Collegia Adytum Azothos Vodou Cabbalistique

The Vodou course is a joint effort from adepts of African, Cuban and Haitian streams of knowledge and this will be reflected in the lessons. The basic orientation of these lessons is given from a hounfor deeply rooted in Jacmel and the teachings of Milo Rigaud. This hounfor also counts initiates of African Vodou as well as initiates of French Haitian Masonry and the Franco Haitian OTO. Accordingly the lessons will cover a wide and complex field of knowledge.

The first five lessons will be concerned with the more traditional avenues of Vodou, the successive five lessons with practices interrelated to Vodou and the third section is following the format of templar training and initiation and is accordingly more related to Haitian Masonry.

This is the basic outline of the course, but we reserve the freedom to change as Loa dictates. But any alterations of structure and contents will be notified in case alterations and changes will be made. We also wish to point out that this course is not a substitute for initiation, but initiation into traditional Vodou can be conferred upon suitable candidates.

The course is set forth as degrees, these degrees are signified by a manual of study and practice and the submitting of a thesis according to the nature of each degree. The first course is estimated to be taken over the span of a minimum nine months and constitute the fundamentals for Vodou. It is a demanding work and it is important to be prepared to take the needed time to walk through the lessons with care and patience. Together with the submitted thesis of the first course there should also be submitted the magical diary, where especially dreams are considered important in order to provide a more individual guidance in the remainder of the first batch of lessons. The degrees them selves are based upon the Tetraktys key and through this we are attempting to build a natural resonance within the practitioner related to the Pyramidion of numbers and their powers and cosmic significance.