E-Cinere-Ortus

If they had been, I’d have found another Temple to join after ours closed!

The Temple I was a member of closed down, due to us no longer having a premises for our meetings.

An average meeting would usually consist of individuals going through a ritual of advancement to the next grade within the Order (the rituals are elaborate “plays” in which the candidate is introduced to the symbolism of his/her new grade) and has to recite an obligation. They are fairly short, 20-30 minutes.

In other rooms other people would be taking exams, which upon passing them would enable them to be advanced to the next grade at the next meeting.

The Hermetic connection is purely in the Orders doctrines and teachings, there is no belief that we can trace our roots back to Hermes Trismegistus or anything like that.

I wasn’t at work originally, I work on call. But I’m around now.

Excellent question.

This subject causes much division amongst occult practitioners, particularly in the Temple I belonged to!

I have always been of the standpoint that magic is purely psychological. A form of psychology that modern science doesn’t yet understand. So fingers crossed on that basis, we live in the same reality.