The Mystery School · Grade 5 of six
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.
Grade 5, under Aion
Aion is cyclic, eternal time, the time of return, and chronos is linear time, the time of the clock and the calendar. Aion is the zodiacal god of transcendent time, and astrology is his art because the astrologer measures returns: the solar return each year, the lunar return each month and the return of Saturn to the degree it held at birth.
Chapters 58 and 59 of Ritual Praxis and Instruction are read and tested in the second grade. In the fifth grade they are the working text: transits as living dialogue, the configurations of consequence, the complete transit rite and divine timing with the election note.
Grade 5: the initiation
The work of the Agathos Theurgos opens with an initiation that the Head Master, or an officiant he permits, performs for you once, live, in person or by video. You book its date and hour in your Backoffice, at a time when you can be alone in a quiet room for an hour.
The officiant performs the regular banishing of our School, opens the gate of Spirit and invokes Aion, the patron of the grade. You keep the breaths and the silences with the officiant and speak one sentence, your word of entry into the work of the grade. You need no instrument and perform no part of the rite.
The god is invoked into the temple and never onto or into you, and you are free to step out of the work at any point. The initiation opens the work of a grade you hold, and no title is given for an experience.
Three things.
The grades climb through the elements: Earth, Air, Water, Fire, then Spirit. The sixth grade has no initiation of this kind.
Grade 5: the practice
Each count below is a rule of the School, stated in Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Chapter 1, with the chapter and section where the practice is taught.
Grade 5: the rite
A transit rite answers one configuration of consequence in the sky. The Agathos Theurgos chooses the transiting planet that calls most strongly and the planet it touches, and invokes both, each in its sign, as a gathering by the law of the gates. Five rites complete the grade.
A desk practice at the start of each solar year: every contact of Jupiter, Saturn, Caelus, Neptunus and Pluto to the natal planets and angles over twelve to eighteen months, with the dates of each pass and station. The marks of consequence are a slow tempo, a load-bearing natal point, the weak operator worked, a tight applying aspect, converging windows, a thread of the life at stake and the god that calls.
RPI §58.5.2
One page in the journal: each planet with its sign, the aspect, the dates of approach, exactitude, any station and separation, the houses, the operator worked and the thread at stake, then the gates, the order of the presences and the composed pronouncement of each planet.
RPI §58.7.1 · Appendix F
Filed before the banishing days begin, in nine lines: the thread, the intention, the diagnosis, the window, the reasons for the time, the banishing days, what is invoked and why, the completion, and the entry after the rite.
RPI §59.2.8
Three or more successive days of the Planetary Invocation Ritual of the Pentagram in its banishing mode for the planets of the configuration, as an operation apart from the invoking rite.
RPI §58.7.1 · Ch. 37
Performed as the contact approaches exactitude within its working orb, or at a station of the transiting planet on the natal point. The Celestial Invocation Ritual of the Pentagram is worked as a gathering: the frame, the gates of the configuration once each, each sign with its planet carrying its transit pronouncement, and the closing.
RPI §58.7.2
The completion meditation about five and a half hours after the rite, and the entry in the journal adding what happened to the election note.
RPI §58.7.1 · Ch. 19, §19.12
At 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.
RPI §1.8
Grade 5: the reading
The chapters of Ritual Praxis and Instruction that the Agathos Theurgos performs or lives, with their length and their time at 200 words a minute. They are read and tested in the second grade.
2 chapters, 49,359 words, about 4.1 hours in the reading hour. Read and tested in the second grade.
The Backoffice opens the program one step at a time. In this grade it holds:
The journal
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.
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 Mystery School takes students from the Summer Solstice 2027.