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<p dir="auto">I was reading Perdurabo today and noticed that from a lot of promising Students and Probationers Crowley only raised eight to Neophyte. However, it never gives a list.</p>
<p dir="auto">I know of Estai,Alostrael,Achad,Omnia Vincam,Omnia Pro Veritate, Progradior,Genesthai</p>
<p dir="auto">Is anyone else missing or only these eight persons achieved Neophyte under Crowley's tutelage?</p>
<p dir="auto">Also, apart from Germer, who else was acknowledged by Crowley as a 5=6?</p>
<p dir="auto">93 93/93</p>
]]></description><link>https://thelema.org/forum/topic/13562/neophytes-of-the-a-a</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:14:34 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://thelema.org/forum/topic/13562.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:37:16 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Neophytes of the A.&#x27;.A.&#x27;. on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:20:14 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Yes, everyone I mentioned attained to 5=6 A.'.A.'. or higher directly under Crowley, except for his own teacher and the Order's co-founder, who I threw in just cuz.</p>
]]></description><link>https://thelema.org/forum/post/62335</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thelema.org/forum/post/62335</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Eshelman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:20:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Neophytes of the A.&#x27;.A.&#x27;. on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:05:18 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Yes, Perdurabo is a book. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561841706/002-1749070-2490436?v=glance&amp;n=283155" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561841706/002-1749070-2490436?v=glance&amp;n=283155</a></p>
<p dir="auto">My question was directed towards people who achieved A:.A:. under Crowley's tutelage.Still, the info you gave is very interesting. Thanks  <img src="https://thelema.org/forum/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f604.png?v=b470f3dfed9" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--smile" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":smile:" alt="😄" /></p>
]]></description><link>https://thelema.org/forum/post/62334</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thelema.org/forum/post/62334</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mysteria]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:05:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Neophytes of the A.&#x27;.A.&#x27;. on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:20:37 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/forum/user/mysteria" aria-label="Profile: Mysteria">@<bdi>Mysteria</bdi></a> said</p>
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<p dir="auto">"<br />
"What is the passage that says this?"</p>
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<p dir="auto">Perdurabo. Pg 171. Second to last paragraph (the one about James Windram)"</p>
<p dir="auto">Is "Perdurabo" the name of a book? (I don't understand this reference.)</p>
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<p dir="auto">"Alostrael and Achad made sudden jumps to 8=3, right?"</p>
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<p dir="auto">Yes. But the grades are inclusive.</p>
<p dir="auto">I think I didn't understand what you were really getting at with your question, so I answered more broadly.</p>
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<p dir="auto">"Cecil Jones became an Adeptus Minor through the Golden Dawn but i guess it counts <img src="https://thelema.org/forum/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f604.png?v=b470f3dfed9" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--smile" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":smile:" alt="😄" /> "</p>
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<p dir="auto">What counts is that he actually held the grade.</p>
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<p dir="auto">"Do you have info about hpw Windram and Kuntzel got there?"</p>
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<p dir="auto">Kuntzel was an 8=3 of a Rosicrucian group Crowley met in Germany, with which he formed an alliance, and he recognized her grade. Windram worked up through the system - much of his story is told in <em>Confessions.</em></p>
]]></description><link>https://thelema.org/forum/post/62332</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thelema.org/forum/post/62332</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Eshelman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:20:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Neophytes of the A.&#x27;.A.&#x27;. on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:21:16 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">"What is the passage that says this?"</p>
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<p dir="auto">Perdurabo. Pg 171. Second to last paragraph (the one about James Windram)</p>
<p dir="auto">Alostrael and Achad made sudden jumps to 8=3, right?<br />
Cecil Jones became an Adeptus Minor through the Golden Dawn but i guess it counts <img src="https://thelema.org/forum/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f604.png?v=b470f3dfed9" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--smile" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":smile:" alt="😄" /><br />
Do you have info about hpw Windram and Kuntzel got there?</p>
]]></description><link>https://thelema.org/forum/post/62331</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thelema.org/forum/post/62331</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mysteria]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:21:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Neophytes of the A.&#x27;.A.&#x27;. on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:34:34 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/forum/user/mysteria" aria-label="Profile: Mysteria">@<bdi>Mysteria</bdi></a> said</p>
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<p dir="auto">"I was reading Perdurabo today and noticed that from a lot of promising Students and Probationers Crowley only raised eight to Neophyte. However, it never gives a list."</p>
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<p dir="auto">What is the passage that says this? I do recall a passage where IIRC he indicated that only about one in eight - that is, only about 12-13% - of the Probationers were reaching Neophyte at one particular point in time.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'd have to do a lot of digging through my notes - I once had a longer list that I deleted and may have some scraps around. Just off the top of my head, I notice that you haven't included Kenneth Grant in the list, but he did make it to Neophyte. There were others.</p>
<p dir="auto">There were also at least a couple that he raised past this without raising <em>to</em> Neophyte. Germer was received as a 5=6, then later as an 8=3. Virikam, at order of one of the Secret Chiefs, was given 4=7.</p>
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<p dir="auto">"Also, apart from Germer, who else was acknowledged by Crowley as a 5=6?"</p>
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<p dir="auto">Off the top of my head, there were quite a few acknowledged to higher grades, thus implicitly to 5=6. (The grades are inclusive.) Of those you already mentioned, one must include Achad and Alostrael. Frank Bennett was raised, grade by grade, to 5=6, then later acknowledged as a 6=5. Windram was also 5=6 then 6=5. Of course, Cecil Jones was 7=4 and higher from the time of the establishment of the Order. Martha Kuntzel was recognized as 8=3. There was a Fra. I.A. 5=6 that I've never been able to identify who both in the late Equinox Vol. I era and near the end of Crowley's life lent imprimatur to some official documents - it couldn't be Allen Bennett (Iehi Aur) because he was dead before the second occasion.</p>
<p dir="auto">Fuller's 5=6 was purely honorary so that he could serve as Cancellarius. In actual attainment he didn't get past his probation.</p>
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