The Third Degree

The Third Degree is also known by the name of
The House of the Amethyst.

Membership is by invitation only and carries automatic Third-Degree Initation. The work, teaching and structure of the House of the Amethyst remain withdrawn and are disclosed only to those so invited. All that can be said in the present context is that the work involves worldwide communications with other Schools and Orders, that much of the work is of an advanced Inner-Plane nature, and that Third Degree members are known as Councillors.

The House of the Amethyst is one of the outer names of the great Alexandrian Fraternity, the Fraternitatis Alexandrae, which has its existence on the Inner Planes, and of which the SOL is an earth-level expression. The Fraternitatis Alexandrae is the inner fountainhead from which all our teaching ultimately stems. It is a withdrawn Order under whose authority the whole school works, teaches, and has its existence. The Third Degree can be said to be an outer expression of this Inner Order (as are indeed the Second and First Degree, albeit in a more indirect manner).