Membership Information

There are three ways of working with the grades of the Hermetic Sanctuary of Ma'at:

1. Membership into the Ordo Stella Matutina through Temple Initiation.

Members who join the Ordo Stella Matutina through initiation in one of our local temples can access their grade curriculum and the related multimedia files, participate in our scheduled online classes and grade discussion forums, check their mastery of the grade curriculum through our online quizzes, and take the knowledge portion of their advancement examinations in the HSoM.

2. Distance Members and Solitary Practitioners

Solitary practitioners and members at a distance who cannot travel to one of our local temples to receive physical initiations can access their grade curriculum and related multimedia files, participate in our scheduled online classes and grade discussion forums, check their mastery of the grade curriculum through our online quizzes, and take their advancement examinations in the HSoM. For more information about Self-Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition please visit the Self-Initiation website.

3. Associate Temple Members

The Ordo Stella Matutina has partnered with several Associate Temples and Orders worldwide to use our online curriculum and testing system for their own membership. We have no control over these orders and have no desire to control their activities. We provide this as a gesture of goodwill to the greater occult community.

The key differences between the different membership paths are as follows:

• Solitary practitioners start their path at the Probationary grade. This grade prepares the candidate of Self-Initiation by providing instruction on the techniques needed to perform the solitary initiation rituals.
• Solitary practitioners must perform the Self-Initiation rituals as described in the Self-Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition book by Sandra Tabatha and Chic Cicero.
• Solitary practitioners receive an Official Certificate of Completion for successful completion of the grade requirements and advancement examinations.
• Ordo Stella Matutina members receive an Official Grade Certificate which signifies that they have completed the grade advancement requirements and received the temple initiation for the grade.
• Because there is absolutely no possibility that one can initiate oneself into the Inner Order, solitary practitioners must visit one of our local temples to receive all of their physical initiations from 0=0 to Portal before becoming eligible to submit their advancement requirements into the grade of Adeptus Minor (5=6).
• Additional examinations may be required from the solitary member to ensure that the student has mastered the outer order grades before they can be considered for advancement into the Inner Order.
• Under normal circumstances there is no grade reciprocity between the Ordo Stella Matutina and the Associate Temples that use our curriculum but students from other associate temples may join as a regular member through additional testing and going through the necessary temple initiations. We will need a letter of recommendation from the associate temple before we will consider any kind of grade reciprocity.

An Invitation

The Hermetic Sanctuary of Ma'at: Ordo Stella Matutina invites you to submit your application for admission to membership so that you may study and practice those Higher Laws of the Cosmic, both for your own benefit and that of humanity, and join the Great Work.

The HSoM always gives the best of its knowledge to its members and for that reason the membership includes the best of its teachings.

If you honestly aspire to the inner knowledge given by the Golden Dawn, you may request admission as an aspirant to the Inner Light.

We do not care about the applicant's position or honors. Nor do we care about their race, sex, religion, or political ideas. We are only interested in knowing that they consider themselves worthy of accepting the secular and timeless wisdom of the Golden Dawn.

If this is the case, we will open the portals of our Temple to those who wish admission. You will be received as someone who wants their name written in the register of sincere seekers for whom the Rose Cross is something more than just a symbol, but rather a state of being that one strives for.
Membership Donations

All organizations, to be able to exist and provide members the facilities and attention that they require, needs sufficient funds for its maintenance; this is such an evident truth that you will understand perfectly that members of the HSoM help to do this through their annual donations.

The HSoM as an organization, is dependent upon the individual, that is, our Fraters and Sorors, for its economic existence. The donations the member pays are the very basis of the Order's income. The Sanctuary has been subject to increasing costs and needs to keep pace with the times. For the last two and a half years, the HSoM has been confronted with the burden of increased internet costs and other materials essential to serving its members without the help of any membership dues. But, now as we have stated, the basic economic support for HSoM is the Annual donations. Consequently, Fraters and Sorores, there is no other alternative but to ask you for a nominal membership donatoion fee. HSoM has, during these past years, absorbed all the cost to which it has been subjected, but such is no longer possible. The nominal donations will go into effect July 1, 2005. Kindly bear with us in meeting this situation.

These donations finance the expenses incurred in the preparation of the teachings to our members and Study Groups, Online Resources, and other services provided to our members.

We all know that nobody can charge or pay for knowledge, but if an organization does not posses sufficient means, it cannot transmit the knowledge to those who desire it and who, due to their dedication and effort, deserve to have it.

On the other hand, it is also certain that we only appreciate that which we secure by exerting an effort. The Golden Dawn's teachings are far too important to be denied the value they deserve.

For these reasons members of the HSoM is asked to help offset these expenses with an Annual Donation of $36.00 when joining.

In this way, not only does the Temple sustain itself, but also keeps away the simply curious who would indulge their idleness at the expense of others.
Your Acceptance of the Invitation

How to proceed

• FIRST - Read your online application carefully. The answer to each question is important. Your answers will be considered as strictly confidential.
• SECOND - Once your online application is sent you will be redirected to our Secure online payment area provided by Pay-Pal. When your membership fee has been received, the Admin will begin to carry out the steps for your admission as quickly as possible establishing you in the records of our temple, and you will be sent your Password and Login instructions by email within 24-48 hrs for access into the Virtual Sanctuary.
• THIRD - If for any reason you are not admitted, your will receive a refund of the full amount that you have sent, and a sincere explanation of the reason for the decision.

Sign-Up and Registration

For your convenience, you may now register as a new online or Long Distance member of the Hermetic Sanctuary of Ma'at: by requesting a membership application to be sent using the email address below.  Upon completing this application you will be contacted within one week and emailed your Login and Password into the Members only area of the Sanctuary to your e-mail address.

For more information you may contact us at: mailto:info@ritual-magic.com

Applicants for the Sanctuary of Ma'at and Ordo Stella Matutina are asked to answer all the questions on the application, for consideration of their eligibility to join the Sanctuary, as they can be of great help in placing them with the right Proctor. All information is kept in the strictest confidence.

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