0=0 Neophyte Test

Composed by GH Frater RC
Autumnal Equinox, Vancouver 2024

1. In the Neophyte Initiation, what does the letter ‘H’ represent? 

2. Name the three major officers in the Neophyte Initiation:

3. Name the lesser officers in the Neophyte Initiation:

4. What is the Grand Word of the grade?

5. Write out the full Adoration to the Lord of the Universe:

6. Describe in detail how to perform The Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram:

7. Describe in detail the exercise of the Middle Pillar:

8. Describe in detail how to practice Meditation One and your experience with it over the past six months:

9. What are the names of the 22 Major Arcana in order:

10. Write the Three Mother Letters in Hebrew and list their English meaning and transliteration:

11. Write the Double Letters in Hebrew and list their English meaning and transliteration:

12. Write the Single Letters in Hebrew and list their English meaning and transliteration:

13. What are the lessons of the Kerux?

14. What are the names of the two pillars?

15. List what each of the Three Pillars represent:

16. What do the red tetrahedrons atop each pillar represent?

17. Draw the correct position of the Cross & Triangle in the Hall of the Neophyte:

18. Draw the symbols for the Five Elements around a pentagram:

19. List the 12 Zodiac and their symbols in the correct order from 1-12.

20. Draw Caput and Cauda Draconis, identifying each:

21. List the Seven Ancient Planets and their symbols from Luna to Saturn:

22. Draw the Tree of Life glyph as used in the Golden Dawn (just the circles and lines):

23. Name the Ten Sephiroth from the Crown to the Kingdom:

24. Write the names of the Ten Sephiroth in Hebrew from Kether to Malkuth:

25. What are the names of the Three Principles of Nature:

26. Draw the symbols of the Three Principles of Nature:

27. To what Sephirah does the 0=0 Neophyte grade correspond?

28. What do the red socks/slippers represent?

29. What does the nemyss represent?

30. Describe how to perform the Sign of Silence:

31. What does the Sign of Silence represent?

32. What are other names of the Sign of Silence?

33. What’s another name for the Sign of the Enterer?

34. What’s the “Attacking Sign”?

35. Describe how to perform the Sign of Horus?

36. For what can the initiate use the Two Signs of the Grade?

37. Who is Harpocrates?

38. What are the Four Hermetic Virtues?

39. List the qualities of the four elements:

40. Perform a Celtic Cross tarot spread with the major arcana and write out your interpretation:

41. Describe the experience of working with your ritual diary and what you have learned from the process:

42. What are the Queen Scale colours of the Ten Sephiroth:

43. What year was the Golden Dawn founded?

44. Name the three founders of the Golden Dawn:

45. List the full grade structure on the Tree of Life:

46. Describe your experiences of meditating on Harpocrates:

47. What does the Double Cubicle Altar represent?

48. Which three officers carry swords in the Neophyte initiation?

49. What does the Hegemon and the Mitre-Headed Sceptre represent?

50. Where is the place of the Hegemon?

51. What is the meaning of “Hekas, hekas, este bebeloi!”?

52. What is the origin of the phrase “Light In Extension”?

53. What does the Lamp of the Kerux represent?

54. Where is the Double Cubicle Altar placed in the Hall of the Neophyte?

55. List the Four Worlds of the Qabalah and their meaning:

56. What is the Qabalah?

57. What is the Zohar?

58. What is the Sepher Yetzira?

59. What is the Sepher Bahir?

60. What are the four colours of Malkuth? Draw their placement and label:

61. Describe how to perform "Simple Healing Ritual":

62. What have you learned from frequent practice of the Healing Ritual?

63. Describe the moment you most felt initiated into a New Life since the ceremony of your self-initiation:

64. What does the Hierophant represent?

65. What does the Hiereus represent?

66. What is Ars Regia?

67. How many times is the candidate purified in the 0=0 Neophyte Ceremony?

68. What does the hoodwink represent?

69. What is the sword of Judgment?

70. What does the Wand held by the Kerux represent?

71. Draw the symbols for the three zodiacal fire triplicities:

72. Draw the symbols for the three zodiacal air triplicities:

73. Draw the symbols for the three zodiacal water triplicities:

74. Draw the symbols for the three zodiacal earth triplicities:

75. What are the kerubic signs?

76. What is the Tetragrammaton?

77. What is the Pentagrammaton?

78. What is Rhythmic Breathing?

79. Who is Hermes Trismegistus?

80. What is the Hermetica?

81. Do you have the four Enochian Watchtowers and a Tablet of Union?

82. Have you acquired a black and white striped nemyss?

83. Do you have a black robe?

84. What do the black cube bases of the two pillars represent?

85. Do you regularly take ritual baths or shows before doing ritual work?

86. How many Tarot Contemplation exercises have you performed?

87. Write out the Daily Rhythms:

88. What is the purpose of the Daily Rhythms?

89. What is the origin of the Daily Rhythms?

90. Did you attend the majority of the six monthly workshops for this grade?

91. What aspect of the “occult sciences” interests you the most and what have you learned about it in the grade of Neophyte?

92. Who is HRU?

93. How many cards are in a tarot deck?

94. Draw the Banner of the East and note the colours:

95. What does the Banner of the East represent?

96. Draw the Banner of the West and note the colours:

97. What does the Banner of the West represent?

98. Why do we always move and rotate clockwise in the temple (or ritual circle)?

99. Draw the Four Final Hebrew Letters and their numerical value:

100. What lessons have you learned in this grade from your Magical mottor?

This test was entirely composed from memory. I won't be testing you on anything not worth remembering, but this is also as thorough as it gets. And will be respected by any GD tradition as will those who meet the 95% requirement maintained by most GD orders.