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Privy_Princess
There is something to this if you look at the grades in Thelema (A:.A:.) There are even 13 of them, if you count the subdividing of the 4th and 5th
degrees.
More seems ripped off from OTO, who also have 13 degrees. The 7th degree on the OP list is the 5th degree in OTO. Degree 8 and 9 also seem taken.
Perhaps an amalgamation of a bunch of different groups and degrees someone made up?
A:A:.
The grades are divide into three orders to represent the ascent up the Kaballah Tree of Life.
Order of The G:. D:. (Golden Dawn)
0° Probationer
1° Neophyte
2° Zelator
3° Practicus
4° Philosophus
4° Dominus Liminis
Order of The R:. C:. (Rosy Cross)
5° Adeptus Minor (within)
5° Adeptus Minor (without)
6° Adeptus Major
7° Adeptus Exemptus
Order of The S:. S:. (Silver Star)
8° Magister Templi
9° Magus
10° Ipsissimus
The OTO is subdivided even more insanely:
The Man of Earth Triad
0°—Minerval
I°—Man & Brother
II°—Magician
III°—Master Magician
IV°—Perfect Magician & Companion of the Holy Royal Arch of Enoch
P.I.—Perfect Initiate, or Prince of Jerusalem
Outside all Triads
Knight of the East & West
The Lover Triad
V°—
•Sovereign Prince Rose-Croix, and Knight of the Pelican & Eagle
•Knight of the Red Eagle, and Member of the Senate of Knight Hermetic Philosophers
VI°—
•Illustrious Knight (Templar) of the Order of Kadosch, and Companion of the Holy Graal
•Grand Inquisitor Commander, and Member of the Grand Tribunal
•Prince of the Royal Secret
VII°—
•Theoreticus, and Very Illustrious Sovereign Grand Inspector General
•Magus of Light, and Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
•Grandmaster of Light, and Inspector of Rites & Degrees
The Hermit Triad
VIII°—
•Perfect Pontiff of the Illuminati
•Epopt of the Illuminati
IX°—Initiate of the Sanctuary of the Gnosis
X°—Rex Summus Sanctissimus
XI°—Initiate of the Eleventh Degree (This degree is technical, and has no relation to the general plan of the Order)
XII°—Frater Superior, and Outer Head of the Order
edit on 22-5-2021 by Degradation33 because: (no reason given)