referred to as the Celtic Mystical Order, and that he suspended even his preparations to be fully invested as Theoricus Adeptus Minor, passing the first parts in 1895 and then completing the rest in 1912, by which time the Golden Dawn had given way to the Stella Matutina. However, some details of the symbolism in these two grades are significant, as they centre on the dying and rising god: in the ritual of 5°= 6° the aspirant is shown the celebrant dead within the coffin of Father Rosenkreuz and a resurrection, while in 6°= 5° the aspirant himself or herself goes into the coffin and undergoes symbolic rebirth. A notebook entry from 1915 contains ideas for a ceremony of 7°=4° (Adeptus Exemptus at Chesed): For initiation 7 =4 We are weighed down by the blood & the heavy weight of the bones

We are bound by flowers, & our feet are entangled in the green

and there is deceit in the singing of birds

It is time to be done with it all

The stars call & all the planets

and the purging fire of the moon

and yonder in the cold silence of cleansing night

may the dawn break & gates of day be set wide open. The PIAL Notebook (National Library of Ireland, MS 36,276) See Yeats: The Man and the Masks, 259, and The Unicorn: William Butler Yeats’ Search for Reality, 170.

Much of the symbolism of the ceremonies of the elemental Grades centres on the Fall from the Garden of Eden, and how the centres of human consciousness were