The Inner Order

The Mystery School of Our Divine Infinite Being

Six grades of Solari Theurgica, the astrological theurgy of the Sun, that bring the sky you were born under into your own awareness, and teach you to take an active part in the order of the Cosmos.

You meet the planets as gods, in the temple and in your own life, on the days the sky carries them. Your own Sun becomes the center you stand in. And when the vessel is ready, you learn to bring an intention into form at the time the sky supports it. Our work is a science of maximum human potential. What ordinary life leaves to chance and to many lives, the ordered work of the grades gathers into years.

Enrollment opens at the Summer Solstice 2027. Applications may be sent at any time.

Apply to the Mystery School The requirements and the time, grade by grade What happens to you Associate Membership

The requirements

Every requirement of the six grades, and the time each takes

The work of each grade is set out in full on its own page: the books and every chapter read, the open-book test of each chapter, the counts of the practice, the journal, and the weeks the grade takes.

Grade 1 · under Hermes

Aspirant

Central Doctrine, The Divine Arcana Tarot, the Primer

The work of the grade →

Grade 2 · under Apollo

Arcana Adept

Ritual Praxis and Instruction, The School Layman Explanation

The work of the grade →

Grade 3 · under Hecate

Ritual Theurgos

WaveForm Astrology

The work of the grade →

Grade 4 · under Prometheus

Master or Mistress of the Temple

Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Part VII

The work of the grade →

Grade 5 · under Aion

Agathos Theurgos

Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Chapters 58 and 59

The work of the grade →

Grade 6 · under the planet that rules the chart’s Ascendant

Magister Aionis

Lived thereafter

The work of the grade →

All the requirements and the time table

What the work does

What happens to a person who does this work

In our School you learn to live your astrology from within. Over the six grades the changes below take place, and each is taught in the books, practiced at home and recorded in your own hand.

The hidden forces of your life come into awareness

Forces act on a life until they are made conscious. In the Decan Year you meet the thirty-six classes of experience one window at a time, with the god, the sign and the daemon of each, and the bond your soul has made with each class is cleared. Our manual states the result plainly: “The Decan Year makes the houses transparent.” What a god sends then reaches its region of your life as it was given.

Central Doctrine, Ch. 13; Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Ch. 55

Astrology becomes something you feel from within

In WaveForm Astrology the planets of your chart are your own operators, functions you perform, and a transit changes what it costs to hold one of them steady. When transiting Saturn reaches your natal Venus, you feel the densification of your own binding “as an act that the sky and the self are performing together.” Our Head Master came to the chart in this way: “I could feel it and interpret it from within.”

WaveForm Astrology, Ch. 1 and Ch. 31; A Life in the Work, Ch. 14

Your own Sun becomes the center you stand in

The Grand Invocation opens every rite and establishes the center before any other act. This is the vertical alignment, ritual union with the Divine Double, the eternal self known from the center. The axis is already there. The work is to stand on it and be aware from it. “Your own center, when it is found in the Grand Invocation, is found to be continuous with the center from which all the gods proceed.”

Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Ch. 1 and Ch. 11; Central Doctrine, Ch. 49

You become aware from the body of light

Ordinarily we experience from the observing “I” behind the eyes, looking out at the body and the world. At Helios, in the rite, the theurgist experiences from the light. When it occurs it is unmistakable, and the effort to be luminous falls away. We teach that the body of light is recovered and never built, and we begin from one fact: you are emitting light. At the scale of the cell, light received by living matter does work in it.

Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Ch. 29; Central Doctrine, Ch. 31

The gods take shape in your character

Theurgy accelerates the force of character. The states are chosen, the repetitions are daily, the center is established first, and the forms impressed are the gods’ own. A god’s qualities take root in you and outlast the rite. Neuroscientists Yumeng Ma and Philip A. Kragel of Emory University found that the brain maps feeling with the same sixfold grid it uses to find its way through space. In our practice each god is met as a place on that map, felt in the body, and every day of practice makes the way there more certain. In the words of our manual, “The god’s shape has become your own shape, to a degree that grows with every rite.”

Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Ch. 17, Ch. 23 and Ch. 60; Ma and Kragel, PLOS Biology, 2026

You bring intention into form, within the order of the Cosmos

In the fifth grade you learn election. You name a thread of your life in one sentence, find the god whose function it will most tax, and perform the rite at the time the sky supports that god. The future is then “consciously manifested in alignment with the gods,” and the theurgist becomes an active participant in the order of the Cosmos, a co-creator who chooses among what already is.

Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Ch. 59; Central Doctrine, Ch. 1

The Head Master’s witness

What three decades of the rite have shown

“After months of this holding I have seen, in my own practice and in my students, the living form of the rite begin to appear outside the temple, the light above the head while walking and the horizon of the sphere while speaking.”Eddie Paredes, One Architecture

“Through thousands of personal performances of that rite, in diverse forms across three decades, its purpose opened before me a little more each year.” He describes what repetition does: “The same invocation, the same Names and the same gestures, performed for the five-hundredth time, are subtly different from the four-hundredth, more accurate, more defined and more transparent to the god.”

Of the union at the head of every rite he writes, “Over three decades of practice I found this reverse order far more effective, and I set the union at the threshold so that every other working grows out of it.” What he asks of a student is as plain: “Perform it, keep the record and read the record back, and if the work does nothing for you, the journal will show it.”

A Life in the Work, Ch. 11 and Ch. 18; One Architecture, §6.9 and §6.10.

The Hermit, the lamp carried through the rite. *The Divine Arcana Tarot*.

The road, grade by grade

Six grades, each under a patron god, each changing what you can hold

Each grade is named for the work done in it. You carry the title of your present grade. When its work is complete, you receive the title of the next.

Ritus Theurgicus Pentagrammatis: a ten-pointed star bearing the ten planetary gods, ringed by the ten Names of the Grand Invocation (Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, YHVH, Elohim, Kālī–Kṛṣṇa, Hekate, Helios, Prōtogonos, Dēmiurgos, Hermes–Apollon, Agathos Daemon), with the four elements turning about the Sun at its center, the aspects in the inner ring and the twelve signs around the whole.

Ritus Theurgicus PentagrammatisThe sigil of the method: the whole Theurgic Ritual of the Pentagram set into the astrological in one symbol.

6grades, from the Aspirant to the Magister Aionis

2 ha day at most, with fifteen minutes of journal

36windows of the Sun’s year in the Decan Year

≈ 3years on the typical road, at your own pace

The Decan Year of the third grade has thirty-six windows of ten days. A daemon stands in each. The three windows of Aries are marked here, and they open together in the Backoffice.

1
Aspirant
Under Hermes
Initiation. The gate of Earth, under Hermes, performed live on a date you book.
You wake the body before any rite is given. Forty sessions of Raja Kundalini train the breath and the spine. Our Doctrine says of it, “The spine is the axis of the Cosmos in miniature.” The fire of the set ends in silence. You read the whole doctrine and write what each chapter gave you. You throw every spread of the Tarot, and from the first week you study your own chart.
The work of the grade
- Read the Central Doctrine through, writing a few things gained from each chapter in the journal
- Read The Divine Arcana Tarot and throw every prescribed throw once, recorded by position
- Read the Introduction and the Primer of Ritual Praxis and Instruction
- At least 40 recorded sessions of Raja Kundalini yoga
- The nativity study from the first week
- The open-book tests, chapter by chapter, of the three books, and the journal scanned and sent for examination
What you carry forward. “The yoga that opens the first grade continues, at whatever frequency the student can keep, through every grade after it, and so do the journal and the study of the nativity.”
Raised to: Arcana Adept
The full requirements of this grade →
2
Arcana Adept
Under Apollo
Initiation. The gate of Air, under Apollo, performed live on a date you book.
You sit with each planetary god from the distance of the Moon, your first direct imaginal contact with the gods the later rites invoke. You learn where each god is felt, and you write the place down each time, until you find it without searching. Then you build the Theurgic Ritual of the Pentagram level by level, each level performed at least seven times before the next is added, and you learn to keep every part of it present while the next part is laid on. You open the gates of the ten planets and the twelve signs.
The work of the grade
- Read the rest of Ritual Praxis and Instruction, with The School Layman Explanation beside it
- The planetary meditations and the complete sequence: 10 sessions
- The levels of the Grand Invocation and the Pentagram, each at least seven times: 63 sessions
- The gate runs of the ten planets and the twelve signs: 96 sessions
- Three Celestial rehearsals
- The open-book tests, chapter by chapter, of the book and the Layman, and the journal
What you carry forward. One opening and one closing, learned once and kept for life. The Grand Invocation of your daily rite is the same Grand Invocation that opens the day of your nativity.
Raised to: Ritual Theurgos
The full requirements of this grade →
3
Ritual Theurgos
Under Hecate
Initiation. The gate of Water, under Hecate, performed live on a date you book.
For one year you keep the Sun’s year. Every ten days a window opens with its god, its sign and its daemon. You perform the Celestial rite in it, scry its three cards and write about that daemon in your own life. You work Saturn in Leo in late July and live those ten days with the god in awareness and in the journal. Each daemon, once cleared, becomes a channel to the god who rules its decan.
The work of the grade
- The Decan Year, opened at an equinox or a solstice: the 36 windows of the Sun’s year
- In each window the Celestial rite, one other rite, the scrying of three cards and three paragraphs on the daemon in the life
- WaveForm Astrology read during the year and tested chapter by chapter after the last window
- The journal
What you carry forward. Thirty-six classes of life cleared. When a transit later presses on one of them, its daemon is already an ally.
Raised to: Master or Mistress of the Temple
The full requirements of this grade →
4
Master or Mistress of the Temple
Under Prometheus
Initiation. The gate of Fire, under Prometheus, performed live on a date you book.
On your birthday, in one day, you invoke each of the ten bodies in the sign it held at your birth, through every gate your chart needs, and your personal daemon is enthroned. Your nativity is activated, and the Sun’s fire, carried to the earth in the myth of your patron, is carried to the chart of your own birth.
The work of the grade
- The Natal Blueprint Invocation, performed whole in one day on the birthday, in which the personal daemon is enthroned
- The natal brief, the completion meditation and the journal
What you carry forward. Whoever has enthroned a nativity “lives its pattern as the structure of their own freedom.” You renew the rite on your birthday for the rest of your life.
Raised to: Agathos Theurgos
The full requirements of this grade →
5
Agathos Theurgos
Under Aion
Initiation. The gate of Spirit, under Aion, performed live on a date you book.
You follow the moving sky against your chart and answer five configurations of real consequence, at least one of them under Saturn or an outer planet. A transit becomes a conversation, god speaking to god within your own microcosm. In the rite you take part in it consciously. A Saturn square becomes the laying of a temple’s foundation. You learn election, and in the sixth grade, as Magister Aionis, you work elections with the Divine Election engine.
The work of the grade
- Five transit rites, each recorded with the reasons for the time chosen
- At least two different transiting planets, one of them Saturn or an outer planet, and each rite on the days the sky sets
- The journal
What you carry forward. You know when the sky makes a work cheaper or costlier in your own life, and you write out the reasons for every time you choose.
Raised to: Magister Aionis
The full requirements of this grade →
6
Magister Aionis
Under the planet that rules the chart’s Ascendant
The work becomes the life: the annual renewal of the Natal Blueprint on the birthday, the transits watched weekly at best and monthly at least, and the life of the Hermit, a way of standing in the world that no longer needs the temple.
The work of the grade
- The annual renewal of the Natal Blueprint Invocation on the birthday
- The transits watched weekly at best and monthly at least
- The life of the Hermit, the matured theurgist who lives the work
What you carry forward. This grade has no count and no end.
Raised to: none: the continuing work has no count and no end
The full requirements of this grade →

The grades, counts and times on this page are those of Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Chapter 1. A woman may take the title Mistress of the Temple in place of Master.

Every requirement of the six grades and the time each takes →

Why the process is exacting

Why the work runs in this order

The work builds a vessel that can receive the gods without distortion. Each stage readies you for the next. The order of the grades is the order of that readiness.

Every rite opens in union

In each set of our rite the Divine Double is reached in the Grand Invocation before a single element is banished, in the shortest daily rite as on the day of the nativity. A rite that opens in union every time asks a vessel that is ready every time. So the yoga comes before the rite, the reading before the gods, and the gods of the sky before the gods of your own chart.

Each stage builds the receiver for the next

The levels of the Pentagram build the frame that the planetary gods are received into. The Decan Year meets the classes of experience in their universal form, and the fourth grade turns to your chart. A student who comes to the Natal Blueprint with the thirty-six associations cleared meets the gods of the chart through ministers already turned into channels.

The holding is trained, and it takes repetition

At first a beginner holds two or three images of the rite at most. The white light fades when the center is sought. With repetition they steady one by one and begin to merge, until the many become one living form held from the first Name to the last. Every working of our School exercises this one faculty of holding.

What is gained stays

“Gains in coherence and radius achieved within the window persist after it closes.” A gap of a day or a week is expected and undoes no grade. You pick up the work at the last entry in your record.

At two hours a day the six grades take about three years on the typical road and about four at the slowest pace, the time of a college degree, and there is a great deal of work to do in them. The order of the grades keeps that work moving, because each stage readies the vessel for the next and what is gained stays. If you are not ready for the full path, Associate Membership places you in the Inner Order with a lighter practice of your own.

The science of maximum human potential

Every force of the sky reaches every life, and most lives meet those forces unprepared and keep little of what they bring. Our work admits each operator in its order, meets each sign and planet on the days the sky gives it, and keeps the rite every day. One rite holds what each day has gathered. The journal keeps the count of every rite. What ordinary life leaves to chance and to many lives is gathered into years.

The work reaches the body. Attention held in a form reshapes the pathways it uses, and our Doctrine reads the growth of myelin around a nerve as the image of it: “The longer we hold a form, and the more often we concentrate on the presence of its vast agency, the more concrete and intense the observer’s probing action and the answer from nature become.” Light received by living matter does work in it, and the body of light, the soul’s own vehicle, receives what the Sun carries into every life.

Apply to the Mystery School The requirements, grade by grade

Two kinds of science stand behind the work. The most ancient is the science of the soul taught by Iamblichus and the Hermetic and Platonic lineage. The most advanced are those of our age: the physics of light and the observer, and the findings on attention and the living cell. The older orders set the union with the eternal self at the top of the ladder or past death. We enact it at the foot, every morning, in this life and in this body. The height of the work is a human being joined to its eternal Divine Double, a sun in its own order through which Our Divine Infinite Being works in its full measure, a stature beyond anything another system has held out for a human life.

“Theurgy accelerates the force of character, and it opens states of awareness beyond the ordinary limits of human perception.” Our manual also names what is quickened: “The world keeps its own pace, and what is accelerated is the theurgist’s becoming able to receive.” We promise no powers and no cures. We teach a growth, ordered, timed by the sky and kept every day, to the full stature of a human being.

Central Doctrine, Ch. 16, Ch. 31 and Ch. 49; Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Ch. 1, Ch. 17 and Ch. 59; One Architecture, §6.10.

Bringing intention into form

What you intend, admitted into your life at the time the sky supports it

With these tools a theurgist can bring what they intend into form, through the gods who carry it and at the time the sky supports it. Our School teaches this power in exact terms.

We teach manifestation as admission. An outcome you intend is a configuration that already exists in the continuum, waiting to be selected and admitted. Our manual describes what the theurgist does: “They locate the thread in which the outcome already lives, align with the gods who carry it, and become the place where it is admitted.” An intention, our Doctrine teaches, “clears and steadies the place where the thread arrives, and it fixes the octave in which the thread is received.”

The octave decides how the outcome is lived. “A person who intends a home and receives one in the lower octave owns a house that is a burden, and a person who receives the same house in the higher octave lives in it.”

Election chooses the moment. You name the thread in one sentence. You find the god whose function it will most tax. Then you look for a window that supports that god. “A window is an offer, and the delivery is the work done within it.” The gains outlast the window. Our Doctrine draws the consequence: “We can ask our students to work hard and to wait without anxiety in the same breath.”

Central Doctrine, Ch. 30 and Ch. 48; Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Ch. 59; WaveForm Astrology, Ch. 28.

The Divine Election engine

The theurgist states the purpose of the operation and gives a date range.
The engine searches the range and selects the day and hour with the most favorable sky for that purpose.
From the stated purpose, an AI drafts a single Pronouncement of the Election.
The theurgist edits the Pronouncement and approves it.
The Pronouncement is spoken once, after every sign and god of the rite has been received and held, before the Closing. Every other value of the rite stays the same.

The engine opens to the Magister Aionis, in the sixth grade. Without an election, the transit work is done cleanly for transit clarity alone.

What we forbid

“We teach no rite performed upon another person, and we do not elect against a third party. No rite is timed to fall on another’s weakness, and none is performed to cause love, to compel agreement or to bend another’s will.” “A person who intends the change of another has laid the intention on a center that is not their own, and it returns as strain.” “We promise no result from any election or any rite.”

Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Ch. 59; Central Doctrine, Ch. 48.

Why our School

Why ours is the most advanced mystery school

We say it with reasons you can check. Our comparison with the Golden Dawn and Thelema is printed in full, every source given, in One Architecture. The reasons rest on the design of the work and the documents that carry it, and the work proves them in the life of the one who walks it.

Astrology at the center: the living sky

The Golden Dawn and Thelema built on a diagram, the Tree of Life. Our center is the actual sky, the Sun’s year, the thirty-six decans, your nativity and the transits. Anyone can check it in an ephemeris. It carries time in its own motions. It is cast for your own place and moment. The god you invoke in the rite is the god you read in your chart.

One rite that keeps what it gathers

The orders worked a cluster of separate ceremonies, each with its own opening and closing, and what one rite established the next had to rebuild. Our work is one rite in five sets, each holding the one before it, with one opening and one closing at every scale, from a daily banishing of about twenty minutes to the whole rite of the nativity.

Theurgy at first hand, with the East joined to it

We read Iamblichus, Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles in their editions. The gods are invited and never commanded. Raja Kundalini, the Tantric yoga of India, readies the vessel before every rite, and Kālī and Kṛṣṇa stand in the Grand Invocation itself.

A cosmology that takes in the physics of our century

Our teaching of center and horizon, of light and of the observer stands beside relativity, quantum mechanics and cosmology. Every statement of physics in our works is marked as established physics, an interpretation received from others or the School’s own reading.

A complete doctrine, published whole

The five major works are in print and can be read before you apply. No secret teaching stands behind the grades, no person is the standard of the work, and the Head Master is held to the same standard the books set for every student.

Grades that certify work, on a timetable

A grade names the work done: performances counted, open-book tests, and a journal sent in and examined. We computed the weeks of the whole road from the word counts of the books and the counts of the tasks, and no title is given for an experience.

Tools built for the practice

A Backoffice that opens the work step by step with the Head Master’s recording of each step, a professionally filmed video of him performing each of the five types of ritual work, the Divine Names and the Latin of the invocations in his voice, the open-book tests, a planner, Divine Timing for the work with the living sky and a Guide that answers from the works. Beside it stand the Ritual Builder with a sheet for every rite, the Divine Election engine for the Magister Aionis, and the WaveForm Astrology suite.

A Head Master who walks the road ahead of you

Our Head Master has entered the School at its foot and walks every stage as a student does, ahead of our students, and records his journal aloud for them to hear at the stage where they stand.

The eight criteria

We honor our debt to the Golden Dawn. We keep its placement of the elements on the pentagram and its law of tracing, toward the element to invoke it and away from it to banish. We empower each figure in our own way, trace Spirit within the body and open the gates of the elements, and the rest of our design follows from one center, the living sky. The table sets out each criterion, what the older orders do, what our School does and what that gives you.

The criteria together, from One Architecture, Epilogue, §E.2, where every cell is sourced
Criterion	The Golden Dawn and Thelema	Our School	What it gives you
The center	The Kabbalah and the Tree of Life: ten grades numbered by the Sephiroth, and the tables of 777 taken from the Order	Astrology: the Sun at the center, the planets as functions of the person, the tropical zodiac as the Sun’s year, the decans, your nativity and your transits. The Kabbalah is kept where it explains.	The center is the actual sky, so every person has a chart and every rite has a date that anyone can read.
Cosmology	Planes, the Astral Light and the ether, with the Astral Light confirmed by the agreement of trained seers	Center and horizon, the orthodox and the Multiverse pictures of physics, and light as instruction, each statement marked as physics or as doctrine	It takes in the physics of the present, and you can tell which sentence is physics and which is our teaching.
The rites	Twenty-six separate rites in Regardie’s edition, joined by rules of precedence	One rite in five sets, each holding the one before it, under one opening and one closing	The parts nest. The smallest set already holds the frame of the largest, and nothing gathered is released before the close.
Time	The Ceremony of the Equinox, a chart of the heavens for certain consecrations, and the daily adorations of Liber Resh	The Decan Year of thirty-six windows, the Natal Blueprint on your birthday and the transit rites, all read from an ephemeris	Every date of the calendar is an occasion of the one rite, and the sky sets it.
Authority	Secret Chiefs, the Sprengel letters, which the historian Ellic Howe judged fabrications, and a Book of the Law fixed against change in a single letter	Every teaching in print, with no secret teaching behind the grades, and the Head Master held to the same standard as every student	You can check every claim against the printed works.
Grades	Examination and interval in the Golden Dawn, attainment above the Adeptus Minor in the A∴A∴, and a ceremony conferred in the O.T.O.	Counted work, open-book tests and a journal sent in and examined, with no title given for an experience	A grade names the work you have done and claims nothing beyond it.
Theurgy, Plato and the East	The Chaldean Oracles read inside the Kabbalah, Iamblichus known through translations quoted in other books, and yoga added in the A∴A∴ grades	Iamblichus, Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles read in their editions, with Vedānta, Tantra and yoga joined to the rite by named correspondences	The gods stand at the root of the rite, and the wisdom of the East enters its theology.
Ethics	A rule of reverence for all religions in the Golden Dawn, and curses on named faiths in the Book of the Law, III:49 to III:55	No enemy in the rite or in the grades, and the members of every faith welcome	The work needs no adversary.

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For members of other orders

If you come from another order, keep your tradition

A practitioner of the Golden Dawn, of Thelema, of Theosophy, of Wicca or of the Kabbalah can take up our work and keep the tradition that formed them. We ask no one to leave the tradition of their birth or of their heart.

Much of what you have learned has a place and a name in our frame: the elements on the points of the star and the law of direction, the vibration of the Names, the Tarot with its astrological attributions, the adorations of the Sun, and the aim of union with one’s own genius, held beside our Divine Double. The True Will is read as the direction felt from the solar center, outlined by the nativity. A student trained on the Tree keeps the Kabbalah as a grammar of study.

Your training counts in the hand, the voice and the mind: you already know the drawing of figures with a steady arm, the vibration of Names and the long hours of silence. Our journal asks for those habits. You begin at the foot, with the reading and the yoga, for the readiness of the vessel, and the grades are given for the work done in our School.

To meet our rite in a short form before you decide, become an Associate Member. In about two to three weeks The Associate Member’s Manual takes you through what we hold and through the Threshold Ritual of the Pentagram, performed three times, and you keep your tradition throughout. Associate Membership

What must be set down

Goetia: the summoning, binding and commanding of spirits
Sorcery: the use of ritual to impose one’s will on powers, persons or events for one’s own ends
Theurgy reduced to sympathy or technique
The founder as the single reference of the work
Secret-grade thinking
The war with Christianity

Each teaches the soul a false relation to the powers on which its life depends, and each feeds the ego that the work exists to offer up.

One Architecture, Ch. 13 and Ch. 14.

“I came to Iamblichus late, after many years in the orders, and his On the Mysteries changed what I thought every rite of those years had been doing.”Eddie Paredes, One Architecture, §13.11

What you receive and keep

Access to the work, and to the Head Master’s passage through it

We give our students a Backoffice that opens the work step by step, the tools that make each rite clear, and the Head Master’s own passage through the entire system as he goes.

The works and the deck

With entry you receive every book and material of the School as digital PDF files, The Divine Arcana Tarot among them with all seventy-eight cards pictured. They wait in the Library of your Backoffice, stamped with your name, beside the workbook of each work’s open-book tests. When the School issues a new edition of a work, the new file takes its place there. The deck itself is printed and ordered on its own. Printed manuals will follow. You need a journal from the first day.

Membership of AwakenedSky.com, and your nativity report

Everyone paying the $19 a month, Contributors, Associates and students of the grades, receives membership of AwakenedSky.com at no cost, and a family (Household) account for $9 a month. Your charts are kept there, your family can be charted with you, and you join the community of members of our Outer Order. As a student of the grades you also receive the Advanced Report of your own nativity there free, with a personal code your Backoffice gives you at the step where the nativity is studied.

Your Backoffice, one step at a time

Each student has a private Backoffice that follows the order of practice, from the first step of the first grade to the work of the sixth. The steps open one at a time. You mark a step complete with the date and time of the performance, the same as your journal entry, and the next one opens with its reading, its practice and its rules, with an optional tally for work done a number of times.

Beside the steps stand the open-book tests, a planner that estimates each grade on your own pace and days, and Divine Timing for the work bound to the living sky.

See how the Backoffice opens →

An initiation at the start of each grade

Each of the first five grades opens with an initiation, which the Head Master or an officiant he permits performs for you live, in person or by video. You book a date and hour in your Backoffice when you can be alone in a quiet room for an hour. You need no instrument, and you speak one sentence, your word of entry into the work of the grade.

The grades climb through the elements. Earth opens the Aspirant under Hermes, Air the Arcana Adept under Apollo, Water the Ritual Theurgos under Hecate, Fire the Master or Mistress of the Temple under Prometheus and Spirit the Agathos Theurgos under Aion. The initiation opens the work of a grade you hold, and no title is given for an experience.

The Ritual Builder, and the Head Master’s videos and recordings

For every rite you choose, the Ritual Builder prints a sheet to take into the work. The sheet is a companion to the drawn symbols and gestures you add to your journal, it shows what to mark in the journal for the rite itself, and afterward you write what you experienced.

Your Backoffice holds a professionally filmed video of the Head Master performing each of the five types of ritual work: Set 1, the Divine Infinite Being, a planetary god, a sign, and a god in a sign. Beside the videos are his recordings of the Divine Names and the Latin of the invocations in his voice. They help you learn to sound the Names correctly and to pronounce the Latin well.

Your journal, examined at the end of each grade

The journal is written by hand and stays with you. Before each of the first five grades closes, you scan every page with your phone into one PDF, with the Files app on an iPhone or Google Drive on Android, and send it from your Backoffice.

The Head Master examines whether the record is complete and whether the instruction was followed, and returns his notes with the title of the grade you have earned. The examined journal opens the entry of the next grade and its initiation. A long journal may be sent in up to six parts, and the page shows the count of pages and the first page before you confirm.

The Decan Year, a sign at a time

When you reach the Decan Year of the third grade, the Backoffice opens it one sign at a time. A sign’s three windows open ten days before the first decan of that sign begins, and the next three open ten days before the next sign. Each window brings its ritual set, its scrying instructions and the Head Master’s recordings of that decan. Divine Timing gives the day and hour of each window’s rite with the reason for the choice, and keeps the record of the year.

Questions on the work, answered from the works

A question on the work goes to the Guide in your Backoffice. The Guide answers only from the School’s works and cites the section behind every answer, so you can read the passage in the book. A question the works leave open goes to the Head Master, who answers it in writing or in a recording of his own voice, and his answer waits for you in the same place.

The Head Master’s audio journals

As each step opens to you, the Head Master’s spoken journal of the same step opens with it, to play on the step’s own page on a phone or a computer. These are hundreds of recordings made at every step of the work, among them his recordings through the windows of the Decan Year. Each gives his thoughts on that step in his own voice, from the reading of it to the performance. They are private to our students.

Why he keeps his journal aloud →

The Divine Election engine, for the Magister Aionis

In the sixth grade, as Magister Aionis, you gain access to the Divine Election engine. You state what you mean to bring about through the transit cycle and give a date range. The engine finds the day and hour in that range with the most favorable sky for the operation, and drafts the Pronouncement of the Election for you to edit and approve.

How an election is worked →

The monthly calls of the Inner Order

Students are invited to the Zoom calls of the Inner Order, held at least once a month and often more, on a variety of subjects. In the calls they meet members who are further along than they are. The joining link waits in the Backoffice for every member in standing, with an email reminder when you want one.

The WaveForm Astrology suite

Students have the School’s WaveForm Astrology suite for their personal use, beside the study of the nativity that runs through every grade. One account serves the School’s sites, so the same sign in opens your Backoffice here and your charts on AwakenedSky.com.

See an illustrative preview of the Backoffice

A ledger to follow

The Head Master walks every stage ahead of you

Our Head Master, Eddie Paredes, has entered the School at its foot. With all the experience of his years in the work, he goes through the whole process as a student does, from the first grade to the last, doing all the work along the way. Our students have a ledger of his experience to follow beside their own.

For many years he filled journals with the work, and he gained a great deal from them. He holds the written journal to be invaluable and necessary for every student. We ask each of you to keep one. For his own passage through the School he has given up the private written journal for a medium he can share. He records his journal aloud at every point of the process. When you reach a stage, you hear his thoughts on it in his own voice.

Since 2022 most of his working hours, weekends included, have gone into this work, from the training on our YouTube channel to our diviner certification programs. His audio journals are the most personal part of it, and they are private to our students.

“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.”Eddie Paredes, A Life in the Work

Read “A ledger to follow” in his biography

Nothing secret

The published doctrine, and what is private to students

Nothing in our teaching is secret. The Central Doctrine, Ritual Praxis and Instruction, WaveForm Astrology, The Divine Arcana Tarot and The School Layman Explanation can be read by anyone, and you are welcome to read them before you apply.

What is private, and only for students, is the Backoffice of their own stages and the Head Master’s own passage through the work, in hundreds of audio journals made at every step of the path that students walk themselves.

What the work asks of you

Reading, at the School’s planning pace of about 200 words a minute
Practice: the yoga first, then the rite, counted by performances and recorded sessions
A written journal, kept from the first day, scanned with your phone and sent for examination at the end of each of the first five grades
Open-book tests, answered with the books and the journal open
Care of the body, and the cautions of the work read before the first session of yoga

The time the work takes

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

We plan for four to five study days a week, at home, in a room set aside. No grade has a length in months, and a grade is complete when its work is complete. Two points in 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 your birthday. We computed the weeks from the word counts of the books and the counts of the tasks.

The planner in your Backoffice sets your own reading pace and the days and minutes you have for reading and for practice, and it estimates how long each grade will take on that plan. One or two days a week is a plan it accepts, and only the work with the living sky waits for its days and hours.

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A hand writing in a journal beside a lit candle

The whole road (Ritual Praxis and Instruction, Table 1.5)
Road	Pace	Weeks	Years
Shortest	250 words a minute, 5 days a week, no waits	111	2.1
Typical	200 words a minute, 4.5 days a week, average waits	163	3.1
Longest	150 words a minute, 4 days a week, longest waits	206	3.9
With 15 percent added for gaps: 2.5, 3.6 and 4.5 years. A student who reads slowly takes more days, and the grade is the same.

Associate Membership

A membership of the Inner Order, complete in itself, and a door to the grades

Associate Membership makes you a member of the Inner Order, the Mystery School of Our Divine Infinite Being. In about two to three weeks you learn what we hold and why, keep a light practice of your own, perform a rite of our School three times, and pass the introduction training and an open-book examination. Associate Membership has a worth of its own. It also shows you the road of the grades from the inside before you decide whether to walk it.

A person can read about a mystery tradition for years and still not know what its practice does in a life. An Associate finds out within a month, in their own journal. Its home is the Mystery School for a plain reason: an Associate performs a rite, and every rite of our School belongs to the Inner Order. The first grade stands under Hermes, the god of thresholds, and Associate Membership stands at his door. It is for adults drawn to the School who want to practice before they commit, for members of AwakenedSky and students of the Academy who want the teaching beneath their astrology and Tarot, for practitioners of other traditions who want to meet our rite in a short form, and for members of a student’s family who want to understand the work a spouse or a parent is doing.

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The Associate Member’s Manual

The manual runs to 202 pages in seven Parts, which set out what we hold and the nineteen major predicates, the science of the work from Plato and ratio to the physics of our model, the will, statistical causation, synchronicity and the light of the body, Raja Kundalini in brief with a few meditations and five planetary meditations, the Threshold Ritual of the Pentagram, your own astrology with WaveForm, the Tarot in brief with all seventy-eight cards and two throws, and the journal, the examination and the road of the grades.

A light practice of two to three weeks

A short session on a working day, four to five days a week, with a few minutes for the journal. The seat and the breath come first, then three days of a First Sounding, then the rite three times, one performance a day at most. Beside it you keep three Meditations of Unity, five sittings with the planetary gods, the Sun first, and two throws of the Tarot. A gap undoes nothing. You return to your last entry and go on.

A rite of our School, with the Names in the Head Master’s voice

The Threshold Ritual forms the light above the head with Ehye, sets Helios at the center of the being, purifies the four elements with the four banishing pentagrams and closes with Shaddai El Chai and Adonai ha-Aretz. The two closing Names draw the work down through the body into the earth. Every word and Name of it is taken from Ritual Praxis and Instruction. You receive it on one printable page, with the Head Master’s recordings of its eight Names.

Your journal, kept for you alone

The journal is required, and it is yours. Nobody in the School reads it. You write each rite, each sitting and each throw as it happened, and after the third rite you read the three entries together. In the Head Master’s words: “Perform the rite, keep the record and read the record back. If the work does nothing for you, the journal will show it.”

The introduction training, tested segment by segment

At the start of the course you watch the recorded training The Mystery School of Our Divine Infinite Being: An Introduction in the Backoffice, about two hours in twenty-two segments: what a mystery school is, the line of the mysteries, our Doctrine, the six grades, Associate Membership and the way in. After each segment comes a test of three to five questions, and a wrong answer means watching the segment again until every answer is correct. It is required for Associate standing.

The examination and the certificate

Fifty questions online, open book, with the manual and your journal in front of you. A wrong answer comes back with the section of the manual that holds its answer, and you answer again until all fifty are correct. When the training and the examination are both passed, the School issues a PDF certificate, “Associate Member of the Inner Order of the School of Our Divine Infinite Being”, with your name, the date and the Head Master’s signature. The School recognizes Associate standing while you pay the $19 a month. If you stop paying you lose the standing, and you can start again at any time, right where you left off, with no new entry fee, and the return costs only the $19 month.

$19 a month, with AwakenedSky.com included

Associate Membership is $19 a month, the same monthly fee a member of the Mystery School pays. A person who pays the $19 a month and works through the Associate course is a Contributor to the School. On finishing the course, with the open-book examination and the introduction training, the Contributor is an Associate, an Associate Member of the Inner Order. It includes membership of AwakenedSky.com at no further cost, where you keep your charts, chart your family and join the community of our Outer Order. A family (Household) account there is $9 a month.

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A door to the grades, and no shortcut through them

Associate Membership is no condition of entry, and anyone may apply to enter the Mystery School as an Aspirant. An Associate who takes up the grades begins at the foot, as every Aspirant does. Associate standing is held beside the six grades and adds none to them, and it carries no credit toward the count, test or journal of a grade. The order of development is the strength of our system, and it rests on six reasons from the program itself.

The vessel is readied before any rite. The first grade gives the yoga forty recorded sessions to form the seat, the breath and the witness before the rite of the grades is taught.
Each stage builds the receiver for the next. The Threshold Ritual passes from the light above the head straight to Helios. The Grand Invocation of the second grade adds every Name between them, one at a time, each held while the next is laid on, and it alone reaches the union of Protogonos.
One form, repeated the same way each time. The levels of the grades build one structure from their first performance, and each performance gathers all the previous ones into itself. So the Threshold Ritual is laid down when the first grade begins.
The counts and the record begin on the first day. Two students of the same grade do the same amount of work. The journal a grade examines is begun in that grade. Your Associate journal stays yours.
The reading gives the ground. The manual gives what we hold in brief. The Central Doctrine, read by every Aspirant, gives its ground, its sources and its defense at full length.
The dedication is made at the start. The statement of intention of the first grade is written on its first days and read again at its end. Our Head Master entered the School at its foot in the same way.

What an Associate brings to the first grade is skill. The light above the head, the resonant voice, the four banishing figures and the law of their strokes, the Descent, the seat and the lens of the Moon are all learned in the form the grades use, so you walk the Aspirant’s road on familiar ground with nothing to unlearn. Your nativity pages may be copied into the journal of the first grade.

The Associate Member’s Manual, Chapter 1, §1.2 to §1.5; Chapter 18; Chapter 19, §19.2 and §19.3.

Associate Membership opens with the Mystery School at the Summer Solstice 2027. $19 a month, with AwakenedSky.com included. A person who pays the $19 a month and works through the Associate course is a Contributor to the School. On finishing the course, with the open-book examination and the introduction training, the Contributor is an Associate, an Associate Member of the Inner Order. A person who enters the Mystery School is an Aspirant by initiation. Applications may be sent at any time.

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Entry and membership

The application, and membership of the tradition

Entry begins with an application. Once you are accepted you receive every book and material of the School as digital PDF files, The Divine Arcana Tarot among them with all seventy-eight cards pictured, and the opening of your Backoffice. The deck itself is printed and ordered on its own. Entry is $297, and membership continues at $19 a month for as long as you remain a member of the tradition. 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.

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.

Entry: $297 USD, paid once when you are accepted
Membership: $19 USD a month after entry, for continued membership
Each new grade: $297 USD, which opens the grade with its initiation
Enrollment opens: At the Summer Solstice 2027

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Where to begin

For a first book and a first practice, become an Associate Member and work through The Associate Member’s Manual. It is optional, and it shortens no grade.
Read the Introduction of Ritual Praxis and Instruction and the first chapters of the Central Doctrine.
Set aside the two hours.
Begin the journal on the first day.
Obtain the Advanced Report of your nativity from AwakenedSky.com, free with the code your Backoffice shows once you enter, and study it through every grade.
Apply. The rest follows in the order the books give.

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Questions

What students ask before they enter

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The kind of body the School is

We are a school and a mystery tradition. We ask no creed and set no person above the work. The initiations that open the grades ask no profession of belief.

Your own tradition

We ask no one to leave the tradition of their birth or of their heart. Keep the tradition you came with, if you came with one, and bring it into the temple with you.

Experience before you begin

No experience is needed. The first grade performs no rite. It begins with reading, the yoga, the Tarot and the study of your own chart, and the rite is learned in the second grade. A practitioner trained elsewhere begins at the same place, because the vessel must be ready for a rite that opens in union every time.

Beginning as an Associate Member

Associate Membership makes you a member of the Inner Order at $19 a month. It gives you The Associate Member’s Manual, a light practice of about two to three weeks with the Threshold Ritual of the Pentagram performed three times, the introduction training to the Mystery School with a test after each segment, and an open-book examination online with a PDF certificate. AwakenedSky.com membership is included. A person who pays the $19 a month and works through the Associate course is a Contributor to the School. On finishing the course, with the open-book examination and the introduction training, the Contributor is an Associate, an Associate Member of the Inner Order. Associate Membership opens with the Mystery School at the Summer Solstice 2027.

Applying as an Aspirant

Anyone may apply to enter as an Aspirant, and Associate Membership is no condition of entry. An Associate who takes up the grades begins at the foot like every Aspirant, because the order of development readies the vessel before the rite and counts the work of each grade from its own first day. What the Associate brings is skill: the light above the head, the resonant voice, the four banishing figures, the Descent, the seat and the lens of the Moon, learned in the form the grades use, with nothing to unlearn.

What you will be able to do

The practice of banishing and invocation sharpens your awareness of what the rite holds and brings it into direct experience, in the rite and in ordinary life. In the fifth grade you learn to time a rite by the transits. In the sixth, as Magister Aionis, you work elections with the Divine Election engine and bring an intention into form at the time the sky supports it. We promise no result from any rite, the experience differs from one student to the next, and nothing in the grades depends on what a student saw or felt.

Safety in the work

The Primer teaches the care of the body, sleep, food, training and the fast, and the safety, discernment and ethics of the work, and you read it before the first session of yoga. The yoga stays before ritual work for the rest of your life, to keep the vessel steady.

When you can begin

The first grade can begin at any time. Two points of the road are set by the calendar: the Decan Year opens at an equinox or a solstice, one of which comes about every thirteen weeks, and the Natal Blueprint Invocation is performed on your birthday. Only the work with the living sky is bound to days and hours, and every other step may follow the one before it on the next day.

Days or weeks missed

The plan expects them, because illness, travel, work and family make gaps certain. A gap does not undo a grade. You pick up the work at the last entry in your record, and your Backoffice opens at the step where you left off.

Your journal and its examination

We examine the journal at the end of each of the first five grades. You keep the written journal, scan its pages with your phone into one PDF and send it from your Backoffice. The examination looks at whether the record is complete and whether the instruction was followed, and the Head Master returns his notes to you with the title of the grade.

Your Backoffice on a phone

The Backoffice works on a phone as well as on a computer. From the phone you mark a step complete, tap the tally after a performance, play the Head Master’s recordings, take the open-book tests, book your initiation and send the scan of your journal.

The cost

Entry is $297, paid once when you are accepted. Membership then continues at $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. 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. Entry 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. A reader who does not enter can buy the same library on its own for $297, one time, as PDF files for their own use only, on the page of the works. Associate Membership is $19 a month, with its manual and AwakenedSky.com included. Everyone paying the $19 a month, Contributors, Associates and students of the grades, receives membership of AwakenedSky.com at no cost, and a family (Household) account for $9 a month.

Nothing secret

Nothing in the doctrine is secret. What is private to students is their own Backoffice and the Head Master’s own passage through the work, in his audio journals.

Begin at the foot

The sky of your birth, lived from within

The work asks two hours a day, a journal, the books and a room set aside. The yoga wakes the body, the rite joins you to the center, the Decan Year clears the thirty-six classes of your experience, the Natal Blueprint Invocation enthrones your chart on your birthday, and the transits become conversations you take part in.

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The Mystery School begins taking students at the Summer Solstice 2027. Applications may be sent at any time.