Ancient Masters
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A closed working group of practitioners of the Ancient Arts. The Order studies and practices Arcane Magic, Meditation, Energy Work, and the exploration of consciousness, and it trains the students of the School.
Consciousness can be trained
The premise of the Ancient Arts is simple: consciousness can be trained. Attention, energy, and perception develop with practice, the way the body develops with exercise. The tradition preserves the methods that work and the knowledge of how to apply them.
The path of a Magus is a path of seeking truth. An Adept leaves behind the senseless pursuit of desires and illusions. Through cultivation the practitioner frees himself from inner darkness, afflictions of the mind, and suffering. The motivation shifts to spiritual growth: to explore the world, seek the truth, and experience the reality beyond the five senses.
Claims are tested; what fails the test is discarded, including one's own illusions. For the same reason the Order publishes reviews of false teachers, and for the same reason its own students take examinations.
Most of the Order's knowledge is not published. In a living tradition, knowledge passes from teacher to student, in proportion to the student's work. The library, the lectures, and the curriculum are the open part of it.
The circles of the Order
- Outer Circle — Foundation in the Ancient Arts: the School's five-year program, with practice reports, feedback, and examinations.
- Inner Circle — Adept training: advanced study and research under the Order's supervision, after Foundation.
- Core — members of the Order: Magi, Masters, and Elders, veterans in cultivation. Entry is by examination and invitation.
Membership in the circles cannot be bought, and no circle can be skipped.
The founders
The School is led by two masters of the tradition, known to students as Aeordimm and Neirong.
Both have spent decades in the practice — as students first, then as researchers and teachers. Their work is the ordinary work of the tradition: training students, reviewing claims, writing, and continuing their own cultivation. Some of their writing is public, in the library. Most of their work is not published: a working master's obligations are to the tradition and to their students.
They do not promise powers and they do not give demonstrations. They read students' practice reports, give honest feedback, and hold students to the standard of the tradition.
Judge any teacher, including these two, by the structure of the school, the quality of the teaching, and what the students learn to do.
The Order operates under a code of ethics. Violating it means expulsion, at any rank.