Membership requires successful completion of a Study Course that may take about eighteen months to complete. Details of this may be obtained writing to:

The Secretary,
The Society of the Inner Light,
38 Steeles Road,
London NW3 4RG.

NB An email request for any details MUST include a mailing address.

You will be sent a Questionnaire to complete which will be forwarded to the Director of Studies. If you are accepted as a supervised student you will be sent Part One, which consists of ten lessons that take about five months work. This includes keeping a daily record of meditation on specified subjects to send in with the Course work every fortnight.

Following satisfactory completion of Part One, two further parts follow with a different type of practical exercise and  systematic work on Dion Fortune`s "The Mystical Qabalah". Each of these parts consists of lessons again to be submitted at fortnightly intervals. Study course fees are £20 for each part.

Upon satisfactory completion of these you may apply for membership of the Society, when normally a personal interview will be arranged. At the same time a short Threshold Course will be provided (by correspondence) as preparation for the practical work that lies ahead after admittance.

Requirements for full membership

You should be able to attend meetings at our London headquarters. These are normally monthly (except for August) upon a Saturday afternoon. Whilst attendance at all is an advantage, it may be acceptable for you to attend just one or two per year.

You should not have any addiction problems or be on a course of medically prescribed drugs that could affect your psychic or mental faculties.

The Society is a registered charity staffed by voluntary workers and funded by donations and bequests. There are no set fees for full membership, and the responsibility for offering voluntary work and making donations or bequests rests with members themselves.