In this lecture, Star Club Founder Sef Salem and Course Leader Dr. Halo Quin will discuss the purpose and process of crafting an initiation for Societas Astris, and the ritual’s impact on initiates of a modern-day magical order.

While originally constructed as a group ritual system in 2016, the Star Club Framework and 8 Praxes became a training course for those who are new to occultism or who wished to broaden the scope of their knowledge and practice. By 2020 the first training cycle had been completed and participants desired to understand more about the mystical and gnostic under-pinnings of the system, and so Sef created the Star Club Initiation assisted by Dr. Halo Quin and Ben Dean.

The Initiation seeks to expand on the core concepts of Star Club via psychodrama and ritual - the ideas of an anarcho-syndicalist approach to a magical working group, the return of agency to the Candidate(s), and the apotheosis of the self via the Neuro-Gnostic Model.

Join Sef and Halo as they discuss the key elements of apotheosis, katabasis, and anabasis which run common to initiations throughout the Western Mystery Tradition, and why it was so important to turn some of these concepts on their head to create an initiation fit for Societas Astris.

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