Attainment within Arcane Orders 

Progression to a higher grade must celebrate only a major event, lesson learned, or advance in personal development, and must correspond to the traditional characteristics of the particular deity attributed for that grade. Sometimes attainment may not be identified as such until much later in life.

Any evolutionary dualist order, of course, is designed not only to speed up personal growth but also to enhance recognition of what constitutes growth. Many of the grades may actually have been attained long before entering the particular order. Absolute honesty and self knowledge are required to progress properly here. Inner satisfaction comes not from recognition by others, but from oneness with the higher self.

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Pertaining to Initiation:

The degree of Adeptus Pace is attained at the point where one becomes deeply and truly aware that spiritually there is something more important than oneself and is driven onward and upward towards a vague but transcendental ideal.

The degree of Magus is attained when one brings an immovable will to bear upon the problem of adeptship as this applies to evolving life in the universe as a whole. At this point the transcendental ideal is no longer vague.

When one reaches the degree of Ipsissimus it is given that the transcendental ideal and the means to it's attainment have become crystal clear.

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Grades within the Order of Yggdrasill  

Degrees of Attainment

Appropriate pantheon reflecting practitioner's heritage should be attributed here. "The Work" associated with each grade is essentially the same within any component order as for the Ten Rayed Star as a whole. The difference is simply one of focus, reflecting the specific purpose of the component order. In the OY the activity for each grade attainment is sublimated to World Libertarian Revolution. Oath of Knighthood can be reformatted and used as the initiation text for any specific grade in any component order.

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The Ten Rayed Star

N  1  TRS 

November 22, 1996

The Witch House 

Lake Wildwood, California

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The Ten Rayed Star 

The Ten Rayed Star is a Pentacle and a very pure representation of evolutionary dualism. It is the two traditional Pentagrams interlaced and has it's own planetary and elemental attributions (See Scroll E in "Traditional Arcane Teachings"). Starting with the uppermost point, the planets are represented at each point thusly moving deosil: Sun, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Mercury, Moon Jupiter, Mars, Uranus, Pluto.

The Ten Rayed Star is also an arcane order. Each point represents a separate component order. The specific purpose of each is shown in the chart bellow. Only complete attainment of eleven degrees in each of the component orders constitutes one degree of attainment in the Ten Rayed Star. Appropriate modifications should be made here to suit the practitioner's mythological heritage: pantheon, component order and TRS grade names, plus Oath of Knighthood for initiation texts.

The TRS is open to all 8th Degree OY. Entry is exclusively by self initiation or within autonomous local groups. There is no fee required. Before undertaking TRS activity the aspirant should write and retain a brief essay about his past activities and future objectives in this entire context. New insights should be appended at intervals. Attainment here takes much time and is not for the impatient (23).

The component orders OM, CW, OS, and OR are merely systems for reckoning various types of personal growth. Although they are in use by some and thus technically have membership, they are not for group activity.

Eric Fenris Magnuson 

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Ten Rayed Star

The Grades

The Work