Ordo Astri : College of Hermetic Light

Ordo Astri : College of the Hermetic Light

Welcome to the official website of Ordo Astri, the Order of the Star

In an initiatory Order the task of the aspirant is to build and contribute to the symbol of that Order. This may be realised variously as a vault, a holy mountain or a pyramid. Aspirants build the temple from their body, their mind, their heart and their will so that it becomes a perfected and balanced representation of the universe they inhabit. Tiphereth is the crown and pinnacle of the First Order but it is from the Second Order that the temple receives light and so is fully realised as a living symbol. When the aspirant becomes an Initiate of the Second Order their task is to fasten themselves to the cross of their creative Will, to sacrifice their self to that Will so as to transmit the life-giving light back into the symbol they have helped to build and have made communion with. In this way modern magicians are partaking of the same act as our ancient Egyptian forbearers, whose physical temples were built magically as well as scientifically, so as to unite the microcosm with the macrocosm, “As above, so below”.

03/03/2012

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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Ordo Astri is a Kemetic and Thelemic School of the Mysteries with an operational collegium and grade system based on the Hermetic Qabalah. The Order was founded to continue and to develop the Initiatory work of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Kenneth Grant and others.

Membership & Initiation

Those who wish to dedicate themselves to a serious and prolonged course of occult study and practice may aspire to Initiation through the grades or degrees of the Order. The structure of our college is based on the Hermetic Tree of Life. This will be familiar to those who have studied the Qabalah, Alchemy, Tantra, Gnosticism, the Western Magical Tradition, the historical Orders of the Golden Dawn, Alpha et Omega and Argenteum Astrum. Our work includes the Hermetic Qabalah, Hermetic Tantra-Yoga, ritual magick and mysticism. Those who have also studied the works of such luminaries as John Dee, Eliphaz Levi, Schwaller de Lubicz, W.E. Butler, and W.G. Gray will be acquainted with the rich Hermetic and Kemetic tradition that underpins the contemporary work of Ordo Astri.

We provide a guided correspondence course in Hermetic Qabalah involving study, meditation, ritual and the keeping of a magical diary Record. All those that enrol for the course are automatically entitled to Associate Membership of Ordo Astri.

Online Resources

Our online Glossary of Magical and Thelemic Terminology is indispensable to the study of Liber AL vel Legis, the Book of the Law and the Occult Science. The glossary is reproduced from our publication, The Ending of the Words – Magical Philosophy of Aleister Crowley. It contains key qabalistic, metaphysical and analogous scientific terms used in our research of Liber AL vel Legis. Information on the many ancient Egyptian gods and cult centres associated with Thelemic magick has been organised in a coherent manner and cross-referenced. Practitioners of the magical arts will find here vital keys of knowledge that are generally excluded or overlooked in the literature on this abstruse subject. Those with understanding of the use of magical correspondences will find here far more than merely a dictionary of terms.

Updated Sol in 12 degrees Pisces, Luna in 21 degrees Gemini An. IV-xix (2012 e.v.)