What Do the Inner Order Grades of Golden Dawn (RR Et AC) Really Mean?
Red Rose and Golden Cross).] In the last part, we left off with the Grade of Portal which is really not neither of the Outer (First) Order nor of the Inner (Second) Order, being more of a bridge between the two Orders. The Grade of Portal is not associated with any of the sephiroth of the Tree of Life; hence the Portal Grade has no numerical equation assigned to it. Paroketh is Portal’s Tree of Life association, which is a veil that separates the four lowest sephiroth from the rest of the Tree of Life. Paroketh is referred to some as “the veil of Isis.” The Portal Grade does have an element assigned to it, the element of Spirit, the Quintessence that separates, binds and empowers the other four elements. The Portal ritual takes place symbolically with the four floor officers operating in the four lowest sephiroth, and the Chief Adept (seated on the dais behind a veil) in Tiphareth just beyond Paroketh. Traditionally, the Portal Grade does not have a planet associated with it, but the A
