The Vault of the Adepti

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The fly occupies the aspirant's role in the Adeptus Minor grade ceremony in the seven-sided Vault of Christian Rosenkreutz, following the three Points of the Stella Matutina ritual published by Israel Regardie.

Setup

• Seventeen cues over 312 seconds, from the Opening of the Tomb through the three Points to the Closing.
• Officers: the Chief, Second and Third Adepts and an introducer, with the aspirant.
• A seven-sided vault, each wall five feet broad and eight feet high at a model scale of 0.28 units per foot, with forty coloured squares per wall, a circular altar, the Pastos and a rose on the white ceiling.
• Controls: square colouring mixed or juxtaposed (both permitted by Regardie) and a viewport cutaway.

Measurement

• Retinal input only. The aspirant's retina always sees the closed room; the cutaway applies only to viewport cameras.
• The ceremony, gestures and pacing are programmed from the published text.

Limitations

• Paraphrased from Regardie's The Golden Dawn, vol. II (1938), with the Vault as described in the Fama Fraternitatis (1614). Three Points are condensed into about five minutes.
• Fly participants, model scale, lighting and pacing are reconstruction choices. Cords and the wine-dipped dagger are shown as gentle, non-graphic signs.
• The activity represents a historical rite and makes no claim that the ritual has any effect.

Sources

• Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn, vol. II (1938), Internet Archive