Positive adepts

[Nau7ik]

Let’s look at the grades of ‘adept’ on the Tree of Life!

Adeptus Minor 5=6 is the title given to one who has attained to the sphere of Tiphareth. It is the lowest grade of adepthood.
Adeptus Major 6=5 is the sphere of Geburah, and
Adeptus Exemptus 7=4 is the title given unto one who has attained to the sphere of Chesed.

Now, the title of Master is different from an Adept. A true Master has crossed the Abyss and is no longer bound to the cycle of birth and death.

A very important and very imperfectly understood part of the mysteries is played by those beings who are generally called the Masters. Different schools define the term differently, and some include living adepts of a high grade among the Masters; but we consider that it is advisable to make a distinction between the incarnate and disincarnate Elder Brethren because their mission and mode of function are entirely different. The title of Master should therefore be given only to those who are free from the wheel of birth and death. In the terminology of the Western Esoteric Tradition the grade of Adeptus Extemptus is assigned to Chesed, the term Exemptus, or exempt, indicating that freedom from karma which liberated from the Wheel. I am fully aware that others may attach a different significance to the title, and that there are persons in incarnation who hold this grade. To these I reply that such persons, if the grade be a functioning one and not a mere empty honour, are karma-free and will not reincarnate. Such persons might justly be termed Masters, for their consciousness is of the grade of a Master, but as it is so necessary to make the distinction between incarnate and discarnate adepts, it is better to qualify the classification by this minor distinction than to allow to humans a prestige which human nature is not fitted to bear. As long as an adept is incarnated he will be liable to human frailties in some degree, and to the limitations imposed by old age and physical health. It is not until he is free from the Wheel, and functions as pure consciousness, that he will escape from human bondage to heredity and environment; therefore the same reliance can not be placed in him as that can be placed in the true, discarnate Masters.