Ceremonial initiations for the Outer and Inner Order grades.
Material type
Initiatory rite
Restricted to
Initiates of each grade
Restriction mechanism
oath, grade_requirement
Stated reason
Protecting candidates and the efficacy of the ritual
Tradition origins
1888
Recorded practice status
Modified
Provisional: no dated status evidence is linked.
Status as of
Not recorded
Status claims
Not recorded
Disclosure dates, source publication dates, tradition origins and dates of practice are separate.
What this disclosure covers
The ritual of the 5°=6° grade of Adeptus Minor (No. III, March 1910); not yet compared with Regardie for completeness
S. L. MacGregor Mathers sought an injunction against this number. Its editorial note says an order restraining publication was made two days after advance copies were delivered, continued by Bucknill J, and dissolved by the Court of Appeal.
The source
The Equinox (Vol. I) (SRC-0007; authenticity: Unassessed)
Author
Aleister Crowley (ed.)
Original publication
1909–1913
Linked edition
Not recorded
Format
Periodical
Provenance
defector_account
Rights of source work
Public domain
Identifiers
wikidata:Q3520760
Source content hash
Not recorded
Golden Dawn material appeared in the serial 'The Temple of Solomon the King'. No. II (September 1909), which prints the Neophyte ritual, was read from the scan at https://invisiblehouse.org/pdf/equinox2.pdf. No. III (March 1910), which prints the Adeptus Minor ritual, was read from the scan at https://invisiblehouse.org/pdf/equinox3.pdf.
Claims about this item
These claims may cite other sources for the same restricted item. Supporting and contradicting evidence remain separate.
CLM-0021 · Content
In the Neophyte obligation the candidate pledges to keep secret the Order, its name, its members' names and its proceedings, and to study the occult sciences, under a penalty of submitting to a deadly current of will set in motion by the chiefs that would strike him dead or paralysed as if by lightning; the Hiereus touches him with a sword as the penalty is spoken.
Claim support
Single source
Record review
Reviewed
Period
1909 (as published); Golden Dawn practice of the 1890s
Locators
No. II, 'The Temple of Solomon the King', pp. 253–254
Sources counted as independent
Not recorded
Supporting sources
The Equinox (Vol. I) (SRC-0007; authenticity: Unassessed)
Contradicting sources: none recorded.
Checked against a scan of The Equinox I(2) on 2026-11-04. Regardie's publication (SRC-0008), drawn from Stella Matutina papers rather than from Crowley, could corroborate it independently. A footnote says a later version, issued after the Horos scandal, softened the penalty wording.
SRC-0007: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0007: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0003: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0022 · Content
The hoodwinked candidate, bound with a rope, is led round the temple, barred by the Kerux, purified with water and consecrated with fire, and challenged by the Hiereus, before the hoodwink is removed and the three chief officers receive him with the words 'Khabs Am Pekht'; the Hiereus then entrusts the signs, grip, grand word and current password, which this account does not print.
Claim support
Single source
Record review
Reviewed
Period
1909 (as published)
Locators
SRC-0007: No. II, pp. 254–257; SRC-0008: vol. 2, pp. 19–29
Sources counted as independent
Not recorded
Supporting sources
The Equinox (Vol. I) (SRC-0007; authenticity: Unassessed)
Checked against a scan of The Equinox I(2) and the Internet Archive text of Regardie's Volume Two (1938) on 2026-11-04. The accounts describe related Golden Dawn and Stella Matutina ritual papers with a shared upstream tradition. Agreement between these versions is retained, but independent provenance of the relevant wording has not been established; counted conservatively as single_source. Regardie's version names the Stella Matutina at the reception.
SRC-0007: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0007: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
SRC-0008: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0008: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0003: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0023 · Content
After the admission the penalty is illustrated by a liquid that turns the colour of blood, and the ceremony closes with the words 'Khabs Am Pekht', 'Konx Om Pax' and 'Light in Extension'.
Claim support
Single source
Record review
Reviewed
Period
1909 (as published)
Locators
SRC-0007: No. II, pp. 259–260; SRC-0008: vol. 2, pp. 38, 43
Sources counted as independent
Not recorded
Supporting sources
The Equinox (Vol. I) (SRC-0007; authenticity: Unassessed)
Checked against a scan of The Equinox I(2) and the Internet Archive text of Regardie's Volume Two (1938) on 2026-11-04. The accounts describe related Golden Dawn and Stella Matutina ritual papers with a shared upstream tradition. Agreement between these versions is retained, but independent provenance of the relevant wording has not been established; counted conservatively as single_source. Regardie's version names the Stella Matutina at the reception.
SRC-0007: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0007: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
SRC-0008: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0008: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0003: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0031 · Content
In the Neophyte grade the step is a short advance of the left foot; the signs are the Saluting Sign (leaning forward with both arms outstretched, as if groping for light), answered by the Sign of Silence (left forefinger on the lips); the grip is made foot to foot, the hands failing once to meet and then touching only the fingers; and the grand word Har-Par-Krat is whispered mouth to ear in syllables.
Checked against the Internet Archive text of Volume Two (1938) on 2026-11-04. The ritual says the password changes every equinox, so that members who have left do not know it, and leaves it blank.
SRC-0008: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0008: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0003: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0032 · Content
The grand words and passwords of the Outer Order grades are: Zelator, Adonai ha-Aretz and Nun Heh (mystic number 55); Theoricus, Shaddai El Chai and Mem Heh (45); Practicus, Elohim Tzabaoth and Eloah (36). The password of the Portal grade is Paroketh, the veil of the Tabernacle, exchanged letter by letter.
Checked against the page images of Volume Two (1938) on 2026-11-04. Regardie spells the Practicus word ELOHIM TSABAOTH where it is explained and TZABAOTH in the ritual.
SRC-0008: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0008: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0003: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0033 · Change
The penalty in the Neophyte obligation was changed: the version printed in 1909 calls down a deadly current of will from the chiefs of the Order that would strike the oath-breaker dead or paralysed, while the Stella Matutina version printed in 1938 sets expulsion for perjury and submission, by the candidate's own consent, to a stream of power set in motion by the Order's Divine Guardians.
Claim support
Single source
Record review
Reviewed
Period
1890s–1930s
Locators
SRC-0007: No. II, pp. 253–254; SRC-0008: vol. 2, pp. 22–24
Sources counted as independent
Not recorded
Supporting sources
The Equinox (Vol. I) (SRC-0007; authenticity: Unassessed)
Checked against the Internet Archive text of Volume Two (1938) on 2026-11-04. Also checked against The Equinox I(2). Each source attests one wording; the change itself is shown by comparing them, and the 1909 text's footnote also mentions a softened later wording.
SRC-0007: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0007: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
SRC-0008: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0008: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0003: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0034 · Content
The Neophyte obligation also binds the candidate not to copy any manuscript without the Second Order's permission, to keep every ritual or lecture under the Order's label, not to let himself be put into a passive state in which an uninitiated person or power could take control of his words or actions, and not to use his knowledge for evil magic.
Checked against the Internet Archive text of Volume Two (1938) on 2026-11-04.
SRC-0008: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0008: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0003: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
Evidence qualifications
SRC-0007 · source_authenticity_unassessed: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0007 · source_without_content_hash: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
DISC-0045 · record_unreviewed: Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth.
ITEM-0003 · status_without_dated_evidence: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
Reviewed means checked against a source. It does not establish source authenticity, independent corroboration or present-day practice.
