Our
Mission Statement
The
Fraternitas L.V.X. Occulta, or Fraternity of
the Hidden Light, is an Aquarian Age Mystery School
of the Western Esoteric Tradition, organized for the
following three-fold purpose:
1. To act as a modern day repository of the Ancient
Wisdom teachings of the Tarot, Qabalah, Alchemy, Astrology,
and related Arcane Sciences;
2. To train its members for unselfish service to humanity,
by providing a seeding-ground for their growth and development
through group and individual applications of the Wisdom
teachings;
3. To promulgate the Ancient Wisdom teachings in an
effort to elevate the thought life of a humanity at
large, and help herald the coming of a universal brotherhood
on earth.
The Fraternity of the Hidden Light is an Esoteric Order
in the Western Mystery Tradition, tracing direct lineage
to the great English Order at the turn of the century,
known as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Members
of the Golden Dawn included the poet W. B. Yeats and
many other notable figures.
Like the Golden Dawn, the Fraternity of the Hidden Light
practices a system of spiritual disciplines best described
as Hermetic Qabalah. Hermeticism is a combination of
ideas based upon the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus.
Hermes was the great legendary Egyptian "Master
of Masters," credited as being the father of Hermetic
Wisdom, the founder of Astrology, and the discover of
Alchemy.
The Qabalah is a dynamic system of Judeo-Christian theosophy,
mysticism and theurgy, founded upon ancient teachings.
The Qabalah is based upon the tradition practiced by
the ancient Essenes whose members included John the
Baptist and Jesus.
Esotericism
Esotericism is the theory and practice of the arcane
arts and sciences. The dictionary defines arcane as
"mysterious" or "secret." These
same secret arts have been practiced by the great Adepts
and Masters of all ages. Furthermore, entire civilizations
practiced the recondite arts, including the ancient
Egyptians.
In the Orient, esotericism is practiced openly as Yoga,
etc.
The esoteric arts have been misused by some, and thus
have fallen suspect. Nevertheless the Sacred Mysteries
are part of the Arcane. They have been hidden intentionally
from the masses and kept secret through the ages. The
Fraternity of the Hidden Light practices these Sacred
Mysteries or esoteric arts for good, as they were intended
by the great Adepts and Masters.
History
Mystery Schools, as individualized expressions of the
Western Mystery Tradition, have been in existence for
millennia, their origin lost in time. Tradition ascribes
the founding of the first Mystery Schools to immortal
beings of godlike stature, whose compassion for mankind
lead them to form Mystery Schools for the evolutionary
advancement of a comparatively infant humanity.
These first Mystery Schools, having served their purpose,
have long since vanished. Dying embers on their altars,
however, were carried to new temples and rekindled into
burning flames, to be living messages to a humanity
in great need. Notable among these various Schools formed
down through the centuries are those of Isis and Osiris,
the Zoroastrian Mystery Schools, the Mysteries of Dionysus,
the Mithraic Mysteries, the Eleusinian Mysteries, the
Gnostics, the Essenes, the Sufis, the Knights Templar,
and the Brotherhood of the Golden and Rosy Cross.
In more recent times, just before the turn of the century,
a new and eclectic expansion of the Western Mystery
Tradition for English speaking nations took form in
Europe as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. A few
years later an American branch of that order was established
as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in America.
Reconstituted under European dispensation, it became
the Rosicrucian Order of the Alpha et Omega in America,
with temples in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco,
with the governing or mother temple in New York, the
THOTH-HERMES Temple #9.
Perhaps one of the most important events for modern
man in the history of the Western Mystery Tradition
occurred a little over one half a century ago when the
Praemonstrator, or ruling Chief, of the Thoth-Hermes
Temple, along with three other Officers, reor-ganized
and expanded the teachings of the Alpha et Omega and
formed a new Mystery School operating under a new age
dispensa-tion: to be a transitional Order to bring Piscean
Age humanity into the Aquarian Age, the Age of Man,
or of Brotherhood and Humanitarianism.
The founders of this new Order have since made their
transition, but have left the vestiges of a lofty tradition
capable of infinite expansion by those who hold the
"keys."
To the Fraternitas L.V.X. Occulta, inheritor of these
"keys," has fallen this task of expansion.
Fraternitas
L.V.X. Occulta
Fraternitas L.V.X. Occulta is Latin for "Fraternity
of the Hidden Light," and refers to that hidden
light resident in all life, the Spirit within.
Through application of a Qabalistic numerological system
known as Gematria, "Hidden Light" equates
to the phrase "The stone which the builders rejected",
and refers to the legend concerning the building of
King Solomon's temple, where the rejected stone became
the Keystone of the temple, the temple of God and indwelling
place of the Holy Shekinah.
Statement
of Purpose
One of the Primary Purposes of the Fraternity of the
Hidden Light is to prepare its members for illumination
so that they may serve humanity. Members progress through
several grades of instruction and experience, which
aid them in achieving all that they are capable of becoming.
