Master Members of
Kautantowit's Mecautea
The third degree represents maturity, with advanced wisdom and knowledge. Master Members are taught about virtue and morality, along with the duties and tools of a Master Member.
Once a Member has completed their third degree - which usually takes some years - they receive all the rights and privileges available to them and will become known as a Master Member
KM have supplementary degrees. The discipline is divided into two denominations, material and spiritual or operative and speculative. Whereas the material practice of alchemy sought to explain and manipulate the physical world, the spiritual alchemist sought to use the terminology, science, and ideas of the material to explain the psychological, spiritual, and sociological existence of man. Alchemy was interested in transmuting one thing into another. Of course the most widely known idea of alchemy is the search for a technique of converting base metals into silver or gold; however, within the spiritual denomination of alchemy there was a search to return man to a pure oneness with the Divine Creator.
Having a degree, rank or title is a constant reminder of what you have learned, or what tools you have at your disposal, and what your responsibility is in the community. Those who seek to deepen their service to the community, to be official teachers or hold greater responsibility within the Temple, can petition to be ordained ministers. Those that do receive a key from us. The key is a symbol of the goddess of Witches, Hecate, but also means we trust you fully with the keys of the Temple, to come and go as you please in the Great Work.
Many graduate, and take years to fully “bloom” into a role of community service. Some leave us to explore other things and, of those that leave, some return and some do not. This is the way of things. All flowers bloom when their times comes. Nothing can be rushed. Wild seeds are spread, and hopefully many new things beyond our gates grow.
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The Fulfillment of Will – Sun
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Love under Will – Moon.
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Health – Mercury
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Wealth – Venus
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Strength – Mars
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Joy – Jupiter
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Peace – Saturn