6° Initiation

Here's the initiation ritual for the 6° grade of Initiate, the final grade in the FHR system and the doorway to your own independent work in occultism. 

Preliminaries and Preparations

This ritual is the final step in your initiation into the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose.  It marks the completion of your formal training in the Fellowship and your acceptance of certain commitments and responsibilities as a custodian of the tradition. Be sure to read the text of the ritual carefully before deciding whether or not to perform it. If you decide to proceed, certain preliminaries are necessary, and certain preparations need to be made.

The preliminaries are straightforward. Before you perform the ceremony, you should have completed all the work of the preceding degrees in full. It is wise to go back over the rituals and instructional papers you have already studied, and be sure you have done the work to your own satisfaction.

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