Theurgists fall not so as to be ranked among the herd that are in subjection to Fate.
Chaldean Oracles, fragment 185, in W. Wynn Westcott's edition of 1895
A school and a mystery tradition
The School of Our Divine Infinite Being is a school and a mystery tradition, and I am its Head Master. We are a school in that we teach, keep a curriculum and set our doctrine out in writing to be studied and tested. We are a mystery tradition in that what we give at our center comes through the rite, in the lineage of the ancient mysteries, of Plato and of Iamblichus, where the soul is changed by the gods and not by instruction alone. We initiate and we teach, and we do not convert. We ask no creed and no worship of a person, and no one is asked to leave the tradition of their birth or of their heart.
Following the framework of the Western mystery traditions, with a careful integration of the Eastern Hindu practices, our School is a bridge between East and West. Advancement in it comes through simple participation, study, prayer, meditation and the performance of theurgic ritual. In the final design and vision of our School we offer an alternative path for individuals, for groups and especially for families, and the work for younger students is part of that design. The Mandala stays with us as our emblem, the Self and God archetype, the center that is also the circumference.
Our School draws its practice from the theurgy of Iamblichus and its astrology from the Western tropical zodiac. To those two it joins the dual-aspect monism of Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli, the Orthodox and many-worlds pictures of quantum mechanics, the physics of horizons and the principle of light as instruction stated by John C. W. McKinley. One of the unique aspects of our School, and a very important fact, is this commitment to modern science and to the current arguments over the ontology of existence. A large part of our mission is to keep that work moving forward as the sciences and technologies of our age continue to advance.
We teach the whole in a small set of books. The Central Doctrine gives the philosophy, the theology, the cosmology and the science. Ritual Praxis and Instruction gives the rite and the program. WaveForm Astrology reads the planets in the chart as operators, the functions of the gods in the person, and The Divine Arcana Tarot gives the cards, their pictures and the throws. Beside them stands The School Layman Explanation, the book of our composite symbol, which a student reads in the second grade.
Three circles of one work
Our School does its work in three circles, and each of them stands on its own. A person may belong to one of them, to two or to all three.
The Inner Order is the Mystery School of Our Divine Infinite Being, whose home is DivineInfiniteBeing.com. It holds the six grades of Ritual Praxis and Instruction, the rite, the journal and its examination.
The first step within the Inner Order is Associate Membership. An Associate is a member of our Mystery School. That membership is significant in itself. The Associate Member's Manual gives what we hold, a few meditations, the Threshold Ritual of the Pentagram, your own chart with WaveForm astrology and AwakenedSky.com, the Tarot in brief and a journal that stays yours, with an open-book test at the end, and the practice takes about two to three weeks. It is $19 a month, and AwakenedSky membership comes with it, as it comes to every member of our School. No one needs it to enter the grades. It takes the place of no grade. An Associate who takes up the grades begins at the foot as an Aspirant.
In the Academy we train and certify divination professionals in one certification that joins Western astrology, WaveForm astrology and Tarot. Our graduates may practice on AstrologyPro.com, the platform on which a diviner runs a business with our tools and benefits from the marketing we do to bring clients to our diviners. AstrologyPro is open to diviners in general, and a graduate of our Academy carries its badge there and is given precedence in the system.
The third circle is AwakenedSky.com, a membership community for astrology that our School sponsors. We want it to be the place people go when they and their friends and family are into astrology. One thing there is free to anyone, with no account: quick charting. A visitor can cast a nativity, a synastry or the transits on our engine and see the Western and the WaveForm readings together, and nothing is saved. Everything else belongs to membership. A member keeps an account with every chart saved in it, can put horary and election questions to our question engine, and receives by email and in the account what the transits bring and what to look forward to. A family can enter every member of the household and see the synastry of the whole family and of each pair within it, father and son, mother and daughter, and the charts of children are given in a form fitted to their age, beginning with the Sun, the Rising sign, the Moon and the Midheaven.
Members of AwakenedSky keep a simple profile, with links to where else they can be found, and they can talk with one another. They can start an astrology group in their own town, with lessons, slides and printed sheets prepared by our School, and hold meetings or a simple Astrology Social, and the teachers of our School speak to the members on Zoom. Our engine also generates further tools for members, and each of them runs without the time of our staff. We ask people to join us as members. The membership carries our mission to bring astrology to the world: it keeps the engine running and growing and free to cast for everyone, it pays for the lessons and kits our groups meet with and for the talks of our teachers, and every group a member starts brings astrology to another town. AwakenedSky is our Outer Order, and it stands on its own, with its own reasons to exist. It brings enthusiasts of astrology to WaveForm astrology beside the Western tradition, and it gives them a sense of belonging to a worldwide community with astrology at its center, and a way to find one another and meet.
The six grades
The work runs through six grades, and each grade has a patron god or goddess who stands over its work, and each has its own requirements, set out in the first chapter of Ritual Praxis and Instruction. A student holds the title of the grade in which they are working, and the title of the next grade is given when the work of the present one is complete.
The first grade is the Aspirant, under Hermes, the messenger between the worlds and the god of roads, thresholds and boundaries. The Aspirant reads the Central Doctrine through, with a few gains from each chapter written in the journal, and reads The Divine Arcana Tarot and the Primer of Ritual Praxis and Instruction. Beside the reading the Aspirant begins Raja Kundalini and keeps at least forty recorded sessions, throws each throw the Tarot book prescribes, begins the study of their own nativity and takes three open-book tests. The Aspirant performs no rite yet, as the yoga and the reading prepare the vessel first. The planet Mercury is the visible body of Hermes, and the Theurgist card of our Greater Arcana pictures him together with Apollo, the patron of the grade that follows.
The second grade is the Arcana Adept, under Apollo, the god of the oracle at Delphi, of music and measure and of the clear light that disperses confusion. The Adept reads the rest of Ritual Praxis and Instruction and, beside it, The School Layman Explanation. In this grade the Theurgic Ritual of the Pentagram is built in levels, each performed at least seven times before the next part is added. The rules of a level are four. A level is held until it has been performed seven times, a missed day is not made up by two rites on the next day, the form of the rite does not change within a level, and the signs that arise are noted in the journal and not chased. The Adept meditates on the planetary bodies, performs the banishing and invocation of each of the ten planetary gods and the invocation of each of the twelve signs, and performs the Celestial rite three times as a rehearsal. The grade comes to 172 sessions, one open-book test and the journal.
The third grade is the Ritual Theurgos, under Hecate, goddess of the threshold and of the Anima Mundi. Its work is the Decan Year, in which the student begins at an equinox or a solstice and works through the thirty-six windows of the Sun's year, each a span of ten days. A year opened at the vernal equinox begins with Aries I and the daemon Kratos and ends with Pisces III and Koros, and a year opened at the winter solstice begins with Capricorn I and Janus. In every window the student performs the Celestial rite, performs one other rite, scries the cards of the sign, the planet and the decan, and writes at least three paragraphs on where the daemon of the window works in their own life. WaveForm Astrology is read during the year and tested after the last window. A window missed without the Celestial rite means beginning again at the next equinox or solstice.
The fourth grade is the Master of the Temple, or Mistress of the Temple, under Prometheus, who in the myth carried fire from the wheel of the Sun to the earth and was said by Servius to be the first to teach astrology to the Assyrians. Its work is one rite, the Natal Blueprint Invocation, performed whole in one day on the student's birthday. In it each of the ten bodies is invoked in the sign it held at birth, each sign in the order of its gate with the natal planets that stand in it, and the personal daemon, the oikeios daimōn, is enthroned. A natal brief is made before the day, and the journal is written on the evening of the day and again the next morning.
The fifth grade is the Agathos Theurgos, under Aion, the god of cyclic and eternal time. The title means the one who works with the good daemon, the personal daemon of a life. Its work is five transit rites, each keyed to a configuration of the moving sky against the nativity. For each one the student records why that day and hour were chosen, what was invoked and why, and what the rite was like.
The sixth grade is the Magister Aionis, and its patron is the planetary god who rules the Ascendant of the student's own chart. It has no test and no further title, and its work continues for the rest of a life, with the Natal Blueprint Invocation renewed each birthday, the transits followed weekly at best and monthly at least, and the yoga and the daily rite kept as the cornerstone of the practice.
The order of practice
In our program the reading follows the practice. A chapter is read when the practice that depends on it is about to begin, so the student reads the chapter of a god in the days before that god's gate is opened, and the chapter of a level a little before the level is performed. The School Layman Explanation is read beside the levels, each symbol as the rite takes it up.
Some practices begin in one grade and never end. The yoga of the first grade continues, at whatever frequency the student can keep, through every grade after it, and at the least before every rite. The journal and the study of the nativity run the same way. The rite learned in the second grade is the frame of every window of the Decan Year, of the Natal Blueprint Invocation and of the transit rites.
The counts in the grades are rules of the School. We fixed them so that two students of the same grade do the same amount of work, and each count is stated once in a table and again in the section of its grade.
A student who begins needs only a few things, a copy of the Central Doctrine, a copy of Ritual Praxis and Instruction, The Divine Arcana Tarot with a deck of that name for the throws, and a journal. From the first week the student obtains the Advanced Report of their nativity from AwakenedSky.com, at no cost with the code shown in the Backoffice. The pages of that reading go into the journal, and the student learns the chart a little at a time, beginning with the Ascendant, the Sun and the Moon. The chapters on safety, on the discernment of what appears in practice and on the care of the body, with its sleep, its table, its training and the fast before major operations, are read before the first session of yoga.
Banishing and invoking are taught as one movement in two phases. Banishing clears the field and leaves it empty for reception, and invoking draws the presence of a god into the cleared field and concentrates it. Wherever both are performed the banishing comes first. Invoking a planetary or zodiacal god is an act of asking, in which the theurgist asks the god to come into being and to bring its refining potency into the process of alignment. The gods invoked in the rite are good, and the care of the work protects the vessel and does not guard against the gods.
Intention runs through the whole program. From the first grade the student writes it in the journal in two parts, as a statement of what is intended and as a question of what is given, and returns to both at the start of each grade and at the end. A first entry may read, in the first part, "I intend to take up the care of my father in my own house," and in the second it asks what is given in this and what in the life is already drawing the student toward it. Three errors spoil an intention. The first is wishing, where the student states a want and expects the Cosmos to deliver it. The second is scanning, where the student looks over the whole of life for signs of an answer and finds them everywhere, and the third is willing against the grain of the life.
Two alignments carry the intention through every grade. The vertical alignment is ritual union with the Divine Double, the eternal self known from the center, and it is the work of the yoga, the levels and the rites. The horizontal alignment is virtue and the personal work of demiurgy, in which the theurgist orders the elements of an ordinary life as the Demiurge orders the Cosmos, through the journal, the care of the body, the reading and the study of the nativity. The two form a cycle, and a student who keeps the yoga steadily finds in the journal the places where the day still breaks that steadiness.
Two hours a day, and the journal
Our School does not ask more than two hours a day of anyone. One hour goes to reading and one to practice, and fifteen minutes more go to the journal, written at the close of the practice while the session is fresh. The work is planned for four or five study days a week, and the plan expects gaps of days and of weeks, as illness, travel, work and family make them certain. A gap does not undo a grade, and the student goes back to the place where the record stops and goes on from there.
I wrote that rule for people who live as I live, with a company to run, a family at the table and a temple in the house.
No grade has a length in months, and a grade is complete when its work is complete. Only two points on the whole 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 student's birthday. We worked out the time from the word counts of the books and the counts of the tasks, at reading speeds of 150, 200 and 250 words a minute. At the shortest the whole road comes to a little over two years, typically about three years, and at the longest just under four, before gaps are counted. With gaps it runs to about four and a half years. A student who reads slowly takes more days, and the grade is the same. For a course of study the road is long. For the growth it carries it is short. What an ordinary life leaves to chance and to many lives, the order of the grades gathers into these few years, toward the highest potential of a human being, the union with the eternal self lived in this life and in this body.
The journal is the record our School examines. In its front pages it holds the rites and the yoga practices, so that the student can work from it in the temple. In its entries it holds what was gained from the reading, the record of each session, the pages of the Tarot throws and of the nativity, and what the student noticed of experience in general. The student sends it in at the end of each of the first five grades, we read it, and it is returned. A student may need more than one volume, and every volume comes back.
The tests are open-book, and the School sets the questions. The student answers them with the books and the journal open in front of them, three tests in the first grade, one in the second and one in the third on WaveForm Astrology.
A ledger to follow
With all the experience I have had, I have still entered our School at its foot. I walk every stage of it as a student walks it, from the first reading of the Aspirant onward, and I do all of the work along the way. I took this on myself so that a student has a ledger to follow, my own experience at every point of the road, to set beside their own as they go.
For this passage I keep my journal aloud. I have filled journals with this work for many years, and the written page has given me a great deal. Setting it aside here is a real sacrifice, made so that a student can hear the record directly from me, in my own voice, at the stage where they stand. At every stage I record what I did, what I met and what I made of it, and across the whole road those audio journals come to hundreds.
The student's own written journal stays as the grades describe it, and I hold it invaluable and necessary. A student who listens to my recordings still writes the record of their own work by hand, and my recordings are a companion to that record.
Nothing in our School is secret. The doctrine, the rites and every count of the grades are published in the books for anyone to read. What is private, and given only to our students, is my personal journey through the system.
What a student receives
A student's program opens through our Backoffice, the private part of our system. The student works a stage, marks it complete, and the next stage opens. My audio journals for a stage open with it.
In the Decan Year the Backoffice opens by sign. Ten days before the first decan of a sign begins, the three windows of that sign open together, each with its ritual set, its instructions for scrying and the recordings I made during that decan. I invoke on every day of a window that I can, so some windows carry an audio journal for each of their ten days and others carry fewer.
Our Ritual Builder gives the student the rite they have chosen, whether a planet, a sign, a planet in a sign or a decan, as a sheet to print and take into the temple. The sheet is a companion to the journal, where the student draws the symbols and the gestures of the rite and marks what the sheet asks to be marked, and after the rite the student writes the experience in the journal. The Builder also makes a video of the whole rite, start to finish, for the set the student has chosen, built from my own recordings of the Divine Names and the Latin. The video helps a student learn to resonate the Names correctly and to pronounce the Latin well, and a student may use it or do without it.
When a theurgist has been fully vetted, the Divine Election engine opens to them. The theurgist writes what they intend to bring about through the transit cycle and gives a range of dates, and the engine finds the day in that range on which the sky is most favorable for the operation. From the purpose the theurgist has stated, the system drafts a Pronouncement of the Election, which the theurgist edits and approves. It is spoken at its one place in the rite, and every other part of the rite stays the same. Transit work done without an election is done cleanly, for the clarity of the transit alone.
Recognition for work done
Our School recognizes the work that was done. No student is tested magically, and no title is given for an experience, a vision or a power. A grade depends on whether the rite was performed the required number of times, whether the reading was done and whether the record was kept. Nothing in the grades depends on what a student saw or felt in a rite.
I set it up this way from what I know of the temple. Deep experience comes to one student in the first month and to another after years, and it comes differently from one season of a life to the next. If we gave our titles for visions, we would be rewarding temperament and luck, and we would teach students to perform experiences for the examiner. The journal asks for what happened, written plainly, and the examination looks at whether the record is complete and whether the instruction was followed.
The grades give no standing over another student. What the practice does is sharpen the theurgist's awareness of the predicates of the rite, the parts held at once from the white light of 'Ehyeh to the four guardians, and bring them into direct experience, first in the temple and then in the ordinary day. As the personal microcosm of the theurgist comes into balance within the architecture of the rite, the experience of the work can be difficult and it can bring awe. It differs from one student to the next, it proves nothing by itself, and its absence is no failure.
The Academy and the years of training
Beside the grades, our Academy trains diviners in Western astrology, WaveForm astrology and Tarot, and it opens to students at the Spring Equinox 2027. In earlier years I taught as one of the senior teachers of our twelve-week certification course in astrology and Tarot, and as the books were finished and the grades were set, the offerings took the shape they have today.
Since 2022 most of my working hours, weekends included, have gone into this work, whether for our YouTube channel or for our diviner certification programs. I authored and recorded a full training series in Western astrology and in Tarot for the channel, and it took hundreds of hours. That training is being re-formed with WaveForm astrology woven through the Western system. A training in Western astrology and WaveForm astrology together is found only in our School.
All of our instruction videos are free on YouTube. A diviner of our Academy is tested on every segment of them until the score is perfect, works in live sessions with our teachers, gives five recorded readings with people they invite, and receives the certificate after our teachers review those readings. What we charge for is the certification and the live sessions, since those take the time of our School and its people. Every graduate receives three months on AstrologyPro.com free.
A personal thanks to our entire team is in order, especially to our Chief Engineer Debasis Kar and his talented staff of engineers. Without them our online training portal and diviner business programs would have never happened. A special thanks as well to our media and design team, Nilanjan Sarkar, Sourav Kar, Ritabrata Mukherjee and Somnath Sarkar, for their tireless work on all of our training and programs, and to our Executive Artist Raju Sarkar, whose artwork gives the School its images.
Community
I am a steadfast believer in real spiritual community, a community where people rise together and sharpen one another. The stewards of our School share that hope with me. For most of my own path, though, I have been a solitary practitioner, and the daily work was done alone, beside a continuous engagement with the quantum sciences, the history of ideas and the contemporary approaches to psychology and consciousness.
The gift of those solitary years was that I could keep an open perspective, without a dogma to defend or a hierarchy to please. I could explore without limits, test and refine, gather what worked and leave aside what did not. When a rite fell flat in the temple I could drop it, and when a page of Iamblichus or a paper in physics changed how I understood a rite, I could change the rite and write the change into the journal, and that openness is now one of my greatest strengths.
The School gives students a clear order of practice, books that agree with one another, a record that someone reads and other students on the same road.
Who I am to offer this path
I am one who walked the solitary road for a long time and returned, who has tested the mysteries in real experience, and who now comes forward to share what I have learned and to serve the work. Whether I am guiding you through the training in astrology and Tarot or through the grades, what I bring is lived experience. I have given myself to spiritual training, theurgy, meditation and a relationship to the totality of existence with full seriousness my entire life. I was born in 1975. You can do the math.
For three decades I learned in the temple, by trial, what works and in what order. I wrote that order down. A student of our School begins where I arrived, with the union at the threshold of every rite, each god admitted in its turn and every date taken from the living sky, and walks in a few years a road I had to find over thirty.
In many ways I am still an enthusiastic student, eager each day to learn, to deepen and to serve, and I have many teachers alive and dead.
Amongst humankind, I am a servant of the most high, here to share as did my teachers Kṛṣṇa, Jesus, Iamblichus, Lao Tzu and countless others. To the seeker lost in the variations of the Western mystery traditions, I am a lamp post. Whichever door you enter, I am your guide into a world full of gods, goddesses, eternal archetypes and forms, and a bridge to the infinite, eternal selfhood on the royal road of religious and philosophical thought.
How I teach
I come to you as the head of our School, and I also hope to serve many astrologers and practitioners who may never attend it. Anyone can read the books and watch the free videos. If something in them helps your own practice, in your own tradition, I am glad of it.
For those who do come, I try to teach in one way. I lend a student what they lack for a while, a steadiness, a structure, a way of holding a state, until they can hold it themselves, and then I step back. WaveForm Astrology names this supplying the weak operator, and a good teacher supplies it only long enough for the student to template it.
The only way to weigh testimony like mine is to engage in the work directly and see for yourself. What I ask of every skeptic of astrology with the chart, I ask of you with the rite. Perform it, keep the record and read the record back, and if the work does nothing for you, the journal will show it.
I honor the casual enthusiast who glances at a horoscope, as even the lightest contact with the signs can open a small door of the soul. The student I hold in mind, though, is the serious student of fate, who has studied the heavens long enough to recognize that astrology describes something real and has felt the planetary currents move. My work is for the one who meets the forces of the sky directly in the rite and finds there the freedom of becoming one with the rhythms of the Cosmos. Iamblichus called it the unbinding of fate, and in our School we call it Solar Salvation.
Where the School stands
My books are the texts of the School's grades. The counts of the grades are rules of the School, and the examination of a journal looks at whether the record is complete and whether the instruction was followed. The physics in our works serves the doctrine as a language and does not test it.
A tradition is proven by the success of those who follow it, and the proof of ours is given in the lives and the journals of the students who take up the work.
We treat no experience as a proof. What I can put in your hands is a path I have walked, a rite I perform, books that agree with one another and a program whose every count is written down.
What the work opens to you
I say to you, my students and my colleagues, that the communication I have described is what we can all expect, that and more. It opens by degrees, as the fruit of the work kept over time, and it follows the order of the work. The yoga and the care of the body steady the vessel, the reading and the journal train the mind to receive and to record, the throws of the Tarot train the eye for what is shown, and the rite clears the field and draws the gods into it. Prayer and meditation run beneath all of it. Year after year these purify the inner voice until the guidance it carries can instruct directly, and what a student then receives belongs to that student and is written in that student's journal.
No grade depends on it and no title is given for it, and the counts of the grades remain the measure of the work. Our books are living works and carry editions, and they will grow as the gods give more to those who do the work. To write a book, entomb it in time and say that it should never evolve is to deny the incredible nature of the transconscious gods, the divine beyond and above us, as if the source of their inpouring into human experience could ever be enclosed.
What I ask of a student
Give the work two hours a day, four or five days a week, for as long as the road takes. Keep the journal faithfully, in your own hand, and write in it what happened and not what you hoped would happen. Listen to my recordings when they help you. Read the books through, and read the Central Doctrine more than once if you need to.
Keep the tradition you came with, if you came with one, and bring it into the temple with you. Keep the yoga before the rite and the care of the body beside it. Do not wait for a vision to tell you that you are doing well, and do not stop when one comes. Come back after a gap to the place where the record stops. Test what I teach against your own record, and tell me what you find.
The first grade begins under Hermes, with a journal, the Central Doctrine and the first sessions of Raja Kundalini.