To become a Knight or Dame in the OTG you must first become a MEMBER of an OTG Commandery. Membership is offered to all sincere seekers 18 years or older, regardless of sex, race, religion or sexual preference. We don’t even require that you are “Christian” per se, only that you acknowledge a transcendent force or “Supreme Commander”  beyond ego or personality and the mundane level of physical existence, and that you're amenable to the use of Christian Imagery and Scriptures as both Symbols and examples of personal transformation. If there is no OTG Commandery in your Area, you may apply to the OTG to Start a new Commandery.	*see note below about this artwork (below).
The Order of the Grail is a Fraternal Order of Mystic Chivalry that also serves as a Fraternal  Complement to the International College of Esoteric Studies. However, ICES and the OTG are SEPARATE ORGANIZATIONS, so to become a member of an OTG Commandery you DO NOT need to be a member of  I.C.E.S.  ICES Libers are often used as educational Lecture materials  in our Commandery Convocations, but we do not use them exclusively. You may apply to any OTG Commandery for  membership after attending at least three Convocations as a visitor. To become a Knight or Dame you must be at least 21 years of age, have previously attained the OTG Degrees of Servant and Squire, and be a current OTG Commandery member. Members of the OTG in the first and second degrees should also be aware that they must also attend Mass and take communion within a week prior to their third degree Initiation.  To request this Initiation, a Letter of Election to the College of Knights and Dames (including the proposed Date requested for the Initiation) must be submitted by the Knight or Dame Initiator to the Grand Commander for approval, and subsequently read at the Investiture of each Knight or Dame admitted to our College of Knights. For more information on obtaining the OTG Knight and Dame degrees, Obtaining Initiations or Initiator Status see Starting an OTG Commandery.   The Mass that you attend could be Gnostic , Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, etc., however, if circumstances allow, a Gnostic Mass would be preferable for obvious symbolic reasons.  See the following link for a: LISTING OF GNOSTIC CHURCHES.   Everyone admitted into the higher degrees has come up through the lower ranks, and has received his or her previous grades in an OTG Commandery and from a qualified Initiator.  If there isn't an OTG Commandery near you (or within an hour's commute) you may apply for your own OTG Commandery.  For more information on Initiators and Initiations and Starting an OTG Commandery  (click on this link). You should be aware of the fact that our initiation ceremonies and convocation rituals have a distinctly Christian Character, however the nature of this Christianity is not based on literal or historical biblical interpretation, but uses and interprets biblical events in the life of Jesus Christ primarily as an allegory for personal transformation. It is more similar to Gnosticism,  and to Christian Mysticism than to fundamentalist Christianity in its approach and application . These events in the Life of Jesus Christ then become for the Grail Initiate a symbolic and real transformation in the experience in ‘Imatiatio Christi’ (Imitation of Christ), as expressed in our Knight’s Prayer , “Here Lord are your footsteps, I want to follow them through everything, without fear and without reproach, my soul virile and my head held high…”

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*Copyright Note:  Alchemical artwork on this page created by Adam McLean. He is both the creator and copyright holder for this artwork, and is used here by his kind permission. 

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