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    AA Forms of Address

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    The document outlines forms of address used in the A∴A∴ based on grade. [1] Probationers and Practicus are addressed as "Frater" or "Soror." [2] Philosophus through Dominus Liminis are "Honored Frater/Soror," Adeptus Minor as "Very Honored," and so on with increasing honorifics for higher grades. [3] The Chancellor, Imperator, and Praemonstrator hold the symbolic or actual grades of 5=6, 6=5, and 7=4 respectively and are addressed accordingly in formal settings.

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    The document outlines forms of address used in the A∴A∴ based on grade. [1] Probationers and Practicus are addressed as "Frater" or "Soror." [2] Philosophus through Dominus Liminis are "Honored Frater/Soror," Adeptus Minor as "Very Honored," and so on with increasing honorifics for higher grades. [3] The Chancellor, Imperator, and Praemonstrator hold the symbolic or actual grades of 5=6, 6=5, and 7=4 respectively and are addressed accordingly in formal settings.

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    The document outlines forms of address used in the A∴A∴ based on grade. [1] Probationers and Practicus are addressed as "Frater" or "Soror." [2] Philosophus through Dominus Liminis are "Honored Frater/Soror," Adeptus Minor as "Very Honored," and so on with increasing honorifics for higher grades. [3] The Chancellor, Imperator, and Praemonstrator hold the symbolic or actual grades of 5=6, 6=5, and 7=4 respectively and are addressed accordingly in formal settings.

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    AA Forms of Address

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    The document outlines forms of address used in the A∴A∴ based on grade. [1] Probationers and Practicus are addressed as "Frater" or "Soror." [2] Philosophus through Dominus Liminis are "Honored Frater/Soror," Adeptus Minor as "Very Honored," and so on with increasing honorifics for higher grades. [3] The Chancellor, Imperator, and Praemonstrator hold the symbolic or actual grades of 5=6, 6=5, and 7=4 respectively and are addressed accordingly in formal settings.

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    Forms of Address According to AA Grades

    Among the inheritances from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn that the
    AA has retained is the use of certain forms of address appropriate to the
    various Grades of the Order. These are as follows:

    Probationer 0◦=0▫ to Practicus 3◦=8▫: All members of these Grades are simply
    referred to as either ‘Frater’ (Latin ‘Brother’; pronounced “FRAH-ter”) or ‘Soror’
    (Latin ‘Sister’; pronounced “SOR-or”). This is always an appropriate default
    address, and is never, in actual point of fact, wrong. While you as a Probationer,
    for example, may have an Instructor who is in actuality an Adeptus Minor 5◦=6▫,
    whether or not you are aware of this, insofar as you are concerned they are a
    Neophyte 1◦=10▫!

    Philosophus 4◦=7▫ to Dōminus Liminis: Having come to the apex of the Outer
    College, and the Grade of Dōminus Liminis being in part an extension of
    Philosophus as well as a Portal Grade to the Second Order, these Grades are
    referred to as either ‘Honored Frater’ or ‘Honored Soror’.

    Adeptus Minor 5◦=6▫: Referred to as ‘Very Honored Frater’ or ‘Very Honored


    Soror’.

    Adeptus Major 6◦=5▫: Referred to as ‘Most Honored Frater/Soror’.

    Adeptus Exemptus 7◦=4▫: Referred to as ‘Greatly Honored Frater/Soror’.

    Magister Templī 8◦=3▫: Referred to as ‘Superlatively Honored Frater/Soror’.

    All of these conventions are mere formalities, and are truly most relevant only
    when addressing a Brother or Sister in a formal capacity or in their capacity of
    holding a particular Office within the Order, the three to whom this is most
    relevant being as follows:

    Cancellarius (Chancellor): Official record-keeper and interface with both


    prospective members and those in the Outer College (Ordo G.D.), and thus he or
    she “manifests the Beauty of the Order to the world, in the way that his superiors
    enjoin, and his genius dictates.”1 Symbolic or actual 5◦=6▫, thus referred to as such.

    1
    See “One Star in Sight”.

    1
    Imperātor: Functional, hands-on Head of the Order who puts into action the
    teachings as overseen by the Præmonstrātor; thus he or she must “support the
    authority of” the Præmonstrātor, “transmitting the Word of [the Præmonstrātor]
    clearly, forcibly, and subtly…exert[ing his or her] whole power and authority to
    govern the Members of lower Grades with balanced vigour and initiative in such a
    way as to allow no dispute or complaint.” Symbolic or actual 6◦=5▫.

    Præmonstrātor: Symbolic or actual 7◦=4▫.

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