The Second Degree

When the First Degree Course has been finished and the other requirements have been fulfilled, and assuming it is desired, the Initiate becomes eligible to enter the Second Degree, the Fraternity of the SOL.

Second Degree Robes

Robes worn in the Second Degree vary depending on whether the Frater or Soror has received the Second Degree Initiation. The First Degree black robe and red cord are worn before the Second Degree Initation has been conferred. This period may be seen as a probation or trial period. After that point, the Second Degree Initiate wears a lined and hooded robe of deep blue, worn with the scarlet cord given to the student at the First Degree Initiation.  

   Instructions for Making a Robe.

The Work of the Second Degree

The work in the Second Degree is intended to act as a key to what are termed the Greater Mysteries. It builds on the strong foundations built by the First Degree Course bringing the work to a higher level. One of the important aspects of the work in this Degree is forging bridges between the Higher or Evolutionary Self, and the Power Self - that vast powerhouse we know as the Unconscious.

The Second Degree Correspondence Course

To this end the SOL offers a Second Degree Correspondence Course. It builds on the work and training done in the Lesser Mysteries; thus applicants must have completed or be near completing their basic SOL training as given in the First Degree.

The Atlantean Cord

The mysteries of the Atlantean Sacred Cord were passed on to the current Director of the SOL, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, by her teacher, the late W E Butler. Some of this material has been published in her book The Sacred Cord Meditations, which is used as a text-book. However, the Second Degree Correspondence Course expands on the material contained in the text-book to go far beyond what could be published openly. The whole of the ancient wisdom embodied in the Atlantean Sacred Cord is used in this 44-week course; therefore, it requires a trained and stabilized mind, and furthermore a mind used to Inner work.

As the lessons proceed, they get more involved with the inner layers of the Mysteries. Therefore, once this Course is started, it must be properly finished: the processes that have been set in motion will automatically work toward their final point of resolution, and this requires your active cooperation. Therefore, if you start on this course, you must be prepared to complete it in the prescribed 44 weeks. It is rather like a course of medicine - one should always finish the prescription right up. Not a long course, compared to the First Degree Correspondence Course, it will tax you in mind, body and spirit in many ways; but it will also give you an insight into the higher degrees that will act as a Key to the Greater Mysteries.

The material in the lessons has been copyrighted and registered with the British Library. If you apply for the Second Degree Correspondence Course, you must undertake not to show these papers, to communicate or discuss in any form whatsoever the material contained within to a person or persons outside the SOL, or, if in the SOL, who is not of the level to take it for themselves. We are well aware that knowledge should be made available, but one of the ancient rules was that certain teachings must be given only to those who are capable of understanding it and using it in the right way.

Things You will Need

You will need the book The Sacred Cord Meditations. Please visit this page for ordering information. The first Lesson will give you instructions on how to make the Atlantean Sacred Cord.

The Lessons

The lessons are weekly (not monthly as with the First Degree Course) and are ordered and sent two at a time so students will always have one at hand. Every two or three lessons there is a Training Paper to augment the material further. There may also be a purely practical paper every five weeks. The actual course of 35 weeks has several rest and assimilation weeks built into it which makes it 44 weeks in all. Couples may work from one set of lessons, as per the First Degree Course.

To Enrol for the Second Degree Correspondence Course

Graduates of the SOL Main Course who wish to work with the Sacred Cord Meditations by following the Second Degree Course should email Steve Critchley at SOL Admin in the first instance. He will be happy to supply further information and application forms, which can then be forwarded to the Director of Studies who will consider your application.

Second Degree lessons are supplied via email in PDF format. 

All Second Degree lessons are paid for via PayPal and cost £10 (Pounds Sterling) each and there are 35 lessons in all which are usually purchased four at a time so that students always have lessons in hand.