start again at any time, right where they left off, with no new entry fee: the return costs only the $19 month, and the $19 a month resumes.

What the School examines in the journal

Whether the record is complete and whether the instruction was followed. Nothing in the grades depends on what a student saw or felt in a rite. It depends on whether the rite was performed the required number of times, the reading done and the record kept.

A missed window of the Decan Year

One whole window without the Celestial rite means starting over at the next equinox or solstice and working all 36 windows again. The earlier journal is kept as it is.

Begin at the foot

Entry to the first grade

The Mystery School takes students from the Summer Solstice 2027. Entry is $297, then $19 a month. Students of the Mystery School receive the whole library with their entry.

Each entry into a new grade is a further $297, and it opens that grade with its initiation. The $19 a month continues. A student can cancel the $19 a month. A grade, once earned, stays the student’s title. While a student is not a paying member, the School does not recognize the standing, and the student has no access to the Backoffice or to the Zoom events of the Inner Order held once a month. A student can start again at any time, right where they left off, with no new entry fee, and the return costs only the $19 a month, which resumes.

The fees keep the School in operation and pay for the work its members rely on: the Backoffice, the Ritual Builder, the election engine and the WaveForm suite.

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