supreme Magus' Study Course

Under the leadership of M.W. Fra. Dr John Paternoster IX ACR, now Supreme Magus Emeritus, a Study Course was prepared and promulgated for the elucidation of the fratres. The course currently consists of three parts which are available for fratres to download from the High Council's online repository. Alternately, the Province has printed these for the frater who prefers a hardcopy - they are available at cost upon request to College Directors of Studies. 

The course includes:

• Part One - Kabbalistic Tree of Life (published 2016):

  • History - negative existence

  • Lightning Flash - Tree and Man

  • Tree and the Gods - Four Worlds

  • Triad and Octave - Paths

  • Practice - Exercise

  • Parliament

  • God and Mammon

  • Love Affair - Birth-Life-Death

  • Time

  • Evolution - Schools of the Soul - Jacob's ladder

    Note: references Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi's 'The Kabbalistic Tree of Life', Revised Edition (Kabbalah Society 2013)

• Part Two - Kabbalistic Tree of Life continued (published March 2017):

  • Yoga & Choice of Path - Kether

  • Method and Unwritten Qabalah - Chokmah

  • Supernals - Chesed

  • Patterns on the Tree - Geburah

  • Ten Sephiroth in the Four Worlds - Netzach

  • The Paths on the Tree - Hod

  • The Subjective Sephiroth - Yesod

  • The Gods upon the Tree - Malkuth

  • Daath

  • The Lord's Prayer

Note: references Dion Fortune's 'The Mystical Qabalah' (Williams and Norgate 1935)

• Part Three - Practicus Grade papers (published December 2018):

  • Christian Alchemy and the Ascension, by RWFra. Rev'd Fr JT Parker VIII, Chaplain General

  • Commentary on the Practicus Lecture, by RWFra. VRev. FA Shade VIII & 9, Deputy Chaplain General

  • George Ripley Scroll (see also: https://www.compendiumnaturalis.net/the-ripley-scrolls/  or https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/ripleys-alchemical-scrolls or https://artsandculture.google.com/story/exploring-the-ripley-scroll/sgLCNEuJqIJzLg or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ripley_(alchemist) or read the online PDFs: https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/ishm/vesalius/VESx1996x02x01x039x049.pdf or https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w76v4v.11?seq=2 )

  • The Secret Art of Alchemy, by RWFra. RM Black VIII & 9