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Requirements for Valid:
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The following information is from the Fellowship of Isis Manual.
Any Fellowship ritual drama may be enacted or meditated upon at any time by our members. However, certain requirements must be met in order for a Lyceum Magi Degree, Iseum Initiate Level, or DCD & NOT Initiation to be valid. In order to provide cohesion within the Fellowship of Isis, the training administrators within all of the Foundation Center Societies are asked to follow the following protocol before acceptance of members' Degrees, Levels and/or Initiations.
Requirements for a Valid Degree/Level/Initiation
- 1) A structured program of study (with an active FOI center) is required, previous to enactment of a Fellowship ritual.
- 2) Divine Awareness (communion with the presence of the God/dess in some form) must be obtained during, or immediately after, the enactment of the FOI ritual.
- 3) The experience of Divine Awareness is shared with the training administrator, who then accepts and records it.
It is not necessary to notify the Foundation Center when a member has attained a Degree, Level or Initiation. Records of these are kept by the training center only. Although Divine Awareness may be experienced each time it is performed, only one Magi Degree, Initiate Level, or Initiation may be declared per ritual. A member may not attain more than one Degree (or Level/Initiation) for the same rite.
Training administrators are Hierophants within Lyceums, Adepti within Iseums, Priest/ess Alchemists within Solar Iseums, Archdruid/esses within the DCD, and Grand Knight/Dame Commanders within the NOT. They confer Degrees, Levels & Initiations in the manner that they accept the member's experience of Divine Awareness once received. They are simply guides to this process and do not bestow them directly. This is a direct experience between the member and the God/dess.
The 33rd Degree/Level in the Lyceum and Iseum systems respectively is reserved for spontaneous mystical awakening which may occur at any time. Acceptance and recording of the 33rd degree is not required, but is kept as a private initiation by the member.
The declaration of a Degree, Level or Initiation lies with each member and study for these may involve months or even years. The number of Degrees, Levels, or Initiations acquired does not have any bearing upon a member's status within the Fellowship of Isis. Each member is given equal honor and privileges. These are simply a way for an individual to chart a path for their own personal growth and to keep track of their spiritual progress along the way.
Also, due to the transformative nature of the Fellowship rituals, it is recommended to study only one Liturgy system at a time. For example: the Iseum Initiate Level system separately from the Lyceum Magi Degrees, or the Priesthood Alchemy Degrees, etc.
The Conferring of Titles
Once a certain number of Degrees, Levels or Initiations is achieved, a member has the opportunity to obtain certain titles within the Fellowship of Isis. In order to preserve the validity of its training courses and to maintain equal standards throughout the organization, the Fellowship does not confer titles based solely on "life experience". Degrees, Levels and Initiations are earned through appropriate study with a Fellowship center. Please see the individual sections for the corresponding requirements.
Titles are merely descriptions of the type of work and responsibility undertaken within the Fellowship of Isis. All members of the FOI, regardless of titles or degrees, are equal. All appointments are required to be registered with an AU member.
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